such as: the gift of tongue, you're shaking with no apparent reason, seeing visions and more....i'd like to know. thanks...God bless y'all.
2006-08-15 23:56:30 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God has bless me in so many ways I couldn't begin to tell it all. I first spoke in tongues about 10 yrs ago. I didn't really want to since I was raised baptist, we didn't do that. So it wasn't something I prayed for, it just happened. I was praying out loud at a revival with a prayer warrior. I was saying, JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, and my tongue got twisted up and it came out so strange. That was my first encounter of speaking in tongues and I have done it ever since. I shake usually when I pray, it reminds me of the Jewish men at the wailing wall. It starts with rhythm, sort of coming up from somewhere inside of me. I feel closer to God. I love all the blessings and the freedom to express it at church and don't think I can go back to that staunch Baptist way of worship. Once you have experiences like that, God just continues to bless. God bless U
2006-08-16 00:12:55 · answer #1 · answered by Godb4me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I pray in tongues in private often, at least once a day. God touches me in many ways daily, usually when I'm reading and studying His Word. God gives some these signs, others He doesn't, as He wills. Read 1 Cornthians 12-15 for the full story, and give yourself some time to fully absorb...there's a lot in those 4 chapters.
I have many friends ask me this question if they have recently committed or re-committed their lives to God, expecting great signs and wonders. I constantly warn them not to use these experiences, or lack thereof, as the foundation of their faith. In the book of Hebrews, Paul admonishes, "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." Always test all things by the Word of God...
2006-08-16 00:34:24 · answer #2 · answered by stronzo5785 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was 12 years old I was chased by what I believed were deamons, after I escaped and got into my home I went to see my parents but before I got to their room I saw Jesus. He only said one thing, "Don't be afraid" . I guess that was enough, I was saved the next day, but two weeks later I was diagnosed with Muscular dystrophy and went through 7 years of treatment before it went into remission.
I was not afraid.
If I could point out one thing about Jesus it would be that the light you see behind him in pictures is all wrong, the light actually comes from him and it gives off a warmth (kind of like clothes coming right out of a dryer).
Later in life I strayed from the Lord and came to a very low point before going back to Church, at one sermon I felt convected of my sins and felt as though I would die if I did not repent of my sins and get back close to the Lord, which I did.
Afterwards I was filled with the Holy Spirit to a point of overflowing, as I drove home I could barely control the car and was praying for God to please let everyone else I saw , every house, every car, every person take some of the Spirit because I could not handle it.
When I arrived home I made it through the door and that was it, I prayed with groans and utterances and to this day I don't know what exactly went out from my mouth but I know it was pure praise beyond anything I had experienced before or sense.
I hope that some day I will let myself come back close enough to Jesus to where it will happen again, I know he is still there, waiting for me. I just keep letting my mind or sin get in the way.
I think Heaven will be like that (pure worship), but our new bodies will be able to handle it better. I still hope you all get some of that blessing. I think the light and warmth from Jesus is pure, pure love.
God Bless you all.
2006-08-16 00:23:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have. The Lord has blessed me with the gift of speaking in tongues a couple of times. He has also showed me and my husband that we should get married. We were at a all night pray ceremony when the Lord told me that I should be baptized now that I gave my whole life to him. And in the same service He told my husband that if I decided to baptize myself I am the wife he should marry.
God still speak to me - and sometimes strictly to get my life back on track.
2006-08-16 00:06:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you convince yourself strongly enough that there is a god and that you'll do these things your brain will kick in and oblige you. The brain controls everything you experience. That's where the process, called your mind, functions. With enough people around you telling you that you'll experience this junk and you fervently hoping to experience, your brain will just make you babble or shake or see "visions" or whatever else you want to do.
2006-08-16 00:04:00 · answer #5 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, but I went to a tent revival with my sister once, and the right reverend there almost snatched me bald headed trying to get me to admit I felt "the power of Christ" I didn't then, don't now, never have.
The only good thing to come out of that, well two things, I wasn't arrested for poking him in the guts and my sister changed churches.
Your atheist friend
2006-08-16 00:05:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had some such experiences. However, they are personal and I learned that they need not be shared for people to be helped. Seek and you shall find. This is true.
2006-08-16 00:03:01 · answer #7 · answered by Jack P 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Lord has given me the gift of children. Not the other things you have mentioned. God Bless
2006-08-16 00:02:40 · answer #8 · answered by shizzlechit 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've seen people under such trances but i believe it is mostly auto-suggestion.However i can assure you that i have personally felt His presence by my side many times.
2006-08-16 00:08:35 · answer #9 · answered by CRAnoop 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is not such thing, and quite frankly I don't want some sleazy deity inside me.
2006-08-16 00:02:34 · answer #10 · answered by ceprn 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋