I may have swayed with the wind

and whatever was carried upon

but my flower did always turn her face

to from where'er the sun has shone

*

I surely lended eager ears

to the voice of ways unknown

longing ever deep in me for a word

that would move this heart of stone

*

Such feet as mine are set to slip

You might have left me fallen there

instead You poured in oil and wine

dressed my wounds with tender care

*

Let men of sage and knowledge

ply You with riddles as they dare

my grateful tears will wash Your feet

and dry them lovingly with my hair 

Adapted by The Totton Linnet from Deling's own account in "The Heavenly man" which is the story of her husband Brother Yun, a true story.

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Deling with an old Chinese saint.

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My name is Deling

I am a woman of China

my family was extremely poor

seven children

we hardly had any clothes to wear

always hungry.

My childhood was time of happiness

mixed with great struggle.

Our field was more than a mile away,

distance we had to walk

every day, there and back,

children carrying heavy tools

every day

leading our animals

Our jobs was to carry

harvested cotton in heavy baskets

suspended on a pole

we slipped up and slid in the mud

our backs were breaking and sore.

*

Another struggle I had was sickness

haemophilia

if I cut myself the blood flowed

for a long time it flowed

and couldn't stop

forever I was wrapping on old rags.

A christian lady

said kindly to me

"if you believe in Jesus He will heal you"

she was very confident.

*

At age eighteen

I gave my life to the Lord

that very first night

I went to my first "house" meeting

the secret police came

we had to flee for our lives

through the darkness we fled.

That was my introduction

what it means to follow Jesus

*

My heart was so happy

when I was baptized, such joy

at midnight in November

the river was frozen

we were afraid to be caught.

A few days after a vision came

somebody [I saw in my vision]

took me by the hand

and led me to a beautiful lake

crystal clear water

"wash your hands and your feet here"

[in my vision I was told]

my hands and feet were terribly wounded

because of my disease

I dipped my hands [in my vision]

and my feet

into the clear clean water I dipped

and [in my vision] my poor skin

came again to me fresh, like a baby's skin

I awoke in the morning

I was healed

what I saw in my vision

happened to me while I slept

never have I had sickness again

not even to this very day

I was very thankful to Jesus

I will always love and follow Him.

*

Two other young women

followed Jesus at the same time as me

together we would go to meetings

secretly

They lived in different districts

so I had to walk home in the dark

alone I walked in the dark

in danger

there were evil men and wild dogs

late in the night in China

God worked a tender miracle

for me

to guide and protect me

as I walked in pitch black

a light shining

just up ahead

like a lantern it shone, as if....

somebody was carrying a lamp

to show me where I should go

I often lost my way

then up ahead a lamp

like a small star, showing me the way

*

My husband has been beaten

many times tortured

he has spent many years in prison

but we love God, we will always follow Jesus

*

I am a woman from China

I am still alive today.

I never saw it before, what hinders the Antichrist from manifesting himself.

There is going to be a war, everything is working towards Israel taking unilateral action against Iran, the fall-out will be enormous.

The battle of Gog Magog as described in Revelations and the battle of Gog Magog in Ezekiel. 38 is so very different that they cannot possibly one and the same. I am sure we are about to witness the battle of Gog Magog as shown in Ezekiel.

This is the battle that God intervenes supernaturally to utterly destroy Israel's enemies. When that happens the Jews are going to go home, ALL the Jews, and they are going to build the fourth temple.

In the ensuing chaos Antichrist will arise in the west and will set about his mission to totally irradicate all religion from the face of the earth, militant atheists are his fore-runners and prophets.

Ac will sign a treaty with Israel, now a superstate, for 7 years but once he feels himself strong enough he will break his pact after 3.5 years and invade Israel and will march into the temple and take his seat proclaiming himself to be God.

Michael the mighty archangel who is in charge of defending the Jews who will have stood up to defend Israel in the upcoming war, will now be taken out of the way to allow Ac to invade and desecrate the temple.

This is a breakthrough in prophecy, Michael is therefore He who Paul says prevents Ac from making his appearance.

All the while the Jews have been dispersed throughout the nations [as they still are largely] they have not been able to build the temple therefore there has been no temple or temple seat for Ac to usurp. Once Israel has achieved superstatehood it will suddenly be on.

These events are set to begin VERY soon.   

A couple of years ago I was staying in London and one night passing through Kensington Gore which is at the southern end of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens on my way to Earls Court Road where I was holed up. I espied walking down Exhibition Road a man who was very drunk, it was 2.30 am.

He was the most drunken man I have ever seen still on his feet, he was making a perfect Z reeling from one side of the pavement to the other then pulling up short before going on what was like a headlong plunge. And God said "go and talk to that man about his soul."

I set off at once, with God it is always best to do first and think later. I always carry a few gospel tracts with me which are good for opening a conversation.

He was about half way down Exhibition Rd with me steaming up behind him, tract at the ready. But when I got up close behind him I saw how big he was, I mean like HUGE, he was about 6' 4 ins and 5' across and so instead of speaking to him I bottled and hurried on by scuttling up the first sideroad, there leaning against the wrought iron fence I watched him stagger by and cried to the Lord "Oh Lord please send someone braver than me to talk to him and help him."

God said "go and talk to that man about his soul." Those who know the Lord know that He is a great King and He expects us to obey Him, you don't always get a second bite at the cherry, so off I goes again, this time a bit more circumspectly.

So there he was on one of his headlong thrusts and me hard on his heels clutching my tract but as I came alongside him I bottled again and walked smartly on and scuttled up the next nearest sideroad and leaning against the wall watching him go by I wheedled and whimpered to the Lord. God said a third time "go and speak to him" so off I goes again.

When I caught up with him this time he had turned into the Cromwell Road and I got in front of him and thrust my tract out at him "I would like for you to have this."

This brought him up short and he stood there swaying in the breeze, his mouth dropped open and he blinked at me owlishly, towering above me.

"It's about Jesus" I said and then broke into babbling, but I managed to convey how that Jesus would transform his life, stressing that He changed our lives from inside of us not from outside when we recieve Him into our hearts by faith, He sets up His rule within us and starts to bring people and stuff into our lives to help and bless us.

All this time he had stared at me blinking, I took a deep breath and said "now I want you to pray and ask the Lord into your heart."

He had taken my tract and now he shlurred "I'm too stoned to pray, I will read it in the morning and think about what you said." heyy he turned out to be the sweetest guy, a Canadian.

He went to pass me but I stood in his way, " I promish, he said, I promish..."

It was three weeks later in Kensington Temple at morning meeting the Pastor came to the mike lifting up a tract and letter he had recieved through the post. It was from Canada from an air pilot cadet who on a visit to London had been dumped by his girlfriend and was on his way back to his hotel, totally smashed, determined to kill himself and he would have done it but he wrote, a member of your fellowship stopped me in the street and told me about Jesus and I got saved instead. He told about his new found peace and joy.  

Christianity is not a respectable religion, it's bloody and messy and it's all about hate. I just got called a sick **** on another forum, I'll leave the expletive to your imagination, naturally my friends rushed to my defence but hey don't you think those Roman soldiers cursed and swore when they were nailing Jesus to that tree? sure, that is what the cross is all about, human hate and cruelty.

Jesus said "I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance" we all sinners, do you know someone who isn't? if there is some good respectable saintly person reading this little message you are in trouble, Jesus didn't come for you He only came for sinners like me.

When He hung on the cross the bible says God took all the filth and sin of mankind and heaped it on Him, "Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we being made dead unto sin might come alive unto righteousness, by whose stripes ye are healed." have YOU been made dead unto sin? have YOU come alive unto righteousness? if not then this is for YOU today, you can come to God just as you are, you can call upon Him and ask Him to impart this new life to you today.

It is a life of peace and joy and friendship with God and you can have it for free.

I was reading about the mother of a teenage daughter who was retarded, made utterly desperate by her neighbours taunts and jeering, the bullying was so extremely bad over a number of years that she killed both herself and her daughter.

This is the reality of Britain today, there's little cool or nice anymore about British society, how did people come to be like this? they have turned away from God.

Chatting a while ago to a very sweet lady, she was bewailing the numbers of teenage pregnancies, abortion, the violence in Britain etc she was sure that all that was needed was more education.

That has been the do gooding response to the problem for over two generations now, and the people have accordingly been educated, educated slobs. I pointed out that despite the social engineering and education the problem gets worse year on year not better, people are going from bad to worse.

God's answer is a miracle, a miracle must take place in our hearts. And that is just what He has on offer, YOU TODAY can come to God in simple faith and be miraculously changed, you do not need to go one step further as the old you, you can be transformed, right where you are sitting reading this, people scoff, they always did, that has always been God's answer to the darkness that is in men and women's hearts.

This transformation takes place at the cross, you give to God your rotten old life and He will grant you a brand new life full of joy and glory. It is the new birth.

In telling about this new birth God promised through Ezekiel the great prophet in the old testament.

"Behold the days are coming saith the Lord when I will take out of them their stony hearts and give them new and fleshly hearts, I will walk in them and be their God"

What a message for Britain today, oh that young Britons would allow God to take out of them this heart of stone and He will give them caring, warm, human hearts.

YOU come, come today prove it is true, it is the age old message of God which has worked in generation after generation. Call upon Him now "Lord! save ME, gimme this new heart of flesh, wash the darkness out of MY life, I need Your joy, Your peace. Amen."       

Jesus once said to the religious leaders who opposed Him "when you see a cloud rising in the west you say at once a shower is coming and so it happens, and when you see the south wind blowing you say there will be scorching heat and it happens, you hypocrites! you know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?"

In talking about the end times Jesus said it would come like a snare upon all who dwell on the earth, like a trap, a trap set by a spring that will suddenly snap shut. That trap is being set now.

Neither Communism or Nazism happened quite as suddenly as it seems sometimes in the history books, both these evil powers crept by stealth, increasing step by step their control and with considerable indoctrination their grip upon the people. This process is happening in society now. But in each case there came a defining moment, a point and time when the people realized that they were no longer free, they were no longer even free to speak their minds.

In speaking about the times of the end Jesus warned of a time of ferocious persecution against christians, He said many would be offended and fall away, I believe this will happen because the most christians believe that they are going to be raptured away from persecution, Jesus taught no such thing, nor does any other bible writer.

This mistaken idea comes from a wrong application given to the word tribulation, it is taken to mean the period when God will pour His wrath upon wicked men. Actually the word means persecution, Jesus said "they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death" the great tribulation is the great and last end-time persecution when the enemies of God will try to wipe out all religion, blaming religion for all that is wrong with the world.

The persecution will be so horrific that parents will deliver their own children up to death and children their parents.

Some bible commentators make this tribulation or persecution to apply only to the Jews, this is not correct, for Jesus said "in all nations...for My name's sake." Also if it were only Jews, then parents delivering up their own children would also be putting themselves at peril. No this is the persecution of Antichrist against christians. You do not have to go far to hear the voice of anger and hate raised against the bible and against christians who believe in it, the coming Antichrist is the prince of all such hate.

John the revelator in his vision spoke about a great multitude who appeared suddenly in heaven, from every race, tribe and tongue and he was told that "these are they who have come out of the great tribulation."

It may not seem when you look around very likely that such a persecution could happen, you might have thought it unlikely if you had been Jewish in Germany in 1930 that within 15 years 6 million Jews would have been slaughtered without mercy or compunction and that in a supposedly civilised nation as Germany is. 

What happened to the Jews is a foreshadow of the much more brutal persecution that will take place against christians. This is a time for the church to watch and pray.     

Many christians wax lyrical about the body of Christ in a mystical sense not realising that the apostle Paul actually brought the body of Christ to Corinth where it was fully on show to everybody.

This is the same Jeasus who walked the shores of Gallilee in His unique body of flesh, the only begotten Son of God, Paul told it in a mystery. "To [His saints] God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you the hope of glory." It is the very same message that Jesus gave to the other apostles "I am the Vine you are the branches.....abide in Me and I in you, he who abides in Me and I in him, he it is who bears much fruit.

But Paul describes the Body of Christ quite vividly in 1 Corinthians. 12:4-12.

Now there are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit and there varieties of service but the same Lord, there are varieties of working but it is the same God who inspires them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom and to another the uttrance of knowledge according to the same Spirit. To another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are inspired by one and the same Spirit who apportions to each one individually as He wills.

For just as the body is one and has many members and all members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

This IS the body of Christ, to see it working and functioning together as it should function we can read the early pages of the acts of the apostles and we see the believers moving in mighty power and manifestation of the life of Christ within them, whether through gifts of healing or miracles, in word of wisdom and knowledge, in discernment and administration to the poor. This IS the life of Christ as He walked the streets of Nazereth, it is the same Christ working through His body the church. James says "as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.

Have YOU recieved the Holy Spirit, He will manifest His precious gifts through YOU today, He will show YOU how to let the very same Jesus-life manifest Himself through YOU to your needy, dying world all around you. Come in prayer to be cleansed of your sin and self-life, then be filled with God's Spirit today.      

The law is not righteousness, neither is grace, these are only the means whereby righteousness may be attained. The Jews failed to attain righteousness by the law and so will everyone else who attempts to. The way to attain righteousness now is by grace through faith.

God never speaks of us in a derogatory fashion in the new testament, YOU are important, it is through YOU that God is establishing His kingdom in the earth today

God reigns THROUGH YOU through your dreams and aspirations, if Jesus dwells in you then His dream is your dream and His aspiration is your aspiration.

God wills righteousness, peace and abundance for His creation, for YOU and that is why wherever the church has been established, where it has been allowed to be established these are the blessings that have followed. Did you think it was through human governments? rulers and politicians? philosophers? nay all these take credit but it is through the hopes and wishes and heart longings and prayers of God's people whom Jesus dwells in, He IS King of Righteousness and King of Peace. God loves you, you are important.

Perhaps progress seems slow that is because Jesus has an enemy, but His enemy has not been able to prevail, the kingdom has come and is still coming [have YOU recieved Jesus into you heart by faith? call upon Him in prayer He will answer you] This kingdom was promised to Abraham, foretold in the law and the prophets, announced by Jesus, proclaimed by His apostles and believed upon in the world. It will come to fulness of reality when He comes again to establish it. Therefore He bids us pray "Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

May God bless you this hour, it is His will to do so.    

The church is not a parenthesis, what a strange thing to say, going against all scripture which tell us that the church was the mystery kept hidden in past ages but now made known.

Ephesians ch.1.vs. 9-10

For He has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of His will according to His purpose which He sat forth in Christ as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite in Him all things whether things in heaven or things on earth.

When is this fulness of time, we are always taught [and not without good reason] that Christ's coming was in the fulness of time and yet we do not yet see all things, whether things in heaven or on earth united in Him.

J. N. Darby looked at scriptures in Isaiah which promised times of great earthly blessing and rightly concluded that these cannot refer to the church but must refer to a future restored nation of Isreal and this more than a hundred years before Isreal became a nation once more. So he concluded that the church must therefore be an interuption of God's plan, a parenthesis, this is far from correct.

Micah ch.. 4. vs. 1-4.

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains and shall be raised up above the hills and peoples shall flow to it, and many nations shall come and say "come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob that He may teach us His ways and we may walk in His paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law [no wonder Satan hates Isreal] and the word of the Lord fro Jerusalem.

He shall judge between many peoples and shall decide for strong nations afar off.

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up their swords against nation, neither shall they learn war any more but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree [is this what YOU long for?] and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

This is the fulness of time Epesians spoke about, this IS the kingdom of God which Jesus said was nigh but which the Jews rejected, inasmuch as they rejected Him who is the King.

This is the milennial age, the age of righteousness, prosperity and peace which is prophesied by the prophets but which has not yet been fulfilled. This IS the good news the church should be announcing.

The millennial age is a world age, a gospel age still but an age when the gospel will be in triumph and not hidden as it now is Satan will be bound for a thousand years and all causes of sin taken out of the kingdom.

This age comes after the great rebellion, the great persecution and after the appearing and destruction of Antichrist, the saints of all the ages will have been raptured, they shall reign with their Lord from heaven.

The church is not the parenthesis, [bracketed, sectioned off, set aside] but Isreal now is. 

God can be a right Rough and Tumbler when He wants, Jacob found this out when he crossed over to Jabbok and when he was alone a man came and wrestled with him until the break of day. When the man saw that he did not prevail with Jacob he touched his thigh and put it out and Jacob ever after walked with a limp. It don't pay to mess with God, even though it may seem you are getting away with it.

I read about a preach who when he saw the local tearaway get up to leave the meeting in disgust jumped off his platform, the tearaway saw him coming and broke into a sprint and the preach gave chase. He caught him at the door by diving at his feet in a rugby tackle and said "I won't let you go until you surrender to God." the young tearaway did in fact get saved.

I want to share with you the utter gentleness of God, oh christian, you are sent out as lambs among ravening wolves. I think a lamb among ravening wolves might behave himself rather prudently.

The Welsh revival.

In 1904 the nation of Wales had drifted far, far from God and spiritual life was at a very low ebb when suddenly God's Spirit started to sweep across the people with mighty revival power. The churches were packed and prayer meetings would run for hours. Drinking and drunkeness declined to such an extent that bars and pubs had to close, the crime rate fell to almost zero and magistrates had no cases to hear.

Friendships were restored and family life was improved and everywhere the Presence of God was felt, in the streets and shops and on the public transport. Even the miner's pit ponies were affected, they became confused because their normally foul-mouthed handlers no longer yelled and swore at them.

And yet there was little preaching, singing and prayer would sweep across the people and folk would stand to give testimony of the wonderful things God was doing in their lives.

The global impact of the Welsh revival after a decade is estimated at 10 millions of people were swept into the kingdom of God.

Florrie Evans was just 14 years old, she witnessed the joy and godliness that her pastor Joseph Jenkins had, she followed him home one night and sought councel from him. His advice to her was that she should surrender her whole life to God, later in the week she got saved.

The following Sunday Pastor Jenkins opened the Sunday morning for testimonies, a long awkward silence ensued, presently young Florrie rose to her feet and said shyly "well if no-one else will, I must say I love the Lord Jesus Christ with all my heart."

It struck like a lightening bolt, the Spirit of God swept over the people and one after another stood to either commit or re-commit their lives to the Lord.

Those that were saved or renewed visited other churches and that's how the work spread over all of Wales. Evan Roberts when he visited later that year was profoundly affected by what he saw and became a notable figure in the revival.

The Reformation.

The reformation was the reformation but it was also a revival, it began with the revelation of the true meaning of "The righteousness of God" as opposed to what people thought it meant. The understanding was that it meant God's holiness in contrast to man's wickedness whereas it really means the righteousness that God freely imparts to all who will simply trust Christ to save them.

When Martin Luther discovered this he stopped doing all the nonsense things he was doing to try to appease God's holiness.

Of course all this ran counter to the teachings and practices of the Roman church especially their selling indulgences to fund the building of the new Cistine chapel.

That's when the thunder and lightening bolts started with men hurling curses and damnation and anathemas at each other. The vitriol and wrath that entered the work of the reformation didn't come from God it came from men. It has remained in a huge slice of evangelicalism to this day.

One day Jesus was going through a village on His way to Jerusalem when a large commitee met Him and barred His way. The disciples said "Lord shall we call fire down from heaven upon them as Elijah did?" but Jesus rebuked it and said "ye know not of what spirit ye are for the Son of Man has not come to destroy men's lives but to save men's lives."

Does that mean we should not warn about hell? or the danger of going there? of course we should.

But I want to tell you something, God is Love, God is a Dove. He is gentle and kind. I think ol' Zacheus would have fallen plumb out of that tree he had climbed into to catch a glimpse of Jesus as He passed by if the Lord had spoken to him in the way that many evangelicals speak to people, Jesus was kind and gracious to him even though He knew Zacheus was a rascal.

Friends believe in God's kindness, believe in God's gentleness, believe that if you would come to Him this very moment in prayer He will graciously receive you. He will pardon your sins and reach out to help you in whatever need you may have. After all God only can forgive sinners, He can't forgive folk who are holy so the bigger the sinner you are the more you will be forgiven and He will grant YOU His peace and joy today if you will believe. 

It makes no difference if you are a hetrosexual sinner or a homosexual sinner, there is no prejudice or discrimination with God. He treats everybody the same, there is forgiveness and peace offered to all freely at the cross.

Murderers, even child murderers, thieves, liars will all find that "the Lord," as it is written, "is kind and gracious to all who call upon Him in sincerity and truth."

St Paul says in 1 corintians ch. 6. vs. 9-11.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? do not be deceived, neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor revilers will inherit the kingdom of God. And SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU, but you were washed, you were made clean, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

There simply is no sin or class of sinners that God will not freely forgive and clean up, no heart too black, no case too hopeless. All He requires is that we do come and in coming we come to the cross for that is where our sins were put away, paid for, nailed with Him to the tree.

Therefore there is no longer any need for us to be separated from God or to keep distance, friendship can be restored.

Is that too simple? too easy a thing? has God made peace and pardon too cheap so that people simply scorn His offer as worthless?

Dear reader friendship with God is the sweetest joy you will have this side of eternity, the love He gives is precious beyond all price and beyond words to describe it but you can have it free this very hour if you will. Yes it must be free-without cost-you cannot buy it, if you try to God will turn you away, if you try to buy ANY of God's blessings He will turn you away disappointed believe me when I tell you that.

I am very sorry that money has gotten mixed up with many a healing ministry, the mere idea or suggestion that you can come to God with money in your hand and that He will show you favour is anathema with God, He will turn you away-this is the graveyard of many and many a ministry that started out in power and sometimes great power, but as soon as money comes in with fund-raising under what guise so-ever, call it love-gift or ministry offering or partnership evangelism or whatever name you like if it gets mixed up with the ministration of the gospel it is wrong and the power of God will leave that ministry, the anointing will lift and all that will remain is excitement and shouting and hoo ha. 

"Freely you have received freely give" Jesus said.

God has been saying to me a word for years and I never understood it, I cry to Him about these "faith power" ministries and He  always answered the same word "In one day they will all come to an end, at a stroke." I never understood it until the downturn and the credit crunch hit and what is looming just on the horizon the complete failure of money or mammon as the bible calls it, this is more than an economic crisis friends this is collapse and it's just around the corner.

Does that mean christians should not give to the gospel? now see this for it's such a narrow line, friends if you are saved giving to the gospel is the wisest thing you could do with your money, giving to christian ministry, giving to the poor, the hungry, the naked, the homeless but let it never, NEVER get mixed up with the ministration of the gospel.

Will God prosper you if you give to the gospel and to christian ministry? sure He will.

But if you are seeking the Lord for blessing, if you need healing, if you need pardon and the peace and joy that salvation brings then it will better for you to keep your money in your pocket for these things can only be received freely through faith, they can not be earned and they can not be bought.

The price for these things have been paid FOR you on YOUR behalf by Jesus, sins washed away, sickness borne, the chastisement for OUR peace was laid on Him.

You come, come this minute to Him and PROVE Him whether or not it is true.

Say "Lord Jesus I accept that You did pay the price, the ransome price, for my sins. the price was death but You died for me, You took my place. I accept you as Lord and ask You to come into my heart today as Saviour, Healer and Provider. Amen."   

When God created man He created him a spiritual person, God breathed into him the breath of life and man became a living soul.

The man was to govern his life and conduct his affairs according to his spiritual life. But when he fell his spirit died and man and woman is born into this world to this very day spiritually dead, slain in trespasses and sin, this is why God seems remote to us even non-existent. He lives now not according to spiritual principles but according to his soulish nature where of course his emotions are seated.

Somebody recently was discussing with me the subject of "falling in love" I'm sure most of you know what that is all about, "what could be wrong with falling in love??" Look let's be honest, for every nice story of people falling in love there are 10, 000 horror stories of failed romances and broken hearts, if that were not so Hollywood and Bollywood and the music industry would be out of business since yesterday.

Falling in love in it's initial stages at least might be a very nice experience but just look at the heartache, the suicides and murders committed, the utter loneliness of someone whose spouse of many years has "fallen in love" with a younger person. Nice is not always good.

When we are born again our spirits are made alive again within us, we are re-created once more in God's image and we have the ability once more for our spirits to take control of our lives and govern our decisions. We are no longer at the mercy of the whims and infatuations of our soulish nature or the wayward desires of our fleshly bodies.

Our bodies will die and are dying because of sin but our souls wherein is our life is saved although these are still subject to the pull and temptations of the world.

Because we love God, we love His word, the same word which first brought us the message of this new life we have, God is no longer afar off and remote He is very near even in our hearts to live and to die with Him. It is this love, this joy of fellowship with Him which will keep us following His word.

I may not understand always why He says a thing is wrong, that is not my first consideration, He may show it He may not but I am always sure that He knows best. Nice is not always good. The original question about "falling in love" or infatuation, which is what it really is, was concerning homosexual love, what? my friend was asking, could possibly be wrong with two people falling in love? My purpose in sharing Christ is not to judge anyone, even if it were possible for me to legislate and command that everyone should live according to His way I would not wish to do so for it is a matter of personal choice, but I will bear witness to Him in the hope that others will come to Him and find what I have found, that His teachings [sometimes hard to follow] bring deep inner peace and joy.

May YOU come this very hour to Him and recieve the true love-life He has for you.    

I know it is something that really angers and frustrates atheists that anybody at all in this 21st century let alone that countless millions in every nation and culture should place their unswerving faith in a book that they think is discredited and disproven.

The reason for this faith is easily explained, for christians come to believe that the bible is God's word written down by a kind of reverse mechanism, they don't begin at genesis and think "oh yeah this is so true" but they first come to faith through some good news message, in my case the word that God made especially alive to me was "Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, and today and forever." hebrews ch. 13. v. 8. for others it may be another scripture like "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that who-so-ever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John ch. 3. v. 16.

When we do come to Jesus we find to our absolute delight that these words are indeed true.

God's words have power to create, first by creating faith in our hearts to believe then through our faith He brings His word to pass in our lives and in our experience.

When He talks about peace, joy, when He promises to answer prayer, when He promises us a brand new life, "[she] that believeth in Me, as the scripture hath said, out of [her] belly will flow rivers of living water."

I want to tell you something that may shock you, God loves you, He wants to be your Friend. You say "but I'm a terrible person," that's right so am I but God valued ME so much He sent Jesus to bear away my sins on the cross. That is how much He loves YOU, don't keep distance from Him, come to Him right this moment in prayer and PROVE for yourself that His word is good and His promise is real.

Now when we do come to Jesus in this way and we do make the discovery that what we have read or heard is indeed true it is then that we come to accept and believe that the other parts of the bible are true also-all of it.

And this faith is as solid as a rock, no wonder christians seem dogmatical, we know, we have put it to the test, we live it.

If you have diamonds all the nay saying in the world will never convince you that diamonds do not exist, but our faith is more tangeable than diamonds, you may hold a diamond in your hand, be careful that you do not lose it or that somebody does not rob you of it, but we have Jesus dwelling in our hearts.

May you recieve Him as your Lord today and may His peace and joy fill your heart.  

There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek but glory and honour and peace for every one who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek for God shows no partiality. Romans ch:2. vs:9-11.

Almost nothing gives me more joy than to read about a Jewish person who has discovered Jesus Christ as the true Messiah. I was reading the story of sixties pop queen singer Helen Shapiro [pictured above] her long search for inner satisfaction ended in 1987 when she recieved Jesus as her personal Saviour.

My neighbour next door was a jewish lady, a really lovely person. When I got saved I made such a racket jumping up and down, running across my room jumping and clapping and shouting "hooray, hooray Jesus." well my neighbour came running to the door knocking, she was afraid something was happening "are you ok?" she shouted through the door "what's going on in there?" When I opened up she was staggered by the radiance of my face [a radiance I had no control over for several weeks, everywhere I went, this radiance, I tried pressing my cheeks down cos in a way it was embarassing but the next second my face was lit up again in a smile] and all I could say to her "it's true Jesus is truly the Son of God, I just asked Him into my heart." she was amazed and over the weeks ahead I had the joy of sharing with her what was going on with me as it happened, and plenty was happening.

One of the things that surprises Jewish people, and Helen Shapiro shares this in her story, is that Jesus is everywhere pictured in their bible, our old testament, it's not only the psalms and prophets that tell of Him. God promised in the Garden of Eden that He would send a Saviour and He showed what He would be like "the seed of the woman, One who would crush the serpent's head" but at personal cost to Himself for the serpent "would bruise His heel."

It was based upon this prophecy that the blood sacrifice was established the lamb of God which was made the dying substitute for our sins. Abel offered the right sacrifice but Cain offered the works of the flesh.

Jesus is pictured in the story of Isaac and Abraham, even carrying his own woodpile to the sacrifice, Abraham was demonstrating his faith in God's ability to raise the dead for God had made many promises regarding Isaac which neccessitated Isaac being alive.

Then of course there is Joseph, what a picture of Christ he is, God showed him in a dream how that all Isreal would bow to him as Lord but this made his brothers hate him the more and they could not speak peaceably to him and when the opportunity arose they rose up against Joseph and had it not been for Reuben would have slain him. As it was they cast Joseph into a pit and brought his robe dipped in goats blood to Jacob their father and so far as Isreal was concerned at least Joseph was no more.

Three days Joseph was in the pit when a band of merchants found him and brought him into Egypt. But Joseph became Lord in Egypt and by the introduction of the tithe he became saviour of the whole world in a time of famine.

A great cheer went around the world in 1917 among bible believing christians at the Balfour declaration and once again in 1948 when Isreal declared itself a nation once more. We all recognise or should recognise that these events were the fulfilment of ancient prophecies regarding Isreal and herald the hoving into view of the end-times, God has by no means finished His dealings with His ancient people.

There yet will come a time when in a time of acute tribulation "they will look upon Him who they have pierced and mourn for Him as for a firstborn son." Zechariah. ch:12. v. 10.

"Who killed Jesus Christ? was it the Jews? or was it the Romans?" this was one of the many question my dear Jewish neighbour asked me. I did not know what a touchy deal this was. The answer is that neither Jew or Roman was responsible for Christ's death but God only as Peter says in Acts ch:2 v. 23. Jesus was delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God. I don't care who the catholics blamed or who Luther blamed, it has always been so in the bible that the cross was God's plan for when Jesus died on the cross He was bearing away our sins, The Lamb of God Who taketh away the sin of the world. Apart from the Jewish nation there would have been no salvation, no redemption.

This is the debt of gratitude the nations of the world owe to Isreal.

May YOU recieve Him today as your Lord and be blessed.    

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Helen's story. http://www.mannamusic.co.uk/walkingback/walkingback.htm 

I will never forget the first miracle I witnessed, it was at a large meeting in London, there were several thousand people in attendance. The Preach  had told the people not to expect to see any miracles on the first night of the 2 weeks of meetings as people usually need to understand first how God heals.

After the sermon he closed the meeting with prayer and was leaving the platform, my attention was focussed on a commotion beginning to take place several rows ahead, a little girl had come to the meeting with a huge amplification belt strapped to her chest, she was a deaf mute, she was 6 years old, a little blonde darling, she had never heard a sound in her life, never made a sound. Suddenly during the prayer her ears had come open and she could hear the noise of people around her, I can never forget her for her face was lit up like a little angel.

The Preach who was walking off the platform stopped and he came back to the microphone and announced that a miracle had taken place, somebody who had come to the meeting deaf [he said] had been healed.

The lady who had brought the little girl by this time was making her way to the front and they were brought to the platform. The little girl could hear perfectly and there she made her very first vocal sounds to the delight of the crowd.

The second night of the meetings the Preach had been on the platform just 10 minutes when he had to quit preaching. People were getting healed all over the place, absolute pandemonium broke out as people started to come out of wheelchairs, take off medical casts and braces and discard crutches.

Many people do not like too much emotion, especially British people but let me tell you British people re-act exactly the same as people anywhere in the world when they are healed especially if they have been in pain and disabled for many years, there are laughter and tears and much clapping and applause as people come to the platform to show what God has done for them.

I was astonished by the sheer numbers and said "oh Lord is this really happening?"

A dear West Indian lady who had been stood behind me on crutches suddenly let out a whoop and a hallelujah and threw away her crutches and started to run up and down the aisle she got healed.

I have personally prayed for a man who was scheduled the next morning to have his arm amputated but when he awoke the next day the gangarene was in his bed, his arm was perfectly healed.

It's too late to tell me that Jesus is not real or that He was only an historic person, a good man and a teacher. I have seen with my own eyes and I know. A poor man came to Him in the bible with his son and cried out "oh Lord if You can do anything for us please help us," Jesus replied "if you can only believe, all things are possible to him who believes."

Jesus will forgive every sin and he will heal every kind of disease but unbelievers will get nowt from Him.

You come to Him this very hour in prayer and prove He is real, don't come disbelieving come believing and recieve blessing.

[Read my little treatise God Imputer on this page http://www.journalhome.com/SEESUSANNE/57073/god-imputer.html