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Groaning in the Spirit
his next manifestation that is possible to receive from God
through the Holy Spirit may be
the one that may considered to be the most unpleasant. To have
God manifest His love, joy
and peace to you through the Holy Spirit are very nice and
pleasant manifestations to receive
from the Lord. However, when God decides to manifest His sadness
or His pain to you, thiscan be very uncomfortable.
Some of you have already had these sadness manifestations from
the Holy Spirit. This is
where God will manifest His sadness, not your sadness, on a
particular issue that you may be
dealing with.
gain, the way that you !now that it is His sadness and not your
own sadness, is that His
sadness is much deeper and much more intense than your own
natural sadness. fter you
receive a few of these sadness manifestations, you can usually
become "uite adept in
discerning when these manifestations are coming in from the Lord
and when they are just
coming in from your own natural emotions.
However, this next manifestation # groaning in the Spirit # is
not as easy to handle. $n this
manifestation, you are not only feeling God%s sadness on a
particular situation, but alsoHispain. This pain is so intense,
that you can actually feel a groaning within the actual
manifestation itself.
This manifestation is definitely not for everyone. &hen this
manifestation comes in on you
with any !ind of intensity, it will flatten you. &hat
happens is that when your human body
comes into physical contactwith God%s manifestation of pain, it
seems to overwhelm the
circuits in your body. 'our energy levels will immediately
decrease and your ability to focus or
concentrate will be impaired. $f you are lying down when it
occurs, you will not want to get off
of the couch. 'ou will just want to lie there until the
manifestation subsides.
&hen God does allow you to experience His pain on something,
He will respect your limits and
He will pull the manifestation off of you if you as! Him to do
so. &hen you as! Him to pull it
off of you, it will disappear in ()*( seconds. $t can come off
of you that fast. So if anyone of
you receives this manifestation anytime in the near future,
remember, God will pull it off of
you the second you as! Him too. 'ou do not have to worry about
God overwhelming you past
your own personal limits.
SCRIPTURE VERSES
1. This first Scripture verse, where God is showing you that He
can manifest some of His
emotions to you through the Holy Spirit, is the one $ stated in
the last article on +Laughing in
the Spirit. -or the purposes of this article, $ will go ahead
and restate this verse for you.
+He who has y commandments and !eeps them, it is he who loves e.
nd he who loves e
will be loved by y -ather, and $ will love him and manifest
Myselfto him / and &e will
come to him and ma!e our home with him. 01ohn *234*5
gain, $ believe the words manifest Myselfto him is literal
interpretation, and shows that
God can manifest Himself and some of His emotions to us through
the Holy Spirit if He should
choose to do so with anyone of us.
2. This next verse shows us that 1esus Himself had this groaning
in His Spirit when He came
upon the death of La6arus. s you already !now, 1esus ended up
raising this man literally
from the dead once he arrived on the scene. Here is the
verse3
Then when ary came where 1esus was, and saw Him, she fell down
at his feet, saying to
Him, +Lord, if 'ou had been here, my brother would not have
died. Therefore, when 1esus
saw her weeping, and the 1ews who came with her weeping, He
groaned in the Spiritand
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was troubled / Then 1esus, againgroaning in Himself, came to the
tomb. $t was a cave, and
a stone lie against it / now when He had said these things, He
cried with a loud voice,
+La6arus, come forth7 nd he who had died came out / 01ohn
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La6arus had been dead for 2 days by the time 1esus arrived on
the scene. $f you will notice
when He first arrives on the scene, La6arus% sister ary is
weeping along with the other 1ewish
people who were with her. They were all crying and weeping over
the death of this man. &hen1esus sees all of these people
crying over this man, He then starts to get the groaning in His
Spirit. He obviously was feeling their pain to the same degree
that they were and it was
causing Him to groan with this severe and intense pain.
$t also says that 1esus groaned in Himselfa second time when He
actually entered the
tomb that La6arus had been buried in. $ believe what was
happening was that both 1esus and
the Holy Spirit were feeling and experiencing severe and intense
pain over the death of this
particular man.
&hen 1esus saw La6arus% sister and friends crying and
weeping over his death, $ believe God
the -ather allowed 1esus to raise this man from the dead through
the power of the Holy Spirit
just due to the fact that 1esus was feeling such intense sorrow
and sadness for the grieving
they were all going through.
This dramatic story right here shows us that God can and does
actually feel our pain, our
sadness and our sorrow when we are faced with a real sad or
traumatic situation. any of the
times when we are crying, God is crying right along side of us.
However, most of the time, we
cannot see or feel God crying with us on a sad situation unless
He decides to manifest His
sadness and His pain to us through the Holy Spirit.
$n my opinion, when God does decide to manifest His sadness and
His pain to you on a
particular situation where you can actually feel what He is
feeling # this is an incredible
privilege, blessing and honor # because God is sharing with you
His feelings on the matter,
even if it is feeling of sadness, sorrow and pain.
