Bible Verses About Personal Encounters

The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.

For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

And the hand of the Lord was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.

And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.

I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face.

Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.

And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him by myself:

And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.