A tremendous, awesome what?

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Why does everyone's experiencing the presence of God have to only be like Isaiah's experience? Also how is saying "we had a powerful move of God's Spirit" judging God?

Take a close look at the times in scripture when people found themselves in the presence of God in a seemingly tangible way. What was their response? It was always one of true worship, i.e. humbling and prostrating oneself before God, and not exuberance. There's a place for exuberance but to use that exuberance as the standard by which we "measure" or otherwise determine whether God "moved" among His people is judging God by human behavior. We in Pentecostal circles have no sense of reverential fear before God.

Did those that were healed by Jesus experience a powerful move of God's Spirit? Perhaps this is really all subjective based on what definition one uses of the term "move of God".

The problem, though, is what is being suggested: that God sort of randomly chooses to be present or not present among His people (this notion of God just "stopping by" like dropping in on a neighbor or relative) or that unless we're whipped up into some sort of emotional frenzy GOD wasn't present or "moving" among His people. God is CONTINUOUSLY present among His people and IN each one of us.

One the other hand, I do admit some folks wrongly mistake feel good emotion as a move of God.

That's exactly the point and it's not just some people, it's fairly common in Pentecostal circles.

On the other hand being quite emotional could be the result of a powerful move of God.

Are there "moves" of God that aren't powerful?

How can one NOT be emotional in the presence of God...How can one not be emotional unless you are dead or schizophrenic or some other mental disorder?

Note Isaiah's emotions when he found himself in the presence of God:

"Then I said, 'Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.'"

Note John's reaction when he found himself in the presence of the glorified Christ:

"When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man And He placed His right hand on me, saying, 'Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last,
and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades."

I don't believe that really being in the presence of God while we're in our present mortal state is going to bring about exuberance. We Pentecostals have no sense of the fear of God.

Exuberant praise is biblical but to call our praise a move of God maked God out to be as variable as our emotions.