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I understand this, but in my experience I had prayed asking a question and I got the answer the next day when I turned on the tv at a specific time.
Has God not spoken to you through other people? Have you ever had someone walk up to you and say something that gave you shivers because it was an answer to prayer?
We all have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, and lets not limit how God works through us.
If you don't believe in dreams and visions then fair enough, but don't judge how God may speak to a person, saying that is is false and the person is imagining these things.
Has God not spoken to you through other people? Have you ever had someone walk up to you and say something that gave you shivers because it was an answer to prayer?
We all have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, and lets not limit how God works through us.
If you don't believe in dreams and visions then fair enough, but don't judge how God may speak to a person, saying that is is false and the person is imagining these things.
i understood my husband.
all the time.
we knew each other from constant companionship and what we had in common.
we knew each other intimately.
face to face.
if my husband was away, he wrote letters.
the same understanding was in the letters.
if i did not know him, his letters would have revealed him to me.
getting to know him face to face took a long time.
God has revealed Himself in His Word, which is active and living. that's how we get to know Him.
the Spirit in us is working.
we communicate as christians.
the same with my husband.
i knew him. because i had gotten to know him.
i didn't have to ask what he meant when he spoke because i had gotten to know him.
God will not lead us subjectively.
guess work.....it's not His way.
all the time.
we knew each other from constant companionship and what we had in common.
we knew each other intimately.
face to face.
if my husband was away, he wrote letters.
the same understanding was in the letters.
if i did not know him, his letters would have revealed him to me.
getting to know him face to face took a long time.
God has revealed Himself in His Word, which is active and living. that's how we get to know Him.
the Spirit in us is working.
we communicate as christians.
the same with my husband.
i knew him. because i had gotten to know him.
i didn't have to ask what he meant when he spoke because i had gotten to know him.
God will not lead us subjectively.
guess work.....it's not His way.
You're free to believe these things have ceased, but it is unfair to tell someone that God does not speak to them in dreams and visions when some of us have experienced such things. This is not going against the word of God at all, because we have scripture and all things must be tested against it. I'm not saying this is new scripture, just that when we have a relationship with Him He speaks to us through His word and often through dreams and visions also.
I never said someone will miss out because of not receiving a dream. Dreams and visions do not add to scripture at all. Please don't assume things I don't say. I just think it's wrong to suggest someone is imagining things because you have a difference of opinion.
I never said someone will miss out because of not receiving a dream. Dreams and visions do not add to scripture at all. Please don't assume things I don't say. I just think it's wrong to suggest someone is imagining things because you have a difference of opinion.
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Seems to me Jesus and the apostles would have given ample scripture so that
we knew we were going to be taught by dreams and visions. And had a test for them.
But its just not there. Anywhere to be found.
Jesus grew up with the Word, discussed the word, told us to live by every word.
Apostles had same message.
Noones saying we dont believe in dreams and visions. They happen to all of us.
Question is whether they are biblical. And if so where are the scriptures in the bible
to give us doctrines reproof and correction in dreams and visions?
we knew we were going to be taught by dreams and visions. And had a test for them.
But its just not there. Anywhere to be found.
Jesus grew up with the Word, discussed the word, told us to live by every word.
Apostles had same message.
Noones saying we dont believe in dreams and visions. They happen to all of us.
Question is whether they are biblical. And if so where are the scriptures in the bible
to give us doctrines reproof and correction in dreams and visions?
Noooo. I'm not talking of those prosperity preachers.
When you pray to God one night because you're struggling with a trial and He then has you put the tv on at a particular time where someone is talking about trials and they read scriptures that you needed to hear.
By the way, I'm non denominational.
When you pray to God one night because you're struggling with a trial and He then has you put the tv on at a particular time where someone is talking about trials and they read scriptures that you needed to hear.
By the way, I'm non denominational.
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If someone is in an isolated country with no access to any Christian content/influence/whatever, a vision seems like a way God would show himself.
But once someone is a Christian, to expect visions and such, as far as revelation, that doesn't seem necessary. Especially given the fact most of Christianity has access to the Bible.
Visions are meant for NEW revelation.
But once someone is a Christian, to expect visions and such, as far as revelation, that doesn't seem necessary. Especially given the fact most of Christianity has access to the Bible.
Visions are meant for NEW revelation.
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The scripture says man doesn't live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. The Greek word used here for "word" isn't logos meaning the written word. The word used is rhema meaning the current contemporary personal and revelatory word of God. Rhema word isn't the written word of God. It's Gods word in any fashion bought to life in your heart. Man doesn't live by bread or pages and pages of scripture. He lives by the revealed word God which though it will never contradict the logos, is something different altogether.
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
The apostles had the authority to validate wonders from others. Who has been appointed to validate and confirm yours?
If a dream is from God how do others know it came from him? We are told to TEST(which means to examine) them to see if they are from God. We are warned of false teachers and prophets who say they come in his name.
Being moved, emotional, or feeling good is not how we are told to test spirits either.
2 Pet.2:1, "But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on
themselves swift destruction."
The apostles had the authority to validate wonders from others. Who has been appointed to validate and confirm yours?
If a dream is from God how do others know it came from him? We are told to TEST(which means to examine) them to see if they are from God. We are warned of false teachers and prophets who say they come in his name.
Being moved, emotional, or feeling good is not how we are told to test spirits either.
2 Pet.2:1, "But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on
themselves swift destruction."
In Eph.4:14, Paul says that a sure sign of spiritual immaturity is "tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting."