Judah's Scripture Shirts

Godly, kind, loving, longsuffering and merciful. Hello: Grace, peace and mercy in Christ to all who read my testimony. I will give a short summary about my conversion. In the summer of 2000, I read the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation. I received the Holy Spirit and was converted. This is how it happened. First, I was given a Study Bible and started to read Genesis. Well, I only made it ten chapters into it before I decided this wasn’t working. God hadn’t opened my ears to his word so I was having a hard time understanding it. Instead of giving up though, I was persistent and purchased an audio Bible. This persistence must have pleased the Lord, because he then opened me up to his word. Now I understood, and I listened to it everyday absorbing it like a sponge in water. After a few months I finished the Old Testament and at this point I feared God a lot. I then started to go through the New Testament. Jesus sounded exactly like his Father and I found that the words that he said became more difficult to obey and follow than the Old Testament. After finishing the Gospels and feeling really sorry for Jesus whenever he was mocked and crucified, I started to read Acts. I loved the word of God so much! After the Epistles written by Apostle Paul really started to convict me of fornication, I found it hard to press forward. When I finally became overwhelmed with this conviction about fornication, I gave up my sex life to Christ. (At this point, I had truly repented.) I must have pleased the Lord, because I received the Holy Spirit in my living room right after that. I was then filled with inexpressible joy and peace and I was glowing with the Holy Spirit. Jesus was so close to me and his presence was overshadowing me so much, that I never felt alone. Over the next few weeks, the Holy Spirit started to convict me on being worldly. He was leading me to get rid of all the secular things in my life that I loved to spend my time doing. For example I loved secular movies, music, and video games. Well, I didn’t listen because I was a babe in the faith and I couldn’t find anyone who confirmed what I was receiving. I then proceeded to grieve the Holy Spirit and I started to backslide; and in six months, I started to fall away. This worldliness caused me to become cursed, and to become an enemy of God. Hebrews 6:8 says But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned, and James 4:4 says Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. I felt Jesus draw back from me more and more, and I became lonely again. Well, I filled the void that Jesus and the Spirit left with women (yes, fornication), more video games and such like. (Well these things felt good to do, but I was deceived into thinking that I was well and right with God because I was happy.) I also was going to a church at this time and was constantly told that I needed to not worry. “Jesus loves YOU!” Well, after two and a half years of living like this, I was sent a prophet. She told me that I wasn’t right with God, and that I needed to repent. I told her that I was a Christian and I had the Holy Spirit. She challenged me to take away the world from me and to see just how Holy Spirit filled I was. After all the movies, games etc. were gone, I felt that loneliness that I had felt when God started to draw back from me at the first, come back. I also felt a spiritual manifestation of fire on my head. Jesus was sorely chastening me! The next five years were filled with rebukes, purging, and more of the world taken from me. Jesus used the Prophetess deeply! Now it’s 2009, and it’s been over six years. I am coming out of my chastening, sore, studied in the Scriptures, and not worldly. I am coming back to my faith even stronger than before. I fear and reverence God now more than ever after coming out of such a horrible curse. I relate to Daniel 4:34 where it says, I lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: Jesus’ love burns away the impurities, and perfects you into holiness. Without fearing the Lord, there is no balance. Hebrews 12:14 says Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Proverbs 3:7 says Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. Proverbs 8:13 says The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Those things that I mentioned such as movies and video games etc. are not of God. Take it from me, they are of Satan, are evil, and if you partake in them, you are being a spiritual adulteress to God. These aren’t the only things either. Sports, Fiction Novels / Fables, Hollywood/celebrities, graven images (statues etc.), are just SOME examples of being a worldly Christian. My advice to everyone reading this is this. Do not be a wordly Christian. It doesn’t work. Get rid of the worldly things in your life that distract you from God. He is a jealous God. He wants all your time, love and devotion. 1 Corinthians 10:21 says Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 says Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Are you worldly? Repent. Turn to God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. You don’t want to have the world ripped from you, and find out the hard way that you also feel Jesus’ anger and the manifestation of fire on your head like I did. Grace and mercy in Christ, Judah