Christ4Me
Well-Known Member
No, I have posted what I believe and what I have experienced many times on forums including this one over the years with regard to tongues. I do not know all of the answers. Only God does. God increases people when He does.
As to my personal testimonies..., that is what they are. I won't argue about them.
Be blessed in the things of God!
Did you not have a personal testimony when you were a Catholic? And yet you have grown in your walk with the Lord since then, but you had to amend your testimony, right, from being a Catholic and doing what you had believed to be true?
So in a lot of ways, you are an example of proving all things with the Lord and to abstain from all appearances of evil.
This shows the Lord is working in your life as a believer, pruning you so you can bear more fruit.
John 15:1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
We are always growing, learning in the Lord, and that means we are open to the Lord for corrections by the scripture to even proving everything in our testimony that we had thought to be true.
It is when we stop listening to the Lord and resisting the scriptures that oppose something in our testimony is when we stop abiding in Him to bear more fruit.
Indeed, those who are abiding in Him should be ready to give an answer to those who ask and not treat their personal testimony as if it is written in stone when it has been changed from before. If they do not have an answer "yet", then just say that, but to say personal testimonies are not to be argued with, is the same as not having an answer for those that do ask or contend with because of opposition in scripture.
Have a blessed day in the Lord, brother. Trust Him as your Good Shepherd & Friend to continue to face and accept some of the hard truths in scripture so He may prune us and bear more fruit as His disciple.