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Daddysgirl:
Joe (well i really have to get used to this. In africa or atleast S.Africa it's kinda wrong to call an elder by their name, but im pretty sure you and others on here dont mind) ;)

I tried posting this yesterday just after you posted your journey, but my mobile phone(didnt have a pc at the time) wouldnt cooperate. All i wanted to say was that i always find so much humility and wisdom in your posts. You and others on this forum have become to me like mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers in so many ways that I cannot go a day without learning from you.

There are times that carnality kicks in and i ask myself; what if all this is unreal, what if Ray and others here are the ones twisting scripture to suit their beliefs(and no,i dont believe any of these!)? And each time i answer myself and say: You know what, i'd rather live the rest of my days believing and worshiping the God that Ray, BT forums and its members have helped reveal(for lack of a better word) to me "The only one SOVEREIGN God in whom all things truly consist", than the God of Christendom who supposedly takes orders from me and was subject to my own free will. Maybe some of you wont understand this, but this is big to me. The God that i knew a few months ago before BT and the God i know now are two totally different beings and i am so exceedingly glad that through much tribulation, He found me.

Thank you Joe and others. I pray that my years may be filled with the wisdom, humility, endurance and every fruit of the spirit evident in many of you here.

Matty

indianabob:
Thank you Joe and everyone,

Isn't it great to be a part of the Family of God and know it.

We are blessed beyond measure.

Bob

Akira329:
Thanks for sharing a little bit of your heart Joe! :)
I really needed it.

Antaiwan

Samson:
Thankyou Joe,

                    Thankyou for that enlightening Testimony, food for Spiritual thought.
                     I would like to make a comment on one particular paragraph that
                     stood out for me. See the copied and pasted portion of your Testimony
                     below.

                   
                     About 5 or 6 years ago this optimism started to recede, I was (and still am) in a very good marriage, our daughter had graduated from college (since then obtained her Masters Degree and beyond) I had (and have) a very good job, earning a decent living with the freedom to come and go as I please (as long as the Department I manage meets it's goals). I had every reason to be content and comfortable but I was uneasy, unsettled, something was definitely missing, there was a void in me you could drive a truck through.    ( One paragraph from Joe Hillsbororiver's Testimony)

                    [Comment: Many, if not all of the Physical(Carnal) desires were met; A good Marriage,
                                    A good Job, Freedom to come and go as you please, earning a decent living,
                                    every reason(physically) to be content..... Yet you experienced
                                    a void, am I correct to believe you are referring to a Spiritual void and
                                    emptiness. It goes to show that anyone can attain the creature comforts
                                    and a large measure of Wordly success and still feel empty. Nevertheless,
                                    apparently God literally dragged you to him having put the desire in you to
                                    to seek and obtain Spiritual Truth. It produces a measure of calmness inside
                                    of us, never felt before.


                                              Kind Regards, Samson.

aqrinc:

Hi Joe,

Thanks for sharing some more of you. Like Matty these thoughts do try to pop in when in an
unguarded moment. Whenever this happens now though there is always a Scripture in my mind
that jumps out and confront the Lie then obliterates it right there.

John 10:10:
The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life,
and that they might have it more abundantly.

george. ;D




--- Quote from: Daddysgirl on January 14, 2009, 05:15:51 AM ---There are times that carnality kicks in and i ask myself; what if all this is unreal, what if Ray and others here are the ones twisting scripture to suit their beliefs(and no,i don't believe any of these!)? And each time i answer myself and say: You know what, i'd rather live the rest of my days believing and worshiping the God that Ray, BT forums and its members have helped reveal(for lack of a better word) to me "The only one SOVEREIGN God in whom all things truly consist", than the God of Christendom who supposedly takes orders from me and was subject to my own free will. Maybe some of you wont understand this, but this is big to me. The God that i knew a few months ago before BT and the God i know now are two totally different beings and i am so exceedingly glad that through much tribulation, He found me.

Thank you Joe and others. I pray that my years may be filled with the wisdom, humility, endurance and every fruit of the spirit evident in many of you here.

Matty

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