Experiencing The Holy Spirit

Experiencing the Holy Spirit

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Experiencing the Holy Spirit by Andrew Murray. Paperback , pages. Published February 1st by Whitaker House first published February 28th To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Experiencing the Holy Spirit , please sign up.

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THE WAY TO EXPERIENCE THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Apr 18, Duane Freeman rated it it was amazing Shelves: Excellent book on the Holy Spirit and how we, the body of Christ on earth, really do need the power of His presence working in our lives. He literally falls upon us from heaven and fills us to overflowing as we worship and praise Jesus and glorify His name. I accepted Jesus and became a Christian in my younger years, but I did not ever have any kind of supernatural encounter with God at that time. This book affirms the fact that God is supernatural and His Spirit is all powerful and that only re Excellent book on the Holy Spirit and how we, the body of Christ on earth, really do need the power of His presence working in our lives.

This book affirms the fact that God is supernatural and His Spirit is all powerful and that only receiving the gift of salvation is not enough for us to be able to walk in the fullness of God in this world. We also need to be "filled" or "baptized" with His Spirit, which Murray affirms is a further working of God, a secondary gift that comes after the first gift of salvation.

I started to feel an awesome presence in that place and a deep and humbling longing in my heart grew in intensity. I began to feel a tingling sensation beginning in my hands which spread down my arms and was growing more intensely by the moment. It felt like small pinpoints of energy were radiating out of my skin up and down my arms that increased in frequency and strength until they were vibrating so strongly I could barely feel them. My fingers grew stiff and I could hardly even separate them from each other. My body felt weak and I was shaking under this power.

I knew something different was definitely going on here. I went to the front of the church when people were asked to come forward who wanted to be prayed over. While I worshiped and praised God I was being filled with joy and felt waves of energy flowing down through me. Every time a man who was behind me prayed in tongues over me my hands raised above my head would shake, and this happened several times during that evening.

It was a wonderful experience. Every time that I have worshiped now for the last 5 weeks there I have experienced the same energy washing over me again and again and several times the very strong energy vibrations up and down my arms. One evening at home, when I worshiped while watching an internet video of a worship service, I felt what I can only really describe as electrical sparks of energy shooting up through my legs that were at first uncomfortable but quickly became more comfortable and quite soothing with a constant flow of energy throughout my body. After all of this time of experiencing this I can only conclude that without any doubt God and Jesus Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit are absolutely real and does "fill" those who seek His presence with all of their hearts.

Fasting and praying as the disciples in the early church did is definitely recommended and I encourage everyone to learn about it and take it seriously. From my own experience I can tell you that God is alive and well and loves us with all of His heart and deeply desires that we pursue Him with everything we have and to put Him first in our lives. He desires an intimate personal relationship with each one of us and does not want us to be bound by an empty religion that denies His power. God is Spirit, supernatural. We are also spirit and He has placed us into His spiritual kingdom to live according to His promises and to walk in the full authority and power that he has given to us.

It is the same power and authority that Jesus was given by the Father when He was baptized by water and the Spirit at the Jordan river. He lived as our greatest example so He could teach us how to live for the kingdom of heaven. Jesus said that whoever believes in Him would do the same works and even greater things than He did also. So I will end by saying God bless you and your journey throughout His kingdom in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Apr 15, Dave Johnson rated it it was amazing. Murray makes no apologies in his beliefs--which i love--and he dives straight into the word of God to define some things. Jul 21, Joshua Smith rated it it was amazing.

This statement is counter-cultural. The way I have been taught since I was born is that I have a brain and I'm supposed to use it, and we are to do our best and let God take care of the rest. Here Murray tells us that this mindset is counter productive. The Bible teaches to lean not on your own understanding and strength is made perfect in weakness.

Little of number 2, but where I have experience that it tends to be when exercising faith outside of my comfort zone, often in missions or pioneering frontier situations. And little of number 3. I can identify some spiritual gifts that I have in small measure, and have occasionally been on the receiving end of people using more obviously supernatural gifts more strongly than I have obviously I am on the receiving end of supernatural preaching and teaching a lot more, but have heard some remarkably divinely-pointed prophetic words over the years.

So easy to replace that with regular activity, passively receiving teaching, and desire for him that is low. It was only when I embarked on reading theology that I came across people who had a very different view and experience of the Spirit. For some, this appeared to be none at all apart from conversion. They rejected the notion of gifts operating today as Romans 12 and 1 Cor 12 indicate and were particularly concerned about tongues. The debates always seemed to focus on the gifts not the fruits.

The experience of the Spirit must be assessed as it relates to passionate love for and service of Jesus. To be more Spirit-filled is to be more Jesus-loving and people serving point 1 above. The prayer in Ephesians 3 suggests there is much more that I have yet to experience- as have we all? It amusingly describes well the reason for Paul saying.. But a life without a somersault or two would be rather dull.

I would argue as we read more and pray more somersaults become more frequent? Times of overwhelming joy, resilence, courage, faith etc 2.

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An awakened desire for the truth of the word for me this happened 13 years after conversion 3. A quickened passion for prayer 4.

Conviction of and victory over persistent sin 7. It says in 2 Thes 1: Mostly, these promptings are not spectacular. Of course, we are encouraged to eagerly desire the greater gifts. One of the people who has been a great help to me is my friend Simon Ponsonby. If we believe that Jesus embodied what it was like for one person to walk in close intimate fellowship with the Father, it is only because of the Holy Spirit. Full disclosure, I am a charismatic and my Christian life is so much richer because of this, if we do not walk in the spirit we fulfill the desires of the flesh.

Small example, in the past 18 months I have had three people I know give me the exact prophesy concerning a spiritual gift that I never operated in. This led me to start practicing this gift and it is slowly manifesting itself. I would have never thought that I had this gift and now I am walking out what he has given me. If I was not around people who prophesy, I would not have received this prophesy. I find it very difficult to being led by the spirit, but I am learning to take risks and slowly willing to be humbled when I believe the Holy Spirit is leading me to say something to some one.

Many times I have been spot on and a few times I was way off. I believe tongues are for every believer, there are two types of tongues, one for public interpretation and one for personal edification. The one used publicly edifies the people in the gathering, but a personal tongue edifies the believer. I believe man fears what he can not control or totally understands. There have been many excesses over the gifts, but that is no reason for Christians to abandon or ignore the gifts.

The same could be said of grace, etc..

Is a believer supposed to be able to feel the Holy Spirit?

I think New Frontiers is making a real difference in bringing the person of The Holy Spirit back to where it belongs, into the priority of every believer. If Jesus needed the spirit of God on Him to do all that he did and walk in the spiritual authority that he did, why do we think we could do it with all the power and presence of the spirit in all that we do. If the Holy Spirit is not moving in our lives or our meetings, our lives are not changed, we are left with religion.

Leonard Ravenhill once said: The man who has an experience with God is never at the mercy of someone who has an argument about God. The fullness of the Spirit in my life causes me to become more sensitive to His leading. I might find myself in a conversation and actually giving a prophetic word without realizing it. But openness to the Holy Spirit puts you in situation that God can use you to bring edification to others. I was reflecting on what I wrote and then I realized that I had left out what I consider an important insight in understanding and perhaps a real struggle with the gifts of the Holy Spirit for many Christians is this- they are Gifts-they have nothing to do with character at all.

If Jesus has given you a gift- you have have it regardless of your maturity. Now to become a faithful steward of that gift will take character, humility, courage, perseverance, faithfulness, wisdom, discernment. I have seen people very young in Jesus has these amazing gifts and it is humbling seeing them operate in their gifts if I am not fully aware of the gifts that have been given to me and being faithful with that gift. I believe it is a false dichotomy to seek the giver and not the gifts, or to seek character and not the gifts. Are we settling for too little? I know I am.

Lift up your eyes. Can you see it? Can you feel it? The Holy Spirit is being poured out in powerfully, dramatic ways. How do we respond? More in my family! More in my school! More in my business! More in my thought life! More in my words! More in my ministry!

More in my church! More in my region! More of everything that looks and sounds like Jesus. After all, such is the ultimate fruit of outpouring: Jesus Christ being more clearly revealed and glorified throughout the Earth! He is a conference speaker, Charisma columnist, revivalist and vice president of publishing for Destiny Image. Larry travels and speaks, presenting a seminar on Igniting a Revival Lifestyle. In these sessions, he helps the church unlock dynamic keys from revival history that equip people today to walk in the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit as promised in Scripture and demonstrated throughout history.

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