I am starting to get curious about what happened to me that day at the beach where suddenly everything got aligned in my spirit.
I've just been told in a disctussion that this cannot happen... it does NOT happen.... God's speaks through His Word only... and I'm good with that... however...
I know that something supernatural happened to me... because of the CHANGE in me. It was NOTHING I had done. Decades of depression fell off of me INSTANTLY.... I felt the intense LOVE of GOD over me in such a profound way that it took weeks for me to come down to earth. I was filled with over flowing JOY and given a child-like wonder of things. it was not something I asked for... or expected....and the beach was certainly NOT a new experience either because I live right next to it and had been to it many times before. So.... what was that??? I cannot say it was NOTHING because for these last three years... I have not tasted one drop of depression since that day. I am going on year 3 of absolute JOY... and I went DECADES with nothing... so what was that??? I believe GOD is personal... and I do believe His mercies are tender. I also believe HE came in person to visit me that day... although I heard nothing... saw nothing.... but I FELT EVERYTHING.
I absolutely agree with the fact that there are no prophets in this day and age.... I'm not sure what the role of an Apostle is?? I thought there were only 12 of them in Jesus' time so what on earth is a modern day Apostle?? HA.
Nobody on this earth is qualified to demand what God does or does not do apart from what is stated in His word to us. He cannot contradict Himself (violate the law of non-contradiction), He does not lie, He does not lead anyone to sin nor tempt anyone to sin, and He does not change (He is not fickle, such as changing His mind on perverse sins and such). What the Lord may have done in your heart and mind on that beach, that's between you and Him. He alone is your Lord. He makes revelation and instruction to those of His own choosing, and anyone who would say otherwise, apart from stating that it will never contradict the written word, is speaking from their own authority.
For proof of this, we have the very word of God:
1 John 2:26-27
26 These [things] have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
So, yes. The Spirit of the Lord is indeed actively speaking into the lives of ALL who simply ask. To say otherwise is to contradict the scriptures. Relationship must involve some form of communication/interaction in the lives of those involved.
MM