5. February 2010 by admin.

Over the last few days I have been aware of an increase in the gentle prompting of the Holy Spirit to stay a little longer in my prayer, study and meditations times.  I love the sweetness of the fellowship of the Spirit of the Lord.

The Word of God says that the Lord will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed upon the Lord.  I do not know a better discription of what it is like to be in the Spirit of the Lord.  Perfect Peace is a great discription.  This peace is felt in the calmness of my spirit and in the absolute restfulness of my body.   To meditate on the Spirit of the Lord (The sword of the Spirit is the Word of God”) is to have true restfulness.

When the early Church Disciples greeted each other they said thing like, “Peace be unto your”.  To speak peace to someone was the same as asking the Lord to be with them.  His peace, is His Spirit.

 Blessings,

ron 

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19. January 2010 by admin.

As a child growing up, my Father was a Pastor and an Evangelist in what was called the Full Gospel-Pentecostal Movement.    I remember Tent Crusades with my Dad preaching under the tent as many came to the Lord.  I also remember that my mother would bring blankets along and make us a place to rest and sleep under the chairs on the old sawdust floors of the tent.  The Tent Services would last so long that we were allowed as children to sleep on these blankets during Service.

People would be filled with the Spirit and at times, shout all around us.  It was a real interesting time and a lot of fun!

While these tent “Revivals” were going on, many would pray and shout and speak in Charismatic tongues.  There would also be spiritual phenomena such as “Singing in the Spirit”, “Holy Laughter”, and also sometimes falling out in the Spirit, or what some called “being slain in the Spirit”. 

My father had been a drunk before accepting Jesus Christ as His personal Savior.  He struggled with Alcoholism, and tried to quit Smoking which was also considered a sin.  He had no success in his quitting drinking until he went down to the alter one day and received what is still called by those who are part of that Christian group as “Being Filled with the Holy Spirit”.  

Being filled with the Holy Spirit is accompanied by Speaking in Unknown Tongues.

These occurrences were very common in my Childhood and early adulthood.    I am not a novice to such Spiritual phenomena.  I saw a lot of what I believed to be real Godly, Spiritual experiences in my growing up as well as many, many occurrences of what my dad would call “Wild Fire”.  The wild fire is what he called it when people were doing things that were not really considered by him or many other leaders to be real occurrences of Godly, Spiritual Phenomena.  Or what is sometimes called, “A real move of the Holy Spirit”.

In my next post, I will address, is any spiritual phenomena real or is it all delusion. And we will begin to explore some of what the Bible says concerning these things.

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29. October 2009 by admin.

I recently had someone ask me what I consider to be a very important question.   So, over the next few posts I am going to do my best to answer their question as scripturally and completely as I can in a blog.

Why do some people and churches get all emotional even to the point of shouting, and even falling out?¯

Asked another way:  Is it even right or scriptural?   And Shouldn’t one show more reverence in the church than to have all that emotional stuff going on?

In order to answer these questions we really have to give a background as to what is actually acceptable to God in worship.  And what are the methods used by God’s people in the Bible during worship.

We will use Scripture as the only “real” authority for the discussions that we have here.  Please feel free to post comments, questions and opinions on my blog page about these posts.

Also, I will try to keep my blog posts short enough to read in one short setting so you do not have to feel like you are sorting through too many things to think about in a single post.

I will also keep the scripture reference as relevant and to the point as I can.   I will only post the most important sections of scripture and leave most references for you to read on your own.

The version of the Bible that you use should be one that you like, can relate to and is easy for your study.

In my posts, I will give my opinion.   I will post about worship and events in the Bible that relate to the topic of  “being slain in the spirit” or falling under the anointing as some prefer to call it.   I will give pros and cons. 

I will tell you why I think sometimes it is legitimate and sometimes why I think it is hype or someone just bowing to the expectations of the crowd and doing what they think they should do at that time.

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