To Whom is God speaking?

[GreenNnice]

All this over one roast beef sandwich?

I can only imagine what would have happened if I had gotten chips involved.

BeWARE, beWARE, be a very wary bear.....

CARE-full comments from here on out, my best advice, or, i might sic a heffalump or woozle on you , LOL.

--------------------Missy:

Now if the Holy Spirit does not speak to you in dreams, don't assume that He does not speak to me, because you cannot relate, sit back down in your perfect little box that you have created, and do not tell me to sit down in a little box that looks just like yours.

I think, if you read Scripture, the Holy Spirit reveals all Truth to us, and, it would be wrong to think that the Holy Spirit can not speak us some of His revelation for our life in our dreams.

Our lives are for His purpose, and, some of us are thick-headed and just don't know how to quit, apologize, etc. etc. and God ONLY sees one last resort to REACH us, and, guess what, it's DREAMS

 

[directline2iam]

Miss, sadly being someone who receives dreams and visions from God is a great honor but also a great burden. I have had more than my share of dreams and visions from him, although I myself can only understand some of my dreams and visions. People say receiving dreams and visions is a false teaching and a lie of the devil and yet the word says we will receive such things in the end days. If someone calls you ungodly just because they do not experience or know what you do then maybe they should do some in depth research on dreams and visions in the word of god. So basically God sends these things to those who are open and willing for him to use, which is not always the mature in Christ or rather ones who think they but the babes

Here's the research: now it's up to you and others who don't understand the mystery of it to ask the HS for guidance seeing's you can't understand plain English.



And it shall come to pass in the last days,.... In Joel it is, "afterwards"; instead of which Peter puts, "in the last days"; the sense is the same: and so R. David Kimchi, a celebrated commentator with the Jews, observes, that "afterwards" is the same "as in the last days", and which design the times of the Messiah; for according to a rule given by the same writer onIsaiah 2:2 wherever the last days are mentioned, the days of the Messiah are intended,

Saith God, or "the Lord", as the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read. This clause is added by Peter, and is not in Joel; and very rightly, since what follow are the words of God speaking in his own person:

I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; not "upon every animal", as the Ethiopic version renders it: this is extending the sense too far, as the interpretation the above named Jewish writer gives, limits it too much, restraining it to the people of Israel. It being a maxim with them, that the Shekinah does not dwell but in the land of Israel; and also that prophecy, or a spirit of prophecy, does not dwell on any but in the holy land (r). For though as it regards the first times of the Gospel, it may chiefly respect some persons among the Jews, yet not to the exclusion of the Gentiles; and it designs all sorts of persons of every age, sex, state, and condition, as the distribution afterwards shows. Jarchi's note upon it is,

"upon everyone whose heart is made as tender as flesh; as for example, "and I will give an heart of flesh", Ezekiel 36:26.

By the Spirit is meant the gifts of the Spirit, the spirit of wisdom and knowledge, of understanding the mysteries of the Gospel, of explaining the Scriptures, and of speaking with tongues; and by the pouring of it out, is intended the abundance and great plenty of the gifts and graces of the Spirit bestowed; but yet not all of him, or all his gifts and grace in the large extent of them: therefore it is said, not "my Spirit", but "of my Spirit", or "out of it"; as out of an unfathomable, immeasurable, and inexhaustible fountain and fulness:

and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: or foretell things to come, as Agabus, and the four daughters of Philip the Evangelist, Acts 21:9.

and your young men shall see visions; as Ananias, Acts 9:10, and Peter, Acts 10:17 and Paul when a young man, Acts 22:17and John, the youngest of the apostles, Revelation 1:10 though he was in years, when he saw the visions in the Revelations:

and your old men shall dream dreams; or shall have night visions, as Paul at Troas, Acts 16:9 and in his voyage when at sea, Acts 27:23. The order of the words is inverted, this last clause stands first in Joel; perhaps the change is made, because the apostles were young men, on whom the Spirit was poured; and the thing was the more wonderful that so it should be, than if they had been old men.

 

[overcomer2]

Now if the Holy Spirit does not speak to you in dreams, don't assume that He does not speak to me, because you cannot relate, sit back down in your perfect little box that you have created, and do not tell me to sit down in a little box that looks just like yours.[/QUOTE]
I don't have dreams but I do know Saints that do. I do not agree that a dream is just for jews. I know when someone has a dream they speak it to the church. Sometimes it is for an area of the world and sometimes for the whole body. Your dreams are for you. Or so it seems. There is no private interpretation with God's gifts. But that doesn't mean he is not speaking to you through a dream. Let him speak to you the way he sees fit and be ready to listen is my thoughts. Maybe at some point he will use you with dreams for the church.

 

[damombomb]

[h=3]Job 33:14-16[/h]King James Version (KJV)


[SUP]14 [/SUP]For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
[SUP]16 [/SUP]Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,

 

[nathan3]

I think your missing the whole teaching, and what is happening in Acts 2. : /

 

[Kerry]

I find it odd that the lot of you have absolutely no faith in the spoken word. How can one possibly read the bible and say that God does not speak to individuals, you are reading a collection of books that men wrote as God spoke to them. Drink some tea, eat some cheese and buy a clue.

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

I find it odd that the lot of you have absolutely no faith in the spoken word. How can one possibly read the bible and say that God does not speak to individuals, you are reading a collection of books that men wrote as God spoke to them. Drink some tea, eat some cheese and buy a clue.

Right. GOD shut off the spigot after Christ was crucified. Oh no wait, it was after Pentecost when the spirit was poured out. Oh no wait, it was after Peter received the revelation that gentiles were no different in GOD's eyes than Jews. Oh no wait, it was after Paul said the gifts would go away. Oh no wait, it was after Martin Luther received the revelation that salvation was via faith alone. Oh no wait...

 

[Miss]

I am sorry about the little box comment