Just need to talk...

[Bawilli]

  Feeling pretty down tonight and just need to talk about it.  Went to church tonight and everything started off great with singing and prayer.  Everyone was invited to the alter who needed a prayer.  There were laying of hands and a few fell to the floor.  It was unlike anything I have seen before.   I was a little confussed to be honest.  Later the pastor had several member stand face to face far enough apart for others to walk through and again there were laying of hand and the Holy Ghost was filling the room and touching lives like I have never seen before.  Through most of this I stood at my chair and watched.  Why did I not get involved.  Isn't that what I was suppose to do?  The rest of the evening really had me feeling down.  I feel like I let Jesus down.  I feel really low right now and just needed to talk about it.  Is this what it feels like when the Devil gets a hold on ya?  I'm sorry for being such a downer I just need to get this off me so I can brush the Devil off me and keep following the Lord!  
  Thank you for listening and being here.
  -Bawilli  

[Tibby]

No, you did good. To make Charismatic get way to into it, and get lost in the Emotion, and forget about God. You will come around in your own time. God can work on you in a chair just as easily as if you where on the floor. I don’t see anything in the bible about having to fall over to get a touch. Don’t feel guilty, just talk to God about it. He knows how you feel, he knows what I do.

[Bawilli]

Thank you so much Tibby!  Thank you for your kind words!

[Tibby]

No problem. That is what your Brothers and  sisters in christ are here for.  

[C C]

   Well, I say you did just fine.  Personally, I'm too self-concious --I'm not sure about that spelling--to fall all over the floor.  I've seen people do it too.  I just stand by  and I think that's just fine.

[BUTCHA]

i went to something like that once i know the feeling i kept waitting for the holy spirit to knock me over or just feel anything nothing, happened i thought why did god reject me
anyhow god knows our feelings and whats in our hearts

[amos sojourner]

I would suggest the work of Satan was not done in you being inhibited at a church service, but more than likely Satan's work was done in your feelings afterward.
Satan is the accuser who more than anything wants you to feel as though you have failed God and that God has failed you.

True worship is not something we do for 30 minutes on Sunday. Anyone or a church that makes you feel otherwise is in error. The Bible says that true worship is a believer who offers his/her life as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.(Romans 12:1)

The opinions of man is a daunting mountain for God to overcome. I know this full well, but true humility comes when we disappear into the Lord, caring only for His desire being void of the world's opinion and the eyes of man.

Now I will tell you a secret that can become a snare. This humility will mask itself as being uninhibited before man, but let me tell you this being uninhibited can really become a source of pride and can be the very thing that we seek to become so man will think well of us.

There is a difference in being free in the Lord and uninhibited in the flesh.

Something to think about.



 

 

 

[Willowbirch]

Thank you, thank you Amos!

[archangel]

I dare say all believers have times that we doubt the motives for things we do in the name of God.  I for one often fear that my true motives for doing something are being masked or ignored by me and that it is my glory and not God's that I am seeking.  I just keep praying "Lord, Your will not mine"  in all things.  I used to be very vocal and extroverted in my activities at church but even though I feel closer to Jesus than ever before in my life, I find that I am quiet now at times that I would not have been before.  It doesn't matter because in the quiet of your heart or in the shouting of your voice Satan is still going to try to convince you that you are failing God.  It is up to you to rebuke him in the name of Jesus and tell him you won't listen.    
     Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.         Proverbs 3: 5-6