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Know and Love The Lord Jesus Christ Personally!
Keen to help those who don't yet know Him.
I was raised from the dead literally - see my testimony blog post.
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1 boy called John (2 year old)
His Name means "The Grace or Gift of God".
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Part 3 Continued from part 2
1. All good, but not all powerful. - Yes powerful enough to make the world, and all the stuff, but now things had gotten out of control for Him, and even though He was a good God, Who was doing His best for the world, there was a lot he couldn't manage to fix - like starving millions in Africa etc etc etc.
2. Not all good, but all powerful. - Yes all powerful, but more of a personality, like a man likes some people, hates others, hence if He liked you, you got a good life, and if He hated you, He gave you a life of misery, suffering and a horrible death. I thought he could be prone to mood swings, get easily angered or be unfairly good to others.
I decided on a bus to work that no matter what God was like it would be best if possible to know Him. I thought, if He is all good, I want to know Him; and even if He isn't I think it would be better to be His friend rather than enemy.
So I said in my heart - "God, If you are real, I want to know you!"
I immediately thought of praying but I answered that with a quick response --- "and I don't mean talking to the wall, I mean I want to know you. If you have made people able to talk, then you can talk, if you created speech then you can speak!" "If you reveal yourself to me, I will do what you want."
Nothing seemed to happen.
Thinking about this, I decided to look into who might already know God. I thought about religion, I knew it wasn't Christianity that was right, so I thought about Islam, maybe they know God (there was no terrorism stuff from Muslims that I was aware of back then.)
So knowing that I was ignorant of many things, and didn't yet know God, I went to the town's main bookstore to buy a copy of the Koran.
I located a copy and stretched out my hand to lift it, but as I did so my whole arm went ice cold from the shoulder to the tips of my fingers, it seemed as cold as if someone had poured dry ice on it.
Startled and frightened, I looked around the shop to see if there was anything that could have made my arm this cold. There was nothing, everyone else was calmly going about their business. I immediately decided not to try and buy the Koran after all, and hastily left the shop.
Instead, I began to read books by Carl Jung, he claimed to have spiritual experiences - strange dreams and was rated by many as a great thinker.
I read one of His books which described a dream about God, I thought it was too strange and I decided this guy did not know God.
I also read some of Freud; I quickly realized this man was sick in the head.
None of this helped me at all, and since I had said in my heart - "God, if you are real, I want to know you!" I had been thinking about what God must be like a lot of the time, and whether he was all good or not.
Then it happened, I was lying under a sun bed in my house and I heard a voice inside my head - say two words
"READ JOB"
I knew it wasn't my thoughts because I thought in my ignorance the word was pronounced Job as in get a Job.
But the voice pronounced it correctly saying read JOB as in the book of JOB (pronounced Jobe, like lobe).
I was very surprised by this, and was not a person who regularly heard voices in my head.
I told Alison, she was surprised and said, maybe you should read it.
Next day I strangely forgot about it and opened my Carl Jung book, all I could see down the page I was reading was Job.......Job...Job, Job. Carl Jung had never mentioned the bible before or any books in it that I had noticed. So I said to myself, I'm definitely going to read Job tonight after work.
During the day I considered that God had told me to read Job, and thought this must mean that The Jew's knew God or the Christians.
I was astonished to think that the Christians could be right, and still dismissed that, but when I thought of being a Jew, I sure didn't fancy wearing black coats and having a strange beard.
Continued in part 4
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