Little Sister,
After reading your posts and also reading the responses, I had gone to bed,
but could not sleep. I would like to encourage you to keep looking to Jesus,
the Author and the Finisher of our faith.
Your main concern was for your children. God's Heritage! It was concern for
her three young children that caused my paternal grandmother to breathe a
sincere prayer in 1926. She lay dying of typhoid fever and her feet and legs
were already turning blue. The doctor told her husband, "Tom, LIzzie's dying!
See the blue on her feet and legs"! She breathed that desperate prayer,
"LORD,
IF YOU would see fit, would you let me live to raise my three children". She lapsed into a coma to awaken the next evening, her fever had broke and she was hungry and thirsty. God had answered this 28 yr. old mother's prayer whose main concern was for her three children. They were 8, 5, and 2 1/2 yrs.
The 8 yr. old was my late father. He witnessed the doctor's words.
I mean no offence in saying this, but the original poster of this thread has no
children. All of my life, it seems that it was the mother's concern for their children that caused mothers to feel the need for God. It was not my beloved
grandfather who obeyed the Apostolic Pentecostal five yrs later when an old
white-haired preacher came to their small town and preached on the street
corner. She got mad at first at this new doctrine. She was so stirred she decided to prove the preacher wrong. She found he was right. She heard,
searched out, believed and obeyed the message. Her son, my father, was now 14 yrs old, obeyed also. I treasure this message from the Word of God
found in
Acts 2. I was 18 when I received it. That's been a long time ago.
I attend church with three generations of our family. Husband and I have
been married almost 51 yrs. raised six children to adulthood. Between the
six, we have 20 grandchildren and one due in July. We had our first little
Great-grandchild in Feb. 2010. She is the beginning of the sixth generation
(on my father's side) since the Apostolic message came our way. Grandma
was the first of her family to obey it. You may be the first but it doesn't
have to be the last. Yes, teach those precious children to love the "gospel"
of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Ghost will lead and guide you. That mother's love HE put in you to be concerned about your children (His Heritage) will help keep you focused.
Incidentally, all our children and their original spouses and their children are
in the Apostolic Pentecostal faith today. To God be ALL the Praise, Honor
and the GLORY, in Jesus Name.
Another thing, the United Pentecostal Church was not around when Grandma
heard the message of
Acts 2. It's the gospel that will save us. Dad held license with the UPC for many years, and although the church he pastored
worked in cooperation with the UPC, the church was never affiliated with the
organization. He never "worshipped" the organization but always pointed us to
Christ. He never talked against it or criticized it to his eleven children.
Hugs,
Falla39
I do realize that the church doesn't have to be "UPC" but that happens to be the only church that preaches truth where I live. Blessings to you also
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