It's a GOOD way to be, but I've made my mistakes, believe me! There are times when the Holy Spirit will "put a check" on my heart about someone and sometimes I get stubborn and refuse to listen ... then I get into trouble when I trust them and they don't measure up to that trust. It's called "discernment of spirits" ... and, like all the gifts of the Spirit, it can be overridden by stubborn people.
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"I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to His holy people." Jude 3 Joyce
Wordworker I am trying to be like you in thinking the best about someone but I am not perfect but working on it until the end. That is a good attitude to have.
The poster says he wasn't a Christian until his 40th year even though he says he wrote about Jesus before that. In my mind that shows that he knows the difference between salvation and head knowledge ...
"In my 40th year I became a Christian and the process began. 3 years later I had a dream where I was walking among Demons and I thought I was alone but for some reason I asked why am I here and immediately the demons turned and rushed at me and for the first time in my life I was truly scared. I cried out..."
I am speculating here because I don't know this person ... but I believe that he WAS a Christian who was suffering from deep fears and that Jesus (in His mercy) was demonstrating to him that it wasn't the poster that faced the demons but "Christ Who lived in him." I always prefer to believe the best about people until I am proven wrong.
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"I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to His holy people." Jude 3 Joyce
The part that bothers me is this: "I cried out to JESUS 3 times and when I turned around JESUS was standing right there and he stepped into my body." This doen't sound like a confession of faith, expressing the need for forgiveness of sin and the need for a Savior. From just the facts presented here, unless something was left out, I think this is a counterfeit conversion which has no saving power.
I suppose we just need to hear back from him to know the facts.
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A preacher in those days, when he felt God called him to preach, didn't hunt up a college or seminary, he hunted up a good horse, took off across the country and began crying "Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world"!
Bob (and all) I suspect he took his quote from the little chorus>>> "It's no longer I that liveth but Christ Who liveth in me It's no longer I that liveth but Christ Who liveth in me .... He lives~~~ He lives~~~ Jesus is alive in me! It's no longer I that liveth but Christ Who liveth in me!"
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"I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to His holy people." Jude 3 Joyce
"I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to His holy people." Jude 3 Joyce
The actual quote (pasted) from his blog is: I am no longer alive but it is Christ who lives in me.
I believe he is stating as the verse below states.
20 I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
I can appreciate what he is saying. When I was approximately 7 years of age, we lived in a house where you had to walk through the boys bedroom to get to the girls bedroom. I awoke sometime in the middle of the night to see what I believe to be the Devil walking past the foot of my bed and going through the curtain that was used as a door for the girls bedroom. It scared me half to death. I screamed and woke everybody and my dad checked the house and no one was there. I troubled with that for years and years until I gave my life to the Lord.I believe that Secondson is trying possibly to give a message and like so many of us....maybe is new at it and struggles to word it as he feels it.Just my 2 cents worth.
-- Edited by bobw at 17:08, 2008-01-13
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A preacher in those days, when he felt God called him to preach, didn't hunt up a college or seminary, he hunted up a good horse, took off across the country and began crying "Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world"!
Kennyt ~~ He never said he was dead, he said the devil appeared to him. And how do you know he didn't? AS for you, SecondSon. Many people do use these types of stories to bait people, however, I know that every once-in-awhile they are true. IF the second is the case for you, God bless you in your liberation ... if it isn't, well, God knows all and will take care of it. Welcome to the board, Son.
-- Edited by wordworker at 18:20, 2008-01-13
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"I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to His holy people." Jude 3 Joyce
I don't know who you are but most of this story sounds made-up and sort of like you may be baiting someone. If you are really dead then you are either at two places: so stay there.
When I was 20 yrs old the devil appeared to me. He was half man and half horse. I freaked, but a week later he appeared again and this time he spoke to me. He told me the world was his and he could do whatever he wanted with it and he would give it all to me if I would follow him. A week later my girlfriend became possessed and said the devil told her that I would show her how to sell her soul. I never told her what had happened to me. That was when I knew without a doubt the devil was real and thus so was God. I spent the next 20 years afraid God was mad at me. During these 20 years I wrote a book about Jesus return but I was not a Christian and merely the mention of JESUS name made me uncomfortable. In my 40th year I became a Christian and the process began. 3 years later I had a dream where I was walking among Demons and I thought I was alone but for some reason I asked why am I here and immediately the demons turned and rushed at me and for the first time in my life I was truly scared. I cried out to JESUS 3 times and when I turned around JESUS was standing right there and he stepped into my body and I just started singing in tongues and at that time I was overwelmed with the feeling everyone in heaven was so happy this had finally happened. I am no longer alive but it is Christ who lives in me. It is my Fathers will not mine and he wants you to look to him only and not any other man,period. The Gospels tell you how JESUS lived and he tells you how to live, you already have all the information you need to have the Holy Spirit dwell in you. It is really simple, so simple a child can understand. You only need to have the view of a child. Remember a Child shall lead them.
