- Jan 15, 2008
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Hello everyone. I joined because I no longer want to be a slave to this world and to sin unto death. I have grown rather fond of life
and I pray that God continues his increase in me - to His glory and according to His purpose! I would rather be the least in the Kingdom Of God than the greatest concerning things of men. As long as I have known I have remained vile; a deceiver especially unto myself; trusting in my own heart and going by the light of my own sparks.Growing up I was raised Roman Catholic and had given much thought into the priesthood, even to the point of temptation of suicide concerning this. Satan made this my struggle to trick me. However God woke me up to the things of His Kingdom concerning His Christ. Should I not give credence to The Creator over those things which are the affairs of men?...I think not! Praise be to God, and that you may all abound in Him, in Christ...in THE WAY!That said I feel very feeble in Christ. I spent many years growing strong in the ways of man and the things concerning this world, yes things of Satan's realm and of the flesh. Although I was raised Christian I was hardly given the milk of the Word though I thank God even for this. For a couple years after establishing a relationship with my savior I continued to take his promises in vain and again nail my savior to the cross.Please pray for me that I may rekindle the beautiful relationship I use to have with the Lord. Also I should probably start a separate thread for this, but I am extremely interested in knowing how the real HOT, HOT, HOT Christians are living these days? The true ones. I don't want no lukewarm answers. One of the things that led me away from God was finding few in Him that were on fire as I was. This however was the devices and deceitfulness of my own heart, this I am certain, and that somehow I must have avoided true discipleship.Dear God, if there be out there true disciples, though I find myself unworthy; please help me take confidence with them to one another's refinement to your honor and glory, Amen. This is not an invitation for deceivers, I'll know who you are. The Kingdom of God is known through power of spirit and not the wisdom of words of man.That said I believe that the true disciples will eventually leave the things of hell-i-vision and the internet to return to the old ways. Or at least I would hope that more would do this than some. For the time being I see this as a place for me to tarry and grow, but I feel that when the Spirit comes the calling will be in the flesh with the laying on of hands, etc. I have great fear of the devices of man and feel many are drawn off, manipulated through them. I know God has his counter though as I have already seen in this forum.One of the first threads I started to read through was Evil Spirits in Christianity by Jag(thesuperJag) and wow my heart almost burst with love for you Jag. I felt your power and conviction as well as from Kriss too. There were some 15 pages there and I couldn't stop reading. It is said that there will be more rejoicing in heaven for one lost one to be found than over a hundred already saved, paraphrasing obviously, but that is what I felt last night for you when reading those. I was overwhelmed with joy and then zeal the same as you have for our Father's house overtook me. You were an atheist you said and converted to Christ, when I heard this the joy just overwhelmed me, due also to your passion for THE WAY, and only a year in. I read many other post and was greatly humbled. I am now also going to strictly be a King James reader. From my heart thank you, but praise be to God. I look forward to meeting those in this community worthy to to serve God.Love in Christ,MarkP.S. My full name translated means bearing Christ a hammer, as in to smash the idols and deception that lay before Christ in this generation. Please do not die at the gate, but break through, that is my prayer for all as well as myself. Only in Christ and Christ only, forever Amen.
