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Originally Posted by Ohio
Sorry, but you missed the mark completely. 
The spiritual and eternal value is two-fold. The first is all the time spent in the word of God and in prayer struggling to find something valuable to minister to others. The second is the anointing while speaking for the Lord.
Few times did I ever get kudos from the saints, and almost never did I get my ego messaged. |
Both you and And OBW are correct Ohio... In the locality I was in, there were people who gave off the wall testimonies that had nothing to do with the message or what the Lord had shown them. But because some of them had self esteem problems, by getting up and saying something... even if it was stupid, the person standing up got the attention from the saints.
That said, there were many more times when a person spoke, the anointing of the LORD was very strong on that person and we ALL benefited from their testimony. Sometimes the prayer meetings were awesome. Prayers were built upon prayers...like stacked up.
This now brings me to talk about a movie that came out in 1989 called '
Glory'. It was about the civil war and a young white yankee captain recruited black men to join the union. They were treated badly at first but the captain (Matthew Broderick) did all he could to get them shoes and clothes and supplies they needed that were initially not given to them.
Towards the end of the movie, they are going to go to battle and their chances of winning that battle are slim to none. The camera now focuses on the black
men gathered around in a tent or around a campfire. It's sort of quiet..and then one begins to speak the Word of God. Everyone agrees. It is followed by some humming and now someone else speaks another Word...says a prayer... "YES! UH -HUH"... more humming/singing.. There was such spiritual unity.
Honestly folks... it so reminded me of our testimonies in the LC. Check out the movie. It is heart wrenching but well worth watching.
Blessings everyone... we all need them!
Carol