HOW I MEMORIZED OVER A THIRD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT!!! ( VIDEO - TopicsExpress



          

HOW I MEMORIZED OVER A THIRD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT!!! ( VIDEO LINK AT BOTTOM OF ARTICLE ) My family and I were ready for vacation. We wanted to go somewhere and get refreshed spiritually. Because of the fact that we do not watch TV, we really did not know about the different ministries. We were encouraged to go to a well-known minister in Ohio who had a camp meeting every year. Supposedly, they had wonderful and amazing meetings. We bundled up the children and packed everything for one week of vacation. We were on our way for an exciting and spiritual vacation, or so we thought. We arrived in Ohio just before the camp meeting was to start. We entered the parking lot of this large and impressive church, which had acres of parking. The worship and praise was wonderful and exciting with lots of enthusiasm. But pretty soon our joy was brought down a couple of notches. What caused this unexpected disappointment was how they aggressively went after raising money. I never have been one for all of this hype and high-pressure tactics for money. It is not because we’re not givers; many times we have given up to ninety percent of our income on a regular basis. To be honest with you, I’ve known some of the top money raisers in the religious world. One of the best-known money raisers years ago was ministering in our church. When he began to make wild promises to our congregation about how wealthy they would become if they would just give a certain amount of money, I basically had to put a stop to it. I took him out to eat and I tried to talk some godly wisdom into him. For over two hours I began to show him with the Scriptures that he was getting the people to be involved in idolatry and spiritual gambling. I showed him that he was taking advantage of people in their desperation, and this was absolutely against the teachings of Christ. I thought he had received what I said, because of the conviction that was evident upon him. So, a year later when he was coming through our area wanting to speak at our church again, I decided to give him another opportunity; which was a big mistake. Praise God we had a heavy snowfall during the week he was to be with us, and very few people came to this meeting. I’m sorry to say that he was worse now than ever. He even was extremely upset because our turnout was so small. Back to Our Ohio Vacation: After the Þrst night of meetings in Ohio, we went back to our hotel extremely disappointed. The next morning I said to the Lord, “Father, help me to keep my heart right with You. I do not want to be judgmental of these people.” Once again, right after the worship, tremendous pressure was applied to the people to give in order to get back something from God. I sat there deciding to grin and bear it. After this fund-raising endeavor, there were some other announcements and activities with special singing and testimonies. Then once again, they started raising money. This time I said, “Lord, if they raise money one more time, we are walking out of here and going home.” A well known speaker got up ministering a powerful message on how to win your whole household to the Lord. Now this was exciting what he was preaching, I could really get into this. He was ministering out of the book of Acts chapter 16 verse 31. But to my extreme disappointment, when he declared that if you wanted this scripture to work for you, then you were going to have to sow a seed of $16.31 for every person you wanted to be saved. Surely people had enough spirituality not to fall for this trickery. Yet that was not the case, people fell for it. I could no longer take this manipulation and trickery. We got up, left, and I packed up my wife and children to go home. We checked out of the hotel and drove all the way back home to Pennsylvania. As I was driving home, in my heart I was complaining about these people. Then the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me, not agreeing or disagreeing pertaining to these people. The Lord began to bring discipline into my life about my own spiritual condition. He basically told me that I was a “favorite scripture” preacher, and that I really did not know his Word the way I should. I was so convicted by this confrontation from God that I made a commitment that when I got home I would begin to pour myself into the Bible like I should. I was going to spend hours in God’s Word and prayer. Once home, I informed my staff that I would begin to give myself to long hours of prayer and the Word. I began with the book of Ephesians, starting with the very Þrst chapter. I did not want to only memorize it, but I wanted to get it into my heart. This took me close to three weeks and countless hours to memorize. Then the next mountain I climbed was the book of Galatians. As I was memorizing scriptures and chapters of the Bible, I would get tremendous headaches. But I kept working at it because I knew that without pain, there is no gain. When I had conquered the book of Galatians, I moved to Philippians. As I was into the second chapter of the book of Philippians, something supernatural happened took place. I had what the Bible calls an open vision. This happens when you are wide awake and everything disappears except what God is showing you. There in front of me was a large body of water. It was pure blue with not one ripple upon it, stretching as far as the natural eye could see in every direction. The room I was in was gone and there was nothing but this gigantic blue lake. As I lifted my head to look into the light blue cloudless sky, a large, crystal-clear rain drop came falling down in slow motion from the heavens. I watched in amazement as it slowly came tumbling down towards this lake. When it hit the surface of this body of water, it caused ripples to flow forth. These ripples, as they ßowed forth from the center of where the drop had hit, began to grow in size and intensity. Then all of a sudden, the vision was over. I stood there in amazement, not understanding what had just happened. I knew this experience was from God, but I did not know what its significance was. I knew in my heart that God eventually would show me what it meant. You see, when the Lord gives me a supernatural visitation, I do not lean to the understanding of my natural mind. I just simply give it to the Lord, knowing that in His time He will show me what He meant, or what He was saying. I picked up my Bible to get back to my memorizing scriptures. I immediately noticed that there was a change in my mental capacity. It seemed like as if my brain was absorbing the Word of God like a sponge. Within one hour I memorized a whole chapter, as if it were nothing. To my amazement, my brain had become almost photogenic. Where it took me days to memorize a chapter before, now I could memorize a chapter in an hour. I continued to memorize books of the Bible until there were ten books inside of me. This is not including thousands of other scriptures that I continued to memorize dealing with certain subjects. I could have memorized the whole New Testament had I not have allowed the activities of ministry to overwhelm me and keep me preoccupied. The enemy of our soul knows how to make so many things happen in our lives to get us off track. Why in the world would God open up my heart and my mind the way He did to memorize the Word. The Word of God has the capacity to quicken our minds and mortal bodies. God’s Word is awesome, quick and powerful. I believe that there is an activation of the things of the Spirit, when we begin to give one hundred percent into whatever it is that God has called us to do. There is a dynamic principle of laying your life down, in order to release the aroma of heaven. https://youtube/playlist?list=PLCQVVHEr_kyvO9BttKgiVqDAnWAX14Dey
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:53:43 +0000

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