Been slain in the Spirit????



If so.....share if you like.....for those that don't know what it is.


Being slain in the Spirit is a term related to the Charismatic movement and Pentecostalism which describes a religious phenomenon in which a person enters a state with loss of all motor control over their body and falls to the floor during an event perceived as a personal encounter with God's glory power, usually associated with occasions of public prayer ministry when the laying on of hands is practiced.

Being slain in the Spirit occurs in many contemporary Charismatic or Pentecostal church meetings. It was also extremely common in early American (late eighteenth-century) Methodism, particularly at camp meetings and love feasts. Many refer to the phenomenon as "falling under the Spirit's power", "falling before the Lord" or "resting in the Spirit".




I have experienced it when I was a baby Christian, and now when the Lord is with me....the tears just stream down my face...I am not crying and I am not sad....they are happy tears....Which at first everyone in church was always saying, "Debbie are you ok." and I would turn and say oh yea Happy Tears from the Lord......

Ive seen people doing that stuff all my life. I grew up in a Holiness church ( and school).

Hey mirror....that wasn't the question....the question was has it happen to you? giggle love ya mirror......when are you going to come back and play in the match thread....

i certainly won't discount that it happens and it legit..but the one experience I had was praying for me with some oil used. blood came to the surface and felt a hot flash...at first i was thinking whoa...but after i checked it out...the oil used causes that in everyone is touches.

i believe that what you have said can happen...it just hasn't happened with me

thats totally fair enough yellowrose

Not by another's hands...

None-the-less...

Indescribable joy and peace...

As if one's muscles are completely intoxicated, while being completely not.

Remarkably aware (afterwards) to that which had been accepted as truth within me...

It began the removal of that which no longer fit...

It fueled the desire to be the best that I could be...

An enlightening experience, to say the least...

The recognition that there is more... to say the most...

Beautifully said CS.......nothing like it........the feeling od total calm, peace and that for once everything alright with the world....thanks for sharing.

Beautifully said CS.......nothing like it........the feeling od total calm, peace and that for once everything alright with the world....thanks for sharing.

Cool! That is what happened to me the morning after I gave my life to God! Not sure why it was the next morning but I asked for a sign...... just didn't say when.
There was absolutely NO reason to feel that way. My life was in the pit but I had this overwhelming sense of peace. Hard to describe.

The scriptures have many examples of worship to Yahweh. You will not find anyone slain in Yahweh's spirit. Read Isa 28 16 19

I once passed out in church because too many of my brain cells died while listening to a ridiculous sermon based on gross misinterpretation of scripture.

Does that count?

never here.
and with all due respect to people who have experienced it. I'm not quite sure of the plaussability of such thing.
What I'm saying is that is possible that some people have experienced it, but I know that some churches use that in order to impress people and gain followers, so I have my doubts.
I have had strong spiritual experiences, but not of that kind.

Again with all due respect.

Yes.....I have experienced this, Feral.....but not everytime hands are layed on me....
just when the annointing is moving in a powerful way...and I am not blocking or holding back.
But sometimes, I feel nothing when hands are layed on me.
One Can't always go by feelings, you know.


Basically, the falling out, or being slain in the spirit, is a result of being YIELDED to the Holy Spirit.... it is allowing oneself to fully receive what God wants to do in one's life..no holding back....trusting and believing, and yielded ...just like a child.

About the happy tears...that is becasue of God's love and power moving under the annointing.....tears can't help but fall in God's Presence....yes....happy tears will fall.

But I noticed sometimes , we can also block the flow....especially by harboring anger or hurt or resentment or bitternes or unforgivness or sin in our lives.

But when we ask God to clean up and purify our hearts, He will.....and then the Holy Spirit is able to come in and have His way once more ,without any blockages(caused when we harbor anger ,resentment, hate, unforgivness,bitterness, just to name a few).

When the Holy Spirit is allowed to flow, the tears can't help but fall ...but they are happy tears....
cause there is just something about standing in God's Awesome Presence....

I wonder how it will be..when one day ....we stand forever in His Presence.

Like that song goes...
"I Can Only Imagine"..... ....

Well no one was trying to impress me and I went down like a 50 ton rock......The feeling is like none I could even put into words....And when the Lord started with me and the tears I had no control were not talking went eyes were talking pouring down my face tears....again I can't express the feelings that would do it justice....I just know that now I cherish the moments it happens and they are happy tears because the Lord is with me.

Thank you

As most know on this forum, I do not agree with most thought that is attributed to Christianity...

However...

As sure as I am sitting here right... something else had taken all motor control, and cognitive functioning away from this man on that day... and I wanted it more than anything... it was not at anothers hands...

There is more than we can comprehend...

Ok

why not...

When the Holy Spirit hit me it was like two quarts of whiskey and fire were dumped into me all at once.

But I didn't fall...I had to hold the wall up while laughing my head off foe quite a few minutes.

I was in my bathroom at home, all alone. I had been water baptised not many days passed and was feeling dumb as a rock ever since.

This day went on to be a three year long trek of laughing and smiling and walking on clouds. It took that long to get used to it. It is still in me, and from time to time it maginifies itself upon my person.

But always with me.

I didn't know what it was for a couple of months. But I now had a hunger for righteousness. A thirst for God. Inquenchable desire to be clean.

But that day, and ever since, there is the presence and knowledge of God within me. Not a second passes that I am not aware of just God...just here....just being.....all the time.

Not a thought, not a word, not anything can be done without this inherent present awareness in me.

asleep....awake.....no matter.....it is.

That is only the beginning of it.

But that's all that is being asked here and shared here.

I am glad I could stand in it.


It was truly awesome. I am glad I also had a wall to lean on too!!!

I've been hit by some powerful stuff in my youth, but nothing like this.

That was late Feb or early March, 1987.

I'm not really sure if I have or not.

I have had many intense spiritual encounters with the Lord though. I mean extermely spiritual experiences, like acid trips, but not from drugs or anything.

Well if you weren't on drugs then I would say you were slain in the spirit for sure......It's better then any drug.