[Faith-talk] My Sunday Testimony

[Linda Mentink]

Andrew, I mean that it is inappropriate behavior during the worship service.
At 11:38 AM 8/29/2012, you wrote:
>Hi Paul
>I am happy for you.
>
>I go to church to worship god but I also go for fellowship.
>We should not for get that the us as christians  will be in heaven
>together so we should start building relationships with others to. God
>should be number one but we should not exclude ourselves from
>fellowship fellowship is the second thing i want from church but first
>i worship god.
>
>
>
>On 8/28/12, Linda Mentink <mentink at frontiernet.net> wrote:
> > Paul, I find this interesting, but I have a question: How could you
> > and Pam concentrate on corperate prayer when you were otherwise
> > engaged. This disturbs me, as the purpose of going to church is to
> > worship God. I'm glad you found a friend, though.
> >
> > Blessings,
> >
> > Linda
> >
> > At 08:14 AM 8/28/2012, you wrote:
> >>Hello all of you.  First off, I'd like to thank you all for your
> >>prayers on my behalf that the Lord would plainly and clearly show me
> >>which congregation I should attach myself to.  He has done this in
> >>His marvelous way.
> >>
> >>Below you will read about something that happened just this past
> >>Sunday, August 26, so it's not something five or ten years old.  May
> >>you be blessed as you read it.
> >>
> >>Deacon John came by to fetch me and another lady to go to this
> >>church's worship time as usual about 9:30 a.m. eastern time.  The
> >>church uses the fellowship hall during the summer, and we sat on
> >>folding chairs.  Shortly before the service proper began, a lady
> >>named Pam, who is single herself, came to sit in the chair
> >>immediately to my right and, as the corporate prayer began, she took
> >>hold of my right hand in both of hers, and began a gentle
> >>massage.  The Spirit clearly stated in effect that, as she was
> >>massaging my right hand in both of hers, that God was molding me
> >>into the person He wanted to be.  Another thing of significance is
> >>the fact that the Spirit told her about my situation and that, since
> >>the time my mom couldn't go to my old church, that no one would sit
> >>with me in that particular congregation, and this was since October
> >>of 2006.  This was really a comfort and a source of reassurance for me.
> >>
> >>On the way home, Deacon John, who had observed my interaction with
> >>Sister Pam, revealed yet something else.  Pam had been in an abusive
> >>relationship with a man who, she believed at first, would be the man
> >>in her life.  Obviously he probably didn't know the Lord.  In a
> >>phone conversation later that day with Pam, she revealed to me that
> >>the Lord told her to reach out to me, a virtually perfect stranger,
> >>and to "take the plunge" in getting out of her comfort zone.
> >>
> >>I don't know if this testimony ministered to you readers but I pray
> >>that, in God's matchless grace and His providential care, that it
> >>did.  I'm so happy that Sister Pam did what she did, and that  both
> >>of us were open to the leading of the Spirit.  Your friend and brother,
> >> Paul
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