(06-14-2023, 12:49 AM)Ninurta Wrote:Snarl Wrote:If anyone ever gets down to San Antonio, you could look-up Pastor Hagee of the Cornerstone Church. Very interesting fella to say the least. God is with him all the time. That's something I'd like to know more about.
I don't know anything about this Hagee fella, but I can tell you that YOUR God is always with you, too - but God doesn't always yell at you. Sometimes, God just whispers, and you have to be quiet to hear. Whether yelling or whispering, if God is with you once, God will always be with you. You don't have to run a big church to have God with you all the time. God is just there, always.
The yelling tends to have a stronger effect than necessary on folks. Bowls 'em right over. The still whispering is where you learn.
The guy who introduced me to God told me some of what he 'knew'. And, it's complimentary to what @"BodhisattvaStyle"#121 alluded to saying, ""Holy Spirit recognizes Holy Spirit." Meaning, I have learned to recognize Him in others." What he told me is that those who pursue God take on an aura. People with that aura are prone to making the words of Matthew 18:20 prophetic: For where two or more are gathered together in my name, there I Am, in the midst of them. This is where you can begin to detect the Holy presence. It comes on like a vibration ... and the next thing you know you're smothering in it.
I saw your other post about people speaking in tongues. Had that happen to me on what I label as my third encounter. I was talking to a preacher's daughter. She was making a 'passport photo' for my 926C application. All of a sudden God showed up. I don't know why, but He did. We weren't discussing anything about religion of God at all. I didn't even realize she was a preacher's daughter until she started babbling.
In a separate event, my wife and I were casually shopping cookbooks on a PX shelf in Korea. We picked one up and laughed at the whole thing being written in French. Put it back because that one was no good to us. Picked it up again a few minutes later and the whole thing is written in English. I subsequently thumbed the pages of every cookbook in the whole section and not one of them was written in French. Shplain that to me.
I got the impression the preacher's daughter thought nothing was real about God at all. That it was all just hokey-assed religion. Then, she started speaking in tongues. Freaked me right the fuck out. I interrupted her and told her, "Stop talking." She calmed and I saw it dawn on her that her belief system had been completely 'altered' by knowing. She practically chased me on my way out of the store inviting me to come back and spend more time there with her. (Nope. Neither prophet nor proselytizer in this skin. Just a very cool subject to have some "insider's" knowledge of ... and if that helps even one person get a glimpse behind the veil ... so much the better.)
(06-14-2023, 01:32 AM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: I have read passages in the Bible that I have read numerous times, and suddenly have a meaning come through to me that never presented itself before.
Is that not a total blast? I'm telling you (meaning 'everyone') that scripture was re-written (into Babble) to keep people from really coming to know that God is here ... and everyone has access to Him.
Someone was clever enough to conceal 'the actual meaning'/'clues' in these instruction manuals.