This church building will disappear one day. When you were born again, the life and nature of God came into you. It is from a man aged forty-nine -- probably thousands of unpretending Christians would write an almost identical account. ", Here is still another case, the writer being a man aged twenty-seven, in which the experience, probably almost as characteristic, is less vividly described: --, "I have on a number of occasions felt that I had enjoyed a period of intimate communion with the divine. Such objects may be present to our senses, or they may be present only to our thought. Your whole subconscious life, your impulses, your faiths, your needs, your divinations, have prepared the premises, of which your consciousness now feels the weight of the result; and something in you absolutely knows that that result must be truer than any logic-chopping rationalistic talk, however clever, that may contradict it. Not one. It is in this that I find my justification for saying that I have enjoyed communication with God. (Example: "I have had much comfort lately in meditating on the passages which show the personality of the Holy Ghost, and his distinctness from the Father and the Son. I Cor 3:3 (Amp) b. Yet it may upon occasion do so; and the same correspondent informs me that at more than one other conjuncture he had the sense of presence developed with equal intensity and abruptness, only then it was filled with a quality of joy. C. You must know that you are now in the kingdom of God and the privileges and power of that kingdom are yours. That life is your position — a holy, righteous son. God functions in both parts of this one real existence. . (Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance, London, 1885, pp. But, those statements are incorrect. --, "There are times when I seem to stand in his very presence, to talk with him. c. All of your help, provision, and power in this life comes from that unseen realm. 527.) I turned this way and that in the darkness, and groped mentally for the familiar sense of that higher mind of my mind which had always seemed to be close at hand as it were, closing the passage, and yielding support, but there was no electric current. I spoke of the convincingness of these feelings of reality, and I must dwell a moment longer on that point. This means we can speak of the gospel with power. ", I subjoin some more examples from writers of different ages and sexes. The air seemed to waver to and fro with the presence of Something I knew not what. Rom 10:9,10–This is how God works in our lives. 4. And then again I feel as if I could sit beside him, and put my arms around him, kiss him, etc. Our trip to and through this magnificent cave made me think about all unseen realities, especially God and His kingdom. This absolute determinability of our mind by abstractions is one of the cardinal facts in our human constitution. My most assuring evidence of his existence is deeply rooted in that hour of vision, in the memory of that supreme experience, and in the conviction, gained from reading and reflection, that something the same has come to all who have found God. But we must now settle our scores more carefully with this whole optimistic way of thinking. b. I Tim 1:17; Heb 11:3 b. I cannot tell you what this revelation was. b. Every born again child of God has the privilege and the right to ask the Holy Spirit to come into Him. Isa 53:3-5;10 b. Let me give you an example of this, before I pass to the objects with whose presence religion is more peculiarly concerned. I felt also at the same time a strong feeling of superstitious dread, as if something strange and fearful were about to happen." a. 6. I have extracted it from an account given me by a scientific man of my acquaintance, of his religious life. 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