Posted on 09/27/2022 3:43:42 AM PDT by tired&retired
“Only in despair will people turn to God.”
I was eight when I was saved (”turned to God). No despair, just able to understand my need to be saved.
What you are saying is NOT scriptural.
“The opposition and ignorance is merely an indication of why it was not time to share for the past thirty years. This is also the reason why God allows tribulation to crush them.
Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, people need tribulation to drive them to the point of despair.”
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It was about 30 years ago the Lord gave me a vision to leave an Assembly of God church when it decided to go “mega.” The Lord has shown me more than once that there would be a separation. We would either harden further into religion, or be moldable and flowing with the Holy Spirit. It’s clearly been happening the last few years. Like clay, we can be hardened where we are, or move with him. A lot of hardened hearts in the world since the election and defacto civil war.
One actual encounter with Jesus can dramatically change how one understands theology. Prayers for all the people that need to KNOW Him.
What you are saying is NOT scriptural.
“One actual encounter with Jesus can dramatically change how one understands theology. Prayers for all the people that need to KNOW Him.”
Exactly...
There are various levels of understanding of the same scripture.
The reason for the religion and the scriptures is to guide us through the experience of God and Jesus. Religion is much like high school is to the experiences of life. It prepares you, but it is NOT a replacement for the actual experience life, i.e. of God’s Love.
People are stuck arguing the textbook, and never have the experience.
Yes--right and wrong.
Your interpretations are wrong. Please study the correct interpretations.
I’ve watched highly intellectual people just start shaking as their belief system that they had formed an identity around was undermined when I demonstrated what I am saying at a Divinity School lecture.
One man, an old retired professor started shaking and left the lecture. Three times he left and returned, each time he left to calm down and stop shaking, only to return and then leave again when he started shaking again.
He came up to me later and explained, I taught this material for 40 years and got my PhD in it. My entire identity was based upon the possession of knowledge on this subject. He said, “It was easy for me to discount your words and theories, but then you demonstrated it and it undermined my whole identity.”
I don’t have the time or need to convince anyone who is not ready to learn as they think they know it all already. I am very far from knowing even a small part of it and I always reserve the right to be wrong. But I am experiential and evidence based. Like I mentioned earlier, there is very much I didn’t share here as I didn’t want to ruffle feathers.
If you disagree with me, I ask that you pray for me that the Holy Spirit move into me and guide me through the learning experiences toward the truth. I welcome these prayers for me. I ask the same in prayers daily.
I had the experiences first, and then went to the Bible to gain understanding of what I was already experiencing. The Bible, Strong’s Concordance, and the comparison of various Bible scriptures in Bible Gateway have guided me for over thirty years. However, the best teaching comes from the Holy Spirit through Prayerful Meditation after reading the Bible.
Having the ability to see the Holy Spirit when it is present allowed me to observe various churches and charismatic denominations and congregations, including Pentecostal, Messianic Jewish, Catholic, Baptist, and many independent congregations to learn to discern the fake process from the real process of accepting Jesus into your heart.
At the same time, being able to see the consciousness in a person’s soul allows me to see their sin. I prefer to call “sin” “obstacles to Love” as that’s what sin actually is.
If a minister is connected to the Holy Spirit, I see the Light around them and see their higher connection that appears like a spotlight over them that moves everywhere they do. I can tell if their words are their own, or flowing through them. There are a lot of ministers out there leading people astray, thus your skepticism is good. Don’t follow anyone blindly. Definitely Not me.
But also don’t think you know it all already as that is your ego. It will be crushed before you can experience God. It’s the reason for the content of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount.
Blessings all on your individual journeys wherever they lead you. No matter the route, if you find Jesus, it is the right one for you.
Correction.. “No matter the route, if you find (and EXPERIENCE) Jesus, it is the right one for you.
I have thought about this. I don’t know the answer. I am a follower of Christ. If someone was dead and was known to be not staying in the realm of death, we’re and are a non believer, then it would benefit Hell /Satan to make the temporary environment pleasant to not run then to faith in Christ. Just a thought. The whole I’m a good person and will go to heaven reinforcement to continue deception.
If you are a follower of Christ, then you know the second part is not reality. Dead people do not wander around.
I am a follower of Christ. If someone was dead and was known to be not staying in the realm of death,...
Remember what Jesus said... Matthew 7:
True and False Disciples
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
Quite a few people here criticized me for not driving them out in Christ’s name. But if Christ is working through you, He does not use His own name as He is doing the work of Our Father. His Power is so great that the Love and Radiance of Light does all the work.
When I am around someone who is connected to Christ, I feel the Love radiating outward from their chest. I’ve felt it with several, but not all Catholic Priests.
I feel a similar Love radiating from a woman’s womb when the soul first enters the fetus. The Love feels like a firehose it is so strong. Often I will know a woman is pregnant before she does by this Love radiating from the child’s soul that is pure as it just left Heaven.
Right up until the time you see the “ghost” of someone who just died, not sure where to go and they clearly aren’t a familiar spirit or demon. If your theology isn’t already stretched, that will do it. I was on a prayer and deliverance team in the 1980s. Not for the faint of heart or legalistic. Remember the 7 sons of Sceva? May the Holy Spirit guide and enlighten us all.
“Dead people do not wander around.”
May you be visited by a ghost to change your mind if you so desire. They are as real as real can be. I would not wish it on anyone.
I’ve been to many funerals and viewings where I see the deceased person standing there observing. At one, an elderly minister’s wife died. I had never met them previously as they were distant relatives and I went to provided transportation for minister’s brother to attend his sister in law’s funeral.
When the minister’s deceased wife saw me and realized that I could see her, she got all emotional. This influenced her husband, the minister who she was standing next to, and he started crying when we first met as strangers.
Please note that Jesus differentiates between types of spirits.
Some He calls evil spirits.
Some He calls unclean spirits.
Some He calls demons.
They are not all the same.
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1 John 4:1-3 ESV
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
First, If all spirits were bad, why would the Bible teach you how to “Test” them?
Second, This scripture tells you how to identify “good spirits.”
This scripture works and is very powerful. When I first heard it, it was coming out of my mouth and I had never read nor heard that scripture.
The words asked two old grandparent spirits with blue eyes and grey hair if the “Believed that Jesus was born in the flesh.” The male spirit answered me and said, “We Know Jesus.”
To which the reply came out of my mouth, “THAT WAS NOT THE QUESTION, AND AGAIN DO YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS BORN IN THE FLESH?”
Their blue eyes turned to black and then to red as their true nature of evil imposters came out.
It was not me doing the work as I never knew these scriptures. I read them in the Bible about a month later for the first time. The Holy Spirit knew them and said them out of my mouth.
Well, that's rather ironic coming from you as I have tested you and found you to be a false prophet.
Nothing you say now will convince me to change my mind.
Agreed. Just a thought but yeah not real imho.
We shall see!
Saul said something similar prior to his road to Damascus event.
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