http://www.isaiah58.com/clark/clark07_18_99.html
Dear Brother Clark,
It is an awesome thing that this very day I decided to type into Google the words, “Unclean Temple”. Your story was the first one on the list that came up that I clicked on and read!! I have had an awful time for many years wondering if the Lord had left me and not knowing for sure if the Holy Ghost was the voice of one I have continued to hear since my baptism in 1992. About a year ago I visited a pentecostal church and the pastor there knew me from the past and told me that the tongues I now speak in are from the devil and she tried really hard to cast a demon out of me. I have had a horrible time trying to get it out of me myself ever since she tried and failed.
I can’t tell you what a relief I feel right now knowing my instincts have been correct in thinking I have still had the Holy Ghost all this time. I for one have yet to see in the Bible where it says the devil even uses anyone to speak in tongues!
I love the Lord so very much and read His Word daily. I saturate my mind with it. All I along I have kept thinking what is the point since I don’t know if He is still with me or not and have had such doubt!! I thank the Lord for leading me to Google what I did and I thank you for allowing the Lord to put the answer to my question on the internet for me to find it!! How awesome is that?? How Amazingly Awesome is our God who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords!!
I do have some other questions though and I really need help!! I do read the Bible constantly and I have a vast knowledge of it, yet I don’t understand why alot of churches don’t teach that we live under grace and not the law?? I lasted at that pentecostal church for about 6 months and then started going to another church that I thought was non-denominational and then found out they were of the Minnonite faith. I think by all rights they should let people know what denomination they are!! I am not knocking the Minnonite faith I am however knocking any form of denominational church! I want to be a Christ follower and nothing else. I am now not attening any church because I don’t know where to go that teaches the truth and I am not going to sit under some preacher and listen to lies. I believe I am called to teach and preach the gospel, but thus far my ministry hasn’t come. Even Paul said if your calling is in ministering to wait for it.
I have many gifts of the Spirit, and no place to use them because I have a past and am not sure where God would have me at this time. I also have the anointing to sing gospel music. I am divorced twice and I know many would condemn me and do, but it is between God and me and I know that I know He has forgiven me of any of my past. There is now therefore no condemnation to them which be in Christ Jesus, who walk after the Spirit and not after the flesh.
I have so many things I wish I could talk to someone about. I wish I could talk Bible with someone. God has opened up His Word to me, I don’t yet understand all of it, and never will, but I do have understanding of what He needs me to understand at this time.
Right now I have no job and no income whatsoever, and really no home. I am living in someone’s garage. I believe God has something big for me to do and it is about to be revealed. Actually I know He does. I remember He came to me when I was a child and told me so. Ok, so think I am crazy — everyone else does!! But it is ok, I have decided I will go out on a limb if I have to.
Please just pray or me.
In Christ,
Kelli L
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Thank you for writing, Kelli. I am happy that you got some relief by reading my message on the Spirit dwelling in an unclean temple. Christian ministers have devastated lives and given people a false conception of God with the doctrine that “the holy ghost won’t dwell in an unclean temple” (which doctrine, by the way, IS in a Bible – the Mormon Bible).
As for the rest of your letter, my advice would be to get still and listen, and learn, for a good while before you “go out on a limb”.
Pastor John