"Father, I ask You to bless my children, friends, relatives and email buddies reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of your love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit this very moment. Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy. Where there is self doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace, In Jesus' precious name. Amen."
2006-11-09 00:30:42 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Amen, sister!
God saved me when I was at my lowest. I was suicidal, but to chicken to actually do the deed. I was under a moutain of sin, and He knocked. I responded that I couldn't accept Him right now because I was not perfect, nor the Christian type, He said "It doesn't matter, come as you are, JUST as you are" I fought Him long and hard, batteling with my own mind, scared that if I became one of those "Christians" I was going to have to do some changing first. I finally, seeing the truth, asked Jesus into my heart on a highway coming back from my mother in laws with three kids in tow. I had to pull over because the emotions were so raw. From that moment on He has been with me.
2006-11-09 00:35:12 · answer #1 · answered by newcovenant0 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
When I was 12 I was attacked by what I believed to be demons, they chased me in my front yard until I got into my house, these demons looked like something between a man and an ape, they had no hair and the skin looked leathery and grayish black.
When I got into my house I hid as any child would but I could still hear them outside so I went to see my parents, before I got to their room I saw Jesus standing in the doorway to the hall leading to thier room. He was so beautiful that I was not frieghtened by him, he simply said " don't be afraid". That was enough, I went back to my room and went to sleep.
Jesus did not look like the pictures of the time, he had olive looking skin and dark curly hair, but the main difference was what you see in many pictures. The light that is shown behind Jesus is all wrong, the light is from him and is did not seem bright or harsh it was warm, like being wrapped in towels just taken our of a dryer on a cold day is the only way I know to explain it.
The next morning my mother asked me if I heard anything that night because she woke up to a bunch of noise and my door was no locked when she checked it. I was saved that day.
I became ill a few weeks later with Muscular distrophy, I think that may be why Jesus came to see me and told me not to be afraid or maybe he still has something for me to do that I don't know about.
My illness went into remission when I was 21 after 7 long years and some very rough treatments with high doses of steroids like prednizone.
I was not and am not afraid.
Praise God.
2006-11-09 00:46:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I started reading the Bible, before I read any other book. I always knew G-d was part of my life, but there were times that I felt unworthy of His love.
I am descended from Cleopas in Luke24, and have always been aware of Jesus in my life.
I can't think of any one time that He saved me, as He has saved me many times. In particular, when I was homeless and living in America with a young child to care for.
The Lord was all I could think about in the situation I was in. I didn't blame Him for my situation and I really felt I let Him down. He came through for me,and I am happily married with a roof over my head. Although, I am disabled, it doesn't matter. I know He is there and allows me to seek answers to the questions that I may have.
I couldn't get through life without the Lord in it.
2006-11-10 04:03:05 · answer #3 · answered by watcher072000 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I found God 2 years ago - only to resort back to my old way of living as the church did NOT have the answers I was searching for.
I am a good person, who is kind, helpful generous but in the churches eyes - I live with my partner, who is divorced, we are NOT married and we have sex. BIG deal.
We are in love and are upstanding menebers of the community - does this make us any less that you guys - Does it HELL!
The people I have come inot contact thru the church are self rightious, self glorifying bigots!
If thats the church and religion - Im glad im out of it.
You can keep your salvation.
2006-11-09 02:34:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
AMen to you too! May God bless you! God saved through His wonderful Son! To tell you the truth, I only started to really know the Lord this year! I moved to a whole new country, which meant leaving my buddies behind...it was HARD...but I managed, then I started to pay quite a lot of attention to the Bible, and I decided to get saved! Man, and did it feel GOOD!
2006-11-09 00:44:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Be careful what you wish for, my dear. God, as you call it, is a horrific (if strangely beautiful) sight to behold when you catch all of it, and it will drive a man mad who does not know what he sees.
I was bought over by the promises of the church at a young age thanks primarily to the efforts of my extended family. It gradually became apparent that there was something fundamentally wrong with what I was doing there, and became apostate in my own search for understanding.
It was then that what God was became apparent to me, and I recoiled at first. I was bitter and angry that it did not live up to the promises of the Church or to my own ideas of how things should be. Over time, however, I began to realise that our attempts at bringing a name to God have been caused by what little we have seen of it. The faults of religion in the light of God have revealed to me a deep underlying flaw of our species that will not be cured by divine intervention, but that rather depend on our own willingness to change ourselves and our world for the better.
Don't be afraid to think things through and open yourselves to other possibilities, no matter where you stand, but be prepared for a shock when you do.
2006-11-09 02:12:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God bless you and yours sister.
I got saved 12 years ago after living a lifestyle that was sending my soul straight to hell. God has always been in my life and it took going thru what i went thru to bring me back to Him. The night He saved me my then lover came at me with a metal pipe after weeks of pure mess. I got down on my knees, and like Helen Baylor, asked the Lord to "Take all this away from me," and He saved me right then and there. God is so good!!!
2006-11-09 00:48:10 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 John 2:4
2006-11-09 00:34:32 · answer #8 · answered by YUHATEME 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I struggled on my own (as I was later to discover John Wesley did) in the hope of winning Heaven and was desperate, as I knew that it was not possible to achieve that degree of goodness and therefore Hell was confronting me. Somehow, even by going to church and Sunday school, the message had never got through to me that Jesus had taken care of it all. I discovered this truth as a university student and how utterly wonderful it was (and still is) to feel His forgiveness and assurance flooding over me. Praise be to God for His unspeakable gift!
2006-11-09 00:43:39 · answer #9 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Although I had everything going for me (money, a great job, beauty, intellect), I was morally bankrupt. Inexplicably, I felt the need one day to start reading the Bible; at the time, I had no idea why, but now I realize it was the Holy Spirit calling out to me to draw near to Him.
After reading the Bible for several months, I slowly began to pray that God reveal Himself to me. Not because I disbelieved, but because I was confused and needed to know whether the path I was drawn to was real. I did feel God start to work in my life, but He did not actually speak to me until I completely withdrew myself from a situation that was causing me spiritual damage.
As soon as I had gotten myself physically out of this situation, it was as if God held up a mirror before me and showed me all my sins and how they appeared to Him. This experience was so overwhelming that even today, I have trouble describing the intensity of what happened. I repented and accepted Jesus Christ as Lord of my life. It's been the most rewarding experience I've ever had. The road hasn't always been smooth, but I can't imagine how I ever lived without Him.
Peace.
2006-11-09 00:42:01 · answer #10 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋