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D Anderson wrote: Newcomer's, please let us hear from you! Don't be the silent majority.
What a nice invitation? Thank you.... I've been a believer for 20 plus years now and until 3 years ago I went to traditional churches; some baptist, some evangelical, some non-denominational, etc. etc. Of the last 3 years or so, I've not gone to any churches, but met with my family, and others in a different type of setting, such as a home, or a homeless mission outreach, and even those in drug rehab programs who are seeking God, as well as occassional visits to nursing homes to visit with shut-ins. This has pretty much been my activity that has fallen under "being" rather than going to church. Now, I have a friend who of recent, came to know the Lord and considers me her mentor. She lives 3000 miles away by herself and she is a newborn baby as what is referred to in 1 Peter 2:2 and she longs for the pure milk of the word. I'm considering how I may disciple her in her longing and have had the Lord put a couple of ideas in my heart. The old me who visited IC's a few years ago, would have encouraged her to find a church, get into a bible study, have a quiet time every day, read the bible, get involved in ministries that her church has available, etc. etc., get into a bible 101 class for understanding basic doctrines... etc. But that is not what I would do now.
Does anyone want to share how they might disciple a new believer who the Lord has put in their life for caring for? Please share and for me this is for sharing, not for contentious debating of what is right or wrong... Thank you, truelove
Here is the text that I wrote lyrically to address newly born children of God:
THE CALLING
Now that you have been seized by the Lord you know, you quiver, you experience His radiant Presence; you are connected to the justifying peace and joy flowing inthrough you by His Holy Spirit. You want everybody else to know as well as you know but beware of your enthusiasm; it will deceive you into thinking that you can do God’s work. Instead, sit back for a while and find in you the point of stillness where His sweet Presence radiates from. Into this stillness you shall enter the rhythm and melody of your character, in tune with the Father of all spirits. Get yourself well acquainted with His Word, mainly the New Testament at first. Look earnestly for brothers and sisters who delight in His Presence. You can recognize them by the love they have for one another and by the mutual subjection they have one to the other in response to the supremacy of God. His calling is the same to you and to me and the process for growth is the same. Who you become and who I become is unique, but for you to be fully you and for me to be fully me comes from the same inner calling and from the same worshipping response to the Lord, appropriated from each one of us. For now you are newly born. Let yourself be fed, bathed and dressed. To grow means to know Him more and more. Our mind, soul, heart and strength are vastly unknown territories. The simplicity of your devotion to Him is what protects you from the confusion and heartbreaking that comes from opinions and beliefs. No one, other than the Lord Himself, can lead you. You must learn to recognize His voice when He speaks inside you as well as in the fellowship of His people or in the surrounding circumstances. What you want is to seize His voice. He’ll show you how to live your life in the fusion of your will into His. He is not calling us to do our best for Him, but rather, He is calling us to let Him do His best for us, in us and through us. Our connection with the Lord begins by His showing us the doom of our life so that our response is to invite Him to take away our old life and to bring in the new. This new life is the flow of pure divine grace and the fusion of our will to His is the river bed that carries all the leading that our life needs. Our growth is made of the same calling and of the same adoring response all the way. As you feed on His best, you learn how not to depend on your own understanding and to recognize Him in all of your decision making. He gradually provides you with the nutrients to become whom you’ve been created to be. Soon you become aware that you either respond to the living death or to the law of the Spirit of Life and that free will is nothing but a choice. As your bond reinforces with our Father so does your knowledge of yourself. You eventually realize that your very person is the battleground in the invisible war between light and darkness, between the Spirit and the flesh, the Kingdom and the world, God and the enemy. Maturity in the faith of Jesus-Christ is reached when intimacy with Him inspires me to deny all in me that is independent of His lead. The fruit Adam and Eve ate was from the tree of the knowledge of good as well as of evil. Be it good or bad, if it is independent of His lead, it is born of the living death; The victory of His resurrection is what conquers the living death; as we go on saying no to the old self in favour of following Him, the regeneration takes place and brings forth the sprouting of our partaking in the exalted nature of our Lord and brother. Don’t be misled into trying to earn any of it. The price for all of this has been paid. That’s what His death on the cross was all about. The victory over the living death is accomplished by His resurrection! From His exalted position, the Lord is calling all of humanity to receive eternal life and to that end, He is calling us to let all that we are, all that we do and all that we say to be immersed in His Presence. To worship Him in truth, we must know Him in our spirit. As our union with Him grows, we become better acquainted with those vastly unknown territories of our mind, heart, soul and strength. At that point, faculties we never knew to possess begin to light up. Soon, our whole being is consumed in loving Him from all the access we have to our heart, mind, soul and strength and we each blossom by channelling His love to all humans as our very own self. YAWEIGH’s calling is to satisfy His desire to bond and to fellowship with His own. WELCOME TO GLORY!!!…
I look forward to know if you feel that "THE CALLING" helps out,
-------------------- ...all blessings be with us all... Benoit Couture
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Benoit 17: I'm not sure why I didn't receive a notice by email that you had responded to my post. But, I just happen to come across it and read through it rather quickly. It's really good and I do feel it helps out. I'd like to respond to it in more detail, but it is packed with so much that I'm going to need to find a good hour or so where I can really take it in and meditate on it and allow the Holy Spirit to bring clarity to my thoughts. I look forward to sharing and I will check out your other sites soon.
Would it be okay if I copied this and sent it to my friend? TrueLove
I am so thankful to the Spirit divine for His blessing upon your reading. And yes, do feel completely free to use these thoughts, however our Lord and His Kingdom may benefit from its nutirents and fertilizers. I look forward to the sharing that's yet to come in the delight of the fruit of the Spirit growing in each one's life and in the contact that will be nurtured between us during these moments.
-------------------- ...all blessings be with us all... Benoit Couture
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