When I was a child, often my grandmother would say to me, "chile can't you just feel the movement of the Holy Spirit?" then she would laugh and tell me that miracles were about to happen. I did not understand at the time. But now I do! I am feeling the movement of the Holy Spirit in our denomination right now. Do you feel it? Can you share some examples? Rev. Denise Rogers

-- Anonymous, October 16, 2000

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"Feelings" are so subjective therefore, I am cautious about ascribing "feelings" to the movement of the Holy Spirit. The movement of the Holy Spirit is what John speaks of in his gospel, "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou heaareth the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth..." (John 3:8). Perhaps it is a combination of "feeling" and "visualization" expressed inadequately by saying "do you FEEL IT..." Just as we say in that old spiritual of the church, "Every time I FEEL THE SPIRIT moving in my heart, I will pray" (ect) A sonnet my son learned in grade school said,

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2000

My original reply got "short circuited." My sons's sonnet said,

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2000

"Who has seen the wind, neither nor you, but when the wind is passing through the trees bow down their heads." This is analagous to the moving of the Holy Spirit. Like the breeze of the wind, we feel "something within us" when the Holy Spirit is moving and that is subjective; yet, like the action of the trees moving in the wind which we can see, when people respond to the gospel of anointed preaching, and come to Christ in repentenance and faith, that is the objective experience of the Holy Spirit. Following a "spirit filled Ohio Annual conference just concluded with Bishop Webster (3rd District,I came home to preach an "anointed" message as a result and two people came to Christ at the invitation. Yes Rev. Rogers, I can "feel" it and I "see it", praise God.

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2000

Amen. We can't see the wind, but we can see the effects or results of the wind. (In Texas we have a lot of tornados.) And we can see the effect of the Holy Spirit. When He moves, things happen: people are healed, the dead are raised, love is apparent, all the fruits of the Spirit are evident.

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2000