Did you ever "Feel" God's Holy Spirit upon you?

by JH 6 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  JH

  Sometimes when I pray or when I want to talk to God, reason with him, and I make a long prayer and intense one, I feel some kind of power guiding my words, even surprising myself with what I say.
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  greendawn

  Those governed by the Spirit of God manifest certain behaviour patterns that are characteristic such as love, peace, kindness, and I can tell you the Spirit tends to get extinguished in the JW environment and perhaps in most other environments.
  
  I felt what you mentioned many times but there is no environment to sustain it in the long term.
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  fullofdoubtnow

  I used to feel empowered at times in the ministry when talking to people who seemed interested. I seemed to be able to remember things that I didn't know I knew. I used to think it was holy spirit, but it was probably due to the constant indoctrination and brainwashing.
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  under_believer

  I thought I did once, but it turned out to be diarrhea. hehe j/k...
  I can honestly say that I never ever ever experienced any of the more "mystical" aspects of JWdom or even religion for that matter. I have never had a spiritual experience in my life.
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  Narkissos

  Calling that "Holy Spirit" or something else is a matter of faith (and religious education), but I can relate to that.

  Being surprised by one's own words happens all the time. The entire history of psychoanalysis rests on the assumption that there is more to what we say in certain circumstances than what we consciously think. Or, there is more to speech than the expression of clear conscious thought.

  This certainly didn't wait for Freud to be true. And prayer -- addressing a strange, silent interlocutor, both absent and present -- is an unusual form of speech which sometimes draws very unexpected words from us -- very different from what we would say to somebody else. I think writing is similar in a different way. When you start writing, you never know where it will lead you.

  The Hebrew text of Habakkuk 2:1 (which most translations modify) is fascinating in this regard: "I will stand at my watchpost, and station myself on the rampart; I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint." In this reading, the prophet is a curious observer of God's words in his own words. Did "God" ever speak otherwise?
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  BizzyBee

  I thought I did once, but it turned out to be diarrhea. hehe j/k...

  LOL!
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  Double Edge

  Those governed by the Spirit of God manifest certain behaviour patterns that are characteristic such as love, peace, kindness, and I can tell you the Spirit tends to get extinguished in the JW environment and perhaps in most other environments.
  
  I felt what you mentioned many times but there is no environment to sustain it in the long term.

  I agree....that's what my experiences with the subject have taught me. I believe the Creator is present everywhere, like radio waves (don't read anything into that...) ... but I think most of our 'radios' are turned off, or just aren't quite tuned in to the "frequency" because of the environment...etc. But when one IS in the 'zone', there's no mistaking it.