What do you discern about the holy laughter movement? The slain in the spirit? Being drunk in the spirit? Pensacola Outpouring? Toronto's Blessings? Even Ernest Angeley's healing Crusade when he announces the "Holy Spirit" falling on already saved believers, causing them to fall backwards to get healings or casting out of devils?
Proverbs 25:26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. 27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. 28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
So in spite of the miracles
Matthew 7:21-23 KJV , they gained that spirit by not believing in the gospel of Jesus Christ (
Matthew 7:13-14 KJV but by saved believers seeking a sign of receiving that spirit, assuming that was the holy Spirit
2 Corinthians 11:1-4 KJV and that is what they get for not heeding His words about how all coming to God the Father is by the only way of the Son,
John 14:6 for why many houses are "falling" in
Matthew 7:24-27 KJV for how they are committing spiritual adultery in seeking to receive Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit by a sign
Matthew 12:38-40 KJV
This was all done when focus was on the Holy Spirit in worship, praying to Him, singing songs to him, and so if you discern that any of those movements of the "Spirit" as not the Holy Spirit since God is not the author of confusion, then ask Jesus why the devil would respond when addressing the Holy Spirit in worship?
A Christian brother online from India had testified that he used to believe that the Holy Spirit no longer did any dramatic manifestations like He did in the early days of the church until one calendar Pentecostal Sunday after an adult class on Acts 2nd chapter about Pentecost, they held a service for honoring ONLY the Holy Spirit that morning.
He testified that he felt something like liquid nitrogen seeping through his skull and the next thing he knew, he was confessing against his will an apology to the Holy Spirit for not believing He did dramatic manifestations any more.
Discernment #1 He testified in feeling that spirit coming over him, entering him thus akin to failing to test the spirits when the real indwelling Holy Spirit has been in him since salvation at the calling of the gospel thus failing the litmus test of testing the spirits per
1 John 4:1-6 KJV That greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world and so any spirit you feel outside of you or coming over again on you or filling you, is not the real holy Spirit when He has been in you since salvation at the calling of the gospel when you had first believed.
Discernment #2 Would not God want a willing apology rather than a coerced one against any believer's will?
So what do you discern about that "encounter"?
And the most critical thing you need to be aware of is that there is no Biblical scripture supporting the practice of worshipping the Holy Spirit with the Father & the Son, even though the Holy Spirit is a Third Person Witness of the Godhead but there are scripture being specific about how God the Father wants us to come to Him by
John 14:6 and to honor Him by
John 14:6 KJV as there is no other way
John 10:1,7 KJV as that is the mind of Christ we are to have in worship in obedience as Paul said to the Philippians in his absence to do
Philippians 2:5-13 KJV
Why is the Father being strict? because there are sinners in the world that worships spirits behind the idols and are involved in the occults that He is calling them away from those spirits to a personal reconciled relationship with him through His Son, the Bridegroom, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And the spirits of the antichrist are those that would seduce and lead saved believers away from the Son thus committing spiritual adultery in seeking after those spirits to receive by a sign.
So not only are sinners being called away from the spirits to the Son to be saved, but saved believers need to keep relating to the Father through the Son to avoid the spirits of the antichrist.