I can relate to being dragged. Here are two posts I entered into the Forum in 2006.Oct 8 2006
I have been dragged LITTERALLY AGAINST MY WILL out of Mystery Babylon.....
I have been shown by the GRACE OF GOD that MYSTERY BABYLON CHURCH FELLOWSHIP was inadequate and was labeled so called fellowship to disguise that it was superficial and insincere.... at the time it APPEARED to be deep and sincere AND I BOUGHT INTO IT BECAUSE I WANTED TO STAY IN IT. Now, not only have I been led out of illusion of hanging onto crumbs of thinking I was in fellowship, I now know I was naked, poor and needing comfort among others who were also not only naked in the spirit and no knowing it but they were hurting too. The only thing we all had in common was our need for comfort, appeasement and approval that came in large doses of self-deception.
We see what happened to the Hebrews after they left Egypt and I do not want to be ungrateful ...I am not at all....yet I am experiencing that being led from evil and illusion into truth hurts because now I cannot find much truth anywhere OUTSIDE ANY MORE while in the past it appeared to be everywhere and everyone else's possession ie the Church's possession, the Pastors or the Anointed one's possession and yours too if THEY said so! What has our Lord done for you to wean you off the poison diet of Mystery Babylon?
Where do you get your spiritual food?...other than here of course... That is what I want to know. Where's the banquet, the real one I mean? ...are you hanging on day by day BREATH BY BREATH in dependence on Christ for your immediate provisions...?and I am not talking about the needs of the body I am talking about our soul and spirit need for HIS breath of life!..fruit of HIS Spirit!
I see that bondage to illusion offers the superficial comfort of make-believing that you are free or okay or doing just fine. That is kind of like drinking killer Morphine in small medicinal doses gradually on the increase....Jesus Christ on the other hand shows our dependence is on HIS freedom and in HIS faithfulness to God because in and of ourselves we have nothing! Has anyone here grown past this painful revelation? I am right in it! It is most uncomfortable....so ....How has God been leading/dragging you? and....may HE CONTINUE TO DO SO!
Oct 9 2006
I did not want to go out of the Church I was in. I was hooked. I was a Cell leader and enjoying the shine! When I got pushed out, no less by the Pastor himself....I was devastated...isolated...rejected...and hurting! The whole Church turned on me in a most painful way..... I DID NOT WANT THAT! THAT WAS AGAINST MY WILL!....but it was according to God will to humble me.....and I thank God but it did hurt terribly!....
Very soon after that and on my birthday, I was given access to Ray's web! How is that for God's timing! and love. Wonderful don't you think. So..by Gods grace, God had me experience in a very real way, how he is the healer of the broken hearted! I have since been gradually enlightened by the truth I was then so very blind to see! I wonder how many others can relate to ....being thus dragged.... This was my experience and it was certainly God's gift to me from the start where a gift from God will and can not be denied!....I believe this as much as His word will not return to Him empty....so it was with me. I could not fight God and win. He paid for me....called me out and came and dragged me out because I was too blind to get out!
I believe God did not want me to think I had done anything in myself to have come out of Babylon! I wanted, in my ignorance, naivety and self-dependence....to stay in collecting a false sense of right standing before God by bowing to manmade systems, that appeared correct and righteous through their regulations and rules.
I am very grateful to God for HIS mercy and HIS pleasure to take me out of the illusion and blind mindedness. I am so grateful for His touch on my eyes to see the real light of HIS Spirit that is not religious at all.....He is helping me recover from a near fatal attack of the disease of Religion!
This experience shows how God over ruled my ignorance and illusion that I found comfortable and even enjoyable in my gross self reliance on others who presented themselves as God's spokespersons. False Prophets! Damnable Heresy!...I believed it!..tried to join it and failed thanks to GOD!
I am grateful and so very grateful now after the pain of extracting me out of a seductive and false deceptive system to put me where I am today....knowing HIM better, loving and learning from HIM through HIS called out ones! and through the grace and mercy of His Spirit of Truth and love...
Hope this explains why I can relate to that word Dragged. I was dragged!.....