Does God Make Personal Visits

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manichunter

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This is a two part question?1.Does Jesus still make personal visits to people in manner that He made to the Apostles Paul and John?Acts 9:3-6 (Paul)3As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?" 5And he said, "Who are You, Lord?" Then the Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. F41 It is hard for you to kick against the goads." 6So he, trembling and astonished, said, "Lord, what do You want me to do?" Then the Lord said to him, "Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do." Rev 1:10-13 (John)10I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, 11saying, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last," F6 and, "What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: F7 to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea." 12Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band.2.Does God still make personal promises to individual people? I not talking about Scriptural promises found in the Bible. I am talking along the line of a prophetic word from a Prophet or visitation from God the Spirit or Son. I believe the answer to both questions is yes. However, I would like to know the thoughts of others on these matters. I personaly have seen visions while awake, receive prophetic messages, been touched by an angel to comfort me (I did not see it, but felt it as the Holy Spoke told me unadibly that it was an angel touching me). I have also been visited by demons in my sleep and witnessed demonic attacks upon others. However, I have never a personal visitation from Jesus. The only supernatural visitation I had came from a demon. I was having a normal dream. I was sitting in a church listening to a sermon from a preacher I did not know. I got up to leave the church. Then all of a sudden I heard a deep voice call me by name, Ryan Matthews sit down. I turned around in the dream and saw that the preacher did not look like himself anymore. His eyes had turned red, his vains where budging out, and he had gained a lot of weigh. I was overcome by fear, so I sat down. GO ahead call me a chump. This demon straight gave me his full name in a language I could not understand. He then gave me his rank and name of the place he ruled. He called himself prince something and threaten to kill my family if I did not stop a local Bible study that a friend and me had just started. He said that he did not like the fuss I was causing in his domain and that I would have to stop. He actually held a conversation with me in English of about five sentences, but I said nothing return. The funny part was that he was disquise as a preacher in a robe that some pastors wear and standing behind a pulpit while he spoke to me in my sleep. The dream was confirmed by my roommate who had a visitation by the same demon on the same night. Another funny thing was that my roommate was not saved. He told me that night that his wife called herself a grey witch and practiced witchcraft. I actually confronted her about a few days because my wife had been hanging with her off post. Needless to say, I eventually had to change my barrack's roommate and kept the Bible Study going after a one week pause out of fear. I had to seek a lot of mature counsel and prayer to get past it, but I did. Can't nobody ever convince me that this event was not real and did not take place.Anyway back to the point, what do you guys say about the two questions?
 

Alpha and Omega

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Interesting topic. I actually have a question that has been on my mind for some time. When people say that God speaks to them or directs them what do they mean? Do they actually hear God? Or voices in their head?Anyways, that was an interesting encounter manichunter. I personally have never encountered anythings like this but a friend of my dad's has. My dad's friend became very sick for a long time. I do not remember what disease he had but sometimes he could not remember his own wife and child. It was really terrible to see him like this. A really nice person and only in his 30's. Anyways it got really bad and he had to be admitted to the hospital. Over night he woke up and in the corner of the room he say what he described as a hideous green creature. Wrinkles, sharp teeth, red eyes etc. In other words he believes he saw the devil (which I do not doubt). The most interesting part however was that the devil said to him don't worry I am after that guy (his roommate). The next second he woke up and saw that the bed next to him was empty. His roommate indeed passed away.
 

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Man I have a couple stories to tell you ( about 2 of mine and a couple from friends)So I'm reserving this spot for tommorow as I'm way to tired to write them down tonight
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(Alpha and Omega;54291)
When people say that God speaks to them or directs them what do they mean? Do they actually hear God? Or voices in their head?
I've been wondering that too.
 

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How my faith beganYou probably remember the tsunami in asia 2 years ago. The one which obliterate several countries and killed several people. I remember seeing pictures of the countries which were struck. And all you would see were houses after houses Just torn apart. Bussinesses ruined, cars in pieces. Miles and miles of destruction, until you got to a christian church.These churches had almost no damage. Most people thought "what a wonderful way to spread Gods word." I thought " How could God kill all those people just to show off some churches." I started to dbout. After that New Orleans happened, genocides started in darfur ect.. I finally realized the havok of the world and all I could think was " That it was the judgement of a hateful God." My trust in God started to fade, than my belief. The God I was taught was a lie. and I was finally ready to be "set free" At this moment when I decided to give up God, 8:30 at night. I did the smartest thing In my life. I prayed. I asked God that if he was real and if he was love show himself to me. I expected it to bounce right off the ceiling and hit me in the forhead. It didn't. At first nothing happened. ten minutes later I was about to crawl into bed when a I heard a voice say. " read the bible" "Ha Ha that couldn't be God" I thought " there is no way that could be God, he doesn't exist." yet I opened up my bible anyway. and opened right into the book of wisdom. The title of the book was all I needed to read. God was going to give me wisdom. That he did the very next day. I on the other hand woke up even more of a skeptic,. I could imagine Jesus smacking himself in the head and saying " are you kidding me, I spoke to this boy, and he still doesn't believe. so I walked into church, its a requirement in our family. and I slept through the first half, and woke up right in time for the homily. It conveniantly started " most people have the image of God wrong." I grinned. The way this homily was going to go down is that hes going to tell the parish of how angry of a God we have ans therefore throw me the pitch so I could hit my faitth out of the ballpark. He continued " Most people think that God is an angry God, well I am here to tell you that God Is love" God had striked me out. First he talked to me himself, than he talked to me through his biography ( AKA the bible) and then he talked to me through a priest. All relating to each other, all way to coincidental to be coincidental. My problem was solved the mustard seed was planted again. For the next year I went through the bible to recover more of my faith, Therefore giving me a stronger faith. Why is this important. Because it shows the fulfillment of Gods promise. He was going to give me wisdom. a wisdom which I am sure will keep growing until I die.=========================================================Letsgofishing about a year ago I was at a youth group meeting when a verse popped in my head.Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.( John 21:3) I looked it up and ofund it extremley depressing, " and they caught nothing". So I typed it in google and what came up was page after page of screensavers which said " Letsgofishing" I checked back an hour later, all of the pages were gone.I think of it as Gods message to me. Maybe even his name for me?? I don't know. But I do know its a calling to be a fisher of men.
 

Letsgofishing

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Well Those were the ones about me, but my favorite one has to be about soemone who just lets me and half of my town " Grandma Pat", by far the holiest person I know.Shes told this story a couple timesYou probably know what rockathons are, where a ton of teenagers bring a rocking chair sit down and rock continuously for 12-24 hours to raise money. Well according to her she and a group of teens when she was a teenager came up with the idea for the rockathon as a unique way to make money.so for the next few months they worked to set up the first rockathon which unknown to them would spread all over michigan and the country. So anyway it was the big day and hundreds of teenagers were rocking away, they had bands playing, stand comedians, everything. well everything except food. You see the caters never showed. So they have a bunch of starving rocking teenagers, which is never good. So thier rushing around trying to get some ideas when a man walks in the door.He was wearing a shirt and a pair of jeans, he had unorderly brown hair and dark brown beard. Really stood out in the crowd. So this man went to Grandma Pat and said " you need food don't you" and grandma par shocked says " why yes" so the man smiles and says " well how about this, we'll call up mcdonalds get hundreds of cheeseburgers , fries, big macs etc., I know there phone number we'll call the order right now." ( this was back when mcdonalds wasn't a nationwide sensation) and he proceeded to hand Grandma Pat a check for the food.so the food came and it was a big hit among the rockers. So she searches hoping to thank the man for his help, as not only did he suggest the food he bought the food, but he can't find her anywhere. So she asks her friend if she saw the man and she says no, so she asks another friend that friend says no. In fact every friend she asks says they didn't see the man...Nobody in the whole rockathon saw this man. She believes to this day tht she either talked to Jesus Christ or an Angel.
 

Christina

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I have heard a voice also I perceived it as hearing it with my ears but in my head also, I was startled at first could not tell from where it came.I was alone sitting in my car at night.I questioned it in my mind what the words meant, and the voice repeated the Words my body trembled with a type of what one might call fear for lack of a better term, but it wasn't scary fear it was more like an awesome humbling bring you to your knees type experience(hard to explain)its been many,many years ago this happened and it still makes me feel like I need to drop to my knees and pray when I think of it.It even in some ways feels to ...precious and holy to talk about like my words are so cheap,and pale in comparison.As far Angels/messengers I have been with them or I talk with them in dreams quite often.