Thoughts with Lorraine

26 Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My ordinances and do them.

Ezekiel 36: 26-27 (Amplified Bible)

May 20th, 2008 is a day in my life that I will never forget. I was invited to a deliverance prayer meeting on a hobby farm in Horace, North Dakota. I can not begin to explain how different I felt. How can one describe such a deliverance?

I experienced the hand of God move in my life and He literally put a new heart in me and gave me a new Spirit and as scripture says He caused me to walk in His statues, and to keep His ordinances. My thinking changed and it came into alignment with the Word of God. It didn’t happen all at once but over a short period of time my thinking changed on many subjects without my trying to change my thinking.

For example, for many years up to the point of my deliverance, I believed abortion was the woman’s right. I thought if a woman wanted an abortion for any reason that that was okay. I was pro-choice. I remember a few days after my deliverance experience thinking that I still believed that abortion was okay and I knew that Christians are pro-life. There was this part of me that could see that this was going to be a problem in my Christian walk but I didn’t know how to change my mind. I am thinking it was about six months later and I realized that suddenly I was pro-life. In my heart and mind there was no question about what was right and what was wrong. No one had to convince me or beat me over the head to change my mind or my heart.

I even use to believe that the Word of God was not an absolute truth because it was written by man. That thinking also changed without someone telling me I was wrong in my thinking.

The Lord had given me a new heart and a new Spirit and He was causing me to walk in His statues and follow His ordinances. When the Lord gives you a new heart and a new Spirit it will cause you to believe that His Word is truth.

I notice that many people are basing their truth on what they think is logical. it seems that maybe these individuals are “waiting” for someone or something to “prove” to them, to appeal to their logic, for them to change their minds on many spiritual subjects. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. These individuals will be waiting a long time for that to happen.

Logic can be relative. What seems logical to one person may not be logical to another. Due to this, logic isn’t necessarily truth.

It could be seen as a truth to you but an untruth to another. You have to base your logic on some kind of truth. “Well . . . I just think,” is not a truth. If you “just think,” what truth are you basing it on? The truth your parents taught you? The truth a teacher in school taught you? The truth you “just” determine in your mind? Then are these people your God? Because you are allowing their truth to be your truth and not God and His Word.

You cannot pick the scriptures you like in the Bible as your truth and ignore the others. The Word is very specific about what is sin and what isn’t. Yes, the Bible does say that God is love and love your neighbor as yourself. However, God doesn’t overlook sin. He loves the sinner but not the sin. God gives us free will and we are responsible to Him for repenting of our sin and asking forgiveness of our sin.

Matthew 7:12 (New International Version) Says, “Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

His will for you is to put in you a new heart and a new spirit so you will walk in His statues and keep His ordinances and do them.

“The Lord your God will change your heart and the hearts of all your descendants, so that you will love him with all your heart and soul and so you may live!

Deuteronomy 30:6 (New Living Translation)

If you would like the Lord to bring you a new heart and a new Spirit please pray with me,

Dear Jesus,

I know that I am a sinner and I repent of my sins and ask for your forgiveness. I ask that You give me a new heart and a new Spirit so I will walk in Your statues and keep Your ordinances and perform them in my life to the glory of You. Let all of my heart and soul love You so that I may live.

In Jesus’ Name. Amen!

Where Have We Come?

By George

In the mid-nineteenth century, William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, said this: The chief danger that confronts the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity with Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, heaven without hell.

About 170 years have elapsed. Notice how acccurate he was. Do we have religion without the Holy Ghost? Definitely. A current preacher I have heard several times, is eloquent and intellectual, yet afterwards, I am frustrated and unedified because there is no anointing on his message. 2 Corinthians 3:3 says that “the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” It means that the written word of God without the anointing of the Spirit of God, can bring death. But where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty, encouragement, and joy.

Booth’s second item is “Christianity without Christ.” George Barna’s latest research shows that about 80 percent of Gen Z are interested in Christianity, but roughly half of them don’t believe in the resurrection of Jesus. Christianity without the resurrection is not Christianity at all.

“Forgiveness without repentance,” Booth says, There seems an acute lack of repentance in Christianity today. Masses of people who call themselves Christians, practice sin without apology. Sex outside of marriage the Bible calls fornication and plainly states fornicators will not enter heaven.

Next Booth referenced, “salvation without regeneration.” Scores of church goers are not born again. That is to say, they have never had a salvation experience with Jesus, which requires repentance and turning from known sin to accept Jesus as Lord.

“Politics without God?” The masses apparently do not understand that the Left is Marxist. Marxism is the darkest of evils. Karl Marx was an atheist. Kamala Harris’ father is a Marxist professor at Stanford. The founder of BLM is openly a Marxist. Bernie Sanders is a Marxist. Marxism has brought death, destruction, and poverty wherever it has been implemented.

“Heaven without hell.” People don’t talk about hell today because either they don’t believe it exists, or they think that they are not going there even though they live exactly as they please, resisting God’s laws.

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George and Lorraine wish you a blessed Thanksgiving!

In His Service,

George and Lorraine Halama

Photograph taken by Lorraine