Church was school to me. I wrote down everything I saw, heard and tested it by the spirit of God (1 John 4:1-3 NKJV). I didn't need a theologian degree to meet God or have a relationship with Jesus Christ, but I could sit under the teaching of men or women who had a degree. They would be judged at a higher standard to ensuring that God's people were taught sound doctrine of the truth about salvation and the Kingdom of God. My job was to turn the lessons into school and soak up the knowledge and turn it into wisdom through obedience to God driven by faith and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The spirit in church's showed me who worshiped Jesus Christ or who taught a different doctrine. My life was also school lessons that were repeated if I did not learn the lesson through the spirit. Once I was born again in 2013, my life began to look like a looking glass. I felt like Alice in Wonderland when my spiritual eyes opened. I felt like I was walking through a dream and everyone surrounding me represented a character or spirit in the bible. I felt like I walked the earth before, but in a different form. My reality was not truth when I was born again. I was living in a lie and had to walk out the truth through the word of God. My world at the time was an image of God, and I had to walk in truth based on what the spirit was showing me. My life was similar to the scripture that I paraphrase, God gave me life in my dead soul and he called those things in my life which did not exist as though they did (Romans 4:17 NKJV). God was fulfilling the promise he already made to Abraham. I wasn't special. I was grafted into the faith through my belief in Jesus Christ, so that made me a descendant of Abraham. God was calling me forth to go through the fire. He was showing me in the spirit who he was, and I was in the school learning his ways while going through the wilderness. What remained truth was what the spirit was showing me about people and circumstances as God stepped me through my journey. I needed the word of God as my light. I started to understand and walk through true warfare in the name of Jesus Christ. Prior to 2013, I was walking in belief and sowing seeds until my encounter with Goliath. There are lessons to be learned from life and in the church. I caught what the pastor was saying in the spirit. I applied it to my life by studying the scriptures and becoming equip so I could go out into the world and do warfare in the spirit by rebuking and binding spirits in the name of Jesus that I directly encountered. I needed to be set free in my spirit in order to know what to ask God for so others to be set free. A spirit can not be bound or caste out if it has not had a face to face encounter with a true disciple of Jesus Christ. When the word has been sown by the pastor, the enemy through trials, tribulations, circumstances, situations, and tests will try to come and snatch away what was sown, but I had to pray, stand still and wait on the Holy Spirit to provide me with direction. I kept the faith, so I could enter into his rest and allowed grace to abound so I could fight the good fight of faith and Jesus Christ was my advocate with God to get me through every battle that I have overcome in my life. I could not do warfare in my flesh. I had to abide by the word of God. The church was a point of connection to elevate me and to show me where God had already been and prepared me for what's to come. I worship God in spirit and in truth no matter what enemy I am faced with today. God is victorious in everything.
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