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It's time I told my story

Raistlinorr

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I went to church wen tI was young but never realy wanted to live the with the rules God had laid out for us I found it to be far more difficult than what I wanted.

I went into my ealry twenties before I started feeling spiritualy empty. So I started looking into different things I came across pagan witchcraft and decided it felt good for me I learned quickly and took to it very intently. I always seemed to want for love though. I tried to fill that gap in the world but no fleshly love could ever quench that thirst so I worked harder. I was never alone always had a female at my side I alway thought they loved me and would fill the gap I wanted but they failed me like so many others.

Then I met this man in a pet shop I took a girl friend at the time and her son. He could see I had love in my eyes and heart and could see that I was not following the Lord. He became a very close friend never once did I feel that he was pushing his faith on me like many others had he would talk to me and just be a general good guy. I took that girl home to her mothers on Christmas day 1998 and a few days later I woke up feeling so so sad I was in tears when I got to his house he knew I was hurting and could feel why I was there. As soon as I told him I came to him to help me pray to the Lord (his Lord at the time) his door bell rang. It was a Christian friend of his from church. The first thing this other guy does is ask me about the black crysal around my kneck which normaly would have put me on the defnsive but I was not in my normal self that day. Needless to say the door bell rang again it was a satan worshiper that my friend was also working on at the time (though I did not know he had been praying for me or "working" on me). Well my friend knew that the satan worshiper was not here this day to be saved he could feel it as the Holy Spirit was guiding him and telling him about things going on. He quickly ushered both of the other two guys out of his house because he had work to do. We prayed together and that day in his house I took the Lord in to my life.

The next day my friend started bleeding (when he would go to the bathroom).
I came to his house and could see he was pale and weak he ask if I would read the word to him and I did I read to him out of Romans. Soon after we had prayed and while I was reading another Christian friend of his came over and we all prayed together. He stopped bleeding.

I hung around him all my free time but I noticed that every time I would come around him and then leave he would have what most would call bad luck loose money, water go out, ect lots of things. I was young in Christ had recieved the Holy Spirit and been baptized but I felt it was my fault some how that these bad things were happening (satan made me feel guilty for things he caused). So I just kinda lost touch with him.

I went through the next few year growing more and more luke warm in the Lord. I got married and started to feel a tug to return to him but I was still hurt that I had brought all this on my friend. Then this year I started looking into things going on around the world and in governments all over out of the blue I started this. My wife ask me why I simply said I don't know some one must has said some thing or I've seen some thing. I realy could not explain this sudden change in my interests or who I was becoming. I started praying again and asking the Lord to show me the turth to my questions I had. He started showing me exactly what I was looking for more and more things daily some did not fit into what I wanted but they were a truth he wanted me to see.
Then he sent me a dream I'll never forget it. It's been around 4 months ago when I had it but to this day I still see every detail about it.
I was walking in the woods. Ahead of me I seen two hugh tree trunks the trees so tall I could not even see a limb only the straight trunks ahead of me.
As I watched two mountain lions ran up each one (like they were chasing each other). When they got to a high point on the trunks they jumped off and the trees vanished. They had leaped into the trees coming my way so I kept quite so they would leave me alone. They did they passed my with out noticing me I could hear them growl though so I thought I'ld be a man and scare them off even more. So I growled/yelled at them this didn't work at all it brought them back to me. I climbed up a tree and could see them coming my way. When they got up to me I could see their colors. One was grayish white the other tan normal colored for a cougar another was black and the last was deep blood red. The white and tanish one sat back and watched the black one sat below the tree I was in while the red one was jumping up trying to get me. I was sitting there thinking wow these things are realy cool looking and beautiful. Then I looked into the eyes of the red one trying to reach me. They were more humanish than cat like but they were not human at all. I can't explain how horrible those eyes looked I've never in any movie seen any thing like it and it scared me more than I've ever known to the bone in fact.

That morning when I woke up and went to work I was very different I had been trying to keep my mouth under control before but after that dream it all stopped I felt very different. I prayed about it but was already on my way to having it's message when I got home. I did my normal searching and came across the four horsemen story and knew this was what I had seen but the cougars were what I think of when I hear lions. Lions are called kings well these kings were the horsemen.

A few months later we found out my wife was pregnant my her having a miscariage at 22 weeks we had no idea she was pregnant. This only brought me closer to God I normaly would have been aggnry before the dream but I knew it was meant to be. I was sad of course but I know I'll have another child as I've wanted one for many many years.

This is my story of Christ and myself. I'm much stronger in him now than I ever used to be. He has shown me so much lately I'll never leave him again. The knowledge he is granting me each day leads me closer to him as his time draws near. I tell this story for others to read and share. For all to hear and understand the greatness of my Lord and what he has done for me. I pray for so many every day that they might be aloud to see what I've seen so that they might come to seek the Lord. I pray that he speaks to their hearts and minds and shows them the truth he has shown me. I pray that others might feel the love I feel and the purness of our Lord. Listen with your hearts and let the Lord guide you all who have ears let him hear the word of our Lord.
This life is no joke things are real more real than many see. Heaven and hell are real and they are where you will spend your eternity. I Pray that some one is touched by this story of my Lord an seeks him if only for council. As his council will lead them to him.

God Bless
Raist
 

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Mantos88 said:
God would never command that. That would be like commanding someone to kill someone else, and He says Thou Shalt Not Kill.

What medication are you on?

God commanded many people to kill others, all throughout the bible. Jesus' sole purpose was to be killed, the lamb waiting for slaughter. God's plans work through death, whether it is divinely sanctioned punishment, or death as the mode to travel to heaven.

Indeed a sin by his sanction, is no sin at all. As proven when he asks the Israelites to ruin cities. If the brother in question has been commanded by God to do such and he believes, he should follow.
 
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Thanks for having the courage to speak so honestly Raist!! There is much grace and wisdom in your testimony and it is very very encouraging. I am always amazed at how often God reaches us through our dreams. While it is sad about the miscarriage, it pales in comparison to the Love in relationship that is now known with/through God.

I don't pretend to know why God allows horrible things to happen, but I am grateful that the world is not has horrible as it could be. :)
 
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