This was from a friends blog located at http://whollyholy.blogspot.com/
I decided to comment and share more of my story in my search for our crater. To back up that God does work his miracles today and that he loves us and is there for us.
James my dear, dear friend sounds to me you have quite a fan base. I wish you good luck with this debate but something tells me it is going to go nowhere fast. Some people love there comfort zones and believing God works wonders is unimaginable. I believe Mainstream Christianity is boring that goes nowhere fast. I once was part of the Salvos and i can tell you my family goes way back to the good old days of William Booth himself as i have told you already. For many years i fell away because it was too mainstream as we are putting it aka boring and formal no going after God learning who he is and establishing a real lasting relationship with our father in heaven. It seems if we do love god and dare show it and go after him and do as he has commanded us to do that we must be possessed by demons or something just for believing in God and his son who died for us. I think there is something about that in Matthew and the other Gospels lol.
I can tell you at a young age i was keen to know god, to be his friend and to love the father but there was no opportunity only readings of what he was in the bible nothing more no substance, who was he errrr a carpenter, what dose he say hmmmm he loves you and everyone else be a good little boy, what did he do tricky one healed people. Ok i knew this stuff Who was he really, to me in this day of age. I wanted to know him personally. They preached he was alive cool so how do we talk, commune with him. So Jesus in this sense was just a story book character who did a bunch of stuff died and rose again and lived happily ever after The End. Not good enough Boring. Jesus now i am afraid was dead to me and i to him which is a sad fact. He's real but does not act even today??? Get real. I never knew who he was so i carried on in life beleaving something is out there but not knowing what just that his name was Jesus who was a great man. I wanted to know him experience him but never could all attempts wasn't good enough, so it was hopeless. It wasn't till he made himself known to me one day that i had any realization of who he was. I thank him for doing that if he hadn't i would have thought you were an idiot James and never stayed in touch. It was you who showed me and from there the passion for him grew and then he came and said hey Greg yea I'm real and i hear ya, what did you want to know? If only someone back in the day showed me a God who really does care and loves us and listen, one who is real and is still around even to this day. I would never have left the family of the Salvation Army and at times only recently i wish i hadn't. Today me and the Salvos there is a huge rift i don't know them anymore. But i am grateful i know Jesus, thank The Lord. I could have been another William Booth the way i am going these days lol. But i suppose even he is to out there for WJE. Reinhard Bonke now he's good sort of fellow in this day in age Sort of what WB was i guess. But i am glad i know God now i have learned so much FORM JESUS HIMSELF then i did from anyone else. It is because he is real to me now that i am finally on the path he intended. I have given an example God still dose miracles in what i have written that he came to me, spoke to my heart and i heard / received his message but no that would be too far fetched or out there for WJE. Jesus though his Holy Spirit actually does things today no can't be not Jesus doesn't happen. I have seen many miracles i like to call them the Lord does to this day and i am grateful to him and i want to see more to BRING ALL THE GLORY TO GOD HIMSELF ! ! ! Praise Jesus our Lord and Saviour.
This all reminds me of something Isaiah said once to his people,
“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ Make the heart of this people calloused;make their ears dull and close their eyes.Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears,understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
I just pray God opens himself up to everyone as he has for me. God loves you WJE just pray and listen to what God has to say not what we have to say. God Bless you anyway, i don't mean to attack anyone just thought i would share my story.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Walking With The Lord (Part One)
I would like to start off by thanking those who have responded to my posts. I didn't think that anyone would ever read anything i wrote, quite surprised actually. I wish everyone all the best.
I am going to begin these first few blogs with my own thoughts, stories and experiences. I feel i am not ready to debate biblical topics and press upon my opinions and beliefs on others but i do ask that we all have an open mind. James here it goes, i owe much of what i have learned about the lord including my spiritual growth and so fourth to him. You have loved the things i have spoken about with you and wish me to share them so i will.
Let me just kick off by stating i have always been a believer in Jesus, in my younger years i attended much of 'Sunday School' with the Salvation Army out in Dandenong. But over the years as stated in a previous post sort of lost my way you could say. But that never meant i lost my focus on Jesus just meant he was never a focal point in my life i knew who he was but never had a real connection with him until i was challenged. It has been some two to three years now i think since my focus has returned to Christ. I have learned so much it is unbelievable, i have read the bible completely plus many other texts and i think this is why it is stressed to me to post this stuff.
Just recently i came to realize a memory i had in the past. I remember wondering to myself just what heaven was like in my younger days, closing my eyes in Sunday school and have had seen heaven Huge magnificent gates streets paved with gold, palm trees and running water, paradise is how i would describe it. But just thought of it recently. Back then i passed this of as just my imagination and realized god actually answered my prayer at a very young age and did not realize it till recently. This was only possible due to learning the presence of god, which has been very hard mind you and attempting to communicate to him on a more personal level and really listening to what he says.
I have asked myself another question more recently which goes like this. Why is it that we can clearly hear the voice of the enemy and not the voice of god? What i mean by this is hmmmm...... ok an example will better explain it. Here goes, 'You can steal that, it's ok, nothing will happen, go on everyone else dose it. You won't get into trouble'. Negative thoughts i have also found are really the acts of the enemy trying to throw us of balance, devil talking to us. I believe it is essential that we all should learn the presence of god and his voice. These thoughts can harm individuals, ruin lives in certain instances and the answer is simple, ask god. Ask him and he will answer and assist you. He would never ever say anything to harm us, why would he he loves us and will be there if called upon. Positive thinking is where he lies and a good heart. Jesus is Love, god is love. Everything in the bible is summed up in this word especially the commandments.
I love talking about this stuff, i plan on sharing more as often as possible it is getting late now and it has been a long day at work. I seriously wanted to go much much further, going into detail on how to communicate with god and many other topic like the healing's i have seen signs i have witnessed and prayers answered. Probably deal with them as separate topics. I will finish off with this point. As much as i do attend church and the more people i meet and as great as you all have been, i am still trying to make a connection with gods people wanting so much to really reconnect with fellow believers but still feel as an outsider and feel the only comfort i can get is from the sinners of this world but even there detestable ways are wearing on me now and need a place to belong. I see this as my ever changing heart god is granting me which is another thing i have asked for. I believe he is working with me even though disappointed sometimes.
I pray that anyone reading this may learn of gods true love for them, and ask that he watch over you and bless all that you do.
God Bless to you all for now.
Greg
I am going to begin these first few blogs with my own thoughts, stories and experiences. I feel i am not ready to debate biblical topics and press upon my opinions and beliefs on others but i do ask that we all have an open mind. James here it goes, i owe much of what i have learned about the lord including my spiritual growth and so fourth to him. You have loved the things i have spoken about with you and wish me to share them so i will.
Let me just kick off by stating i have always been a believer in Jesus, in my younger years i attended much of 'Sunday School' with the Salvation Army out in Dandenong. But over the years as stated in a previous post sort of lost my way you could say. But that never meant i lost my focus on Jesus just meant he was never a focal point in my life i knew who he was but never had a real connection with him until i was challenged. It has been some two to three years now i think since my focus has returned to Christ. I have learned so much it is unbelievable, i have read the bible completely plus many other texts and i think this is why it is stressed to me to post this stuff.
Just recently i came to realize a memory i had in the past. I remember wondering to myself just what heaven was like in my younger days, closing my eyes in Sunday school and have had seen heaven Huge magnificent gates streets paved with gold, palm trees and running water, paradise is how i would describe it. But just thought of it recently. Back then i passed this of as just my imagination and realized god actually answered my prayer at a very young age and did not realize it till recently. This was only possible due to learning the presence of god, which has been very hard mind you and attempting to communicate to him on a more personal level and really listening to what he says.
I have asked myself another question more recently which goes like this. Why is it that we can clearly hear the voice of the enemy and not the voice of god? What i mean by this is hmmmm...... ok an example will better explain it. Here goes, 'You can steal that, it's ok, nothing will happen, go on everyone else dose it. You won't get into trouble'. Negative thoughts i have also found are really the acts of the enemy trying to throw us of balance, devil talking to us. I believe it is essential that we all should learn the presence of god and his voice. These thoughts can harm individuals, ruin lives in certain instances and the answer is simple, ask god. Ask him and he will answer and assist you. He would never ever say anything to harm us, why would he he loves us and will be there if called upon. Positive thinking is where he lies and a good heart. Jesus is Love, god is love. Everything in the bible is summed up in this word especially the commandments.
I love talking about this stuff, i plan on sharing more as often as possible it is getting late now and it has been a long day at work. I seriously wanted to go much much further, going into detail on how to communicate with god and many other topic like the healing's i have seen signs i have witnessed and prayers answered. Probably deal with them as separate topics. I will finish off with this point. As much as i do attend church and the more people i meet and as great as you all have been, i am still trying to make a connection with gods people wanting so much to really reconnect with fellow believers but still feel as an outsider and feel the only comfort i can get is from the sinners of this world but even there detestable ways are wearing on me now and need a place to belong. I see this as my ever changing heart god is granting me which is another thing i have asked for. I believe he is working with me even though disappointed sometimes.
I pray that anyone reading this may learn of gods true love for them, and ask that he watch over you and bless all that you do.
God Bless to you all for now.
Greg
Monday, April 7, 2008
St Greg is back ! ! !
I would just like to kick of with the fact i am back, didn't think i could do this but james has convinced me to push ahead with my blog, for some reason he loves the things that god dose in my life and wishes me to share so i will. This time i will try to get serious about this blogging caper lol. I will start to share the different things i have learned about myself, family, god and share the love we all should have for one another. I wish you all well and within the next day or so i hope to have something posted for all to read.
Thank You all for now and God Bless ! ! !
Thank You all for now and God Bless ! ! !
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