Knowing Him

[WhereisHe?]

Is there someone who really, like really personally knows Jesus? Anyone who got healed by Him alone? Thank you..

 

[follower]

His Sheep Know Him Personally. We/they Know His Voice , Peace, Joy, and Follow Only Him.
The world does not know us, and indeed cannot.

 

[Tenchi]

Is there someone who really, like really personally knows Jesus? Anyone who got healed by Him alone? Thank you..

The New Testament tells us what it is to experience the life and work of the Holy Spirit. In fact, if a man (or woman) who claims to be a Christian cannot discern the Spirit's life and work within himself, he is very likely not yet saved. That, or he has allowed sin to "stop up the works" between himself and God. In any case, it is the Holy Spirit, called the Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of God (Romans 8:9; Philippians 1:19), who the Christian person experiences when they experience God.

John 14:15-17
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Romans 8:9
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

1 John 4:13
13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

When a Christian speaks of "walking with God" what they mean (whether they realize it or not) is that they are experiencing the life, control and leading of the Holy Spirit.

The sensual person, the person who wants God to be accessible to their physical, fleshly senses, to stimulate their sight, and touch, and hearing, and to stimulate their emotions, is always looking for external, overt "signs" that God is present and active. They want God to "show up" in tingles and warm oozies along their skin; and to spread from the a/c ducts across the church sanctuary as a fog, or to shower down from the a/c ducts as gold dust or feathers; they want to see miracles of healing and watch folks convulse on the floor in spiritual hysterics (and perhaps do so themselves); they want to babble senselessly and treat the Holy Spirit like he's booze, or pot, or a hot tub.

None of this is what the Bible says is the normal, daily experience of the Holy Spirit every genuine child of God should expect to have. Instead, the word of God says the person in whom the Spirit truly dwells will be:

- convicted by the Spirit (John 16:8; Revelation 2-3).
- taught by the Spirit (John 14:26; John 16:13; 1 Corinthians 2:10-16)
- strengthened by the Spirit (Ephesians 3:16; Philippians 4:13; Philippians 2:13, etc.).
- comforted by the Spirit (2 Corinthians 1:3-5).
- transformed by the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Romans 8:29).

It is in these things, primarily, that the "Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God" (Romans 8:16). And the end goal of all that he does is that you might be more and more like Jesus Christ, his character increasingly evident in you (Romans 8:29). This is the surest sign that the Holy Spirit is in you, not senseless babbling, or foaming at the mouth in emotional hysterics, or craving the next big thrill of "seeing God work."

Is the humility, wisdom, patience, holiness, grace, faith and love of the Spirit of Christ filling you up and flowing out of you? Are you a person all throughout each day consciously placing yourself under the Spirit's control? Are you a person increasing set apart from the World, your own sensual fleshliness, and the deceit and luring power of the devil? It is in being such a person, more and more, that you can be sure the Holy Spirit is within you.

These things the Spirit does aren't as "sexy" as the wilder stuff that sensual/fleshly believers crave, his work isn't full of "sound and fury," but it is deep, and fulfilling, and reveals God in ways that laughing maniacally for a half hour, or walking a "fire corridor" will never do.

 

[for_his_glory]

John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

If you read the book of John in the Bible this will explain to you what our personal relationship is with Christ being Spiritually born again from above, John 3:5-7, and learning of the greatest love you will ever receive.

 

[Indentured Servant]

Is there someone who really, like really personally knows Jesus? Anyone who got healed by Him alone? Thank you..

I do. However, when one gets to the point where communication with Him is two-way, it becomes an offense for many religious people to hear of it.
Even though the common mantra is, "it's not a religion, it's a relationship," when someone actually develops such a relationship, it scares those who do not have it and do not believe it is possible.
I've been accused by a pastor that I was "deluded by Satan," and by others as having a mental illness.
If you seek this from Him, ask for it, let Him understand why you seek that of Him.
May I suggest you read the Spiritual Maxims by Brother Lawrence and learn some first steps to spend mutual time with Him.

 

[Ritajanice]

God has healed me from severe anxiety, where I had to either be drugged up or have an alcohol drink before I could walk out the door.

I have been healed from fear of men, due to 2 physical / emotional destructive marriages, i have divorced x2..not long after my second divorce, I became Born Again, God has my heart 100%; for the past 33 yrs, also I have never ever dated a man since my rebirth...I will remain faithful to God until the day I die, he has also built me up in confidence/ self esteem/ self worth..and respect for myself...Praise God!

 

[Tenchi]

Be very wary WhereisHe? of those who tell you they have a "relationship" with God that doesn't conform to the record and truth of God's word. The Bible sets limits on what we can say is of God and what isn't, and urges us to be careful of "false teachers," "false brethren," and "wolves in sheeps' clothing," who prey upon the "flock" of God's "sheep," making merchandise of them. Along with these "tares," these poisonous infiltrators of the Church, the devil is at work, too, deceiving, snatching truth, and luring people into a sensual, fleshly "experience" of God. So, we desperately need this objective and authoritative standard by which to adjudicate the truth-claims of one another about God and what it is to know and walk with Him. For without this standard, obviously, anything goes.

But even with this standard in hand, many "Christians" still set their Bible-divergent experience on par with God's word (and even above it) and urge others toward their own experience rather than toward the God revealed in Scripture. It's in the nature of being human to operate primarily on the basis of personal experience, to define reality generally according to that experience, and so, it is quite natural for this to happen among Christians who want something "real" with God, something more dramatic and tangible than what God's word lays out as fellowship with Himself. But our experience, however "spiritual" it may seem to us, however much we believe God was in it, does not trump God's word. If we can't reconcile our claim of "experiencing God" with His word, our experience is awry, it's false.

Psalm 1:1-3
1 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.
3 He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season And its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers.

Psalm 119:104-105
104 From Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;
17 so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

1 Peter 2:2
2 like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

 

[Bruce.Leiter]

Is there someone who really, like really personally knows Jesus? Anyone who got healed by Him alone? Thank you..

Yes, I know Jesus and the Father and the Holy Spirit personally as the one true God. I'm 82 years old. God has given me turning points in my reasoning, when he first saved me; decision-making, when I left his call to the ministry, and he renewed it to make me a pastor; and in my emotions, when he cured me of depression after I experienced seven years of it.

He has also healed my daily migraines after five years of them, but he left behind four kinds of chronic physical pain, as my "thorn in the flesh" like Paul's (2 Corinthians 12:1-10), which he has helped me control and with which he has humbled me when I was a pastor and now an author. (My book is What God Has Done: My True, Dramatic God-Biography [Amazon], in which you can read about much more of my life.)