Bill
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Lol , sorry I thought you were talking to me.Oh dear....
I meant the other Bill, Bill.
Well...there is, "According to your faith so be it..."
Much of the Protestant world rejects gifts completely. So of course they won't happen. And while I am aware of the "Charismatic Movement" within the RC church, it is most definitely and rigidly controlled.
Blessings,
Rhema
Well your gifted to know that scripture off the top of your head. I tend to be forgetting some of it these days. My wife thinks I have the beginning stages of Alzheimer's. I think it's probably a little more selective hearing LOL
You know everyone experiences trials from God and it happens all the time and I don't mean trials in a way like job experience them but in some ways maybe the same to a degree when God wants you to reach out with your faith. Even today I saw a lady walking along with a single crutch. The Lord told me immediately what she needed to do to help her leg to give it more strength. But instead of speaking to her with believing in what the Lord had said to me, I asked her what was wrong with her leg and she was telling me and then I sort of implied the exercise that the Lord said to me and it was exactly what she already knew she needed to do. She just needed to do more of it.
Now even though she already confirmed what the Lord had said to me. I did not have the faith to say it to her Point Blank!
I know that God throws these things to me on occasion to challenge me and my faith to believe what he's telling me up front and to approach that person from the perspective that God has set before me. Not to approach the person in disbelief or not believing what God has said to me.
On a side note, the other Bill reminds me of a priest I once met.
This priest wanted to test me, to see if the gifts were really the gifts of the Lord or not. And in those days I had not really been tested by ministers or priests even though I was experiencing all sorts of things.
So the priest asked me what was wrong with him. So I looked at him with spiritual eyes, I could see that his circulation was poor and most of his body there was blood clotting going on in his legs and down in his feet, there was some varicose veins I was looking at his heart and it wasn't working properly and so I started telling them all these things.
He responds to me with, you're definitely not in the Lord. You do not have any of the gifts of the Holy Spirit you're working with the Devil. He goes on to tell me that the doctor told him that he has 1/4 of the circulation that he's supposed to have in his whole body.
I thought to myself afterwards and I thought isn't that what I just said to him, I mean it was literally identical to what he just said to me just in a different perspective. The priest was only looking for the answer that the doctor had given him. He just could not see my answer as being the same.
When I read Bill's comments, and I read the responses that people have made. I see the same thing. It's literally exactly what bill is saying that he is receiving from other people, but he's expecting everyone to say it the way he receives it not the way that the Lord shows it to others