Wow no I've never had that experience Vinny that is cool.  Our God is surely
an awesome God.

Lelia


----- Original Message -----
From: "vinny samarco" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: Something I heard...........


> Hi Helen,
> I'm not quite sure I understand this.  pPlease clarify--I'm a little dense
> tonight.
> Are you saying that our spirit already knows the word, but our mind has to
> know it?  I guess that's true.  For most of the time, if you haven't read
> the book well, you can't expect God to drop scriptures into your mind,
> especially if you have been somewhat lazy like me.
> I'll give you an example of something that happened to me right after I
> became a Christian many years ago.
> A friend at that time wanted me to go on a kind of crazy trip where we
would
> play and sing and minister to various people.  That would be okay, but I
was
> brand new, and had nothing to minister but my enthusiasm for the Lord.
> I was under age, and my mom told me I couldn't go.  Well, of course, I
> thought at that time that I was God's gift to the world, and He couldn't
do
> anything without me.  But I did seriously pray about it and give it to the
> Lord.
> So one day I kept hearing the words in my spirit, " read Luke 2.  Read
Luke
> 2.  Now, I didn't know Luke 2, from Habakkuk3, so I read it.
> The Portion of that chapter that the Lord gave me was the part where Jesus
> was in the temple, and his parents were looking for them, and they didn't
> understand what he meant by "I must be about my father's business"  Then
it
> said that He was subject unto them (meaning  his parents.)  So I know that
> the Lord didn't want me to go, and that I must be subject to my mom,
though
> she was not a believer.
> Afterwards, I knew that my mom had been right, and that the wisdom of the
> Lord was for me not to go at that time.
>
> So, have any of you had God tell you a portion of Scripture to read, even
> when you didn't know anything about it?
> As I have grown through the years, however, I find that the Lord is not
> going to just throw the Word into mind, if I have been to lazy in reading
> it.
> God bless.
> Vinny
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Helen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 11:19 AM
> Subject: Something I heard...........
>
>
> > "You who are indwelt by the Spirit of God *know* the Bible!!!  So now
what
> > you need to do is teach it to your *mind*.  Jesus said that it is the
> Words
> > He speaks to us that are spirit and life.  By His Spirit he speaks, we
say
> > to ourselves, hmmmmmm, and then search the Bible till we find it.  "Oh,
so
> > that's what He meant!!", we say to ourselves."
> >
> > Helen
> >
>