Hello again.
As we see in the Bible (and certainly in life too) there is nothing of God that Satan doesn't try to imitate. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is no different as we see on 1 Timothy 4:1.
So its not necessarily cause for celebration to find others with a similar story, rather, it's still a necessary exercise to test the spirits, not only in others but in one's self as well.
The Bible says exactly what the tests should be, and that's the problem I see in all of your posts. You can quote the Bible but you can't seem to put it into proper context.
Nowhere in the Bible does it tell you the test of spirits is if you can turn Him into an instant "whatever I want" machine of answered prayer.. God's own Apostles wouldn't pass that test, why? Because it's not a test for testing the Spirits.
To test the Spirits whether they are from/of God John gave us three tests 1 John 4:1-21 Confession/belief in the truth of Jesus, hearing/understanding His Apostles/Disciples, and love, deep and true for one another and of course God.
Those three things can seem to be mimicked but cannot ever be faked
We can only search our own hearts for the answer in ourselves, and of course pray God doesn't allow us to be led astray. Which if we recite the Lord's prayer, His model prayer for us, then we already pray daily that God not allow us to be led astray.
Nowhere in the Bible does it tell you the test of spirits is if you can turn Him into an instant "whatever I want" machine of answered prayer.. God's own Apostles wouldn't pass that test, why? Because it's not a test for testing the Spirits.
LOL I never said answered prayer was a test for 'testing the spirits', but I didn't say what I meant, so you are quite right to assume anything you want. Let me explain more fully.
I am not Word of Faith, by the way. But I am a woman of faith. I believe much of what Word of Faith teaches, except on this one old issue, that I think most of them have corrected. (Name it and claim it.)
1 John 3:22 is true in that it comes out of a true relationship with God where we "abide" with Him. John is a great author on this subject, both in his gospel and his epistle. All together we can see this fully, especially if you use the right Greek word, for "Word." There are two words for our English "word." Logos - the whole word of God (the Bible), and Rhema - the spoken word we hear.
John 15:7 "If you
abide in Me, and my Words/Rhemas abide in you, you shall ask what you want and it shall be given to you."
John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice (through Rhemas), and I know them, and
they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
1 John 3:22 "And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we
keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight."
John 14:15-17
“If you love Me,
keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for
He dwells with you and will be in you."
1 John 5:14-15 "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything
according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
This tells us that through His Spirit in us, we keep Christ's commands, we love Him, and our relationship with him (abiding) allows us to hear His voice (Rhema). When you hear God's voice and He tells you what to pray, you KNOW it is God's will, and you REPEAT the prayer God just gave you out of the Rhema, it comes to pass immediately.
Therefore, to test yourself on whether you are a Christian, are your prayers answered as above? Can you actually hear God's voice?