Living Word Only

  Photo by Daniel J. Schwarz on Unsplash   A couple of years back, I was listening to several sermons by David Wilkerson and I remember being wowed by the words and the testimony he had of leaving everything behind and following God's leading. As I listened and wondered about his experiences, I also pondered on the various Bible stories. I thought of them all as experiences that happen to other people and concluded I was in the back of the line as pertains to God. I misguidedly thought God had reserved those experiences for "certain people" and I did not fall within that category. Some months later some events in my personal life took place and there was literally no one I could turn to. I turned my attention to God. The prayers I prayed during that time were not following the formulas given by guides, they were crying prayers, angry prayers, despondent and desperate prayers. My prayers took a turn and I wondered whether God was listening and in the midst of it I heard t...

A year prior, I had began to grow increasingly unhappy with how things were going. I found no matter how hard I tried to stop sinning I would find myself lying and in lust. I wondered how as a church going Christian I could go on living like this despite serving in church, joining church programs, writing sermon notes, attending church more than once a week, I really thought these religious habits should have kept me from sinning. I looked around and wondered why others weren't struggling as much as I did. I questioned myself, I tried to put curtails on myself but it seemed this led me to indulge in even worse behavior than before whereas I would have only taken part to probably 30% after trying to stop the habits would double or tripple. I would find I would cross every line I tried to set as a limit. In this state, I, unknowingly, joined the new age. I found their teachings had bible verses but as I got deeper I realized they deviated further and further away from God to the poin...