Eating in the dream with people you don't know. What happened in real life afterwards?
How is this related to a sign gift of the Holy Spirit? I don't see any gift of dreams in 1 Corinthians 12.Eating in the dream with people you don't know. What happened in real life afterwards?
The best thing would be to read and study the Bible so that what you are experiencing is consistent with it.It's not a gift, more like I'm being shown what's happening in the spiritual realm. I asked for people with similar experience to know what I should do about it
It's not a gift, more like I'm being shown what's happening in the spiritual realm. I asked for people with similar experience to know what I should do about it
Acts 2:17 quoting Joel 2:28How is this related to a sign gift of the Holy Spirit? I don't see any gift of dreams in 1 Corinthians 12.
Can't argue with that! So that is why I am having crazy dreams in my old age!!Acts 2:17 quoting Joel 2:28
‘And it shall be in the last days,’ God says, ‘That I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dream dreams;
Luke quoted Peter here as saying dreams from God are part of the gift of prophecy, which IS in 1 Cor 12.
Are you sure this is from God?It's not a gift, more like I'm being shown what's happening in the spiritual realm. I asked for people with similar experience to know what I should do about it
I don't know about you, but I have had a couple of "deja vu" moments when I just knew that what was happening had happened before and I half knew what was going to come next. I wonder if I had dreamed it at one stage but forgotten the dream when I woke up, but it stayed somewhere in my subconscious? I still am not going to attach too much spirituality to it though. It is just one of those mysterious things that happen, like driving along and coming up to an intersection and just knowing that a car was going to come from my right without initially seeing it (here, we drive on the left side of the road, and we have the "right hand rule at uncontrolled intersections where we have to give way to cars coming straight through from our right).Are you sure this is from God?
I had a dream when I was in grade school that was from God. It was full of people I had never met. Somehow it stuck in the back of my mind. When I got to college, I saw several people from that dream in the congregation I was then attending.
Yes I have had that. I have heard conversations where I could have spoken along with the persons word for word.I don't know about you, but I have had a couple of "deja vu" moments when I just knew that what was happening had happened before and I half knew what was going to come next.
That's interesting, although the Scripture is silent about it. Then there is a branch of the Catholic faith that embraces mysticism.Yes I have had that. I have heard conversations where I could have spoken along with the persons word for word.
Ralph Martin (one of the pioneers of the Catholic Charismatics) theorized Deja Vu happens because we are eternal creatures and part of us exists (like God) outside of time.
Charismatic Renewal - In GeneralThen there is a branch of the Catholic faith that embraces mysticism.
It is unfortunate that large areas of the Charismatic movement are moving away from the literal teaching of Scripture into New Age mystical experiences, where faith is based on experience rather than the written Word of God.
It is sad that there is intolerance like that.One odd thing about this, Notre Dame University was where they held their large conferences. I lived in a town less than 20 miles from there, and attended a small independent Pentecostal church. When our pastor (who actually lived in South Bend IN) went to check it out and found out it was real, he became insensed. the following week he came into church and started screaming:
"IF God can give the Catholics the Holy Ghost, then every word in this Bible is a lie and I am no longer a christian."
He slammed his bible down on the pulpit and walked out. I never saw him again.
Agreed. But he was brought up with the idea that the catholics were the most demonic false religion in existence.I find it hard to believe that the Pentecostal pastor who got angry was demonstrating the fruit of the Spirit in terms of love, peace, joy, kindness, gentleness and self-control, while most Catholic Charismatics demonstrate all of those attributes.
Calvin imprisoned just as many who would not support his "true gospel" doctrine, and had some burned at the stake. When the Calvinists were in power in England, they imprisoned thousands of good evangelical Christians as well. So, whoever is dominant calls the shots and punishes the dissenters. How many good Pentecostals were thrown out of their churches for manifesting the gift of tongues and prophecy? What about one Pentecostal pastor whom I knew who fiercely criticised Charismatics by saying "Who do these neo-Pentecostals think they are?"Agreed. But he was brought up with the idea that the catholics were the most demonic false religion in existence.
Don't forget John Wesley.The only significant Christian leader who preached and practiced religious tolerance was Arminius,