7761	Forums / Theology Forum / Operating In The Gifts...	on: March 07, 2007, 05:04:51 AM
.Spoken like a true Frozen Chosen, mbG. I keep hearing, \" No emotionals,\" \"No sentimentalisms: I walk through the garden alone ...\"etc., \"Don't go by feelings,\" \"Don't rely on experience.\" I haven't been able to get a straight answer about how one can be in love and live with Jesus (or anyone else) and not have any 'experience, feeling, sentiment, emotion.' Reminds me of an old timey movie \"Return of the Zombies.\" . .Sorry, mbG, it wasn't a curb on excitement, it was instruction to eliminate (1) cliques and idolatry (\"I am of Calvin,\" \"I am of Arminius,\" etc), (2) resentments and animosity toward other members of the Body, (3) chaos and disorder, (4) failure to be in submission to one another, etc. If i am reading you rite, this is the longing of the heart for the saint who is in the valley time. I agree with you these times are very dry. When was the last time you saw the real manifestation of the of the Spirit like the day of Pentecost. When the cloven tongues of fire came down on each of the crowd? And then the excitement like they were drunk. Most of the modern day if not all is just theatrics. What follows is not devotion but idolatry.