I am sitting on my bed early morning THANKING GOD and being AMAZED that because of His great mercy I NO LONGER smoke cigarettes!
Cigarettes are more than a bad habit. They are one of the devils "tools". They steal, kill, and destroy. But there is freedom in Christ.
This was a major bondage in my life. The BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST destroyed that yoke! I have been loosed of it, 16 months ago. PRAISE THE LORD! This was a major prayer answered. I couldn't/wouldn't have done it on my own.
When I get a craving I just start praising God. And the craving leaves. (Thank You Lord)
Hallelujah.and glory to God in the highest. So much good has come to my life just from quitting cigarettes.
If you're struggling with an addiction to _________, ask God to make you HATE that thing. He will do it!
I have found God to be faithful, when I am not. To be a merciful loving Father, Savior, Deliverer, Healer, Friend, and so much more!
WOW..so this is what "America the Free" should feel like.! From age 2-38 I was abused in Everyway & allowed that to run/rune my life. Thinking I was Christian cuz I was raised that way or because I went to church. Then, In 2021 God showed me true Love, Peace & Freedom from my past that was dragging me way down, to near suicide, a few times. I have since apalajized to my kids for bringing my baggage over the yrs raising them (single) with anger, spitefulness & being vengeful at times. Tho we went to church so God's hand was w/them. Thank you Lord! Which lead me to think, IF I had Read, Studied & Learned His word, instead of listening to others tell me what the bible says, I could have reached this point way sooner. Then the meaning & depth of the words, "It's all in His time for His glory", came to mean so much. So in letting go of said baggage & finally Loving Him w/all my being & helping others in need (even when I was homeless) how free I truly have become thanks be to God.! I no longer stress over what's going on in the world, tho I disagree w/pertnear everything, I pray anytime I see things or hear sirens even. I talk to ppl (before you couldn't get me to, to save my own life) daily about believing in their heart He is the ONLY way truth & life.! Loving God w/all our being (heart, soul, mind & strength) & our neighbor as yourself (anyone in need), again I say WOW, the peace that passes ALL understanding was with me always, right at the top of my nose. Then reading all the prayers & responses in here it hit me even harder..how we have to work together to make the world great again. Not just America.! Love GOD & EVERYONE in need with ALL our being.! Amen, Amen& Amen
Oh Lord Jesus Almighty i call your name every day to tell what I need in my life and Ways Your my life and ways and my slide way God am still waiting for this long shall I see your help today version your my touch light and my salvation and glory what can I do to make my needs back Into your hands you no whom I am God bless me father of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Moses and light show me your love in Jesus Christ name Amen
Since I was very young I had nightmares and images flash in my head sometimes feeling of being watched would overwhelm me at night and I would scream out. I remember coming to age and the understanding of the world.being so painful (my personal life and the wider picture) sometimes I'd feel so out of control and the sadness would feel like my heart was being crushed as if it was a car at a scrap yard. As I became a young adult I would look for distraction from reliving painful mistakes and events in my life I was living with so.much pain and exhaustion from being someone I didn't want to be. one day a friend of mine asked me to join her for church as she was visiting her mum's church and didn't want to go alone. as I joined the church inside I continued to feel uncomfortable and uneasy with the other people finding ways.to.judge and distance myself from them.
The music.started and people started to sing I was reading the words and singing to and I started.to get into it and enjoy the music I felt an odd demention of affiliation to the lyrics I looked over at the people and I saw something in the church although nothing had changed and could not physically see anything. It was as if the breath of the people singing was reaching up to the open.space above and as if the very same.something was reaching down to them and finding the church it was beatiful! It seemed to.move.around the room like a great wind I heard the speaker say the words of Jesus " take my yoke apon you and I shall give you rest, " and it just felt so real to me at that moment I felt a pressure on my heart and chest it's as if the cloud in the room wanted to be in me i.felt as if someone was behind me and in front of me and beside me and it got stronger I have in to this beautiful feeling and I know God with me and still do. Jesus is teaching me and his spirit fills me with love and the father tells me what to do and what will happen. God is really it's nuts
I have seen the effects of many things, I have learned of God and God's LOVE. I have walked through the valley of death i call life for nearly 70 years now. I often wonder how much easier my life could have been. if only i had listen to GOD and his teachings before now.. I like love God and put all troubles I had to endure on me. I see now that the battles I fought was between the spirits we all have and the spirits that were and and the spirits that are in me. Both good and bad spirits. i thank God for keeping me safe all my life. I thank God for sharing all I ask of HIM, HIS WHISDOM, HIS LOVE, HIS MERCY, HIS HELP! Glory to God forever
I was raised by a Godly Mother who took me to Church and Sunday School, taught me the difference between right and wrong and introduced to JESUS CHRIST. One Sunday morning when I was about nine years old, I went forward during the invitation time and knelt at the altar. I remember a lady praying with me and she told me to confess to GOD that I was a sinner and ask HIM to forgive my sin and ask HIM to save me. That night I was baptized. From that day forward, in my own mind, I believed that I was a Christian. Upon graduating from high school I put my Christian life to the side and went my own way. I got involved in some pretty heavy drug use and began to live a life completely contrary to the way I had been raised. Several years later, I found myself with no job, no money and no place to stay. So I moved back home with my MOTHER. I had nothing but time on my hands and for whatever reason I began to read an old Scofield BIBLE that my Mother had given me for my 16th birthday. The more I read the more the
HOLY SPIRIT began to convict my heart and slowly but surely convince my mind that I had never given my heart and my life to GOD I had only been through the motions. So there in my bedroom on a Tuesday evening 8/5/75 around 7:25 I gave my life to CHRIST. At the time I was smoking 4 packs of Kool Filter Kings a day. I asked the LORD to help me give up that nasty habit - I did not want to be a hypocrite. PRAISE GOD FROM THAT DAY UNTIL THIS I HAVE NEVER SMOKED ANOTHER CIGARETTE NOR DONE ANY MORE OF ANY KIND OF DRUG. My Christian life has been far from perfect but at this point in my life I start and end every day spending a little time reading my BIBLE and praying. I make an effort to ask every person I come in contact with
" I WONDER DO YOU KNOW THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR? DO YOU KNOW FOR SURE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HEAVEN WHEN YOU DIE? The responses I get are varied but I've had many opportunities to share and to pray with folks. OUR GOD IS AWESOME!!!
I received Jesus Christ as my personal savior Easter Sunday 1994. Since then I have been blessed in so many ways. God is so faithful. One example of his provision that helped build my faith as a new believer... My husband's brother and his wife were struggling to make ends meet and they were unable to make their house payment. We were newly married and were struggling as well, but I had just the amount they needed in my savings account. Without a second thought, we gave them the money to pay their mortgage. That very day I received a refund check for a retainer fee, from a lawyer I had used the year before. It was the same amount of money we had withdrawn from our savings account. The Lord proved to me that very day that when he asks us to give, we need not be afraid. He will take care of us better than we could ever imagine. He has provided for us over and over and over again.
Our 16 year old son was tragically killed in a car accident in 2012. He had accepted Christ as his savior March 20, 2011, PRAISE GOD! When the police knocked on the door and delivered the news I sat there speechless for a moment. I finally said to them, "If what you are telling me is true, I KNOW where my son is. He is in heaven." I excused myself for a moment and went to my room where I dropped to my knees and prayed. I asked the Lord to give me the courage and the strength to get through this and to give me that "peace that passes all understanding". I believe he did, that very moment. Dealing with such a tremendous loss is something no one wants to go through but I KNOW where he is. He is in the presence of the Lord. I WILL see him again some sweet day. It's been 10 years and I miss him very much. My marriage is stronger than it was before our loss. We have shared his testimony with teens and adults and have had sweet fellowship with other parents in our situation. God has carried us, provided for us, loved us, sheltered us and healed us. Thank You Lord Jesus! Amen
I am born again and have the spirit of the Lord but for many years I have chosen men that were wrong for me and it became obvious. This morning I sought a specific word from the Lord and can it be he wants to set me free from choosing frogs or from choosing to act like Pharoh? I think I thought that if I kissed them theyd become princes and you know how we ladies like to think we can change a man. We Christians think we can make choices without asking him because we feel something, without taking into account the scripture that says " The heart is the desperately wicked thing" The heart feels this or feels that but God knows. I want to trust my Lord to keep Pharoh and the frogs out of my life. So this morning I "cast my cares over on the Lord for he cares for me." I trust and obey the Lord. Please pray for me.
Ray Peters (What's the Bible say about all this? I ran out of space for the on 2 Corinthians 5 - 1 year ago
Greetings! I attend a church that I love - the leadership, the goals, and objectives - and I "feel" like I'm on solid ground in general.
However, the leadership seems to push "speaking in tongues" over the basics of Christianity (e.g., Jesus says the greatest among you will be your servant and our Father in the faith Paul teaches that prophecies will fail, tongues cease, and knowledge will pass away.) Of course, what I'm referring to isn't really "speaking in tongues." It's a private prayer language that is spewed publicly and privately and is regarded as acceptable regardless of occasion and venue.
What the leadership refers to as "prayer language," serves zero purpose other than a measuring stick for the leadership to separate "the men from the boys" as far who is baptized by the Holy Spirit. So technically, they are not "speaking in tongues." In fact, it reminds me more of the scenario outlined in the story about the Tower of Babel.
In addition, a goodly sum of the people who use this prayer language and are allegedly baptized by the Holy Spirit have anger issues, they are covenant breakers, and they exhibit issues relating to self control - and the list goes on. So even if what that they are experiencing is "the real deal," a significant number of this "true blue elect" are ostensibly lack luster. The Pastor has even cited a friend who "was baptized in the Holy Spirit," spoke in the prayer language, and yet continued on in a struggle with violent behavior.
I'm the worship leader in the church. I do not speak the Tower of Babel prayer language, and while I don't own it, I could easily be made to feel like a substandard, 2nd class Christian. My goal is not to focus on anyone's shortcomings as we must all love each other; however, I feel like there is a HUGE inconsistency in what I know for a fact that the Holy Spirit accomplishes vs. the fruit (or lack thereof) that is regularly exhibited by these spiritual he-men who possess this prayer language.
I was very sinful, i cursed i was getting into fights. I mean i knew God i just didn't have a relationship with Him and I was following after the world. When i moved i was happier then ever, i changed for the better. I then started my relationship with God. I was so happy i spread his word and read my bible and always knew that He was there for me. Then i started slacking I stopped reading my Bible I stopped Praying and i just stopped doing everything that i loved doing. Now I'm just now starting to get back on track with my relationship with God. I love him, with all my heart. He changed me for the better. I also know that some of this stuff doesn't really make sense but as long as it makes since to me and God, It makes since.
I have been a porn addict for most of my life saying yes Lord I want you in my life and never following through.I can't remember how many times I have said yes to Jesus Christ and failed him by going back to porn.Im now 71 years old and realized I have wasted so much time to my sinful nature and not given it to God.I have recommitted my life to Jesus Christ and ask the Holy Spirit to make all my moves.For the first time in my life I feel lead by God.
I am Allison I am the founder of KTLM (Kindness through Letters Mission) a mission I started by myself to encourage and spread God's love to people all over the USA since I started KTLM (Kindness through Letters mission) I am also disabled I have sent over 1,000 letters and cards . I am from Arkansas I love spreading God's love throughout the world
I started by sending letters to soldiers, prisoners and sick kids my goal with this mission is to bless as many people as I can as I slowly expand this mission into a future non profit as I spread God's love and kindness throughout the world
God lead me to share my story of my faith based mission KTLM
A brother in Christ once dreamt a dream. He was in his house and an angel came in and asked him to follow him. The angel was going to show him his house in Heaven. So they both went into Heaven. They went to a place where there was a marvelous house like a palace. The brother thought "Well, this is my house". The angel as though he read his thoughts told him, " No, No, No, this house is not for you, it is for that elderly woman who sits at the back of the church. She is always praying for her brothers and sisters, day and night". The brother got a bit dissapointed. They kept walking until they reached another marvelous house. The brother thought, " Well, this time this house is definitely mine" " No, No, No, said the angel. This belongs to that humble brother who always goes unnoticed in the church. He always runs to meet his brothers needs and he is there to support everybody who is in any sort of need".' Next time the brorher was not now in any hurry to think anything, but the same thing happened. Not his house. I don't remember how many times he said the same thing was repeated but sometime later on they came to see a house which was not bad but it wasn't a villa either. "This is your house" said the angel. The brother collapsed. But he immediately got the message. It doesn't matter what your position is in the church, it doesn't matter how many talents you were given by God to work with them for Him, but it does matter how well and consistent you work for Him. In Heaven we will be surprised to find out that people who we never thought they had any significance, they will actually have a better wage than others who were the famous ones.
The above story is a real story. The brorher who confessed it to us is the pastor of one of the most significant and crowded reborn congregations in my country. A lesson to be learnt by all of us.
WATER BAPTISM - LA Outreach on September 29, 2018, my 38 years of journey became real, took a lot of detours, lots of trials - very hard, mild trials, and not so easy trials, but all in all my Jesus change my life, healed me of many diseases: diabetes, very high cholesterol, high blood pressure, prostate enlargement, arthritis, heart disease with block arteries. I refused to take my doctors' prescriptions, I was told if I don't I will die, but I kept my faith in JESUS, never took any medication. Now my Jesus healed me completely.
I learned how to fast and pray. After fasting 11 days absolute, 12th thru 21st day water only fast, 22nd thru 28th day two meals fast November 1 - 28, 2020, a hard trial came to my life: December 2, 2020 my daughter a registered nurse noticed I look sick, tested my oxygen concentration, was 83% normally was 97 - 98%, tested me for COVID-19 - positive, called 911 on me, paramedics took me, I brought my Bible, remembered what our Beloved Evangelist Pastor Wilde E. Almeda, end-time prophet of God, in time of danger, call on Jesus, Hallelujah Praise the Lord, which I did, asked Lord if this is your will, I'm not afraid, willing to die and be with you. However, Lord I'm only 3 years old, a baby Christian in your church, let me live Lord, I want to serve you many more years, now adult choir member.
By the time I notice, my nurse finished admitting me, I asked her to leave me, provide privacy so I can pray and meditate. She obliged, turned down the lights, I took off my oxygen, prayed, felt the Holy Spirit in me, my eyes closed I could see a big hand over my head, head a voice open my eyes, it was then my nurse entered my room, turned on the lights, found me without oxygen, said, Mr. Malit you're in big trouble, check my oxygen, shake head, checked it again shake head, asked her, what's wrong, said I can't believe it. It's 95% without oxygen. I told her my Jesus healed me, my nurse, doctor couldn't believe what just happened, they don't have to
I am a Living soul; and I should think like to preserve my Living Soul; a little bit of God; such a minute bit compared to the God, so small it is almost impossible to comprehend and so maybe I should be saying; just a little bit below the angles; like a newborn baby with living soul but flawed by the development of my mind; as that of course also flaws my living soul; but now I feel the peace of the living soul and that is what I now must preserve and develop; and I will try to do the best I can, I hope. .
Anyone who has anything negative to say about God, has no respect for the word itself. If anyone who has been saved by God, knows that he will do his best to protect you and watch your life as long as you maintain your faith in his word. I am living proof that one can become a new and improved person. I might still need some improvement in a few areas, God is my best friend and my number one friend first and foremost. So anyone out there who is in need of a friend for life please take time out of your life to ask God for a second chance to win at life. So please don't ever try and degrade someone who will change your life for the better
I was young very young I think like 2or 3 I was encountered byA Holy Angel I forget the Name of the Angel of the Lord but I was able to see almost all my future up until now or later I still have not reached the end of it I was unable to retain all that was revealed to me I think bc i wasnot spiritually mature im no w saved its what the Lord Wills now for me i went through much trials & I finally got back unto Jesus the root of my SalvationI think it was revealed this way to me part of the bigger picture of which I do not know yet
THE STORY OF ME AND MY KJV.---I was born on October 6th, 1933. Starting at my exact time of birth, counting 2,986 days, 3 hours and 55 minutes, on Sunday morning of 1941 a Japanese strike force of 353 planes destroyed Hawaii's U.S. naval base. On January 5th, 1945, two Kamikazes took aim at the aircraft carrier, USS Manila Bay. One hit his target. My brother was stationed on the bottom deck as his ship came within seconds of sinking. After the war, he came home greatly distressed, but he married and settled down. His wife birthed him a baby daughter. But one day at age 28 a brain cancer killed him, possibly from Naval fears. He was greatly loved by all, so my unsaved family was devastated. In his Hospital room, as he lay writhing, I found a Gideon KJV Bible in a drawer. I thumbed through it, but replaced it, not knowing the power between its covers. In April, 1942, the Doolittle raiders bombed Japan. A man named Deshazer was shot down and spent agonizing months in prison. He managed to get a Bible from a guard, almost certainly a KJV, and became a Christian in prison. Years later he returned to Japan as a missionary, resulting in the salvation of one Mitsuo Fuchida. Nearly 14 years after Pearl Harbor, I too became a Christian. My Tucson church's entire operational base sat on the KJV translation. I made it my life's gyrocompass to God's pure truth. One bright Sunday morning I went to church, and there on the platform sat Mitsuo Fuchida, the man who led the raid on Pearl Harbor-the man who shouted Tora! Tora! Tora! into his microphone, resulting in the death of more than 2000 Americans! He told the story of how he became a Christian. In the foyer, Fuchida and I, now Christian brothers, shook hands and looked each other in the eye. What irony! My brother from a Christian nation possibly MISSED Heaven with a KJV Bible next to his bed, and Fuchida FOUND Heaven in a KJV Bible strangely located in a heathenistic prison! I just LOVE that old black-backed book!
THE STORY OF ME AND MY KJV.---In one month I will have my 89th birthday. When my dad was this old I asked him to tell me about his mother and dad. He said his dad was an atheist, and used to whip his little sons with a blacksnake whip to make them work the cotton fields. The harvest was in Wichita Falls Texas, and they would travel all the way from Commerce Texas in a covered wagon to get there. His dad was always in a hurry to make camp before nightfall, so he would open the mules to a trot. He made the kids walk, but they had to also trot to keep up. Naturally, they became exhausted, but he would crack their knuckles if they tried to hang on to the wagon.
When I asked Dad about his mother, he said when he was about seven and his brother was about six, they were playing in the woods one day when they heard a woman loudly praying, her voice echoing through the trees. They sneaked up close to her, and discovered that it was their mother. She dared not pray at home. They never told her they heard her praying. My daughter searched grandmother's ancestry and found that she was a Quaker.
The last time I saw my grandmother was when I was only 16 years old. She was sitting in a rocking chair, smiling at me. On the table beside her lay her Bible. I know now that it was a KJV. My dad and uncle went through a hail of bullets in two world wars, both wounded; my oldest brother barely survived a Japanese suicide plane, and I survived the cutting edge of defense in the U. S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command. I believe we all survived because of my Grandmothers prayers, all of them hatched from the perfection she found in the words of her old faithful King James Bible, the KJV. I can't be sure, but I'll just bet you my Grandfather went to Heaven because he found it impossible to get through Grandma's KJV iron-clad prayers to go to Hell.
Iam an brahmin convert runs a organic shop past 18 years, I wanted to share gospel to others so I have been sitting in shop everyday and atleast one or two customers I used to share gospel to them. I shared till now past 18 years 7370 people about Jesus but business I did not shown interest, still when I am doing God's work Jesus taken my business to entire India as well as ten other countries. I did not expect benefit but I honestly shared gospel to others to know about Jesus. When we are praying getting lot of benefits from Jesus but in the world people are suffering without knowing true God and committing suicides due to problems, we are all responsible to God, when we are just enjoying benefits from God only for our families and not bother about world people are suffering it's a big curse on us. Jesus wanted everybody must pray to him and praise him but we fail doing our duty towards God's work our happiness goes away. Jesus is only God in this world other then him nobody else. Let us all preach gospel where ever we are working and help to poor and love them like our own brothers and sisters, we will have great happiness through this only thengoing to parties and pubs etc. Our God is mirraculous he does whatever we ask him but not luxury life, what we need God will provide everything. Gospel is coming to an end if we delay preaching to others very soon doors are closed for gospel then no use of regretting. Yr sister Sandhya
I will soon be 89 years old. I love Proverbs 22:6 in the good old KJV. When I was a child in the first grade, I attended a country school where they provided a house on the school grounds for the principal and his family. At my school, the principal and his wife had a toddler baby daughter. Most country families owned a slop bucket containing food scraps, liquid and solid, to feed their hogs. It was always kept on the kitchen floor next to the back door. One day that little innocent toddler fell headfirst into the slop bucket and drowned. What I witnessed that day as a first grader, burn-branded my memory for a lifetime. I saw that desperate father out in the front yard holding his precious baby daughter by the feet, swinging her round and round and round, frantically trying to sling the slop out of her little lungs. But it was too late. The slop bucket claimed their most prized possession. When my wife and I married and had our two daughters, we decided to be very careful about their relationship to the "slop bucket." Today it goes under several disguises, television being the major one. Following through, our two daughters faithfully sacrificed a third of their own lives to home school their children away from society's slop buckets. Their full reward for that sacrifice is yet to be fully realized. Far too many of today's offspring have missed what it means to a mother to have her children, for no occasion at all, to hug her, look her in the eye, and sincerely thank her for all she did for them, and how much they love her. I recently read that some scientists believe some physical vestiges of the child she birthed remain embedded within her the rest of her life, and affects her emotionally with the child. Meaning, of course, that a mother who aborts her child cannot abort the emptiness left within her. Wise men, who haven't a clue in these matters, will gather their wives in their arms and just hold them---even if for nothing else than no reason at all.
I feel like I'm getting in deeper waters as I grow with God I'm very rightously stubborn. I lost everything from death to loved ones and son taken away and lost my job and almost committed suicide. God saved me and gave me everything I needed physically, mentally and most of all spiritually. I have a hard time sometimes emotionally like everything is weighing me down even though I help so much people and sometimes feel like I'm the only servant where I'm from. My relationship with God is number one before anything but find myself impatient sometimes even though I pray and ask him for it even now I feel like Jesus wouldn't be sharing this kind of information but praying to God. I feel very unusual with myself compared to many other Christians. I'm constantly on the go and can't feel well rested even though I try to rest, the more I grow the more my roots grow and I'm constantly on a battle with myself cause it is one of the greatest battles is fighting yourself. I started from a heavy zero and feel like I'm becoming a somewhat hero. I was alone about ten months and got saved on January one two thousand sixteen and asked God what was my purpose and he told me but people think I'm crazy cause God is using me to warn the people cause Jesus Christ is coming soon to bring judgement and trying to save as much as possible but the world is so wicked and the devil has a massive army on earth which is the spiritual warfare where people barely see what's really going on in the world. There's a certain way to serve God but many are leaning on there own understanding so I'm here writing this to encourage you and whoever else is reading this that when you serve God you must Repent and that your sins may be be wiped away and let a time of refreshing come upon you and that you Read your Bible everyday and to Pray everyday and to also do your Tithes which is giving 10% of every paycheck you get to a church doesn't matter what church and Focus on God when you give and Be the Church
On July 23rd 2022 I was rushed to ICU at St. Benardino Medical Center in San Benardino, Ca for an Respiratory attack not knowing I was ready to die . The medical staff attended to me efficiently doctors and nurses and in one week I went home. I was given medical equipment Respiratory cyclinders, walker and medicine to take home I am grateful to God for his care in Jesus Name.
When I was sick a year ago I memorized Psalms 91:1-16. God immediately put me back on my feet. Glory to God. Twice I was close to death, but God let me live to do His will on earth. My son was once lost, but I showed him my deepest love. Next thing I know he tells me "I love you" every conversation. Everyday I sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying..in my own created tune Revelation 15:3-4. Recently realized Psalms 37 applies to current events. I am down on my knees praising and glorifying God and thankful for people like you on this site. We all have individual family issues and sometimes overwhelmed, but rest assured God will always be on your side. I experienced God's presence at a very young age. My testimony to you is that you seek Him first and be saved 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 and The Holy Spirit will never leave you. Claim the power of God and do whatever it takes to do God's will. His will is complete and all written in the most important book on earth which we all called the Bible. Rejoice evermore!
I've decided to return unto the faith I was raised in. I was ignorant and arrogant as youth, rejecting the God for I understood not him, nor his love. Pray for me brothers and sisters so that I may be forgiven for my sins and find my way back to the good Lord, merciful and wise and join his side in eternal life.
Cigarettes are more than a bad habit. They are one of the devils "tools". They steal, kill, and destroy. But there is freedom in Christ.
This was a major bondage in my life. The BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST destroyed that yoke! I have been loosed of it, 16 months ago. PRAISE THE LORD! This was a major prayer answered. I couldn't/wouldn't have done it on my own.
When I get a craving I just start praising God. And the craving leaves. (Thank You Lord)
Hallelujah.and glory to God in the highest. So much good has come to my life just from quitting cigarettes.
If you're struggling with an addiction to _________, ask God to make you HATE that thing. He will do it!
I have found God to be faithful, when I am not. To be a merciful loving Father, Savior, Deliverer, Healer, Friend, and so much more!
I'm praying for you.
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Since I was very young I had nightmares and images flash in my head sometimes feeling of being watched would overwhelm me at night and I would scream out. I remember coming to age and the understanding of the world.being so painful (my personal life and the wider picture) sometimes I'd feel so out of control and the sadness would feel like my heart was being crushed as if it was a car at a scrap yard. As I became a young adult I would look for distraction from reliving painful mistakes and events in my life I was living with so.much pain and exhaustion from being someone I didn't want to be. one day a friend of mine asked me to join her for church as she was visiting her mum's church and didn't want to go alone. as I joined the church inside I continued to feel uncomfortable and uneasy with the other people finding ways.to.judge and distance myself from them.
The music.started and people started to sing I was reading the words and singing to and I started.to get into it and enjoy the music I felt an odd demention of affiliation to the lyrics I looked over at the people and I saw something in the church although nothing had changed and could not physically see anything. It was as if the breath of the people singing was reaching up to the open.space above and as if the very same.something was reaching down to them and finding the church it was beatiful! It seemed to.move.around the room like a great wind I heard the speaker say the words of Jesus " take my yoke apon you and I shall give you rest, " and it just felt so real to me at that moment I felt a pressure on my heart and chest it's as if the cloud in the room wanted to be in me i.felt as if someone was behind me and in front of me and beside me and it got stronger I have in to this beautiful feeling and I know God with me and still do. Jesus is teaching me and his spirit fills me with love and the father tells me what to do and what will happen. God is really it's nuts
HOLY SPIRIT began to convict my heart and slowly but surely convince my mind that I had never given my heart and my life to GOD I had only been through the motions. So there in my bedroom on a Tuesday evening 8/5/75 around 7:25 I gave my life to CHRIST. At the time I was smoking 4 packs of Kool Filter Kings a day. I asked the LORD to help me give up that nasty habit - I did not want to be a hypocrite. PRAISE GOD FROM THAT DAY UNTIL THIS I HAVE NEVER SMOKED ANOTHER CIGARETTE NOR DONE ANY MORE OF ANY KIND OF DRUG. My Christian life has been far from perfect but at this point in my life I start and end every day spending a little time reading my BIBLE and praying. I make an effort to ask every person I come in contact with
" I WONDER DO YOU KNOW THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR? DO YOU KNOW FOR SURE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HEAVEN WHEN YOU DIE? The responses I get are varied but I've had many opportunities to share and to pray with folks. OUR GOD IS AWESOME!!!
Our 16 year old son was tragically killed in a car accident in 2012. He had accepted Christ as his savior March 20, 2011, PRAISE GOD! When the police knocked on the door and delivered the news I sat there speechless for a moment. I finally said to them, "If what you are telling me is true, I KNOW where my son is. He is in heaven." I excused myself for a moment and went to my room where I dropped to my knees and prayed. I asked the Lord to give me the courage and the strength to get through this and to give me that "peace that passes all understanding". I believe he did, that very moment. Dealing with such a tremendous loss is something no one wants to go through but I KNOW where he is. He is in the presence of the Lord. I WILL see him again some sweet day. It's been 10 years and I miss him very much. My marriage is stronger than it was before our loss. We have shared his testimony with teens and adults and have had sweet fellowship with other parents in our situation. God has carried us, provided for us, loved us, sheltered us and healed us. Thank You Lord Jesus! Amen
I don't know why this is mentioned.
Why did it not do the same for Mary , who is linked to Jesus by blood.
However, the leadership seems to push "speaking in tongues" over the basics of Christianity (e.g., Jesus says the greatest among you will be your servant and our Father in the faith Paul teaches that prophecies will fail, tongues cease, and knowledge will pass away.) Of course, what I'm referring to isn't really "speaking in tongues." It's a private prayer language that is spewed publicly and privately and is regarded as acceptable regardless of occasion and venue.
What the leadership refers to as "prayer language," serves zero purpose other than a measuring stick for the leadership to separate "the men from the boys" as far who is baptized by the Holy Spirit. So technically, they are not "speaking in tongues." In fact, it reminds me more of the scenario outlined in the story about the Tower of Babel.
In addition, a goodly sum of the people who use this prayer language and are allegedly baptized by the Holy Spirit have anger issues, they are covenant breakers, and they exhibit issues relating to self control - and the list goes on. So even if what that they are experiencing is "the real deal," a significant number of this "true blue elect" are ostensibly lack luster. The Pastor has even cited a friend who "was baptized in the Holy Spirit," spoke in the prayer language, and yet continued on in a struggle with violent behavior.
I'm the worship leader in the church. I do not speak the Tower of Babel prayer language, and while I don't own it, I could easily be made to feel like a substandard, 2nd class Christian. My goal is not to focus on anyone's shortcomings as we must all love each other; however, I feel like there is a HUGE inconsistency in what I know for a fact that the Holy Spirit accomplishes vs. the fruit (or lack thereof) that is regularly exhibited by these spiritual he-men who possess this prayer language.
The fight is unbelievable hard. There are many things I don't understand - unanswered questions.
It feels like I have poured it all out for nothing. Like I'm loosing everything.
But deep inside I know it can't be true, it's NOT how God is or how He works.
It's just many emotions and thoughts that runs through me. And at this point I'm exhausted after standing in a long battle.
If you pray, I'm grateful.
God bless you in Christ Jesus, amen.
I am Allison I am the founder of KTLM (Kindness through Letters Mission) a mission I started by myself to encourage and spread God's love to people all over the USA since I started KTLM (Kindness through Letters mission) I am also disabled I have sent over 1,000 letters and cards . I am from Arkansas I love spreading God's love throughout the world
I started by sending letters to soldiers, prisoners and sick kids my goal with this mission is to bless as many people as I can as I slowly expand this mission into a future non profit as I spread God's love and kindness throughout the world
God lead me to share my story of my faith based mission KTLM
have a blessed day
Love
Allison
Today I' m going to tell you a story.
A brother in Christ once dreamt a dream. He was in his house and an angel came in and asked him to follow him. The angel was going to show him his house in Heaven. So they both went into Heaven. They went to a place where there was a marvelous house like a palace. The brother thought "Well, this is my house". The angel as though he read his thoughts told him, " No, No, No, this house is not for you, it is for that elderly woman who sits at the back of the church. She is always praying for her brothers and sisters, day and night". The brother got a bit dissapointed. They kept walking until they reached another marvelous house. The brother thought, " Well, this time this house is definitely mine" " No, No, No, said the angel. This belongs to that humble brother who always goes unnoticed in the church. He always runs to meet his brothers needs and he is there to support everybody who is in any sort of need".' Next time the brorher was not now in any hurry to think anything, but the same thing happened. Not his house. I don't remember how many times he said the same thing was repeated but sometime later on they came to see a house which was not bad but it wasn't a villa either. "This is your house" said the angel. The brother collapsed. But he immediately got the message. It doesn't matter what your position is in the church, it doesn't matter how many talents you were given by God to work with them for Him, but it does matter how well and consistent you work for Him. In Heaven we will be surprised to find out that people who we never thought they had any significance, they will actually have a better wage than others who were the famous ones.
The above story is a real story. The brorher who confessed it to us is the pastor of one of the most significant and crowded reborn congregations in my country. A lesson to be learnt by all of us.
GBU
I learned how to fast and pray. After fasting 11 days absolute, 12th thru 21st day water only fast, 22nd thru 28th day two meals fast November 1 - 28, 2020, a hard trial came to my life: December 2, 2020 my daughter a registered nurse noticed I look sick, tested my oxygen concentration, was 83% normally was 97 - 98%, tested me for COVID-19 - positive, called 911 on me, paramedics took me, I brought my Bible, remembered what our Beloved Evangelist Pastor Wilde E. Almeda, end-time prophet of God, in time of danger, call on Jesus, Hallelujah Praise the Lord, which I did, asked Lord if this is your will, I'm not afraid, willing to die and be with you. However, Lord I'm only 3 years old, a baby Christian in your church, let me live Lord, I want to serve you many more years, now adult choir member.
By the time I notice, my nurse finished admitting me, I asked her to leave me, provide privacy so I can pray and meditate. She obliged, turned down the lights, I took off my oxygen, prayed, felt the Holy Spirit in me, my eyes closed I could see a big hand over my head, head a voice open my eyes, it was then my nurse entered my room, turned on the lights, found me without oxygen, said, Mr. Malit you're in big trouble, check my oxygen, shake head, checked it again shake head, asked her, what's wrong, said I can't believe it. It's 95% without oxygen. I told her my Jesus healed me, my nurse, doctor couldn't believe what just happened, they don't have to
since JESUS came into my heart,
I have light in my soul for which long I have sought,
Since JESUS came into my heart!"
May we all be able to rejoice in the LORD and HIS salvation!
I can finally breath without inhaling particles from the wildfires. For however long.
We had the most amazing sky over our city it was beautiful. Praise The Lord!
2 Chronicles 2:14
When I asked Dad about his mother, he said when he was about seven and his brother was about six, they were playing in the woods one day when they heard a woman loudly praying, her voice echoing through the trees. They sneaked up close to her, and discovered that it was their mother. She dared not pray at home. They never told her they heard her praying. My daughter searched grandmother's ancestry and found that she was a Quaker.
The last time I saw my grandmother was when I was only 16 years old. She was sitting in a rocking chair, smiling at me. On the table beside her lay her Bible. I know now that it was a KJV. My dad and uncle went through a hail of bullets in two world wars, both wounded; my oldest brother barely survived a Japanese suicide plane, and I survived the cutting edge of defense in the U. S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command. I believe we all survived because of my Grandmothers prayers, all of them hatched from the perfection she found in the words of her old faithful King James Bible, the KJV. I can't be sure, but I'll just bet you my Grandfather went to Heaven because he found it impossible to get through Grandma's KJV iron-clad prayers to go to Hell.