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I am not a pastor now. I am just an ordinary Joe Palooka fellowshiping in a small Union church with six elderly ladies and one gentleman. If I ever came across high and mighty, God's man of faith and power, my wife would be quick to bring me back down to earth. believe me! I asked my...

It is interesting that I had to concede to my friend on another forum concerning who God has given the Holy Spirit without measure. I have always thought it was exclusively Jesus. But she pointed me to the Scripture and when I read it, Jesus wasn't mentioned at all. It says that God gives the...

Yes they have. It shows that because the Holy Spirit dwells in us, we can be always prepared to minister to people anywhere. We don't have to wait until we get to a church meeting in order to see the Lord's healing power working. After years of going to local Charismatic healing meetings and...

In a Christian camp, I had a word of knowledge for a young woman which had a very dramatic effect on her, and found out afterward that she had been counselled earlier in the day concerning that very thing! I prayed for my work supervisor for her arthritic knee. All I prayed was "Jesus heals...

You are talking to a person who has being living in the light of God's countenance for the last 53 years! :)(y) If you PM me, I will attach my book on how God speaks to me. I would attach it here but I don't think I'm allowed to promote a book on here.

You can PM me any time. I am retired and have plenty of time to discuss whatever you want with me.

I hold an M.Div, and have been ordained as an Elder of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand which gives me the qualifications to be a Lay-preacher in that church. For around three years while the church didn't have a minister, I was the Session Clerk (senior elder), and so I was effectively...

My wife describes herself as a "retired Catholic". She was brought up and educated as a Catholic and she still refers to it as "my religion". She will come to church for the Lessons and Carols service at Christmas but not on Sunday mornings. She too is a wonderful woman, to whom I have been...

I made a typo in the last sentence. I have corrected it in the quote.

I just went by what the Holy Spirit told me in response to my question about dreams and visions. He told me I didn't need dreams and visions because I had the reality of Christ in me through the indwelling Holy Spirit and I had the written Scriptures that contains everything God has said to us...

I heard the story of a believer who had a visitation of an appearance of Jesus, and he rejected it saying, "I don't want to see that. I would rather wait until I get to glory and see Jesus face to face. Until then I just want to walk in faith and not by sight."

It is the grace of God that He supports those who are weak in faith by giving them visions and sensory experiences to support them until they grow to the point where they can put their faith in the written promises alone.

I'm sorry that maintaining that we walk by faith in God's Word rather than by sensory perception and experiences (ie: sight), causes you concern. For me, God's written word is sufficient for this life, and I am content to wait until I get to glory before I am able to see the Lord in person and...

So, which is the true believer then? The one who has their faith in emotions, sensory experiences, dreams and visions; or the other who bases their faith on the written Scriptures? 2 Corinthians 5:7 gives a clue: "For we live by believing and not by seeing."

Here is something I have just read in a commentary by a major Reformed Bible commentator. "There are two types of believer: (1) the believer who needs experiences and emotions and if they don't get them their walk with God comes to a halt until they have their next sensory experience. This is...

I get you. I enjoy our exchanges because if we always agreed with one another the forum would be boring. I have thought more deeply and learned more from those who have disagreed with me and have jousted with me in these threads. If someone just reacts with a red cross or a frown face to a...

The Scripture says that the just shall live by faith, not experiences or feelings. Faith comes by hearing and believing the written Word of God; in other words, reading the Bible or hearing the Gospel preached. The Scripture also says that without faith it is impossible to please God, and that...

I did ask the Lord about dreams and visions and He told me I didn't need them because I had the reality of Christ through the indwelling Holy Spirit, and that the indwelling Holy Spirit would teach me all the things I need to know. Then I asked Him why genuine believers did have dreams and...

I go along with you in this. After two years of trying all the religious stuff I got out in the middle of a park at night and introduced myself to God. I felt all lit up inside like Times Square. If was as if the Holy Spirit turned the lights on inside of me, and the Bible, like you, became a...

Even if you get a revelation or vision that complies with written Scripture, it is basically superfluous and unnecessary because God has already said it in the Scriptures and all one has to do is go and read it.