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| Romans 8:26 |
7/18/2008 |
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| Norma's Testimony |
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Well, I was thirteen when I prayed the prayer that everyone I know believes means that you are saved. However, I was not transformed, and I've since learned that it is not possible to be saved and not be filled with the Holy Spirit. I am now 36 years old, and I've been undergoing a spiritual awakening. It actually started several years ago, with a dream that could only have been from God. Normal dreams just aren't that vivid, soul-shaking, I just knew when I dreamt it, that it was God, but, I didn't know what it meant. At the time, I didn't know that it was about my spiritual life. It was also very personal, a message, meant for me, about me, written, choreographed, just for me. I was at my Grandmother's house in this dream, which I now know meant a safe, secure, loving place, like a good relationship with God is, and I decided that I wanted to go to church. So I left her house, and started traveling down the dirt road that she lived on, and when I got to the highway and took the left turn to take me to the church, I was no longer in a place that I recognized. The place I was in looked like (and I am guessing here) downtown New York City. I looked in my rearview mirror and didn't recognize where I had come from. I kept driving, looking for the church, which logically, should have been about five miles down the road, and the road was getting very rough, there were potholes everywhere. I'm still lost, and the feeling of being lost was so all-encompassing, so vivid and real, that my heart was pounding in my chest. I was looking all around me, and there were these filthy people, beating each other, at first, but the further I went down the road, they worse their behavior became, I looked up on a building and there were two naked women chained to a pole and they were swaying, they looked dead, but they were seductively swaying, there were drug dealers everywhere, and children who were starving, looking frantically for their parents. The further I drove, the worse it became, there were gay men doing what they do on the side of the road, so I stopped driving, and turned around. I pulled over into a parking lot and called home, my Mom got on the phone and was telling me that the church I was looking for was out there, and that I would find it. Then, she poofed into the passenger seat, and told me to start driving, so we headed back the way that I had come, and I couldn't find the church, and I couldn't find my way home. I was aimlessly, endlessly driving trying to find what I was looking for. I woke up the next morning feeling as though I had run from something all night long, my heart was pouding, I was covered in sweat, and my soul hurt. I don't know if you've ever felt your soul hurt before, but it is not a very good feeling. Well, that's been several years ago. I prayed, and I prayed with a pastor that I worked with, and he told me that God was saying that I didn't trust Him. Well, that has been several years ago. All this time since, I am believing that I am saved, because I repeated some words after someone who prayed with me when I was thirteen. But all this time, I've been living my life, aimlessly wandering through it, without God. I couldn't find Him, mainly because I have been looking for Him in all the wrong places. That drive, in my dream, was the way I was living my life...I wasn't finding what I was looking for because I was still looking in the world, I was still sinning, I was filling my mind with filthy jokes, I was allowing resentments for hurts inflicted on me to change my thought processes, I was not protecting my mind or my heart from sin. I was willingly taking part in it, seeking it out, and finding plenty of ways to displease my Lord. It is so hard to strive to be righteous when sin is all around me, my husband is not a believer, I have not brought my children up to know the Lord. I have so many sins to confess that I finally just asked that he forgive me for all because I can't remember them. It has only been a couple of days ago, and I'm still not perfect. Someone sent me an email with profanity in it, and I watched it, even though I heard a voice in my head tell me not to. I now have to teach myself how to stop sinning. However, now, God is disciplining me, I still have free-will, and still exercise it, but, now, I hear His correction. Even before I was saved, I mean that no-man's land of time between thirteen and thirty six, I had a relationship with Him, or should I say He had a relationship with me. I have felt His presence in my life, many times, but I always turned away from Him and found satan instead. Not anymore.
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Which categories of people did you belonged to before you were saved?
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| Who have been your best examples? |
Jesus Christ, how awesome is He? I have a friend named Judy who has been my God-send.
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| List books, music or ministires that have helped your walk |
Oh wow, there is a book called I Wish I Could be More...by Poppy Smith, it is wonderful.
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| List ministries you are involved with. |
None yet.
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My Mom has been given six months to live, and she is, or seems to be, very angry, I think bitter would be a more appropriate word.
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