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this topic makes me think a lot
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this topic makes me think a lot
i appreciate your concern and don't blame you for trying to steer me clear of this. The thing with me is I never sought it as a thing I wanted to have. last night before i went to sleep I was reading malachi and praying. today i walked the kids to school and on the way say the energy auras around other walkers. You see i have no choice about it its always there, you sorta try to ignore it
. I'm just a normal electrician Evangelical Christian guy. I go to church with my family and do normal things. but I sense the energy around us all and see it like a sparkly heat wave haze Its no thing to want to attain, I would rather be filled with the holy spirit than that any day.It would be alright if it had some usefulness i could work out that i could use it to serve the lord with. Its only that it started in prayer with god that i go along with it.
If you wanted to talk to someone about it that you hoped would understand you who would you talk to? I remember that wicca thread. Imagine if this was you- one night you pray to god and something weird happens like you have never had before, i was in a really long prayer time praying in the spirit for part of it. i remember praying to the lord you are love and sensing his love around me it was so nice. then i saw lots of fast moving stars coming towards me and my forehead was burning like something going in or out. you get a foread headache that lasts for a week, your dreams get crazy really crazy and auras appear around people. google helps you realize your third eye opened accidently in prayer with god, and it stays like it.. welcome to my world.
Matthew 5:37
Bless you guys this is the first time I can remember on a forum receiving acceptance off Christians about this instead of constant condemnation. i wish more followed your example. It really cheered me up this week and encouraged my faith.
I am glad you have been cheered up. As Christians we should encourage and bring joy to each other as much as possible rather than making each other feel bad or rejected. Actually I doubt in previous experiences that our Christian brothers and sisters meant to make you feel condemned but unfortunately when people have not gone through an experience themselves like the other person they often just can not relate or understand. This applies to any situation in life. For example, when I had a miscarriage people who had never had miscarriages before made some very hurtful comments to me. For me, I had lost my baby but for them it was just a blob of cells that left my body and could easily be replaced. For me, my baby could and will never be replaced. I could get pregnant again but I can never get that baby back. But as much as their comments hurt, the truth is they just did not relate to or understand my experience at all. Therefore their comments were not meant to be hurtful so I could not hold their comments against them. Examples like this are countless.
Another example is I read the testimony of a woman who became a devoted Christian and missionary, but her childhood was rough. Her mom dropped off at an orphanage where she was abused and then shuffled around to one foster home to the next. In one foster home she was beaten every morning and not allowed to shower at all in the home. So she would go to a gas station and try to wash herself off in the bathroom but basically she was dirty and stinky and kids told her and made fun of her every day. She wanted to be clean, fashionable and pretty like the other girls but circumstances didn`t allow it. Of course, making fun of people is ALWAYS bad, but in her case and probably most cases where people are dirty, others just can not understand or imagine why, especially in a country like America. They just assume the person chooses to be unclean. So the person is condemned as nasty. Likewise, if someone has no experience with exceptional sensory perception, they may not be able to fathom this as natural much less something from God so they might either chalk it up as insanity or something from the devil when we have no basis for making that judgement. The Bible clearly says idols, calling up the dead, psychics and sorcery are wrong, but to have extra sensory perception does not fall in any of these catagories. The senses are from God. Who can argue with that? Animals often have extraordinary senses and Christians certainly point to this as God`s marvelous creation and design, we even use things like this to argue against things like the "Big Bang" theory or evolution. Yet when a human has a similar extraordinary sense, people often can not understand or grasp that. Likewise, we accept extraordinary intelligence, talent (music, art, etc), or strength, but accepting extraordinary senses/perception is just very difficult for many humans to wrap our heads around unfortunately, but you are not alone any person with any experience that another has not had will be subject to the other person`s judgement. "Why does the abused woman just not walk out? I certainly would!" Well, if they were in that woman`s shoes, they would quickly realize it`s not that simple, but without walking in her shoes, it seems that simple so it is easy to condemn her for just staying and letting a man beat her up. Job experienced the same thing from his friends. Because the only experience they knew of well to do men falling to ruin was those who fell into sin, they could only conclude that this was the cause of Job`s fall. Although they did not have a scriptural basis to say all disasters that fall on man are a direct result of personal sin. They made their conclusion based on experience rather than a scripture and they got it completely wrong. So take heart, and always let God be your judge! And if humans try to make a judgement just have compassion because you can realize the only reason they make such a judgement is they simply do not comprehend due to a total lack of experience.
Do you believe in psychics?
Can there be Christians with Telekenisis
I believe they exist, but I don't believe in them, as in putting any confidence in them. They serve another master. Christians do not have the 'gift of telekenisis'.
However, believers in Jesus Christ can in the power of the Holy Spirit and in the name of Jesus Christ move objects (and mountains of various kinds) as is circumstantially necessary, according to the move of God in a person's life.
No offense...how do you know they serve another master?
i'm not a psychic btw
But we always think people with supernatural gifts are evil
DID you read what i wrote about abagus above. THe holy spirit equipped him to see future events, so that abilty was used to serve god.YOU would have to wonder if some don't matter if a Christian has them. My wife has this uncanny ability to do things for people right when they are needed without her knowing there is a problem with that person.She gets this feeeling god wants her to do something. just before my gnadnmas friend died she had a strange urge to get my grandma to call him and he died soon after. We cant explain those things but she often feels its God encouraging her to do stuff. Many coincidences like that.
that is God telling her and doing that, and its verified by thats persons need.
second i have done that and if any person is real in thier walk a person will be doing that from time to time
but that ISNT the a voice telling me, its more like a still small voice that ONLY his sheep knows that does that
ie. i have a friend who is depressed and the lord tells me or by his countenance i will know even though he isnt that obvious to others.
so i have asked and talked to him when that unction arises.
DID you read what i wrote about abagus above. THe holy spirit equipped him to see future events, so that abilty was used to serve god.
No offense...how do you know they serve another master?
i'm not a psychic btw
But we always think people with supernatural gifts are evil
People who claim to be psychic and even use such a label never attribute their 'knowledge' or 'insight' to Jesus Christ. Some may allude to God, but unless Jesus is extolled, they are serving Satan's purposes.
Okay, my point is If someone just happens to be able to move things with their mind and they acknowledge God must've blesed them then they can be Christian.
I could say that Christians who "walk" are of the devil because Christians never acknowledge God for their legs
Right.....you can't say never. Some do, some don't
when i did any of that psyschic stuff I DIDNT need to pray.
when i wanted to probe you,see your aura when you were standing in front me. i merely looked, no prayer needed.
you dont need to pray in the case of telekenesis to do that. you would just concentrate to move that.
i dont or nor did i have that cababilty.
but i could move on lights and turn then off at times.
again no prayer needed. just concentrated with my "ki".
really i have to asked god for strength to walk when in pain,and eat when i have been sick. and the elderly will testify that they have asked god for strength in certain areas we take advantage of.Faulty logic
You don't need to pray to walk, sleep, eat, breath, die, talk....
or anything else
But all those things can be done to Gods glory
including telekenis
Okay, my point is If someone just happens to be able to move things with their mind and they acknowledge God must've blesed them then they can be Christian.
I could say that Christians who "walk" are of the devil because Christians never acknowledge God for their legs
Right.....you can't say never. Some do, some don't