Life after baptism?

[Sarebear1992]

Hey everyone! I’m really happy I found this forum because I am always looking for new ways to reach out to other fellow Christians and deepen my faith. I have a couple questions about things I have been experiencing.
1.) after baptism- I know some people say after baptism you can feel different. I’ve noticed that after being baptized, I was with a non Christian friend of mine and I felt a lot different around her, because we now feel totally different if that makes sense? It wasn’t a condemning feeling at all and i still love her as a friend and always will but at times I had an uneasy feeling around her. She uses profanity a lot and goes out a lot and although things like that never really interest me for some reason I had an uneasy feeling and before I didn’t feel like I did. I’m just curious if anyone else has experienced this and if it’s normal to have these feelings around non Christians after baptism and coming back to god.

2) another question I have is these feelings I get usually at church during worship. I’ve heard some people can sense god’s presence and almost every time I get a strange feeling in my body it’s kind of hard to describe almost like electricity throughout my whole body. I noticed it was more powerful at the last service I attended during worship. Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[ajcarey]

Hey everyone! I’m really happy I found this forum because I am always looking for new ways to reach out to other fellow Christians and deepen my faith. I have a couple questions about things I have been experiencing.
1.) after baptism- I know some people say after baptism you can feel different. I’ve noticed that after being baptized, I was with a non Christian friend of mine and I felt a lot different around her, because we now feel totally different if that makes sense? It wasn’t a condemning feeling at all and i still love her as a friend and always will but at times I had an uneasy feeling around her. She uses profanity a lot and goes out a lot and although things like that never really interest me for some reason I had an uneasy feeling and before I didn’t feel like I did. I’m just curious if anyone else has experienced this and if it’s normal to have these feelings around non Christians after baptism and coming back to god.

2) another question I have is these feelings I get usually at church during worship. I’ve heard some people can sense god’s presence and almost every time I get a strange feeling in my body it’s kind of hard to describe almost like electricity throughout my whole body. I noticed it was more powerful at the last service I attended during worship. Has this happened to anyone else?

1st question) Yes, it is normal. And beware of any professing Christian that can partake of such things and be around such things and not be grieved. When you have God's Spirit and you are living in accordance with God's Spirit you won't feel easy around ungodliness. Ephesians chapter 5 is a related Scripture you can read on this.

2nd question) When you worship God in a way that is acceptable to Him, especially when you do so with other faithful Christians, you could be filled with God's Spirit and be energized in your worship in a noticeable way that you tangibly feel.

However, beware that this feeling can be imitated and counterfeited by other means such as the natural psychological impact that certain music can have that can manipulates human emotion and energies in various ways. You've probably heard of ungodly people who don't even profess to be Christians saying that they had religious experiences at things like rock concerts and nightclubs. People probably can get similar experiences through drug use too. Most dangerous is when people feel spiritually empowered in a counterfeit way through ministries that profess to lift up Jesus Christ yet their actually preaching another jesus and another gospel by proclaiming doctrines and practices that are not faithful to the totality of Scripture- so what they are actually ministering is another spirit besides the Holy Spirit. We need to try the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world who are in (what they term) ministry for their own fleshly appetites. They usually have great psychological power and sometimes even demonic spirits to bolster them, draw people to them, and cause the undiscerning to think they are real servants of God preaching the gospel faithfully. 2 Corinthians ch 11, 2 Timothy ch 3, and 1 John chapter 4 specifically deal this topic. Get real familiar with the Bible so you will discern verses twisted out of context to justify falsehood, be faithful to the truth you know, and earnestly pray to God for discernment to separate truth from falsehood because these are perilous, perilous times where counterfeit Christianity abounds and even those who were once on the strait and narrow way are getting led astray left and right.

 

[Sketcher]

Increased sensitivity to sin is normal, especially when starting out.

Feelings of acceleration in public or private worship can happen. They will not always happen. And when they don't happen anymore, remember that God is just as real as he was before the feelings stopped, as are the truths Christianity teaches about him.