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[acresofhope]

Do you guys know who Adrian Despres is? He's here in Spartanburg doing this series called Defending Your Faith. I love this guy to death. He has such a passion, and he really does know the Bible. He quotes verses just like that. We had a talk, and he told me I needed to find someone to pray with, and dude, I ran and got Lauren right then. We asked God to send us some girls we could really bond with and dump out our problems with so we don't have to deal with stuff alone. She said she had no idea I felt that way, and I was just reminded that "you have not because you ask not." I isolate myself so much. Even though I have people online, Adrian seemed really adamant that I find some girls here, and I know I will, because God isn't going to leave me hanging on this. He's tried to tell me this before. And I know I've tried to find some girls before, and it goes good for a while. But then I want to go deeper, and they don't, and they leave me.

Anyway...the guy really knows the Word...and he told me I was too wonderful to be so hard on myself. He told me God says that, and I know He does. I think it's what really hits me about this guy. He really knows God and He listens to God and he doesn't mind putting what God says out there, even some of the more controversial things.

Anyway, I'm gonna stop talking and read my Bible, then I'm going to write down some more questions to ask Adrian tomorrow night.

Edit: Oh, and if you have a question you want me to ask him, tell me and I will! I'll be seeing him tomorrow and Wednesday.

Comments

[fairytownsend.livejournal.com]

"We asked God to send us some girls we could really bond with and dump out our problems with"

How old you again? I did not get your age but uhm...when I was 20, I was in church and the pastor was saying that "as you draw closer to God, you would see that the people sorrounding you, would be like you. A believer"

And it happened...but it falters too. I had that very special experience of sort of a private show. He performed the miracle of having some of my super unbelieving friends call upon His name.

"he doesn't mind putting what God says out there, even some of the more controversial things."

As for that...well, some people, like myself have chosen to take the "living as an example" road, rather than talking. Sometimes I talk too. If the spirit is with me, I can declare things, and be unshakable. Sometimes more than be encouraging to people, talking turns them away, and also it depends on your personality.

I wish you all the best missy.

[kibbutznik.livejournal.com]

hmm..., always makes me hesitate when people say 'someone really 'knows' G-d. What a concept, for finite beings to begin to comprehend the infinite creator. Kudo's to being able to quote scripture, the more I study..., the closer I get to that. Still don't know G-d though...not really. :()

[acresofhope.livejournal.com]

Just because you know someone doesn't mean you understand someone. Yes, he knows God, and I know God and anyone who has been born again knows God. To say you can't know God at all is just...I'm sorry, it is a really dumb thing to say.

[kibbutznik.livejournal.com]

I guess Im dumb then.... and I say dumb things sometimes, but thats ok I guess. I don't really know G-d and Im a follower of Yeshua and believer. Did not mean to sound insulting at all.

[acresofhope.livejournal.com]

I didn't take it as an insult, and if you were, I not sure I would care. I know that I know God. Adrian probably knows Him better than I do, since he's been following Him longer. That's just logical. And it would be logical to say that you know God if you follow Yeshua. In fact, Yeshua Himself said that you know the Father if you know Him (John 14, starting in verse 7). I say this with all the love in my heart, though very bluntly: stop being a spiritual pansy. If you spend enough time with someone, you come to know them. So while I'm sure none of us will be able to fully grasp His greatest and majesty, to say "I don't know Him" is noodle theology. If you don't really know Him like you say, you should either get to know Him or stop following Him, because you're just wasting your time if you don't.

[kibbutznik.livejournal.com]

Spiritual pansies..hehe, thats quite a picture.
Yes, most people are exactly what you say unfortunately, spiritual pansies. ie.. they know who Christ is, or at least they 'think they do' kinda of. But, do they really 'know' who he is. Using scripture as a yard stick, the answer becomes self evident.

A quote from an older person I talked to (Looking at the gospel like a jigsaw puzzle):

Todays church is in essence a social club, with three groups of people. First group is there to have something to do socially 'they have maybe one piece of the whole visual puzzle'. Second group is interested in Christ like a fan club with general interest, 'with two or more pieces of that puzzle' a little wider view. These two groups contain over 90 pecent of those in church's. Third group, less than 10 percent, have a much wider view of that picture 'with multiple pieces' and are beginning to scratch the surface, to really dig into the things of G-d. But..., often when they begin to act on that, are oft times scoffed and stymied by the other 90 percent.., so the battle is from two fronts, those people and satan.

My cousin was healed at a Katheryn Kuhlman meeting when she was a kid and went on a healing mission in Mexico and saw healings happen by prayer. And they thought they knew who Christ was..., and he began to open their eyes.

I will use myself as an example as well. I have been around and studying the things of Christ quite a long time. I've in time begun to emerse myself IN that study, Christ knocked on my door when I was 15. And only in the last 2-3 years have I begun to grasp 'scratch the surface' of even the basics of what Christ is really about in what he said and did and told us to be about doing. And I've been in multiple environments, church's etc that I'll not go that deep into.

I've been in deliverance rooms, healing prayer rooms, multiple church atmosphere's and environments of people and doctrinal views of scripture, tripping over themselves, ourselves and our puzzle pieces.., not even knowing it in many fashions and forms.

Yes, Most people are spiritual pansies..., and unfortunately thats over 90 percent. They have milk faith, but they don't really KNOW Christ, aren't prepared for meat faith, the heart of Christ and thus G-d.
We think we know about the heart of HIM but not really. Its like when someone gets married, they 'think' they know the person they're marrying, but after they get married..., a whole new and different person suddenly emerges from what they 'thought' they knew.
Most of us haven't really actually married Christ. We're just dating him.

For if we really did 'know' the heart of G-d / Christ, we'd all be casting out demons, praying for healings and so forth and it would happen instantly. Unlike Acts 5:15 '..the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.' Even Peter's shadow..., was more effective than our direct intentions.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. James 5:16

Now, if we could just begin to trully follow Christ and his commandments we might begin to get somewhere.

We are unfortunately according to scripture, for the most part 'rookies'.
Paul wrote, 'what I would I do not..., what I would not, that I do'. And we all consider him a spiritual giant. But by his own admission and testimony he considered himself a pansy, totally incabable and faltering pansy. And we aren't even up to HIS standard. We all are no flame by comparison to his example. We look through a glass darkly.

Christ says it best himself, 'And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elects's sake those days shall be shortened.' Matthew 24:22

I give no excuse for being a pansy..., but now that I'm aware that scripturally I am but a joke, I strive forward to become MORE observant, MORE obedient, and more like the heart of Christ.

And as I grow in that, I begin to realize that I do not really actually know him, not really. But at least I have begun to realize that.., and can now begin to do so.
Yes, indeed, we all need to become aware, and stop being spiritual pansies!