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[Arenera]

I posted this on another board but I thought I'd ask you here what exactly happened to me. I experienced a feeling I never felt before and haven't felt since. I came to my Bishop who was my home teacher and confessed every sin I could remember starting with age 8 that hadn't been forgiven (I was 28). After a few months of repenting like 40 times a day I had my Bishop give me a blessing. During the blessing he pronounced me forgiven of my sins and right when he said that a feeling hit me powerfully. I have been administered morphine before by a doctor so I know what powerful drugs feel like, yet I was sober and a feeling hit me like a powerful drug, unlike anything I had ever felt before. And here's the most interesting and best part. It literally honest to God felt like I was physically having my spirit pulled out of my body strongly by some source. It was like in that moment I was feeling the power of a force pulling me out of my mortal body and I will always remember that as the greatest feeling I've ever experienced in my 31 years of life. I wanted to be taken to heaven in that moment. I wanted to completely be pulled out of my body and let whatever was pulling me succeed and in that moment I felt clean for the first time and worthy and wanted to cross the veil badly in that moment.

So here's the million dollar question. What force was making me feel that way and what was pulling my spirit out of my body in such a euphoric state. Was it simply the Holy Ghost exercising more power than I ever felt it show before, or was it Jesus or Heavenly Father showing their love and forgiveness through the Holy Ghost? It's almost been 4 years but I still can't think of what power or force caused me to experience the greatest moment of my mortal existence, a moment I will cherish and be thankful for as long as I live. It was like all the past sin was drained from me and I literally felt lighter and clean in that moment. Any guesses would help and tell me if you've ever experienced something similar. I know it took the full power of the Atonement to be able to experience such a experience.

Alma 5
7 Behold, he changed their hearts; yea, he awakened them out of a deep sleep, and they awoke unto God. Behold, they were in the midst of darkness; nevertheless, their souls were illuminated by the light of the everlasting word; yea, they were encircled about by the bands of death, and the chains of hell, and an everlasting destruction did await them.

9 And again I ask, were the bands of death broken, and the achains of hell which encircled them about, were they loosed? I say unto you, Yea, they were loosed, and their souls did expand, and they did sing redeeming love. And I say unto you that they are saved.

Sounds like Redeeming Love. You are most fortunate.

[eddie]

Thank you for sharing this, my first feeling when reading this was your spirit was made clean, your soul was purified through the atonement of Jesus Christ, the joy you felt was so beautiful you wanted to go home and be with the Savior.

Just my thoughts, not scripture of course, and I also know how morphine feels..

[LDS Physician]

I'm so happy for you and am elated at your experience. I think it is a priceless gift and buoys my own testimony. Thank you for sharing it!

[JohnnyL]

Alma 36. Alma also wished he could die right then.

[Older/wiser?]

I have not experienced that which you speak of, yet I did at one point receive the gift of charity, which lasted for several months. Alma 29:16 Now, when I think of the success of these my brethren my soul is carried away, even to the separation of it from the body, as it were, so great is my joy. The price you paid for your repentance, might have been equal to the joy you received, even to the separation of it from the body. Just an opinion.

[MMbelieve]

Spiritual experiences are hard to explain and defy normal human experiences. I don't know why you felt your spirit being pulled, that is a bit different than I would expect. Couldn't have by chance been a cleansing? Like pulling the impurities out that were in your soul which caused friction as it happened which felt like your soul was being pulled.

If an angel or Christ of God pulled your spirit, you would be in heaven today. Not sure why they would do that and not suceed in getting it all the way out.

Have you ever pulled a pretty thick weed from the yard that was solid in the ground and your hand just ended up moving up the stem and taking only leaves and leaving the entire root and stems intact? That's the best analogy for what in was trying to say above and experiencing a cleansing which took just the impurities from you but you still felt the pressure of being pulled as it was scrubbed off it.

Hope that makes sense.

[gardener4life]

There are things you can do to feel deep spiritual things. I can't say for sure how things will work on you because you aren't in my stewardship. But I've noticed a few things that I feel and that help me feel things more deeply.

Fill yourself with deep humility feeling to want to follow Jesus and reverence for him when you pray, listen to church hymns often, and in conjunction with your scripture study or even praying, follow impressions you get from the Holy Ghost as soon as you can do so, or when you get them, and don't waste them. Try to think about Jesus more often, and cut off any influences that are wordly, even simple things like rock music in favor of hymns and shut the TV off. Focus your prayer on feeling out to Heavenly Father to feel he's there and not to much worry on words of the prayer but concentrate on the feeling of earnestly seeking him, and try to NOT end your prayers quickly (while in private).

Try to also fill yourself with love to your family members even the bad ones, and those around you at church, or friends of good influence to see them as Heavenly Father sees them (surprisingly many people don't do this one and they are cheating themselves.)

[Zathura]

I posted this on another board but I thought I'd ask you here what exactly happened to me. I experienced a feeling I never felt before and haven't felt since. I came to my Bishop who was my home teacher and confessed every sin I could remember starting with age 8 that hadn't been forgiven (I was 28). After a few months of repenting like 40 times a day I had my Bishop give me a blessing. During the blessing he pronounced me forgiven of my sins and right when he said that a feeling hit me powerfully. I have been administered morphine before by a doctor so I know what powerful drugs feel like, yet I was sober and a feeling hit me like a powerful drug, unlike anything I had ever felt before. And here's the most interesting and best part. It literally honest to God felt like I was physically having my spirit pulled out of my body strongly by some source. It was like in that moment I was feeling the power of a force pulling me out of my mortal body and I will always remember that as the greatest feeling I've ever experienced in my 31 years of life. I wanted to be taken to heaven in that moment. I wanted to completely be pulled out of my body and let whatever was pulling me succeed and in that moment I felt clean for the first time and worthy and wanted to cross the veil badly in that moment.

So here's the million dollar question. What force was making me feel that way and what was pulling my spirit out of my body in such a euphoric state. Was it simply the Holy Ghost exercising more power than I ever felt it show before, or was it Jesus or Heavenly Father showing their love and forgiveness through the Holy Ghost? It's almost been 4 years but I still can't think of what power or force caused me to experience the greatest moment of my mortal existence, a moment I will cherish and be thankful for as long as I live. It was like all the past sin was drained from me and I literally felt lighter and clean in that moment. Any guesses would help and tell me if you've ever experienced something similar. I know it took the full power of the Atonement to be able to experience such a experience.

What a story.

It seems you were born of God. Your carnal nature was ripped away and you became a new spiritual creature.

Only you can know what exactly occurred. You can ask God if you were spiritually reborn. If you do so with just as much urgency and humility as you had to have that experience in he first place. You can know precisely what that experience was.

The scriptures tell you all about this. Peace of conscience, guilt swept away, pure joy, you cannot help but praise God, a full immersion in the spirit! This is what the gospel is intended to do. It is intended to get man and women to this point, to where they repent and humble themselves and God can then cleanse, anoint, quicken and save you! Endure, press forward! You can feel like that again and again!

[Zathura]

If you reborn, then that means:

You were sanctified, you were born again, spiritually born of god, quickened. The spirit descended upon you. “The Song of Redeeming love”. You were anointed, “saved” , converted, baptized by fire, baptized by spirit, you became as a little child, “regeneration”, you received a remission of sins, you received the Holy Ghost, that is the ACTUAL ENJOYMENT of the gift of the Holy Ghost you were admonished to receive at confirmation.

You entered the strait and narrow!

Wherefore, do the things which I have told you I have seen that your Lord and your Redeemer should do; for, for this cause have they been shown unto me, that ye might know the gate by which ye should enter. For the gate by which ye should enter is repentance and baptism by water; and then cometh a remission of your sins by fire and by the Holy Ghost.
18 And then are ye in this strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life; yea, ye have entered in by the gate; ye have done according to the commandments of the Father and the Son; and ye have received the Holy Ghost, which witnesses of the Father and the Son, unto the fulfilling of the promise which he hath made, that if ye entered in by the way ye should receive.
19 And now, my beloved brethren, after ye have gotten into this strait and narrow path, I would ask if all is done? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save.
20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.
21 And now, behold, my beloved brethren, this is the way; and there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God. And now, behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end. Amen

[Zathura]

You can have similar experiences, some feel the same, others are a little different. The only way to know what exactly it was is to study, seek, ponder and ask the Lord.

I did not feel a complete change of heart the first time, I felt only pure love and charity from God. I cried and thanked God for a long time.
The 2nd time was when I really felt peace of conscience, my guilt was swept away.

At the very least, you know God is there, he listens and answers in ways you never imagined. It’s supernatural, it’s inexplicable.

[Juliet]

I have felt similarly when I have a good spirit possess me. If I am in a pit, and a good spirit possesses me, it pulls me out of the pit real fast. It doesn't happen very often. I am sure there are rules for when it can and can't happen. But it has happened to me and the words you used are a good way of describing it. It helps me understand how some people can be rid of addictions overnight, if a spirit that has the strength that person needs can enter the body and upgrade it to how it is supposed to be.

[JohnnyL]

Alma 29: 16 Now, when I think of the success of these my brethren my soul is carried away, even to the separation of it from the body, as it were, so great is my joy.

Alma 27:16 And it came to pass that as Ammon was going forth into the land, that he and his brethren met Alma, over in the place of which has been spoken; and behold, this was a joyful meeting.
17 Now the joy of Ammon was so great even that he was full; yea, he was swallowed up in the joy of his God, even to the exhausting of his strength; and he fell again to the earth.
18 Now was not this exceeding joy? Behold, this is joy which none receiveth save it be the truly penitent and humble seeker of happiness.

3 Ne. 28: 15 And whether they were in the body or out of the body, they could not tell; for it did seem unto them like a transfiguration of them, that they were changed from this body of flesh into an immortal state, that they could behold the things of God.

D&C 137: 1 The heavens were opened upon us, and I beheld the celestial kingdom of God, and the glory thereof, whether in the body or out I cannot tell.

1 Nephi 11:1 For it came to pass after I had desired to know the things that my father had seen, and believing that the Lord was able to make them known unto me, as I sat pondering in mine heart I was caught away in the Spirit of the Lord, yea, into an exceedingly high mountain, which I never had before seen, and upon which I never had before set my foot.

2 Nephi 4:25 And upon the wings of his Spirit hath my body been carried away upon exceedingly high mountains. And mine eyes have beheld great things, yea, even too great for man; therefore I was bidden that I should not write them.

And one more, but I can't find it...

[Thinker]

A beautiful experience which uplifted me in reading it.

You did a lot in preparation- praying 40x a day for forgiveness!
You definitely prayed in earnest and were answered!
A beautiful, sweet glimpse into a higher reality - to give you & others hope!

[Craig Johnson]

I posted this on another board but I thought I'd ask you here what exactly happened to me. I experienced a feeling I never felt before and haven't felt since. I came to my Bishop who was my home teacher and confessed every sin I could remember starting with age 8 that hadn't been forgiven (I was 28). After a few months of repenting like 40 times a day I had my Bishop give me a blessing. During the blessing he pronounced me forgiven of my sins and right when he said that a feeling hit me powerfully. I have been administered morphine before by a doctor so I know what powerful drugs feel like, yet I was sober and a feeling hit me like a powerful drug, unlike anything I had ever felt before. And here's the most interesting and best part. It literally honest to God felt like I was physically having my spirit pulled out of my body strongly by some source. It was like in that moment I was feeling the power of a force pulling me out of my mortal body and I will always remember that as the greatest feeling I've ever experienced in my 31 years of life. I wanted to be taken to heaven in that moment. I wanted to completely be pulled out of my body and let whatever was pulling me succeed and in that moment I felt clean for the first time and worthy and wanted to cross the veil badly in that moment.

So here's the million dollar question. What force was making me feel that way and what was pulling my spirit out of my body in such a euphoric state. Was it simply the Holy Ghost exercising more power than I ever felt it show before, or was it Jesus or Heavenly Father showing their love and forgiveness through the Holy Ghost? It's almost been 4 years but I still can't think of what power or force caused me to experience the greatest moment of my mortal existence, a moment I will cherish and be thankful for as long as I live. It was like all the past sin was drained from me and I literally felt lighter and clean in that moment. Any guesses would help and tell me if you've ever experienced something similar. I know it took the full power of the Atonement to be able to experience such a experience.

I recommend that you journal this in detail if you have not already. I don't think anyone can answer your question, I would recommend that you fast and pray for that.