reply to post by gallifreyan medic
I have to be responsible to what I feel is fitting before God.
His assessments alone of how I behave are what matter eternally and foremost. St Paul even said he would not judge himself in some respects . . . but
wait for eternity to understand his own merits and demerits.
As the old story goes of the two traveling angels . . . staying first at a wealthy man's house with lots of vacant plush bedrooms . . . and they were
relegated to sleeping in a cold bare basement. The Sr angel patched a hole up in the basement wall.
The next night, they stayed in a poor farmer's home and were shown every courtesy possible. That night, the farmer's only family cow died.
As they left, the Jr angel was protesting the 'OBVIOUSLY' improper and unfitting treatments in the two cases.
The Sr angel then explained . . . that he'd patched the hole in the basement of the wealthy man hiding a hoard of great treasure that the wealthy man
was unaware of. And that at the farmer's the angel of death had come for the farmer's wife--who was spared.
I can only do what I see most fitting to do.
I'm certainly aware at my age that I'll never please everyone from any single perspective, much less everyone from a great variety of
perspectives.
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06/30/2009 10:44:54 AM PDT replied
[Bo Xian], my predictions are near 100%
back at my home church in the [small Atlantic country/region] I was recognized as having the prophetic gift and I’ve personally ministered to
hundreds with very good accuracy.
Among the most astonishing ones are a friend of the family who’ve I’ve known for over 30 yrs and I knew her to have Sickle Cell disease. I
prophesied to her that she will be well and she was cured of LUPUS!! I was totally ignorant of her medical state and didn't even knew of the Lupus
(which is incurable btw), and she testified in church of her complete healing with the medical report. Oh btw my bro-in-law was one of her
physicians.
On a recent & local testimony is a very good doctor friend in [A South-Eastern city] who was in $$ problems and shared with me how she was planning to
sell the home since she was out of $$ to fix it up. I told her everything will be ok and the money will come in to get the repairs done and shortly
afterwards she discovered an insurance policy that she had forgotten and it took care of the repairs. Both she and my wife testifies to the accuracies
of any prophecies that I speak.
In another instance at my home church in [a different Southeastern city] one day after the Sunday service was dismissed I sensed something about a
certain lady who was sitting 5 rows in front of us and 4 seats to the left. I turned to my wife & told her what I sensed
“that lady is
hopping mad to the point of MURDER”. I asked my wife to follow me and on reaching her I recognized her as someone I knew but had not spoken
to her for over 9 months now. I introduced ourselves and asked “so how you’re doing?” to which she automatically replied “I’m fine.”
At that point I said to her
“we were sitting 5 rows behind you and I could only see the back of your head, but the Lord has shown me that
you are definitely NOT FINE, and that you are really HOPPING MAD to the point of murder!!”
Her expression changed to total shock & surprise and when she composed herself she confessed that indeed she was feeling exactly that since she has
just caught her husband cheating on her again. She confessed that she had it in her heart to kill him when she went home. Suffice it to say that the
Lord used me to stop a murder that Sunday.
[Bo Xian] there are many more but I cant recall many of them or much details.
As a final note: my wife & other friends say that I am a PROPHET but I simply say that I have the prophetic gift.
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His experiences parallel my own though my own are less dramatic and far fewer in number, as far as I can tell.
Many of my such have come in counseling sessions when I had no logical reason to ask about a certain issue or topic but Holy Spirit within me prompted
me persistently to do so. And when I finally complied, a great deal of productive info tumbled forth to great fruitfulness.
And, sometimes, I've warned folks in counseling that if they did not get XYZ in order, they would suffer certain types of consequences.
I once warned a very proud and stubborn mission Chairman of a very conservative, rigid, narrow and prissy MidWestern denomination that if he did not
quit troubling his excellent staff in Asia and instead begin to serve them and help them vs making their lives more exasperated, that the Lord was
likely to take him out of this life. Within a month he was dead of a brain aneurysm.
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I certainly don't expect the vast bulk of ATSers to put much stock in any of this UNLESS AND UNTIL THEIR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE is impacted by something
similar and dramatic.
HOWEVER, I believe that everyone deserves at least some evidence and presentation of the reality of such things.
Some folks will scoff extremely derisively and reap the harvest of that.
Some folks will remain skeptical and wait and see and experience whatever consequences of that.
Some folks will eagerly anticipate whatever God does and regardless of what happens this time or the next dozen times . . . will be ready and waiting
on the edge of their seats for whatever God does. God will reward them accordingly.
Cheers.