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So, I decided to do three things:
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1. Confess every known sin, including having called God a liar
Please
note: If you cannot remember a time when you specifically Invited Jesus
Christ to come and live on the Inside of you, please do this NOW.
That’s how to be born again!!!
2. Yield COMPLETELY to the
Lord Jesus Christ. I told the Lord Jesus that, If it were His perfect
will, that I would be willing to be sick, maimed, killed, single,
celibate, persecuted, misunderstood, forgotten, married to anyone He
said (I was sure He was going to make me marry somebody really
terrible). Anyway, I really meant business.
Now, these first
two steps I had taken many times before, but I took them again. In
fact, we should always keep up to date with the Lard, staying free from
sin and staying in a totally yielded state
3. Appropriate by
faith the highest level walk in God’s Spirit, with Christ AS your Life!
Invite Jesus Christ to come in to your life, and actually BE your life
and to LIVE HIS LIFE through you. From the inside out, and take over
completely as your Saviour, Lord and Life!!!
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Charles Trumble, in THE LIFE THAT WINS , says that on this third step of faith, everything
now depends. He suggests that we take a step of faith with total disregard for the
presence (or lack of), accompanying signs or proofs, because the transaction must be
based on faith rather than some feeling or tingle, etc.
So, I remember reaching out my hand to the Lord God and saying,
“Lord
Jesus, I believe You have a walk for me that I haven’t been
experiencing; a relationship and an experience with You that I haven’t
had before. Lord Jesus, I don’t
know what to call It, and I don’t
know how to get It, but whatever You call It and however one gets It, I
receive It from You now In cold, blind faith., not depending on outward
feelings or ‘signs’ as the proof of the transaction.
Thank You very much. In Jesus’ Name,
Amen.”
Can
you guess what happened? You guessed it. Nothing. Outwardly, or on a
feeling level, that is. I felt really dead. Oh, I had accepted the Lord
Jesus as my personal Saviour many years before, and I had yielded my
Life to Him many times before. But the same thing had happened to me as
would have happened in the Old Testament if one would have taken a
clean lamb of the flock without blemish and then sacrificed the lamb
under
the hot Israel sun - and that’s all. Can you imagine the mess? The sacrifice NEEDED
the
fire of God to come from heaven to light upon and consume the sacrifice
as a sign of acceptance and anointing. I rose from my knees, in faith,
really sincerely believing that a genuine transaction had taken place,
yet feeling nothing.
I put away all my Bibles and climbed
wearily into my top bunk. After I was settled down I thought, “If
anybody asked me to praise the Lord right now, it would be like someone
asking me to praise a haystack.” That was how UN-emotional I felt, yet
I knew that I
had made a genuine transaction with God. But I was really tired, and had no positive
emotions.
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