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Being thrown in prison
Wanda:
The absolute worst time was after being called out of the church. I believed I had been in the one true church therefore I had nowhere to go. Before that, I felt like I was in a spiritual wasteland, but now I was more lost than I could have ever imagined. I was shut off from everyone who had been such a sygificant part of my life, especially God, or so I thought. It felt as though I'd been locked away in prison. I searched online for months looking for anything that remotely spoke of the truth of God. Time and time again I came up short and was becoming more hopeless as time passed. I talked to God but not in earnest, as I eventually did.
By this point I was begging him to show me his truth. I remember it like it was yesterday, sitting in front of my lap top talking to God with tears of anquesh, begging him to lead me in the right direction. Shortly I pulled myself together, opened my laptop, thought of just the right search terms to type into the search bar, bible truths. The search page came up, and every option was for bible-truths.com. all the way down the page. I've tried that same search term after, and never came up with those same results again. I clicked on one of those options, landed on the home page, and in utter amazement read Ray's teachings for hours. In a very short period of time I knew this was God's truth and just like that, I was free from my spirtual prison. I've no doubt this was a test of my faith, as most things we suffer are.
indianabob:
Friend Wanda,
Thanks for sharing your spiritual journey.
Bob
--- Quote from: Wanda on January 14, 2020, 07:47:50 PM ---The absolute worst time was after being called out of the church. I believed I had been in the one true church therefore I had nowhere to go. Before that, I felt like I was in a spiritual wasteland, but now I was more lost than I could have ever imagined. I was shut off from everyone who had been such a sygificant part of my life, especially God, or so I thought. It felt as though I'd been locked away in prison. I searched online for months looking for anything that remotely spoke of the truth of God. Time and time again I came up short and was becoming more hopeless as time passed. I talked to God but not in earnest, as I eventually did.
By this point I was begging him to show me his truth. I remember it like it was yesterday, sitting in front of my lap top talking to God with tears of anquesh, begging him to lead me in the right direction. Shortly I pulled myself together, opened my laptop, thought of just the right search terms to type into the search bar, bible truths. The search page came up, and every option was for bible-truths.com. all the way down the page. I've tried that same search term after, and never came up with those same results again. I clicked on one of those options, landed on the home page, and in utter amazement read Ray's teachings for hours. In a very short period of time I knew this was God's truth and just like that, I was free from my spirtual prison. I've no doubt this was a test of my faith, as most things we suffer are.
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Rocco:
Small paragraph from one of Ray's teachings. Might bless you as it does me.
It’s when you don’t see a way out of the spiritual prison that Christ has put you in. It’s got a door with bars and windows with bars and there is no way out, you have got to pay the price (This is in my next installment, by the way, part D). There is no way out, you got to pay the utter most for it. You say, 'I don’t even know what it is.' God knows! Christ puts you in prison sometimes. You have to live by faith, you have no choice but to live by faith. Either that or give up on God, and throw it all away and say 'I’m through with this living Godly stuff.'
You got to live by faith and hopefully that’s what we’re doing.
Dennis Vogel:
--- Quote from: Rocco on January 15, 2020, 01:36:07 AM ---You got to live by faith and hopefully that’s what we’re doing.
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But we cannot conger up our own faith - it is the gift of God
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Wanda:
From a very young age I never doubted in God's existance but I never had the kind of faith it takes to rely on him, until the power and truth of his word made it possible.
James 2
5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters:Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?
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