I don't want to ever forget the things that matter.
I gave my life to Christ in the year 2000. Our campuses were on fire for God and it was a wild fire with the most unlikely people surrendering to Jesus.
Were they being hoodwinked?
I doubt it. Sincerely do.
I know how much effort the LORD put into convincing me to surrender to Him.
You see I was raised catholic. My dad's family were staunch Catholics so it was kind of shameful to attend another church.
I knew this at the back of my mind as my friends and I attended fellowship every week. We got there a little after prayer and just in time for worship. I mean, why would someone spend one hour repeating some indecipherable phrases, what could it do?
I knew I could never really be serious in fellowship even though I loved the worship, I was born catholic and would forever be catholic for they were the first church ever and other churches that broke out of it were lesser churches...
Today I partner with more than one church in the furtherance of God's kingdom. I know how important this is, some of the people closest to me believe I have been hoodwinked. Why work 30 days and hand over your hard earned cash to a human being like yourself?
Time will fail me to talk about the times that God has schooled me on the tithes being His and that He receives them in heaven. I am not really interested in convincing anyone about tithes. I might never have believed if the LORD had not spoken to me.
There are schools of thought that believe that God does not speak. I believe that as God spoke to Adam in the cool of the day, so does He speak with me, else I would be comfortable attending church say 40 times a year in all the 365 days and keeping the harvest festivals. I didn't leave the catholic church just to attend another church that keeps to tradition.
I moved because the LORD asked it of me.
Here's a copy of my partnership letter...
P.S. If you didn't read any of the gibberish I wrote, read the PDF in the above line. Click on it and save it and start learning what salvation entails.
Salvation is a day's decision and a lifetime journey.
The most amazing thing about my first year was that indescribable peace that always settled on me during and after worship. It wasn't prayer even though I prayed with everyone. Worship was the big deal. It could cement in my soul what all the ten thousand billion words being spoken by so many people couldn't do.
In my first year of salvation, I knew only one scripture by heart that stuck with me even after bible study and all:
It was "God has not given me a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power, love and a sound mind"
Take note: The bible writes Holy Spirit or Spirit of God in capitals 'Spirit'.
When it writes about other spirits like human spirit, spirit of fear, spirit of power, spirit of belial etc are other ways of describing influences.
Some people fear the word spirit, please be aware that every human being also has a spirit.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? Holman Christian Standard
(Note that this is proverbs so they are not even speaking of the recreated human spirit)
1 Pet 3:4
Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight.(This is speaking of the born again man, of his spirit).
How does growth happen?
Growth happens when you meditate on the word of God and on His rhema word to you. In any given church, everyone is at different levels of growth and the LORD will always bring His word to you through the five-fold to provoke your growth.
Why do I say this?
One time I was in a cataconic state spiritually and I didn't know.
It was a special program. A visiting minister asked, who comes to church regularly? I put up my hand feeling very proud of myself. He asked, who can remember what they were taught last week?
As if my mind had drawn a blank, I could not remember even one thing. I, known for being smart and tops of my class, Tessa with the photographic memory and I couldn't remember a thing.
I was flabbergasted.
It also caused a change for me. That was a classic example of the enemy came and stole the words because I either didn't believe the word or I did not intend to put the word to practice.
So you can actively be listening in church and yet not growing...
That's it for today!
