For many years I lived a life of restlessness, there was no peace within my soul. Life had lost its meaning and purpose, until that day, at an old fashioned altar, I fell on my knee's and invited Jesus into my heart. That is when a big change took place within my life. A whole new life opened up to me. I became a new creature in Christ, the old things passed away and all things became new. My concentration now was centered on Jesus and the call He placed upon my life to preach the gospel.
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I remember the newness of my conversion several days after my conversion to Christ as I was praying and looking for guidance as to what the Lord would have me to do. My conversion to Christ began a new phase in my life. As II Corinthians 5:17 says; "If any man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." As I was praying at the make-shift altar in the four pole tent, where the revival services were taking place, the Lord spoke to me and said, "From this day on your life will be a life of faith." Along with those words came a call to enter the ministry. One month after my conversion to Christ I was in East Providence, Rhode Island at Zion Bible Institute, a faith Bible College, studying for the ministry.
GALATIANS 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, against such there is no law."
The cross and the resurrection are like a successful marriage between a husband and a wife. You can't have one without the other. Without the resurrection, the death of Christ, on the cross, is void. His death would be no more of value than the death of one of the thieves who was crucified with Him.
Jesus tells us in the Word of God that we are to love one another. Matthew 22:39 quotes the words of Jesus when it says; "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." The way things are happening in the world today I would say that apparently there are some who do not love themselves very well when you compare their love toward the love they show their neighbor.
We see much depression, oppression and some possession in the world today. Our emotional status is largely something we can control. There's an old saying that says
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AuthorPastor Sam Coughenour has been in the ministry as a Pastor and Radio Evangelist for the past 58 years. He is a graduate of Zion Bible Institute. He was converted to Christ, from a rock & roll band, in 1966 at a Lowell Lundstrom tent revival. Archives
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