And it isn’t just related to salvation, I have had more than a few times when the Holy Spirit slapped me upside the head to do something. One of the most forceful was to invite an atheist friend who was spending the weekend with us to go to church. The only way I can describe it was a nearly audible voice yelling “ASK HER TO CHURCH!” and a hand stopping me from walking past her (I was headed to another part of the house).
I obeyed and she accepted Christ that day, and had her own Damascus road experience. Not all Christians who are saved have an intense conversion experience or Damascus road (Mr.R did not - he accepted Christ as a child), but the Holy Spirit speaks to us all the time as believers and sometimes He has to get our attention.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
WELL PUT.
Good grief. I'd rather have the Holy Spirit do it that way than let me screw up.
I had something along those lines happen to me. I was heading up an event at church and praying about who to invite and the Lord told me to ask mr. mm. The problem being, I didn't know him at the time. He has just started attending church, I didn't even know his last name, and it went against my personal policy of making the first move when it came to men. But God said *Ask [the future mr. mm]!*
And with that simple statement, came the full knowledge that this would be the man I was going to marry. I just KNEW. It was over a year before that happened, but God does do stuff like that.
But if God wasn't forceful about it, I wouldn't have done it.
Come to think of it, He's pretty forceful with it comes to convicting us of our sin. I don't know anybody who asked God to convict them unto repentance.