Can you explain the experience?
2007-10-11 14:05:05 · 12 answers · asked by A Voice 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Could not forget that it was like starting life over with a clean slate.
The Bible says at that time our spirit is quickened but it felt like my normal conscience was magnified ten times.
The feeling of having the need to do enough to achieve God's acceptance was gone and from then on if I did a good deed it was out of appreciation for what God did for me.
2007-10-11 14:13:37 · answer #1 · answered by kevin s 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I, too, seemed to have a 'craving' for God's word my whole life, but one evening I attended a night mass in my small neighborhood church on a Weds. evening which I had never done before. There was a light sermon and then people started to get down on their knees at their pew to pray. Never did this in church before either. So, not minding any prayer with Jesus, I did the same, thanking and praising Him for many things in my life. I really don't know how long I was there, but at one point, all I could hear was a 'whooshing' sound-gentle like. Eventually I arose, feeling so weird and calm. I believe that's when I truly became 'born again' and the Holy Spirit was with me! PTL!
2007-10-11 21:17:23 · answer #2 · answered by dawnUSA 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All I can remember because things are blocked in my past because of the problems and issues of my childhood.....I remember going to a youth night w/my friend at 14 and seeing a boys ankle heal and that is what it took. Even though I backslid at 18 I still talked and cried out to God Becauses I wasn't getting my way. But I was tired of the worldly garbage and ready to try God again at 24 before I had my first son. I new that I was ready.
2007-10-11 21:31:33 · answer #3 · answered by Bobbie 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. After (much) badgering and prompting by the Holy Spirit, I knelt beside my bed, and asked Jesus to save my soul, save me from the consequences of my innate sinfulness, to send His Spirit into my heart. There were no bells or whistles attending this event.
What preceded it was hearing the gospel, rejecting it, hearing it some more, feeling that my mind was being changed about it very slowly, until I reached the point - over a couple of months - that I knew it was true, and that only 1 response I could have to it made sense.
2007-10-11 21:21:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I wish I had an experience to speak about. I'm Christian but am hesitant to use the term "born again" to describe myself.
2007-10-11 21:09:44 · answer #5 · answered by Nels 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I remember the moment exactly...
as I think other Christians do also.,
I will not relate that wonderful time,
especially when there are so many
unbelievers at this site.
2007-10-11 21:32:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Personally I'm leary about nailing down "a moment" where I feel that my salvation was secure. Growing in my faith (including coming to fully understand and believe) has been a process.
While I think that at some point it is valuable to profess to yourself, your faith community and your peers that your faith is what it is, I also think that realization is multi-layered (education, relationships, role modeling/example, conflict, et cetera).
2007-10-11 21:17:36 · answer #7 · answered by Howard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i do, it is the most awesome experience thet can not be fully explained. i was born again on march the 25 of 1995 and my life has never been the same. god is amazing god. you should except him, and see for yourself.
2007-10-11 21:32:42 · answer #8 · answered by faith44 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't remember exactily when, but it was sometime during my childhood. I did not grow up in a Christain home, in fact I was far from it. But God chose me and got to me anyway, and I am forever thankful that He did.
2007-10-11 21:10:12 · answer #9 · answered by Consuming Fire 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I decided one day to go to church with a friend. It was out of the blue and I said yes. My friend asked for prayers for a former co-worker that we both new who was living out of his van with his pregnant wife. After he prayed out loud and after the service ended a man he never saw at the church before gave him 100 bucks to give to our friend. 100 bucks is a lot of money to me and I wanted to know who this Jesus was that this man listened to to give a complete stranger 100 bucks to give to a complete stranger. I accepted Christ that night. I felt a complete weight off my shoulders.
2007-10-11 21:26:09 · answer #10 · answered by bobbo342 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋