What happened when I converted from Catholic to Christian. (paradise, Gospel, Leviticus)

[corking28]

I was living in Boston Ma going to Berklee College of Music. I went to church every Sunday. God led me to begin studying the bible. I started with the Old Testament. Then I made my confirmation. I prayed every night...
I was living in a studio apartment. Then I moved into a woman’s complex because it was 1/3rd the price of the studio. There was a woman in the building down the hall from me. She told me she was very close to God. I saw something in her face...like it glowed and I wanted to be close to God like she was. I kept going to church but it felt like I was missing something, I felt a little empty inside and at heart.

One day (September 13, 2005) I went to the woman down the hall to talk to her. I asked her how she got so close to God. I sat down with her and she opened up the bible...to the New Testament. (I hadn’t made it there yet) She told me that was a good place to start...the book of John. I had never read the New Testament before. She explained to me that many things I was doing was against God’s word. She showed me passages in God’s word that forbid bowing to a statue, forbid praying to anyone else except God (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), forbid praying the same prayer over and over again, forbid sinning, I looked at her with tears in my eyes and said, "Let me see in the bible where it says that." She showed me. My eyes opened wide and I said to her,"Noone has ever told me this before. My church NEVER mentioned these passages before. What do I have to do to become like you?"
The woman than told me I could become like her by reciting a prayer out loud to Jesus and turning over my life to him. She said I needed to give my life to him and obey his word and then I would be promised eternity in heaven. I immediately asked her to say the prayer and I would repeat as she was saying it...so I said the prayer..Here’s the same prayer that I said out loud: You can say this too to receive your new life!

I believe in God and is his son Jesus Christ. Jesus I believe you are Lord and you died on the cross to cleanse me of my sins, and I believe you rose again on the third day. In this moment I am asking you to forgive me of every sin that I have ever committed in my life. I am sorry. Jesus, I have made the decision to hand over my life to you. I give you all my life and will follow you the rest of my life. I invite you into my heart. Please come into my heart and put your holy spirit in me. Please wash away the sins of my past with your precious blood and make me new. I give you all my mind, heart and soul. Please make me new through your holy spirit. Please help me discover what your will is for my life. Please take my life and guide me for the rest of my life by your holy spirit. I surrender to you Lord Jesus. Thankyou for my salvation. Thankyou because I have just been saved and am now your child. Amen

So this is the prayer I said. The bible says we have to ‘confess with our mouth" so this prayer must be said out loud.
As I said the prayer I felt something jump into my body. After the prayer I told the woman, "Something just entered my body!" She smiled and said, "That’s the holy spirit! You will never be alone again!"
Here’s a passage in the bible that talks about this:

Ephesians ch 1 verse 13
"And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised holy spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession-to the praise of his glory."

So...the holy spirit entered me. I was a church goer before the prayer. I even made my confirmation. I was baptized as a child...so why was it that the holy spirit didn’t enter me until then??? I asked the woman and she told me, "You never invited him in and turned over your life before and you never heard the scriptures that I gave you. When you heard the word and believed and invited Jesus personally in your life and repented of your past Christ came into you."
So I went to my room and that night had a dream from God...It was a statue leaving me and I waived goodbye. This represented my conversion.
The next day I was sooo excited to have God dwelling in my heart that I called in work and told them I wasn’t able to come in that day. It was only for one day. I never miss work and decided to do it just this once. I really wanted to read the New Testament and find out the truth for myself.
Here’s what I found!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 Corinthians ch 3 verse 14
"But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because ONLY in Christ is it taken away. Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away."

WOW!!! So...I had a veil over my eyes until I turned to the Lord through the salvation prayer!! And now the veil is removed! COOL!!
So, then I wanted to know about the holy spirit that entered me whom the lady said I needed. Without the holy spirit I had no salvation.. Thank you Jesus for putting your spirit in me. I found a lot about the holy spirit in scripture. Here’s some of what I found.

Cor 6:19
"Do you know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own: you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body."

Titus ch 3 verse 4
" But when the kindness and love of God our savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the holy spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior..."

Luke ch 11 verse 13
If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the holy spirit to those who ask him!"

Luke ch 12 verse 11
"When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourself or what you will say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say."

John ch 14 verse 26
"The counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said."
There are soo many more passages about the holy spirit. Here are a few more:
1 Th 1:6, 1 Th 4:8, Mt 13:11, 2 Cor 13:14, Eph 4:30, 1 Cor 6:9 , Lu 12 :10, John 20:22, Act 1:8, Act 4:31, Act 2:33, Act 2:3, Act 5:32, Act 7:55, Act 4:25, Act 15:8, Heb 2:4 Jude 1:20, 1 Peter 1:12, Heb 6:4, Lu 1:67, Lu 2:25, Mt 3:11, Mt12:32, Mt 3:29, Mt 12 :36 and many more.. Okay, so know I learned a lot about the holy spirit...that entered me...So I never had the holy spirit before...Wasn’t I a good person and doing good deeds all the time...I found this in the bible:

Ephesians ch 2 verse 8
"For it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that noone can boast.

We must go through Christ to get to Father God...There is NO other way. There are no other Gods, people or saints that can be prayed through to get to the Father.

John ch 14 verse 6
"Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’
Now everyone in my old church had prayed to Mary. This is what I found out in the bible:

Luke ch 11 verse 27
As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the words of God an obey it."

1 Timothy ch 2 verse 5
" For there is one God and ONE mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus..."

There are some churches that don’t follow the bible and make up there own rules, some believe Mary appeared at Fatima, some believe that God’s word has changed. Look what I’ve found in the bible about that:

Matthew ch 24 verse 33 and Mark ch 13 verse 31
"Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away." by Jesus

Revelation ch 22 verse 18
"I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophesy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city which are described in this book." by Jesus

About the rosary...The bible says in:

Matthew 6 :7
"When you pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathens do, for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking."
Some churches even use prayers as punishment for sinning. The priest will say, "Pray this so many times and you will be okay."
It’s the same thing as...Dear Jesus, how are you doing today?, how are you doing today?, how are you doing today?, how are you doing today?, how are you doing today?, etc... Annoying. Jesus is very busy, he doesn’t have time for annoyance. You only need to tell him once and he’ll get it. So the rosary is not biblical.
So.. I took the rosary off the side of my bed and threw it away!
I kept digging in the bible and came across something that brought tears to my eyes. The bible is sooooo against idolatry and statues are an abomination to God. Here’s what I found:

Isaiah ch 44 verse 9, 10, 15, 17, 18, 20
"All who make idols are nothing. Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit him nothing? He also fashions a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it. From the rest he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it an worships. He prays to it and says, "Save me; you are my god." "They know nothing, they understand nothing, their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand. Shall I bow doen to a block of wood?"

Leviticus ch 19 verse 4, ch 26 verse 1
Do not turn to idols or make gods out of cast metal for yourselves. I am the Lord your God."
"Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow before it."

Numbers ch 33 verse 52
"Cast out all their carved images and their cast idols."

Deut: ch 29 verse 17
"You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold."

AND IT"S ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Exodus ch 20 verse 4
"You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them."

Revelation ch 9 verse 20
"The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood- idols that cannot see or hear or walk.’

2 John ch 5 verse 21
" Dear children, keep yourselves from idols."

And many many more passages!

I began crying. I bowed down to statues at church and had a statue of Jesus
on my wall, and in the chapel of my building. I used to bow down to the statue of Jesus and Mary in the chapel and even rubbed their feet once. I thought it would bless me.

I was sooo sad and I felt guilty for doing this when God said NO so many times in the bible. I took the statue off of my wall and threw it away!! I will NEVER bow to a statue again for the rest of eternity.
So I went to sleep and went to work the next day.

On Sunday I was sooo excited to go to a new church-one that follows the bible.
I found a Baptist Pentecostal church within walking distance from my apartment.
I went to this new church Sunday morning. There were about 500 people there. I was happy to see there were no statues there. During the service the pastor began to pray about joy of the holy spirit. I prayed in my mind, "Lord Jesus, please anoint me with joy today. I want joy!"

Then the pastor called me down and said, "Corinne, God just told me you were asking for joy!" He put his hands near my stomach and said, "I anoint you with joy!" I began laughing hysterically!! It was soo awesome. I felt Gods power and God heard my prayer. Later in the service, the Pastor called down people who wanted prayer and an intercessor prayed and said "You are getting the mind of Christ and God is with me." I was soo happy. God is already showing me his power. And some people were speaking in tongues just like the bible said. This never happened in my old church. Everything the bible talked about was happening in my new church...because they were serious with the scripture. This church was filled with the holy spirit!!
I went home and researched about the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, prophesy, and the joy of the spirit. This is what I found:

1 Cor ch 14 verse 23
"Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers, prophesy however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.

1Cor ch 12 verse 28
"And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different tongues."

1 Cor ch 12 verse 1
"Now about your spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols...Now to each one the manifestation of the spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same spirit, to another faith by the same spirit, to another gifs of healing by that one spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophesy, to another speaking in different types of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues."

1 Co ch 14 ch 18
"I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you."

Acts ch 2 verse 11
"All of them were filled with the holy spirit and began to speak in other tongues."

And many more passages...

Wow this kind of stuff I never even knew until I read the bible and went to a bible believing church. Many churches have made up their own rules. There is even a church that believes that an angel appeared to a boy and he wrote another bible. Here is what I found in the bible about that!!!!!!!!!!!

Galations ch 1 verse
NO other gospel
"Even if an angel of heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached you, let him be eternally condemned!."

I wentto a Christian retreat and a pastor prayed over me and I spoke in tongues. It was awesome. I handed out bibles at my job. This one Muslim girl received Jesus and than said she saw a light come in the window and felt "something" enter her. I know it was the holy spirit.
One time I had a heart ache. I went to the church and some intercessors prayed over me and one touched my heart and I felt electricity go into my heart and my heart was healed by God!!!!
Another time I had a scary vision in my dream. I didn’t know if it was from God or not. I got down on my hands and knees and prayed to God that if it wasn’t from him to send someone to tell me God loves me. I went to church the next day and the pastor came to me and said, "God says he loves you and the dream wasn’t from him." I was so happy! I praised God and was just about the happiest girl alive.
About a month after being saved, I was preaching to my friend and she had rejected Christ. I went home and cried out to Jesus. I had soo much pain in my heart for my friend. I told Jesus, "She doesn’t believe...How can she not...You are real...Your spirit is in me!!" I cried and cried and then something happened that forever changed my life...well my life was already being changed by Christ but I didn’t expect this...I SAW A VISION OF JESUS CHRIST!!!!! He was radiant in white and had what I thought was a cloth over his head and draped on the sides and he had so much love in his eyes! I saw him looking right at me!!!!
I later told my friend in the building about the vision and she told me the "cloth" on his head was a tallit...I researched "tallit" and found that it was Jewish...of course... Jesus is a Jew, he was born unto his own people.
I later found the Jews for Jesus group. I am so happy Jews are coming to Christ and are being saved.

Acts ch 4 vers 12
"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."[

Jesuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everything in the bible is true, every single work, every single letter. We are in the end times now. Jesus is coming back for his church. If you are without holy spirit, you will be left behind for all eternity. Noone wants that to happen, and Jesus doesn’t want to lose any of his children. All you have to do say the salvation prayer I wrote above and you will then be sealed with God for eternity.
Please write back and tell me your testimony with Jesus. I’d love to hear it.
I don’t pray to statues anymore. I pray from my heart to Jesus and sing to him. Having a relationship with the maker of the universe is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to me. Get a bible and start reading from the book of John and find a bible believing, bible following church.

God Bless you and I hope to see you in heaven. Jesus cries for the ones that are not saved. So please get saved. He died for you so that you wouldn’t have to suffer eternally.
One more thing I want to tell you..., read the books by Mary K Baxter- A Divine Revelation Of Heaven and A Divine Revelation Of Hell. You can get these on Amazon.com. These shocking books will turn hearts to Christ. He is coming sooooonnn! Very soon! And he will gather all his children that have the holy spirit up in the air to be with him forever, and then everyone else will perish.

Choose Christ today and you will spend eternity, billions and billions and billions of years FOREVER with Jesus in paradise :-))))))))))))))))))))

But if you deny Christ, reject him, and don’t repent and receive his precious holy spirit, you will spend billions and billions of years forever in fire and sulfur and it will NEVER end.
Please say the salvation prayer I have written for you!!!
I would love to hear your testimony.
Thousands of Priests and nuns have converted to Christianity. When asked why they say "I read the New Testament!"

Thank you Jesus!
Amen, God Bless

You can get a FREE New Testament mailed to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go to freenewtestament.com Start reading it when you get it in the mail. A good place to start is the book of John.
corking@live.com

[findinghope]

seriously? you felt you needed to start a new thread with this AGAIN?

[corking28]

Originally Posted by findinghope

seriously? you felt you needed to start a new thread with this AGAIN?

LoL :-))))))))) I wanted to give my testimony in full detail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BudinAk]

Well..."dunno 'bout ya'll", but I, for one, LIKE IT! We need good testimonies, and corking has one. If only I had such zeal for the Lord (sigh!)...I find her stories to be invigorating. I say "Bring it on! Let's hear it!"
We may not always agree with everything posted here on the forum, but you have to admit: it for sure makes it interesting!


Bud

[findinghope]

i am not saying she should not post her testimony or that it is not "interesting" but she has posted the same thing at least 5 or 6 times...

[corking28]

Originally Posted by BudinAk

Well..."dunno 'bout ya'll", but I, for one, LIKE IT! We need good testimonies, and corking has one. If only I had such zeal for the Lord (sigh!)...I find her stories to be invigorating. I say "Bring it on! Let's hear it!"
We may not always agree with everything posted here on the forum, but you have to admit: it for sure makes it interesting!


Bud

I am glad you like it. It is amazing to see how many people are against the word of God. I am only telling my testimony and giving scripture. The bible says "Heaven and earth will pass away but God's word will never."
Are you saved and born again? I got saved 9/13/05 and have been on fire with the holy spirit ever since. I go around to soup kitchens, hospitals,...telling my testimony and asking if people want to get norn again. I few nights ago I went to Clifton Springs Hospital and preached and 15 men and woman got saved and were so overwhelmed with the holy spirit of God they were in tears. One man shouted for joy and said, "The Lord just healed my eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been barely able to see my whole life and only see hallows and...NOW my eyes are PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!" He went running down the hall to tell others.
100 years ago it was rare to have a vision of Christ. Now Jesus is appearing to sooooooooo many people. My 5 year old nephew just had a vision. If you look online:
Visions of Jesus Stir Muslim Hearts
Jesus Is Coming Soon! - The Last Adam

Check these out. Muslims are coming to Christ because they are having visions of him!!!!!!!!! And in India too and other parts of the World. This is a biblical sign he is coming soon!!!!!!!
I would like to talk with you personally. If you would like can you email me at corking@live.com Just say you are from the forum. Love, Corinne

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[corking28]

Originally Posted by findinghope

i am not saying she should not post her testimony or that it is not "interesting" but she has posted the same thing at least 5 or 6 times...

Yes I do...The word of God must be preached to all nations. Jesus is coming soon. He said he would pour out his visions in the end days and that is happeining now!

[JesusisTruth]

Hello,

Great testimony Corking28. Its very inspiring and from the heart. Keep coming forward with your faith despite the obstacles we face. God bless.

[happ]

This is so offensive & you are aware how your tirades against Catholics [and most other Christians] hurts us, yet you continue in your very un-Christian attacks.

These aren't testimonies but rather an obsessive excuse to promote your beliefs. You are not a Christian but like the Rev Phelps who haunts the funerals of dead soldiers accusing the families of being homo-lovers. So distorted. So evil.