Sassy, I'm sorry I came on so hard. It's bothered me since I hit send. I'm just not feeling too well today but that's not an excuse.
Before I came on here, I was looking for another video song for our friend of the OP because I know that edifying music is what gave me the super-rocket blast Upward when I first got saved and to this day.
Also, I'd like to explain that I know a bunch of folks from back in the 60's that were looking for GOD and believed the lie that drugs would help them find Him and that was a strong and powerful lie back then .... BUT - it wasn't the drugs that helped them -- but a whole bunch of those "searching for God" people Did finally find Him and became The Jesus People that turned into a Revival in approx the early 70's. Again - it wasn't the drugs that 'helped' but that they were Looking for God in all the wrong places - YET 'they were looking for God'.
I was one of them. Only did the drug scene for a year - but I know what I was looking for and God slam dunked me right into a "trip to Hell" after that year from a drug that someone gave me - and HE showed me in that 'trip' - that it was ALL from Satan ... so I can relate to this new friend to CC here --- I was only 16 when this happened but had sought for God since I was a kid and knew it was JESUS but there were so many messages back then and I was influenced by my then bf and someone else that was very close to me that got me on the wrong path ... pantheism, cosmic-consciousness, Spinoza, the Beatles, Ravi Shankar, etc etc but Jesus was still there in my mind since I was a toddler --- but He had to show me what my after-life would be if I continued on that track .... so I became a Jesus Freak but still hadn't heard the Gospel until I was 23. He was a tangible Christ to me since 3 yrs old BUT - I was looking for love in all the wrong places because my childhood and teen yrs had no love in it at all ... but He was there through it all - honestly - and I believe it was because He KNEW that once I was beaten down enough - He'd allow me to just happen to be going through TV channels alone at home and stumble upon a man explaining Salvation and being FORGIVEN in the last 5 minutes of his program and asking if we wanted to - that we could pray a prayer similar to his and I did 20 yrs after I first knew that He was God, at 23 y.o..
I could name some of the people that came out of that drug culture back then - but I think most of the people here know their names but there hasn't been a Revival of that size in the U.S. since .... no credit to the drugs - but that a mess of folks were seeking for God in the midst of a bunch of nonsense like the New Age and Timothy Leary and nonsense like that.
I'm inclined to believe that something like that is beginning to happen globally but we don't see it all but we will, one day - as persecution begins to show more besides just what we see overseas from us.
The cosmic-consciousness crowd are still around but they aren't preaching "love & peace" in the same way they did back in our hippie days --- their "love & peace" is now coming from the mentality like Spangler's .... to purge the earth of us that won't go-along-to-get-along with a global 'religion' of tolerance of everything and anything that they deem is normal for "human animals" or "seeded by aliens" creatures.
I may have gotten away from their teachings when I was 16 but I haven't gotten away from keeping up on what they teach.
God Bless you and again, I'm sorry for my sharpness! No excuse for that, my friend.
Gonna try later tonight to find or direct our new member to some good music.
Praying for him for STRENGTH over what has held him in bondage for this many years. GOD is Able to deliver over-night, as He did with me - but we still pray that he will find Freedom in Jesus Alone asap --- Amen and Alleluia to The Lamb of God that took the sins of the world upon Himself. May He be Glorified in this place and in our hearts, forever and ever and ever, Amen!
