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I hope this is OK to ask about in this forum, but I wanted to check with believers who perhaps are more mature.
I have recently started having some physical experiences that feel like a coldness in my limbs and maybe my back. I've also had some extreme anxiety this month, but I think it's getting better. Still, I wonder if the sensations could be the Holy Spirit? I don't come from a charismatic faith tradition, so this kind of experience is unusual for me. I acknowledge that the Lord could be trying to tell me something about a certain area of my life ... but I also find it hard to discern His voice versus my voice. The sensations do come when I have God in mind or am praying. They don't just happen as I'm walking down the street, for example.
Thank you for any discernment you may offer, or any stories of your own experiences.
when i spend time in soaking my body trembles.He is looking for those that can yield and present ur body a living sacrifice. To walk with Him like Enoch is so so special esp. for the intercessors. 2011 and beyond is going to be a trip!!
Isn't that the best experience in the world?!?!
Here is something I read many times.
Whenever we experience the Holy Spirit, during the experience we might feel extreme contrition, humility, even difficulty or fear.. but afterwards, there is great peace. Often, if we are open to God, during the encounter with God there is great peace and joy as well. But ALWAYS afterwards.
When we encounter the evil spirit, we might feel a lot of excitement, etc, during it, but afterwards there is always sadness, a general sense of guilt, disappointment, etc...
when we experience something medical, it does not produce any spiritual effect in us and is only physical.
I don't think the above applies to all situations. But only to some.
Here is something that applies to some other group of people:
Guilt comes to people usually when they experience something they were taught was bad somehow. If they were not trained that it was bad, they would not feel the guilt. So guilt is NOT a result of people doing something wrong necessarily. Guild is a result of people doing something they THINK might be wrong.
So if the Holy Spirit sends a feeling to somebody who was taught that such feelings are wrong, then the person would feel guilty about it. Even though the feeling came from the Holy Spirit.
(A baptist might feel guilty about speaking in tongues because some of them are taught that it's not of God.)
New experiences from the Holy Spirit might leave people in confusion. And so they might not feel peace. That's why some people post on forums about their new experiences and ask people about how they should feel about them. Because they were not trained about it one way or the other. So they are not sure whether they should feel peace or confusion and fear about it.
Whether you feel peace or joy or fear or confusion depends on how much you know about the experience and how much you accept it as "the right thing".
I have had feelings before that I know were from God and other times I have gotten feelings that I wasn't so sure about. I know though that there have been times in worship (I go to a Pentecostal church by the way) that I have truly sensed the holiness of God and at the same time my complete sinfulness and unworthiness and I also know that at these times I have felt such a tremendous groaning (the only word that can come close to explaining) in my spirit for the living God that I would be hunched over in adoration and fear (a holy fear) of the Lord.
This sense of the holiness of God would come over me and I would be in tears (crying my eyes out) and then out of this I would have such a deep groaning from the center of my being (in my stomach) to where I knew without a doubt that I had experienced God at least in a minor way, so yes I do believe that God gives His children feelings, but we should not live for them. Waiting for the next spiritual high is a bad way to try to live the Christian life and can lead to doubt and depression, we should only base our faith on the promises of the Word of God not on feelings we have or will feel.
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