💥 Psalm 65

 

4 Blessed is the man whom THOU choosest, and causest to approach unto THEE, that he may dwell in THY courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of THY house, even of THY holy temple.

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Barbara Preston:  Member of the body of Christ

After I was born again in the early 80's, I had a strong desire to go to church.  So we started attending a Methodist church. 

 

One day in our Sunday School class our teacher asked us to pair up with another person and we were to share with each other an experience we had had with God. 

 

I paired up with a man in the class and told him about something that had happened (I don’t remember what it was) but some experience I had with God where I heard something from God which helped me.

 

He told me that he had never had anything like that happen to him but wished it would. 

 

For his sake, I hope it happened too. 

 

He heard me speak about Jesus but had not had the experience of Jesus having spoken directly to him.

 

Being given the Holy Spirit makes all the difference … having it is life and not having it is death. 

 

No matter how the Word comes to us … through a particular scripture, a dream, a thought brought to us directly or through another believer, a vision. 

 

Like a bolt of electricity, it is a living Word (Jesus) having the power to communicate directly with us and change us.

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 (Comments by Joan Boney)

Being changed by God ... given by God a new heart and a new spirit:  

When God chooses us and causes us to be born again, we are changed instantly.  And we know this change did not come from ourselves, from our learning or trying to change.  God changed us causing us to be a "new creation."

Ezekiel 36  (God says)

23 And I will sanctify MY great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

(Before we were born again we spoke of God but often "profaned" God, made things of God to be secular.  After we are born again the people who knew us before we were born again recognize that we are now very different.  We've changed.  And God is now sanctified in us before their eyes.)

24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

27 And I will put MY spirit within you, and cause you to walk in MY statutes, and ye shall keep MY judgments, and do them.

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2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

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