My son, 1 John 2:27 records:
“And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him remains in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you remain in Him.”
This is very believable! After I repented, God, through the Holy Spirit, helped me to be reborn, to find the experience of overcoming sin, and write it down briefly in this article. You shall remember and praise the God who created the heaven and earth and all things, and spread it from generation to generation. Trust in Him, and believe in all that He has to say to you. Also, some friends have asked me why I shared with other people about my personal experience of salvation, why you always say that the Holy Spirit speaks to you, do you know that not every Christian also hears the Holy Spirit speak to them. Doing this will cause anxiety and panic, make many Christians doubt themselves, and make them have no confidence to go on. What is your purpose in doing this? I will give those friends my reply after I have told my rebirth experience.
This rebirth experience will be divided into four small chapters, the first chapter is called “The Lord’s Anointing in My Heart”, the second chapter is called “The Precious Blood of Jesus is covering me”, and the third chapter is called “By The Name of my Lord Jesus”, and the fourth chapter is called “All are children of God”.
My two most important repentances in my life and the testimony of being forgiven by God are recorded in “One Thought Repent Longing To Heave (2) “, followed by “Do I have to seek your advice first?“, those two experiences let me personally experience the truth of confession, repentance and salvation. It also made me kneel before God with sincerity to pray and read the Bible every day. I just read the Bible every day without studying them. What I wanted most at that time was to read what God left for us through the Holy Spirit. I want to know what kind of creator God, who loves me and forgives my sins, is. Sometimes, I will see the scenes told in the Bible in my heart, like a bystander watching everything go by, sometimes I will feel happy because of the presence of God, and sometimes I will cry when I feel sad , sometimes afraid of the scriptures I read. Sometimes I asked God because I didn’t understand the Scriptures I were reading. God will respond to me in various ways through the Holy Spirit who dwells in me. And the Holy Spirit’s response to me in person was really the lamp before my feet and the light on the road. When I didn’t know how to face some difficulties, it also illuminated my heart and let me know how to face it.
After repenting, one Sunday, when I was worshiping, I remembered that I had been a Christian for 30 years, and I had not been sharing the Gospel with others well. I felt sorry for the Lord in my heart. But a majestic voice appeared in my heart, telling me to focus on worshipping Him, so I stopped tangling with the guilt and focused on singing and worshipping God. When I sing a hymn, the content is to worship God with heart and sincerity, and let the true God who created the heavens, the earth and all things be glorified. Then the voice of the Holy Spirit in my heart reappeared, saying, “If you resist the thoughts of the evil one in your heart, I will be glorified.” I will not know that God will be glorified by resisting all kinds of thoughts from the evil in my heart. But if God’s Spirit does not move the world, how can we know that what we think, say, and do is not pleasing to Him?
After that, I was driving a car once, on the highway, in the traffic lane beside me, and suddenly a car drove past me at super high speed, and then I thought to myself, “Why is the driver driving so fast? to reincarnate?” At that moment, a tiny voice appeared in my heart:
“for you know that even you have cursed others many times as well.”
It was Ecclesiastes 7:22, and I could only smile bitterly, thinking to myself, “Lord, there are so many verses in the Bible, why do you use this verse?” After that, I didn’t dare to curse others drove fast to get reincarnated, afraid that the Holy Spirit would say what kind of words to me.
Another time, when I read 1 Timothy 5:13-14:
“At the same time they also learn to be idle, as they go around from house to house; and not merely idle, but also they become gossips and busybodies, talking about things not proper to mention.
Therefore, I want younger widows to get married, have children, manage their households, and give the enemy no opportunity for reproach;”
I thought to myself, I am not a young widow, and this verse should have nothing to do with me, and then a small voice sounded in my heart:
“The church is my bride, and if the bride does not listen to the bridegroom, treat the bridegroom as dead, she is a widow. “
I thought about it at that time, and felt that what the Holy Spirit said to me was right, and I remembered in my heart, don’t gossip, don’t be nosy, and say things that shouldn’t be said. My son, God is always able to say things through the Holy Spirit that strike me as unbelievable. But after I am willing to believe in Him and accept it with sincerity, I will feel that everything is logical and in line with the records in the Bible. The words of the omnipotent, righteous and loving God, who created the heavens and the earth and all things, make me fear Him.
Although the words from the Holy Spirit could not make the dark and negative thoughts in my heart disappear completely, they would still emerge, but I felt that I had begun to have the right to choose. Later, when I read Isaiah 7:14-15 one day, it says:
“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and she will name Him Immanuel.
He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.
For before the boy knows enough to refuse evil and choose good,…”
Suddenly, I realized that our Lord Jesus, who came to earth, was trapped in the flesh just like our worldly dispositions. He had to learn to refuse evil and choose good, didn’t listen to the evil desires that come from the flesh in His human body. Just because He is not self-righteous, has not sinned, and violated the will of the Heavenly Father, so He can become a turning point in our world and overcome negative thoughts. Son, we are different in the world. Among us, it is because of love, not because we think we are good people. It is also because of confession and repentance, forgiveness by the Creator, and personal experience of the love from the Lord Jesus who gave up His life and never left, so we must choose. Although I have the right to choose, I am troubled by the constant choice every day. “Don’t I live in the Lord? Will I no longer be condemned? I have been reborn, so why are there still dark, deceitful and negative thoughts in my heart? Is this just an illusion? Will I return to my original shape and be bound by sin again?” Doubt often arises in my mind. One day, that small but majestic voice reappeared in my heart, saying:
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter in;”
Since God said this to me through the Holy Spirit, I believe in Him, and I do it every day. I learn not to follow the negative thoughts in my heart, and I don’t care why my heart is so bad. I just resist those thought which I don’t know where they come from day after day. Sometimes I won the battle, sometimes I was defeated. When the Lord opened my heart and let me know that I had sinned against Him, I asked the Lord to forgive and had mercy on me. I wondered when the days of such struggles would end? Later, after I read James 4:7 and 1 Peter 5:8-10:
“Submit therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
“Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
So resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brothers and sisters who are in the world.
After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.”
When my own doubts often appear in my heart, I know that the Holy Spirit is responding and encouraging me. Since God has promised to resist the negative evil thoughts of the devil (refuse evil and choose good), the devil will leave us. Since all the brothers in the world have also experienced such hardships, some people may find it easy to refuse, while others may find it a little more difficult, so what? Most importantly, these afflictions are temporary, and what God, by the Holy Spirit, spoke to the apostles James and Paul, is very precious, because one day those temptations and afflictions that arise in the soul will be due to the word of God He who promises and leaves me, this is the light on my way.
The Precious Blood of Jesus is covering me – One Thought Repent Longing to Heaven (4)
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