Tonight was communion night at Abundant Life Tabernacle in Johnstown.
I love the simplicity of this church and the fact that rather than a weekly communion like many churches have, ALT does this twice a year to stress it's importance.

The whole congregation prayed for me.
It was quite incredible.

The chills have not abated for the last 3 weeks.
They are still coming strong dozens of times a day.

Here again is the website for ALT if anyone is interested.
www.altonline.org

Thank you everyone for the posts.

What a blessing to read of your most recent scan. I am very happy for all the good things that are happening to you.

I do not know who coined it but I am comforted by the statement "God is still on the throne, and prayer changes things"

Maybe J Vernon Magee??

Your good news LBJ is such a blessing to read.

Your walk through this incredible trial has been an immeasurable encouragement to me and others!

Your sharing of faith is the outpouring of a heart that knows its frailty.

We see clearly where your strength comes from. Thank you for being so genuine to all of us!

Continued blessings to you...

JoeSig

Amen, Amen!

Silent

so happy to read your good news

Fanastic news!

Thanks again all.
I am really enjoying my new life.
There truly is a better way for me to live.

I suppose some in my life think I have gone overboard or something.
I figure it may look that way.

I can say that my faith has lasted my whole life and now, it is renewed and reinvigorated.
I have been wondering since I was a teen if I would ever be able to make a commitment to Christ and actually focus on Him and attempt to walk with Him.
I think I always wanted to but could either could not bring myself to commit, or I could not figure out where to go because I think many of today's churches are, well, kind of fake.
Maybe it it was both of the above.
To each their own I suppose.

I now go to services twice a week and have joined a Friday night Bible study group.

I have such a long way to go.
In the past, I couldn't bring myself to accept The Word completely. I guess I wasn't ready.
No more can I read The Bible and figure that such and such passage I will believe in, but the ones I disagree with are ignored.
That just doesn't get it for me now.

Commitment, yes, I was lacking full faith and commitment.
I have a bit of catching up to do, but I am also seeing that I had a lot of correct (but not all) learning from my childhood when the Episcopal church was way more conservative in the early 1960s than today.

I had infusion treatment yesterday and usually it knocks me for a loop for a couple of days.
I feel very normal this morning actually.
The nurses at the UC Health cancer center remarked yesterday that my skin tone looks better, so they are seeing what I feel.

I have to climb a lot of stairs to get to the infusion center. Once I am at the top, I check in and typically ask the check in person how many steps they have added to the staircase since my last visit.
Yesterday, after I climbed the stairs, I asked how many steps had they deleted from the staircase.
True story.

Amazing.

I cannot say or know how much time I am being given until I willingly complete God's plan for me.
It may be short, medium or long.
It does not matter the time frame involved here any more.
I see now that I was put out on this Earth for a greater purpose, and that is good enough for me.

lbj, when I read your testimony, it brings tears of inspiration. I have endured many, many hardships. Over the years I can see that those trials that I endured faithfully became events that increased my testimony of God and drew me closer to Him and the way He prompts me further. Perhaps your experience here is one of those faith inducing events. If that is what it took to bring you to our Father, one could reason, was it not worth it? To risk a temporary life to gain an eternal one? I think what you are becoming is a beautiful thing to behold. It is an evolution I am struggling to achieve also. Knowing how hard it is, I am inspired by your progress. God bless you, brother.

Thanks, I think you are correct.

I always wanted to get to where I am now... the starting line.
I was never able to get further along than the staging area the last 62 years.
Now, the marathon of learning to know God has begun.

Whatever has happened in my past both good and bad, has led me to where I reside now, in The Lord.
My search is over, the learning begins and life has more purpose.

As I have posted before, I never made fun of Pentecostal faith, just their mannerisms and gestures.
I am now what I used to make fun of.
Very cool.
Somehow there is a wonderful irony at play here.

I cannot speak to all churches belonging to Pentecostal faith, I can only speak to the specific one I joined, God led me there.
Not over there, or somewhere else, or even a "any church" will do.
I was led to ALT in Johnstown, CO.

Good to hear. So glad you are doing well.

I have wondered about you, glad you still stomp on the terra.
How are you doing?

We are in the same boat as far as our disease, as I remember it.

I was noticing today that all of my muscles seem to be waking up.
I mean, I only walk for exercise and the leg muscles have been increased in size.

I was flexing my biceps just now and see some enlargement as well, though still puny.

The back muscles on my shoulders seem to be forming again, and I can also stretch and twist my upper body and it feels good.
I used to avoid doing that because it felt bad.

This is incredible.

Praise God!

Isaiah 40:31

OK, let's reveal something negative from my past, mentally I mean.
You know how we all have some defects here and there, and such doesn't make us crazy or anything.

I have always had some occasional low level repeat thing in my head when doing tasks.
This would happen a couple of times a day.

It would be say, grabbing my keys to leave the house.
Sometimes I would pick them up and head on out.
But sometimes I would pick them up, something didn't feel right about the timing and I would place them back on the counter and pick them up again.
Nothing that takes a lot of time mind you, just some odd reset.
Sometimes is was opening and closing a door twice, things like that.
It's never interfered with my life, just a simple timing reset because the initial action had an odd feel to it.
I just felt that by altering the timing with a repeated action, the timing of events in my life were altered in such a way I avoided something catastrophic.

I don't do that anymore, it started going away 3 weeks ago.
I am happy not doing that anymore.

See? lbj not all sweetness and light in his mind.
He's got defects.

I get out of bed this morning and thought about all the times the last year and half that I posted the words that I have had the "best life ever".
I have had great life no doubt.

Now, with my conversion being born of water and spirit, I have to say that what I considered as the best life ever, mine, is even better than before!

So what words do I use to describe when my best life ever is even better than before?

I have been writing in this thread for a little more than a year and half and I'm at a loss of words here.

I mean, how is it I can't seem to find the correct word to use?
Yes, my feeling I have had the best life ever is even greater than before.

How cool is that?

Praise God!

quote:

Originally posted by lbj:
However, the night before last, I had another fleeting experience that was a bit overwhelming in a good way. But it did last a couple of seconds which for me and what I have seen in the past was a long time.
This one was related to God. If I posted about it, someone would probably call the men in the white coats to come and take me away.

I think the time has come to tell you all about what happened.
My pastor and my family members can vouch for the fact that I told them of my experience 4 days prior to my recent scan.

I will start with some of that which I have posted already.

On the evening of August 10th, 2017, I was walking the circuit I have done for the last many weeks.
I pray as well and also praise God as I walk.
I was praying to Jesus asking him to allow me to live long enough to complete his plan for me.
Then I added a word to my prayer and asked Jesus to let me willingly complete his plan for me.

Within a minute or so I was still walking and looked up and saw a figure hovering in front of me about 200 feet away at about a 30 degree angle up from the horizon. The image was huge, and even at 200 feet away, the figure even at that distance was easily twice my size.
The image was in black and white and slightly out of focus.
A voice spoke in my head, but it was not my voice in my head and the words spoken to me were exactly this:
"I have a gift for you."

The voice was male, soothing, not loud, not soft, just normal.
Then the image disappeared.

I think by now you know who this was.
It was Jesus Christ himself, The One God, The Only God.

I expect many to not believe me.
I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard.
I will not back down or back away from what I have posted.
Truth is Truth.

There you have it, Jesus Christ The One God visited me, let me see Him and hear Him.

Many here have read a lot of my thread over the last year and half.
And you know then I have never been "scared" of what was happening to me.
Oh apprehensive surely, but not afraid.

I say with with all my heart:
I am scared of one thing and one thing only these days.
And that is losing Jesus Christ from my life.
Without Him I will have nothing, and that's a fact.
Praise Jesus Christ, The One God, The Only God, same as yesterday, same as today, same as forever.

I care not if no one believes me.
I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard.

lbj,


I've been avoiding this thread for a bit because i didn't want to hear bad news.

I'm really happy to hear you are doing well. Keep it up my friend.

Thank you.

I am bumping my thread back to the top this morning so some might see and read what I posted above.

What I can say is that no, it was not some side effect of my medications and treatment.
It's not some fantasy in my head because I am scared of dying.
It isn't and wasn't because I want to puff myself up and seem important.
It wasn't some trick of light and shade or that I made this up.
I was not tired and out of sorts.
My mind was and is as clear and sane as anyone here.

I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard.
I will never back away from what I posted.

All I can say is Amen! Great experience LBJ.

My sister in law went thru a similar experience as you did, and she would not back down to what she had witnessed. Such blessing!

As for me, I am blind in this aspect. I believe, or would like to believe that I truly believe, but I have never had a spiritual experience.

My younger brother, who used to work as an ER doc, had a patient who they successfully revived, described to him in vivid details of her out-of-body experience.

All this is to say that, including your account, to me, these experiences came from highly believable people.

Thanks.

I wasn't expecting to have happen what happened.
All I know is that I have found a better way to live.
It took me long enough though, here at the age of 62.

Pretty soon is the family vacation of a lifetime... the Mauna Kea in Hawaii!!!
My daughters will remember this trip for the rest of lives, in a good way I hope.

The beach is calling and I will once again wade into the ocean and find out if I will be eaten or something. Ha!