Has the Holy Spirit Ever Appeared to You?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ธ.ค. 2022
- Hugh speaks of his near-death experience with the Holy Spirit, and asks if you have ever been visited by the spirit. Thanks and please help me by donating to the One True Church at this PayPay link: www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...
Its been soo long since I had 8 hour sleep. LOL. I'm 63.5 now.
And even the grand kids know, 9:00 Papa's bed time.
My thought is, pray, ask the Father. I do not question what you went through, I have stories to.
But I do know the voice of the Holy Spirit; very few times, like a cloud clearing in my minds eye and the word or two ONLY, and full clarity of them meaning is reviled.
Example, Famine. (that was it)
Famine of His word.
that was all, that started me on my questioning the Bible which lead me to where I am today. Very few churches preach ,,HIS WORDS!! They preach Pauline lies.
Thanks for sharing brother.
Thank you for your reply. I agree the Holy Spirit must be involved in helping us put together the text of the bible. I too have moments of revelation when grappling with this huge book we are presented with. I think the difficultly in finding the themes and patterns of the bible is one of the reasons so many turn to Paul's false testimony. Paul is like an advertising blurb. It's just easier to take a false statement and make it fit everything you believe.
I like your analogy of a famine of the word, and there is a famine in the land when it comes to the truth of the Father. I keep positive by knowing that one of the main themes of the bible is that only a few people will be necessary to help the Father fulfill salvation. Themes such as the loyal remnant of Israel, the book of Job, Abraham negotiating with God for the souls in Sodom, and the 144,000 saints in the bible all give me hope.
The spirit will return to us soon in great power.
I believe what you experienced was an inner spiritual battle between the Holy Spirit and the spirit of the Antichrist otherwise known as apostle Paul. I have had a similar experience. Good thing is you chose life with jesus
shalom restored, your opinion is very interesting! I'm certain that our souls are fought over between the light and the dark force, as the brother of Jesus said in Jude 1:9: "Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses." I'm also certain that antichrist is both a person and a spirit, as you have indicated and as John said in his epistles. If you are correct, then I came out ahead in the battle for my soul, which means God and Jesus won, which encourages me and pleases me greatly. I can't thank you enough for taking the time to report your belief.
I want to add that for you, and for everyone who comments here, I love you all in the way John noted in the Revelation prophecy, as: "your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ." (Rev 1:9) It means a lot to me that we are able to fellowship here.
It seems to me that you were given a choice to live or die by seeing whatever that light was coming out of you. Glad you chose to come back here and live. I have no idea if it was the Holy Spirit or not, but does it really matter? Its GREAT that you were given a choice!
Revela Marinelli, that's a good and positive point! That light I saw represented life, and I did not want to die. I'm happy I had the choice too, and I'm happy to be here today. So many nice people like you who have responded have given me a chance to think through what happened. Thank you.
I wonder about the holy spirit goosebumps most believers experience.
I dont believe the Holy spirit will resemble anything that is related to fear and alarm.
Shalom ❣🤗
Intuitive Observer, that's a good point. The holy spirit is for guidance and support.
Hugh i was looking over what Jesus told the apostles. He mentions A CONFORTER in John 14:26 and John 15:26 and states that the COMFORTER IS THE "HOLY GHOST". Jesus also calls THE COMFORTER the 'SPIRIT OF TRUTH". Jesus also refers to the COMFORTER/HOLY GHOST/SPIRT OF TRUTH as 'he"
Then in ACTS 2 on Pentecost they hear the sound of wind and have the cloven flames of fire above their heads and they speak in tongues of the different languages where everyone understood them.
BUT on a side note. THE APOSTLES were commanded by Jesus during his Early Ministry MATTHEW 10:8 and given Authority by Jesus to go fourth into the different towns and villages and Heal the sick, raise the deal , heal the lepers, drive out demons. At that time they did not possess the Holy Spirit. All they had was the 'Legal Authority" given by Jesus to Heal the sick, raise the dead etc etc etc
I would say that You do possess some SPIRIT OF TRUTH. But how much do you have? or do I have? or others? But there is no way we seem to be able to confirm it showing the world that what we believe IS TRUTH? And EVERYONE thinks what they believe is Truth so our voice is just going to be one of the many out there that does not stand out.
I like you believe Paul is a False Apostle. But Its just my BELIEF. I could be wrong?
I see others here have commented and believe that they are filled with the Holy Spirit. To them they are. It may help them but they are not really changing the world. They dont even seem to be concerned that so many others dont have what they seem to believe what they have. 'Freely they have received but WHAT ARE THEY FREELY GIVING to benefit the sick, the dead , the lost? )
I think many men of faith start to wonder and question. The one confort i have and would tell you is JUST THE FACT THAT YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT YOUR FATHER means you are FROM HIM AND I AM FROM HIM TOO. If we were not we wouldnt even think about him. So many people don't think of him at all or his word.
Proud Birther, thank you for all of this effort and knowledge. A key point you've made is that people believe they have the Holy Spirit, but they may or may not. People are tainted by the false culture of Paul that makes the Holy Spirit out to be any positive feeling that the individual wants to claim. The Holy Spirit appears to be a device given for a single purpose, and that is to increase the physical power of the individual to draw others into obeying God. This in turn should do what you suggested, which is to have the individual help change the world, which by God's standard, means to glorify the Father to the point where He can destroy and remake the world.
I believe if you ask sincerely Jesus will answer
Taysir Abdallah, that is a good idea. I will ask sincerely. Thank you.
I spoke the truth when I told you about my dream in which I saw a "grey alien" standing in my bedroom. In my dream, the "grey alien" was standing directly behind a large set of drawers that I keep in my bedroom. However, the drawers are pushed directly up against the wall of my bedroom so that there is no room to stand in between the drawers and the wall. Yet in my dream, that is where the "grey alien" was standing, and when I woke up, the drawers were pushed away from the wall as if to make room for the "grey alien" to stand there. The "grey alien" just held its arms straight up over its head, and shook its arms around in the air, and then I woke up. I saw this for 1 second, or perhaps it was significantly less than 1 second. But I know what I saw.
The creature had big black eyes, it had grey skin, it wasn't wearing any clothes, and it had a totally featureless body. I don't believe that I saw the Holy Spirit. I believe that I saw one of the enemies of the holy spirit. I had thought I would live my life without ever seeing anything remotely holy or demonic. Although my dream was only a dream, i find it interesting that the drawers were moved when I woke up. The fact that the furniture was moved seems to imply that my dream may have been something more. I was sleeping on the floor that night, and I was sleeping directly alongside the big set of drawers, so it is conceivable that I sleepwalked and moved the drawers myself. I do have a lengthy history of sleepwalking. A couple of years ago I had an episode of sleepwalking in which I got out of bed and approached my mom, and I said to my mom: "Mom, there are animals in my dream" and my mom replied by telling me to go back to bed, which I did. I have no memory of any dream involving animals, and I have no memory of approaching my mom to tell her this. There is something going on with me and I don't understand what it is.
GodisReal, thank you for your contribution to my quest to find out what is happening in God's church regarding the Holy Spirit. In my presentation, I mentioned that the power of the holy spirit today is not what it was during the time of Jesus, but you brought up a point I didn't put in my presentation, which is that the power of Satan is very high now, so your dreams and visions may be direct manifestations of dark power, or partial manifestations of dark power that combined with normal dreams. Keep moving toward God by living and preaching the kingdom teachings God gave us through Jesus, and your increased power of the Holy Spirit will keep this Satanic energy away from you. There is a great deal of Satanic energy that confronts me in my life. Focus on the power of Jesus and you can overcome it as I do.
No. Did it appear to you? If so, was it male or female? I think people believe the Holy Spirit it is in them when it's not. Every Paul worshipping Christian I know who doesn't even know the first thing about what Jesus taught tells me about how the Holy Spirit is in them. They are blind as blind can be and have zero discernment. I think if the Holy Spirit was in us like the actual apostles we'd certainly know it and would have abilities that we do not. In Acts many were being baptised into the faith who had not yet received the Holy Spirit so they were not led by the Spirit to make that decision. Further, they had to wait until one of the actual apostles came to see them in person to receive it. I'm not saying I know how this works one way or the other. I'm saying I don't have any reason to trust the people who do say that. If the Holy Spirit does ever communicate with me, I'll be sure to let you know.
Restoring Reality, thank you for your comment. I agree that the Holy Spirit did not appear to me, and I feel the same as you do, that I would think I would know if the spirit were in me. I also agree that
no-one who believes in Paul could possibly have the holy spirit. However, I believe that God's spirit animates us, and that without that spirit we can't live, so is the animating spirit from God that breathes life into us a different spirit than the Holy Spirit? God's power to animate and to create miraculous outcomes existed before the Holy Spirit that Jesus promised was delivered to the Apostles at the Pentecost.
I am speculating now, but perhaps those of us who turn from Paul and glorify the Father only through the teachings He sent with the son have some Holy Spirit in us that is weaker than that which is presented in the bible. If so, that spirit will become more powerful as we further glorify the Father and move deeper into the end times.
Thank you, you are very accurate in saying Paul believers tend to believe they have the Holy Spirit in them. I get so annoyed by it. Why is it that so many of them believe that? Please reply, thanks.
@@achurchwithoutpaul3216 Yes the animating spirit given to us is different from the Holy Ghost. This spirit is the divine energy, power, or influence that proceeds from God through Christ and gives life and light to all things. Conscience comes from this. Every person has it. Good or Evil, saved or not. It is not the actual Holy Spirit/Ghost.
@@mayweatherk7478 , I appreciate your input, and it's interesting what you said about conscience coming from the Holy Spirit, and I agree that that. From my own experience and from some of the answers to my question it appears the Holy Spirit is reaching God's church, but perhaps only through individual consciences, which says the Spirit is alive, but weaker than was shown in the bible. I believe the Spirit will increase as the number of God's elect grows, and then the Spirit will be given in greater measure.
@@hughwhitmore-author2031 I think you misread that post. I said the animated spirit we have comes from God the Father, it brings forth consciousness and it is different from the Holy Spirit, which is God's spirit.
Yes, I live with the Holy Spirits everyday. The father and all the hosts in the spirit realm from my family tree.
John Chapter 14:21-23,29!
That’s the best way I can explain it to you.
I am the temple for Gods spirit, because I obey his commands, but also for all those who have lived and have died in my family tree going back to God.
It’s truly amazing to be able to see the spiritual side of life and how much they help.
They healed by body with knowledge. They healed my soul with their presence. The father makes me walk in the right places, I get a gut feeling when I’m going somewhere bad and so on.
It’s not magic but they do all teach me and guide me through life.
How many? Maybe millions. It’s one big happy family!
Watch out for the demons because they like to come through the eyes, ears and so on.
Heaven really means spirit realm. I am the temple for the living God. God holds them all. The spiritual city is your soul. The inner court is your spirit. Your altar is what you do for them like thank them and recognize them and remember them to keep their spirit alive.
Then your eyes water when they rejoice.
Everyday for me!
Evropej Alimi, thank you for sharing your experience with the Holy Spirit. Would you say that the power of the Holy Spirit in you is moderate? For example, I feel intuitions from time to time that warn me of negative things, and those negative things happen, so I attribute that to the Holy Spirit watching out for me, but one of my biggest points is that I don't see the power of the Holy Spirit in me or in other believers as greatly as it was in the time of Jesus.
@@hughwhitmore-author2031 I have spent a lot of time alone in nature in order to be able to discern the spirit in me. You have to shut the noise in society in order to hear the spirit. I have to state this because the communications are very subtle. You can get confirmation through sounds, animals, people, etc. So you have to go through this 40 days in the woods, 40 years in the wilderness phase to learn to hear the spirit. In many severe situations, you might get strong or powerful signals but in most other cases, its very subtle.
Side note, we have lost the genetic connection to the spirit world, keep this in mind. The prophets are all gone, this was genetic as well as the holy tribes. This does not help us!
So to get back on topic. When you need some answer, not want it, you will receive it. It can be your gut feeling for example. I could be a scratch in your nose or on your hand. They all hint at things. The timing could be that a horn goes off if you were thinking of some question. So you get confirmation from your body and your environment. Nothing happens by chance!
God is all over but you have to watch for him! I hope this makes sense. St John of the Cross the Living Flame of Love has a great explanation if you want to read into it.
For me, the connection is strong! I can hear the holy spirit, holy spirits from my family, the father, the son, and even evil spirits I sense now! That weird feeling around some people like when dog bark for no reason! I hope this helps!
@@evropej, Thank you for that. That makes sense about being away from society to hear the spirit. I'm going to try that. Regarding the strength of the signal from the Holy Spirit, I have only felt it in subtle ways, like the intuitions you mention that you receive. What I would like to figure out is how all of us in God's elect can hear from the Holy Spirit in more powerful ways. I'll look into the St. John of the Cross explanation. Thanks.
@@hughwhitmore-author2031 St John will enlighten you on the spiritual side. You will love his readings!
The connection to God was genetic, Abraham. When the 12 tribes were lost, we lost the primary connection to the spirit of God. The prophets were the ones who got the direct messages or visions but people still could get guidance from the spirit of God.
Now we are scattered, grafted with Gentile genetics, or darkness. So our connection to the spirit world is weak, we are blinded by their spirit. Their is a vail of darkness put over our eyes spiritually as St John will explain.
The spirit might still speak to you, but it is faint. Shutting the noise of humanity is one way. Remembering loved ones in heaven, their spirit, will strengthen you connection.
Think about it this way: the connection to heaven, spirit realm, is through the holy spirit of God, he is the party line to them. Focusing or meditating on your loves ones who were righteous will get you in touch with them a lot better.
Remember the demons that Jesus spoke about! They will come and interfere when you try to connect or see them.
So to strengthen your connection, think of loved ones who are righteous in heaven with God, their spirit will come to you because God holds them all, you typically know this because you will get tears in your eyes and feel funny. That is them rejoicing at you! If you practice this a lot, remember them daily in spirit, your connection will grow and you will see those little signs better.
Even better, you will see the little signs of evil spirits as well. For example, your eyes wonder for no reason on something you should not be looking at. It could be a women walking down the road. Or something bad on the internet. The evil spirits will always try to interfere as St John will explain so its important to know that if you need to know and its righteous, you will get a sign when you dont expect for obvious reason.
You will get the answers to your questions when you dont expect it in unexpected ways as St John will explain as well, specially made for you!
Let me give you some examples. I was thinking of a question and God made my eyes wonder at this black car of a woman who used to drive it who was righteous as an answer. This happened many times. Or a sound will happen such a bird starting to chirp or a dog barking. Your whole world around in connected but you have to know what to look for! We used to say this is coincidence but it is not!
This is the part that most miss about God, he is a spirit! When you start to see things spiritually, you cannot ignore seeing God and all your loved ones with him! Its a daily thing for me but it took a while to learn this so be patient. John 14:21-23 and then 29 when it happens so that you may believe! But when it happens, you dont need to believe because it is your reality! Enjoy
PS The biggest point is this, the best way to stay connected is to think of loved ones in heaven with God! They will light the way for you!
@@evropej, I appreciate everything you have suggested. St. John has an elaborate theory of how we are connected to God. You talked about a veil of darkness, and God promises in Isaiah 25:7-8 to remove this veil: "And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people, And the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever." Your advice is timely as I am setting off on a path to better understand why we, the elect and righteous of God's church, can't reach Him and He can't reach us with greater strength.
Hugh the holy spirit is the power of God the Father, It is not a separate entity. If it was the Jesus Yahushuwah (sp)would have been the son of the holy spirit - not the son of the Father Yahuwa. (sp) It is the Fathers power that gave you the power to take your life back from grasp of death. His spirit or power gives you the will to either do or die.
Doug Steinke, I agree that all power and glory originates with the Father, who is the creator of all things. Jesus is greater than us as humans, but Jesus is not the creator. Jesus is greater than us because He has been more greatly glorified by the Father. The Father sent Jesus to give us hope that if we live and preach the teachings He sent with Jesus, we too will be glorified and live eternally.
What I"m trying to figure out is that the glory of the Father has always existed, and when Jesus came, that glory was given to Jesus to do works, and also given to normal people to do works such as heal. Then, Jesus promised the Holy Spirit would come to help us, and this spirit did come to the Apostles in Acts 2 at the Pentecost. I know the Holy Spirit is another power of the glory of the Father, but why is this power separately named as the Holy Spirit?
All humans have the glory of the Father in them because the Father breathes life into all people. Only a few of us have the power of eternal life in us because we obey the rules of the Father. I'm obviously looking for help here, but what I'm trying to figure out is why God felt it necessary to name the Holy Spirit apart from all of His glory. I have to go back to the text, study it and pray, but any help anyone wants to give would be appreciated.
@@hughwhitmore-author2031 It is hard for man almost incapable to understand God the father and his Word the son and his power are one and the same. Yes the Word became the son who created the heavens and the earth through that power of the holy spirit. John 1:1
@@dirtydingus7, I agree that it's probably impossible to understand all that God's word contains. John 21:25: "And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen." However, the bible does contain all we need to know to fulfill God's plan of eternal salvation, and with this knowledge we will go to meet God and Jesus in eternity, and they can explain the rest there.
@@hughwhitmore-author2031 brother, I'm going to drop in real quick and say to you that Jesus is the very eternal father, and is the creator because he and the father are one. Do you not believe this? Why? And by the way the Holy spirit is one with Jesus and the father as well. I don't understand why you feel that just because their is a certain distinction in their activity through our perception that it makes them separate.
@@mayweatherk7478 Jesus is not God. Jesus is far above us, but there is only one God. God is the only one who is eternal backward and forward in time. God preceded creation, He transcends time, and He made all things. John 1:2-3 says of Jesus: "He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made." Jesus was present at the beginning of creation, but not before the beginning. In Revelation 3:14, Jesus says: “These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God,” showing again that Jesus was present at the beginning of creation but with no mention of his presence prior to creation.
John 1:3 says, "all things were made through him," but things were not made by him. Jesus is the light of life, and God made things by sending glory through Jesus, but Jesus is not the creator. Jesus made nothing by himself. Jesus was given great power by the Father, but Jesus does not have the power of creation.
In John 17:5 , Jesus says: "And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was." This again points to Jesus being the path for the glory of the Father to build creation, and being present at the moment of creation, but not being present before creation. There was time before creation, and only the Father existed in that time. There was only one who preceded time, as in Isaiah 43:10: “Before Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there be after Me."
Another indicator that God stands alone as the power behind creation is in Revelation 4:11: “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things.” That’s all things, including Jesus.
Only God can offer eternal salvation, because only God created salvation as a way to earn back His stolen kingdom. Isaiah said in Isaiah 43:11: “I, even I, am the Lord, And besides Me there is no savior.” The Father made the son eternal into the future, as he will make us eternal when salvation is fulfilled and the eternal kingdom returns, but only the Father is eternal both in the past and into the future.
To say that Jesus is not God does not diminish the position of Jesus. Jesus is the son of God. The messiah. The anointed one. The only one through whom we can reach the Father. Without the sacrifice of Jesus, we would not enjoy the ability to access the kingdom by repentance and baptism. However, Jesus never said to worship him, and to the contrary, he said to worship God, as in Matthew 6:6: "when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly."
There is an interesting power transition Jesus makes in the Revelation prophecy, where he is glorified directly by the saints of the church, but even in Revelation God and Jesus continue to be spoken of as separate.
You had an out of body experience but it wasnt the Holy Spirit
ProudBirther, that's what I'm thinking. Before I had the experience I related here, I didn't believe in out of body experiences. If you had told me a story similar to mine, I would have said "that's amazing," but I would have remained skeptical, which is why I've kept this story to myself all these years. Part of the reason I finally asked this question publicly, is because I would like to know what it is going to take to have the Holy Spirit return to those of us who are obedient members of God's elect? What exactly do we have to do? I dedicate myself to the Father by the rules He sent with the son, I sacrifice quite a bit in life by separating myself from the world to a great degree, and I spend enough hours a week on this ministry to make it like a part time job. I also know that many people in my audience are more dedicated than me, which is why I asked this question about the Holy Spirit, to see if anyone has felt its presence. Thanks.
@@hughwhitmore-author2031 Hi Hugh! I recently watched a YT video about the LAS VEGAS shooting committed by Stephen Paddock. One of the victims that survived was an older woman attending the outdoor concert with her two daughters. The bullet hit her lung, liver and maybe another organ and she stated (and this was to a secular Interviewer what she remembered was coming out of her body and looking down and her body and her two daughers on the ground trying to help her. The next think she remember was seeing Jesus in this beautiful place along. I forget if she said she saw other people she knew but she was told it was not her time and the next thing she remembered was waking up in her body. She seemed genuine. Then a few days later i hear you tell a similar story, though you didn't meet Jesus or any other souls you knew or saw a place many might call Heaven. BUT you did experience coming out of your body in vivid detail. I would consider it a blessing because now you are not skeptical on this issue. Many never experience it.
ALSO i understand what you mean when you say you wonder why we don't seem to experience the power of the Holy Spirit as is written in the Bible for the Apostles. I think its that reason why many many people mock us or doubt the bible. I often think If Jesus back 2000 yrs ago did not do the supernatural miracles not many would have followed him. Or the other Apostles whom he sent forth to Preach the Gospel. I think if we are not experiencing what the apostles did then we don't have what they had. But i fantasize many times what it would be like to walk into the hospitals and cure everyone in it. Watch them walk out happy and healthy when earlier they were terminal. THE WORLD COULDNT IGNORE IT. I also understand the medical world would hate people that could cure sick people in the name of Jesus. It would be terrible for their Business. Hugh i admire all the hard work and dedication you have done to try and study our Father's word and to do your best to obey him. But even you are left asking questions. And thats were we are at this time and why Evil seems to get worse and we remain powerless to oppose it on a large scale.
@@proudbirther1998, thanks for relaying the story about the shooting victim. That sounds similar to my experience, and you are right that I'm not skeptical about these things any more, although I'm not sure we can see Jesus until we are completely on the other side.
I agree that people followed Jesus because they saw what he did, and believed in him, and even more important, they converted to a life of glorifying God. It's funny that you expressed your fantasy of having the holy spirit so that you could cure people in hospitals. Whenever Paul believers challenge me by saying I don't have the ability to understand Paul because they have the Holy Spirit and I don't, I tell them to go down to the nearest children's hospital, march up to the cancer ward, lay on hands, cure those kids, and call their parents to come get them. They never respond to my challenge.
Regarding your final point on how evil is worsening and we can't oppose it on a large scale, you are correct, but I'm starting to think in a new direction on that. Up till now I've been thinking that it's just a matter of numbers and when enough believers turn from Paul and return to the kingdom teachings God sent with the Messiah, then God will be glorified adequately and Satan will be overcome. However, I think we are at or very near to the numerical point to overcome Satan, but that the Satanists are using technology to scramble the transmission of glory to God, a power which is, after all, a physical power, like electricity, that travels to God within the physical rules of His creation.
Mankind spends trillions of dollars to smash atoms to understand the most elementary basis of God's physical laws, and then they fill the world with technology to stop glory from traveling through the ether to God. The entire globe is saturated with radio frequency waves and covered with a metallic veil from chem-trails. They have created laser and directed energy weapons to destroy the power of angels. They are allowing the population of the earth to grow as they have so that the electrical grid will only grow and strengthen. We are running out of time, but progress is being made on our side.
Hugh, I'm stopping to say that I will soon be leaving a second comment when I have more time to say more to you.
In short, yes I have a 100 percent experience with the Holy Spirit.
If you have to ask if something was the Holy Spirit or not, then it probably or I would rather just say certainly, the Spirit was not involved. If the Spirit is involved you will know 100 percent.
But I would also like you to clarify for me, because in the story, I'm not hearing any solid indication of the Spirit in action.
I just hear you assume that the Holy Spirit did something in your experience, but what exactly though? In other words,tell me solidly where you think the Holy Spirit came in your experience. Please and thanks.
Mayweather K7, I'm pleased that you have responded and that you may be able to guide me regarding your experience with the Holy Spirit. I'll try to answer your question. I felt I was dying and I saw what I believed to be my spirit leaving my body. I was angry about that, and I wanted it back. If it was true that my life was slipping away, and my spirit was leaving me, it had to return somehow. Did God do that by the power of the Holy Spirit? Was what I saw leaving me the Holy Spirit? Is the spirit within all of us something different than the Holy Spirit?
Part of the problem I'm having is defining the Holy Spirit. I know that all power and energy comes from God, and that the bible defines this power in a few ways. For example, God breathes life into us individually as humans. God also creates the power that animates all of creation, like the weather and animals and nature. Throughout the bible God has given power to individuals to do mighty works, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament with Jesus to heal the sick and raise the dead, and all of this was before the Holy Spirit was promised by Jesus, and then sent as a helper to the apostles. Angels have spiritual power that is shown throughout the bible.
The Holy Spirit of Acts 2 seems to have been sent as a specific power of God to empower believers to spread the kingdom teachings, and it was very powerful. We don't have that power today. Was the Holy Spirit temporary? Was it meant only for that time to help bring Jesus back, because Jesus said he would be back very soon, and at most within the lifetimes of his apostles. Did the Satanic power of Paul's false testimony in the church kill the power of the Holy Spirit? Has modern technology been created just to scramble the power of the Holy Spirit?
Any thoughts you have would be appreciated. Thanks.
@@hughwhitmore-author2031 I will answer your questions as well as I can when I have more time. Maybe Sunday or monday
What I can tell you is that you are correct in discerning that the Spirit is not in work today as it was in the time of the apostles.
Please tell me, what are your thoughts on the acts story when Paul asks believers if they received the spirit the spirit, and they said they didn't know about the spirit, and so Paul layed hands on them an gave them the Holy Spirit? Thank you.
@@mayweatherk7478, Paul could not have possessed the Holy Spirit. Paul was an evil man sent by evil people to deny God's plan of eternal salvation. If Paul had the power to transfer some kind of spiritual energy, it was by the glory of Satan. The same holds true of Paul's false encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. If there was light created in that event, it was by demonic assistance. Paul is completely repudiated in Revelation. In Rev 13:11-13, Paul is named as the second beast and his demonic power was noted: "Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men."
@@hughwhitmore-author2031 this is interesting, but let's postpone this conversation about Paul being the beast from the earth. I mean, I can see the the analogy of a man looking like a lamb but speaking like a dragon being seen through Paul.. but I don't know..there's more to unravel I think before jumping to that conclusion with certainty for me.
@@hughwhitmore-author2031 The Holy Spirit is not temporary, it is eternal. It is God's Power, and one with God as Jesus is and they all work according to the FAITH OF THE CHILDREN OF MEN. Therefore when signs and wonders and miracles disappear it is because of the UNBELIEF mainly and partly because of the evil of men that the POWER AND SIGNS disappear. If you're theory about Paul bringing a Satanic testimony that kills something, which the only thing that it could kill is proper doctrine, therefore destroying proper FAITH, to bring out the power of God, then yes, it's possible that a false testimony from Satan can deceive the church. But I have two things to say about that: One, i'm not totally sure Paul and his writing are against God, and two , even if they were against God, it can not destroy the Holy Spirits ability or God to do his WORK.
As for my personal 100 percent experience with the Holy Spirit, it happened in this way. I was sleeping and in a dream where I was in some field, and I asked Jesus a question in my dream. Right before I finished the question in my dream, i woke up, finishing the question in my awakened state. Then suddenly i heard an explosion like sound coming from the sky. Probably the same sound or similar to the rushing mighty wind in Acts. The Holy Spirit fell on/in me and gave me the answer to my question. It also caused a quaking/violent shaking mainly in my spirit in my body and there may have been a slight appearance of faint fire around my body. I 100 percent knew this was the Holy Ghost, and don't have to question if it was or not.
As i commented on your other post, the spirit within every man is different from the Spirit of God, that can live in us.
I don't see anywhere in your near death experience where the Holy Spirit played a direct role in your vision. However this whole vision may have been presented to you by the power of the Holy Spirit for your viewing and the placement of liquid coming from your body is probably a representation of your spirit, the one that is different from the Holy Spirit. The vision was given to you to know that, yes you were dying and may have been dead but the message of "not yet shall this be" was given to you so you could understand what was happening.
Yes, evil people in the world exist...and some of them hate God, knowing God is real and they are using technology to disrupt our witness of the Spirit.
Holy spirit is female
Erik Murray, thanks for the comment! You might explain why you think the Holy Spirit is female, because every reference to angels in the bible is designated as "he," as is the Holy Spirit when Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit. My guess is that angels are such powerful spiritual beings they are mostly light and glory, so the sex may not matter.
Sex does not fit but I would agree with you that the holy spirit have attributes of female as to it being said is a COMFORTER ....AND female attributes derive from male thus adding a unique letters from the original male title e.g Adam Is Man and Eve was taken out of him thus she became a WOMAN
The same God is Spirit now the spirit that PROCEED FROM HIM is HOLY SPIRIT enquiring female traits as the SPIRIT is the FATHER
@@lehlohonolomolahlehi3420, that is a powerful point about the Holy Spirit having feminine attributes, because there are the masculine traits of Jesus, who is our protector, but the Holy Spirit embodies both power and caution. One of the criticisms from secular people, like the New Age people, is that the religion of the bible is illegitimate because it is male dominated. That isn't true because the entire church is the bride of Christ, and, as you have pointed out, the Holy Spirit has a feminine side. Thanks.