Meaning of Slain in the Spirit In some charismatic denominations, when a preacher places a hand on someone, often the forehead, the person falls backwards or collapses. Some other main arguments on this side would state: - The power of God can be transferred via touch Acts , Mark Can We Pray to the Holy Spirit?
What Is the Role of the Holy Spirit? Today on Christianity. About Christianity. All rights reserved. I think I had the conscience thought that I had been sitting in the audience, undergoing a spiritual battle and I had decided to call out God. I had decided to ascertain if this Slain in the Spirit thing was real or fake and it was my intention to expose the fake… if it was fake. With that realization, I knew I had to get up so as to expose the lie…… I could not move.
I was paralyzed! Do not ever doubt me. With the above comments being made to me, by whom I believe from God, the floodgates opened. I thought I had been crying profusely before, but I was now crying more and harder than I had ever before or since cried. I began praising Jesus and thanking Jesus.
I was speaking out loud and praising Jesus and thanking Him. I do not have any idea how long I was on the ground in this state but I continued to cry and praise the Lord until I again heard God speak to me. Again, I was lost in emotion and praise and initially was not sure I had heard anything but was aware that I may have heard something. The voice spoke again and gave me the same message…. Realizing I was being told to get up, I tried to move and to my amazement, I simply stopped crying and got up.
I remember saying something like thank you and again being told never to doubt God. I walked back to my seat, emotionally spent. I was tired, but very much at peace and very much happy. While I have no idea how long I was on the floor, those with me at the time said I was on the floor times longer than anyone else. The average amount of time I recall those who were Slain in the Spirit lying on the floor was from a minimun of about minutes to a maximum of about minutes.
I have no doubt God was trying to give me a message that He is real, does exist, created me and has power and authority over me. While my relationship over the years has at times been rebellious, I have never doubted I am saved by and through the blood of Jesus. I was Slain in the Spirit only the one time… but that was God. He initially went up to try and disprove this experience. I know a lot of people think that some Christians are under the power of suggestion when they go up to receive this kind of supernatural experience from the Lord.
But this man had just the opposite attitude. He was going to try and disprove it if nothing would have happened to him. Then notice what happens next. Before he actually receives this manifestation from the Lord, he starts to profusely cry.
He had no reason to all of a sudden start crying. I believe the intense crying he was experiencing was coming direct from the Holy Spirit. I believe the Holy Spirit was moving on this man to help prepare him to receive this holy experience from the Lord. Then notice what God does next after he actually gets slain by the Holy Spirit.
He literally could not move an inch as he was lying under the power of the Holy Spirit, once more proving to him that he was really having this supernatural experience from the Lord. And last but not least, notice the fruit it ended up producing in this man. He has never forgotten this incredible experience many years later and even to this day, he still wells up in tears just recalling everything that had occurred to him that day.
This supernatural experience also help prove to him that our God really does exist and that He does truly love all of us. In my opinion, I believe this man had a true, holy, supernatural experience with the Lord that day by the fruit it ended up producing in him, and the fact that he was not under any type of suggestion when he initially went up there to see if this experience was the real thing or not.
I just got slain in the spirit this morning after getting off the couch for prayer. I fell right on my back. I tried to resist too and I had to stretch my arms back to prevent my head from hitting the ground hard.
Everything almost went black but I was aware the while time. And then I heard static noise for a minute. As a teenager I seen people slain in the spirit but honestly thought it was fake or at times thought what was wrong with me because it didn't happen to me. Then at the age of 42 we were having a revival at church and I was praising the Lord with so much joy. I went up to the front when the preacher asked for anyone who wants prayer.
I am typically a shy person but a almost knocked down my friend's son who had went with me to the service. I remember telling him, "move, move". When it was my turn I remember the preacher saying, "He is here.
I could feel the presence. I closed my eyes and lifted my hands then all of the sudden all strength left my body. I opened my eyes and it was like I had tunnel vision or something. I could see the preacher and the gentleman beside him but they appeared far off even though they were right in front of me.
I wanted to stop myself from falling and wanting to reach out but I couldn't. I remember laying down and I heard the voices of women saying, "She's blessed" and their hand rubbing my forehead. I got up and was very confused for days wondering what happened to me. I asked the ladies at church if they had rubbed my forehead but they could not remember. I can say my experience was real. I have never felt like before or since. I had no control whatsoever. I also was the only one that night who was slain in the spirit.
I did not know it was going to happen and was not expecting it happen. I understand it was God's presence. On many occasions I have been slain in the spirit and I have also prayed and others have received the spirit.
Over zealous ministers who try to push you over and who are heavy handed I have kept clear off. While sitting in your seat wondering whether to go forward for ministry take notice what is going on. In the fellowship I belonged to prayed and quite often people were slain,often experienced the drunkenness in the spirit and lots of laughter.
The word of knowledge was a gift by which the Holy Spirit enabled a first-century believer to know and to instruct the assembly in truth now recorded in the New Testament. It is the ability to grasp the truth about a present situation; seeing, knowing and understanding as the Holy Spirit sees, knows, and understands. Let's try to imagine for a moment the scene in the gathering of the Church.
The body had gathered for worship and the proclamation of the Word. At some particular time, Ananias came before Peter with a sack of money, which he had set aside, and presents to him as the full proceeds of the sale of his property. We have already seen that Barnabas had done this.
Evidently Ananias had stated that he was going to give all of his proceeds to the Church, so when he approached Peter, it was under the guise of giving a magnanimous gift. The smile on his face was suddenly dismissed when Peter said:. Now that must have been the shock of all shocks. That poor guy! He came up there waiting for the approval of the people.
But instead, Peter looked sternly at him and informed him that what he was doing was nothing but the act of Satan. The ultimate source of this deception was Satan. That must have been news to Ananias, who thought this was entirely his idea with the collaboration of Sapphira, of course.
Peter affirmed the right of private property. The practice of the Church was not communism, for each individual owned his possessions. Ananias and all of the other saints, by inference had complete freedom to use his property any way he chose. He could have kept it, or sold it, without sin. And even when he sold it, he was just as free in the use of the proceeds obtained from the sale.
He could have kept it all or any part of it. His sin was not in the amount of money he gave or in the fact that he kept some of it back. His sin was that he lied so that it would appear that he gave all of the money, when he did not.
We must understand that the Holy Spirit is a Person. Only a person can be lied to or put to the test. Some have the mistaken notion that the Holy Spirit is merely a "force" or a "power" that works in people's lives.
But Peter unmistakably shows that He is a Person. And as a Person, He is involved in relationships with other persons. After stating that Ananias lied to the Holy Spirit, Peter goes on in the next verse to say, "You have not lied to men, but to God" -thus demonstrating by the use of this parallelism that the Holy Spirit is "God.
They are one in substance, in power, and in eternity. Each is fully God, and yet the Godhead is one and indivisible If the Holy Spirit is not God, then to pray to Him, to depend upon Him, to trust in Him, to ask for His power would constitute the highest form of idolatry! The fact of the Spirit's deity lays the groundwork for the truth that the Church is a "habitation of the Spirit. That word "dwelling" means: "a place of settling down" or "a habitation.
So Peter, instead of saying, "Great job, Ananias, thanks for the money, we could sure use it to help the poor"; he says, "Ananias why are you lying to God. Instead of receiving praise for his financial gift, Ananias drops dead on the spot.
At this time we are going to take an offering. Will you men please pass the box. Just kidding! Peter was probably more surprised than anyone when Ananias fell down dead! There is no evidence that Peter had any will of his own in this matter. Imagine how Peter must have felt. How would you feel if you confronted someone about their sin, and they dropped dead? Half of the congregation is probably thinking: Wow, Peter, you killed the poor man.
This reminds me of the time I was condemned for stopping a homeless guy who interrupted our worship service and was a possible threat; but this guy was giving money, and Peter has him killed. What exactly happened in medical terms, we do not know. The text just says, "Ananias fell down and breathed his last.
He died by a judicial act of God's judgement. As a matter of fact, the phrase "breathed his last," which comes from the Greek word ekpsucho , occurs only where God strikes someone in judgment v.
Before we look at that story, let me say this: When you put the Bible into the context where God put it, there's stuff in it that you can't even imagine. In the Eastern mind, names are used as metaphors. In Judges we see the story of Sisera and Jael. Sisera is the commander of the pagan army, which Deborah and Barak had just defeated.
Sisera is running for his life, and he comes to the tent of Jael:. Jael, or Ya-el in Hebrew, means: "Yahweh is God. Then what happens? She puts a tent peg through his head. Do you know what the name Sisera means? It means: "snake.
Jael, Yahweh is God, killed Sisera the snake. Here we see the serpent's head crushed by Yahweh. If Ananias and Sapphira had sold their land and had told the apostles, "We feel led to give half to the church," it would not have been a problem.
But they lied. How many times have we acted deceptively because we wanted others to think we were more spiritual than we really were? Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
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