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Who are the dead in Christ
cjwood:
You are in great (formerly crappy) company! We are in for a wild ride and I for one look forward with glee to what all God has in store for us. We are all a work in progress with only up to go! 8)
hi ricky,
lin's words noted above are so true! i have never been more happy to be part of a group as i am to be part of this lot of people on the BT/forum. we are truly a great (formerly crappy :o) company. a family formerly disfunctional, but slowly becoming a family of people conformed to His image. our wild journey towards that end is on the "narrow" path. if we don't keep our eyes focused on Him, we will fall to the left or to the right. it is hard and at times it appears impossible, but the path to Christ is sure, and we know that with God all things are possible.
there is another thread posted in this same "general discussions" section called "preaching the gospel to the world". there was a reply posted to that thread by "aqr/george" where he provided a link to an excerpt from ray's paper on "what is the gospel of the kingdom". the two sections george pasted from that link are called "the image of God" and "understanding the Book". if you have not already read the link and the writings, you should do so. each of the 2 sections provided are exactly what you have been speaking about in your initial thread post.
we ALL on the BT/forum have at one time or another felt some of the same things you have been feeling. i know that personally i am coming to hate my fleshly mind more and more and more. but i know that is the key to putting on the "new man", meaning the new spiritual mind of Christ. that is all part of God's creatING us into His image. no doubt, it will take our whole lifetime, but my oh my what an awesome prize awaiting us if we can endure the journey there.
so i too will exhort you to keep your chin up. and, keep talking, crying out, screaming at, singing to, or whispering to your Father because He wants to hear from you.
love in Christ ricky,
claudia
Ricky:
Hello Roy, Thankyou for your kind reply. I had probably made a big mistake here on BT by telling everyone about my dad`s side of the family I am quit sure that most if not all on BT will now have a very bad assumption about me now and would rather not associate with me, and that`s OK because I am use to it, it has allway`s been that way. I shall make one thing very clear, I was never a CLUB MEMBER for them, and I shall leave it at that. I needed to show everyone that I am different from all of you. None of you have ever done or lived they way I have, the first 39 years of my life, I know this. And I believe that because of this, it is the reason why it will take me 5 times longer for God to really bust me up and put me back together. I think that God has burnt all my sins out of me, except one. The first 39 years of my life was all booze, drugs, crime, and jail. I am a very hard man to deal with, I trust no one, and that includes God, and I think that may be the problem God has with me, or I have with Him. If you have no one to pray for you, somehow I think it may be harder for God to work on you, I do not know this for sure. I know God is with me but it feels like He may be sitting on the sidelines right now and letting me run the race on my own. I had always thought that God was out to get even with me for my past lifestyle. I have been clean from booze and crime now for 14 years, since 1995 the year I became a christian, and that happened because of a car accident on the Alaska highway. I woke up 3 weeks later 1500 miles away with a broken neck and back. Doctor`s have no medical reason why I am alive and not paralyzed today. If there is anyone here that could pray for me, just once, maybe God could find some mercy for me to help me understand just a little bit.
Thankyou Ricky
cjwood:
Satan always`s run`s my past in my face, and I try to get even with him by running his future in his face.
ricky,
now there's a statement worth making a bumper sticker out of!
claudia
cjwood:
I needed to show everyone that I am different from all of you. None of you have ever done or lived they way I have, the first 39 years of my life, I know this.
If you have no one to pray for you, somehow I think it may be harder for God to work on you, I do not know this for sure. I know God is with me but it feels like He may be sitting on the sidelines right now and letting me run the race on my own.
1995 the year I became a christian, and that happened because of a car accident on the Alaska highway. I woke up 3 weeks later 1500 miles away with a broken neck and back. Doctor`s have no medical reason why I am alive and not paralyzed today. If there is anyone here that could pray for me, just once, maybe God could find some mercy for me to help me understand just a little bit.
ricky,
regarding your showing everyone that you are different than us, all i can say is "ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!!" you are EXACTLY like us here. many, many of us have followed down the same path of booze, drugs, crime, and then booze, drugs, and crime AGAIN before God yanked us here by our necks!
regarding your having no one to pray for, well, that's no longer true. i/we will pray for you. you are part of our family. AND, yes, you are running this race (your journey) BUT, God is your head coach. you wouldn't even be on the team if HE hadn't put you on it.
and lastly, regarding their being no medical reasons as to why you are alive and not paralyzed today, it is because IT WAS NOT YOUR TIME YET! God had not lead you to the bible-truths website to be shown the awesome and life changing truths from His Scriptures yet. He knew you would come here, He caused EVERYTHING in your life to happen EXACTLY the way it did (EVEN living with your dad and his biker homies) to bring you to this VERY time in your life. BELIEVE IT ricky and REJOICE!!! yes, it is a hard path to follow BUT, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Christ is in you and He was more alone than you can ever even imagine. He knows your pain and He can heal it. LET HIM...
claudia
Ricky:
Thankyou Claudia. You have showed me something I needed to see and hear. What I meant by being different was that the criminal element that I chose to be a part of is the worst that there is. None of you would have ever been accepted by them, I was because of my family, 1 brother, and 2 cousin`s, full patch club members today. They are killer`s. That is the key to becoming a club member, you must kill on command. And that is the only thing I could not do, and they knew it. So I was family to them and not a club member. My favorite cousin Dave Schwartz was Sargent at arms for them. He was shot and killed April / 88. That is when I left. Roy Martin, thankyou Sir, you and I have some old ways that are in common. But the big difference I see in us is, you have only been here minutes and you are 500 miles ahead of me with God. I have been reading here 8 days now over a year and am no where near you and your walk with God. I could go on and on, I just want to thank you all for your help, and can only hope and pray that you will be patient with me. That beast inside me is trying to prevent me from continuing on with God. This is so hard for me. :'(
Bless you all. Ricky
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