Well the 30th of December 2009, I had an Epiphany, ran up my stairs, grabbed my Bible, and started reading...
Firstly I never knew that us as Christians live by the New Testament, and I started asking my boyfriend Earl questions about the Bible and that is how I got to find this out! I didn't even think that Earl knew much about the Bible and Christianity, but it turns out he does... I always wondered about the things people would say about the Bible, like" God says we have to love everyone, and that he has no racial issues" and so forth, but I always read a book from cover to cover, and did so with the Bible too, this is why I never understood or got to the good stuff ( not that it wasn't good, just didn't make sense ) Anyway that evening, I took the Bible and started reading Matthew ( New Testament ). I started reading and immediately I found something that didn't make sense, but I wrote it down, and later send a message with all my questions, to Thalia on facebook.
Now Thalia is married to my ex-husbands cousin, so after my divorce we never really spoke, but recently I read Thalia's status bars on facebook, and noticed that she and also Herman ( her hubby ) had given their lives over to God. So I sent Thalia my questions, and within minutes she replied, and since Thalia and Herman has been there for every simple small little thing that I want to know about. I wish I could tell them in words how much it really means to me! I would never be able to do this alone ( I know I know, God is with me, but I have not been christened and has not yet been blessed by the Holy Spirit, and the devil puts a lot of doubt in me ).
This is what I discovered on my very first night of reading the Bible:
It says in Matthew1:1 Jesus son of David, and I didn't understand how David could be the father of Jesus as Josef was his dad. This was my first question and I will give you all the questions and answers later, and then on top of that Earl said to me that Josef was not Jesus's biological father as the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, what...?? amazing this book had me right there, it is the best book I have ever encountered.
In Matthew1:18-25 I read all about the birth of Jesus, do yourself a favour and read it it is beautiful.
Jesus also known as Immanuel means " God with us "
I have many times before said to God, " if you do this one thing for me God I promise I will never do this or that ever again " and really I can not tell you if God did what I asked Him or not, but one thing is for sure I never gave anything up for whatever I asked for. Then I read in Matthew that we are not allowed to test God or ask Him favours in return for anything, IT IS WRONG!!
Weird thing happened that night while I was reading a green fly kept on flying into my face, and immediately, I looked up and said to Earl, " you know babe, this is now the devil trying to get my concentration away from what I am doing with the Bible and God ", so we sprayed the bugger with doom, and I continued with my study. I posted this incident on my facebook status and went to bed at about 3 that morning. The next morning I woke up bright and early and could not wait to start reading again, but I logged onto facebook and there it was, Thalia commented on my status about the fly, " Beelsebul (other name for satan ) is known as Lord of the fly" how amazingly amazing was that, satan did not even try to disguise himself that night, he came as he is, the doomed freak!!
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