Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: barry1@ihlpa.att.com (Barry O Olson) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Something to think about. Message-ID: Date: 12 Aug 90 06:29:20 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 38 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , gross@dg-rtp.dg.com (Gene Gross) writes: > > The experience I wrote about came not because of a professional clergy > class. It came because followers, Christians, became obedient to the > Word of the living God. They met the requirements set forth by God in > 2 Chronicles 7:14, 15. We determined to know nothing among us but Christ > and Him crucified. It is most amazing what happens when Christians come > to the foot of the Cross and dwell there a while. We determined to > search the text of Scriptures (OT and NT) to determine what was God's > will for His people. It is even more amazing what happens when > Christians come to sit at the feet of the Master in meekness and > humility to learn of and from Him. And we determined to pray for one > another and all the saints as the Scripture tells us to pray. It is > astonishing what happens when we come boldly before the Throne and place > ourselves at the base of the Mercy Seat of Christ. Revival is a poor word > for what happens. > This is exactly how my experience in the Lord developed, a home group that met to search the scriptures, pray, laugh, and experience the miraculous by the power of the HS. Our group went a step further by reaching into the area of spirit oppression on believers. Persistant problems, or thoughts in a believer that were not effectivly dealt with through prayer, counseling, or whatever. We began to look into the possible activity of these spirits that other fellowships were engaged in with possitive results in cleansing a believer of the oppression. Some very interesting results were achieved almost immediately. My pastor who BTW, was a presbyterian pastor for 17 years prior to forming this group commented, "If I had only known this power when I was a lay pastor in the church"! How often parisheners came to him with their persistant problems, all he could offer them was the standard answer which he was taught. Seek out counseling, prayer. Not that these cannot help, but when they are not enough, then what? All he could do was shake his head in powerless acceptance of the problem. Take Care, Barry