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Walking In The Spirit: Part XXV
Author
Timothy Laughlin
Published
Aug 27, 2021
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"If anyone desires to come after Me let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?" Luke 9:23-25
"If anyone desires to come after Me let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?" Luke 9:23-25
Shortly after I was saved I went back into the business world, selling equipment, doing auctions, and building up my own little kingdom. I became your average tithing church member, unconcerned with my true calling, instead of following after wealth and the things of the world!
One morning I was praying with a friend in my office when Jesus came through the front door, I couldn't see Him but I heard His voice in the Spirit, "Come with Me!" I said, "Where?" He told me to go to an old cemetery in Aurora, Texas where I used to go when I cut school. We pulled into the old graveyard and He proceeded to tell me about Lazarus when He called him out of the grave! He said Lazarus was bound with grave clothes and so was I, bound with the riches, cares, and worries of the world.
Then He said to me, "Choose this day whom you will serve! Life or death!" I said, "Life!" We then went back to the office and there was a constable waiting there to serve me papers for my half-million-dollar debts from my drug-addicted days. I ended up going bankrupt, losing everything but gaining life in the Spirit! From that time on I followed Jesus!
"For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels." Luke 9:26
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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