Hi, I've been a "visitor" to this site from many, many years and finally became a member when one thread I was interested in took off and I wasn't able to read it as fast as it was happening. That's what sparked my membership...but what keeps me away is all the ridiculous bickering. My interest is the testimony of @Episkopos because it seems to line up with the testimonies of others who have since passed on to glory.
Matthew 7:7,8 says "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."
In my reading last night from a book called "Heart Talks on Holiness" by Samuel Logan Brengle I found teachings and testimony by Brengle that I believe @Episkopos is speaking about and has himself experienced. Brengle was known as a saintly man in the Salvation Army Revival. In the book, Brengle wastes no time and in Chapter 1 page 2, I read this:
"....At the same time God plants in the man’s heart a new life. The man is born of God, and receives what Paul calls the washing of regeneration, which washes away all the man’s guilt, and all the sin for which he is responsible. At this time, too, there will be planted in the man’s heart love, joy, peace, and the various fruits of the Spirit, and if his experience is very marked, as such experiences frequently are, he will probably think there is nothing more to be done. But, if he walks in “ humbleness of mind ” (which, by the way, is a much-neglected fruit of the Spirit), if he speaks often and freely with those who love the Lord, and if he carefully searches the Word of God and “ meditates therein day and night,” he will soon find that sin’s disease is deeper and more deadly than he thought, and that behind and below his own sins are the “works of the devil,” that must also be destroyed before the work of grace in his soul can be complete."
Please, only those interested in holiness need to comment.
a seeker
Matthew 7:7,8 says "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."
In my reading last night from a book called "Heart Talks on Holiness" by Samuel Logan Brengle I found teachings and testimony by Brengle that I believe @Episkopos is speaking about and has himself experienced. Brengle was known as a saintly man in the Salvation Army Revival. In the book, Brengle wastes no time and in Chapter 1 page 2, I read this:
"....At the same time God plants in the man’s heart a new life. The man is born of God, and receives what Paul calls the washing of regeneration, which washes away all the man’s guilt, and all the sin for which he is responsible. At this time, too, there will be planted in the man’s heart love, joy, peace, and the various fruits of the Spirit, and if his experience is very marked, as such experiences frequently are, he will probably think there is nothing more to be done. But, if he walks in “ humbleness of mind ” (which, by the way, is a much-neglected fruit of the Spirit), if he speaks often and freely with those who love the Lord, and if he carefully searches the Word of God and “ meditates therein day and night,” he will soon find that sin’s disease is deeper and more deadly than he thought, and that behind and below his own sins are the “works of the devil,” that must also be destroyed before the work of grace in his soul can be complete."
Please, only those interested in holiness need to comment.
a seeker