I have witnessed miraculous healing in my own family through the power of prayer. That doesn’t mean that God gave me the gift of healing. He decided to grant our prayer and heal my wife. It was all HIM.
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Don't see anything like the book of Acts today... many talk and teach about it, but no action. Many counterfits, try hards, and wannabees, but no real, solid stuff. Want I do see today is... 1.POWER IN THE GOSPEL. 2. POWER IN PRAYER. 3.POWER IN THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR SANTIFICATION = CHANGED LIVES!
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I'm a cessationist. However, I and others in our camp do believe that miracles and healing can happen. Just not very often.
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Remember that a cessationist still believes in the supernatural and in healings and miracles. Just that the normative giving of the sign gifts has ceased, as they have fulfilled their purpose, and that isn't problematic as the word is able to make us wise unto salvation and is able to make all of us complete for every good work for which we were created in Christ Jesus. By this clear definition I am a cessationist. But I have little to no problem normally with a continuationist view as long as we're properly exegeting scripture and are clear that tongues were not ecstatic utterances, there is no sound scriptural basis for private prayer languages, prophesy is not fortune telling and is to be tested scripturally as there is no second-tier version of prophecy that gets to be fallible. With this in mind though I firmly believe the continuationist mindset starts to fall away under proper scrutiny
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Need a middle option. Im a "Cessationist in denial", "cautious continuationist" or "practical cessationist". I can't make a good enough biblical reason for cessationism so therefore I don't draw that line. Have I seen the real gift or tongues prophecy or healing? No. Can it still be around today? I don't see why not
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Cessationists also believe that God performs miracles today but in His sovereign way. Or that He gives words of wisdom, through His Word.The Times as in Acts are over the Canon is closed, it is no longer necessary in this way spread The Gospel, trust in The Lord do not focus so much on miracles. The greatest miracle happened 2000 years ago. the Lord Jesus who gave His Life on The Cross. So that we are transferred from the kingdom of the dead to the kingdom of the living. Praise Jesus for someone who reads this and needs it give your live to The Lord today ask forgiveness for your sins there is so little time
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The gifts are for today. I’ve experienced them. I can’t deny what I’ve seen and experienced.
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I am of the opinion that the sign gifts of the apostles have ceased, but the miracles of healing and many others are done by the Almighty himself. Though He performs all the miracles, it is a rather rare occurrence.
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There are so many great comments. I’m gonna say that I’m agree with the middle of the road folks. I know that miracles happen, miraculous healings, miraculous interventions etc. I don’t believe in this fake babbling speaking in tongues and their claim that if you don’t do it, then you don’t have the Holy Spirit. I also don’t believe in people that constantly say “God spoke to me” or similar. It doesn’t take a liar to spot one. I know miracles happen as God wills them. I say that “I know” simply because I survived a car accident that there should have been zero chances for survival. I’m retired military U.S.A.F. and have never ever even been issued any speeding tickets or driving citations. It truly was like “Jesus took the wheel” and my arms moved exactly how they needed to avoid a collision at 65 miles an hour with multiple cars stopped over the blind spot on the highway, the left lane miraculously had one open spot for me. I was an electrician, not a race car driver, it saved me and my wife with not a single scratch on my car. I still believe in miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit but like one commenter stated, we need the gospel more than miracles today. I am waiting for the outpouring of the latter rain. We will know for sure when that happens. There will be no denying it. God bless you and keep you all safe. 🙏
1 month ago | 4
God still heals and perform miracles but not through special people anymore or pretenders calling themselves Apostles If it his will then it will happen but not in stadiums or crusades by forced spectacles
1 month ago | 10
I don't lable myself as anything, but a child of God. If people didn't abuse, and distort God's gifts for thier own agenda, self gain, clicks, and views etc., we would probably see more of God's gifts truly being used, but God's not going to use Fakes, and Liers, only to test the ones the so called gifts are being fooled by. God will not be mocked.
1 month ago | 13
I was a hard continuationist but studying the bible and seeing the true nature and purpose of the miraculous gifts in the new testament i became a cessationist. I don’t think for a second that fallible prophecy is biblical prophecy, or the gibberish people call tongues today is actually the gift of tongues. I don’t believe we have authority at the apostles and some others had command miracles in the name of Jesus, but as every other cessationist I know, I believe in the power of prayer and miracles/healings for today, but there is a big distinction between the gift of healing for example and simply praying for healing.
1 month ago | 1
I'm a cessationist, because of the spiritual abuses that go on in charismatic churches (mostly word of faith and NAR), and also because of the bizarre behaviors that go on in charismatic churches. I'm not ashamed of the Gospel, but some of the things that go on in charismatic churches is embarrassing. And the worst thing about it is that discernment is strongly discouraged. They think discernment is listening to only them. Anyone who questions or disagrees with them is falsely accused of blaspheming the Holy Spirit. I know, because I attend an Assemblies of God church with my parents. Even though I'm a grown man, I can't drive, so I go to church with them. But if my circumstances were different, or if I lived somewhere else, I would go to a conservative King James Bible believing Baptist church.
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I believe God can work anyway He sees fit. In 03’ I had teste cancer. I was too afraid to go to the Drs because I could feel a lump and ignored it for over a year. When I got an ultrasound on it, it showed up as cancerous. One of my testes had to be removed. I had this overwhelming feeling everything was going to be ok. My prayer time and time in the Word was so sweet…worship sometimes had me on my face in tears of adoration. They operated and come to find out the cancer was the strongest type of cancer and yet it didn’t spread. The Dr who was a devout atheist said it’s scientifically impossible for it not to have spread. I did have my elders anoint me with oil and pray over me and I believe God healed me. Also coming up from anesthesia the Holy Spirit spoke a verse of Psalm 23 I to my Spirit as clear as day…I’m Reformed to the bone. Unfortunately a lot of Reformed churches are anti anything supernatural but I’d rather have my family under an accurate preaching of Gods Word and them be Cessasionists then attend a Continuationist church is fails in preaching an accurate Gospel. A friend of mine who is also Reformed was raised in a hyper Pentecostal church and said he could never be a cessationist because when he was 9 yrs old he watched a man with one arm that was too short grow right in front of him as the elders prayed for him. I believe him because I know him and his devotion to Christ.
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The HOLY SPIRIT will 100% be with The BELIEVERS untill the Lord Returns. 👆🙏🏼 ✝️ ACTS 2:17 ~ “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dream
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I certainly believe miracles continue through prayer. I’m not sure if I believe that believers are currently demonstrating miracles on behalf of God. But he can do anything he wants!
1 month ago | 1
I believe God still gives the gifts to believers, and I have seen it in person (prophesying for the church to edify, not future guessing WW3 etc...). Although I'm not certain about the sign gifts for being born again. I've never spoken in tongues, etc... My evidence is more so a change in desires, as well as the fruits of the Spirit. Also to add, when I first truly believed I had a thing (I don't think it was quite a vision), but like I could picture and understand what Christ did for me, because of my evil sin. It's almost like in my head I could see the crucifixion taking place, but I don't think it was a vision but more of an understanding.
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I am open to continuationism as long as it refers to how someone like you or Mike Winger defines it, having strict requirements for prophecy etc
1 month ago | 2
Revealing Truth
Sorry for the repost. Are you a Cessationists or a Continuationist? Do you believe that God no longer gives Sign gifts to born again believers. Example: Healing, Miracles, Prophecy, Words of Knowledge. Or do you believe that God still does give sign gifts like the previous listed.
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