Edward
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I was saved & baptised about 12 years old, and about the time I grew up enough more to get an interest in girls, I backslid for about 30 years or so, while I was married and raising kids. She was a non-devout Catholic and we did not see eye to eye about God.
But in retrospect, I can now see where the Lord was continuing to be with me the entire time. I would get unctions to, do the right thing, read my Bible, pray some, try to take the family to church and so on...
I remember when I was about 15, my grandma made a strange statement to me one time. She said Eddie, The Holy Spirit is working in your life, I can see this...
Now I was 15 yrs old then so it slid right off of me, what's to eat? But looking back, I think she was right and even when I was backslid, I can see where the Lord was always with me. But being married and young and full of pride, I thought the good things in my life were because of me and how good I was...(pride). But now it seems easy to see that...it was the Lord, it is the Lord...!!
I can say now...He has never left me or forsaken me. Well, I've been pondering these things a little and it occured to me...
Was what I felt and the unctions to do right that I got all those years...Strictly my Holy Spirit Comforter/Helper? Or would it be correct to say...that the Lord came and did abide with me in that time? I'm not sure.
But in retrospect, I can now see where the Lord was continuing to be with me the entire time. I would get unctions to, do the right thing, read my Bible, pray some, try to take the family to church and so on...
I remember when I was about 15, my grandma made a strange statement to me one time. She said Eddie, The Holy Spirit is working in your life, I can see this...
Now I was 15 yrs old then so it slid right off of me, what's to eat? But looking back, I think she was right and even when I was backslid, I can see where the Lord was always with me. But being married and young and full of pride, I thought the good things in my life were because of me and how good I was...(pride). But now it seems easy to see that...it was the Lord, it is the Lord...!!
I can say now...He has never left me or forsaken me. Well, I've been pondering these things a little and it occured to me...
Was what I felt and the unctions to do right that I got all those years...Strictly my Holy Spirit Comforter/Helper? Or would it be correct to say...that the Lord came and did abide with me in that time? I'm not sure.