when i was a little boy......... about 10 yrs old, i use to tie sticks together, in the shape of a Cross, and wonder why.
"what is that". ??????????? I had no idea.
My parents were dead faith believers, and i was raised to be anything but a Messianic Believer.
I went to one church service in my entire life, until i was 16 yrs old.
And i was about 6 yrs old when i went to that one service., and i did have a week of Sunday School when i was 6.
That is all the "church" i had in my life, till i was '16., other then a "Jack Chick" Tract i found on the ground when i was 6 and i read it and it never has left my mind.
Eventually through circumstances, i ended up going to church when i was 16, for a while. A couple of years.
Then, on one Sunday morning,. i BELIEVED.
And....For a while i was a completely different person...... and Then, over the next decade, i just sort of lived life...not related to Christianity.
One day, im in my living room, in '1986....and heaven came down while i was looking at a High School Year book....
I had not been to church in about a decade, ., and i had a visitation in that living room., while looking at my High School Year book.
"Out of the blue'.
I was not reading a bible. I had not prayed in years. I had "dead faith".....= ZERO concern about "Christianity".
And...In comes Heaven, and i was by myself..... and it was scary.
It was not "lay on the floor in joyful convulsions". at all.
It was..>"you are now going to be shown some things, and you were not prepared to see them or know them."
"Hold on". !!
And for 2 yrs....i saw a lot of signs and wonders., in the day time, and sometimes at night, and ive seen more since then on both sides of the world.
Ive seen miracles happen before my EYES, in the DAYTIME.
At times, early on, that first 5 yrs.... i was really afraid, because i had no idea that all this "Christian stuff" was so very true, even tho i was a nominal at best, Christian.
Within a few months God put me in a Christian Radio station, ( as i had some Broadcasting/Communications) in College.
I was there for 2 yrs,. I actually lived at this Station..... and it was a literal sabbatical from the world..
All i did was deal with Preachers, listen to and write and record Christian music, and study the Bible.
It was a spiritual boot camp..
It was the initial "enabling" regarding my "Call".
I had no idea what it was, at that time.
I just knew that i was not in control of what i was seeing, learning,...
I was in "the harness".
And then one day, i was sitting on a porch swing, about 6am, in the summer, sun was coming up and im studying the bible.
This is about '1991. And God showed me more.. and that is when my "call" was put on Track that i'd received in that living room, some yrs earlier.
Now, .... a lot of time has passed and ive done a lot of Evangelizing and Teaching, ive worked as an officer(s) in the Church...many things that i never expected, have happened to me.
So, all of that....Its what i do in REAL life, as this "forum stuff" is just the fact that i care about Believers on Forums, because i know that "christian" forums are anything but that,, is the reality.
And i want them to have a chance to see HOW to SEE and HEAR Deception, and SPOT deceivers/heretics, and get some Good Cross Centered Pauline Theology also..., so that they can get grounded In God's Grace and Power, and sometimes actually be delivered from a cult or a theology that has them so bound and in their darkness.
