Slain in the spirit

Grace and peace from God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

Being "slain in the Spirit" is indeed biblical, and I'll tell you why it is.

My experience when I fell prostrate to the floor because the presence of God is solely around me there was no other place to go but down.

The fact that God would use you in all your imperfections is something to praise God for.

It’s wonderful to know that men will come and go friends will abandon you. Family will forsake you. But you best to believe that no matter how much you mistreat God by applying sin in your life He will use you to get glory out of you. 

God desire is to show off the elect by displaying  His glory.

Sometimes it hurts the love  you feel towards Him is so strong. It’s like none other. Nothing can be compared to Gods unwavering love. 

It’s a  wonderful feeling  when Gods presence is engulf on you around you and in you. Come on somebody I am feeling the anointing while writing this. His love is genuinely real. His presence is pure Ecstasy. 

 I wholeheartedly believe and can testify that God desires to use you. You must surrender all to Him. Not my will but your will. 

The Spirit is still very active in the Church. But, given the sensationalism in the TV church, the numerous unbiblical practices and teachings that occur there, and the over-eagerness of people to be slain in the Spirit, I would conclude that this phenomenon is to be frowned upon.

The term "slain in the Spirit" is used in the Charismatic circles of Christian Churches to designate a supposed movement of the Holy Spirit upon a person. The claim is that the Holy Spirit moves with such power on a person, that the person is "slain." 

Perhaps the closest occurrence we can find in the Bible to being slain in the Spirit is where Paul the apostle fell to the ground when Jesus appeared to him:

"And it came about that as he journeyed, he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him; 4 and he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?'" (Acts 9:3-4).

You must have a overwhelming power of God who is supposedly anointed to be able to do this, goes around putting his hand on peoples' foreheads causing them to fall down to be slain in the Spirit as they are overcome by the presence of the Holy Spirit. 

it is possible that the Holy Spirit could move so powerfully on a person that he/she is overcome. After all, God is incredibly powerful. But, the problem is not with this possibility but with whether or not it is biblical. 

We must always seek to remain as close as possible to the word of God and let it guide our words and practices.  So, let's look at the Word.

This does not mean the person dies but that he/she is so overcome by the presence of the Spirit that he/she falls down to the ground being completely overcome.

But in the presence of God I am a witness you shall cover your face and fall to your knees. We can see that in the presence of God people fall to the ground. This is natural and proper given the majestic holiness of God compared to our sinfulness. 

 Falling to the ground in the presence of the Lord is to be expected. But, does this mean that being slain in the Spirit is biblical?

Slain in the Spirit or slaying in the Spirit are terms used by Christians to describe a form of prostration in which an individual falls to the floor while experiencing ecstasy of the Spirit of God falling upon them. . 

When someone is slain in the Spirit, he or she is usually touched on the forehead by a pastor or teacher or evangelist, etc. This touch alone seems to be the compelling means by which a person receives this movement of the Spirit. The person is then incapacitated for a period of time. 

Again, is this biblical? Apparently not since there is not a single instance in the New Testament where someone is touched on the forehead and falls to the ground due to the presence of the Spirit. an "anointed" individual with the power to cause the Spirit to move on people. 

They then congregate around this individual and view him/her as a specially-anointed person.

Believers attribute this behavior to the power of the Holy Spirit feeling weak as the Spurit if Gof falls upon them with power and the demonstration of the Holy one falling upon the with power.

But before I can present the truth "I must define the "what."people fell to the ground when the presence of the Lord was strong. 

In fact, my own subjective experience includes a time where the power of the Lord was so strong that I was forced to bow my knee and be laid low to the ground. But the result was worship and adoration, not a lack of bodily control.

I do not seek the manifestation of men but only that which is from God. 

Rather, I seek God. And, in doing so, the manifestation is sometimes experienced. 

Someone being "slain in the Spirit" can occur during a spiritual encounter with God, but if someone is not "slain in the Spirit," that doesn't mean they didn't have an encounter with God. 

A slain in Spirit temporary, physical response to a spiritual encounter with God that involves some or much difficulty with standing on. 

To be slain in the Spirit” happens when a minister lays hands on someone, and that person collapses to the floor, supposedly overcome by the power of the Holy Spirit. 

Those who practice slaying in the Spirit use Bible passages that talk about people becoming “as dead” (Revelation 1:17) or of falling upon their face (Ezekiel 1:28; Daniel 8:17-18, 10:7-9). 

 

However, there are a number of contrasts between this biblical falling on one's face and the practice of being slain in the Spirit.

It is never God’s will that we seek spiritual experience for the sake of experience. God’s will is that we seek Jesus Himself by faith and in accordance with the Word of God. 

He is our only source of genuine spiritual experience, satisfaction and fulfillment (Psalm 16:11, Philippians 3:10-14).

Dr. Christina Theresa Maxwell