Yes! That was exactly what I was talking about when I said pneuma is a better name for spirit than ruach (breath). Pneuma is fluid.
How is it that you feel like you might die?
Well one time specifically. It's a long story that led me to a certain point but when it happened. I heard what I could only describe as a hundred car freight train bearing down on me a 80 miles an hour. Horn blowing, light flashing, ground shaking. It hit me right as I opened my mouth to prophesy and what a prophecy! Afterwards it felt like if there was just one spark every atom in my body would explode. I had heard or read of this happening to a few individuals and the advice given was to just ride it out. It might take a few weeks to fade. But after about an hour I was begging God to lesson it or take it away. There is not a human experience to describe the power of God. Trying to is almost impossible. You basically just have to describe it with illustrations. Took me a few years to realize what I heard was the rushing mighty wind of the day of Pentecost.
One thing about the devils trickery and spiritual workings in us verses the power of God. With the devil one physiological and or spiritual part of your being becomes super enhanced at the expense of the other parts or compartments. With God it is all at once. Your whole being becomes supernatural all at one time. It's like becoming superman verses the devils trickery, his stuff like a drug induced enhanced experience of one compartment of us.
Another thing, speaking about spiritual matters. The human spirit is like a super computer. Once fully hooked into the human body though our minds, intuition, conscience we become more like a 286 CPU running DOS or Windows 3.1. So humans will mistake a temporary experience of the human spirit as divine because well, it seems supernatural. But that is the mistake and a way the devil can trick us into thinking the experience was divine.
Then there is the experience of God's interaction with all human beings. Problem with his interaction with us is what we do with it. How we interpret it. Look at what people, and please include yourself in this, are doing with God's Word? How they interpret it, pervert it, add to it, take away from it, ignore it. Reading it all in a way that is favorable to themselves and in accord with the commitment of their wills to the gratification of their bodies and minds. If that is done with Gods Word. How much more so with truly divine or semi divine experiences?
It's kind of like this. Right now God is personally evangelizing some hapless Muslim in a Muslim land. Jesus, the man in white is appearing to them. They did not want Jesus to appear to them. They were not looking for that. In many cases their first reaction is anger because it is Jesus and not Mohammedan yet they melt at his words he speaks to them.
Why has this not been happening for the last 1400 years? It did once an a while but for the last two decades it seems everyday Jesus gives a Muslim a Saul of Taurus experience. To both the radical Islamist and the good Muslim. The answer to that question? Not only are millions of believers praying for them but in the last few decades Muslims have gained access to two different things they really did not have access to before. Real Christians and Bibles. That story wherever repeated always has this added to it. They know a Christian or a village where some Christian are and they get a Bible from them.
It is all about Gods Word. Don't read into it what you think you know or understand. Let it read into you with its own authoritativeness that is separate and apart from men's viewpoints. God will honor the person who does that and meet them where they are at. He will reject those who reject the Word that speaks in its own authority that all people are subject to.
