Always within the church there are people who get special attention from the Holy Spirit. They have
ecstasies, visions, dreams, messages,
visitations and more. However, the main method for their special
treatment seems to be feelings or intuitions. This is according to our
feminized gospel of “love.” And so, we have men and women going around bumping into objects, led away with various desires and thinking this is the Holy Spirit. They speak in tongues, cast out demons, make great prophecies about this and that, and when they are done, they are shipwrecked. They are self-willed and experts at hiding it under pretended care for others. If they get the proper response from their friends, spouse, children, then they know this is the Holy Spirit. They can be little saints running around like Mother Teresa, oh so humble but oh, so self-deceived.
The Holy Spirit needs to come into their lives and reveal to them their self-will that masquerades as service to God. The Holy Spirit needs to crush them, as Chuck Swindoll said in a radio sermon. The Holy Spirit comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable. If we are comfortable with our lives and we claim to be Christians, let us look at the message to the Laodicean church: “Because you say I am rich and increased with wealth and have need of nothing, and you do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind and naked...” Revelation 3:17.
- Chris Simonson
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