I shared that God answered my prayer and stilled a storm for 15 minutes. Our friend here responded by asking how I knew it was God that answered my prayer. He stated it could have been the devil. Hence, the devil answered my prayer so that I could go forth and glorify God. Like that makes any sense.
Well...it's necessary to understand what you are dealing with in any conversation, including this one, with johnlove.
Earlier, he said he knew he had the Holy Spirit (and this is my paraphrase of what he said because I don't remember it word for word) because it said so in the bible.
Now if a man has not received Light from heaven yet, he could do worse than going on the bible and what it says, I guess...
It will never be sufficient, but it can be a first step. God will show him mercy and grace, right?
Of course, you know that it isn't sufficient, but that's because you have something he doesn't yet have. You've received Gods' Spirit and have begun to experience His Word in your own experience. It wasn't of your doing - it was a gift. A merciful blessing.
It's always hard to have conversations such as this one and to...keep remembering that we were once just as blind and without hope in the world and that we were shown unspeakable mercy and continue receiving mercy after mercy and grace after grace. But it's how we have to engage in the conversations or else we undo whatever the Spirit wants to do. Of course, he will find someone else and Gods' will can't be thwarted, but we lose a great blessing in the process.
It is so hard to keep humility but then, it isn't really that hard if we constantly keep before us the mercy we were shown. We can become very prideful of gifts we are given. It's a ploy of satan. No one can expect a blind man to see unless he's healed of his blindness.
Was this coherent...?
