Thank you so much for your kind words lindsay, It means a lot to me believe me.................. As I said before I don't know most of you but I see you are reading and when you stop reading I will stop posting. Fair enough? Love you all........................
Realdeal that is very beautiful said. Thank you, I am always so happy to meet another believer. Welcome brother............... What a day of rejoicing that will be when we all get together..................
”He who guards his lips guards his life, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin” (Proverbs 13:3)
Point… Instead of complaining, you have had to be retrained to think differently. The Bible says, “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Thank you Merlot I agree with the above here. Always glad to meet another believer, I too am not religious I really have no clue as to who my readers are, just a few whose names I know I have been wanting to stop this blog but someone told me to keep going. So as long as people keep reading I will keep it going, fair enough?...................
It is truly amazing really that the All-Mighty Lord has it set up so that if we want things to change, we have to pray. It is the ONLY way we are able to communicate with Him............. How many of us would communicate with God if it was not through prayer?..................
Rees Howell a coal miner in England told in his book how he believes that his prayer crew changed the end of world war 11. Rees was a very humble man and reading his story I had to believe him He was a prayer warrior. His uncle thought it was a bad day if he did not pray for at least 8 hours a day. We don't know how many lives have been saved because of faithful prayer warriors
God created this world and He gave MAN dominion of it all. People and animals. God gave man free will over it all and I can say that man has made a mess of most of it.
Yes, you are so right Lindsey. The Lord is always close to us. I do feel His presence all the time. Sometimes He tells me to pray for people in passing. Lord, I say; "I don't know these people" "True child, but I do"
I was at a prayer meeting when while in prayer, I had a vision of a guard and a person trying to smuggle Bibles. I started to pray for the safety of the smuggler right away as I sensed that he was in danger of being discovered. Afterward, I told the others what I had seen, and that I had prayed for that person. Much to my surprise one of the people there said that she had seen the same vision. We all knew then that what we had seen really did happen, for it was confirmed. The Lord used us in that prayer meeting to save a person from harm. Yes, it is exciting, for He does work through people!
Many new workers volunteered and funds for their support were provided. Well could Taylor say: "In all our calculations we calculate on God's faithfulness."
Taylor's second wife was Miss of the China Inland Mission. His evangelistic journeys kept him away from home for months at a time; and there were yet longer separations when Mrs. Taylor and the children were in England. "Sometimes it seems hard," he wrote to his wife, "to be so long away from you and the children. But when I think of One who spent thirty-three years away from His home and finished them on Calvary, I feel ashamed of my selfishness." Again and again in times of trial he would play his harmonium and sing some of the great Christian hymns. This was his favorite:
"Jesus, I am resting, resting, in the joy of what Thou art; I am finding out the greatness of Thy loving heart."
At the time when there were about one hundred missionaries in the C. I. M., Hudson Taylor began to entreat the Lord to send forth, as of old, "other seventy also." With this object in view, he called some of his fellow-missionaries together for "a day of fasting and prayer," and there was much midnight wrestling of this man of prayer, all alone with his Lord.
Returning to England, he was powerfully used of God as the woes of China's lost millions poured through the channels of his burdened heart and as he pleaded for "other seventy also" to join the work. Although he never asked for funds and never permitted a collection, consecrated gifts poured in to the home treasurer. Many also offered their lives, and thus before the end of that year, more than seventy new workers had sailed for China. Still there were vast areas untouched and about a million souls for each missionary on the field. Once again the heart of Hudson Taylor turned to his favorite verse. "We have been led," he says, "to pray for one hundred new workers this year. We have the sure word, 'Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.' The work of God will never lack God's supplies."
The sure word: "Whatsoever." The certain answer: "that will I do." The abundant supply: "Will never lack."
Before the year ended, 102 new missionaries had sailed and, with no appeal for funds other than those sent up to God, more than eleven thousand pounds had come in to pay their passage to the field. With abounding joy, Taylor recalled the quaint remark of a colored evangelist: "When God does anything, He does it handsome!"
In response to urgent invitations, Hudson Taylor decided to visit America on his way back to China. His messages at Moody's Northfield Conference and other places made a profound impression. After he had spoken to the Conference at Niagara-on-the-Lake and had departed for other engagements, Robert Wilder brought a burning message on "Go into all the world." In the course of his address he said that he had learned from a certain Christian woman the wonderful secret of how to work for Christ twenty-four hours a day and to keep on doing so all the year round. When asked how it was possible, she replied: "I work twelve hours and when I have to rest, my representative in India, whom I support, begins her day and works the other twelve." Wilder urged those who could not go to the foreign field to support a representative and thus work twenty-four hours a day for Christ. The idea caught fire, not only in this group but in many others. Within a short time, enough money was contributed to support scores of missionaries, and scores of earnest young lives were offered for foreign service.
Arriving in China, Taylor found "many adversaries" but he rejoiced in the glad tidings of many souls saved and of pentecostal blessings in many areas.
Others may not have sensed it, but there was in Hudson Taylor's heart a poignant sense of dissatisfaction. Confronted by enormous demands in the conduct of the rapidly expanding Mission, buffeted by disappointments and criticisms, "emptied from vessel to vessel," his spiritual life seemed to him more like a cracked cistern than the gushing fountain of fullness which Jesus depicted when He said: "He that believeth on me, from within him shall flow rivers of living water." From his knowledge of the Scriptures and of the lives of Christian saints, he was convinced that there was available to him a deeper experience of the Divine fullness. He yearned for a life characterized by the filling of the Holy Spirit, unbroken fellowship with his Lord, peace in the storm, joy in adversity, and attainments in holy living. How was he to enter into this deeper work of grace, this plenitude of spiritual power? His favorite text pointed the way: "Ask in my name." John 14:13 affirms that every blessing of God and every promise of Christ is made available through the channel of prayer.
Writing to his parents in England he spoke freely of his need and of his longing: "I cannot tell you how I am buffeted sometimes by temptation. I never knew how bad a heart I had ... Do pray for me. Pray that the Lord will keep me from sin, will sanctify me wholly and use me more largely in His service."
As he read the Word and poured out his heart yearnings in prayer, he was impressed with the evident expectation of Jesus that all of His followers should be "endued with power from on high" and "walk in holiness before Him." Eventually he recognized that what he needed was not striving and struggling, but resting; that sanctification, like salvation, is not an attainment, but is a gift from above in response to the prayer of faith; that holiness is not a status of perfection but is rather a relationship — a resting in Jesus; that abiding in Christ means oneness with Him and oneness means that all the fullness of Christ is ours. Having entered into this sublime experience, his life was strangely and beautifully enriched. He writes to a fellow missionary:
"I have the very passage for you, a passage God has so blessed to my own soul, John 7:37-39, 'If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink'... No matter how difficult my service, how sad my bereavement, how helpless I am, how deep are my soul-yearnings, Jesus can meet all my needs. Moreover, He says: 'He who believes Me, trusts Me fully, from within him shall flow...' Can it be so? Can the thirsty soul not only be refreshed, but so saturated that streams flow down from it? Even so! And not mere mountain torrents, full while the rain lasts, then dry again; but 'from within him shall flow rivers of living water' — rivers like the Yangtze, always a mighty stream, always flowing, deep and irresistible."
All his letters henceforth pulsate with this one absorbing theme. To his sister he writes: "It is a wonderful thing to be really one with Christ. Think what it involves. Can Christ be rich and I poor? Can your head be well fed while your body starves? Could a bank clerk say to a customer, 'I cannot pay this sum to your hand but only to your self'? No more can your prayers, or mine, be discredited if offered in the name of Jesus; that is, on the ground that we are His, members of His body."
His mind was once again reverting to the transcendent truths of John 14:13— "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son."
Good morning to you too Lindsey. There is only one who can change things and that is the Lord Jesus Christ................ He gave man dominion over this planet, He will soon take it back and He will rule once again
Hi Yoleta, sad to have to say that you are so right, I was born in Holland and many churches have been turned into bars etc............ I still have two sisters living there but they don't want to listen to me so I just have to give up Am only able to pray for them now..................
Hi, Lindsey my friend what I wrote to you is for everybody no matter which church it has nothing to do with anyone in particular. Is Hudson Taylor not amazing?...................
Young Taylor began the study of medicine as well as Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. He realized, however, that the most important preparation of all must take place in the realm of his own soul. In China he would have to depend utterly upon his Lord for protection, supplies -- everything. Lest a dismal failure befall him later on, he determined to test thoroughly the Saviour's promise: "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that I will do." He resolved to learn, as he said, "before leaving England, to move man, through God, by prayer alone."
He made the test in a specific situation relative to his salary. His employer had asked Hudson to remind him whenever his salary became due. This he determined not to do as per the usual custom but rather to leave it wholly in the hands of the Lord. While he was continuing in earnest prayer about the matter, the time came for the payment of a quarter's salary. On settling up his accounts one Saturday night he found himself possessed of only one remaining coin — a half crown piece. About ten o'clock on Sunday night as he was doing gospel work in the various lodging houses, a poor man asked him to go and pray with his wife who was dying. He was led down a court and up a miserable flight of stairs into a wretched room. What a pathetic sight there presented itself. Four or five children stood about, their sunken cheeks and temples telling unmistakably the story of slow starvation, and lying on a wretched pallet was a forlorn-looking mother with a tiny infant moaning at her side. "Ah," thought Taylor, "if I had two shillings and a sixpence, instead of half-a-crown, how gladly should they have one-and-sixpence of it." He was willing to give them part of what he had, but not the entire coin. He sought to comfort them by saying that however distressing their circumstances, there was a kind and loving Father looking down from Heaven. But something within him cried, "You hypocrite! Telling these unconverted people about a kind and loving Father in Heaven, and not prepared yourself to trust Him without half-a-crown."
He was now feeling very miserable. If his coin were only changed, he would gladly give a florin and keep only the sixpence remaining. But he was not yet prepared to trust in God alone, without the sixpence. Not being able to continue the conversation, he said to the man: "You asked me to come and pray with your wife. Let us pray." He knelt down, but no sooner had he said, "Our Father," than he heard a voice within saying, "Dare you mock God? Dare you kneel down and call Him Father with that half crown in your pocket?" Finishing the prayer, he arose.
"I put my hand into my pocket," he says, "and slowly drawing out the half crown gave it to the man, telling him that it might seem a small matter for me to relieve them, seeing that I was comparatively well off, but that in parting with that coin I was giving him my all; but that what I had been trying to tell them was indeed true — God really is a Father and may be trusted. And how the joy came back in full flood-tide in my heart! Not only was the poor woman's life saved, but my life had been saved too." He was convinced that money thus given in Christ's name was a loan which He would repay.
He went home happy in heart, and before retiring asked the Lord not to let his loan be a long one or he would have nothing to eat the next day. Early the next morning the postman's knock was heard at the door. He very rarely ever received a letter on Monday morning, hence he was surprised when the landlady came in with a letter. On opening the envelope he found a sheet of blank paper and a half sovereign. "Praise the Lord!" he exclaimed. "Four hundred percent for a twelve hours' investment!" He then and there learned that the bank of Heaven is always dependable and pays good dividends.
His faith in the power of prayer was greatly strengthened,
After some months young Taylor began to feel a great dissatisfaction with his spiritual state. His "first love" and his zeal for souls had grown cold and he did not have victory over sin. He did not doubt his conversion, but he was convinced from his knowledge of the Scriptures and of the lives of certain outstanding Christians that a deeper experience of divine blessing could be his portion. He could not be satisfied with anything less than the best, God's best. How could he obtain it? He thought of the text that blazed across his pathway at every hour of need and of high decision: "Whatsoever you shall ask in my name, I will do it." He believed that salvation is like "honey from the rock" — the honey for sweetness, the rock for strength. By prayer he had entered into the sweetness of salvation. By prayer he now sought the strength of salvation. Moved by deep longings he retired one afternoon to be alone with God.
"Well do I remember," he says, how I poured out my soul before God. Again and again confessing my grateful love to Him who had done everything for me ... I besought Him to give me some work to do for Him as an outlet for love and gratitude ... Well do I remember as I put myself, my life, my all upon the altar, the deep solemnity that came over my soul with the assurance that my offer was accepted ... A deep consciousness that I was not my own took possession of me." Having made the great surrender, he was ready to hear the voice of his Lord saying, "Who will go for Me to China?" and to reply, "Here am I, send me." At once he began to prepare for the strenuous life of a pioneer. He took more exercise in the open air and exchanged his feather bed for a hard mattress. Regularly each week he distributed tracts and held cottage meetings. With the aid of a copy of Luke's Gospel in the Mandarin dialect he began to study the Chinese language.
One day he called on the Congregational minister and asked to borrow his copy of Medhurst's China, explaining that God had called him to missionary service in that land. "And how do you propose to go there?" the minister inquired. Taylor replied that he did not know but in all probability he would go forth as did the Twelve and the Seventy, relying solely on the One who sent him to supply all his needs. Placing his hand on the lad's shoulder the minister replied: "Ah, my boy, as you grow older you will become wiser than that. Such an idea would do very well in the days when Christ himself was on earth, but not now."
Since his all was upon the altar, Taylor could say: "God and God alone is my hope and I need no other."
The Text Taught Him to Move Man, Through God, by Prayer Alone
When I became a Christian in '75 I heard around me many who told that they were sure they would go to heaven. I thought that this was very conceited. I brought in me, being at this time a "baby" Christian, a doubt was I really saved and was I too going to be in Heaven one day? One day I decided to try and get the answer. I said; " Lord I am sitting here and waiting for You to show me if I am really Your child" I kept praying and also singing and I am not sure but I believed it took a while when I received a vision. I saw thousands of people all dressed in white sitting around a lake and lo and behold when I saw myself among the many. What a glorious moment that was to see this and to give me my assurance.......... Thank you Lord..................
Cor my husband taught himself to play the organ just a few years ago. He is able to play the above song; "The Holy City" It is so beautiful but very difficult to play. I am very proud of him and happy that he is able to play this song on our own organ. Just last week we sang together some songs that took us back to our childhood............... I was amazed how many we remembered...................
The Holy city Jerusalem Last night I lay asleeping There came a dream so fair I stood in old Jerusalem Beside the temple there I heard the children singing And ever as they sang Methought the voice of Angels From Heaven in answer rang "Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Lift up you gates and sing Hosanna in the highest Hosanna to your King!" And then methought my dream was chang'd The streets no longer rang Hush'd were the glad Hosannas The little children sang The sun grew dark with mystery The morn was cold and chill As the shadow of a cross arose Upon a lonely hill "Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Hark! How the Angels sing Hosanna in the highest Hosanna to your King!" And once again the scene was chang'd New earth there seem'd to be I saw the Holy City Beside the tideless sea The light of god was on its streets The gates were open wide And all who would might enter And no one was denied No need of moon or stars by night Or sun to shine by day It was the new Jerusalem That would not pass away "Jerusalem! Jerusalem Sing for the night is o'er Hosanna in the highest Hosanna for evermore
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
No one can earn salvation the Lord makes it clear, Jesus did it all on the cross As He said on the cross; "It is finished" He was the only sacrifice to be made................
As we live our lives and unfortunately sin, we need to return to God in repentance and faith and seek his forgiveness. Yet we do so on the basis of Christ’s work applied to us in our justification. Such an experience is not a new justification but a renewed application of our justification.
When we sin, we lose our consciousness of forgiveness and our sense of peace with God. So when we confess our sins, by the work of the Spirit, we are reawakened to what Christ has done for us, and God revives our security in him and assurance of our salvation. Believers, then, continue to pray daily for forgiveness—not with the despair of one who thinks he is lost, but in the confidence of justified and adopted children approaching a heavenly Father who has declared them just in Jesus Christ.
One of the reasons we are here on earth is to learn to obey God’s commandments. Except for Jesus Christ, who lived a perfect life, everyone who has lived upon the earth has sinned (see Romans 3:23; 1 John 1:8). Sin is when we willfully break God’s commandments, and all sins have a punishment attached to them. When we sin, justice requires that we suffer the punishment (see Alma 42:16–22).
Ultimately, the consequence of any sin is separation from God (see 1 Nephi 10:21). This separation is so severe that we cannot repair it on our own.
To overcome this separation, our Heavenly Father provided a way for His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to take upon Himself the burden of our sins, making it possible for us to be spiritually clean and reunited with Him. This is the plan of mercy.
The Savior taught, “For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; but if they would not repent they must suffer even as I” (D&C 19:16–17).
As part of His Atonement, Jesus suffered for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross of Calvary. By repenting of our sins, we can bring the power of His Atonement into our lives.
Jesus Christ, who willingly atoned for our sins, said:
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
“For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28–30).
The Atonement also provides the following blessings:
Resurrection to all who are born on earth (see Alma 11:42–45).
Eternal life in God’s presence for all children who die before they arrive at the age of accountability, age eight (see Mosiah 3:16; 15:24–25; Moroni 8:8–12).
Ability to find peace in times of trial because Jesus took upon Himself our pains and sicknesses (see John 14:27; Alma 7:11–12).
Jesus died for our past AND future sins, so some of you think, so I can now sin all I want as I am already forgiven?
Forgive me Lindsay if you have asked Jesus to be your Lord and Savior then ALL your sins are forgiven as it is the Lord who is the atonement once and for all............nothing can be added to this.............
"For as many as received Him to them, He gave the power to become the children of God"
Thank you Linsay............When the Bible says; "When you hear rumors of war" ................is this what is talked about here? I believe we are living in the end times............has it arrived?............We are getting close that I believe. l Is it not amazing that WE are that generation being a witness to it? How often did I hear in the past pastors saying; "Lord Jesus come quickly"
It happened at work in a store in Inglewood, L.A. an all black neighbourhood.
In the afternoon, I overheard one of the men saying to another man, to go to hell. I walked over to them and asked the one who had sent the other to hell, why he had wished the other man to go to hell. Surprised, he did not know what to say, so I said it for him; "Because you don't like him right?"
Almost grateful to now have the answer, he nodded his head. "Well, I said; “Maybe next time, you should wish him to go to heaven, then at least the two of you, will be separated.”
Unbeknown to me, the late night man or boy really, had come in and he had overheard everything. He asked me if he could ask me some questions.
He said he was really afraid to do so as he was thinking it might take away from my faith.
How sweet of him to be so concerned for me while he needed answers for him self.
I assured him not to worry about me, as I myself had been having many questions. Besides I told him, someone had to answer your questions.
He had many sincere questions and kept needing, reassurance that I would not lose my faith, if he asked them. I answered him as best as I could and promised him a book to read. The next day I gave him; "The Rapture".
In those days I was send from store to store but I did not work in that particular store again. I wanted my book back as I couldn't buy another one it was now out of print.
About four weeks after I had lent out my book, I saw him on the parking lot with a few friends. I decided not to say anything, as I did not want to embarrass him in front of them. Not to worry, the moment he saw me he said; “Hello Jenny, I still have your book.” I told him that I knew, and if he wanted to read another book. Eyes large as saucers he said; "Oh no,” I want to read it all again, 'cause it is blowing my mind!”
This in an accent, that only a Los Angeles, black man can do! Priceless!
I know that I will meet that brother again on the other side and the friends he had with him that day, were also Christians.
And by the way, keep the book! This is one of my favorites, you had to hear this man's voice in that accents only black people have
Will keep you to your promise of sharing your stories later Lindsay , So happy you enjoy mine here, Am repeating some stories for new readers some don't want to, or have no time to go back to the beginning. (wished they would go back to the beginning of this blog) All my stories are true experiences.......... I had planned to stop this blog about a year ago but hplady told me to keep going. Well as long as people keep reading I will continue..........................jenny
At work there was a man who loved to debate with me, about things pertaining to God. One day I could tell he had a good argument for me, or so he thought. As soon as it was time for our coffee break, he came out with it. He asked me if I knew that Jesus had really been nailed to a tree.
"Is that so? Well did you know that you are sitting on a tree?" he happened to sit on a wooden chair. I think he got it..................
Lindsey, yes he is alive thus is able to hear and answer our prayers I often get answers and it is always such a good feeling to know He is with you all the time So goody, goody, to see you back girl...............
My dentist found it sometimes difficult to work on my mouth he would tell me that I had such a small mouth. I told him that this was not what my mother called it. One of my nick-names was Jenny; “big-mouth.” 0nly said by my mother...................
You see the Lord can use everyone and everything for His good. Even my mouth!
We were standing at the time clock waiting for four o'clock so we could sign out, and go home. I could not help overhearing when one of the men I worked with, was mentioning the name of Jesus in a derogatory way, several times in one sentence. I finally could not stand to listen to that anymore, and said to him; "I hear that you know Him too." Surprised the man said to me; "Know who?" "Jesus” I said; “I heard you mentioning His name several times.”
I love to shock people it will make them think. In the grocery store, you can easily find someone that will complain about the high cost of food. Because misery loves company, you whole-heartedly agree with them. Tell the person that you are sure that it will get worse. Agreeing with you is assured at this point. I will then tell them, that I won't need to worry as I have a very rich father. On their faces you can read the surprise, of course their faces say, then it is no wonder you don't worry, if you have a rich father.
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What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Thank you so much for your kind words lindsay, It means a lot to me believe me..................As I said before I don't know most of you but I see you are reading and when you stop reading I will stop
posting. Fair enough? Love you all........................