"I have had times when I couldn't move a muscle so there are valid manifestations of the Spirit when it comes in contact with human flesh. "
Really this reminds to spiritistic expieriences, but not expierience with the Holy Spirit! I cant renember that the bible teaches this kind of expieriences with the Holy Spirit and I also can not fund such an expierience with the apostles. Which would be the first which should got them.
1 Corinthians 14:[SUP]32[/SUP]
And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.[SUP]33 [/SUP]For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Since temperance is a fruit of the Spirit which is self control, I believe the supernatural sensation of not being able to move is
NOT a manifestation of the indwelling Holy Spirit, but another spirit that counters the fruit of the Spirit... if we accept it.
It happened to me on the day after a visit to Ernest Angeley Healing Crusade when I was in High School after I had come home from High School and needed a nap. I had prayed to Jesus for help, and slowly but surely the weight rolled off of me and I was able to move again.
I know that "science" has an explanation for it, but since it is connected to these events where they invoke what they believe to be the Holy Spirit to come to initiate healing, as confirmed by the response from another poster in this thread, science is just doing guesswork rather than detective work to determine the cause, but whereas the other poster confirms the connection, we disagree to the cause of it since he believes it is the Holy Spirit, whereas I do not, since now I know that the only way we can know the real Holy Spirit from the spirits of the antichrist outside of us in the world is to know Him as dwelling within us and has no need to refill us because He will never leave us. Whereas any other experience that is supernatural after a physical sign in the flesh rather than one by faith in Jesus Christ, is not of Him because that would present another calling and move believers away from their rest in Jesus Christ to hunger and thirst again for a filling that can only deny Him as having been filled by the Father as promised at their salvation.
Since we have been saved by faith in Jesus Christ and as the bride to the Bridegroom, we should be waiting for Him, and not going out to the market to seek to be filled again for whatever the reason, because then we are not ready for the Bridegroom. And we need His help to be ready and waiting for the Bridegroom.
It is an odd thing but many that seek after the Holy Spirit to fill themselves in seeking to be complete supernaturally will contend with the religious that seeks works by their merits and will power to complete themselves religiously. They will contend with the religious that they are saved and thus complete supernaturally as promised as saved, but yet will do the opposite supernaturally by seeking to be supernaturally refilled again and again to be complete or filled in Christ Jesus as saved.
Scary to see such double-mindedness, but then again, I was each of them before Jesus helped me to depart from both iniquity to rest in Him so as to be His disciple preaching Jesus Christ & Him crucified in seeking His glory and nothing else in His name since that is what it means to be His disciples rather than one of a church, or of men, or of seducing spirits or any other movement in His name when preaching the Jesus Christ, the Good News to man, is all we should be only preaching for that completeness in Christ and that rest in Him not only for salvation, but for living as His in following Him by faith alone..
