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Kristen.NewCreation and FreeinChrist
Hello everyone! I had a feeling that I should delete all my social media, so I did, and I feel better for it. If I want to make friends, I'll just do it in the real world hehe
Around me the walls are closing in
Toward the heavens my eyes beholding again
The beauty of the Lord in a secret place
His majesty, his love, his adorning grace
O My Lord, my refuge on high
Praise the Rock that is higher than I
The Lord is our shepherdIn Christ you may know that He will certainly keep you safe and exalt you above all your enemies brother. Just keep shedding the dead skin. In The New the snake has no poisonous bite no longer, as a matter of fact a child can play in a cobra's pit and not be harmed at all, as I fond out last night. It is mind boggling brother what our Lord has all in store for those who love Him and His loving truth to be real true!
I've been mostly praying, like I said it is impossible to relate all the Lord has done in just the last few days. Creepy satan woke me up this morning at 1.30 am already just 2 and 1/2 hours sleep I got (and 1 1/2 yesterday afternoon.) After about an hour struggling with satan in my living room I knew I wasn't going back to sleep, so I spend my time in prayer with Jesus till 6 a.m. Oh brother was that good. I think I'm going to do that every time I can't sleep. Pray and work - no more play! So much praying to be done!
Strangely before I speak the Words Jesus is there, and before I finished speaking my sentence He has brought it about. I pray for the hurting the most. My heart goes out to them, though this morning Jesus took me into a completely different realm to conquer in Him. The realm of my ancestry all the way back to Adam down that horrible hole satan dug for us all.
This morning I met both my grand fathers. The first one was put last, and the last one first, in this process. This grandfather, I carry His name, has never done me any harm whatsoever. He died while I was still quit young. (I think I was about 12 or maybe 13 when he died.) He was a very simplistic hardworking, wife and kids loving man, who turned an atheist because the church put him on discipline for protecting his lively hood on Sunday for he covered up some vegetables against the frost on a Sunday morning. (Working on The Lord's day was the charge,) He got so angry with the hypocrites putting him on church discipline doing this, that he told them to shove of with their god and walked away from them. Like I said he charged God with the wrongs of the church leaders and not God in His own right or knew the word of god well enough to defend himself against his enemies. He hurt His God fearing and loving wife a lot doing this and saying the horrible things he used say. Years ago he woke up in me but satan was ready for him and slammed him straight back into Sheol to my greatest consternation and spiritual anguish at the time. The devil was so cruel and harsh about it.
I've prayed for my grand father a lot over the years thinking about him and his fate, for he was such a simple man and didn't know God's word very well at all. He died at 86 years age with a groan. While my grand mother, his wife, died sitting up in bed looking up into the heavens with her face in utter ecstasy. Though she had been paralyzed in bed for ages, was completely blind, and unlike my grand dad had totally lost her mind to dementia. The whole family knew the difference that's for sure.
Last night he crawled in on his belly and I haven't or seen or heard him since. I know he is no threat to me. I feel very sorry for him, he was so ashamed of himself. I keep telling him that I loved him and all was forgiven in Jesus name but he didn't dare to believe me and didn't dare to look me in the eyes or even greet me. He thinks I'm Jesus somehow and not his grand son. He even started praying to me at first, but I silenced him very quickly and told him how things were situated in the truth of things. He has been watching in utter astonishment ever since and is much more open and friendly now. He was a nice man I loved him as a kid a lot.
For my other grand dad is a very different story. Like I said he was first, like always, and had to be put last. I struggled with this man's spirit in me till day break. He was a hard line Calvinist who believed only people he (and his kind,) approved of were aloud to come to paradise, and the rest was going to burn in hell. The first I saw of my grand father I didn't even recognise him, he was that wicked to meet, and completely out to get me, and kill me, for he claimed I was the anti-Christ because Jesus didn't come in the flesh like that and a sling of accusation I was all to familiar with. Jesus kicked him of his throne though and gave it to me praying for his salvation.
His works in me made me sick to my deepest being. In his sinful religious being he was completely self-righteous, utterly arrogant, enormously selfish, very judgmental and his masters tried everything to send me to hell the heretic I was, with him in strict Calvinistic spirit in full agreement with their lies. We battled till day break together.
I did find oneness with him in a few areas straightaway though and we made good friends in those aspects of our existence together from the first moment we recognized each other. I'm sure he is a great man in many other areas of his life as well. For example, like me, my grand father loved the word of God and he loved the Geneva psalms - he was a very competent organist in the Church he attended - I don't share that ability with him - I can't play the organ - but we do both love organ music a lot - or church music as our daughter Sam calls it - for I love listen to such musics as well. Especially when they do it in some old Church in Holland with a real old style pipe organ. Some of those Dutch Churches have absolutely awesome sounding organs in them for the whole Church has been build to make the organ sound the best. He also loved growing things like me, but is much more able when it comes to doing that. He became rich growing new varieties of tulip and gladiola bulbs.
However the things that were not so nice in his life - and not in mine either - oh brothers did I face opposition there. It was a real who knows the bible better time together. He in this most horrible judgmental cruel loveless spirit and I in with my head down in submission to God's loving grace.
Jesus utterly cut him down last night. I'm only just now, me relating all of these events to you, starting to see the first signs that my grand father is beginning to understand the order of ruler-ship within my inner reality and his place in me and he is very much happier than I have ever seen him. He even greeted me just before and encouraged me to tell the story as true as possible. Though I don't think I can completely trust him in me, for his eyes in me still speak constantly about sin, wrong, darkness and so much judgment and very little light. I have heard a few sorries now but he hasn't come to apologize yet or admitted he was wrong a believer in Christ and that The Word is true and not him but I think he is getting there. He is still often shrouded by the darkness below us. I wonder when he will come to the light and around the table of The Lord in me, or if he will let that satan make more attacks on me through his spirit in me. He says he knows his place and leave me be, we'll see I what happens I suppose.
All in all it has been a very tiring night and I'm going to have to concentrate on getting to sleep now. I expect the down wards trend to continue for a long time yet as The Word in my unravels my roots all the way back to the. More and more i understand what The Lord means when He says I am The Life and The Truth, The Alpha and Omega of all things, and I who love God rejoice with a rejoicing that has to be experienced before it can be know to exist, priding in Jesus and His incredible power to raise the dead in me and set me free from the strings satan has laid all the way back to the beginning.
The sins I have done in the spirituality inherited from my grandfather here permeates my whole inner being and are red like scarlet. And though my own evil in all of that spirituality paid the same price my grandfather did, wonder above wonder Jesus holds my grand father accountable for the origins of some of my biggest inner defilements and banned it from my body of believers. The judgment my grand father received in sin cannot be comprehended nor was I part of that, I only saw what i inherited from him inside of me. I prayed mercy - while he cursed me to hell, attacked me from behind 3x, labeled me, and spat on me with a fury that would scare most people to death. However the wikced in me have been doing that fro so long in my life now that it made little impact on me or in any way made me fear he was right and I was wrong.
The sad truth is that my grand father in sin hated me, his own grand son, and almost everyone else in existence that wasn't like him. This horribly wickedly spirit dominated him completely and still played god in his world of being, but the remains of my real grand father, were nowhere to be found at first, just a massive black hole into the Abyss where his burial place ought to be. that creepy satan laughing in glee as I stared down that horrible hole with dread. Yet right through the curses and abuse of satan I dove into the Abyss where the soul of the man murdered by the wicked, and the person I never knew, who was, is and will always be, for he is also in the image of our Lord, down somewhere there in that horrific nothingness. With the wicked surrounding me completely in an attempt to stop me from doing that.
Slowly Jesus has been bringing the truth back up out of the darkness. Bit by bit the man my grandfather and also i myself always ought to have been begins to materialize all around me. Indeed even as I write this we are finding lots of things in common when it comes to that. We both lost a lot of our good life through our bad life and both gladly feed from God's grace when it comes to that. I'm so unbelievable happy that my grandfather knew the bible so well a sinner for that helped greatly. Jesus cut him and me down in our wrongs completely, no matter what text the wicked in my grand father, or me, threw at me, Jesus countered with the truth in return and reached down to such depths of inner being that I can never even begin to recount what it looks like down there. Still both me and my grand father know crappy satan is not going to enjoy his prison for the next 1000 years in those parts of our lives that is for sure. Talking about a fiery angel going down to his doom in full sight to both of us is very satisfying when it comes to that perspective. We taking that evil creep along with us that's for sure so we can 'trade' him for the good life that has languished for so long because of the wicked in charge of our lives. I know Jesus is going to get to the bottom of all this and I feel safer than ever in His embrace. For the dead will rise first just as The Word teaches and everything inside of me begins to take new shape once more.
It finally begins to look like me and my grand father are going to get to know each other very well and enjoy each other in the Lord and enjoy the unbelievable grace of Christ destroying those monsters all around us, these wicked ones who tricked us both into so much trouble and made us unrecognizable evil through the lies they got us to believe - willfully unfaithful and cold hearted to be about God's loving truth, ourselves and others in sin.
I cannot tell you how thankful I am about that. I have battled with the spirit of my grand father since the day I was born and in his sinful self - which ruled much of his earthly existence - he has done unbelievable harm to me. Even just 12 hours ago he tried everything he could to kill me though he knew he was in my heart and lost his own and he has been like that for as long as I know him. Yet now he smiles at my slyly and bows his head in shame and tells me that he is sorry about all of that that. I'm afraid I'm going to have to be happy with that for the time being at least we are making progress. I might put some Church music on I'm sure we can both praise our great and merciful Father in Hesven then no worries at all. He was a good musician. (though he hated jumping in the house of God, not the best of music I must admit but why hate those who love God's salvation? Such is just not wise, and wonder above wonder he seems to be agreeing with me at this stage.
Strange to have life in the lives of my deceased relatives but I can see it is going to be grand party by the time Jesus gets to the bottom of things and we an finally experience the life the wicked robbed from us and hid down that massive black hole i can see below my feet. I do know that the king of the Abyss cannot not thwart Jesus or me or my grand fathers or anyone we find down deep.
It is going to be a long dark journey I think for in the willful sinner in me is going down like a fallen star which will certainly make all the drinking water bitter and lethal to drink. Hallelujah!!!
Peace.
Thessalonians 4:13-18
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
The Lord is our shepherd
It is getting darker and darker and so cold and terrifying.
What have I done to Jesus the horrible sinner that I've been?
I turned Him into the devil within.
How my agony who can see?
I don't want no part of me.
In Jesus name I ask
Come Lord Jesus I know what is going on. I can't wait till we meet on the bottom of hell.
Waiting on the Lord.
Just got a phone call from the doctor. On October 4, I'm heading down to the hospital to get my test results. If they find nothing then I'm going to have to do some more tests.
This is going to be a long five days...
Sounds funOh brothers if my mum saw me now, she have a heart attack.
I'm playing with mud swimming in the stuff. I always loved playing with mud but my mum you see she didn't like that.
She was scared I stick my thumb in my mouth will all that dirt on it.
Doesn't seem to matter though.
Mud baths are so refreshing I never had one before. Didn't know what I was missing out on.
Just stamping in the puddles and splashing the water all around standing stark naked in the rain letting myself wash clean.
My Lord and my God how good You are playing at your feet. I'll never stop telling how much I love You for bringing me back to my Father.
I'm so sorry that I ran away.
(I do wonder where my older brother is?)
Sounds fun
I will go out in the real world and make friends after I finish this level...