I believe the reason Debp asked if you have ever read any material about the occult, was just a question trying to understand more about this. I'll let Debp speak for herself, but I have heard stories where persons have opened themselves up to attack by simply picking these books up and just glancing through them. Even believers! Again, not that this makes YOU a bad person or anything like that, but I do believe it could open up things for worse issues is all.
I started reading the books to see if I could figure out what this was after my Preacher told me I must be spawn of the Devil.(I also quit going to that Church.)
I can't say I blame you for wanted to quit. Your pastor should have spent some time with you on this if he didn't. Saying that you are spawn of the devil was wrong. You are not some odd person or any such thing. You simply have something of a spiritual nature happening to you that you don't understand (whether it be good or bad).
As for reading the books. I was already a true believer in our Lord Jesus Christ as Savior before I read any books on the Dark Powers that exist.
Yes I have read those books, but it has been over 30 yrs since I read any and never did find any kind of answers there
I am glad to hear that you are no longer looking to this material for answers. Even believers can be deceived by such things if they choose stray from Gods word. So hopefully that stuff is not in your library any longer.
The Bible has given me partial answers, but not a concrete answer as I would find about let's say murder.
I have studied and prayed about this for years. What I have come up with is this. It is either (A)a God Given gift that I don't know how to put to use for the Glory of God,(B) One of the gerational things that is from sins of the Fathers, (C) one of the mysteries God tells us we are not to understand.
From the passage that I provided in the previous post....Has this gift ever given Glory to Christ of its own accord or truth that Christ came in the flesh? If not, does it manifest itself in relevance to earthly things or earthly knowledge?
These are two CONCRETE answers from scripture on how to discern spirits. I know you are looking for specifics....but how much more specific does the answer need to be than this?
What do you think?
Blessings!