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I offer that we have encounters, but in Jesus we grow in our ongoing intimacy and sharing with God. In the New Testament we have scriptures for this; I will offer a few which have been feeding me >Having a personal encounter with God would allow me to have such a testimony.
"But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him." (1 Corinthians 6:17)
"Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (Romans 5:5)
I think of this > by sharing God's word with us, and saying how you are doing with this, you already are giving us your testimony. And when you share any scripture, in order to help somebody, you are testifying what God's word says.
And my present benefit for myself is how I can see that any scripture has God's love meaning, to somehow help us discover how God has us loving. One of my present basic scriptures is >
"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)
And I have prepared a video a little over thirteen minutes about this > this shares what I would say is my growing experience of God and things I have learned about this scripture > so God bless you however He pleases >
By the way . . . how I share here is after about forty years of praying and trusting God to do what He wants with me. And before I trusted in Jesus, I was a school bully for the sake of it, then a goody-goody two-shoes religious jerk who got voted class angel when I graduated. In college for a while I was a mess in anxiety and being drunk from lack of sleep. Then I did a religious thing for a while, not having a clue about submitting to God in His peace and personally caring about people > it all was about making brownie point gestures to get myself to Heaven.
And now that I'm almost 73 years old, I am busy each day with this submitting to God in His peace. And this can mean going through time out for correction, at any time each day, so I am not giving in to what is not in God's peace, but discovering how God's peace has me see things and people and be with God and love in His peace. So, what I am sharing in the video means all that God knows I myself still need to grow in more, too.
And I have had various people helping me, praying for me > so this is not what I am doing by myself > seeking God is as family, then . . . I now would say
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