Laying on of hands.

[Frank Lee]

I have been cursed by total strangers that were filled with the devil. Those with me were amazed but I realized where it was coming from.

We discern all about them the scriptures says but they can't see into us.

 

[amadeus]

Sorry if I don't carry this same fear some of you seem to. I don't even have to nervously whistle as I walk past a cemetery at night. I kind of believe "No weapon formed against me can prosper."

If I don't believe or accept any of their bunk, a hundred Satanists can lay hands on me and not do anything except maybe get their hands burned.

Indeed, we should not be concerned with the touch of the most vile of persons, but neither should we pressed to be touched by a devil simply to show that we can do it.

"But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." Gen 3:3

"And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount." Exodus 19:12-13

"Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty." Lev 5:2-3

"And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you," II Cor 6:16-17

"And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed." Matt 8:2-3

So when is it time to touch and when is it time to refrain from touching? God's time!

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:" Ecc 3:1

My old pastor [93] tells this story of his father an Indian preacher, a man of God. His father carried the honorary title of Chief Rain Cloud in the Chippewa tribe of Canada.

When my pastor was just a young boy he recalls clearly a young family bringing their baby to brother Rain Cloud with a severe case of infantigo a contagious affliction of the skin. When they asked him to pray he told them to wait while he went to talk to God about it. He went to another room and prayed for a few minutes. When he returned he told them it was OK and laid his hands directly on the terrible sores on the child and prayed. The skin cleared up of all sores before the parents left.

 

[Willie T]

I would be a rich man if I could get $20 for every time something like that happened in the Vineyard Fellowship.

 

[amadeus]

I would be a rich man if I could get $20 for every time something like that happened in the Vineyard Fellowship.

I am glad to hear that. We know that God is still working but some people are selfishly looking for their own selves more than for others or for Him.