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polakita

PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:25 pm


I'm part of a church that is called Ministerios LLamada Final and our church has a lot of encounters with the Spirit? I've already received visions and spoken in tongues. Are there others like me that experiance similar things? xd
PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:51 pm


I can't say I've ever spoken in tongues or gotten visions, but I've had some dreams that I always believed to mean something, at least personally anyway. My ex always put them down saying, "Just because you thought the guy in your dream was Jesus it wasn't really Him cuz you'd know and blah blah blah and it doesn't mean anything." Always made me wanna kick 'im. -.-

I think I may have experienced someone speaking in tongues once, but it sounded like creepy jibberish to me. eek

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:15 am


Just like Fushigi, although I may not have spoken in tongues, I have certainly had dreams that later become true. In fact, most of the things I dream when I'm sleeping become true in days, weeks, or months after.
PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:42 pm


Oh, mine never predicted anything. They seemed more like personal messages from God to me, though one of them I've always wondered if it was prophetic or not. Or maybe just a comforting message. If you're curious, I can post it. 3nodding

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:06 am


I have spoken in tounges, had visions, witnessed healings, and seen and experienced many signs of the Holy Spirit.... <3
PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:14 am


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I have spoken in tounges, had visions, witnessed healings, and seen and experienced many signs of the Holy Spirit.... <3


-jealous- All the cool stuff always happens to other people. sweatdrop

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:10 pm


Wow, I feel really spiritually inept now seeing as I've done none of that XD

My friend's dad did once cure her brother's hiccups via prayer though.

I can also predict which episode of a TV show will come on within a day to a month. But I don't know if that's God so much as a really creepy coincidence (it happens all the time... it's kinda weird sweatdrop ) I get Deja vu all the time though, but the closest I've ever had to having a dream coming true is once I had a dream that I was leaving my school cafeteria and there were ballons... and then about three motnhs later the exact same thing happened at my school formal. It was weird, and an utterly useless prediction XD

I do feel God has given me the ability to see even his smallest miracles in my daily life, and a lot of people have told me that I'm more "in tune" with him then most. I've also been told I always have a different or interesting way of analyzing scripture, which often brings a new persepctive to a discussion.

Again, not sure if that's just me being weird or God at work but either way... yeah. I have nothing else to say XD
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:13 pm


My mom speaks in tongues and most of my church does. The pastor prophesys.

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Pastor Danielle

PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:32 pm


Fushigi na Butterfly
Danielle~SOC
I have spoken in tounges, had visions, witnessed healings, and seen and experienced many signs of the Holy Spirit.... <3


-jealous- All the cool stuff always happens to other people. sweatdrop


What do you mean? these are the gifts God has for you, its his desire.. Signs and Wonders happen when the Holy Spirit is there, and God gave you the Holy Spirit, asking him to pour these things out to you... God is Good and These are your gifts... and they Will happen to you in the Name and Authority of Jesus Christ.
PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:03 am


Well, this doesn't exactly count as a vision but I'm going to tell about it anyway.

My faith was weak, I kept asking myself "What if Jesus was just a guy?"

and anyhoo, that night I dreamt about Jesus. I can't remember the dream specifically, but I do remember the message.

Jesus is not our savior through miracles and displays of power, Jesus is our savior through his teachings. He teaches us to love one another, and it is through that which he saves us from ourselves.

I woke up and I felt wonderful and my faith was infinitely strengthened. I don't know about any of you, but a lot of times I feel we concentrate too hard on how Jesus walked on water, or did some other such feat. Because Jesus is in himself a miracle. Even if I did not believe in God I would still follow Jesus's teachings. (except the ones about God, of course. sweatdrop )

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:18 pm


Captain_Theoretical
Well, this doesn't exactly count as a vision but I'm going to tell about it anyway.

My faith was weak, I kept asking myself "What if Jesus was just a guy?"

and anyhoo, that night I dreamt about Jesus. I can't remember the dream specifically, but I do remember the message.

Jesus is not our savior through miracles and displays of power, Jesus is our savior through his teachings. He teaches us to love one another, and it is through that which he saves us from ourselves.

I woke up and I felt wonderful and my faith was infinitely strengthened. I don't know about any of you, but a lot of times I feel we concentrate too hard on how Jesus walked on water, or did some other such feat. Because Jesus is in himself a miracle. Even if I did not believe in God I would still follow Jesus's teachings. (except the ones about God, of course. sweatdrop )


Jesus became our sins, the curse, our sickness, our distruction on the Cross... He was beaten and given the punishment we all desirve for sinning... He died and defeated death and the power of satan and rose in Victory and Sits at the right hand of the Father. It isn't by works that we are saved, it isn't by Jesus's teachings we are saved, for it isn't by the law that anyone was saved, it isn't by the words that we are saved... It is by what Jesus did and became for us, it is by his death and resurection that we are saved. Until that revelation comes, until you know that you aren't saved from anything.... Doing God's will and doing the things that God wishes us to do with out Jesus in our hearts still feels good... and its fills like you are doing the right thing, because you are... but those things you do aren't going to save you... There is no attonement we can make that cancles our sins, there is only one way and that is through what Jesus Christ Did for us.... (I am sorry if it sounds harsh and fire and brime stone, its not, its just the truth and the blessing that God has freely given us)
PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:54 pm


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Jesus became our sins, the curse, our sickness, our distruction on the Cross... He was beaten and given the punishment we all desirve for sinning... He died and defeated death and the power of satan and rose in Victory and Sits at the right hand of the Father. It isn't by works that we are saved, it isn't by Jesus's teachings we are saved, for it isn't by the law that anyone was saved, it isn't by the words that we are saved... It is by what Jesus did and became for us, it is by his death and resurection that we are saved. Until that revelation comes, until you know that you aren't saved from anything.... Doing God's will and doing the things that God wishes us to do with out Jesus in our hearts still feels good... and its fills like you are doing the right thing, because you are... but those things you do aren't going to save you... There is no attonement we can make that cancles our sins, there is only one way and that is through what Jesus Christ Did for us.... (I am sorry if it sounds harsh and fire and brime stone, its not, its just the truth and the blessing that God has freely given us)


This may sound silly, but I can't tell whether you're agreeing with me, disagreeing with me, or making a separate point altogether.

If you're talking about where I said even if I did not believe in God I would follow Jesus's teachings, I didn't mean that I would intend to be 'saved' (because I wouldn't because I wouldn't believe in God) but I just think the things he taught are brilliant and awesome regardless of the miracles etc.

And I didn't mean that we aren't saved by Jesus dying on the cross, I mean it's an angle that no one really examines. And having it shown to me really reaffirmed my faith.

Sorry if I've confused everyone, because I've actually managed to confuse myself.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:14 am


Okay, so here's the dream I had a while back that I thought was pretty cool, and you guys can make of it what you will. Sorry it's a bit long; it is interesting though. 3nodding

Last night I had a dream the world came to an end. Normally when I have dreams like that, they're freaky and it's all the moon getting sucked into the sun and the earth explodes and people die and somehow I stay alive to witness it all. >> Last night wasn't like that at all. I remember floating down a river with my friends and family (I don't know why o.o) and random people I knew from FireFall (on Gaia). Suddenly, as I'm coming up around this bend, I hear people saying "I see Him! I see God!" and exclaiming things like they were being pulled out of the water so that they could stand above it. I started swimming because I certainly wasn't going to miss my opportunity to see Jesus face to face. And there, standing up on this hill along the bank of this river was Jesus. But He was so modern I almost wanted to laugh, because He didn't look anything like what paintings portray Him as. His hair was long and dirty-blonde, but instead of being wavy, He had dreadlocks, and some of the strands were dyed blue. He wore a big T-shirt and baggy pants, and sandals (like the kind all guys wear now). He was standing there, preaching, and reaching down to pull His people up to Heaven (which was apparently behind Him). What was interesting was that the hill was so steep that you couldn't climb it without being pulled up, and only Jesus was reaching down to pull people up. The other freaky part was that those who weren't Christians couldn't see Him. They stood there in waist-high water, looking around at the Christians getting pulled up to the bank, wondering how it was they could get up there. I remember turning to this guy and saying "Can't you see Him? Jesus is standing right there." He only looked at me like I was crazy. Then he said something like he used to believe, but after so much time, it just felt like a fairy tale to him. At this point, Jesus looked pointedly at this guy. He jumped down off the hill and laid down on top of the water so that He could look up at this guy. The guy could see Him now. Jesus told him that even though he used to believe, there was nothing He could do for him now. He had missed his chance, even though there were plenty of other people out there that were trying to spread the message that Jesus was the only way.

After this part, my dream panned out into the universe, with stars and galaxies swirling and it was so beautiful. I could see God's eye somehow; it took up the whole sky. It was pointing to something- like a cluster of stars or something. Jesus said, "That's Heaven. That's where I'm taking you. When scientists look through their telescopes they're going to discover this new system and have no explanation for it. That's where we'll be." I thought "Heaven is another galaxy? How weird."


Yeah ... I know ... weird ... sweatdrop
PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:38 am


@fushigi: whoa! that is s0 coool! xd heart heart

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:15 am


Thanks. smile I have no idea what it means, if anything at all.
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