Subject: Is being "slain in the spirit" biblical? |
Bible Note: For years I too was skeptical of "being slain in the Spirit" until I saw it happen to my little son, at the time only 5 years. My wife and I were attending a small chuch that was just getting started and met in a recreation room of some apartments. My son, who was playing mainly in the playground outside the room where we were meeting had a minor ailment that my wife wanted the minister to pray about. So, after the service was over my son was brought into the room where the minister put his hands on my son's head and offered a simple prayer that God would touch my little son. To my surprise and the surprise of the whole congregation, he dropped like he had been hit on the head. He lay unconscious on the floor with a sweet contented smile on his face for about twenty minutes. At no time had he received the suggestion that he should fall when the minister prayed for him. No other person was being prayed at the same time. He mimicked no other person. I therefore had to conclude that despite my skepticism being "slain in the Spirit" is a valid Christian experience. Like all other Chrisitan experience this experience may not always be of God. This does not of course invalidate this experience. Since then in reading of many famous Christians ministeries and revivals ( John Wesley, George Whitefield, Charles Finney and the famous Cane Ridge revival come to mind ) the experience of being "slain in the Spirit" was not uncommon. |