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"THE" CHURCH VS. "MY" CHURCH

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lferretj:
Hello,
   Samson's reply caught my attention mentioning "As an example: What good is Water Baptism if an individual acts the same after the immersion."  I always felt I wasn't good enough to get baptized because I knew I wouldn't stop sinning after the fact and didn't want to stand up in front of the church get dipped under water and then fail miserably, so I was never baptized.  I also don't like to put my head under water or stand in front of crowds.  And now I find out that to become members of the church I was attending they require you to be baptized--so I was never an official member anyway and i'd been going for 15 years.  Now I feel like a whole person with the spirit moving in me and I don't need to be dipped in water but in the spirit and fire of God.
    I've also noticed that I don't get bothered by other people's actions as much because it is a comfort to know that God has each of us where we are supposed to be.  It makes it easier to love one another.
    I also noticed while in Babylon that a lot of my thoughts were just brushed off, and that in a bible study I attended for 5 years we never studied the meat, only milk and not even good milk.
    Also knowing that the end has a happy ending makes the Good News actually good.  Even if I'm not chosen or one of the few I'd be happy to go through the Lake of Fire as that means I will be made anew.
        Lferretj
   

Deborah-Leigh:
Hi lferretj

   
--- Quote ---I've also noticed that I don't get bothered by other people's actions as much.......
--- End quote ---

That is a HUGE deliverance from pain and bondage to be blessed to not be influenced by other peoples degenerate blindness.

Just last night my husband and I  sat with some "sinners" and in the past I would have felt filthy within but this time when  I we both returned home, I felt untouched and blessed that Jesus too had mixed among "sinners". What was so wonderful was that during the time with these people, they shared how they had suffered in life. One had been raped by a Catholic Priest when he was nine years old. The other had suffered the trauma of having a baby girl who had to have the speech centre of her brain removed when she was five months old and his wife was in agony over loosing her sister.

Just KNOWING that God was the author of these peoples sufferings kept me within a fire wall like a computer program that is protected from virus attack. Their dramas though very real and deeply hurtful, do have a place in the plan of God Who will heal them and set them free from the deep bitterness, rage, confusion and denied deep seated hatred for God that they demonstrated in their own hard calloused handling of their own personal pain. That is the grief. The hardened criminal disowns their pain and acts it out by hurting others.

Again, I can not reiterate enough, what a huge blessing it is when God puts you behind His fire wall that sterilises the pain of others snarling agonies from bringing you down with them. This was Gods way of bringing His Peace to their dramas. Both my Husband and I were able to simply BE, while they opened up their wounds to us. We did not analyse, criticise, or disrespect them. I believe this was a form of healing for their parched souls they have never known before and if they have, they have forgotten. God had His plan for us to be there last night and today is a bright New Day.

I left and affirmed that God has them where He wants them, but that small morsle of meat was rejected.
For us, the meat is life sustaining!
Arc.

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