tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318245630918980101.post3700551824141859697..comments2023-11-08T22:57:40.237-05:00Comments on OUT OF THE BOX: "My preacher is so annointed he pure foams at the mouth!"Billy Longhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739420756402743057noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318245630918980101.post-75022632892877204972012-05-05T19:33:51.392-04:002012-05-05T19:33:51.392-04:00I don't know why part of my comments showed up...I don't know why part of my comments showed up twice. I wrote the first one, then went back and added to it. I guess I posted the first one without realizing it. :-)Lowellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318245630918980101.post-83209685842391346912012-05-05T12:58:33.113-04:002012-05-05T12:58:33.113-04:00Another excellent, very meaningful comment - one t...Another excellent, very meaningful comment - one that could be heeded here in Church-Twon USA. Honestly, Jane and I are so tired of searching for a home church. Tulsa has such a competitive environment, every church feels it necessary that they have more miracles, more anointing and of the spectacular than the church down the block. Seems contrary to the whole notion that the point of effective, anionted ministry is to draw attention to Jesus, not self. Do you remember the lady who rose suddenly in the service to declare, "Yea verily, I say unto thee be not askeert! I get askeert Myself from time to time, but be not askeert!" In one of John Wesley's journals he records a rather wild meeting at Aldersgate one night. While other people were squalking and shaking and rolling around, one man charged the altar "like a raging bull," roaring and shouting and screaming. That could be a little distracting, but we know God used J.W.'s ministry very powerfully and, although he did nothing consciously to excite such an outcry, he also didn't think it necessary to suppress it. In a quieter vein, do you remember a young guy who once literally heard God tell him, "You are going to give Billy and Skipper a 12-string guitar as a wedding gift."? Not, I'm sending you into missions, I have a prophecy I want you to deliver to the church, but a guitar. Go figger.Lowellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318245630918980101.post-79107253679294984652012-05-05T11:32:12.146-04:002012-05-05T11:32:12.146-04:00Do you remember the lady who rose suddenly to proc...Do you remember the lady who rose suddenly to proclaim, "Yea verily, I say unto thee - be not askeert! I get askeert myself now and them but ye be not askeert!". Did you ever read any of J. Wesley's journals of his service at Aldersgate? Claims people were running full speed to the altar screaming like bulls, others were shaking and carrying on - I didn't know Wesley was a Pentecostal!". I also remember once when God spoke very quietly and calmly to a young college student, "You're going to give Billy and Skipper a 12-string guitar as a wedding present."Lowellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318245630918980101.post-12868636213348250982010-09-13T18:34:26.504-04:002010-09-13T18:34:26.504-04:00Hi Billy,
I just caught up with your posts throug...Hi Billy, <br />I just caught up with your posts through August. GREAT stuff. I loved the encounter with the professor! With regard to your latest, a similar analogy could be used with regard to prayer . . . the silent meditative type vs. the exuberant, animated type (which I tend to be!). Does God hear one more than the other? I think not!<br />Blessings,<br />RandyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318245630918980101.post-23069421491176982722010-09-13T18:27:34.785-04:002010-09-13T18:27:34.785-04:00Just got your blog this morning and as usual, I re...Just got your blog this morning and as usual, I really enjoyed it. You have such a way of making things so simple and doing it in such a non-pretentious way. I love the way you eschew obsfucation and say things in such a way that even I can understand.<br />Do you think if you laid hands on my head and said bless him Lord, that my hair might grow back? That was an amazing story about the little boys healing. Thanks for keeping me on your blog list. Love you guys. <br />TimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318245630918980101.post-14525247166836062772010-09-12T08:49:47.638-04:002010-09-12T08:49:47.638-04:00Thanks Billy. This has been encouraging and helpfu...Thanks Billy. This has been encouraging and helpful.Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318245630918980101.post-32139280137170056342010-09-11T21:40:20.868-04:002010-09-11T21:40:20.868-04:00Good reading Billy and good encouragement. You an...Good reading Billy and good encouragement. You and I because of our "religious" backgrounds have certainly seen all kinds of manifestations of someone who was or claimed to be led of the Spirit. <br />TimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318245630918980101.post-61735257036250514422010-09-11T21:39:03.745-04:002010-09-11T21:39:03.745-04:00I love that. What a liberating truth to comprehend...I love that. What a liberating truth to comprehend that all it takes is simple devotion to Jesus Christ and authenticity -- not some high falutin' eloquence or profundity, but ALSO not avoiding eloquence and profundity in order to dumb the gospel down for the "common man" if being eloquent or profound is the real you. <br />LowellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com