Discussion Feeling it not feeling it

criko

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I was baptized in Dec 2012. So I am still a baby Pentecostal. The church I was baptized in was wonderful it is where I met and fell in love with Jesus and my faith blossomed. I met my husband in 2013 and after marrying in 2014 we started attending the church he grew up in. I have not had a real deep connection with God since then. I went to my old church out the blue yesterday. It was electric again the spirit fell like it used to. Is it possible that I can only feel that at my old church? Is there something wrong with where my husband and I attend?
 

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Do you put a specific amount of time aside during the week to spend with God? In prayer, worship, reading the Word or fellowship with other believers. I don't know what your life is like, but try to set aside an amount of time each day, just you and God. Also, hopefully you and your husband are praying together and that God is a part of your lives and decisions.

If it is only at church once a week, that may be why your relationship with Him seems distant. Just a few things to think about.
 
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We don't pray together. Our walk has always been more for each individual. I read my bible daily. I'm just trying to figure out why I connect better at my old church. My mom said some churches are anointed and some aren't. Not sure if that's true or not like I said I'm new to this life.
 
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Is he not willing to come with you? Maybe one week at his church, one week at yours?

I couldn't tell you if anything is wrong with your husband's church, or if your church is any better than his in all actuality, but I understand what it's like to feel the fire in one place and feel lack in another. I hope you can get to visit your church more often!
 
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We don't pray together. Our walk has always been more for each individual. I read my bible daily. I'm just trying to figure out why I connect better at my old church. My mom said some churches are anointed and some aren't. Not sure if that's true or not like I said I'm new to this life.

I don't like that word anointed, because an anointing would come from God. To say that God favors one church where believers are worshiping Him and growing in His love over another church I think is dead wrong. God doesn't roll like that.

I might be a little worried that you prefer one so strongly over the other.
 
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No he won't go he had a conflict at my old church which is why we left. He's a once a week person I like to go more but I feel uncomfortable there alone. This is our second marriage. A lot of people at his call me the new wife or the second wife.
It sounds like maybe you both could find another church together. Would he be willing to try that? One where the Spirit is moving and also where they are teaching couples to minister to each other together.
 
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I was baptized in Dec 2012. So I am still a baby Pentecostal. The church I was baptized in was wonderful it is where I met and fell in love with Jesus and my faith blossomed. I met my husband in 2013 and after marrying in 2014 we started attending the church he grew up in. I have not had a real deep connection with God since then. I went to my old church out the blue yesterday. It was electric again the spirit fell like it used to. Is it possible that I can only feel that at my old church? Is there something wrong with where my husband and I attend?
i recall a testimony from ian mcormack (google "the jelly fish man " ) where after he dies and came back .. he went to a church and he knew straight away it lacked the presence of God which he had experienced when the lord Jesus spoke with him when he had died .. he then testifies of going to another church and he says as soon as he walked in he absolutely knew the presence of God in that place .. he saw it in vision as glorious light every where ...

the point being.. yes there are congregations where the hearts of the people are not open to the presence of god and their own lack of welcoming his presence hold him off standing at the door and knocking , so to speak . and there are other congregations who have opened the door and let him in to sup with them ...
what is most important, i feel ,is that we let him into our own heart in our prayer closet and let him commune with us there . when the majority of a congregation does this in secret ..it is only intensified when we gather together . :)
 
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I agree with Alithis, some churches quench the move of the spirit. I don't think that makes one church more holy than the other (and if so that is for God to chastise as He did in the book of Revelations) but some churches are more concerned with order because God is a God of order and they are correct. Likewise there are others that believe one should not quench the spirit or hinder the move of the Holy Spirit which is also right. So perhaps it is your worship style or interpretation of God's movement that makes you notice the keen difference of the two churches.
 
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I agree with Alithis, some churches quench the move of the spirit. I don't think that makes one church more holy than the other (and if so that is for God to chastise as He did in the book of Revelations) but some churches are more concerned with order because God is a God of order and they are correct. Likewise there are others that believe one should not quench the spirit or hinder the move of the Holy Spirit which is also right. So perhaps it is your worship style or interpretation of God's movement that makes you notice the keen difference of the two churches.

I've also been to churches who use music, atmosphere and chanting to bring about a trance like atmosphere. This method has been used for ages to bring about a calm, submissive and open atmosphere. We should not need any man made type of situations to feel the spirit of God moving. If it takes this in your life, then I'd think about what situations you need to feel God.

Not saying that this is anyone's situation. Just a thought if this rings true for anyone.
 
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