Being touched by the spirit, how can some denounce

[Guest BlessEwe]

Once The Lord has hit you with the Truth, how can you walk away .....Is it that you are so young in your walk, and satan did a number., did the Lord not do a deep enough onion peel on you..I really feel " No Turning Back"......I just don't understand.....Also what seeds do you plant for someone such as this.....

[wordsower]

Do you mean being slain in the Spirit?

[Guest BlessEwe]

Well ......ha....yes.....Slain.....hit, slammed, Loved, taught, touched......what ever you want to call it........yes.......TOUCHED BY THE SPIRIT......HIS SPIRIT......THE TRUTh......  ha.........

[rafter]

One must always take heed less they fall. As long as we live in this world we will have danger. Does this mean we will fall, not necessarily. Remember pride is a dangerous sin and when we are walking close to God and still in this flesh it can take root. I think the good things that happen to us in the spirit can actually lead us to this kind of pride and arrogance.

If we think we can not possibly turn away, we better watch out. First we feel we have arrived and are right. Then we tend to isolate ourselves and before you know it, you don't even know God is not as close to you as He once was. It would be a very subtle thing.

God will never leave us nor forsake us. So if God is not near, who moved?  :a:

[Ovedya]

BE,

There have been times in my life when the Spirit has filled me to the uttermost. With such experiences I think, "I could never walk away from this.  I want to experience the Lord like this every day!"  But then I seems to never fail to dissapoint the Lord by falling in some way.

I think this is everyone's experience at one point or another.  Even Paul, whom we consider to be of the highest spiritual and moral character wrote, "Wrethced man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?" Paul recognized that even though he willed to do good, he still failed. The conclusion he had to come to was, "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!..." He realized that evenb though he failed to serve the Lord in the flesh that he was nontheless able to serve God with his mind.  And that there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. (Romans 7 and 8 respectively).  So whether we are in the Spirit or not in the Spirit, whether we are high or we are low, there is a God who does not condemn.  Rather, the God we serve is able to justify us according to the blood of Jesus Christ, not according to our successes or our failures.

[angels4u]

Amen and amen, for by grace I am saved!!  And nobody is able to ever snatch me out my Fathers hands.

For the unbelievers were and are still looking for signs, but Jesus said we are blessed if we believe and live by faith.

The Jews in the O.T. had lots of faith when they saw God doing mighty things on their behalf, the minute they were on their own they went back to idolatry.

So shall it also be when the Antichrist comes the Bible said ALL people will be decieved and believe he is God because of the miracles he will do.

God Bless,

Angels

[martyr]

I'm confused.  Is this topic about being slain in the Spirit, apostasy, or backsliding??

[angels4u]

I got hit with the truth when I realized I needed Jesus in my life and that He would bring me to heaven some day if I repented of my sins and made Him Lord in my life!

And the Holy Spirit is convicting me all the time with the truth, like sin in my life ,He teaches me and guides me in all things He wants me to know.

He's always with me and He came to stay,even if I don't pay much attention to Him some times.

And as I said I have a God who is able to keep me until that day!

In Him forever..Angels

[OneAccord]

For the unbelievers were and are still looking for signs, but Jesus said we are blessed if we believe and live by faith.

The Jews in the O.T. had lots of faith when they saw God doing mighty things on their behalf, the minute they were on their own they went back to idolatry.

Wow!  This is really good stuff right here!  Yes the just shall live by FAITH!  Signs and wonders will be a deception in the end of days!  True faith should not need signs and wonders, it should survive without any signs and wonders.

[byHisGrace]

Actually, Jesus said, signs should follow believers, not that believers should follow signs.  There is a difference you know.  No matter what kind of supernatural experiences a person has though, it won't keep him walking with the Lord.  Deepness of relationship is what keeps us in times of trouble and testing.  Dig your roots deep in His Word.