Well, I'm glad you've had such a positive experience
My experience thus far ( the past 5 years ) has been being called every name in the book ( plus a few extras ), told I am essentially excrement, that my dead mother was a whore, and that I will " burn in hell " for the things I say / write / teach, and been run off most of the chats or forums
Mind you, I'm well aware not everybody in the world is like this, but for the majority of those things, they came from the mouths of the religious, and most of them have been people calling themselves Christians
I figured, since I am so low and undeserving of God's love, and I'm " deceived " and etc, the best chance I have is to hang out with people who claim they know the scriptures, and are " saved " and " going to heaven ", that way when Jesus returns, I might be lucky enough to be counted among the righteous people
We forget that people are people, and that there is nothing new under the sun. When Jesus came He had battles with religious people. Why did He wind up on the cross. And John the Baptist right before Him. "Vipers", John called them, and wasn't that because poison comes from their mouth.
Still Jesus did find some that knew and heard from the Lord when He took on flesh. There was Simeon and Anna, who both knew who He was though He was just a child. So today you are going to find the same thing. Some in the church do know Jesus Christ, but some are just religious.
So what do we do. Well, we hang out with the Lord, and do what He asks You of course know what I am talking about because you already wrote about it.
This was a day before I got down on my knees ( for the first time in my life ) and asked God to send his son, ( I asked by his name, naturally ) and a day later was healed by what I could only describe as a " supernatural " event
At the same time, a voice started talking to me, one I had never heard before, which told me that if I were to want answers as to why I was healed, I would have to open the Bible
So you asked for Jesus Christ and you got Him. In the Bible Jesus is called The Word of God. That is His name. Today, we also call the Bible the Word of God, because it has writing from people, who like you, heard that same One talking to them. But they who wrote the Bible called Him "The Word of God" because they were hearing from Him, like you.
They hung out with Him. And they came to the conclusion, like Paul, that they were not going to worry about trying to please people, but Him who talked to them. And Jesus Christ was not really different from that. He did and said only what the Father told Him, So He wasn't trying to please people but the Father.
Ok, we are not the Word of God, but like the angels in heaven, we are trying to make it about Him. And He said persecution would come. In fact, it was a promise! We have a promise, which seems kind of weird, that if we follow Him we are going to get persecution. John did. Jesus did. And from what you have written, you too did and do. And there is something written about rejoicing at those times. Which is hard to make sense of, because it still hurts when people say what they do because we are following the Lord. Yet if it is a promise, there must be something good in it. The cross must have hurt Jesus, but good came out of it. People got saved.
And if you tell people your testimony, you might wind up getting hurt, but aren't some going to think about it later and perhaps then they too will turn to the Lord?
So I tell people about the miracles I have seen and experienced and tell them about hearing the voice of the Lord, and I appreciate seeing other people like you doing the same thing. Please don't stop. Even when John and Jesus were in the womb, John jumped when Jesus came near. So too do I get excited when people tell others of the wonderful things the Lord does and about hearing from Him. That is a great thing. Yeah, the scoffers are going to have a few things to say, but perhaps one day they too will get down on their knees and sincerely ask God to send His son into their lives. And perhaps they too will get the miracles they too need. And perhaps they too will start hearing from the voice of the Lord. And perhaps it all happened because of your testimony and the Spirit of God working with it.
