Wees heilig, want Ik ben heilig - getuigenis

[Boerin]

Ik wil jullie dit mooie getuigenis niet onthouden wat kwam als reactie op een topic over extreme holiness:

For many years I thought like this… I could do it. If I just tried hard enough…. if I prayed enough…. if I evangelized, gave money and time…. if I joined ministries and in the end, I was left with doubt…. I had ADHD, depression, anxiety disorder, epilepsy, OCD (quite serious) I took 8 different meds 4X a day and I could not find my joy. I just simply gave up…. I said Lord this is me, I'm whacked, I'm a lousy Christian with a lousy testimony….
but I remembered a vision He'd given me years earlier when I was addicted to drugs (meth)… I told Him (young in the Lord) I was going to hell bc I couldn't stop doing drugs… but I would be the only one there that still loved Him… He gave me a vision He was reaching out for me and He said… but "I won't let you". That was all… He wouldn't let me…. He delivered me from drugs that day… completely. so then its a few years later I still can't meet my own standards for a 'good' Christian… so Ok Lord its on You…. I couldn't do "IT"
This is about 15 years ago. I wrapped myself in His righteousness, literally, I pull Him around me and I prayed in the Spirit everyday. I accepted who and or what I was in the Lord and that He would make up the difference…. after a awhile… I think maybe 6-8 months... I'm walking down the steps in my house when I realize, I've arrived… there I was... no meds, no carnal addictions, life was steady…. I was steady… no depression…. and just this littlest amount of joy that seemed to be following me wherever I go….I'm like wow Lord I'm where I had prayed to be for so many years…. and a little voice says, this is the beginning…. lol.
I was saved, the first day I asked Jesus to be Lord and Savior, I am not more saved today…. I have absolutely nothing to offer Him but a headache… but He loved me anyway…. I could not over come, but He loved me anyway…. I could not forgive others, but He loved me anyway….
Today my gift to His church… I am an encourager…. its just something He puts in me… almost impossible for me not to encourage people to draw close to Jesus… don't clean yourself up… draw close to Him… He does the cleaning…

I was saved while I was a Mormon
I was saved while I was a drug addict
I was saved after I tried to commit suicide
I was saved bc He saved me, I did not save myself… my righteousness is His….

now as far as all the holy stuff you talk about… pleassssse thats the easy stuff… I'm old, I don't get a carnal thought hardly ever….. I forgive people before they ask and I have forgiven and even pray for those that abused me, my daughter, and the guy who murdered my best friend…. none of that makes me holy…. the presence of Christ in me is my holiness….

when the CHURCH gets it… gets it!!!! He is OUR HOLINESS!!!, HE IS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!!! and yes I am hollering but it is a joyful yell… I am so in love with Jesus bc He loved me while I was not lovable, while I was not walking in holiness… He loved me first….
The process of justification and sanctification is another process… when you walk in His righteousness then you can be used of Him for His work… and only then. While you die to yourself and find more of Him… less of me more of Him.
The work of the cross was so big, so magnificent,… so…. there are no words to explain what He accomplished on the cross but it is bigger then my sin and all the worlds sin put together…. 'it is finished'…... its done. You or I can not add one twit to anything He has done… so although I believe in good works… they are not making me good… they are making me more like Him. They are demonstrating to the world that Jesus lives!! bc He lives in me…they can see… bc He lives in me I desire righteousness
My good works don't make me more saved…. my denomination, my theology, my doctrine, my behavior does not make me more or less saved…. as long as I am 'faithing' in Him I am His…. bc He said so… bc He won't let me fail….
bc "it is finished".
Today I go to sleep and wake, thinking of Jesus… how precious He is… how grateful I am. His grace didn't make me sin more, it made me reverence Him who is so gracious to forgive… me who was the lousiest Christian hating atheist… He loved me even then…..she who is forgiven much loves much….

I don't think the church needs to get more holy I think it needs to have more gratitude for His holiness. It needs to be thirsty for Him…. only then will they become more like him and their desire will be toward Him, their righteousness
God bless, andrea

As the deer pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after You, O God.” Psalm 42:1.

[Boerin]

Holiness:
http://www.voiceofrevolution.com/2009/0 ... -legalism/

[Boerin]

EXTREME HOLINESS Bob Brasset Nov. 29th 2013

I awoke this morning with a word ringing in my consciousness,”Extreme holiness is coming to the church.”
Then for the next hour or so I sensed the Lord speaking to me about a visitation or an outpouring that is soon coming to the church across
the world and across all denominational lines. He continued to speak to me about the meaning of that phrase “extreme holiness”.
He told me that much of the church is not walking in holiness. Many Christians are satisfied with just a little bit of holiness.
They want just enough holiness to barely make it to heaven. They don’t realize that the only kind of holiness that will cause us to see God is
complete and extreme holiness-body,soul and spirit, and that sanctification is worked out right here on earth-not just in heaven.
Jesus, when He walked the earth, was extremely holy-perfectly holy. He still is. He always will be perfectly and completely holy.

What extreme holiness is not:
1. It is not legalistic or religious holiness. There will not be an ounce of legalism in the extreme holiness that is about to visit and remain upon
Jesus precious bride.
2. It is not judgemental holiness. There will be so much love and mercy in this holiness that is coming that compassion will overcome judging every time.
3. It is not mournful or “self-pity” holiness. It will be joyful and passionate holiness.

What extreme holiness is:

1. It is joyous holiness. “In your presence is fullness of joy.” (Psalm 16:11) True holiness is always filled with joy and is always passionate.
2. It is loving holiness. “The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts.” (Romans 5: 5) It will be accompanied by a supernatural love anointing.
“What really matters is faith that is energized by love.” (Galatians 5:6) God’s holiness flows from the love of God, and is held together in unity by love. People
consumed by God’s love will be and do only that which is pleasing to the One who completely loves them by the Spirit of Holiness sent from the Father.
3. It is a holiness that separates. True holiness does not mix with the world system-at all. “Do not love the world (system) nor the things of the world.”
The end-time church will look and smell very different from the world.

Finally, the wonderful holiness that is coming to the church will be, to the world around us, both very attractive and very repulsive.
It will attract those who are open and searching. But to those whose hearts are hardened and continue to harden it will engender, in some quarters, extreme, irrational hatred.
People will be filled with hatred and rage because God and His people express a holiness and a life that affronts their self-worship and their self-centered lives.
All of the first century Apostles of the Lamb faced severe persecution, and all but one died as martyrs.

However to focus on the mistreatment and painful deaths of believers would be a grave mistake. God in His love has not abandoned His people, and His kingdom is coming forth through the sacrificial love of His people. There is no loss of life to the one consumed in His love. Multitudes will find Christians who are truly walking in holiness, power and love very attractive indeed! I saw a great canopy of protection for God’s people who will be carrying the Gospel with power, signs and wonders and walking in extreme holiness.

[Bambi]

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[Boerin]

Nog eentje: Liberty from sin, not liberty to sin.
http://www.voiceofrevolution.com/2010/0 ... ty-to-sin/

[Boerin]

Google jij nooit in het Nederlands?
Ik heb geen zin om iedere keer van die grote lappen Engelse tekst te lezen.

Deze had ik via Facebook, ik vind die Michael Brown altijd goeie stukken hebben, wel allemaal Engels inderdaad. Ach is goed voor m'n Engels.

[Boerin]

Goed boekie erover gevonden net:
Sin Shall Not have Dominion over You
The Life and Christian Experience of Charles Fitch

http://www.temcat.com/011-Prayer-Prom/P ... -Fitch.pdf

Wow.
Oh, since I have known my high privilege to reckon myself dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ my Lord, "thy name is as ointment poured forth." "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: [by His strength] the upright love thee." Song of Solomon 1: 3, 2, 4.
When the Holy Spirit thus enlightened me respecting me privilege of reckoning myself dead indeed unto sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ my Lord, He that moment enabled me to avail myself of the privilege, and I instantly found myself more than restored to that blessed state of conscious purity of heart before God from which I had fallen by refusing to confess before men what my Savior had done for me.
The love of the world was gone; no sinful indulgence had any charm for me. My whole heart was won by Christ, and filled with overflowing love to Him, and I feel that a thousand hearts, had they been mine, would have been most joyfully consecrated to His service.