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<blockquote data-quote="joey_downunder" data-source="post: 58364697" data-attributes="member: 242214"><p>You need to have it reinforced further what you have been protected from. <a href="http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-radio/episode.php?episodeid=19424" target="_blank">Worldview Radio: Worldview Weekend Radio with Brannon Howse - August 19th, 2011</a> You can only access it for free for 2 weeks from when it was put online. </p><p> </p><p>With your condition if you had a smidgen of feeling you would be especially vunerable. You may have been seduced into mysticism if you had been able to sense any type of spiritual feeling at all. You might have gone after what felt strongest and most real, most novel and most like what other christians have described to you. (I know charismatics probably don't realise it but there is a type of rank system - those who feel the most and see the most are envied and often assumed to be the most spiritual. Those in the congregation who don't hear or feel God feel left out and question their faith.) The counterfeit is very dangerous and takes your eyes off God - the Giver - and onto the feelings - the gifts.</p><p> </p><p>I experienced that deception. I went to a charismatic church that provided counselling (this was only a few years ago, well after I had had my surgery in 1999). When I went to see the counsellor he didn't give me christian advice via the Bible, he gave me a type of 'spiritual encounter' where I had to visualise Jesus with me in those painful moments. I hadn't felt anything like that for so long. It reawakened the longing for my experiences pre-surgery. I stopped reading the Bible and in the process read more and more ancient mystics' writings to try and get that feeling back. God in His mercy prevented me from feeling any self-induced spiritual experiences though. In frustration I started looking into all the practices described in a pro-mysticism book and found via mainstream christian websites how anti-Biblical they really are. I have prayed for the affects of that 'counselling' to be undone. I haven't "felt" anything spiritual since that counselling session either. </p><p> </p><p></p><p>He was very happy with his present. Now he won't have to try to borrow his brother's Ipod all the time. Dinner and dessert half-prepared, now cake to go. And I will go back to that other entry tomorrow!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joey_downunder, post: 58364697, member: 242214"] You need to have it reinforced further what you have been protected from. [URL="http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-radio/episode.php?episodeid=19424"]Worldview Radio: Worldview Weekend Radio with Brannon Howse - August 19th, 2011[/URL] You can only access it for free for 2 weeks from when it was put online. With your condition if you had a smidgen of feeling you would be especially vunerable. You may have been seduced into mysticism if you had been able to sense any type of spiritual feeling at all. You might have gone after what felt strongest and most real, most novel and most like what other christians have described to you. (I know charismatics probably don't realise it but there is a type of rank system - those who feel the most and see the most are envied and often assumed to be the most spiritual. Those in the congregation who don't hear or feel God feel left out and question their faith.) The counterfeit is very dangerous and takes your eyes off God - the Giver - and onto the feelings - the gifts. I experienced that deception. I went to a charismatic church that provided counselling (this was only a few years ago, well after I had had my surgery in 1999). When I went to see the counsellor he didn't give me christian advice via the Bible, he gave me a type of 'spiritual encounter' where I had to visualise Jesus with me in those painful moments. I hadn't felt anything like that for so long. It reawakened the longing for my experiences pre-surgery. I stopped reading the Bible and in the process read more and more ancient mystics' writings to try and get that feeling back. God in His mercy prevented me from feeling any self-induced spiritual experiences though. In frustration I started looking into all the practices described in a pro-mysticism book and found via mainstream christian websites how anti-Biblical they really are. I have prayed for the affects of that 'counselling' to be undone. I haven't "felt" anything spiritual since that counselling session either. He was very happy with his present. Now he won't have to try to borrow his brother's Ipod all the time. Dinner and dessert half-prepared, now cake to go. And I will go back to that other entry tomorrow! [/QUOTE]
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