King James Bible
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Testimony: Love. Love Is Our Emotional Prosperity.
Eric's testimony "Love. Love Is Our Emotional Prosperity." on 6/28/2014, 12:41pm...
I like to think that I have wealth of information. Still love is the best thing to have. One can tend to just wallow like someone stuck in the mire if they just have merely a great intellect, or a great material inheritance. That is because love accompanies emotional prosperity. My mother has always had a christian book collection, more than dozens, it was hundreds of them I believe. I got to be edified by the greatest (christian authors) once I accepted salvation as a gift from God. My mom has tried all of her life to love me into the Church. Church? This church is the Body of Christ. I finally came to the Lord at sixteen.
I did not ever return to drugs and alcohol, but I left my God given course at 21. Maybe you could say at 18. That is when a lot of people began telling me that I really needed to date someone right then, because it would amount to nothing if I didn't get some practice with dating relationships before I met the right woman. I am sorry to my brothers and my sisters, and I am sorry to God, because that relationship turned into a pre-marital, sexual relationship which was not the original intention that I had.
Sex occurred several times, and I still had a renewed mind that was within me. The spirit did not want to deny God and commit to the works of the flesh. I am glad that she moved far away, and that we made no effort to continue in a deviant or ungodly life style. I hope that, like me, she has moved into a better situation, a plan, one that God has for the upright, those obeying. I was the chiefest of all sinners.
I will expose you no more to my old mess that I, back then had created. I'm 37 years of age. That's 15 years of practicing (abstinence) again. I have a far greater confidence when I leave sexual sins alone, when I just don't go there. Twenty-one years have I been drug free. Hallelujah. I just fill up with the spirit, and let that old flesh thing go!