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It's a guarantee and necessary because the 'balance remaining' will come forth out of the earnest of the Spirit. The down payment (bride price of our betrothal) is paid to seal the betrothal contract, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible for a "bride-to-be" to break her end of it and no...

The Lord had to bring me out of the churches to begin reading His word with fresh eyes. I think when we are under another yoke we are often imbibing the watered down and/or erroneous teachings that are mixed with the thoughts of man, without even realizing it. But when I shut out all other...

Amen, contend for the truth brother. We are to be alert and test everything, and that is by discernment and the word of God.

He has sealed us by His Holy Spirit, and a three fold cord is not EASILY broken, that is true. However that doesn't mean impossible. We need to strike the right balance between an inordinate fear of falling away and complacency. The warnings God gave us aren't for no reason, they were given...

Amen! We can have that intimate communing and hear from Him because we are one spirit with the Lord through His Spirit that lives in us. 1Co 6:16-17 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord...

The latest statistics on Christianity in America are very sad: I'm sure some were just 'cultural Christians' to start with, however, at least it helped to keep people on the straight and narrow more than they are now. Righteousness exalts a nation but sin brings the opposite and we're...

That's just human reasoning that doesn't hold water. But if you want to use human reasoning, don't forget that babies and even grown ups can die.

This thread only goes to show how much exhortation is needed on this in my opinion. People limit God according to their own limited experience of Him and walk in a fleshly spirit of suspicion towards anything that doesn't fit their limited experience or that of their particular church or...

I'm not sure if I understand your point, but will try to respond. God may speak without necessarily quoting scripture. And Jesus said when the Holy Spirit comes He would speak to us and tell us things to come. This is not going beyond what is written, because it is written. :) It's also...

Bless you sister - I don't know what you mean by objectionable opinions - you and anyone are free to express opinions as far as I'm concerned. That incident sounds like a miracle to me, praise God! Don't know what to call what He did in particular but it's all good that's for sure. :)

Actually I was talking about believers experiencing being translated like Philip, and it wasn't intended to challenge anything you said sister. Jesus said that everyone who is born of the spirit may come and go like the wind. (Anyone witnessing this might think they were seeing an angel...

Thanks - that clarifies to me that you don't mean we necessarily have to hear Him audibly in a physical sense. Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would speak and show us things to come. He also said that His sheep know His voice. So it is to be expected that those who know the Lord will hear Him...

Yet why should it be so unusual when Jesus said you can't tell where the wind is coming from or where it is going, it blows where it will....and SO IS EVERYONE WHO IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT.

God's strength is made perfect in our weakness. Moses started out in his own strength, with all the advantages/strengths of his life in Egypt and the flesh, but after his sojourn in the wilderness had become weak in self to where he was ready to be sent by the Lord. This reminds me of where it...

Yes, that is a word of knowledge that scripture mentions. God speaks to us in many different ways and for different reasons. One which is to guide and direct us and let us know His will for us personally...we should never lose sight of our own personal condition and the need to be in His will...

I No I didn't think I was.

Sure, though I was just talking about gift in the sense of how the Lord chooses to communicate to individual souls at different times. Whether in a vision, dream, still small voice, signs, angels, quickening scripture, unctions, or through words that someone else speaks that God quickens, etc...

Well I guess I'm in the third camp. :) One that believes constant communion with the Lord is possible, but that not experiencing it or being aware of it doesn't necessarily mean someone isn't saved. And just a little correction there my brother - this isn't about hearing voices plural but...

But brother what does this have to do with this discussion? Who is hating who here on this thread?

I think that is the issue here - being yielded to the Holy Spirit and being led by Him. That means asking for and seeking His will and waiting for His response, as the OP has talked about. We are like unbroken horses in the beginning (Moses is an example), running around serving the Lord...