Have you ever had scripture turn on you?

[David A. Wikle]

Have you ever had scripture turn on you?



You think you know what the particular verses mean and then at some later date, they turn on you; so that they now mean something else.



My example:

Our daughter, Charlotte, when she was 2 or 3 would wake up in the middle of the night with bronchitis and couldn’t breathe. This had been going on for a while. We would call the doctor and go to his home in the middle of the night for a shot (he kept the medicine there just for Charlotte). We did this many times.

One night, when this happened again, we laid her in the middle of our living room. We placed one hand on the Bible and the other hand on her. We read the verses that said a believer will lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. Then we said that we were believers and she shall recover. Charlotte went to sleep and we carried her back to bed. No more bronchitis.

The verses change on us. Now they meant something else for us. They were real and what it said, actually happened for us.



Over the years many verses have changed on us. What we once thought or was taught changed into something else. As the verses changed, our beliefs changed. It seemed to us that Jesus was given us a better understanding of the scriptures that was now needed for us for the times ahead. I expect for this to continue as we get nearer the Rapture.



Dave

 

[pastel]

I have had some very low times, and I would be looking through my old Bible, and come upon on a verse that would be just exactly what I needed, and completely solved whatever problem it was. A few weeks later, actually still having the verse memorized, I couldn't find it, even in the exhaustive Strong's Concordance I have. This has happened about three times. I know the verses are there, or are they? Was God speaking directly to me somehow?

 

[deg]

Dear 'King' David;

If man could understand the scriptures, we shouldn't need help.

First, I want to thank you personally for your contribution to the board. Watch out, it's terribly addictive, and you'll find the thirst for spreading spiritual truth can overgrow, and leave your life in a tattered mess offline! But I'm sure a man of your radiant sincerity understands these things. Keep up the good word.

Secondly, yes, the scripture does turn on you, doesn't it? I can read the bible with good natural understanding (just as anyone can), and it makes me feel great.

But this isn't what I want, and it certainly isn't what I need, or ask for.

On days when I am truly in the mind of the Spirit, and in a conscious awareness of the Spirit, I will often read the scripture and there will be a different overtone: it's like a sense of emphasis (but very light in nature, it doesn't require my concentration/effort at all) that simply isn't there naturally. And suddenly, I will hit one single (or sometimes multiple) verse(s) that open(s) like a spring bloom, and there are completely new things that rise to life. Jesus responds, very literally, to my prayer and thought life. He often eavesdrops on our thoughts, sneaky Lord. It is when the scriptures "turn" on me that I know Jesus is speaking to me; it is unmistakable. He "opens the scriptures to my understanding" as He did the men on the road to Emmaus, and it is in these sessions that 2-way communion is really culminated. These are extremely valuable sessions.

It's funny how when we're in that mind of the Spirit that the logic and progression of thought are completely uninterrupted, and yet if we were to look at it naturally it doesn't quite seem to come forth. The ministry of the Holy Spirit is wonderful, isn't it? Our minds and spirits are becoming one! Halellujah!

And of course, as you say, when a scripture comes into living active reality, (like healing, tongues too, prophecy, the list goes on...) things really change.

Lord bless you Dave, keep the word flowing.

-Deg

John 5:39
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Luke 24:45
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.

 

[KleinerApfel]

1 Peter 5:7 "changed" for me.

When I was in hospital recovering form a major operation, a friend had sent me a card with part of this verse on the front.

Things weren't proceeding as they should have been, and the complications were at times acutely painful, and preventing me going home as I'd hoped. I wasn't sure if I'd ever be the same again.

Looking at the card was reassuring, because I knew I was being prayed for by that friend and others, also I knew that it said: "He cares for you."

I'd read it before the op. so knew it by heart, but now feeling unwell, frightened, and still a bit drugged, each time I looked over at the card, it no longer said that, but clearly stated: "He cries for you."

I kept having to look hard at it and try to make it say what I knew it said, and when I tried hard to focus, it did. But whenever I next glanced over, again it clearly stated "He cries for you."
The Lord is so compassionate that my suffering, though small in comparison to His own and to many people's, nontheless moved Him to tears.

That verse is very special because God was showing me that His word in the Bible stands "as written", and cannot be altered to suit us, yet He can take it and use it in a new way to minister to His child any way He chooses!

God bless, Susana

 

[KleinerApfel]

David, when I first read your Thread title I was a bit alarmed: where I come from, to have something "turn on you" means it attacks you suddenly!

Then I realised that actually that's right; when we're convicted of sin by reading the word, and find we can't ignore it because it keeps cropping up and reminding us, it can feel a bit like the word turned on us!

Blessings, Susana