I didn't think I stuttered in the above. FOLKS WHO LIVE AND WALK AS THE ABOVE ARE IN ALL THE REMOTELY BIBLICAL CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS. I've met a number of Roman Believers who fit such criteria. But most believer in most to virtually all Christian organizations DO NOT MEET SUCH CRITERIA BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE in the way they live.
Amen, quix, and isn't it amazing that in our inferior minds, and with whatever intellect we have, it becomes virtually impossible to explain the annointing to someone who has never experienced it or walked in it?
Interestingly enough, my husband was from a church that didn't believe in the gifts of the spirit and he didn't even know what the annointing was. Well, ya know, when he began to pray, repent, obey and ask God for HIS best and HIS will, not only did my husband become a changed man, he began to see and understand that God's Best (and certainly His Annointing)is NOT kept in that tight little box that his former church was putting God in.
Through this process, I, too grew and learned that there ARE people in all remotely Christian orgainizations, that when walking as you stated above, can live a life that is spirit-led and recognize the annointing when it comes and when it departs.
The Holy Spirit is so very much alive and when Jesus left us with the promice of a Comforter, He wasn't talking about some far off mist that was somehow watching over us. He is alive and active and can be a part of your everyday, or should I say THE BIGGEST PART of your everyday life, if you are willing to lay it all down for the Lord.
INDEED! Very well put. For some reason, perhaps Christ's analogy between marriage and His Love for The Church Universal . . . it might be somewhat like trying to describe the joyous intimacy of marital relations to a computer chip. Doesn't compute. Not enough information. No experience.
Interestingly enough, my husband was from a church that didn't believe in the gifts of the spirit and he didn't even know what the annointing was. Well, ya know, when he began to pray, repent, obey and ask God for HIS best and HIS will, not only did my husband become a changed man, he began to see and understand that God's Best (and certainly His Annointing)is NOT kept in that tight little box that his former church was putting God in.
INDEED! PRAISE GOD! INDEED! INDEED!
Through this process, I, too grew and learned that there ARE people in all remotely Christian orgainizations, that when walking as you stated above, can live a life that is spirit-led and recognize the annointing when it comes and when it departs.
PRAISE GOD FOR YOUR KIND CONFIRMATION! YEA GOD!
The Holy Spirit is so very much alive and when Jesus left us with the promice of a Comforter, He wasn't talking about some far off mist that was somehow watching over us. He is alive and active and can be a part of your everyday, or should I say THE BIGGEST PART of your everyday life, if you are willing to lay it all down for the Lord.
INDEED! PRAISE GOD FOR HIS FAITHFULNESS!
LUB,
I assume you are talking about me. How do you know that I have never "experienced [the anointing] or walked in it"?
-A8
There are some studies of the 'Anointing' which discern between our souls being filled with the Spirit and the Indwelling of the Spirit. The Indwelling being a permanent state with believers in the Church Age, and non-experiential, while the filling of the Spirit might be experienced in as many different ways as there are different gifts of the Spirit.
This perspective nicely accounts for the Sovereignty of God in the regeneration of the spirit and perceives the atonement of Christ being unlimited. One saved, always saved perspective, but discernible from a contuous filling of the Spirit. An alternate perspective tries to rationalize the effects of post-salvation sin as evidence of one not having been saved or losing one's salvation. (Both of which I assert are heretical.)
Of course, as long as we place our faith in Him in all things after keeping our accounts short with Him regarding our known and unknown sins, it's rather a moot point as to which we refer because then He is free to indwell and fill us with His Spirit.
AMEN, Texasgal.