What does the annointing feel like?

hmmm....

This ought to be an interesting thread to watch!

My own personal experience is that the annointing comes with feeling and without.

I have felt the annointing as a coolness that causes me to tremble. Of all the times it has occured in this way, it was in open door evangelistic moments.

What I mean by that is not just sharing the gospel, but sharing the word when it was at the right moment...the hearers heart being wide open!

An interesting note is that in these situations I didn't always see salvation occur at that moment...but I know the Lord was powerfully drawing them close!

I have felt the annointing in worship and prayer. Almost always like a shudder that goes up my back...

There was an instance that my wife and I were going through the ringer...a very difficult time, like everything at once came against us. One evening we were laying on our bed in the midst of all of it and we just starting laughing.

We laughed so long and so hard we were practically crying! Our daughter by this time is wondering what in the world is going on with mom and dad!

But when it was over, we were refreshed, we had hope...the annointing had broken the yoke!

The other side of the coin...I have seen the Lord do things through me or near me and have felt N O T H I N G !

Absolutely nuttin'

So feeling or not feeling the annointing isn't the indicator of the the Lord presence.

websitejack

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When I feel the presence of the Holy Spirit, I feel as though I'm beside myself, if I'm speaking, because I'm as intent on listening to the Holy Spirit as the person I speak to.
I say this in all humility, because I know that Peter was able to speak that which was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit and then be rebuked by Jesus, nearly in the next breathe, for being a mouthpiece for satan.(Mark 18:29-33)

I'll repost my post here:

in my church, a very light cool breeze. at first i thot it was the air-conditioning but now i realise its not cos its just different. very light -- like a cool mist slowly inching in.

another type is similar to the feeling when your hair stands like when someone sings off key -- except in this case your hairs on your arms/head dont stand. i've checked. also for me it covers the area from my head to the lower back.

once the chimes (one of the band instruments) in the background played by itself as if to punctuate a sentence my pastor was preaching.

*wonders why it has to "feel" like anything*

Originally posted by LouisBooth
*wonders why it has to "feel" like anything*

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Why not?

Because you don't have to feel anything for God to be present.

I agree then. I'd say that most of the time he makes us feel NOTHING on purpose to see if you still perserve.

so in answer to the OP, it feels like nothing.

I agree then. I'd say that most of the time he makes us feel NOTHING on purpose to see if you still perserve.

so in answer to the OP, it feels like nothing

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I would not go that far. I can begin to pray in tongues and within a few seconds I will "feel" His presence inside me. But I do not consider that the same as the "anointing" of the Holy Spirit. There are two anointings. One is the spirit of Christ within us, that enables us to say "abba", and is the source of our prayer language. That is always there and it never goes away and He never takes it away. The anointing of the Holy Spirit is something else. It often has dramatic manifestations and a very strong presence. We may go through "dry" times when there is little or none of this. But the spirit of sonship is always there.

"There are two anointings. One is the spirit of Christ within us, that enables us to say "abba", and is the source of our prayer language. "

Really, so there are two huh? can you cite scripture for this please? No interpreation, just scripture. Thanks.

"The annointing is always present when God is working."

i agree, and I have it all the time

"You have the witnesses that all say the exact same thing without colaboration. Speaking stait out of there experiences from the Lord. "

Because Paul emplores us to be weary. I take it back to scripture, thats why I asked.

"When tongues of fire fell in the upper room there was no scripture reference for that experience. "

Umm..yeah there was, Christ himself told them to go and wait for it. That's scripture

"If these same experiences keep yielking the same good fruit. Than It must be God. "

Fruits are good, I agree, but that doesn't mean they are from God. For God himself turns away people that preformed miricles and such.

"Why can't you trust. It's not as if you believed that we are saved. Or do you?"

You have said you where, so I believe you. I haven't seen you deny the essentials but I can only see the outside, God sees to the innermost parts. Its not my call to make. I do have a call to make about teaching though. Trust is something I put in God, not men snup. thats just who I am

The same is true of love.

I love my wife because I choose to love her. I have decided and will be committed to her for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health.

But I also feel love for her as well.

You have people arguing the same way about love. "Love is not a feeling" they say. But if you are in love there will be feelings.

Some people are more easily given to feel while others are not. Not an indictment either way, we are not all wired the same way. (praise the living God )

websitejack

"Jesus never said that tongues of fire would show up or that a sound of wind would be heard. "

I agree, but it happened that way. yes, I would say back it up with scripture and you would say, christ told us so, and I'd then believe you because his words are truth, even then I might doubt but I would be there to experience it. This is why I said I would need to talk to someone that lived with you or something. Remember? I disagree on the last part of your post. Its clear that they can fake it. Did you read about those he told, "I never knew you." ?