I finished the video. Very good!! I’m fairly amazed that his experienced with Pentecostal type believers has been so positive. I’ve never been slain in the spirit or spoken in tongues or fallen down or anything like that.
I had a marked baptism of the Spirit that resulted in a “knowing” and a sense of His filling. I had dreams that revealed truth to me and I “knew” what was going on in certain situations. I “knew” about Benghazi while it was happening, not specifics, but a desperate need to prayer and the knowledge that something very big was going on in our government and I needed to pray. I prayed constantly over that.
I felt warned about a situation a friend was dealing with with her daughter. I prayed so much. I sensed a need to warn her and she was furious with me. That was about 8 years ago. It turned out that I was right and the repercussions and pain for that family have been ongoing. I still wonder even now if I should ever have said a word and just stuck to prayer.
I had a mentor/prayer partner who seemed true and good. As time went on she used crystals and the chakra and other new age practices in her prayer life. I separated from her but it really put a warning over all of it for me, combined with the train wrecks I was seeing by others involved in IHOP and the NAR.
Then came the blessings of being in a church that lived out the Bible simply and taught truth with no heavy emphasis on all of the experiences. I’ve seen Jesus’ hands and feet in action more in this atmosphere than in all of the Spirit-filled craziness I’ve seen in other situations. I think it is because the focus is Christ and not self. I still know that there is a balance and it has everything to do with the focus being on knowing Christ and bringing Him glory above all.
Reading a book on Rees Howells was very compelling to me on this topic as well. This is another long one.