Has this ever happened to you?

[Trinity]

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[Gerioke]

Shouldn't we simply submit to God?

[Jacqueline]

That is a very sweet testimony, Jaqueline!

I can't evaluate the church service as to what was going on based on just the info given.

It seems, though, that different people have different sensitivites.

I've been to prayer meeting where those around me where having what has been termed "physical manifestation," yet I had no physical reactions myself. 

But I notice I pick up on the Lord's presence in different ways - sometimes I have to reach for it, other times it's just there.

But the times I feel overwhelmed by His presence are times that I need to experience His touch.

I was at a Christian concert many years ago where the Lord's presence fell over me like a healing rain - not to use the cliche, bu I could literally feel the healing!

I was at a church were "everyone" was falling over and all that, but I didn't "feel" anything.  Yet, after leaving, I discovered that something in my spiritual walk that had been broken was healed!  I don't know when or how it happened, but it just was!

Am I making sense to you?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes, you are making sense. I competely understand.

God Bless You All

Jacqueline

[Guest shecaniah]

I went to my sister's child care provider church last Sunday.  I don't know this person, but she invited my sister and my sister invited me so I went.  They had a guest speaker.  After singing a few songs this woman stated that she could feel the presense of the Lord in the building.  I sat there watching her and the congregation and sure enough everyone seemed to feel His presense to.  She told us if we had this or that in our lives that was holding us back from what God wanted for us to stand up and almost the whole church stood up and got into a line.

I watched as she said something to each one and placed her hands on them and their bodies seem to jerk a few times before they fell to the ground.  This process took up the whole church service.  I sat there watching amazed at what I was seeing and for a moment I felt as if I was somehow left out of the loop.  I didn't feel the Holy Spirit in the building.  I didn't feel any thing other then amazement at what was going on before me.

I'm not saying that the Holy Spirit wasn't there.  Maybe He was, maybe He wasn't, but this got me thinking about something that happened to me before I came to Christ.  I went to a concert with my cousin at Disneyland.  It was a Kirk Franklin concert.  I knew that Kirk was a gospel singer and thats it.  I just went because I was asked if I wanted to go.  Any way during the concert something really odd started to happen in side me.  As in the church last Sunday I watched the people around me.  This experience was different however.  I actually felt the Holy Spirit at the concert.  He seem to consume the whole place.  I wasn't saved.  I was living life the way I wanted to and yet I felt Him.  I felt Him so strongly that He brought tears to my eyes. 

This made me think back on last Sunday.  It started a lot of questions rolling around in my head.  If the Holy Spirit was there why didn't I feel Him?  How could I miss something so big?  Is there something wrong in my life where I would be kept from feeling the Holy Spirit?  So many question, no answers.  What do you think?  If I felt Him when I wasn't saved why wouldn't I feel Him when I am? Have anyone else went through something like this?

God Bless You

Jacqueline

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I think a few of the people hear hit it right on the head when Sue said 'try the spirit to see whether its of God'. And another one replied that the HS is everywhere. I been a Christian for some time now and I don't always feel the presence of the HS, I know by faith that HE is always there. So knowing these two things, don't feel like you're left out.

[waitingforhim]

I went to my sister's child care provider church last Sunday.