Show me some Scriptures showing believers praying to the Holy Spirit and no one will get hurt and I'll go home. Seems like there may be an instance in Acts but I am not sure off the top of my head.
They will find none, but I can show by His grace and by His help how believers praying to the Holy Spirit has gotten "hurt".
Did they not get hurt in the "holy laughter" movement, the slain in the Spirit craze, the Toronto Blessings, and the Pensacola Outpouring?
Proverbs 25:[SUP]
26 [/SUP]A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. [SUP]
27 [/SUP]It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. [SUP]
28 [/SUP]He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Yet by the scripture abive, believers have been falling down all because they did not heed the commandment of His invitation in how they were to approach God the Father by which is only by way of the Son.
John 14:[SUP]
6 [/SUP]Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Matthew 7:..[SUP]
13 [/SUP]Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: [SUP]
14 [/SUP]Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. [SUP]
15 [/SUP]Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. [SUP]
16 [/SUP]Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?.........
Did not the "holy laughter" movement occurred across the denomenations in Catholics and Protestant churches as no longer being a streamlined Pentecostal and Charismatic event? Is that not being ecumenical in natire as gathering graoes of thorns and figs of thistles? How else can it occur other than by including the Holy Spirit to be worshipped with the Father & the Son? And even moreso when that spotlight is solely on the Holy Spirit in the worship place?
This is what they get for dishonouring the Son by removing the spotlight from the Son to the Spirit which the indwelling Holy Spirit would never do because believers can only live that reconciled relationship with God the Father through the Son.
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24 [/SUP]Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: [SUP]
25 [/SUP]And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. [SUP]
26 [/SUP]And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: [SUP]
27 [/SUP]And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
That is why all of those believers are falling when addressing and speaking to the holy Spirit and yet when we keep our eyes on the Son by His grace & by His help, we have this promise from the Son.
Jude 1:[SUP]
24 [/SUP]Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, [SUP]
25 [/SUP]To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.