What a mixed up world this is sometimes, most of the time. I cannot believe how blinded some have become. There are those that strike out against the Church with such vehement outrage all out of vengence from a hurt they suffered years ago. I have watched as they have become consumed with this quest to bring down the Bride. The gates of hell shall not prevail. She will walk right through this and be presented to her groom. Hold your head up high, Church or perhaps it is best hung low in prayer. Do not be ashamed of who you are. God will show His favor. I still believe in the Church of God. I am not discouraged. I am not ashamed.
I know what I know. I was not tricked into believing it. God revealed it to me. I was not brainwashed. I still have a devine revalation. It is true that the people perish in the absence of vision. Without vision there is no driving force. Just as the blind man that sat begging. He sat just existing, no quality of life. he held out his cup waiting on someone to give him what they received, what they had worked for. It helped him but it could not save him. Then there was a different type of passerby. Jesus was on the scene. Sight was restored. Jesus gave him life, abundant life as he had never experienced. He gave him vision. The man who was blind could not merely rely on others. That just got him by. He had to go to Jesus to obtain his vision. There are too many today relying on the vision of others. There are too many today trusting the vision of others. I want to see for myself. Praise the Lord!!!!
I don't need to follow the the drama on a site. I need to follow the leading of God. There are those that have flip flopped on their stands from such influences. One moment they are at peace with things then the nexts it is all out war. There is a spirit involved in this kind of vision. We have heard it said, "Well, I just don't see it that (your) way." I want to make sure that I see it God's way. I don't need someone to tell me how to see it. Thank God I know what I know. It hurts to see those consumed with vengence. I pray Jesus would again open their eyes. God bless you all.
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Amen, my brother! God never changes. The Word of God is sure, and it never changes. The past few months have brought me to the realization that the Bible IS the Lord. I know we all can quote John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" but it hasn't been until recent weeks that I've come to really KNOW that fact! When we hold the Bible in our laps and read the words and apply them to our hearts and minds we are actually holding GOD in our laps and applying GOD to our hearts and minds. God speaks to us through His Word. Duh! How come we always say that, but somehow we don't really get it? Early on in this current "trial" we entered into I felt the Lord speak to me and say, "The answers are in the Word." God has reassured me time after time through His Word, and He's given specific directions through different passages concerning different situations. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path" is more than a "saying" or a song to me--it's TRUTH. Praise God!
How is it that you came to say exactly what I was feeling? Thanks for putting it into words...I just couldn't seem to get there.
I know what I know and I know it because God revealed it to me through His Word and His still small voice, not some demonstration and not through someone else's opinion. One thing that this past Assembly has taught me, "no more looking for a sign" because the signs are to FOLLOW the believers and not the other way around.
That is SO true! We have got to keep our eyes on Jesus and not on man and man's opinions. If what I have from the Lord can be easily influenced by a man's opinion, I need to seriously get in my prayer closet and make sure that I am on the same page Jesus is on! And that's the Word, just like Sis. Smith said! (And if I STAY there in the first place then I won't have the problem of the first scenario!)
I didn't join the Church because of what man said. Jesus didn't begin to reveal the truth to me until I truly came before him and said, "Lord, I want to know what's right, show me through your Word, I want to know even if it's different from what I've heard anyone say before." And that's the way my walk has got to continue to be.
Sis. Tammi, during Assembly I was just thinking, "A wicked and perverse generation seeketh after a sign..." the scripture you quoted just confirmed that thought for me.
Praise the Lord and Amen!
I am not brainwashed, I am
bloodwashed. Washed by the Blood of Jesus!
I was reminded in prayer time at the assembly of when the children of Isreal weren't satisfied with the manna from heaven, it wasn't good enough for them. God gave them something else and it made them sick.
I thanked the lord for the manna. The real thing and to please not give us quail because of the complaining of others.
Satan has lost already, some people just don't realize it.
PS. I updated.
Wow! I am amazed that so many are on the same page here. Really I am not. Unity still exists for those who wish to be one. There are too many that want it there way. Pop culture is partly to blame. Mostly though it is flesh and stickneckedness (not sure if that word is right). But you know what I mean. I don't know how to run things. A lot of people apparently do. Although most of the ones who think that don't have much to run or are not running well what they have. But once again I am not running things.
I just think of the scripture that He would thoroughly purge His floor. I want to make it. I don't want to be swept away. I want to stay humble before Him.
God bless you all and thanks for the comments.
The key is revelation as you have said. As I watched so many in our region be "blinded by the angel of light" I can only pray that God will clear the blindness and they will stop listening to men and seek Him (the Word). It's all there, we just need Him to reveal it. Please, please let's not forget to pray for them though, and we can never retaliate with unkind words back.
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