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Stay in touch with me . . . I'll want to hear and read all about it! This is very, very important . . . and never let anyone tell you otherwise.
I want you to remember that it is one thing to question yourself, but do not doubt! I hope that makes sense. Never doubt yourself . . . never doubt your value and worth, for you have been touched by our Powerful, Almighty God. You are Loved, and God KNOWS you. He found you in the middle of a church . . . He knows right where you are every second of the day. He will never leave your side . . . never. Once the Lord touches you, as you know, that's it . . . you are forever belonging to Him. So even when the day comes that you might face your death, you can know, with full certainty, that your Lord and Savior will be with you as you pass away.
You are very, very fortunate, my friend.
I want you to remember that it is one thing to question yourself, but do not doubt! I hope that makes sense. Never doubt yourself . . . never doubt your value and worth, for you have been touched by our Powerful, Almighty God. You are Loved, and God KNOWS you. He found you in the middle of a church . . . He knows right where you are every second of the day. He will never leave your side . . . never. Once the Lord touches you, as you know, that's it . . . you are forever belonging to Him. So even when the day comes that you might face your death, you can know, with full certainty, that your Lord and Savior will be with you as you pass away.
You are very, very fortunate, my friend.
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Stay in touch with me . . . I'll want to hear and read all about it! This is very, very important . . . and never let anyone tell you otherwise.
I want you to remember that it is one thing to question yourself, but do not doubt! I hope that makes sense. Never doubt yourself . . . never doubt your value and worth, for you have been touched by our Powerful, Almighty God. You are Loved, and God KNOWS you. He found you in the middle of a church . . . He knows right where you are every second of the day. He will never leave your side . . . never. Once the Lord touches you, as you know, that's it . . . you are forever belonging to Him. So even when the day comes that you might face your death, you can know, with full certainty, that your Lord and Savior will be with you as you pass away.
You are very, very fortunate, my friend.
I want you to remember that it is one thing to question yourself, but do not doubt! I hope that makes sense. Never doubt yourself . . . never doubt your value and worth, for you have been touched by our Powerful, Almighty God. You are Loved, and God KNOWS you. He found you in the middle of a church . . . He knows right where you are every second of the day. He will never leave your side . . . never. Once the Lord touches you, as you know, that's it . . . you are forever belonging to Him. So even when the day comes that you might face your death, you can know, with full certainty, that your Lord and Savior will be with you as you pass away.
You are very, very fortunate, my friend.
I have never liked my body hate the way that he created me to be especially being born with some disabilities I don’t wanna to be known by it I wanna hang out with normal people. One night I cried out to God during one night 3 years ago I cried about why did he create me like a normal human being it changed my view about Jesus. The Second time he came to me he touched me in a very powerful way I have dreamed about hugging him he hugged me it was like a warm breeze over me and I cried I think that the image I had of God was I think that he is mad of me for all of the mistakes that I made in my life but it changed my life forever I can’t wait to see him hug me forever in heaven. I am so grateful for you words encouraging me in many ways right now.
@Aldg19, I wanted to thank you for sharing your heart and soul with me today. I know that for many, I am sure, would struggle to write what you have written. It takes a certain amount of inner strength to reveal these things . . . that, to be honest, the world does not appreciate. How many people appreciate others with being birthed with disabilities? Listen to me . . . silly. You are the one to be schooling me on these matters! But you see what I mean . . . I appreciate you, and more, I believe in you.
I’m sorry to hear that you hate your body. I understand, and I know how much it hurt me to feel that same way. And, it didn’t seem to matter how many times I would try to tell myself, “But David, you have both arms, legs . . . a healthy everything, and there are so many people in the world that are not as fortunate to have your body.” Like I said, I just couldn’t make that turn . . . I could never get over how much I disliked my body and its shape. I was so thin in gradeschool (we were very poor and malnutritioned) that my classmates thought it was a fun game, for them, to see how far around the could wrap their fingers around my wrist. At age twelve, that’s when I began to wish that I were dead. That’s also the year that I had been molested by my boyscout master, and the year that my father refused to baptize me, and the year that my parents finalized their divorce. I had many reason to die because of my destroyed heart. But leading the way in my life was the idea that being blonde haired, blue-eyed, tall and lanky, this caused me to become molested, thinking I would be raped and murdered on the side of Mount Baker in Washington State. I hated being skinny. It was enough for me to wish that I wasn’t alive.
But here’s the thing . . . when the Lord Jesus found me in a similar way that He found you . . . my life changed totally. I mean totally. It has been many years, now, since I have felt the Raw, Almighty Power of God, but that does not matter. The Peace and Love that He gave to me, which happened to be the Indwelling Holy Spirit, was so strong and Powerful, that if it He had placed upon me any more of His Peace and Love, that my body would not have endured it. That’s right . . . God’s Peace and Love contains Power, and so much so, that it could cause the human body to even die. No one can stand before God, and apparently live, without some form of protection, or limited separation . . . our God is the only God there is. I assure you of this.
After that day, how could I ever look up life in the same way? After feeling His Raw, Almighty Power, I had to know Him. I had to know everything about this Power that just changed my entire life and way of thought. I must know who this God is, that placed Himself upon me with such incredible Power, so I began on that amazing journey of finding out who this God is, and what it is in the Bible that can help to explain to me . . . exactly, what had happened to me while in the middle of the Arizona Desert. What I learned blew my mind, and I’ll never hate my body as I once did. So, I hope that I can explain a couple of things to you that might help you to understand what we have been going through, and why.
First, in by reading the Bible, we find that God loves those who are poor, oppressed, and that includes those with physical ailments. In the New Testament, we read of Jesus healing the blind so that they can see, and healing the lame so that they can walk. Did you know that Jesus did not come to heal the physical body? Did you know that these physical healings are not much more than an actual demonstration of what the Lord does with our hearts? When Jesus healed those who were blind, they were given the right to see, perhaps for the very first time. Who can do this other than God? No one. But did you also notice that Jesus said that He does not cast His pearls to the pigs? This is a parallel phrase to another of His phrases where He, Jesus, says “They could not be healed because they did not possess any Faith.” This means that Jesus never healed anyone who did not have Faith. But who grants faith to begin with? Yes . . . Jesus. When you read these New Testament stories, you’ll note how these sinners often seemed to know so much about Christ. That is because the Lord had Purified their Hearts so that they would have the capacity to Believe . . . and they did. Subsequently, these people were healed of their physical ailments.
Don’t believe me? John chapter 9, the entire thing, speaks directly about this, which is that the physical healings of Christ are a reflection of the Spiritual Circumcision that He Himself performs for each believer. If I have shared these verses before, here they are again. Be amazed . . .
Colossians 2:11-15 NLT – “When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision--the cutting away of your sinful nature. 12 For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead. 13 You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. 15 In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.”
Think about it: Would Jesus ever heal a body that was destined for Hell? Of course not. Jesus does not squander His pearls upon pigs, and healing a cursed body, cursed with the Adamic Curse, would be utterly fruitless. Jesus does not reward those who hate Him with physical healing. So read all of chapter nine of John, and this will confirm the teaching.
So Jesus did never came to physically heal outside of those few demonstrations. His intention was never to Purify an entire leprous community, or each blind man that existed back in the day. Though the Purpose of Christ is to lift our Hearts of the Sinful Nature, we still remain under at least a portion of the Adamic Curse, for we will all still die. Is this why people pray for a set of brand new eyeballs . . . but never receive them? Or a new set of teeth that do not cause any pain? No one gets new teeth? Or how about that missing arm? Surely, Benny Hinn can wave his money-green hand over me and I’ll get my arm back . . . or leg . . . or lung . . . or.
I’m sorry to hear that you hate your body. I understand, and I know how much it hurt me to feel that same way. And, it didn’t seem to matter how many times I would try to tell myself, “But David, you have both arms, legs . . . a healthy everything, and there are so many people in the world that are not as fortunate to have your body.” Like I said, I just couldn’t make that turn . . . I could never get over how much I disliked my body and its shape. I was so thin in gradeschool (we were very poor and malnutritioned) that my classmates thought it was a fun game, for them, to see how far around the could wrap their fingers around my wrist. At age twelve, that’s when I began to wish that I were dead. That’s also the year that I had been molested by my boyscout master, and the year that my father refused to baptize me, and the year that my parents finalized their divorce. I had many reason to die because of my destroyed heart. But leading the way in my life was the idea that being blonde haired, blue-eyed, tall and lanky, this caused me to become molested, thinking I would be raped and murdered on the side of Mount Baker in Washington State. I hated being skinny. It was enough for me to wish that I wasn’t alive.
But here’s the thing . . . when the Lord Jesus found me in a similar way that He found you . . . my life changed totally. I mean totally. It has been many years, now, since I have felt the Raw, Almighty Power of God, but that does not matter. The Peace and Love that He gave to me, which happened to be the Indwelling Holy Spirit, was so strong and Powerful, that if it He had placed upon me any more of His Peace and Love, that my body would not have endured it. That’s right . . . God’s Peace and Love contains Power, and so much so, that it could cause the human body to even die. No one can stand before God, and apparently live, without some form of protection, or limited separation . . . our God is the only God there is. I assure you of this.
After that day, how could I ever look up life in the same way? After feeling His Raw, Almighty Power, I had to know Him. I had to know everything about this Power that just changed my entire life and way of thought. I must know who this God is, that placed Himself upon me with such incredible Power, so I began on that amazing journey of finding out who this God is, and what it is in the Bible that can help to explain to me . . . exactly, what had happened to me while in the middle of the Arizona Desert. What I learned blew my mind, and I’ll never hate my body as I once did. So, I hope that I can explain a couple of things to you that might help you to understand what we have been going through, and why.
First, in by reading the Bible, we find that God loves those who are poor, oppressed, and that includes those with physical ailments. In the New Testament, we read of Jesus healing the blind so that they can see, and healing the lame so that they can walk. Did you know that Jesus did not come to heal the physical body? Did you know that these physical healings are not much more than an actual demonstration of what the Lord does with our hearts? When Jesus healed those who were blind, they were given the right to see, perhaps for the very first time. Who can do this other than God? No one. But did you also notice that Jesus said that He does not cast His pearls to the pigs? This is a parallel phrase to another of His phrases where He, Jesus, says “They could not be healed because they did not possess any Faith.” This means that Jesus never healed anyone who did not have Faith. But who grants faith to begin with? Yes . . . Jesus. When you read these New Testament stories, you’ll note how these sinners often seemed to know so much about Christ. That is because the Lord had Purified their Hearts so that they would have the capacity to Believe . . . and they did. Subsequently, these people were healed of their physical ailments.
Don’t believe me? John chapter 9, the entire thing, speaks directly about this, which is that the physical healings of Christ are a reflection of the Spiritual Circumcision that He Himself performs for each believer. If I have shared these verses before, here they are again. Be amazed . . .
Colossians 2:11-15 NLT – “When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision--the cutting away of your sinful nature. 12 For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead. 13 You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. 15 In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.”
Think about it: Would Jesus ever heal a body that was destined for Hell? Of course not. Jesus does not squander His pearls upon pigs, and healing a cursed body, cursed with the Adamic Curse, would be utterly fruitless. Jesus does not reward those who hate Him with physical healing. So read all of chapter nine of John, and this will confirm the teaching.
So Jesus did never came to physically heal outside of those few demonstrations. His intention was never to Purify an entire leprous community, or each blind man that existed back in the day. Though the Purpose of Christ is to lift our Hearts of the Sinful Nature, we still remain under at least a portion of the Adamic Curse, for we will all still die. Is this why people pray for a set of brand new eyeballs . . . but never receive them? Or a new set of teeth that do not cause any pain? No one gets new teeth? Or how about that missing arm? Surely, Benny Hinn can wave his money-green hand over me and I’ll get my arm back . . . or leg . . . or lung . . . or.
Part 2
@Aldg19, I wanted to thank you for sharing your heart and soul with me today. I know that for many, I am sure, would struggle to write what you have written. It takes a certain amount of inner strength to reveal these things . . . that, to be honest, the world does not appreciate. How many people appreciate others with being birthed with disabilities? Listen to me . . . silly. You are the one to be schooling me on these matters! But you see what I mean . . . I appreciate you, and more, I believe in you.
I’m sorry to hear that you hate your body. I understand, and I know how much it hurt me to feel that same way. And, it didn’t seem to matter how many times I would try to tell myself, “But David, you have both arms, legs . . . a healthy everything, and there are so many people in the world that are not as fortunate to have your body.” Like I said, I just couldn’t make that turn . . . I could never get over how much I disliked my body and its shape. I was so thin in gradeschool (we were very poor and malnutritioned) that my classmates thought it was a fun game, for them, to see how far around the could wrap their fingers around my wrist. At age twelve, that’s when I began to wish that I were dead. That’s also the year that I had been molested by my boyscout master, and the year that my father refused to baptize me, and the year that my parents finalized their divorce. I had many reason to die because of my destroyed heart. But leading the way in my life was the idea that being blonde haired, blue-eyed, tall and lanky, this caused me to become molested, thinking I would be raped and murdered on the side of Mount Baker in Washington State. I hated being skinny. It was enough for me to wish that I wasn’t alive.
But here’s the thing . . . when the Lord Jesus found me in a similar way that He found you . . . my life changed totally. I mean totally. It has been many years, now, since I have felt the Raw, Almighty Power of God, but that does not matter. The Peace and Love that He gave to me, which happened to be the Indwelling Holy Spirit, was so strong and Powerful, that if it He had placed upon me any more of His Peace and Love, that my body would not have endured it. That’s right . . . God’s Peace and Love contains Power, and so much so, that it could cause the human body to even die. No one can stand before God, and apparently live, without some form of protection, or limited separation . . . our God is the only God there is. I assure you of this.
After that day, how could I ever look up life in the same way? After feeling His Raw, Almighty Power, I had to know Him. I had to know everything about this Power that just changed my entire life and way of thought. I must know who this God is, that placed Himself upon me with such incredible Power, so I began on that amazing journey of finding out who this God is, and what it is in the Bible that can help to explain to me . . . exactly, what had happened to me while in the middle of the Arizona Desert. What I learned blew my mind, and I’ll never hate my body as I once did. So, I hope that I can explain a couple of things to you that might help you to understand what we have been going through, and why.
First, in by reading the Bible, we find that God loves those who are poor, oppressed, and that includes those with physical ailments. In the New Testament, we read of Jesus healing the blind so that they can see, and healing the lame so that they can walk. Did you know that Jesus did not come to heal the physical body? Did you know that these physical healings are not much more than an actual demonstration of what the Lord does with our hearts? When Jesus healed those who were blind, they were given the right to see, perhaps for the very first time. Who can do this other than God? No one. But did you also notice that Jesus said that He does not cast His pearls to the pigs? This is a parallel phrase to another of His phrases where He, Jesus, says “They could not be healed because they did not possess any Faith.” This means that Jesus never healed anyone who did not have Faith. But who grants faith to begin with? Yes . . . Jesus. When you read these New Testament stories, you’ll note how these sinners often seemed to know so much about Christ. That is because the Lord had Purified their Hearts so that they would have the capacity to Believe . . . and they did. Subsequently, these people were healed of their physical ailments.
Don’t believe me? John chapter 9, the entire thing, speaks directly about this, which is that the physical healings of Christ are a reflection of the Spiritual Circumcision that He Himself performs for each believer. If I have shared these verses before, here they are again. Be amazed . . .
Colossians 2:11-15 NLT – “When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision--the cutting away of your sinful nature. 12 For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead. 13 You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. 15 In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.”
Think about it: Would Jesus ever heal a body that was destined for Hell? Of course not. Jesus does not squander His pearls upon pigs, and healing a cursed body, cursed with the Adamic Curse, would be utterly fruitless. Jesus does not reward those who hate Him with physical healing. So read all of chapter nine of John, and this will confirm the teaching.
So Jesus did never came to physically heal outside of those few demonstrations. His intention was never to Purify an entire leprous community, or each blind man that existed back in the day. Though the Purpose of Christ is to lift our Hearts of the Sinful Nature, we still remain under at least a portion of the Adamic Curse, for we will all still die. Is this why people pray for a set of brand new eyeballs . . . but never receive them? Or a new set of teeth that do not cause any pain? No one gets new teeth? Or how about that missing arm? Surely, Benny Hinn can wave his money-green hand over me and I’ll get my arm back . . . or leg . . . or lung . . . or.
My friend, you are suffering in this body as a test. We all have to Endure something in this world . . . all of us. Some of us are gay and hating it. Some of us are thieves. Some of us have killed other people. Some of us just can’t control our tongue. Some of us can’t stop sleeping around, going from woman to woman. Some of us are having sex with animals. Look up that word, Endure. It is a most Holy Word, because it is the Lord who gives us this ability to Endure. Here it is:
Philippians 1:29 KJV – “For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake . . .”
Do you see it? You are suffering because of your body, so that means you are loved by the Lord! You know this, for He found you, touched and hugged you will in that church, and you’ve never been the same because of it. You are like young Saul on the Damascus Road, that when the Lord touched him, Saul fell to the ground, blinded by the Power of God. You are like young Saul, later to be named the Apostle Paul. You are like him! So now you know that you are Loved by God, for you have felt His Power! And you now know that this body of yours was never intended to be perfectly healed whilst here on earth. We will all agree that the death-rate is the same for us all . . . it’s 100%. We’re all going to die.
@Aldg19, I wanted to thank you for sharing your heart and soul with me today. I know that for many, I am sure, would struggle to write what you have written. It takes a certain amount of inner strength to reveal these things . . . that, to be honest, the world does not appreciate. How many people appreciate others with being birthed with disabilities? Listen to me . . . silly. You are the one to be schooling me on these matters! But you see what I mean . . . I appreciate you, and more, I believe in you.
I’m sorry to hear that you hate your body. I understand, and I know how much it hurt me to feel that same way. And, it didn’t seem to matter how many times I would try to tell myself, “But David, you have both arms, legs . . . a healthy everything, and there are so many people in the world that are not as fortunate to have your body.” Like I said, I just couldn’t make that turn . . . I could never get over how much I disliked my body and its shape. I was so thin in gradeschool (we were very poor and malnutritioned) that my classmates thought it was a fun game, for them, to see how far around the could wrap their fingers around my wrist. At age twelve, that’s when I began to wish that I were dead. That’s also the year that I had been molested by my boyscout master, and the year that my father refused to baptize me, and the year that my parents finalized their divorce. I had many reason to die because of my destroyed heart. But leading the way in my life was the idea that being blonde haired, blue-eyed, tall and lanky, this caused me to become molested, thinking I would be raped and murdered on the side of Mount Baker in Washington State. I hated being skinny. It was enough for me to wish that I wasn’t alive.
But here’s the thing . . . when the Lord Jesus found me in a similar way that He found you . . . my life changed totally. I mean totally. It has been many years, now, since I have felt the Raw, Almighty Power of God, but that does not matter. The Peace and Love that He gave to me, which happened to be the Indwelling Holy Spirit, was so strong and Powerful, that if it He had placed upon me any more of His Peace and Love, that my body would not have endured it. That’s right . . . God’s Peace and Love contains Power, and so much so, that it could cause the human body to even die. No one can stand before God, and apparently live, without some form of protection, or limited separation . . . our God is the only God there is. I assure you of this.
After that day, how could I ever look up life in the same way? After feeling His Raw, Almighty Power, I had to know Him. I had to know everything about this Power that just changed my entire life and way of thought. I must know who this God is, that placed Himself upon me with such incredible Power, so I began on that amazing journey of finding out who this God is, and what it is in the Bible that can help to explain to me . . . exactly, what had happened to me while in the middle of the Arizona Desert. What I learned blew my mind, and I’ll never hate my body as I once did. So, I hope that I can explain a couple of things to you that might help you to understand what we have been going through, and why.
First, in by reading the Bible, we find that God loves those who are poor, oppressed, and that includes those with physical ailments. In the New Testament, we read of Jesus healing the blind so that they can see, and healing the lame so that they can walk. Did you know that Jesus did not come to heal the physical body? Did you know that these physical healings are not much more than an actual demonstration of what the Lord does with our hearts? When Jesus healed those who were blind, they were given the right to see, perhaps for the very first time. Who can do this other than God? No one. But did you also notice that Jesus said that He does not cast His pearls to the pigs? This is a parallel phrase to another of His phrases where He, Jesus, says “They could not be healed because they did not possess any Faith.” This means that Jesus never healed anyone who did not have Faith. But who grants faith to begin with? Yes . . . Jesus. When you read these New Testament stories, you’ll note how these sinners often seemed to know so much about Christ. That is because the Lord had Purified their Hearts so that they would have the capacity to Believe . . . and they did. Subsequently, these people were healed of their physical ailments.
Don’t believe me? John chapter 9, the entire thing, speaks directly about this, which is that the physical healings of Christ are a reflection of the Spiritual Circumcision that He Himself performs for each believer. If I have shared these verses before, here they are again. Be amazed . . .
Colossians 2:11-15 NLT – “When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision--the cutting away of your sinful nature. 12 For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead. 13 You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. 15 In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.”
Think about it: Would Jesus ever heal a body that was destined for Hell? Of course not. Jesus does not squander His pearls upon pigs, and healing a cursed body, cursed with the Adamic Curse, would be utterly fruitless. Jesus does not reward those who hate Him with physical healing. So read all of chapter nine of John, and this will confirm the teaching.
So Jesus did never came to physically heal outside of those few demonstrations. His intention was never to Purify an entire leprous community, or each blind man that existed back in the day. Though the Purpose of Christ is to lift our Hearts of the Sinful Nature, we still remain under at least a portion of the Adamic Curse, for we will all still die. Is this why people pray for a set of brand new eyeballs . . . but never receive them? Or a new set of teeth that do not cause any pain? No one gets new teeth? Or how about that missing arm? Surely, Benny Hinn can wave his money-green hand over me and I’ll get my arm back . . . or leg . . . or lung . . . or.
My friend, you are suffering in this body as a test. We all have to Endure something in this world . . . all of us. Some of us are gay and hating it. Some of us are thieves. Some of us have killed other people. Some of us just can’t control our tongue. Some of us can’t stop sleeping around, going from woman to woman. Some of us are having sex with animals. Look up that word, Endure. It is a most Holy Word, because it is the Lord who gives us this ability to Endure. Here it is:
Philippians 1:29 KJV – “For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake . . .”
Do you see it? You are suffering because of your body, so that means you are loved by the Lord! You know this, for He found you, touched and hugged you will in that church, and you’ve never been the same because of it. You are like young Saul on the Damascus Road, that when the Lord touched him, Saul fell to the ground, blinded by the Power of God. You are like young Saul, later to be named the Apostle Paul. You are like him! So now you know that you are Loved by God, for you have felt His Power! And you now know that this body of yours was never intended to be perfectly healed whilst here on earth. We will all agree that the death-rate is the same for us all . . . it’s 100%. We’re all going to die.
Part 3
So you have been given this specific body of yours! Ok, that’s just the reality of it and there isn’t a bloody thing we can do about it. But what we can do, is realize that this body is not our own. But it has been purchased by Christ. You know this! You are not your own, and you gladly throw yourself at Christ. But this body is not your own anymore, for the Body is for the Lord and the Lord is for the Body.
1 Corinthians 6:13 KJV – “Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.”
The point is that the body is the New Temple. The New Temple of the Lord is a New Heart and Spirit, produced by the Lord. The Old Temple was made of stone, just like our former stony hearts, but the new heart of tender flesh, this is the New Temple for which the Holy Spirit to Indwell. The body is for the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God is to Indwell His Children.
Ezekiel 36:26-27 KJV – “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.”
The old stone temple is a reflection of the stony heart. So this means that you are to look past your body, and realize that it isn’t even yours. “Your” body is not your property, but incredibly, you’re responsible to take care of it as best as you can.
So I hope that these words are a start to giving you the perspective you need to getting over your body and its physical limitations. Remember, God first sees your Spirit . . . He is not concerned with your physical flesh, and if He were, He would have made Jesus to be something worthy of looking at, but that’s not what God did.
Isaiah 53:2 NLT – “My servant grew up in the LORD's presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.”
Can you believe that? Jesus wasn’t anything all that special to look upon, either. You and I are not what the world says is attractive . . . pft . . . good! I want to be like Christ and perfect like everyone else wants to be. No. I want to be the outcast. I want to be the one suffering! I want to be the poor and the oppressed, for these are the ones whom the Lord loves! He WILL reward you for all of your suffering my friend! God will make this suffering of your right! Trust me . . . TRUST ME . . . it will be worth it! One day you will be thankful that you have lived this suffering, for His reward is beyond imagination.
You are NOT your body my friend. You aren’t. You just aren’t. And I believe in you!
So you have been given this specific body of yours! Ok, that’s just the reality of it and there isn’t a bloody thing we can do about it. But what we can do, is realize that this body is not our own. But it has been purchased by Christ. You know this! You are not your own, and you gladly throw yourself at Christ. But this body is not your own anymore, for the Body is for the Lord and the Lord is for the Body.
1 Corinthians 6:13 KJV – “Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.”
The point is that the body is the New Temple. The New Temple of the Lord is a New Heart and Spirit, produced by the Lord. The Old Temple was made of stone, just like our former stony hearts, but the new heart of tender flesh, this is the New Temple for which the Holy Spirit to Indwell. The body is for the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God is to Indwell His Children.
Ezekiel 36:26-27 KJV – “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.”
The old stone temple is a reflection of the stony heart. So this means that you are to look past your body, and realize that it isn’t even yours. “Your” body is not your property, but incredibly, you’re responsible to take care of it as best as you can.
So I hope that these words are a start to giving you the perspective you need to getting over your body and its physical limitations. Remember, God first sees your Spirit . . . He is not concerned with your physical flesh, and if He were, He would have made Jesus to be something worthy of looking at, but that’s not what God did.
Isaiah 53:2 NLT – “My servant grew up in the LORD's presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.”
Can you believe that? Jesus wasn’t anything all that special to look upon, either. You and I are not what the world says is attractive . . . pft . . . good! I want to be like Christ and perfect like everyone else wants to be. No. I want to be the outcast. I want to be the one suffering! I want to be the poor and the oppressed, for these are the ones whom the Lord loves! He WILL reward you for all of your suffering my friend! God will make this suffering of your right! Trust me . . . TRUST ME . . . it will be worth it! One day you will be thankful that you have lived this suffering, for His reward is beyond imagination.
You are NOT your body my friend. You aren’t. You just aren’t. And I believe in you!
I will never stop dreaming about doing music as a living in Nashville community my faith will make it happen. Music is all I ever wanted to do especially country music. As you may know I love country music especially the woman that paved the way for me but I wanna make proud especially Shaina Twain. I wanna bring Jesus in my music and I love writing songs about faith add country music to it makes me happy. I’m so excited about writing a new collection of songs that bring me back classic country from Loretta Lynn, Tricia yearwood, Dolly , Reba , Shaina Twain, Martha McBride patty loveless and faith hill I’m inspired by there style of country music I’m so excited about honoring them in my songs but those new collection of songs remind me why I love country music in many ways. God will use me in a bigger way in country music. I’m so glad that he give me a gift to sing and songwrite for his glory.I can’t wait to see my music journey took off in Nashville someday in 4 years after college. I love country music so much I was raised on it.
I will never stop praying for this dream of mine to took off I am just trusting him for it and if he says no I’ll still trust him. My dream has been to inspire people though country music oh my goodness it’s been a crazy dream to achieve as a young chirst follower in Nashville while Nashville is comparing me to faith hill or a other woman of country music it will hard to be my self who he created me to be I love dreaming about doing this rest of my life until he calls me home someday. I’ll write songs about faith love and more. You will learn about me and my faith will be number one during my music journey that I have been called on.I’m dreaming about meeting women who inspire me everyday and to continue to achieve my dream that I had my entire life I would dreaming about in church when I was younger and I was so excited about it I don’t pay attention to Jesus in church it’s true.
My first album will me in a new person in the music business as a young chirst follower trusting him for him to change my life in almighty way I can’t imagine yet and I can’t wait to see him work in my music journey and trusting him where he will took me. When I win my first CMA award it will feel weird because I have been watching CMA awards since I was kid and still watching it watching people winning it thinking about me winning it one day and in 4 years it will be me up there crying my eyes out because music is all I ever wanted to do and I am so grateful that I’m doing it for a living In my life I don’t do it without him he is the reason why I’m doing it. I feel like I’m really in my roots in country music that I grown up with and it’s who I’m and I love writing songs about who I’m: I’ll probably be the first woman in country music who has disabilities and I’m making history I wanna make history growing up I thought that it was weird that they don’t have one but I’ll probably be the first one I pray that I will make history for country music do you believe in me for doing this. I can’t wait to sing for you in heaven.
I feel my roots in country music are coming back it’s feels like being back In my roots in country music and songwriting but I’m will always be a country girl it’s makes me feel closer to my roots and my faith has played a major role in it. My heart will always be in country music and I love that I have a dream to do this for a living. I feel so lucky to do this for a living and I will so grateful that I’m doing it this I went to a member of the grand ole opry someday like my hero’s it will be probably the best thing ever happened to me. I have been praying that he will continue to bless me to make this dream of mine to come true. I can’t wait to have a number one song in country radio it will be probably so cool. I am proud of me for achieving my dream someday because I have faith like it.
I just want to make my Heavenly Father proud of me for doing my his as living watching his daughter bringing him glory in the music business. I just want him to my number one Cheerleader during my music journey as I do this before he calls me home to be with him. I can imagine him smiling down on me doing what I love and watching me using the gifts that he used me in country music. My parents prayed for a minister but Jesus give them a a country music singer songwriter and but I have never stopped believing in this dream of mine I have always been a country girl listening to country music before church and after church I have wearing my cowgirl boots to church always I love being a country girl living in the southern world I live in the middle of the country.
My faith is been stronger than before I believe that he has changed my heart this past year because he wants me to look at Christ its a beautiful thing to look at your father the one who created the entire universe wow it’s mind blowing when you stop and think about it. I’m so grateful to have my faith and there are some days I don’t wanna live for chirst I wanna live for the devil but I don’t because I don’t broke my fathers heart who loves me so much more then I could ever imagine right now wow I have felt his love for me it’s powerful it’s ever ending love but I wanna live for this world still I’m fighting my spiritual warfare battles but my faith has overcome so far but I’m fighting with my sword ok it’s biblical what I’m saying ok listen I’m fighting with my sword and God is fighting before me because he is the strength that I could ever imagine or have he is stronger than I’m because he is the lord of all lords kings of kings I’m a daughter of his heart I have been having negative thoughts about my body I was a teenager who remember when social media was the super important thing to the society in 2014 I remember hating the way he created me to I have overcome that battle from the devil because I had the word of God with me he was so mad that I win the battle and he could have me because I said no to him. I’m proud of being a daughter of the kings of kings lords of lords.
My heart is full of thanksgiving and praise because of what the Lord has done for me but I am thankful that he took a girl like me who was broken and turned her into a vassal that he can use and will use me for a bigger purpose I am surrender to him because surrender is where he can took control of your life it’s scary at first but easy after it I definitely know that feeling surrender to him beginning of a major life change which is Covid was a scary thing but I’m glad that I did he has taught me anything that I need to him about him. I can’t believe that I’m his daughter. He is my best friend.