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How do we know if we're converted?
Deborah-Leigh:
Ha....thank you! Yes...I see it now... manifesting the shadow and the light...ie division, separation, fear and guilt.
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....practise practise practise! ~ ;D
...converting...Arc
Heidi:
For me it is an ongoing process until that day when we get saved. Ray often talks about the Aorist tense used in Greek.....I am being converted (ongoing....does not stop), day by day..... learning how to overcome certain things in my life and yearning to become more like Jesus.....
Anyhoooow... just my thoughts on being converted
Gina:
Yep, Heidi, it's all in the ing: becoming, God is molding/re-fashioning our hearts.
Reminds me of what Ray said at the Nashville conference:
This is the Word of God. He put us in these bodies that want to sin and follow after lustful, stupid, sensual, fun, fuzzy things. But if in your heart and mind you don’t want that anymore, not that you don’t want, but you don’t want to want it. So you cry out to God and say, ‘I don’t want to want it.’ Then God is your Father, He’ll come to your rescue. Just like any Father would come to any child’s rescue, when he cries out to him. http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,4472.0.html
That was such a relief to hear him say that, because I've said that soooo many times. Ray's so awesome.
Rob M:
Thats the whole problem for me, I don't know what I'm supposed to not want!! I live in a small 2 bedroom apartment with my severly disabled daughter...should I just be content with this or am I allowed to WANT my own home? Everyday is the same for me, because my daughter requires constant care. While friends and family travel, get married, buy homes, get to socialize, I'm stuck at home and feel life is passing me by.
I know all my wants should be of a spirtual nature...wisdom, understanding, but it's such a struggle not to want a better life for myself in this age because I grew up very poor and my life has turned of very different than I envisioned as a youngster. To be simply put, I feel my life is a mess and I don't know what I should or should not want.
Deborah-Leigh:
If you knew...I know, I know, I heard you say you don't know...but...If you did know, what you wanted...just let's pretend for a while...if you did know...and I know you don't....but if you did...what would you know, you wanted...if you knew...
Just one thing...what would it be?
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