How Do You Handle Conviction?
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It took me a while to know how to put on the whole armour of God and I think there are still chinks.
@Pearl I'm sure this is true of all of us. I like what Paul says:
"Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3.13-14)
@April_Rose Some places don't use robes; if the person is okay in pants (or trousers they call them in England).
quietthinker
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Conviction is God's Sprit saying 'you are in error, not this way'. It is also the prompt to choose to change direction...permanently; to realise one's cup is empty and to have a desire to learn of the good things.I don't like being convicted,.. at all. I know it means that I'm saved and I say that I'm sorry to God shortly afterwards but I still feel guilty that I've sinned. I always think to myself that even though God forgives me, I don't feel like I deserve it.Of course I guess I don't which is why Jesus came,.. but still,.. it really stinks.
Feelings are important yet they are not the sole reference point. If our primary interest is to feel good we will continually be overcome.
God's Spirit gives birth to a desire and love for righteousness. If that is absent and the sole desire is to feel good, another spirit is in the drivers seat.
Oh well I was just wondering. I was baptized into a Methodist church so I just had the water poured on me. I know some people are picky but it's what's in the heart that counts otherwise it wouldn't mean anything anyways.
Absolutely, one of the best days of my life and Ray got baptised at the same time.@Pearl So memorable, I'm sure, right?
That's my daughter in the pretty white blouse to the right of the photo. It was very hot and very noisy. Our church was lovely and Iv'e seen most of these kids grow up. We didn't have a baptismal pool so we borrowed another church for baptisms back then.
What robe? Jesus didn't wear a special robe. Back then I didn't have many nice things and we all just went in the water in our ordinary clothes. We still do it that way, and a few years ago I got to baptise a lady in our church and felt amazing too.
If we are born again we not need robes or other religious trappings. Just Jesus.
@April_Rose Very true; I like what Paul said:
"...though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
...While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." (2 Corinthians 4.16; 18)
quietthinker
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funny you should say that....in a way it is.....a sort of a compass inbuilt in all peoples.You make it sound like a GPS.
True,.. VERY good point!!
Hehe,.. recomputing.
(Btw, looks like you took my words to heart,.. you're seeming quite a bit more likeable now actually. )
quietthinker
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hmmmm, strange isn't it AR?....I suppose it's a bit like how I see God.... ie, once it registers for me that God actually likes me and that he cares about what I think....that he has my interest at heart, I see him in a new fresh light. All the while I see it was not God who had changed but my perception of him. It makes me love him all the more.True,.. VERY good point!!
Hehe,.. recomputing.
....and so it is to be with the spreading of the gospel.....to make folk of the ordinary and the rebellious ilk see God in a way that draws them to him.
quietthinker
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Growth is manifested in the ability to be able to distinguish the voices of self condemnation.....the voices of Satan and the voice of God
Many voices are our own....voices of our own unworthiness or conversely of our own superior view. Satan exploits these internal voices and attempts to drive a wedge between us and our God and a wedge between us and others.
Behold
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Actually I've asked Him to save me more than once just in case He didn't think I meant it or heard me the first time which is ridiculous now that I know better since He sees, hears, and knows all.
He heard you the first time, and God will keep you for all times.
See, you are an expensive purchase, April.
You are "bought with a price". = the Blood of Jesus, and God has never yet wasted His blood on anyone He redeemed by this Holy Blood.
You would have to agree that God thinks you are something very special, as He gave His own Blood for you.
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I don't like being convicted,.. at all. I know it means that I'm saved and I say that I'm sorry to God shortly afterwards but I still feel guilty that I've sinned. I always think to myself that even though God forgives me, I don't feel like I deserve it.
Thank the Lord for the conviction of the Holy Spirit that leads us to repentance. Repentance is about the renewing of the mind to think like Jesus Christ. Feeling sorry is only a superficial, but necessary, step.
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