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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

So there is such a thing as perfect hatred, just as there is such a thing as righteous anger. But it is a hatred for God's enemies, not our own enemies. It is entirely free of all spite, rancor and vindictiveness, and is fired only by love for God's honor and glory.
John Stott

I would like to buy three dollars worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough of Him to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don't want enough of Him to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation. I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack, please. I would like to buy three dollars worth of God, please (Wilbur Reese).
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    • Gary_Eide

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    Gary_Eide

    “I was considered very straight. Nevertheless I also was very lost.”

    I got saved back in July of 1973. It was by His grace that I wascalled out of bondage into His glorious light.

    I was a Lutheran for 22 years of my life. I did not know the LordJesus as my Saviour or Lord. I had heard in a round about fashion theWord of God as I was growing up in the Lutheran Church. In the churchthat I was a member of most did not believe in the Born againexperience. Salvation was based upon you baptism and your membershipin the church. My life was not a particularly bad one in the sensethat I had gotten into all sorts of drugs and things. In the world Iwas considered very straight. Nevertheless I also was very lost. Noteven realizing that I was lost, I was content in my sins so-to-speak.

    My salvation came about after a woman asked me did I know where Iwould spend eternity if I were to die that night. I said probablyheaven because I was not that bad and tried to do what was right andwent to church. Those of course were all the wrong reasons. Mysalvation did not come about that night. But I remember distinctlythat the Lord had gotten my attention. From that time forward I hadan interest in Spiritual things. A couple of weeks later in anAssembly of God Church I gave my life to the Lord Jesus and asked Himto come into my life. And in His love and mercy He has done justthat.

    Since that time I got saved the Lord has been gracious to me. Hehas healed my marriage. I was married to my wife at the age of 19,and she was 18. Needless to say that we were a bit too young. Yetthrough it all he has brought my wife and myself closer together. Sheis saved and loves the Lord. He has blessed us with nine children.

    As I look back I see definite times of God’s dealing with me. Hehas brought me from one who had known nothing to make me into a vesselfit for His use. He has filled me with His Spirit and taught me howto walk by faith. There are many things that could be shared buttime does not permit me to go on.

    Yours in Christ,Gary Eide

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