Q. I have a question I’ve wondered about for a number of years. I have been an intercessor and have always considered it a calling of the Lord to pray in  intercession for others.  I understood early on in my Christian walk the importance of prayer and have seen a great many of those prayers answered.  To God goes the glory for those answered prayers. I seem to know things about a person when I pray for them  that I had not known before and I am sure the Holy Spirit gives me what to pray at those times. Is this a calling from the Lord or a gift of the Holy Spirit or both?

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Q.  I believe God gives words to people to encourage and to help and maybe to warn.  I just didn’t think he has done so with me, until this last week.  I felt the need to pray and write the prayer to an evangelist.  It was a specific word for them.  I did not receive a reply or comment on my word.  It involved healing.  Is there any way to confirm that a word was from the Lord, if the other side does not confirm it?  Was this a false prophecy and was I listening to the wrong side?  Please, any information regarding receiving a word from the Lord would be helpful.

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Q.  Throughout my life as a Christian, I was always taught that the Body of Christ was made up of all born-again believers.  But lately, I’ve been hearing some pastors are teaching that the Body of Christ refers only to members of a local church.  I’ve read the scriptures they use to justify this teaching, for example 1 Corinthians 12:27: “Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.”  I’m confused and upset, since I’m disabled and can rarely attend church.  I would greatly appreciate any insight you can provide.

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Q.  I am wondering if you might help me to understand what’s going on in 1 Cor.14:22 where Paul writes, “Tongues then, are a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers; prophecy however, is for believers, not for unbelievers”.  Then, in the next verse he says, “So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who do not understand or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind?”  Now in v.22 he said  tongues were a sign for unbelievers, whereas in v.23 he said  if everyone in the church speaks in tongues, unbelievers who hear it will think everybody is crazy.  This seems to be a contradiction.

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Q.  The Bible says that those who have been given more than others (on earth) are expected to do more with their resources. I understand this to mean physical assets like money. But does it mean psychological things too? For example, if someone loves to be around people, does that mean they have “more” than someone who’s shy and scared to be around others? Would that then excuse the shy person from not witnessing because God knows how hard it is for them?

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Q.  In regards to Is Satan A Christian? a question from a little boy, it would do well for all to know that just believing in Jesus alone is not enough to be resurrected to life. We must have the spirit of God indwelling us. We must be baptized into His Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit revealing truth to us all we have is a historical Jesus.

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Q. I’m watching pastors and people I have gone to church with in the past 4 years turn more and more to signs and wonders and human effort  but now I realize that they’ve been lead away from the Blood of the Lamb toward the “man as god” scenario. Please tell me what you think about all this.  How do I explain that I can’t participate with this because I strongly feel that the Holy Spirit is telling me to depart from them?

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Q.  At Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles they spoke in Tongues and everyone understood them in their own language.  It seems later the gift of Tongues changed to something secret and required an interpreter.  What happened?

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Q.  I’ve heard ministers of God  claim that when they refused God’s call he sent tragedy into their lives even as far as killing their loved ones. They cite Jonah as an example of how far God can go to get someone to obey his call.   Is this an accurate description of God?  Also Eph. 4:11-13 says  the gifts of the Spirit are given until we can all reach a unity in faith etc.  Does the church have to get to this point before Christ can come for us in the rapture or is it as a result of the rapture that the church reaches this unity thus leading to an end of the gifts?

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Q.    Recently, our pastor gave a message on the Holy Spirit regarding the Greek words ‘en’ and ‘epi’ (the Holy Spirit being ‘in’ a Christian and ‘upon’ a Christian) and said there was a difference.  He explained that ‘en’ happened at the time of salvation, which I already knew, of course, but the ‘epi’ ,  I had not heard of before happened when a Christian had a deeper relationship with Christ and then would receive miracles and blessings.  I know blessings happen when we are in fellowship with Christ.  I didn’t know about the Holy Spirit being upon us as different from being in us.   I would like your thoughts on this and did I understand him correctly?

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