TESTIMONY PART 2

I was resting on my bed while Leanne my then girlfriend was cooking dinner. When suddenly a thought entered into my mind that became increasingly overwhelming. The thought was loud and clear as if someone spoke it..."GOD" My body began to respond to this thought with my heart was beginning to beat faster as if I had just ran a marathon race. I was aware that I was becoming increasingly anxious, because this thought of "GOD" kept getting bigger & bigger in my mind. Before I knew it, I was running to the kitchen to tell Leanne
that I had to find God!

This deep inner desire overcame me to find God, but I had no idea where to find Him let alone how to? Leanne was concerned for my mental state due to my high drug usage, but I told her and everyone I came in contact with that I needed to find God.
I even rang my parents to tell them and asked whether or not our family belonged to a local church or something that will lead me to find God. I was informed that our family (even though like I said in Pt 1 of testimony, our family were not religious or practicing Christians...refer to Pt 1) belonged to the Anglican church and that I should talk to the Priest.

A lot of good that did!!.....The Priest didnt even know how to respond to my pleas of help to find God. All he could do was give me some religious mumbo jumbo which to me even I somehow sensed or knew that even this Priest didn't know 'God' like I thought he would know Him. I wanted to meet God and for him to reveal Himself! Because this thought and deep desire would not leave me from that time in my bedroom until I did. I didn't care how or where to meet Him...i just wanted to meet God!

For 2 weeks i went on a search for God, being very cautious of Christians and there freaky beliefs( I didnt want to be just another member of a church). But eventually i ended going back to the priest who i first spoke with prior. He spoke to me about fasting and suggested I try it to show God I was serious about finding Him. I was becoming disheartened and angry at this God i did not know! Why would He not show Himself to me? Why would He even disrupt my life when I was at a time where everything in my life seemed perfect!? Then He had to come along and turn it all upside down. Well, at least that's how it felt. Even Leanne was becoming frustrated with the whole God search and with me in particular. I even made her fast for 3 days with me, so that God would show himself?

By the 3rd day we were both weak from not eating (this was extremely difficult for Leanne & myself ) considering both of us liked our food, and neither of us had done anything like it before. This was the turning point for me! I was so weak and angry, that at lunch break I took Leanne and walked down to that Priest's church and decided I would give this God a good piece of my mind. Leanne waited in one of the seats as I went to the front of the altar and got down on my knees. I was so angry at God for turning what seemed my perfect life upside down. How dare He not revealing himself to me after all I had tried to do to meet Him!

I sobbed like a baby clinching my fists and venting my anger at Him. I think I might have even said some very x rated words at him just to show him how mad I was. Who are You God? What do You want with me? Why won't You show Yourself to me and Leanne? Were all the questions that were racing through my mind. I picked myself up from off the floor after what seemed like an eternity and left that church with a ***K you God in my heart.

Don't ever bother me again! When Leanne and I returned to the office (we were both studying Radio Broadcasting) I was sitting in the 'On Air' studio no longer than 10 - 15 mins after coming back from the church, when something else turned my world upside down again!

To be continued in Part 3 soon.....

PART ONE

It's been 3 months since I have started the SOULJAHS4CHRIST Blogsite and I am blessed with the response of many visitors world wide. I see the SOULJAHS4CHRIST blogsite as another media avenue to share about my faith and the Gospel of Jesus to all the Nations of the World....Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

In this post I would like to share with you my own Personal Testimony in 3 Parts, each being posted at different times! Hopefuly in the near future, i will have other Guest Speakers in the Guest Speaker Box which you will find further down the page!

I grew up in a small town in New Zealand in a disfunctional home of violence and rejection. As a child, fear & rejection became a fimiliar emotion that eventually it became apart of me & my character as i grew older. I grew up with a lot of emotional damage and with very little parental guidance and love. I knew deep down that my mother loved me, but she was no better off than I or my sibblings were.

Many things happend in my childhood to write about, but let's just say that the common theme was loneliness, anger & confusion. There was no religion or any christian teachings while i grew up. The only times I went to church was for weddings, funerals or baby baptisms. There were the odd occassions as a young boy when i would stay over at friends', and whose parents were Christians. I would have to go with them to church on sundays.

I remember thinking a lot from as young as maybe 6 or 7yrs old, what was life all for... I can also recall watching on TV every Easter, a 'Man' in a movie dying on some big sticks which would make me sad, and i would cry for no apparent reason. As a young rebellious teenager I left home without an education & mixed with all the wrong people from Gangs and Under World Crime Syndicates. Many of my associates and friends were either convicted rapists, murderers etc. Heavy alcohol,drugs,sex and violence were the normal things in my early teens & then again LATER IN MY LIFE! (You will understand that comment better in Part 2 of my Testimony)

At the age of 17 i was living with my girlfriend whom i had intended to marry. She was extremely beautiful & athletic, and we planned to spend the rest of our lives together! I was still a heavy drug user, but not so much with the alcohol! And because i had enough sense to seperate myself from the Gang culture, i was able to remove myself from all the violence too. I have seen things that i was too young to see, so i had to grow up fast in the REAL WORLD! Anyhow, now that i was with my girlfriend, i managed to suppress all of my childhood hurts. Then, one day when i was lying on my bed in my bedroom, something happened that would effect me for the rest of my life so much more than anything i have faced or been through... I would never ever be the same again for as long as i live......

TO BE CONTINUED IN PART 2

CHINA WILL BE SAVED!

 

The following Post is an edited version of a letter I sent to my senior Pastor this week. The letter is about a Prophetic Vision that the Holy Spirit revealed to me 2 weeks ago, concerning the Nation of China. The reason I am sharing it with you,  is that I too hope that you the reader will also pray the vision of what God intends to do!

 

5^th August 2008

Victory Life Church

1 Neil Street

Osborne Park,

Perth

Western Australia

Dear,

Senior Pastor Margaret Court,

Two weeks ago in the Missions class with Ps Judy Saxby, we were asked to stand to our feet and pray for the Nation of China.

While I was yet still seated, I felt my Spirit stir within me with an anticipation. As I began to stand to my feet, The Holy Spirit began to show me a Vivid Picture of a Red Flag with 3 Stars & a Sickle in the Top Left Corner.

I began Praying in the Spirit with a Real sense of Urgency & Passion, whilst the Holy Spirit began to explain to me step by step the meaning of the Flag.

1: The 3 Stars represent the Trinity…. Father, Son & the Holy Spirit

2: The Sickle represents the Great Harvest

3: The Red Flag represents the Blood of Jesus

Continued:

The Holy Spirit began to explain to me clearly in the following order!

Firstly he (The Holy Spirit) will be poured out mightily upon the Nation of China. He will then prepare the way for Jesus. Then likewise Jesus will make preparations for the Father to come.

There will be a Great Harvest of over a Billion Souls…..The Holy Spirit said that this Harvest will Challenge the Western Church.

The Holy Spirit then declared that it is then, that The Blind will see & the Captives will be Set Free.

It was at the end of Prayer that the Lord told me to speak it out & declare it in class. Ps Judy agreed and there was an anointing on it as I spoke!

Note: A lasting impression the Holy Spirit gave me, was what he had just revealed too me was the End Result of God's mighty Redemption Plan for China’s Plan & Purpose for China!

I have not added to this letter any of my own Interpretations, but that only what the Holy Spirit shared and Revealed too me.

I have been thanking the Lord for The Answer to China’s Salvation by Praying out in Agreement with him exactly what he showed me. I believe that The Flag I saw, represents a NEW China under a New Spiritual Flag!

Pastor Margaret, I would never ask anything of the Church unless I felt it was of the Lord. If you feel the Lord is willing? Would it be possible for the Prayer Teams of the Church to join with the Holy Spirit to pray in agreement too?

Kind Regards

Mason

Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather you together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

FOLLOW ME!

 

These day's the Title Name " CHRISTIAN " has sadly been Abused, Mis-used and Mis-represented. In the scriptures of the Holy Bible, there are only  2 accounts of the Title "Christian" ever being used.

1: Acts 26:28  Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost you persuade me to be a Christian.

2: 1 Peter 4:16  Yet if any man suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

The above scriptures are those 2 accounts of the Word Christian being used. The early church followers were at first not known as "Christians". There are studies to prove that the earlier church was known as " THE WAY".

It wasn't till much later that Non Believers began to see the Miracles that followed those who preached Jesus Christ & him crucified! And the message they preached of Jesus Crucified & with signs & miracles following as Jesus said would happen. Because, he would confirm the Message that his Followers would Preach with Healing Miracles & Deliverance from Demons!

So what does "CHRISTIAN" really mean? and what is the evidence of you being a Christian?I use SwordSearcher 4 a lot in my studies & the definition that I received was....

5546. Christianos... khris-tee-an-os'

from 5547; a Christian is a  follower of Christ

5547. Christos... khris-tos'

from 5548; anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus:--Christ.

So if you go away and study this word yourself, you will come across these same references. The first ref declares a Christian is someone who is a follower of Christ (Paraphrased) But then the second ref that is also connected to the 1st ref states that you are also anointed!

Hmm....what could that possibly mean? Let's see what Jesus said in Luke 4:18  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has ANOINTED me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,Luke 4:19  To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

 

Simply putting it!...Jesus's ministry is still in operation Today. It never stopped because he went to be with the Father. His ministry is being done through you! but only if you have been anointed.

The anointing of The Holy Spirit upon and within you is simply the Baptism of The Holy Spirit. Jesus gave this example at his on water Baptism, when the spirit came upon him and then his Ministry really began.

He then told his Disciples to wait in Jerusalem after his resurrection also, so that they could receive the Power ( Ability ) to be witnesses of him. This is later confirmed in Acts Ch 1 with the evidence of it throughout the entire book of Acts.

If you claim to Be a CHRISTIAN? Then you are claiming to be a True Follower of Jesus Christ, with The Anointing of his Spirit just as it was so with the first disciples in the Book of Acts. According to God's written word, You can only truly claim to be his follower when you become Born Again. Romans 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

I would like to encourage you that if you are not sure if you are truly a follower of Jesus Christ as it was proven throughout the book of Act's & still is today! Then please say the Salvation Prayer with Me Today, in the left hand column of This Blog Entry. You are not his if you do not have his Spirit! The only external evidence manifestation of anyone in the Bible having received the Holy Spirit Baptism was the evidence of speaking in Tongues. Study his word, and you will see this to be the Truth. Ask God to show you! Ask God to reveal the truth about your standing with him! Don't you think you deserve to know the Truth?  God definately does...that's why Jesus said " I am the Way, The Truth & The Life! "