The Seer Expanded Edition: The Prophetic Power of Visions, Dreams and Open Heavens by James W. Goll

Author:James W. Goll
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion
ISBN: 0768441102
Publisher: Destiny Image
Published: 2012-03-19T22:00:00+00:00

Ever since November 1972, when I was filled with the Holy Spirit

with the release of the gifts of the Spirit in my life, I have had a great

love for the things of the Spirit of God. At the same time, however, I

harbored for many years a suspicion of phenomena such as trances

and out-of-body experiences. So many good things from God have

been appropriated by the devil to the point that most people today

automatically link such phenomena with New Age philosophies and

the occult.

I was the same way until I decided to study the subject in depth

and spent time around godly people who had a lot more experience

with such things than I did. What I learned is that these kinds of

phenomena originated with God; satan merely usurped and corrupted

them as he did everything else. When properly understood and when

initiated by the Spirit of God, a trance is an exciting, fabulous,

wonderful thing, another powerful visionary experience that brings a

person into the heavenly realm. The key is that such an experience must be initiated by the Holy Spirit only. It must never be self-induced.

A trance brings us into the “ecstatic” realm of the Spirit. As we

saw in the last chapter, “trance” is one translation of the Greek word

ekstasis, from which we get our English word ecstasy. Literally, an ecstatic trance is a displacement of the mind, a bewilderment that is

commonly accompanied by amazement or astonishment. It is a

distraction, especially one resulting from great religious fervor, and it

often includes feelings of great joy, rapture, and delight that arrest the

whole mind.

Ekstasis refers to “any displacement, and especially, with

reference to the mind, of that alteration of the normal condition by

which the person is thrown into a state of surprise or fear or both; or

again, in which a person is so transported out of his natural state that

he falls into a trance.”1

In his book, Prophetic Gatherings in the Church: The Laying on of

Hands and Prophecy, Dr. David Blomgren writes:

A trance is a visional state in which revelation is received. This

rapturous state is one in which a prophet would perceptively be no

longer limited to natural consciousness and volition. He is “in the

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