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 Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:01 pm
Alot of the time, I don't feel the Spirit when most other do. Even when I go to the Temple and everone else is all teary, or saying thye feel it so strongly.... I never feel any different than I did before. And at Girl's Camp, when everyone else is crying at testimonies I'm one in mabye 5 people who aren't crying. And I don't feel any different then.
Is there something wrong with me? Or do you have anything that I can try to do so that I can feel it?
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:19 pm
The Spirit feels different to everyone. Many people cry and feel a burning inside them, but there are many who don't. I know of at least one person who feels like laughing when he feels the Spirit. I know of another who just feels more at peace with the world. And sometimes the Spirit isn't a feeling at all. Maybe it's a thought that pops into your head, or maybe you suddenly understand something you didn't before. There's nothing wrong with you, but if you feel like you have never felt the Spirit, you can always pray to Heavenly Father about it. Maybe you just need help recognizing when you are feeling the Spirit.
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:02 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:05 pm
I suppose I'm kind of like you. I never cry really even at EFY all I did was feel at peace so I agree with Angels find out what you feel at the temple don't put it there yourself just feel what you feel.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:17 pm
here's another non-crier with the spirit. I just get impulses to do things from time to time or a thought. Crying only gets certain people. I'm not a hugger either, so in general pretty cold, but that doesn't mean the spirit doesn't get me to do the right things!
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:48 pm
Thanks so much! *hugs everyone*
We don't have a very big ward, and probely camp compared to places like Utah, so we don't have that many ppl like me. Thanks!!
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:26 pm
Sister Sherri Dew came to visit our ward and spoke to us and she said that you have to ask god to teach you how the spirit speaks to you and he will teach you. He's not going to give you one experience where you go "Oh! I knew that!" It will be a lot of small experiences that will teach you along the way. Line upon line, precept upon precept.
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:18 pm
I have a couple of comments on this:
I think that there are a few different ways to approach this occurrence, first off I'd just repeat all of what has already been said, thank you for all of your comments ^^. As I've grown up I have felt the spirit with that warm feeling in the heart, tears, joy, shivers (kinda like warm chills), and a bunch of happiness. But I found myself at times that I would fall into the same position that everyone else was feeling the spirit and I wasn't.
I think the first thing to check is your personal worthiness, this always drastically changes the power of the spirit in your life. But if everything is alright then sometimes the Lord gives you a little time to learn something or get over something.
As a missionary, I had struggled with this a little. I had all those feelings but not the thought to my mind, so I would come across a situation where I felt the spirit but didn't know how to react. So I prayed for help of understanding, and it took me nearly 6 months of earnest prayer to come to a point where I could really understand. But as soon as I stopped praying for it it became hard again, so I learned that understanding the spirit is going to be a lifelong process, in which we always need the Lords help.
A specific scripture that helped me was in D&C 117: 11. This mostly applies to Newel K. Whitney, but as we are advised to apply scriptures to ourselves this is what I got "Let my servant... be ashamed... of all his littleness of soul before me." And that hit me really hard, to think of the common phrase "serve me with ALL your heart might mind and strength" I personally was not exerting myself mentally upon the gospel nor the savior. So at that point forward I made it a special effort to be more thankful, and treat the gospel with greater sacredness. We can allow ourselves to think of nothing during the sacrament, or think upon how grateful we truly are for the sacrifice that was made for us.
Paying really close attention to the speaker helps too lol.
Just like what everyone said before, it takes time to understand the spirit at this point you may not fully understand the spirit, I'll admit I don't either! But keep working at it, then I'm sure those blessing will inevitably come to you. And be sure to keep up the prayer and scripture study, they REALLY make a difference.
I hope I was able to help in some way!!!
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:33 am
Beautiful Gothic Flower Alot of the time, I don't feel the Spirit when most other do. Even when I go to the Temple and everone else is all teary, or saying thye feel it so strongly.... I never feel any different than I did before. And at Girl's Camp, when everyone else is crying at testimonies I'm one in mabye 5 people who aren't crying. And I don't feel any different then. Is there something wrong with me? Or do you have anything that I can try to do so that I can feel it? i like you,..like i just don't cry stuff,..all the youth except me cried but i just feel so calm and like somebody is hugging me so warm XDD i guess its the spirit,..
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