From: dht@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (David - Vision Mailing List)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Join the Vision mailing list.  Vision on Fear of God.
Date: 15 Apr 92 08:06:25 GMT
Organization: Electronic and Electrical Engineering - University of Melbourne

Name:  Divine Visions and Spiritual Gifts mailing list

Aim:   a)  to Praise the Name of God
       b)  to strengthen our Faith

Topics that are discussed:

       a)  Divine Visions that Christians have
       b)  Divine Dreams
       c)  Experiences of Spiritual Gifts (as in Corithians)
       d)  other Spiritual Experiences which bear good fruits
       e)  and general or specific discussions of any of the above
       f)  and other related topics

This mailing list is open for all to join.  You do not need to be blessed
with Visions or Gifts to participate.  Many readers of the list are
"silent", i.e. they sit in and listen and may throw in some random
comments when they wish.

You are most welcomed to join in.  You simply have to send me your
e-mail address, and I will put you on.  There has been times that
there are messed up and confusions on the adminstration and running
of the list, but most [network] problems are solved.

{ send to:  dht@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au }

Rules:

a) No flames allowed.  I would like to see Christian Love observed on
   this list; flames are usually destructive and cause others to become
   defensive, which is harmful to a list which discuss [sometimes]
   personal sharings; thus flames will either be deleted or edited.

b) No attack on other denominations.  The list consists of a good mix
   of Catholics, Lutherans, Other Protestants, and Orthodox.  And
   except for a few minor isolated incidents, all denominations seem
   to be able to work together to praise the Name of God, and I hope
   it will stay that way.

c) Since I started this list, there hasn't been much problem at all,
   and I was able to send out almost all articles that readers submitted.
   Thus, there aren't really any other rules associated with it.  It's
   a pretty free mailing list with minimum moderation.

I've appended an sample newsletter (but bear in mind, topic of discussions
can change suddenly and change dramatically sometimes... 8^), and so to
give you some idea of what we discuss.

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Vision on Fear of God
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I had this Vision early January 1991, when I was at Washington........ that
was one of the most exciting period of my life, actually, I might go as far
as one of the best times of my life.......anyway, the Vision.

I've always wondered what the Bible means by the fear of God, when at the
same time, mentions we should not fear at all.  I was especially confused
because I imagined God to be a kind and warm and caring God, and that there
is *nothing* to fear about.......so I prayed and prayed and prayed that God
will teach me how to fear Him.  And He sent me one of the most spectacular
Vision I've yet seen.

I was at Longview, Washington staying at a friend's place.  That night, he
went out to make a long distance phone call, so I stayed at his place by
myself.  He had a big cross in his apartment (he's a Baptist, by the way 8^),
and when I was doing some reading, I looked at the Cross, and I had a very
strong feeling that the Holy Spirit is ready to send me a Vision.......and
then, I was a very trusting Christian, but I said to God, I'll trust myself
to You completely, I am ready if You really want to send me a Vision.

As soon as I prayed that, I started hearing great noise around, they just
kept on getting louder and louder... I started to experience some fear,
fear of uncertainty, fear of the great power (which induced the noise).
The noise is like a huge trumpet being sounded.  It was *really* great
in magnitude.  I started to feel that God is coming, and that I'm becoming
powerless (I remember now, it was also this Vision which really inspired
me to post my first Vision post on soc.religin.christian, but anyway),
and I started to tremble in fear of the greatness of what is to come...
that was my *first* taste of the Great Infinte Power of God, but more is
to come.

There I was, sitting/lying on the coash, feeling more and more powerless,
not to mention, I was already like dead (a bit like what John described
in Revelation), and I felt even more dead, totally powerful, facing God
*alone*.  But, God didn't let me face Him alone, as anyone who has faced
God will die (due to the Power of God).  I saw Jesus.  Jesus surrounded
me from the top, like an umbrella, protecting.  Then, I saw God coming,
like a great power in the form of clouds and lightnings, the noise got
even stronger, and I am definitely absolutedly *sure* that if Jesus
wasn't there, I would've been killed by God's great power.  But,
obviously Jesus was protecting me.  I feared, I feared the Greatness
of God, the Wrath of God (I wasn't very *right with God* at that stage
of my life), I was totally amazed in the Great Power and Wonder of God
the Almighty, even since, I have a different view of the Greatness of
God, much greater than what I've always imagined.  And I also realized
that God is angry because of all my sins.

After God passed through my top, the Vision finished.

The consequences?

1) whenever I sin from that point onwards, I will think about the Wrath of
   God, and how great it is; and many times, I stop because of that!!!

2) I realized the Greatness of God is much greater than any human imagination,
   so instead of putting a boundary on God, I took a different view of Him,
   I now see Him as *infinite* (I mean, I knew He was infinite before, but
   never really *see* it that way, know what I mean?); and that increased
   my Faith so much, it was unbelievable.... because now, I can pray to Him,
   and trust Him with much greater things, because I see Him as super-great.

3) I realized God/Jesus Christ will never abandan me.  I was so much apart
   from God, that I started to get worried that God has given me up because
   of all my sins; but God never gave me up, He can't, I've given my life
   to Him, and He took me to USA, and so many things happened, and after
   that incident, I *know* for sure that He will *NEVER* give me up.

4) God has answered my prayer to understand the Fear of God, i.e. to amaze
   in His Greatness.  Praise be God forever.

5) And also, after that, I don't *dare* going against His Will.  If I know
   that something is His Will, my Fear of His Great Power will stop me from
   going against Him.  I mean, for e.g., now, I'm typing this in, even
   though I really haven't got the time to do so, this is probably one of
   the busiest time of my life; but since I think it might be His Will that
   I should share this with you, so, I stayed and typed this in.

Basically that Vision has changed that point of my life, turned me around
from sin, and spent up my Spiritual Growth soooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!

So, the fear of God is not only fearing His great Wrath, but amaze in His
infinite Power, so that you can trust Him much more.............

Praise be God for that Vision forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dave

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