Did you ever feel the JW "holy spirit"

Smiles

Were there ever times when you were sure you could feel or see "Jehovah's holy spirit" operating?

JH

Finding the right scriptures to answer someone's question was not really God's holy spirit but my knowledge of the bible.

I don't know if someone can "feel" the hold spirit in action.

No, I didn't feel any holy spirit, although I did pray intensely at times.

stevenyc

Yes, as a JDub I would feel this sence of euphoria and well being at times. Later on in life I discovered it was a mixture of endorphine and adrenalin.

steve

luna2

I never was sure. Sometimes I would get a feeling of well being, but I could never have said for sure that it was Holy Spirit.

I really started questioning this stuff when a guy I worked with talked about going to church and how he felt the "Holy Spirit" decend upon the congregation as they sang a well loved hymn....and I remembered feeling something similar back in my youth when in church singing Christmas songs. (Never felt that euphoria singing Kingdumb melodies, however). I decided that such feelings were unreliable.

peacefulpete

I had moments where I felt a sense of 'belonging' and the warm fuzzy feeling of security. I interpreted these as blesssings from the spirit world rather than the result of social integration and delusion.

Honesty

NO.

But I feel it now because Christ dwells in believers through the Holy Spirit..

vitty

So Honesty, tell us how it FEELS for those of us who have never experienced it please !

Finally-Free

I felt a sense of euphoria once when I was a JW. I was skipping a meeting one night and met up with a biker buddy of mine. We smoked some good weed and checked out a couple of strip joints. The beer was cold and the babes were hot.

I wouldn't call it "holy spirit" but it was good enough for me.

W

Ingenuous

I sometimes felt the calm, warm sense of sureness that what I was doing or learning or coming to understand was correct. But I never felt the constant presence of God or support of the Holy Spirit that I thought I was supposed to feel as a member of the only right religion in the world. I was constantly jealous of pioneers and others who seemed to have "it". No matter what I did or how I studied or how nicely I prettied up my time card with extra activity, I could never get "it". I wanted so badly to feel I was personally "plugged-in" to God, that I knew I was doing the right thing because I had an uninterrrupted sense of "peace that excelled all thought."