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testimony

  1. G

    They say "Peace! Peace!" but what they mean: changes from generation to generation!

    Hi there, So Jesus warned that the time would be coming, when they considered it a favour to God if they killed us - which is true, but deeper than this is the fact that what they think they will kill you for: changes from generation to generation. Initially they meant "Peace without life...
  2. G

    Do you have an abundance of Jesus? That is something to aim for?

    Hi there, So I just wanted to comfort you with something, for one thing that you need it, for another that it proves my struggle has not been in vain and for a third, that we have hope in it together. The thing I want to comfort you with is a question: Interpreted another way, it is simply...
  3. G

    The role of the Holy Spirit, in mental health

    Hi there, So I just want to work something out for myself, with regard to the Holy Spirit, in mental health. I take myself as an example and question what it is that caused me to have a mental health condition. What the Spirit says to me, is that "I advised that you develop a mental health...
  4. SaintGeorge

    Esran (SaintGeorge) Returns Again

    Dear Old Friends, It's been quite awhile since I've been here. My last life update post was in 2015 on OBOB. After that, I didn't post until now. Before that, I hadn't been active for about a decade. The people at OBOB and TAW were a central part of my online and religious experience during a...
  5. G

    Look at your mental health condition, as it hangs on the Cross

    Hi there, Yes, so just to bring the healing of the Lord into focus: we can see our mental health conditions, as they hang on the Cross. We can see depression there, bipolar, schizophrenia, autism, mania, tourettes, aspergers, all of it - we can see Jesus suffering for these things at the...
  6. G

    Take the world down, this cross is going to stay!

    Yes, Brethren! We have the message of Christ, it was to not give in, not despair, only hope, cherish, love - it is His Holy Spirit, that completes the message of the Cross for another generation, and from the Cross, we can see it all come to pass. That is the will of the Son, that it all be...
  7. Christsfreeservant

    Seventeen Years Ago

    Seventeen years ago this month my husband and I were training to be church planters with the Christian & Missionary Alliance (The Alliance). Rick was going for his ordination, and I was going for my consecration. There was a district conference we both planned to attend, but Rick hurt his back...
  8. G

    God had me, the moment I confessed my sin. All my back-sliding washed away.

    Hi there, So I struggled for a long time, about being a backslider, about not being diligent in the faith - which I had come to know. For a long, long time I thought that fixing the backsliding was something I had to do. I tried confessing, I tried baptism, I tried changing my faith - none of...
  9. Christsfreeservant

    He Has Done Gloriously

    God is My Salvation Isaiah 12:1-2 ESV “You will say in that day: ‘I will give thanks to you, O Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me. “’Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my...
  10. G

    "You shall know them by their fruits" OR "You shall know them by the end they arrive at"?

    Hi there, So I really want to hit the nail on the head with this, guys: the Church has a very clear alternative, to face. Does the Church know its members by its fruits OR does the Church know its members by the end that they arrive at? Does the Church caricature Jesus one way and another OR...
  11. VCO

    Howdy!

    Yes, I am from the mid-western part of the USA. I am an evangelical type of Christian, that attends a conservative non-denominational Church. I am a Pre-Trib Believer, and am fully convinced that is what the Scripture Teaches. Yes I am Old, 72 to be exact. I was Born Again the last week of...
  12. G

    Wait. So if I asked you, to have children, in the name of "my" Evolution - you couldn't do it?

    Hi there, So, this is just a simple fact about receiving: if you ask, you receive. So, if I ask you to have children in the name of "my" Evolution - you have to at least give me an answer why not? I mean, you would raise them and they would call you 'parent', but the exact meaning of that word...
  13. dóxatotheó

    MY Testimony

    Now Im quite young im only 16 turning 17 in 2 weeks i didnt know much about God or religion itself all i knew was my family believed in him and had no real reason too so i completely lost faith in God i was an atheist and i saw religion as a course of excuses for wrong doings when i look i...
  14. Richard Mulcahy

    Stephen Baldwin testimony

  15. AK1982

    Lord, it was YOU...

    Lord, I am what I am, because of YOU. Because - It was You who knew I needed a saviour; It was You who knew I needed grace to fill the gap between You and me; It was You who has what I most needed, the Agape love; It was You who showed me mercy when I deserved death as punishment; It was...
  16. M

    Video games, music, and TV vs. Christ

    Hi! I'm Matthew Safley, I was a narcoleptic, which is incurable, and I was cured on night at Christian Faith Center. Now, since I have entered the faith, and have given my life to Christ, I have questioned some of the teachings there, but I do feel that the Holy Spirit is found there...
  17. G

    I have so much joy! God has called me to greater, in so many ways!

    Hi there, So yes, the Lord has blessed me in so many ways - now the table has turned and the Devil is on the back foot! I realise that he has been interfering in my relationships: but I've got to the point where I can sense, where he is working - I know to rebuke him, in the power of Jesus'...
  18. ZNP

    Luke 16 -- Say What?

    Luke 15 has three stories that are very familiar topics to preachers. The lost sheep, the lost coin, and the prodigal son. Everyone “knows” those stories, but then you come to Luke 16 and it is “say what?” When I come to a chapter like this I have to wonder if I really understood what I was...
  19. Jetma1572

    Hi Everyone!

    Hey everyone, my name is Amanda and I'm new to this site and I have been a newer Christian for about a year and a half . I struggled with alcohol addiction for nearly 10 years and My life got so low and so depressing and I just couldn't look forward to anything anymore, I was lost in addiction...
  20. ZNP

    Ephesians 6:1-9 I Will Bless Those That Bless You

    Joshua begins with the children of the Israelites entering the promised land. It is a miraculous crossing with incredible grace. Ephesians 6 begins with Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise), 3 that...