23 Mar '08 18:53>
you know, I was raised in a Christian home. I believed everything that was taught to me became a Christian etc, Then I moved out and went to college, etc... and I begin to see what a fake everything was, hypocrites etc.
I sang in a bluegrass Gospel band, at churches all over the country, Ive been to hundreds of different denominations, heard thousands of sermons. we sang at alot of prisons, and I talked to many guys and heard their life stories, how drugs, women, etc ruined their lives. My life started to come to shambles, Then I read the book "For one Moment" (greatest book I ever read) and this verse stuck out to me; "For by Faith are you saved through faith, not of works, lest any man should boast" Faith... Faith.. Faith, What is Faith? Its believing in something that theres no evidence for. I was always wanting to believe by evidence, not by faith. For some reason God wants us to have "Faith" in him, (dont ask me why) even though the evidence seemed to be against him. So I decided to give it a try, believe with all my heart that there is a God, and I asked Him to make me a new person. That was like the hardest thing for me to do, believe in something that every single evidence was going against (or so it seemed) However Its been amazing since that day, I am a new creation, and my life changed and its amazing what a little faith can do, Faith the size of a mustard seed can move away problems that is as big as the mountains. I KNOW NOW God is real, I can feel it, we been playing in more prisons and been seeing some amazing things (there are not many Atheist in prisons), I seen some of the toughest, druggies, tattooed, come to tears and humble themselves and become free. I was at a festival in Canada once, and this respectable girl all of a sudden became demon processed clawing the ground and then somone prayed for her, and when he said In "Jesus's name" she became calm and fell faint, wow I didnt know this happened in modern days. Anyone who dont believe in outside forces should have been here. She described her actions as something she could not control, shes been fighting it. Jesus's name is powerful, but you NEED Faith, FIRST. I cant describe it. Theres no way I can convince somone with evidence. (I do believe there are some though) but God dont want ppl to believe in him with that, he wants Faith. And believing in something that you believed in because you grew up believing it, is not Faith.
I sang in a bluegrass Gospel band, at churches all over the country, Ive been to hundreds of different denominations, heard thousands of sermons. we sang at alot of prisons, and I talked to many guys and heard their life stories, how drugs, women, etc ruined their lives. My life started to come to shambles, Then I read the book "For one Moment" (greatest book I ever read) and this verse stuck out to me; "For by Faith are you saved through faith, not of works, lest any man should boast" Faith... Faith.. Faith, What is Faith? Its believing in something that theres no evidence for. I was always wanting to believe by evidence, not by faith. For some reason God wants us to have "Faith" in him, (dont ask me why) even though the evidence seemed to be against him. So I decided to give it a try, believe with all my heart that there is a God, and I asked Him to make me a new person. That was like the hardest thing for me to do, believe in something that every single evidence was going against (or so it seemed) However Its been amazing since that day, I am a new creation, and my life changed and its amazing what a little faith can do, Faith the size of a mustard seed can move away problems that is as big as the mountains. I KNOW NOW God is real, I can feel it, we been playing in more prisons and been seeing some amazing things (there are not many Atheist in prisons), I seen some of the toughest, druggies, tattooed, come to tears and humble themselves and become free. I was at a festival in Canada once, and this respectable girl all of a sudden became demon processed clawing the ground and then somone prayed for her, and when he said In "Jesus's name" she became calm and fell faint, wow I didnt know this happened in modern days. Anyone who dont believe in outside forces should have been here. She described her actions as something she could not control, shes been fighting it. Jesus's name is powerful, but you NEED Faith, FIRST. I cant describe it. Theres no way I can convince somone with evidence. (I do believe there are some though) but God dont want ppl to believe in him with that, he wants Faith. And believing in something that you believed in because you grew up believing it, is not Faith.