I have recently had a born again experience. I was never religious, raised in a secular home, I considered myself an atheist in my youth. As I got older, I became interested in the various mysteries in life, and I found atheism to be an illogical and unnecessarily dogmatic ideology. I started to describe myself as agnostic, though I was beginning to lean towards a theistic worldview. Though over time I found my heart warming to Jesus as an icon/idea, and despite always being interested in biblical parables and prophesy, I have always been wary of organized religion, monotheism, and Christianity in particular. And so Jesus pursued me in a very unconventional way, through the world of the occult and conspiracy (both of which are inherently intertwined). Without going into too much detail, I began to make some profound connections between the things I was learning in the occult/conspiracy world to Christian theology and biblical prophesy; connections and correspondences that couldn't have been incidental, but that seemed to be part of a larger design. The Lord's timing is very interesting. At the same time I was having these realizations, I had already essentially given up almost everything else in my life. I was unemployed and hermited away from society (mostly due to Covid lockdowns) and throughout the course had become disillusioned with my former belief systems, interests, friends, and my own self, finding them all to be lacking in one way or another. I was at a point where I felt I didn't have anything at all I could rely on for a sense of purpose or meaning. One day, after an emotionally heated argument with a family member, I broke down and I started to pray. I wasn't yet a full believer, I still had my doubts, but I prayed anyway. I poured my heart out to Jesus and admitted I was weak and a sinner and begged to be forgiven and saved. And this is how my *concious* relationship started with Jesus.. not totally convinced, but open and willing to receive. I began to pray, read the Bible, and started asking questions. In a short period of time I had two prayers answered in such a way that made me think that God was really listening, and this helped me begin to build trust in my faith. Even still, I wasn't totally convinced, but I kept praying and reading and exploring. One night I was praying when I was suddenly overcome by a deep sense of shame. I felt unworthy and pathetic and did not want God to look at me. It was a a terrible feeling, and I broke away from the prayer without receiving any sort of resolution for the way I was feeling. I wasn't sure if it was God's disapproval I was sensing or my own ego getting in the way of myself.. or both. A few days later, while taking a bath, I was sitting up and running my hands through the water pouring from the faucet, watching it flow over my hands, feeling it on my skin, listening to the rushing sound of it falling around me and regathering itself in the pool beneath, and my mind was moved to thoughts of baptism. Then all of the sudden I was lit up. Not visually, it was a deeper more inexplicable sensation. Everything seemed golden and beautiful and i was enveloped in this warm and loving feeling, and I felt as though I was in some lovely garden at dawn. I let out a sort of giggling laugh and couldn't help but to smile and bask, I felt bashful and in love, the way a baby would feel being praised by their parent. I felt then as if there was a hand on my shoulder, as if being ushered towards a great opening gate before me, and I sensed Jesus saying to me that I have no reason to fear His Father, that He knows me and loves me. I became acutely aware of the fact that I was fully naked before God and I didn't feel ashamed or unworthy, and it was an awesome feeling. And then the Holy Spirt gave me these words: _When we walk in the flesh we are made dirty, but when we walk in the Spirit we are made clean. Each day on this earth we must be reborn through the sacrifice of the cross and each day washed clean by the blood of Jesus._ I believe this was a personal message, it helped me to understand there were still some practical barriers that I was placing between myself and God, parts of my old self that I was unwilling to sacrifice, that I hadn't fully died of myself. For the rest of the day and into the following I felt the presence of the Lord with me in a very strong a palpable way. It was a calm and peaceful feeling. I found beauty in all things around me. I received God's grace and mercy and compassion and patience, and forgiveness, His perfect love. I felt I was baptized on that day and reborn anew. I suspect that the Lord has begun to pour His Spirit out into the hearts of non-believers, and that there will be many more coming to God in the near future. To anyone reading this who wants to come to Christ, who feels drawn to Him and His perfect love, but lacks that certainty as I did, just know that you can start your relationship with Jesus despite having doubts and reservations and even disagreement. Just keep your heart open, seek earnestly and in good faith and don't give up, because the Lord leads each of us in a unique way, in order that He may break down our own unique barriers, so that the Truth can be revealed to us in a manner that we can understand and at a time when we are prepared to accept it.
In Ephesians 4:5 Paul the apostle to the Gentiles mentioned only ONE BAPTISM for the body of Christ. I believe this is the baptism of the Holy Spirit he also talked about in 1Corinthians 12:13. Why is there a need to be water baptized when our salvation is not by works but by His grace thru faith which is a gift from God(Eph 2:8-9)?
God does a lot through water baptism. He cleanses our sin, He gives us the Holy Spirit to dwell in us. Water baptism is not a work we do, but the means God works to pour out his grace on us.
Hello, Jacqui. We appreciate your question! Thanks for taking the time to write us. We want your question to be answered as thoroughly and thoughtfully as possible. In order to best serve you, we ask that you email your question to our doctrinal questions department at questions@awmi.net Our ministers will gladly respond to your question as soon as possible. We look forward to corresponding with you through email. Be blessed and encouraged this week! -Charis Team
REPENT JESUS IS COMING SOON! ESCAPE THE WRATH THAT IS COMING! Seek the Lord while he may be found!!! Call on him while he is near! Let the wicked forsake their thoughts and the unrighteous their path let them turn to him and he will have compassion for he will abundantly pardon!!!
Teaching is teaching and instructing in the subject. Answering questions is going deeper unto the individual questions people may have based on that teaching. Just like at school when we ask questions through a class and the teacher asks us to do homework based on the lesson. I hope that helps. Blessings to you.
@@INJESUSIMRIGHTEOUS It helps restore my faith that there's good, humble disciples out there like you! But I was being sarcastic. These men "teach" healing over and over and over and over, and never lay hands on the sick. If you believe in the Baptism of the Spirit, then baptize in the Spirit.
@@brandibee7058 Sister BB, simply because they don't. Wommack has developed a fool-proof business model. He "teaches" healing, and if someone doesn't get healed, it's never his fault, it's theirs, or God's. And the scriptures I have in mind are these: "Lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." "If any is sick, let him call for the elders of the church, and anoint him with oil, and the righteous prayer of faith shall save the sick..." "Paul laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit." "Peter and John laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit." So we have good evidence from the scripture that both healing and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit were administered through the laying on of hands. But we have no evidence that the power of the Spirit was given through "teaching."
We MUST be born again. You are born again when you are like Jesus. Then you are sinless 1 John 2: 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. We must be born again! Then Jesus has baptized you with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit do not let you sin anymore!!! To become born again you have to repent and ask Jesus forgiveness for your sins or ask Jesus in your heart! A really born again Christian has no future sins!! He is perfect, righteous and the light of the world. Please study : 1 John 3, Romans 6:6, Romans 8, Gal 5, Eph 4 and Titus 2:14!
@@brandibee7058 You don’t know what it is to be born again because you aren’t. If you still sin you are not born again. See the Bible verses I gave you
The problem is you can’t take one scripture and make a doctrine out of it . Paul sinned and he was a believer . The scripture here let’s me know we can sin . Now we chose to walk in the spirit but if we do sin there is a advocate for us .
1 John 1:If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. 2 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
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I have recently had a born again experience.
I was never religious, raised in a secular home, I considered myself an atheist in my youth. As I got older, I became interested in the various mysteries in life, and I found atheism to be an illogical and unnecessarily dogmatic ideology. I started to describe myself as agnostic, though I was beginning to lean towards a theistic worldview.
Though over time I found my heart warming to Jesus as an icon/idea, and despite always being interested in biblical parables and prophesy, I have always been wary of organized religion, monotheism, and Christianity in particular. And so Jesus pursued me in a very unconventional way, through the world of the occult and conspiracy (both of which are inherently intertwined).
Without going into too much detail, I began to make some profound connections between the things I was learning in the occult/conspiracy world to Christian theology and biblical prophesy; connections and correspondences that couldn't have been incidental, but that seemed to be part of a larger design.
The Lord's timing is very interesting. At the same time I was having these realizations, I had already essentially given up almost everything else in my life. I was unemployed and hermited away from society (mostly due to Covid lockdowns) and throughout the course had become disillusioned with my former belief systems, interests, friends, and my own self, finding them all to be lacking in one way or another. I was at a point where I felt I didn't have anything at all I could rely on for a sense of purpose or meaning.
One day, after an emotionally heated argument with a family member, I broke down and I started to pray. I wasn't yet a full believer, I still had my doubts, but I prayed anyway. I poured my heart out to Jesus and admitted I was weak and a sinner and begged to be forgiven and saved.
And this is how my *concious* relationship started with Jesus.. not totally convinced, but open and willing to receive.
I began to pray, read the Bible, and started asking questions. In a short period of time I had two prayers answered in such a way that made me think that God was really listening, and this helped me begin to build trust in my faith. Even still, I wasn't totally convinced, but I kept praying and reading and exploring.
One night I was praying when I was suddenly overcome by a deep sense of shame. I felt unworthy and pathetic and did not want God to look at me. It was a a terrible feeling, and I broke away from the prayer without receiving any sort of resolution for the way I was feeling. I wasn't sure if it was God's disapproval I was sensing or my own ego getting in the way of myself.. or both.
A few days later, while taking a bath, I was sitting up and running my hands through the water pouring from the faucet, watching it flow over my hands, feeling it on my skin, listening to the rushing sound of it falling around me and regathering itself in the pool beneath, and my mind was moved to thoughts of baptism.
Then all of the sudden I was lit up. Not visually, it was a deeper more inexplicable sensation. Everything seemed golden and beautiful and i was enveloped in this warm and loving feeling, and I felt as though I was in some lovely garden at dawn.
I let out a sort of giggling laugh and couldn't help but to smile and bask, I felt bashful and in love, the way a baby would feel being praised by their parent. I felt then as if there was a hand on my shoulder, as if being ushered towards a great opening gate before me, and I sensed Jesus saying to me that I have no reason to fear His Father, that He knows me and loves me. I became acutely aware of the fact that I was fully naked before God and I didn't feel ashamed or unworthy, and it was an awesome feeling.
And then the Holy Spirt gave me these words: _When we walk in the flesh we are made dirty, but when we walk in the Spirit we are made clean. Each day on this earth we must be reborn through the sacrifice of the cross and each day washed clean by the blood of Jesus._
I believe this was a personal message, it helped me to understand there were still some practical barriers that I was placing between myself and God, parts of my old self that I was unwilling to sacrifice, that I hadn't fully died of myself.
For the rest of the day and into the following I felt the presence of the Lord with me in a very strong a palpable way. It was a calm and peaceful feeling. I found beauty in all things around me. I received God's grace and mercy and compassion and patience, and forgiveness, His perfect love. I felt I was baptized on that day and reborn anew.
I suspect that the Lord has begun to pour His Spirit out into the hearts of non-believers, and that there will be many more coming to God in the near future. To anyone reading this who wants to come to Christ, who feels drawn to Him and His perfect love, but lacks that certainty as I did, just know that you can start your relationship with Jesus despite having doubts and reservations and even disagreement. Just keep your heart open, seek earnestly and in good faith and don't give up, because the Lord leads each of us in a unique way, in order that He may break down our own unique barriers, so that the Truth can be revealed to us in a manner that we can understand and at a time when we are prepared to accept it.
Amen! Thank you, Barry, for great answears! Praise God! God bless you all!
Correct breaking of the Womens Waters.
Human Spirit then Spirit of God. God breathed into Adam. God breaths into us brings us fully alive to him.
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Do you have to talk in tongues to be saved
In Ephesians 4:5 Paul the apostle to the Gentiles mentioned only ONE BAPTISM for the body of Christ. I believe this is the baptism of the Holy Spirit he also talked about in 1Corinthians 12:13. Why is there a need to be water baptized when our salvation is not by works but by His grace thru faith which is a gift from God(Eph 2:8-9)?
God does a lot through water baptism. He cleanses our sin, He gives us the Holy Spirit to dwell in us. Water baptism is not a work we do, but the means God works to pour out his grace on us.
How do we know we are born of the Spirit
Hello, Jacqui. We appreciate your question! Thanks for taking the time to write us. We want your question to be answered as thoroughly and thoughtfully as possible. In order to best serve you, we ask that you email your question to our doctrinal questions department at questions@awmi.net
Our ministers will gladly respond to your question as soon as possible. We look forward to corresponding with you through email. Be blessed and encouraged this week! -Charis Team
REPENT JESUS IS COMING SOON! ESCAPE THE WRATH THAT IS COMING! Seek the Lord while he may be found!!! Call on him while he is near! Let the wicked forsake their thoughts and the unrighteous their path let them turn to him and he will have compassion for he will abundantly pardon!!!
What's the difference between "teaching" and doing? This video.
Teaching is teaching and instructing in the subject. Answering questions is going deeper unto the individual questions people may have based on that teaching. Just like at school when we ask questions through a class and the teacher asks us to do homework based on the lesson. I hope that helps. Blessings to you.
@@INJESUSIMRIGHTEOUS It helps restore my faith that there's good, humble disciples out there like you!
But I was being sarcastic. These men "teach" healing over and over and over and over, and never lay hands on the sick.
If you believe in the Baptism of the Spirit, then baptize in the Spirit.
Why do you say they don’t lay hands on people?
@@brandibee7058 Sister BB, simply because they don't. Wommack has developed a fool-proof business model. He "teaches" healing, and if someone doesn't get healed, it's never his fault, it's theirs, or God's.
And the scriptures I have in mind are these:
"Lay hands on the sick and they shall recover."
"If any is sick, let him call for the elders of the church, and anoint him with oil, and the righteous prayer of faith shall save the sick..."
"Paul laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit."
"Peter and John laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit."
So we have good evidence from the scripture that both healing and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit were administered through the laying on of hands. But we have no evidence that the power of the Spirit was given through "teaching."
We MUST be born again.
You are born again when you are like Jesus. Then you are sinless
1 John 2:
3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
We must be born again!
Then Jesus has baptized you with the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit do not let you sin anymore!!!
To become born again you have to repent and ask Jesus forgiveness for your sins or ask Jesus in your heart!
A really born again Christian has no future sins!! He is perfect, righteous and the light of the world.
Please study : 1 John 3, Romans 6:6, Romans 8, Gal 5, Eph 4 and Titus 2:14!
Scripture says flesh and spirit are at war . It also says if we sin we have a advocate in heaven which is Jesus .
@@brandibee7058
You don’t know what it is to be born again because you aren’t.
If you still sin you are not born again.
See the Bible verses I gave you
The problem is you can’t take one scripture and make a doctrine out of it . Paul sinned and he was a believer . The scripture here let’s me know we can sin . Now we chose to walk in the spirit but if we do sin there is a advocate for us .
1 John 1:If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
2 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Our spirit doesn’t sin bc it’s the Holy Spirit that lives in us . Our flesh still can though.