seeking God's face

[hagiadzo1999]

I would like to share with everyone an experience I had last night at our evening worship service.

First, it would help you to know that the last few weeks I have been actively seeking God's will on my life, and asking Him to take control, to give me His anointing. Well, in response to this, He says, "Die to self." This is the response I kept getting, and I kept thinking, "But I am dying to self." And He would reply, "Die to self. Die daily".

Well, I was a little confused. In my eyes, I was deader than a doornail, and yet He kept telling me to die to self. Well, I had to ask for help on that one, cause I was lost. We were in worship service this evening when He spoke to me again.

He told me to go to the altar and worship on my knees. I thought to Him, "Lord, why would I do that? People will think I'm nuts.", and He said "Do it and the will follow.". Well, we had this conversation a couple times, and He finally said, "You aren't dying to self." WHOA! Then I realized I was more worried about what other people would think, yes, even other Christians, than about what God was telling me to do.

I went to the front of the sanctuary and fell on my knees and wept. At that moment, I felt so unworthy of the presence of the Lord that all I could do was bury my face in the carpet and weep. He began to pour out His Spirit on me in a way I have never known. I knelt on the floor for I don't know how long until I picked my face up from the carpet. There were others there as well. Two other women came over to me as I sat up, and as the one touched my arm, she was so overcome with the Spirit that she immediately fell to the floor next to me and wept and spoke in the spiritual language of the Lord. The other woman did the same. I could feel the Holy Spirit just pouring out of every pore of my body. It was the most amazing thing I have ever experienced!

The gifts the Lord poured out on me and I'm certain many others last night far surpassed any kind of "embarassment" I may have felt beforehand.

Just remember the next time God whispers to your heart, OBEY HIM! He will bless you far beyond anything you can imagine! What He gives is much more than any kind of "embarassment" you may feel at first.

Submit to His will, and He will bless you abundantly.

Love to all my brothers and sisters in Christ,

~N~
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[Hishandmaiden]

I looked on your experience, and I praise the lord for showing you such things. I will share with you all an experience that concern myself. There was a period in my life, when I wanted to get rich, so that I can buy all the teenage stuffs that others have, but I don't have.
One day, my right eye winked, once. And according to chinese superstition, if the right eye wink, that means you will get good luck. I was just at the age where lottery became legal for me. I thought that perhaps,it was my chance to get rich. But I prayed to the lord that if that is true, let my right eye wink,again. It was really so. THen, I thought of a number to buy. I prayed to the lord again that I will see the number I intended to buy somewhere. I saw the number on a building I passed by. I became confident, and went to buy the number. It did not strike.
Suddenly, I realised that the lord was speaking to me. THe lord was asking me not to be greedy, as well as not to believe in omens!

 

[VeraciousMaven]

I have to say ... that is so awesome!

Isn't God great?! I will take your advice. Often times I confound myself with how I find that 'the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak'. So many times I say "I want to ... but ..."

God just smiles to me and points me to people like you, and says to me just as He did to you ... "Die to self."

And I try to obey.



God bless you!

 

[psalms 22.3]

my god yes!
as jesus "was driven" into the wilderness by the holyghost, HE RETURNED FULL OF THE POWER OF THE HOLYGHOST!
he went in "full of the spirit"
he returned "in the power of the spirit"
there is a diffrence.
you can have god in you, but not be walking in his power.
or having his power effecting you, as it did hagiadzo1999.
praise god! thank you for sharing that!

like it says in acts
"...the holyghost, whom god has given to those who obey him."

smith wigglesworth said
(now this mans shadow healed the sick, he raised 27 people from the dead, he would walk into a room and people would cry out to him saying "WHAT ARE YOU? WHO ARE YOU" and they would cry out to god, by just being near him! this all happened to charles finney, wigglesworth took a dead women, threw her up agaisnt a wall, and commanded her to live! she started shaking, and he commanded her to walk, she she started walking!
people say that when this man prayed to god, that no one could stay with him more than 30 minutes, becuase by then the presence of god was so strong that youd run for your life!)

he said
"as we abide in the place of submission to god, where he is enthrowned in the heart, we are more and more covered with the anointing."

 

[hagiadzo1999]

Just a little add-on to this post...I thought this was very interesting...

I was talking to a friend of mine from church, and he is pretty good friends with the younger girl who came up to pray with me, who was filled with the spirit. He was shocked when I told him what happened, that she was speaking in tongues, because she had told him she didn't believe in speaking in tongues.

What do you make of this?

~N~
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[VeraciousMaven]

I think it's excellent that Christ uses everyone to his ends.

I didn't either until I saw/heard it!



God bless!

 

[psalms 22.3]

awesome!
kinda like when the bible says
"every knee WILL bow, and every tongue SHALL confess" that jesus is lord forever.
sometimes god makes it a point to show us up.
jonah was like "NOPE, I AINT GONNA PREACH! AINT GONNA!
but god was like "OH YOUR NOT? WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT.
hahaha
tell god "I AINT GONNA! haha
ya might wind up in the belly of a fish!

if god says something, hell doit. if something comes out of gods mouth, it must happen. becuase his word is settled in heavon forever! heavon and earth may pass away, but his word, will never pass away!
thats why prophesy will always come to pass.
true prophesy, not the kind like "if you will, i will"
or from a false prophet.

and then god often works agaisnt people like jonah and your friend simply becuase he likes to break down proud or stubborn spirits.
dont ever tell god "I AINT GONNA!" hes bigger then you. haha

and he works ALL THINGS for our good.
its amasing how sometimes how we are in such an extremely complicated situation and were going crasy trying to keep up.
but god is in control, he knows.
jesus was walking down a road, was going to mans house.
and a woman touched him and got healed and jesus said
WHO TOUCHED ME?
jesus came in the likeness of sinful flesh, he wasnt omniscient.
the holyghost was moving!
he brought a man to jesus, sent jesus down a certain road where he knew that woman was, so he could heal her, and to heal that mans daughter!
but jesus didnt know what was going on, it was all the holyspirit.

ephesians 3.20 amases me.
he is able to do exeeding abundantly above ALL THAT WE CAN ASK OR THINK according to the power that worketh within us.

my God! his plan is higher then your mind! you may be going to buy groceries, but the holyghost may be sending you to the store to meet someone who needs god! always be ready for those unexpected things.
im sorry, i gotta preah right here! im a pentecostal sorry.
that word "power" from ephesians 3.20
is "dunamis" meaning miracle, power, force. it is the almightiness of god.
and the bible says we receive this power in acts 1.8
"you shall be endued with POWER when the holyspirit has come upon you"
it is the same word dunamis.

my god, when your filled with the holyghost, and abiding in him. and submitting to him, he takes complete control of you.
he removes what is yours, and replaces it with what is his. he changes you, making you into and effective tool to be a "witness" as jesus told the disciples they would be in john. he puts what is his on you, that power is his power, and he edues or clothes you with it!

when your filled with the holyghost and walking in that power, you can be sure youll have those unexpected things. because the spirit will do more through you than you could even think about or even ask to do!