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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
And these poor folks will never get to know the POWER of the Anointing in their lives because they don't know the Ways of the Lord. They are beating the air with their prayers and their prayers are never reaching the Throne Room.
They don't spend time in His Presence...where there is fullness of Joy...and that does NOT mean..lots of noise and jumping up and down. Quite the opposite in fact.
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I found this statement interesting for a couple of reasons. First, as I recall a previous conversation, you were arguing against brother Lee for openly criticizing other believers, for calling them poor, blind, etc. How is your implied assertion here that "these poor folks" who never know the power of the anointing, who are "beating the air with their prayers" any less critical? How are you to know whether one believer's prayers are reaching the throne and another's are not, strictly based upon their knowledge of the anointing? See, as I pointed out in the thread in which we discussed the issue, neither Nee or Nee are any different in reality in their criticism of other believers, than any other ministry, or, in fact, person.
Second, your claim is that, unless a believer "knows the anointing" (The way of the Lord), they do not spend time in His presence. This is an enormous charge in and of itself, and one I wish for you to clarify. However, with regard to "fullness of Joy," where are you finding that "fullness of Joy" is the opposite of jumping up and down? What, then, is the fullness of Joy, and how should we respond to an infilling of joy from God?
I'm thinking of a son who arrives back home from Iraq after a number of years, his family - perhaps his mother or his wife or his children - waiting for him on the tarmac. As the son approaches his family they are so filled with joy that they begin to jump up and down with their arms outstretched toward him. As he approaches their embrace there are tears and exited talking, even some shouting as their joy bubbles over. Now, that is a natural kind of joy, and a natural reaction to that kind of joy. It seems to me that, while some people may experience joy as a kind of "peaceful revelation," for the most part joy is experienced and reacted to in a multitude of ways, including jumping up and down.