He exists. This is how I found out. I couldn't just "believe" what people told me. I couldn't comprehend God because I viewed Him as external and judgmental. I didn't really comprehend the Trinity, or that Jesus was the embodied Holy Spirit and why God the Father really is ONLY available thru Jesus. I said prayers all my life, never really being sure who I was supposed to be talking to. Finally I hit this "invisible wall" in life, felt like I never got anything right, and started praying for Jesus, again, to come into my heart (because I wasn't sure I got it right the 1st TWO times) and asked Him to fill me with the Holy Spirit to take over everything because I made a mess of everything. I didn't want control of anything anymore. I didn't want to manage life anymore. This prayer went on for like an hour. I kept talking until I was out of words and then I told Him I was out of words. I asked him to show me what to do because I was missing something, there was something that I just didn't get. Then I started feeling lighter and less burdened, and the feeling kept getting more intense. I actually felt like I had taken a drug or something because anxiety and pain and stress were just dissipating away. Things that normally made me cry or raging angry just didn't bother me anymore. I was amazed and I thought, this will end any second now, because I feel too good. It stayed with me and I wasn't sure if the prayer had done it but I said another prayer and said "Lord if that's You thank you, give me more." Then it got even more intense. I could go on all day about it, but I was being filled with the Holy Spirit. I'd been "around" it in church, and it made me want to cry, but this was IN me, not around me. I felt differently about people and I looked at them differently. I went to the RUclips channel of the church where my brother is a missions pastor. (Not the main pastor.) I knew it was a church I could trust. So I started listening to some of the sermons and some other channels too. Now all of a sudden the things they said were making sense. I kept up a lot of intense prayer. Within 36 hours I got my first dream confirmation and it showed me and my husband inside our home with a large demon outside our house trying to break in to our life but unable to. This demon was huge and he was beating on a wall with his fists putting big cracks in it and determined to get back in. There have been more dreams and visions since. That was just the first. I've never had dreams like that, which are so incredibly clear cut you can't miss the point. A "voice" kept saying to me to get back into the gospel story. I dove into my Bible like a starved animal and still haven't come up for air. Above all, I feel the burning need to share the Word with everyone and I am emboldened to do it by knowing it's absolute Truth. We are all called to share it and to me, not sharing it feels like a direct disobedience to what I feel within. Do not be afraid, do not hesitate, to share, if you are doing it in love for another person you can't go wrong.
i think the generation needs more of realistic people so that they can actually research and come up with their own opinion instead of following God just because everyone around you believe in it.
God certainly does exist, for how could this vast universe with such intricate systems exist without a creator? Everywhere I look I see the work of God, the essence of life is within everything, that sole energy that drives all living things to strive for prosperity is pure evidence of God. Even if people cannot fathom or believe that there is an afterlife the lack of connection with the divine will corrupt your life and make you more likely to sin in ways that harm yourself and others. So essentially if you have no connection or understanding to a higher self or enlightened ones your life will become hell while on the flip side if you do have that understanding you will live a divine life.
Real, I see God when I see nature, when I see people, when I look up at the sun rises and the sunsets, when I look up at the moon and stars I see Him. It is truly an amazing feeling to have knowing that He is watching and that He loves you. Praise the Lord
To me this sounds like you believe that water baptism is required for salvation. If not then disregard what is below. I never talked to someone who believes this so I hope to hear what you think about what I say. So if baptism is required to be saved then how do you reconcile all the other verses that say how to be saved that leave out water baptism (Acts 16:31, John 3:16, Romans 10:9, Acts 10:43, John 6:47). And what about some of the people in Acts 10:47 who received the Holy Spirit, which we are sealed with until the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30), and yet have not yet been baptized. Also I've heard the argument of people saying that acts 2:38 means that the people have been saved in the previous verse and are asking what they should do next and they say to repent and be baptized. Not to be saved, but because they are already saved and I would like to ask you what you think of that.
God bless, Levi!
He exists. This is how I found out. I couldn't just "believe" what people told me. I couldn't comprehend God because I viewed Him as external and judgmental. I didn't really comprehend the Trinity, or that Jesus was the embodied Holy Spirit and why God the Father really is ONLY available thru Jesus.
I said prayers all my life, never really being sure who I was supposed to be talking to. Finally I hit this "invisible wall" in life, felt like I never got anything right, and started praying for Jesus, again, to come into my heart (because I wasn't sure I got it right the 1st TWO times) and asked Him to fill me with the Holy Spirit to take over everything because I made a mess of everything. I didn't want control of anything anymore. I didn't want to manage life anymore. This prayer went on for like an hour. I kept talking until I was out of words and then I told Him I was out of words. I asked him to show me what to do because I was missing something, there was something that I just didn't get. Then I started feeling lighter and less burdened, and the feeling kept getting more intense. I actually felt like I had taken a drug or something because anxiety and pain and stress were just dissipating away. Things that normally made me cry or raging angry just didn't bother me anymore. I was amazed and I thought, this will end any second now, because I feel too good. It stayed with me and I wasn't sure if the prayer had done it but I said another prayer and said "Lord if that's You thank you, give me more." Then it got even more intense. I could go on all day about it, but I was being filled with the Holy Spirit. I'd been "around" it in church, and it made me want to cry, but this was IN me, not around me. I felt differently about people and I looked at them differently. I went to the RUclips channel of the church where my brother is a missions pastor. (Not the main pastor.) I knew it was a church I could trust. So I started listening to some of the sermons and some other channels too. Now all of a sudden the things they said were making sense. I kept up a lot of intense prayer. Within 36 hours I got my first dream confirmation and it showed me and my husband inside our home with a large demon outside our house trying to break in to our life but unable to. This demon was huge and he was beating on a wall with his fists putting big cracks in it and determined to get back in. There have been more dreams and visions since. That was just the first. I've never had dreams like that, which are so incredibly clear cut you can't miss the point. A "voice" kept saying to me to get back into the gospel story. I dove into my Bible like a starved animal and still haven't come up for air. Above all, I feel the burning need to share the Word with everyone and I am emboldened to do it by knowing it's absolute Truth. We are all called to share it and to me, not sharing it feels like a direct disobedience to what I feel within. Do not be afraid, do not hesitate, to share, if you are doing it in love for another person you can't go wrong.
i think the generation needs more of realistic people so that they can actually research and come up with their own opinion instead of following God just because everyone around you believe in it.
God certainly does exist, for how could this vast universe with such intricate systems exist without a creator? Everywhere I look I see the work of God, the essence of life is within everything, that sole energy that drives all living things to strive for prosperity is pure evidence of God. Even if people cannot fathom or believe that there is an afterlife the lack of connection with the divine will corrupt your life and make you more likely to sin in ways that harm yourself and others. So essentially if you have no connection or understanding to a higher self or enlightened ones your life will become hell while on the flip side if you do have that understanding you will live a divine life.
Real, I see God when I see nature, when I see people, when I look up at the sun rises and the sunsets, when I look up at the moon and stars I see Him.
It is truly an amazing feeling to have knowing that He is watching and that He loves you. Praise the Lord
Jesus?✝️
Then step two would be to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. Reference acts 2:38
To me this sounds like you believe that water baptism is required for salvation. If not then disregard what is below. I never talked to someone who believes this so I hope to hear what you think about what I say.
So if baptism is required to be saved then how do you reconcile all the other verses that say how to be saved that leave out water baptism (Acts 16:31, John 3:16, Romans 10:9, Acts 10:43, John 6:47). And what about some of the people in Acts 10:47 who received the Holy Spirit, which we are sealed with until the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30), and yet have not yet been baptized.
Also I've heard the argument of people saying that acts 2:38 means that the people have been saved in the previous verse and are asking what they should do next and they say to repent and be baptized. Not to be saved, but because they are already saved and I would like to ask you what you think of that.