Is having the Holy Spirit a feeling?? Or is it hearing Him speak to you?
Jn 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
From both what I read in the Scriptures and, more importantly, from by personal experience we should be hearing "words" spoken to our spirit that belong to Jesus Christ and come from His Holy Spirit.
Now perhaps if I am a bit "dull" of hearing with my spiritual ears because I don't practice hearing with my spiritual ears or I am new to the Lord, then those words might, and probably do come across as "feeling". I also know that happens with me when I am just not paying attention to Him. Which is to say that I get busy with work, thinking about other things, and talking to other people so that when the Lord speaks to be via His Holy Spirit I just kind of pick up a feeling that He is trying to get my attention. When that happens I seek Him by asking Him something like "Did you say.... , Lord?"
So what about the OP?
Well, I like it!!!!!!!!!
What I read in the OP tells me, exactly what the person wrote:
. I think the answer sounds like I am one of the chosen
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT!
The person asked the Lord:
whether I am one of the chosen
And they got an answer saying they were!!
That people is exactly how faith in Jesus Christ works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You believe that He is there, so you think that He might be talking to you and ask Him a question because you believe He is there, and you get an answer!!!!
So, in the OP we are reading the honest thoughts of a real Christian!!
Yet they are still asking about it being a "feeling"??
What that tells me, is that they indeed know the Lord Jesus Christ and they believe He is there for them to ask a question of, but they don't practice that much!
That is not rare in the church, but it should be. From my experience around the church most Christians don't seek the Lord for answers too often. Because of that they wind up getting feelings instead of words when they do hear from the Lord. Which is to say the most Christians have dull hearing because we (Christians in General) don't practice using our spiritual senses! So, we don't have a lot of faith that Jesus is there with us. So, we read a thread "Do you feel like you have the Holy Spirit", as opposed to a thread like "What have you been hearing from the Holy Spirit today?"
Face it - in general - we Christians (His chosen people) are people of little faith! And because faith comes from hearing a word from Jesus Christ, it is a direct result of us not practicing using our spiritual senses.
Now this may sound like I am getting onto the writer of the OP - I am not!! I am trying to point out the potential His church has if we in general start actually practicing listening to Him!!!
Do we even encourage people to seek HIm and listen to Him everyday called "Today". The authors of the Bible do, but what about us. Are we preaching Jesus Christ who speaks to us via His Holy Spirit as the Word of God - meaning we should be hearing from Him in words not feelings?
So my intent when I come to this forum is to encourage (of course there is something written about the rod) us Christians (i"ncluding me) to seek the words (not feelings but words) that He speaks to us via His Holy Spirit!!!
The author of the OP, in the OP told us the words she heard from the WORD OF GOD (Jesus Christ) via His Holy Spirit!!!
The author or the OP heard that they were "one of the chosen" Those are words not feelings!! Believe it!! Believe in Him who spoke to you via His Holy Spirit to your spirit in "words" not feeling but "words"!! You are "one of the chosen"!! Those are the words you heard by faith in Him, so don't let the devil take them away from Him. The first words that snake said in the garden were "Did God really say?"
Don't listen to the snake!! Believe in your own testimony and believe the Word of God who said in words to you, that you picked up in your spirit. that you are "one of the chosen" Believe it! God really did say it to you!! It was not just a feeling - it was the Holy Spirit speaking the words of the Lord your God Jesus Christ spoken to you personally!!
So now, as a chosen one, should you not get to asking Him more questions and listen more - like everyday called "Today"? Of course we all should!! We have the Lord our God with us at all times, so let us all start practicing hearing the words He speaks to us via His Holy Spirit!!
I have a few supporting verses below.
Heb 5:11 Concerning him we have much to say, and
it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
Heb 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
So, we get our growth by asking Him more questions and hearing his answers by faith. Let's do that!
Jn 16:13,14 “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. “He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose
it to you.
So note, the Holy Spirit speaks!!! He takes the words of God which belong to the Son, Jesus Christ, and discloses them to us!
Rev 19:13 He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
Too often we think of the Bible as the Word of God, but it is not God speaking to us personally, it was what God said to those who wrote the Scriptures. They were telling us that we too need to personally listen to the Lord like they did! And we can to that. We can hear the words Jesus Christ has for us, but it takes faith in Him, meaning we believe He is always with us to speak to us!
Is 1:2 Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth; For the LORD speaks, ....
There has always been this problem believing the Lord speaks to us, That is partly due to that snake!
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said ...."
Those were the first four words that snake said, and they are all about doubting (the opposite of faith) that God speaks to us, even in specific words! Honestly, I can see too much doubt in the OP. Isn't that why the words He spoke started to being thought of as feelings? Yeah, I know it is that small voice that comes across like thoughts, but words give us thoughts. We see "STOP" written on a sign and we get the thought that we need to stop. So we see a Stop sign and get the feeling I should stop, but it came from a word "Stop". Of course, if I don't pay close attention the sign just gave me a feeling though the word "Stop" was easy to see. So it that the Lord speaks to us in words and they give us thoughts which we might think are feelings but there were words behind it if we just pay attention!
Is 30:21 Your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left.
That is how we should be walking and talking with the Lord! That is the objective, but perhaps we are not there yet. I'm not! I only hear from the Lord about a dozen times a day. But I have gone around yard sales with Him while He told when and where to turn to the right or to the left. So it can be just like Isaiah wrote. He obviously was better at hearing the Lord than me, but I am a work in progress, like all His chosen people are!
Great thread from "thelord's pearl"