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Sunday, January 24, 2010

JOE'S DREAM TESTIMONINES

TESTIMONIES
I was thinking about testimonies in my dreams last night.. I was thinking about walking and praying in graveyards and the voices that speak on the tombstones. I was thinking about life and death. The final message of the dead is written on a tombstone. Some only leave you with curiosity. How did they live? Did they give of themselves in life? Or was life a burdon that they would gladly trade for the other side? Did they speak any message at all? When I was living in Germany,! went to a castle built by a very selfish king named Ludwig. He took whatever he wanted from the people and built several castles in for his own pleasure. He only spent any time with his doctor. He had no wife.no children,he never wrote anything or left any archives. He built walls around himself so he would never have to look at people. His food was prepared on the bottom floor of the castle and a huge table was raised through all of the center floors of the castle on cables to the top floor of his private chamber so he wouldn't have to look at anyone. He never finished this castle. He was insane and the people had no more money to give to finish it. He took it all. One castle he built had a grape arbor that was like a tunnel and it went all the way from the castle up a mountain to a private cave where he had a gondolla boat that he mused himself in by rowing around a pond inside the cave. He only went there several times. He went out on a lake in a boat with a doctor and only the doctor came back. That's how he died. This man took and never gave. He is probably in hell today because he was given a great gift and abused people and denied people. We can look at him and say,"he was a very selfish man", but I think we have to look into the mirror of OUR life, and see whether or not WE withhold love. Can it be as simple as demanding our own selfish way and making others pay for it when we don't get that way? Or living in silence and indifference when we see others RUINING THEIR LIVES because they are under the influence of familiar spirits and are headed on a couse of evident destruction somewhere in the future?
Some tombstones speak a very clear awakening message to the living. That's why they write what they write on them. Like Evel Knievel's last words which were and are on his tombstone, "BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST1. In Rodchester.NY, you can see the saints who lived during Charles Finney's revival by what is written on their graves. It is an experience just to go there and read them. But all graves have this in common,and THIS is the point I want to make. ALL OF THESE GRAVES WERE ONCE LIVING PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY SAID AND HOW THEY ACTED AND HOW WELL THEY LIVED.WHETHER THEY LOVED AND GAVE THEMSELF OR THEY WERE SELFISH, is recorded in Heaven.and the book is closed. There is no more remission of sin for them. How they died is the end of the matter. There is no more repentance. There is no more opportunity to say,"lm sorry for how I have been,or what I said.or how I acted;please forgive me" There is no more opportunity to show love,concern, or care. Everything that was done is done. Everything not finished is still left undone. The message of the dead to the living is this,YOU STILL HAVE TIME! We of the living disregard time.we waste time.because time is something we have plenty of and it has little value,unless there's something important we WANT to do.or feel obligated to do,or inspired in our spirit man to do. Our testimony is how well we live, because Jesus has become our life and our reason to live.The scriptures talk about there not being a testimony unless there is a tester which means someone has to die. (.Hebrews 9.17) Being born again means exactly that. So we have to ask ourselves, are we born again? Do we have the power of the Holy Spirit renewing us to a new man energizing us towards being a LIVING testimony? Or are we dead while we live?
Corinthians 15.20-22,42-58
Corinthians 4.13-16
Hebrews 4.15-16
Titus 3.5-8 ARE YOU A SILENT TESTIMONY AND A LIFELESS WITNESS? A DARK REFLECTIONS... AN EMPTY AND WORD LESS TOMBSTONE? WHAT WOULD THOSE WHO KNOW YOU PUT ON YOUR TOMBSTONE?

2 comments:

JUMP FOR JESUS NET said...

I woke up this morning,reminded of a conversation I had yesterday with you , Ceci, How I was able to stay with Gary, sleep in the same bed that he had with his former wife for the 15 years we were together. Looking at how depraved, needy,filled with coveteousness like Gary was. I felt something wrong with it, but I would not even go there.Talking with Jeanne C. started stiring me up in such a great way.What a privelage to be in a BODY OF BELIEVERS who speak the truth in Love. I was reading the testimony of the King Ludwig, that Joe wrote concerning testimonies. Reading his history, you can see how and why we are imparted Familiar Spirits. He was very eccentric. He lived in fantasy.It is interesting. Getting wisdom and understanding is everthing, A KING THAT SITTETH IN THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT SCATTERETH AWAY ALL EVIL WITH HIS EYES. Prov. 20:8 It has been 17 years since Dad went to be with the Lord, I get moved just thinking about where he and I would be if we would not have responded to give up everythying to come and follow Jesus and HIS PEOPLE.. Love Linda

JUMP FOR JESUS NET said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria