Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!TAMVENUS!EWS2304 From: EWS2304@TAMVENUS Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia Subject: Fire! Message-ID: Date: 11 Jan 90 08:19:00 GMT Sender: Practical Christian Life Reply-To: Practical Christian Life Lines: 37 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Original_To: @CLIST I have been reading some of the prophecies in Charisma magazine for the 1990's. This will be a time when the church will be restored! We will receive more persecution. I feel that is what we need. It is the Baptism with fire that will purify us. Those who really beleive and are ready to serve God will be lfet while those who just claim to the name will be scooped off like dross. Our church is being defiled in america. We have pro-choice churches. Churches which don't beleive in God's word. Just last week my wife saw an article where a mainline denomination ordained a gay pastor! I will not mention the denomination here but I can't beleive that a church which claims to be christian can throw out the bible! It scares me. God has given us His word. Let us pray for faith in it. We need to be strong for the 1990's so that we can overcome what is to come. Christianity is not some nice thing we do on sunday! It is a total conversion of ones life! We serve God and God alone. Our purpose here is to do God's work and that is it. Our lives must revolve around Jesus. The church today is weak but the baptism with fire will come and we will be purified. I want persecution to come. Even to the point of death. I feel so ashamed that we have it so good. I pray that I might be used by God! I don't know what he has in store for me but I go on to serve Him. I see no other purpose in life. Idols that used to be so important to me are of no value. Why am I so angry? Because I see christians walking around who live for the world. Putting the world first, leaving Jesus on the side. Not reading and meditation on His word! I just read that only 12% of those who beleive the bible to be God's word read it daily! I couldn't beleive that. No wonder we are so weak. God has given to us total direction for our lives yet we don't even read it! On top of this many who read it don't beleive it. they say they do but many question everything in it. Many add to it. For instance the bible says we are healed. That when we offer a prayer in faith the sick man will get well. that we have the power to cast out demons and heal the sick. That we can do greater things than Jesus. These are promises! Let's beleive in them. Thank you Lord Jesus for saving me! You are my salvation and in you will I trust. Lord help me in my unbeleif so that I might do your works! For His Glory, Eric.