IMO, it wasn't a good example. I am very certain that God moved only because of the faith in the room.
And, again, it was way too sensational for me. For the record, my husband is in agreement. He also said it reminded him of the magic hair issue, and that we can't allow people to rely on noise when they are seeking something from God. For one thing, it usually has short term effects - his words.
Okay.
Hi PO, like most things in life I am a day late. God is in the shout & many times he is not, sometimes God is in the quiet move of God & many times it is just shallow dead Church!
I love emotion, God's attributes of Love & his Peace touch me in my emotions, but I told my Pastor recently that I fear for this upcoming generation of, "entertain me, "excite me," "keep me occupied" & have very "
shallow roots!"
These people, when the hard times of trial & testing come, & they will come, these people who are just in the emotional phase will be shaken in their faith.
Many times, we as a Church body are not always quick to share our wisdom & experience with new converts especially young people, we may have better retention of our new converts!
Your husband has good wisdom!
Don't get me going on fog machines, spot lights & disco balls!
Hi PO, like most things in life I am a day late. God is in the shout & many times he is not, sometimes God is in the quiet move of God & many times it is just shallow dead Church!
I love emotion, God's attributes of Love & his Peace touch me in my emotions, but I told my Pastor recently that I fear for this upcoming generation of, "entertain me, "excite me," "keep me occupied" & have very "
shallow roots!"
These people, when the hard times of trial & testing come, & they will come, these people who are just in the emotional phase will be shaken in their faith.
Many times, we as a Church body are not always quick to share our wisdom & experience with new converts especially young people, we may have better retention of our new converts!
Your husband has good wisdom!
Don't get me going on fog machines, spot lights & disco balls!
Thank you, Ron. I am afraid with Reality TV, Instagram, Facebook, etc. it is moving us way too much into - "let me feel good quick!!" It's an easy sell.
There have been times in prayer when it felt like brass to heaven, where I have said, "God, I love you. I love your word. I don't have to feel a thing. I am telling you that I will serve you because you are faithful."
Aside from the topic at hand - HOW are you DOING? How is your health today? Any new reports on your heart?
Thank you, Ron. I am afraid with Reality TV, Instagram, Facebook, etc. it is moving us way too much into - "let me feel good quick!!" It's an easy sell.
There have been times in prayer when it felt like brass to heaven, where I have said, "God, I love you. I love your word. I don't have to feel a thing. I am telling you that I will serve you because you are faithful."
Aside from the topic at hand - HOW are you DOING? How is your health today? Any new reports on your heart?
And is usually in those times of testing when God "seemed" to be on "vacation" & nowhere around! We know his Bible says otherwise & need to order our lives after that fact!
I am doing fine and slowly getting my stamina back & a few weeks back on a youth night at Church on Friday, they all went to play a couple of games ofg Laser Tag!
I not only drove a bunch there, but I joined in as well!
I couldn't figure out why the game was only 15-20 minutes long.
I found out--it was an intense 15-20 minutes running over a course on three levels.
I surprised my kids when the first game was between the reds & the greens, I was on the greens & I was the top scorer.
The second game, that was a free for all had me be the 4th from the top.\
A lot of fun. The guys want to do paint ball next.
My kids said, "Wow Dad, I.m surprised!"
I said, "why?"
They said, "well you know, your heart condition!"
I said, "they fixed that!"
Thank you, Ron. I am afraid with Reality TV, Instagram, Facebook, etc. it is moving us way too much into - "let me feel good quick!!" It's an easy sell.
There have been times in prayer when it felt like brass to heaven, where I have said, "God, I love you. I love your word. I don't have to feel a thing. I am telling you that I will serve you because you are faithful."
Aside from the topic at hand - HOW are you DOING? How is your health today? Any new reports on your heart?
This right here Ron, been praying for ya!
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[QUOTE=Ron;1388721]And is usually in those times of testing when God "seemed" to be on "vacation" & nowhere around! We know his Bible says otherwise & need to order our lives after that fact![Quote]
Amen!
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I am doing fine and slowly getting my stamina back & a few weeks back on a youth night at Church on Friday, they all went to play a couple of games ofg Laser Tag!
I not only drove a bunch there, but I joined in as well!
I couldn't figure out why the game was only 15-20 minutes long.
I found out--it was an intense 15-20 minutes running over a course on three levels.
I surprised my kids when the first game was between the reds & the greens, I was on the greens & I was the top scorer.
The second game, that was a free for all had me be the 4th from the top.\
A lot of fun. The guys want to do paint ball next.
My kids said, "Wow Dad, I.m surprised!"
I said, "why?"
They said, "well you know, your heart condition!"
I said, "they fixed that!"
Wow! Okay, we've always joked around quite a bit on this forum, but in this case I'm afraid to do that now. LOL!
[QUOTE=Pressing-On;1388747][QUOTE=Ron;1388721]And is usually in those times of testing when God "seemed" to be on "vacation" & nowhere around! We know his Bible says otherwise & need to order our lives after that fact!
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Amen!
Wow! Okay, we've always joked around quite a bit on this forum, but in this case I'm afraid to do that now. LOL!
I told my oldest afterwards that if this was real life with real guns, I would have been dead the first few seconds after I stepped on the floor as I fgot hit 5 or 6 times before I took my first shot!
No, there was a spirit of cheating & subterfuge going around in there, I went looking for people & found Phoebe one of our young people who calls me "dad" as she is from one of the "too many" single parent homes in our Church but I digress.
I went to shoot at her, but in the darkness, I saw her gun but not her vest & went, "what??"
Then I saw that she had her vest between her knees!!!!
On the second game, I took my light summer jacket & tied it around my vest & went to town.
Later on the youth said I was "cheating!!"
Imagine that??
I simply stated, "I was leveling the playing field & how dare they shoot an elder!!!"
If y'all don't believe shouting, or the sound waves emitted by shouting, does anything to molecules of air, then you should look into it.
Before criticizing Stoneking and calling him an idiot, you should read about the effects sound waves have on molecules.
Sound waves are energy. By claiming they shred the air, he's just saying the energy released by sound waves causes molecules to react. Some even claim sound waves could heat objects or emit enough energy to light a light bulb.
Bottom line is it does affect air molecules. He's correct. Y'all haters should read before bashing the man.
C'mon, you know good and well that the complaint is that he will take some basic scientific principle like this and extrapolate it out into crazy conlusions. Of course sound affects the molecules in the air but absolutey nowhere in the bible does it say that this has anything to do with anything spiritual. All power in spiritual warfare comes from God and not screaming.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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