This might sound crazy. I don't know how many people actually gotten this feeling, but I always felt like there is a presence is around me. Not that it is being hostile, but it is just there that makes it kinda awkward and I am afraid to ask what it is.
Also, I always get this shivery feelings.
I don't sleep at night for that reason. Any ideas?
shivery feelings are normal.
Chip Ingram (radio show host and pastor in los Gatos, CA)
calls it the "liver quiver."
I thought that was funny,
but shivers are okay, but it is the spirit that concerns me.
I would pray, that seems to be the universal cure all for this type of thing.
If it's presence draws you closer to God, then it is probably okay.
If it scares you away from God and Christianity, which is a very common spiritual warfare tactic with women.
then it's probably a bad spirit.
I would simply email your pastor or church staff at their webpage, or their facebook and ask where to email your prayers to, and tell them the situation.
ask them to send a confirmation when they recieved the prayer.
Do that 5-7 times, if you can change the names of the prayer card, to other names, and slightly word it different....
you may get a few prayers more, that way.
wierd I know, but if you use the same cookie cutter prayer every week, people get immune to that prayer, and with a yawn in their mouth, say , oh yeah ..."God and bless that one person who keeps emailing us."
you got to break up the monotony.
I have hosted prayer meetings, the ones with the exact same prayer every week, got boring.
I know being bored is not good, but you don't want to encourage it.
anyway,
when you become saved, there is conviction and condemnation that happens.
conviction brings you closer to God, condemnation does the opposite.
so again with the accuser of the brethren, Satan out and about, he will conemn you in your mind, and he will cause fear so that you are afraid to be Christian, and don't feel worthy to be so even if you were not afraid.
thus sealing your fate to eventually leave that idea in the past and try something new.
there was a parable of the seeds in teh Bible,
some seed landed on fertile soil, other seed landed on a rocky soil and the birds of the air (satan), came and plucked up the seed before it had time to get planted.
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Matthew 13:1-23New King James Version (NKJV)
The Parable of the Sower
13 On the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
3 Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some
seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them. 5 Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. 6 But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. 7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. 8 But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
The Purpose of Parables
10 And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
11 He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.12 For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:
‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,
And seeing you will see and not perceive;
15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears are hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have closed,
Lest they should see with
their eyes and hear with
their ears,
Lest they should understand with
their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.’
16 But blessed
are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; 17 for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous
men desired to see what you see, and did not see
it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear
it.
The Parable of the Sower Explained
18 “Therefore hear the parable of the sower: 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand
it, then the wicked
one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside. 20 But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. 22 Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. 23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands
it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”"
matthew 13:1-23 NKJV
