Help! Tormented dreams

[votivesoul]

Aquila,

Regarding the "distortion" of your post that I linked to earlier about your girlfriend and the doll.

I cede to you all the points about that post, that I already acknowledged I forgot. What I do not cede to you is my interpretation of those points. You see it your way, I see it my way. That is what accounts for the alleged distortion. You believe God gave you a Word of Knowledge in response to prayer. I believe something else happened. So does Esaias. So does Michael the Disciple. And so does the other fellow (I forget his screen-name) in that thread who shared a video about how magicians and other such stage acts do "cold reading". That poster went on to say that the Word of Knowledge is, in his opinion, the most abused gift of the Spirit, because the devil pretty much knows the same information and can make it available to a person just as easily as the Spirit of God can.

You keep affirming otherwise, that our perception of that event is off, but your discernment and understanding of it is right on. Let me explain something to you. If ever I had a conversation with someone about the Gifts of the Spirit and in particular the Word of Knowledge, and that someone grabbed up some item and handed it to me and said "Read it" so I could prove to them what I was saying about the Gifts of the Spirit and the Word of Knowledge in particular, I wouldn't dare provoke or put God to the test like that by agreeing to do so.

That's not coveting the best gifts, or a demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit, even if you prayed. It's divination. plain and simple.

Before I was saved, when I was a thrall to evil spirits, I used to play a game with people, in which I would have them think of a person they knew, that I didn't know, and have them tell me that person's name, and I would tell them something about that person. I was on target more times than not, and freaked more than one person out. Even as a new convert, being immature and not knowing any better, I did the same thing with some saints one time, and got the same response.

I have since realized what that kind of thing is, and I never do it, not even for fun.

So, I understand your desire to stick to your story and perceive it the way you want. But I, and several others openly reject your perception of it, and see it as something totally different, hence why, to you, it's a distortion.

But that's the funny thing about subjective things like the gifts of the Spirit. Earlier in this thread, you exhorted me by quoting Scripture, saying "Prove all things. Hold fast to that which is good". So I am, and you don't like it. To prove something is to put it through a test, to see if it lines up with the rest of the Word of God. If it doesn't, let go of it/don't hold "fast" to it. So I am. I am putting your story to the test to see if it matches up with the rest of the Word of God, and I find your story severely lacking and so, I am not holding on to it as an example of a genuine Word of Knowledge imparted through a Gift of the Spirit.