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brothertoall:
Keys2,

 Yes how utterly disturbing it is but God did and will be taking you down the path He wants us to go and then has brought you and I and most everyone here to where we are all now. We truly have been born again to make a fresh start with God leading and guiding us through it all.

 How truly blessed we really are. How merciful He truly is.

 This is not an easy journey and He told us it would not be, but those early years can not compare to what we have now.It was all part of God's plan for our lives.

bobby

SandyFla:
While growing up, I heard countless "hellfire & brimstone" sermons, followed inevitably by an altar call. As a kid, I was terrified, so I'd go to the altar. I felt like God was drawing me. But when I got up there, it was like God turned His back and my prayers went no higher than the ceiling. It felt like I had to BEG & PLEAD with God to forgive my sins and "come into my heart." I always wondered why God was so fickle. People would tell me that is just Satan trying to stop me from getting saved.

The reason we were to come to an altar to pray, rather than pray in private at home, they said, was because we are to acknowledge God publicly. If we are too proud to do that, Jesus will not acknowlege us publicly before His Father:

"Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven" (Matthew 10:32-33).

It was all part of "confessing your faults to one another" (James 5:16).

Funny ... I felt holy when I got up, but I was just as sinful by the time I got home. No real change of heart. Just a temporary "feel-good" fix.

Sandy

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