The natural person DOES NOT ACCEPT the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
–1 Corinthians 2:14 (ESV)–

You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: YOU ALWAYS RESIST the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute?
–Acts 7:51-52 (NIV)–

Today, if you will hear His voice,
DO NOT HARDEN your hearts as in the rebellion.
–Hebrews 3:15 (NKJV)–

The Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever.”
–Genesis 6:3 (NKJV)–

The Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
–Acts 5:32 (NIV)–

Follow the way of love and EAGERLY DESIRE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT, especially prophecy. For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit. But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort.
–1 Corinthians 14:1-3 (NIV)–

In the last days, God says,
    I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
    your young men will see VISIONS,
    your old men will dream DREAMS.
–Acts 2:17 (NIV)–

He wrote down the substance of his dream.
–Daniel 7:1 (NIV)–

Write the vision
and make it plain on tablets.
–Habakkuk 2:2 (NKJV)–

Were not our hearts burning within us 
while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?
–Luke 24:32 (NIV)–

In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I FELT MY HEART STRANGELY WARMED. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
–John Wesley–

Begin to tell the people
what you have felt in your own heart,
and beseech the Holy Spirit
to make your heart as hot as a furnace for zeal.
–Charles Spurgeon–

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WesleyGospel, “Why Cessationists Don’t Hear the Voice of God.”

—. “Debunking Cessationism.”

Lee Strobel, Seeing the Supernatural (Zondervan, 2025).

Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience (Banner of Truth, 1996), ch. 7.

Dr. Jack Deere, Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 1996), chs. 16-19. Argues that cessationists don’t have charismatic experiences because of their unbelief and their stubborn pride of feeling they are right in their views (Acts 7:51); the same probably applies to most atheists, agnostics, and skeptics (Romans 1:18; 1 Corinthians 2:14). Avoid suicides with eternal security go to heaven (pp. 176-177).

—. Why I Am Still Surprised by the Power of the Spirit (Zondervan, 2020).

—. Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 2022). Avoid cuss word book endorsed by God’s leading (pp. 225-227).

Dr. Craig Keener, Miracles, 2 vols (Baker, 2011).

—. Miracles Today (Baker, 2021).

Richard J. Foster, Streams of Living Water (HarperCollins, 1998).

Thomas Dubay, Fire Within (Ignatius Press, 1989). Avoid Mary, prayer to the dead, and Purgatory.

Augustin Poulain, The Graces of Interior Prayer (Kegan Paul, 1910). Avoid Mary, etc.

Ira Milligan, Understanding the Dreams You Dream (Treasure House, 1997).

Charles Finney, “The Self-Hardening Sinner’s Doom,” 1.3. Refers to belief in Hell dreams – adhered to by both Jonathan Edwards and Finney.

Daniel Jennings, The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley.

—. The Supernatural Occurrences of Charles G. Finney.

Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit In the History of the Church, ch. 7. John Knox and the Scottish Reformation preachers were all into dream interpretation and the gift of foretelling prophecy.

Thomas Boys, The Suppressed Evidence (Hamilton, Adams, and Co, 1832).

John Wimber, Power Evangelism (Harper & Row, 1986).

—. Power Healing (HarperCollins, 1987).

N. Clayton Croy, Prima Scriptura (Baker, 2011).

Dr. Charles Carter, ed. A Contemporary Wesleyan Theology, 2 vols (Zondervan, 1983).

Dr. Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Zondervan, 1989).

Dr. Thomas C. Oden, Classic Christianity: A Systematic Theology (HarperCollins, 2009).

Dr. John R. Rice, Great Soul Winners Were Filled With the Holy Spirit (Sword, 1949).

Greig and Springer, eds. The Kingdom and the Power (Baker, 1997). 463 pages.

Robert Graves, ed. Strangers to Fire (Empowered Life, 2016). 592 pages.

E. S. Williams, Systematic Theology, vol. 3 (Gospel Publishing House, 1953), chs. 6-9.

P. C. Nelson, Bible Doctrines (Gospel Publishing House, 1948), ch. 8.

Harold Horton, The Gifts of the Spirit (Gospel Publishing House, 1934).

John Sherrill, They Speak With Other Tongues (Chosen Books, 2018).

A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Christian Publications, 1993).