Pastor John,
I love this (below) that I read on your web site. Just as I have felt for the first time in my life that I have been washed from my sins, with the baptism of the holy Ghost. The spirit has told me many things that I need to do, from starting over and to live a life of righteousness, and to STAY THAT WAY!
My dear brothers and sisters, you were perfect with God in the beginning of your walk with Him. To be prepared to meet your heavenly Father in peace, you need not become anything more than you were then because what you were then is what God Himself made you; it was not your work or that of your earthly parents. You were washed from all your sins by the baptism of the holy Ghost, and you were perfectly clean before God. You were willing then to be changed, to be molded by God\’s tender hands, humbly willing for others to be right and you to be wrong, and hungry for God’s righteousness. STAY THAT WAY! Do not become anything else because everything else is sin. Paul said, “As you have received the Lord Jesus Christ, so walk in him.” Amen! This continuation in righteousness is called in the Bible, “faithfulness”, and no one will be saved without it.
Yes once I was willing to totaly surrender and willing to give up everything for him, he blessed me with his gift…
I am not yet skilled on every thing that I need to know, but I know it is to walk with him, as him, a life of righteousness…
God Bless all there.
Terry W