As gibberish as praying in tongues sounds, as unstructured and annoying as it is, you can be able to interpret what is spoken by you. Interpreting what someone else speaks is a subject of discussion for another topic.
Is this possible you ask? Yes, it is very possible. It's all dependent on your affinity for the Holy Spirit. First of all, let me state it that:
1. When you pray in tongues, do you see pictures in your mind?
Wow, if you haven't been seeing the pictures that fly through your mind when you are deep in prayer in tongues, you have to cultivate that fast. That is the first step in interpreting your tongues. In fact that is crucial for effective prayers in tongues.
2. When you pray in tongues, is your mind wandering?
Boy o boy. If this happens to you, then you are not anywhere close to interpreting your tongues. Praying in tongues is a serious business. You can't afford your mind wandering. You have to bring your mind into captivity of the Holy Spirit. He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him (1 Cor 6:17).
3. When you pray in tongues, is a worship song playing in the background?
For starters and beginners, this is one of the fastest ways to activate the intensity of your prayer in tongues and get closer to interpreting some of them. There are people who can do this without a worship song. For beginners you need to get a carefully selected range of worship songs. I am not talking about techno and body jiggling praise songs. No. Praise songs mostly reach out to your flesh, that is why you dance. Worship songs reach out to your spirit and emotions and that is where your tongues are coming from. Worship is emotional, worship is deep spirit-seated.
4. When you pray in tongues, wait for that moment when English language comes to you, then utter it.
This is where your interpretation is located. There comes a point while you are praying in tongues and worshiping God, and praying in more tongues and worshiping and seeing all these pictures flying through your mind, and praying in more tongues...there comes this point when your default spoken language of understanding (probably English language) comes to your lips. That is your interpretation coming to you. Speak it then, let it flow. Speak it. You may find yourself reverting back to praying in tongues again, not a problem, go back into tongues and wait for that moment again. When you continue like this over a period of time (days, weeks) you will gain the mastery, and you can readily interpret. It is like swimming in water and you bob up a few times and go under. Interestingly it is scriptural, the water analogy. When you fist kickstart the engine, it's like water at your ankle level, then as you continue it rises to your waist level, as you push on it becomes a bigger water, water big enough to swim in.
Take note that interpretation is often one of these (1 Corinthians 14:3):
1. Edification,
2. Exhortation, and
3. Comfort
In other words, your interpretation will be prophetic in nature. It will bless you. And if people are around you it will bless them. This can happen either when you are alone praying in tongues and unwittingly switches to speaking in tongues all alone, or if you are in a crowd or assembly or congregation with a microphone in your hands. Interpretation is not a respecter of location. Once you have it you have it.
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