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jenny12345
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My story for the conversion of sinners and unbelievers.

A personal testimony glorifying Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior

This mercy is the greatest threat to Satan, because he loses many, many souls because of this Mercy offered by God for sinners

I am spreading the Devotion of Divine Mercy which teaches that any sinner can be saved if they would only turn from their sin and accept God's Mercy as bought for them by the death of Our Lord Jesus Christ on cross for sinners.

IN THE DEVINE MERCY DEVOTION, GODS LOVE IS UNLIMITED AND AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE! ESPECIALLY THE GRESTEST SINNERS!
Background of the Divine Mercy Devotion
http://www.faustina.ch/index_en.htm

I am a new creature

My specific encounters with God, my sense of His “presence

KJV 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things become new.

The Holy Spirit was convicting me of my sins, as I was praying I wept with grief. Every time I sinned I offended God. I was so ashamed of myself for what I had done, and for the way I had treated other people in the past. I wept so much I was exhausted.

God changed my heart.
Now I am no longer selfish,
I am no longer a lover of money.
I am no longer a liar.
I am no longer a con man and I am no longer a thief.
I have stopped using people to my advantage.

I am no longer spiteful towards others people.
I am no sarcastic towards others.
I am no longer rude towards others.
I no longer do my will, I only do Gods will; what he has commanded me to do for him, I have died to myself.

I was praying, on my hands and knees, for people around me, imagine the power of a volcano irrupting. That’s what it felt like when the Holy Spirit penetrated my heart. For He wants me to love others, to love every person as much as I love my own family. This is the will of God. He commands me to be like this.

I am changing my life and putting right with God. There are things I need to change in my life and I am working on them every day.

I want to change; it is not me who can control this change in myself. Only God can do
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One time a person asked me: “I want to be an angel, how do I become one?” I answered: “Angels have one rule. In all your words, actions, behaviours towards others show love, we are angels, but we are lost, trying to get back home to heaven.

.God showed me, I would be going to hell.

One night as I laid in bed, eyes closed, just about to fall asleep, I was suddenly, literally, frozen in fear. I tried to move my body but I could not move anything. I then tried to move one of my fingers but I could not move that either. I was paralysed with fear. I continued trying to move but it was futile. My body wouldn’t respond to any commands my brain gave. I could hear a whirlwind. It was a terrifying sound, in the darkness. God’s wrath was on me. Next thing I knew I was no longer in bed. I was cast out of my body into outer darkness, a black darkness. I knew I was there for a reason, I was going to hell, and I was on my own. I knew there was something on its way to me, as it got closer to me, I became more terrified. As it came really close I knew who it was, it was the devil. Horror overwhelmed me. Terror took a hold of me, I was shaking and trembling in fear, it was so intense that I fainted.

KJV Psalm 58:9 before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

KJV Matthew 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

I have a thirst for Jesus and still do when I go into a church. I felt at home, I belonged there. I started reading the holy bible for the first time in my life, first the gospels of Jesus-Christ. Sometimes Jesus spoke in parables. I was reading a parable and I was trying to digest it, I realised that I understood the parable and my heart jumped for joy. I thought to myself: “It’s never done that before.” Reading further I become scared and suddenly understood what the evil one is up to with me. He wants me to sin and rebel against God, he is out to corrupt me through sin, and he’s doing it to destroy me, to take me from God.

These are just a few examples of the seeds the evil one sowed into my heart, to corrupt me, of this world.

The way I used to be towards other people and how I treated them was rude, selfish, arrogant, spiteful, malicious, I used profanity, got into punch-ups, bullying, was sarcastic and threatening.

I never cared about people, only ever caring about my own needs, my greed and my wants.


My biggest weakness, was watching pornography on the internet, my heart was so perverse I felt dirty; so dirty. I felt as if I had demons wrapped around my body, and I felt that way day and night for twenty three years. Satan’s demons attacked me through my weaknesses, through sin.

After I realized what the evil one was up to, I closed every door in my life to do with sin. I changed the choices I made and for the first time in a long time I feel happy. I drew closer to God and he drew closer to me. When I pray, if I ask anything according to his will, he hears me. I struggle daily so when I am tempted I pray and within seconds God takes away the temptation.

1. All these changes, in my life, happened after I started reading the holy bible. I was gently awakened, spiritually. My eyes and ears were started to open, just a fraction.

My walk with our Lord is a daily cleansing process. The words of God cleanse me and changed the way I live.


My encounter with God.

When I realized what Satan’s demons were doing to me, in anguish, I started to pray, closed my eyes and cried out to Jesus, saying the Lord’s Prayer. I said to Him: “I am chained to Satan and his ways because of my sins.” I prayed to the Lord and asked: “Break the chain Lord and free me of all his ways.” Then something extraordinary happened. As I had my eyes closed I saw a sun. A grey mist was obscuring it. As I stared at it, I felt glorious joy and happiness. There with God and I did not need anything to eat or drink. The only thing that mattered was the relationship I had with him, nothing else. God told me this world and everything it has to offer is absolutely nothing compared to what he has in store for us, and as I am still starting at this sun I realized how much I loved Jesus. I love Him more than anybody on this earth. God showed me a reflection in the mirror as he truly beholds me. I saw myself and what was wrapped around my body was my perverse heart I was filthy, dirty. It grieved me to see the person I had become through sin. I cried to God because of it. He was showing me that to change.
I have change so much in such a short time that now I run from sin. I hated the person I had become. I wanted to change so much, but I couldn’t stop sinning on my own I needed help and now I have the Holy Spirit dwelling within me that’s how I am able.

God was saying to me, he gave me the idea to sell the house. He said: “You don’t need it. I didn’t know what he meant by that. There were two doors, I could go throw either. Keeping the house was about seeking money and wealth, the other was about giving up worldly possessions. So I sold the house and the money went to those who needed it. Everything I ever wanted for myself I gave it all up to follow Jesus.

The vision only lasted a few seconds, but it had a profound effect on me. The devil caused me to desire wealth, so to distance myself from him, rejecting him; I had to give up materialistic ways.

KJV Ephesians 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man.

I cannot blame anyone for my sins only myself.
After that encounter, I become hyper sensitive to evil.
I could recognise sin whereas before I was blind to it.

While I observed other people’s behaviour,
I saw a person being cruel towards another,
I saw another person being violent towards another,
I saw another person being spiteful towards another.
And I saw another person being hateful towards another.

In the Holy Scriptures, when I read those two verses it reflected me.

KJV Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

KJV Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness’s are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

God hates sin, he wanted me to hate my sin, and he wanted me to ask him, so I would have the ability to hate sin.

God has given me free will; I have chosen to love him

Ezekiel 18:31: Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

I’m a child of God and he loves me, I died to myself.

My only goal in life is to accomplish what God has called me to do for him, I want to do more, and then go back home to him.


This is an extract from

http://worldviewchurch.org/insight/70-a-mirror-with-two-image

A Mirror with Two Images.holy bible



By T. M. Moore|Published Date: May 05, 2010
Reflecting on the Word of God
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. James 1:23, 24
“Wherefore let us know nothing more profitable for ourselves than to examine ourselves daily…” Columbanus
Souls-in-progress
The Bible presents itself to us as a mirror with two images.
The first image is that indicated by the Apostle James: the Bible shows us ourselves. It reveals what’s in our hearts. It illuminates the dark recesses of our minds. It leads us to evaluate the priorities and values of our consciences.
The Scriptures affirm the evidence of Christ at work in us; and the Spirit uses the words of Scripture to convict us of shortcomings yet to be remedied. Every day when we come before the Word of God we should be straining carefully to see what God is revealing there concerning our lives. If all we’re looking for is doctrinal insight or sermon fodder, we’re missing the point. The Word of God must first speak to us before we can speak the Word of God to His people.
Scripture reflects back to us an image of our souls-in-progress. What could be more profitable than this, to examine ourselves daily in the light of God’s gracious and infallible Word?
God in His glory
The second image of Scripture as a mirror comes from the Apostle Paul. In 2 Corinthians 3.12-18 Paul tells us that the Scriptures (here, the Law of Moses) are like a mirror in which we see the glory of God reflected at us. The beauty and holiness of God, His splendor and majesty, power and love, mercy and faithfulness – all aspects of His glory – as well as His divine and eternal purposes, are clearly revealed to us in the Bible.

As we read and meditate on Scripture, therefore, we need to be thinking and listening and pondering what God is revealing to us of Himself. We should be expecting for God’s very presence to emerge from the pages of His Word, weighing heavily upon us and impressing us of the truth we are reading about the God Who has saved us and Whom we serve.
Transforming images
The image of God and His glory, juxtaposed with the image of our soul-in-progress, can have transforming effects. Paul says that the Spirit uses this encounter with God’s glory to work glory into us, transforming us increasingly into the image of Christ, so that the glory of Christ shows through us. From “glory to glory” – each meeting with God’s glory to each internalizing and expressing of it – we are changed, a little at a time, but steadily, increasingly, through all our lives.
Our daily discipline of reading and meditating on Scripture could be greatly enhanced if we took this two-fold approach. You might try journaling on a passage, setting down thoughts and reflections under three headings: “My Reflection” (what I see here about myself, the world, or humankind in general); “The Reflection of God’s Glory” (my specific encounter with God, my sense of His “presence” in this text); and “Glory to Glory” (how I should go forth from this reading to manifest the transforming power of God’s Word and Spirit).
Under the first two, set down your thoughts as to what the Scriptures “mirror” back to you, of yourself, in the first place, then of God and His glory. Under the third section put down some thoughts concerning how you might expect to be transformed so that the image of yourself begins to come more into line with the image of God. What steps might you take this day to put off the old man and put on more of the new?
Just as we take time in the morning to inspect our appearance, we need to linger before the mirror of Scripture until it discloses its images – of ourselves and of God’s glory – in transforming ways. This takes time, to be sure, but, as Columbanus suggests, “What could be more profitable?”

For more insight to this topic, get the book, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart, from our online store. Or read the article, “Getting the Most out of Scripture,” by T. M. Moore.









 2011/9/16 22:29Profile









 Re: Finding it so hard to die to myself and carry my cross...

"To carry my cross each day...to die to my self...to put the axe to my self will, desires, pleasures and seek only God; why am I making it so hard?"

STOP!!

Dear heavens on earth, yes, WHY are you making it so hard?

Bask in His grace and mercy, and be thankful brother.

You've already died with Him, it's done.

Do you know what taking up the cross means?

It means that you stop pleasing yourself and you serve another Jesus Christ. You stop doing your own thing, and you walk toward the Light Christ Jesus the righteous.

We've put weights on people that they simple can't bear.

Now if you have a besetting sin I can understand your plight. But you'll never overcome that with trying to do it yourself. The only thing you can do is repent and cry out for mercy and continue walking toward God. If you fall again, ask Him to forgive you and pray for more grace. In time and overtime you'll grow in so much mercy and grace that this sin will fall away like dead skin.

Shake yourself and be free.

God Bless

 2011/9/17 21:16
jimp
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hi, approved hit the nail on the head.repent and be saved is all about presenting yourself as a living sacrifice(dead person) and trust ing in Jesus for the rest. dead folks dont have to strive about anything.it is now Jesus that lives, and He said his yoke is EASY.He brings about any change in you as you wallow in His grace and mercy.jimp anything you do is religion 101.

 2011/9/18 7:07Profile





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