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Recent content by FireWithin

  1. FireWithin

    Spiritual Rut

    I am Pentecostal (and you know how Pentecostals emphasize the presence of God), and I confirm. I went through a dry spell just recently. Going through a desert is extraordinarily hard sometimes, but when suddenly that oasis appears in your sight again, nothing feels as good as that. There's...
  2. FireWithin

    on guard

    What helps me most is keeping in mind that I am a very sinful man. If a person offends me to bring me bitterness, I TRY to recall that I too have offenses in my name. I try to remember that every opportunity that comes against us is an opportunity for God or an opportunity for the flesh. If...
  3. FireWithin

    Requesting prayer.

    Hello! :wave Lately, my heart has been tugging at me to return to the Church. Well, "return" may not be the right phrase, since I was never baptized, but had a rather long catechumenate in which I left and never returned. I was relatively young going in, 21 actually, and I had caught a...
  4. FireWithin

    Is social media an acceptable ministry?

    I think forums are acceptable, blogs, social networks, whatever the case may be... all are acceptable ministries. We are all little evangelists and seed planters. But I think if we are taking it seriously then we need to be mindful of our content -- your whole profile should reflect Christ, the...
  5. FireWithin

    Releasing The Anointing

    God has been dealing with me on #3 for several months now. I dwelt in a works-based, religion-based faith for so many years and it kept me from worshiping God in spirit and in truth... truth is I have never been closer to God than I am now, and I called myself Christian since I was a little boy...
  6. FireWithin

    Prophesying to the Situation

    I've always had a bit of a problem with the titles, for some reason. That's not to say that I am 100% opposed to it, I don't close my mind entirely to things that I don't fully understand (in other words I don't want to let my personal perceptions get in the way of sound doctrine and teaching)...
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    Prophesying to the Situation

    It's a very popular church fad right now, there are so many "prophets" popping up in the churches, they're practically a dime a dozen. I don't understand it. Apostles, too! One trait these prophets and apostles share is a message of resentment towards the role of pastor. They proclaim that the...
  8. FireWithin

    I pray that we are made weak

    I think what ByTheSpirit is trying to say is that the latter did not come until the former. In other words, it was first by weakness that strength then came. The exalting of the humbled ones. I thought myself very strong for a good amount of time. I never experienced intimacy with Jesus...
  9. FireWithin

    New Year's Resolutions?

    More of Him and less of me -- spiritually and physically.
  10. FireWithin

    My weird journey.

    Several years ago now I was a catechumen. I had a long, drawn-out catechumenate which discouraged me at times, I saw people come and get baptized, but I had to wait. Maybe Father knew there would come a day when I'd run off, but I was still hurt by the long process. I began to feel like Jesus...
  11. FireWithin

    The call of the watchman

    God called me to be a watchman a few months ago... I know this to be an absolute certainty, there is nothing unclear on this revelation to me. He is raising up watchmen. They don't even want a title, or recognition, no billboard, nothing that brings glory to themselves, but only stand upon the...
  12. FireWithin

    Jesus!

    Though I have betrayed you more than Judas, though I have denied you more than Peter, though I have doubted you more than Thomas, still you have bestowed me with your graces, of which I myself am greatly unworthy, yet the Father deems it is good through the work of His Son. Though I have walked...
  13. FireWithin

    One True God & Jesus Christ

    What comes to mind for me is that if God did not become TRULY MAN and take on every aspect of humanity upon Himself, then not every aspect of humanity would have been capable of resurrection. What Adam and Eve unmade upon the tree, Christ made whole upon the tree. Jesus Christ is truly and fully...
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    Jesus' race: An irrelevant debate

    I don't know the specifics, but I do know this... every single person in this world will know when He returns. And His appearance won't cross our minds so much as His glory.
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    Laying on of hands?

    Our hands are just a medium in which the Spirit of God moves, such as Paul's handkerchiefs and aprons. It's a practice which is still alive today, but only by the Spirit, through Spirit-filled men and women. I want to say the origins began in the Upper Room in Acts. But I'm not 100% on that.