Holy Ghost Manifestations

[FireOfGod]

What kind of manifestations of the Holy Spirit have you seen/felt??

When the Holy Spirit comes on people, I've seen them laugh, cry, jump, scream, yell, roll around on the floor, fly backwards and fall to the floor, stumble around like a drunk (that would be me ), shake, twitch or have random spasms in their body, blurt out random noises, feel fire...

Also, other kinds of manifestations that aren't just in/on people. I've seen gold and diamond dust appear on people and objects, feathers fall from the ceiling, felt winds of angels, and the fire of God.

Anything like this with you??

 

[Child of JC]

I've laughed, cried, felt fire, twiched, felt drunk, fell down. My teeth chatter, has anyone else experienced that? I have not seen that in other people.

 

[FireOfGod]

Yeah I've had the teeth chattering thing... It was almost like a shiver, but I was burning up with the fire of God.

The main thing that happens to me is I feel DRUNK. Sooo drunk. People have seen me out in public while I was drunk in the Holy Ghost and they ask me if I need a ride home, if I'm okay, they aren't going to serve me alcohol if I asked for it, etc. It's a wonderful feeling though.

 

[AudioArtist]

I guess these are all ways our weak, human bodies react to the awesome power of God!

I have cried, felt heat, and just "percieved" this amazing, eternal love overpower me so that I have to lay on the ground.

However, these experiences are few and far between, and I still struggle one hell of a lot with my faith. Right now I'm upset with how little I feel I've progressed in terms of how I hear the Spirit, and in my relationship with Christ. A bit frustrating, to say the least.

 

[BillynJennifer]

I've always wondered what it was really like on the day of Pentecost. It must've been something like what you're describing. Can you just imagine, not only did they feel the Holy Ghost, but they saw the visible manifestation of fire....WOW

I go to an older type Pentecostal church, therefore I've seen the women with their hair tied up real tight in a bun shake and shout until there are bobby pins surrounding them and their hair ends up hanging down their back. I've saw people spin and spin whithout ever falling down, roll on the floor (as you said), and so many other things it's hard to count. I've always equated the chattering teeth with the stammering lips that is spoken of in Isaiah (I think).

 

[FireOfGod]

Ohh the overwhelming power of the Holy Ghost is the best thing in the world!!

 

[Celticflame]

Expereinced Glory Dust in the Royality color manifest on me, Feathers Fall from Mid-Air aswell. I feel heat, and at times I can't stand stright as I'am being filled.

Though their is many manifestations, they do not make us more spiritual and also some such as rolling around on the floor are maifestations of the flesh.

In the Rodney Howard Browne meeting their is usally people running around the place, this is a sign of evangliism, a Go with the Gospel

 

[FireOfGod]

Of course manifestations don't make us more spiritual. Rolling around on the floor isn't always flesh either. I've seen people do that for an hour straight, non-stop. Which would be really difficult if you were in your right mind.

 

[BillynJennifer]

Not to be argumentative, but how do you know that someone who rolls on the floor is manifesting flesh? Study Judges 7:13-15 in the Hebrew and you'll find that old Gideon was a "Holy Roller". A lot of Pentecostal folks get really upset at being called a holy roller, but I'd rather be a holy roller than an un-holy roller

 

[JimB]

I’ve wept (many times), groaned, felt goose bumps, etc. I agree that when the Lord deals directly with you your whole being reacts. But then there’s the always ubiquitous spiritual exhibitionists who go from revival to revival just to “manifest” in order to get attention. I can introduce you to a couple of them tonight. One lives right around the corner.

~Jim

 

[Trish1947]

Fortunatly, or unfortunatly, how ever you want to look at it... I'm a shaker, teeth chattering, crying, sad case of affairs, when the Holy Spirit is working. I've never rolled on the floor, or jumped pews. But know those who do.

 

[Celticflame]

Not every manifestation is of the Spirit. Some are of the Flesh. Rolling off on the floor can be a Manifestation of the Spirit, but plenty of times I have seen this being a Manifestation of the Flesh.

Even in a Church with the Holy Ghost moving there can be Manifestations of the Flesh. We can release the Power of the Spirit, but we can also release the Power of the Soul.

 

[BillynJennifer]

Celticflame, you are right. Anywhere you have the Holy Spirit in operation, you will definitely have the counterfeit. I know plenty of people that want to display their spiritual pride before the eyes of man without realizing the Eyes of God see the intent.

 

[JimB]

Not to be argumentative, but how do you know that someone who rolls on the floor is manifesting flesh? Study Judges 7:13-15 in the Hebrew and you'll find that old Gideon was a "Holy Roller". A lot of Pentecostal folks get really upset at being called a holy roller, but I'd rather be a holy roller than an un-holy roller

So, you read Hebrew? You will have to explain to those of us who don’t how Judges 7:13-15 gives you license to roll on the floor? You owe us an explanation for this. (And this ought to be good.) But I have to warn you; I have a lot of suspicion when people appeal to the “original” language when the English text is not plain enough to support their view. Anyhow, here’s Judges 7:13-15 in the flawed English Bible:

13 And when Gideon had come, there was a man telling a dream to his companion. He said, “I have had a dream: To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned, and the tent collapsed.”
14 Then his companion answered and said, “This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel! Into his hand God has delivered Midian and the whole camp.”
15 And so it was, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel, and said, “Arise, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”

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I guess I’m a holy non-roller.

~Jim

 

[peacechild4]

I have had the teeth chattering.. laughter.. shivering.. all over warmth.. real inner peace that lasted ages!!
The tears.. the need to pray and it feels like my insides are coming out... in prayer.. that is..

 

[stone]

I don't really like the word ghost, kinda implies an unclean spirit.

I thought the word manifestation meant a vision?

Aren't you guys here speaking of being filled with the spirit?

 

[FireOfGod]

Manifestation - An indication of the existence, reality, or presence of something

Ghost - A demon or spirit.

Just another word for Holy Spirit.

(Dictionary.com)

 

[stone]

so just feeling the spirit in the case, i see

so what about seeing? how often do people see angels or the white doves?

 

[BillynJennifer]

I was waiting until I was called on the floor for that one...

[BIBLE]Judges 7:13-15[/BIBLE]

Let's look at this scripture with the scripture that says that all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for correction, for reproof, for instruction in righteousness. We know that ALL scripture (including this scripture in Judges) is useful for one of these four things: doctirne, correction, reproof, and instruction.

Now, the word cake in Judges 7 is the Hebrew word tsel-ool: cake, round loaf, round, rolling.

The word barley is the Hebrew word sa'ar: storm, shiver, dread, bristle, be afraid, storm away, sweep away, whirl away.

The word bread is the Hebrew word lacham: to fight, do battle, make war.

The word tumbled is the Hebrew word haphak: to turn, overthrow, overturn, turn, turn about, turn over, etc.

Do you see the idea of something turning over and over or rolling here? Now, you're saying tie it together, though, right? The interpretation of the dream was that the man saw that this was none other than the sword of Gideon. That still doesn't prove anything about holy rollin' does it ? Now to truly figure out what was the sword of Gideon, let's find out about another sword: the Sword of the Word. The Sword and the Word are one and the same, right? The Sword of the Word is the Word in action. Therefore, isn't it safe to say that the vision that the man saw was of Gideon rolling?

Also, as far as using the Hebrew or the Greek to figure out what was really being said, or what was the intent of this scripture is actually quite useful.

 

[benandgrace]

I was waiting until I was called on the floor for that one...

Judges 7:13-1513 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along. 14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host. 15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

Do you see the idea of something turning over and over or rolling here? Now, you're saying tie it together, though, right? The interpretation of the dream was that the man saw that this was none other than the sword of Gideon. That still doesn't prove anything about holy rollin' does it ? Now to truly figure out what was the sword of Gideon, let's find out about another sword: the Sword of the Word. The Sword and the Word are one and the same, right? The Sword of the Word is the Word in action. Therefore, isn't it safe to say that the vision that the man saw was of Gideon rolling?
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Well, not to be mean here or anything but for the sake of other readers I'd like to say the post above is the worst case of eisogesis I've read in my time on this earth.


"Counterfeit Revival" by Hank Hanegraaph will help clear up the confusion about the phenomenons mentioned in this thread. God bless.