The presence of the Lord was so awesome yesterday at church! We were having a time of worship and prayer and a couple of people who went up for prayer were slain in the spirit. When I glanced over at a friend who was sitting next to me, she quietly asked me if the people were o.k. I realized that she had never seen anything like that before and I began to explain to her what was happening. She has been saved a long time, but still a baby (so to speak) in "pentacostal or charasmatic" types of services. I got a sense that she was a little fearful of what she had just witnessed, but she is very hungry to learn more about it and asked me for resources that she could read about it.

Can you recommend any resources? Thanks!

That's a great question, thanks for asking. Here is what I have written in my book, 101+ Ways God Speaks (And How to Hear Him)

62. HE SPEAKS THROUGH FALLING UNDER HIS POWER
“The priests could not stand, to minister by reason of the cloud.” “He said unto them, “I AM He”, they went backward, and fell to the ground.” “And when I saw it, I fell upon my face.” “There remained no strength in me...and my face toward the ground.” “I fell at his feet as dead…” (2 Chronicles 5:14 KJ, John 18:6 KJ, Ezekiel 1:28 KJ, Daniel 10:8-9 KJ, Revelation 1:17 KJ) Also Saul fell to the earth when the light shined from heaven. He was confronted with the truth of Jesus and the choices he had made in his life.” (Acts 9:4)

If you’ve ever been to meetings where people are being prayed for, you may have seen them fall. Man’s physical frame doesn’t hold up well under the power of God. (Sometimes the muscles feel like jelly.)

During this experience, when people are under His power, they can be asleep, or even unconscious as though in a trance, or they can be awake. It is a time when the Holy Spirit is personally ministering on deeper levels of the subconscious and spirit. It can be a time of strong deliverance from the enemy, or the person may receive a vision at this time, or hear the Lord speak to them personally. Healing can take place, as well as gifts and anointing imparted from the Holy Spirit.

I have seen people who fell under His power and were never touched by another. I have seen people fall who were touched by the person praying. I have seen them fall softly as though on billows of clouds, I have seen them fall so hard it is as though they were knocked over, and yet they didn’t feel a thing. Anna had a precious experience of falling under the power of His Presence, and she has always referred to it as being in the midst of His glory cloud and feeling His intense love.

I have had several experiences, all different. One poor experience happened when I was “prayed” for by an evangelist. I was pushed over, fell on a concrete floor, hurt my tail bone and the back of my head. I had a migraine headache the rest of the day. I wouldn’t recommend being prayed for by people who make an effort to push people down! I remember lying on the floor in pain, and certainly didn’t hear from the Lord.

And yet I have also been blessed when people reached toward me in prayer and I literally felt something flow through my body, fell under the genuine power of it, and then got right back up again! (However I would not recommend that as He often ministers in the time while you are lying in His Presence.) I also have “fallen” under His power at night when I was already lying down in bed! It’s the same experience, only my body was already lying down. (I have always fallen under His power when He has visited me at night during gazing visions.) When His genuine, powerful, Presence has touched me like this, I have always felt that He imparted something within me of Himself.

My recommendation is if you really want to get prayed for but you are afraid of falling, just kneel in the prayer line, or when the person comes to pray for you, ask if you may sit on the floor. There is nothing wrong with that, and if it takes a barrier away from your heart in receiving a wonderful blessing from the Lord, then do it.

Sometimes I see people literally get drunk in the Spirit when they fall under His power. They laugh, they fall, they can not walk and can barely crawl. They can barely sit. It is very funny to watch! The person tries to get up and move but simply can’t. This only makes them laugh harder. It is a great time of refreshing to the person. I have no idea why the Lord does this, but it is scriptural! “For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. (Acts 2:15 KJ) And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;” (Ephesians 5:18 KJ)

I heard a testimony of a gal who fell under the power of His Holy Spirit, and her experience portrayed so much, I asked her permission to share it with you. As a background to her story, she had just been rejected by her husband, and was also seriously doubting whether God really loved her. During this time, she had been praying and said to the Lord, “Father I love You” and He responded back by saying, “No You don’t.” She was flabbergasted that she had heard Him at all, let alone by what He said to her. It took her a few days of thinking about it to finally admit that He was right, she did not really love Him. She began to cry out, “Lord show me how to love You. I can’t see You, I can’t touch You, I can’t feel You, I don’t know how to love somebody like that!”

Later a person gave her a Word of Knowledge of having seen a picture-vision of a chain around her neck with a lock and sign stating “Keep out.” She knew it was an accurate portrayal of her heart, and that she had put the sign there herself. She wanted Him to love her, but at the same time she was afraid of Him and wanted to keep Him at a distance. She cried and prayed more earnestly, “Lord help me to love You. Help Me to believe You love me!” This all led up to the night she was slain in the power of His Holy Spirit.

During a series of special meetings, she had been thinking about the Holy Spirit, and questioning some of the things going on in the meetings. She kept saying, “Holy Spirit, if You are there, and You are real, I need to meet You.” When she went up for prayer she was slain in His Spirit. While she was lying there, she felt Someone standing on her feet. Wanting to get up and run away, she finally asked, “Why are You standing upon my feet?” “I’m the Holy Spirit and I’m standing on your feet because I don’t want you to get up, I want you to stay here.” During this whole time she kept smelling her favorite candy bar, Three Musketeers, and was really enjoying the smell. She knew that it was His humorous way of saying He was One of the Three in the Three Musketeers, and it was His delectable way of introducing Himself. He was light hearted and humorous with her and yet at the same time serious.

The next thing she remembered was His taking her to heaven. She remembered briefly passing through a place where there was grass, trees, flowers, a river and golden pathways. She instinctively knew this place would be hers some day for it was very familiar to her. Then He took her to a room and Jesus was there. He put His arms out to her and said, “Welcome. This is the place that I have prepared for you.” She immediately remembered the scripture that said, “In My father’s house are many mansions and I go to prepare a place for you.” Her room was made of knotty pine, and in the corner was a big feather bed with a fluffy white comforter and a big rocking chair beside the bed. “He said, this is the place I have prepared for you. Do you remember what I did before I went into My ministry? I worked with My Dad, and he was a carpenter. I built this for you with My own hands.” She was deeply touched because she realized He really did build it with His own hands, and with so much love just especially for her. Then He picked her up and placed her in the bed. He held her face in His hands and kept kissing her face saying how much He loved her. She felt so protected and loved and safe and warm and secure and at peace. He kept touching her face as He sat beside her in the chair. He continued to do this and speak to her as she drifted off to sleep.

After the vision, while she was in worship, she met the Father. Her earthly father had not been a good example and she knew she looked at God with the same eyes. She had always felt that God was either frustrated with her, angry with her or disappointed in her. So it was hard for her to let Him in. Then in worship she saw the angels and a big white heart with streamers falling down touching her face. The Father was there and kept saying to her, “I love You.” Finally, something broke within her and she said, “I love You Papa!” She never wanted to come out of that place of the Father’s heart. It was so precious to her.

She had several confirmations to this vision. Someone said she had been very still and “out” for at least three hours. A lady later ministering from the podium looked straight at her and said, “There really are real houses made of real wood there!” Later, while she also was relating her testimony from the pulpit, she said she knew there were people sitting in the audience who needed to experience the Lord’s love. As she spoke this, one young lady’s face in particular kept coming into her mind, but she said nothing. After she shared her testimony, the pastor prayed for her and again she was slain in the Spirit. She passed through the same place in heaven as before and into the Lord’s welcoming arms in the special place He had prepared for her. While still in the spirit, she saw this same young lady standing below on the golden pathway. Then she heard the pastor call out this one’s name. Later she found out that she was prayed for and also fell under the power. This lady also received an awesome experience of the Lord’s love.

As another confirmation to her being kissed on the face, five months prior to her experience, I had been listening to a tape where the speaker was sharing how much Jesus loves us as a bridegroom loves His wife and that we should feel loved like a bride. As he said this, I immediately thought to myself, “I’m too ugly to feel loved like that.” I winced at thinking that, knowing He had heard, and apologized to the Lord for thinking that, because of course I knew that He loved me. But it came from deep inside my heart and I knew He knew it. That night I heard Him say to me, “Father’s Day. I long for you. Shower you with kisses. I meant that. Ugly. Perverted.” He meant He didn’t see me as ugly and the enemy had perverted my ability to truly receive the Father’s love.

As a confirmation to my hearing this, a month later I was in bed and my son came to wish me good night. I had been reading past rhema, and it was opened to the page where I had heard the above. My son was playfully looming over me as though he was going to kiss me good night, and then he hesitated and started searching my face to decide just exactly where he was going to plant it. He waited so long (and grinning all the while) I said, “I’m going to be a nervous wreck by the time you kiss me!” Suddenly he showered me with kisses all over my face. I was giggling and then still under an attack of kisses, I remembered the rhema. I said, “Hey did you read that page when you leaned over????” He didn’t know what I was talking about so I pointed to the line, “Shower you with kisses.” He thought that very funny. I thought it quite an amazing confirmation that the Lord was serious about getting through exactly how He feels.

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Sandy Warner
swauthor@usa.net
www.thequickenedword.com

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Here is Grandma Anna's experience being slain in the Spirit in His glory cloud, taken from an Ears2Hear:

GRANDMA ANNA’S EXPERIENCE IN HIS GLORY CLOUD

On 4/7/77 I had a very amazing experience with God's glory cloud while attending a Charles and Frances Hunter conference. This conference was giving me my very first experience in seeing people "slain in the spirit." I was very afraid of it and had no intention of having them pray for me. However, I suddenly developed an excruciating headache. I had a choice of leaving and going back to my motel or receiving prayer. I found myself going forward and got in line to ask for healing before I even thought much about it. Suddenly, Frances Hunter was in front of me and asking my need. Coming out of my mouth with no premeditation at all was a shocking request, "I want God's full anointing for ministry." I didn’t say one word about my horrible headache!


She touched my forehead with one finger and said, "Lord, this gal wants everything you've got!"


I felt myself float back and I literally landed on a white puffy Cloud. The Cloud began to love me. I can't explain how a Cloud can love, but it did. It was a force of love all by itself and in the experience I knew it was God's glory cloud. Never, before or since have I experienced anything exactly like it. My head was aching terribly and I cried out to the Lord to take the pain away. God’s voice spoke out of the cloud and said, "Does that headache really matter?" Then the Cloud loved me again and again. I kept crying out for Him to heal me, and He kept asking me if the headache really mattered. Each time He increased the strength of His love for me which penetrated my very being. I can’t explain the feeling, but it was wonderfully comforting. Finally, I felt His love so intensely that it equaled the pain. Again He asked me and increased the intensity. I was so caught up in His love for me that I wasn’t even thinking of the pain and I said to Him, "No, the headache really doesn't matter."


I slowly came back to conscious awareness of things around me. I felt glued to the floor and had great trouble getting up and walking back to my seat. My head ache was still there and pounding furiously. My friends could hardly believe I still had the headache. They prayed for me and it slowly left. They said I was out cold for at least twenty minutes.


I learned a lesson and have applied it many times. No matter what the circumstances are, the Lord will love us through it. We will know and experience His love in some kind of a tangible way. I also know that I know that I know, that His glory cloud is LOVE.


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GRANDMA ANNA EXPERIENCED GOD’S GLORY CLOUD

VISION: Suddenly before me I saw a cloud of tiny little bubbles that were enveloped in a foggy mist. The mist swirled in front of my eyes. I knew it was His glory cloud.


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SANDY VISION: I saw the mist of the Lord’s cloud moving upon the hill.

Then I saw someone sweeping their hand over me as though to stir the wind. I shook under the Lord’s Presence as I saw this.


HEARD: You are anointed Sweetheart. Endued. [Then I shook again]


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CONCLUSION

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{Words to Ponder are summaries of His quickened Words}


SELAH WORD BY GRANDMA ANNA

Precious one of Mine, in all your circumstances, I AM with you. I AM with you when you are worshipping, and when you are being endued with anointing. I AM with you when you are joyful and also in suffering. I AM even with you when I AM the farthest One from your mind. Nothing about you ever escapes My watchful eye. It is as though you are the only one in the world that matters to Me. I love you that much. I never leave you, nor forsake you. You may be in the worst of circumstances, but I AM always there loving you through them, even when you are not aware of My Presence. When you call out to Me in painful and fearful circumstances, I AM there to embrace you. I will keep increasing the intensity of My love until you are comforted. You may not visibly see Me, or smell Me, but I AM there comforting you as a mother does her weeping child. So, rest in My loving arms, dearest one, and know you are loved and safely kept in My Cloud of Love.



"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort," (2 Corinthians 1:3 NKJ)




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Sandy Warner
swauthor@usa.net
www.thequickenedword.com

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When I first was given my calling, the Lord visited me in 1984 and handed me a solid gold pen. I was in bed at the time and I actually fell out under His power during the experience. Even though I was already flat in bed, I felt the experience of falling back under His Spirit.

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Sandy Warner
swauthor@usa.net
www.thequickenedword.com

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God's timing is so perfect, I had a headache today due to not resting enough. As God has been drawing me to spend some quality time with Him, I have been struggling to be loved. As I was reading the post ,I wasn't concentrating and all I was thinking about was the headache. At that moment, I was reading the bit where the LORD asked Grandma Anna, "Does the headache really matter?" It took me a second to register that God was speaking to me. What an amazing God! How amazing is His timing! Just what I need for this moment.

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Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds; but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:15-18