Popular Post Thewhitedove Posted July 17, 2019 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 431 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 354 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/14/2019 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted July 17, 2019 After a lifetime of being a wishy washy lukewarm Christian mixed with New Ager, I had an experience in 2017. I always believed in Jesus but wasn't convinved on the Biblical Jesus. This experience happened when I still believed that Jesus was more like a tolerant big brother figure, rather than all glorious Son of God. At this time, I had a heartbreaking fall-out with someone, and my unforgiveness was making me ill. I prayed and prayed that I would be able to forgive the person. One morning I woke up at 5am, and it was the first thing I thought of. I prayed and turned over to go back to sleep. As soon as I closed my eyes, I was (in my mind's eye) in a tomb, sitting on a ledge carved out of the wall. Jesus was sitting on the ledge beside me, on my left. He held up his hands and I could see the holes. They were very circular in a kind of clean cut-out shape. He held up his hands and said, "I have holes in my hands...no more blaming". I immediately understood that He was telling me that He had been crucified and forgave even those who put Him to death, and if He could do that, I could forgive the person who had hurt me. His tone was very kind, incredibly patient, like how you tell off a child when you are in a good mood, if that makes sense...yet, he had total authority and as soon as He said that, I literally had no choice but to forgive the person. I was completely healed and my heart was restored in that second. I also detected that this Jesus was from the Bible and was not a hippy, anything-goes kind of Jesus that I had been believing in before. It wasn't wasn't an immediate process as not everything in my life was in place yet (I had not met the right people yet etc) but I am now a Born Again Christian, and that experience had a lot to do with it. I had always thought that I had had an encounter with Christ but heard someone saying that visions of Jesus are never from God. What do you all think? Are all signs or visions from the enemy? Or can they be from God as long as we match it to scripture? What do you think? 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ayin jade Posted July 17, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.88 Content Count: 43,784 Content Per Day: 6.23 Reputation: 11,227 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted July 17, 2019 If the vision does not contradict the bible or lead you away from the Lord then it is possible it is from the Lord. There are some Christians who think that no one gets dreams or visions from the Lord now. And there are some who think every dream or vision is from the Lord. Dont listen to either extreme. 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ravindran Posted July 17, 2019 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 496 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 398 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/18/2014 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted July 17, 2019 I believe God still talks to His children through visions and dreams. The most important thing to remember is that, it would not be to reveal something new (that what is revealed in His Word) or contradict Bible. I sleep so good and I hardly get dreams. My wife is a dreamer. We don't understand most of them. What we do know is, God uses them to bring certain prayer needs in front of her. So that she can pray about it. There are times when God warns her of upcoming trouble so that she is already praying about it or not surprised by it. In your case, it could very well be from Lord. Since forgiving others is not a secret in Bible!! 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pg4Him Posted July 17, 2019 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 347 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 370 Days Won: 2 Joined: 08/20/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted July 17, 2019 Judge it by its fruit. If it glorifies Jesus and improves your Christian walk, it was probably the Lord. If it pulls you down a rabbit trail of fruitlessness, it wasn’t Him. I’d say this even for dreams/visions that sound Biblically plausible. If a vision of the future does not come true, no matter how much it sounds like the Bible, it wasn’t the Lord. No two visions from the Lord are ever identical, so it doesn’t have to be word-for-word like a story in the Bible, but it needs to be supported by Biblical principles, and it needs to actually edify. The Lord will NOT show us anything today that contradicts the Bible. He may have some creative ways to teach us, but He will always teach us Bible. There was a time when Ezekiel’s vision of wheels within wheels was unexpected. There was a time when nobody thought they’d see Moses and Elijah visiting Jesus on a mountain. The Lord can do whatever He wants, within the parameters of what Biblically makes sense. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Bought 1953 Posted July 18, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 13 Topic Count: 48 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 6,726 Content Per Day: 2.92 Reputation: 6,258 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/03/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted July 18, 2019 God is still in the vision business......you’ll just have to trust me on that.....The vision I was given was so amazing and precious I have never shared it with anyone .....and when it is from God, you KNOW it’s from God...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne Posted July 18, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3,776 Content Per Day: 1.29 Reputation: 4,746 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/31/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted July 18, 2019 Yes, as someone else has said - if the visions we have are scriptural in nature and exalt Christ - then one can only count it as genuine. God is sending visions to Muslims in Islamic countries today. I've heard pastors say that and I fact-checked it myself. I pray and have prayed that he send more visions of Christ to them. God can and does speak however he chooses. Primarily through the Bible as it is so readily available, but in other ways when it warrants it or when Bibles are few and far between. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevana Posted July 18, 2019 Group: Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 27 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 34 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/09/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted July 18, 2019 To THEWHITEDOVE ... YESS I BELIEVE YOU, AND BLESSED ARE YOU FOR I HAVE NEVER SEEN... Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauJangles Posted July 18, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 44 Topic Count: 229 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 10,900 Content Per Day: 2.95 Reputation: 12,145 Days Won: 68 Joined: 02/13/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/14/1954 Share Posted July 18, 2019 6 hours ago, Thewhitedove said: What do you all think? Are all signs or visions from the enemy? Or can they be from God as long as we match it to scripture? What do you think? Because this had such a profound experience of your being able to forgive, it does sound pretty legit to me. Others have stated the facts of visions and/or dreams should by all means line up biblically. And if not of course, they're questionable, and more than likely not from the Lord. Interesting your mention of Jesus not being a Hippie. No, He isn't. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted July 18, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,989 Topics Per Day: 0.49 Content Count: 48,687 Content Per Day: 11.89 Reputation: 30,342 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted July 18, 2019 If anyone told me that Jesus Christ had appeared before them I would meet that with a healthy dose of skepticism and prudence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jostler Posted July 18, 2019 Group: Mars Hill Followers: 25 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,679 Content Per Day: 1.41 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 16 Joined: 01/19/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted July 18, 2019 5 hours ago, BeauJangles said: Because this had such a profound experience of your being able to forgive, it does sound pretty legit to me. Others have stated the facts of visions and/or dreams should by all means line up biblically. And if not of course, they're questionable, and more than likely not from the Lord. Interesting your mention of Jesus not being a Hippie. No, He isn't. we got a beloved hippie in BeauJangles anyhow rofl Jostler ----------------------------------------> running from Beau 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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