Yes. It sure is amazing.
Brad
At 12:28 AM 1/3/2006 +0000, you wrote:
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>It is truely amazing hwo God works. I lvoe it.
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>I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out
>there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is
>
>IN GOD WE TRUST
>-KC- Ministries
>
>
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>From: MV <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > What. You are a glutton for babble punishment? lol. Well in short, it was I
> > think in May of 1996. My wife and I were this far *pinching fingers within
> > a hair's width away*, from calling it quits. As a CEO Christian, Christmas
> > and Easter Only *smile*, not born again, not ever having looked at God as
> > anything other than a lightening bolt bully which had no real purpose in
> > daily life but rather a point of focus in church I ought to attend to be a
> > good guy, which was filled with a bunch of hypocritical fakes, I remember
> > half way down my steps to my office in the basement my will broke and I
> > stopped and began praying to God saying "God? I'm tired of fighting for
> > this marriage. I just simply cannot and will not do it anymore. So
> > please, either give me the strength to just tell her and let me go my own
> > way, or the strength to get this thing back where it belongs. Either way I
> > can't stay as it is anymore." Soon after that we had another blow out, you
> > know, one of those normal garden variety fist clenching, rage building
> > refrigerator punching disagreements? lol. She then packed up her bags and
> > was headed for a hotel. Evidently God had a different plan because as he'd
> > have it, there wasn't a room in this town or the nearest one either. Not a
> > one room. She came back and said basically she felt it was a sign we ought
> > try to work things out, give it another go, a real try this time. Of course
> > with all the damage that had been caused in words to each other and etc.
> > we both knew it wasn't just going to be come out from the corners and shake
> > hands. We decided to go to church that Sunday, so riding around Sunday
> > morning going "Eenie meenie, mie-nee mo" we happened along a Methodist
> > Church, only due to the fact that we were running out of time and if we
> > kept riding much longer, we'd have missed every service in town. Wouldn't
> > you know the preacher there was talking about marriage? Funny isn't it?
> > Well. The next week or so we attended a church a friend of my wife
> > attended. In fact this woman was part of the ministry there. Her and her
> > husband were children's ministers, who later started their own church in
> > which I helped with praise and worship, and who are the same couple that
> > unfortunately divorced after various issues. That is a sad story but
> > anyway. So we attended this church. This was a tongue talking Holy Spirit
> > walking jump in the isles when you sing kind of church. Wow! I thought
> > hmmm. That kind of church was not unfamiliar to me as my wife and her
> > family attended a similar one in Marinette years back and I'd attend just
> > so I'd get an extra day with my sweetie as it didn't count against the
> > three she was limited to spending with me per week then. lol. Shifty
> > character eh? Anyway at this church there was due to be a drama ministry
> > called... hmmm. what was it called? lol. Stopping to think here, grab a
> > coffee and I'll have it when you return. Hmmm. The same drama wrapped under
> > a different name the year before was "Glory In The Fire", they change the
> > name every year and I keep thinking it was something like Scared Straight
> > lol. Although that was a movie about drugs when I was in school years
> > back, the idea was the same. OK. I admit I had to ask my daughter the name,
> > the drama was called "Final Destiny". Basically had several drama scenes
> > depicting varying real life situations from a garden variety mom who didn't
> > accept Christ to a drug deal gone bad with teens, to born again Christians
> > who were called home in an auto accident or something. Basically showing if
> > you aren't right with God? You is BBQ and if you are? You is alright. It
> > was done exquisitely. At the end they of course have an alter call. I've
> > been to churches who had alter calls before then and I've never had a
> > problem standing there with both feet flat to the floor and dry palms. This
> > time? This time was different. When they had the alter call, and I knew one
> > was likely to be coming, I felt convicted, I felt torn inside. As I stood
> > there people moved to the front, and I had no concern for anything else
> > going on around me. I heard the man say something to the affect of... "I
> > know God is tugging at a few of you who are suppose to be up here but you
> > are standing there with sweaty palms". My God! I felt he was talking
> > directly to me, I believe my wife was to my left and two kids to the right.
> > I did not grab my wife's hand to come up with me, I just began walking out
> > to the right, my wife followed and so did my two kids and the lot of us
> > gave our lives to Christ right then. Well my wife rededicated her life as
> > in high school she attended a teen event and accepted Christ. But myself
> > and both my kids accepted Christ at that time and our lives began to change
> > big time. We still had some struggles but there was an underlying peace and
> > sureness and we all began to grow. So that's about the size of it.
> >
> > Brad
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>It is truely amazing hwo God works. I lvoe it.
>--
>I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out
>there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is
>
>IN GOD WE TRUST
>-KC- Ministries
>
>-------------- Original message --------------
>From: MV <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > What. You are a glutton for babble punishment? lol. Well in short, it
> was I
> > think in May of 1996. My wife and I were this far *pinching fingers within
> > a hair's width away*, from calling it quits. As a CEO Christian, Christmas
> > and Easter Only *smile*, not born again, not ever having looked at God as
> > anything other than a lightening bolt bully which had no real purpose in
> > daily life but rather a point of focus in church I ought to attend to be a
> > good guy, which was filled with a bunch of hypocritical fakes, I remember
> > half way down my steps to my office in the basement my will broke and I
> > stopped and began praying to God saying "God? I'm tired of fighting for
> > this marriage. I just simply cannot and will not do it anymore. So
> > please, either give me the strength to just tell her and let me go my own
> > way, or the strength to get this thing back where it belongs. Either way I
> > can't stay as it is anymore." Soon after that we had another blow out, you
> > know, one of those normal garden variety fist clenching, rage building
> > refrigerator punching disagreements? lol. She then packed up her bags and
> > was headed for a hotel. Evidently God had a different plan because as he'd
> > have it, there wasn't a room in this town or the nearest one either. Not a
> > one room. She came back and said basically she felt it was a sign we ought
> > try to work things out, give it another go, a real try this time. Of
> course
> > with all the damage that had been caused in words to each other and etc.
> > we both knew it wasn't just going to be come out from the corners and
> shake
> > hands. We decided to go to church that Sunday, so riding around Sunday
> > morning going "Eenie meeni! e, mie-n ee mo" we happened along a Methodist
> > Church, only due to the fact that we were running out of time and if we
> > kept riding much longer, we'd have missed every service in town. Wouldn't
> > you know the preacher there was talking about marriage? Funny isn't it?
> > Well. The next week or so we attended a church a friend of my wife
> > attended. In fact this woman was part of the ministry there. Her and her
> > husband were children's ministers, who later started their own church in
> > which I helped with praise and worship, and who are the same couple that
> > unfortunately divorced after various issues. That is a sad story but
> > anyway. So we attended this church. This was a tongue talking Holy Spirit
> > walking jump in the isles when you sing kind of church. Wow! I thought
> > hmmm. That kind of church was not unfamiliar to me as my wife and her
> > family attended a similar one in Marinette years back and I'd attend just
> > so I'd get an extra day with my sweetie as it didn't count against the
> > three she was limited to spending with me per week then. lol. Shifty
> > character eh? Anyway at this church there was due to be a drama ministry
> > called... hmmm. what was it called? lol. Stopping to think here, grab a
> > coffee and I'll have it when you return. Hmmm. The same drama wrapped
> under
> > a different name the year before was "Glory In The Fire", they change the
> > name every year and I keep thinking it was something like Scared Straight
> > lol. Although that was a movie about drugs when I was in school years
> > back, the idea was the same. OK. I admit I had to ask my daughter the
> name,
> > the drama was called "Final Destiny". Basically had several drama scenes
> > depicting varying real life situations from a garden variety mom who
> didn't
> > accept Christ to a drug deal gone bad with teens, to born again Christians
> > who were called home in an auto acci! dent or something. Basically
> showing if
> > you aren't right with God? You is BBQ and if you are? You is alright. It
> > was done exquisitely. At the end they of course have an alter call. I've
> > been to churches who had alter calls before then and I've never had a
> > problem standing there with both feet flat to the floor and dry palms.
> This
> > time? This time was different. When they had the alter call, and I knew
> one
> > was likely to be coming, I felt convicted, I felt torn inside. As I stood
> > there people moved to the front, and I had no concern for anything else
> > going on around me. I heard the man say something to the affect of... "I
> > know God is tugging at a few of you who are suppose to be up here but you
> > are standing there with sweaty palms". My God! I felt he was talking
> > directly to me, I believe my wife was to my left and two kids to the
> right.
> > I did not grab my wife's hand to come up with me, I just began walking out
> > to the right, my wife followed and so did my two kids and the lot of us
> > gave our lives to Christ right then. Well my wife rededicated her life as
> > in high school she attended a teen event and accepted Christ. But myself
> > and both my kids accepted Christ at that time and our lives began to
> change
> > big time. We still had some struggles but there was an underlying peace
> and
> > sureness and we all began to grow. So that's about the size of it.
> >
> > Brad
>
>
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