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Mine do! - but I admit it took some years of being a Christian for this to happen
When I came from UK to Australia I had already become a Christian was used for deep ministry witnessing many miracles.
When I came to Oz I joined a lovely charismatic church that had powerful prayer.
It was lovely to watch the altar calls and so many going to the front to be saved and them mainly going up for prayer to get rid of various problems. They had a 'School Of The Way' for new Christians to be 'weaned' and put on Jesus' path. On Sunday mornings many of these would go up for prayer to get rid of various sins that had plagued them.
I was at that church for around 12 years. One day I picked up something about the Altar Call. I saw Christians going up for prayer for things that had plagued them for 10 years or so earlier!
After much prayer I came to this conclusion. We all have our weaknesses that we were born with. When we become a Christian Jesus doesn't take our weakness away they are part of us - that people know us by. He gives us the wisdom and strength to avoid them. It is our LIFE that he changes - not 'US' We remain the same with the same weaknesses that we were born with. So with all this singing,
I'm a new creation
I'm a brand new man
Old things are passed away
I'm born again
More than a conqueror that's who I am
I'm a new creation
I'm a brand new man
Is something we believe and hope for rather than is fact. He makes us new by helping us to live our lives in a different way with Gifts and insights to help us.
Since this time, my weaknesses have screamed at me! I talk to Him about them and can always rely on Him to help me through them but I never fail to accept this about me - I wish I could!
It is so easy to see the weaknesses of others THEY scream at us. Ours should do the same.
When I came from UK to Australia I had already become a Christian was used for deep ministry witnessing many miracles.
When I came to Oz I joined a lovely charismatic church that had powerful prayer.
It was lovely to watch the altar calls and so many going to the front to be saved and them mainly going up for prayer to get rid of various problems. They had a 'School Of The Way' for new Christians to be 'weaned' and put on Jesus' path. On Sunday mornings many of these would go up for prayer to get rid of various sins that had plagued them.
I was at that church for around 12 years. One day I picked up something about the Altar Call. I saw Christians going up for prayer for things that had plagued them for 10 years or so earlier!
After much prayer I came to this conclusion. We all have our weaknesses that we were born with. When we become a Christian Jesus doesn't take our weakness away they are part of us - that people know us by. He gives us the wisdom and strength to avoid them. It is our LIFE that he changes - not 'US' We remain the same with the same weaknesses that we were born with. So with all this singing,
I'm a new creation
I'm a brand new man
Old things are passed away
I'm born again
More than a conqueror that's who I am
I'm a new creation
I'm a brand new man
Is something we believe and hope for rather than is fact. He makes us new by helping us to live our lives in a different way with Gifts and insights to help us.
Since this time, my weaknesses have screamed at me! I talk to Him about them and can always rely on Him to help me through them but I never fail to accept this about me - I wish I could!
It is so easy to see the weaknesses of others THEY scream at us. Ours should do the same.
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