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Pastor Bob Bushman
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SEEING OTHERS THROUGH THE EYES OF GOD
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EXPOSING THE TRAPS OF THE ENEMY
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Hebrews 4:16 Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
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- I am 51 years old and for the first 15 years of my life I live in a very tough situation that included poverty, physical, emotional, social, and sexual abuse. I had a father who was an alcoholic,
he was illiterate because he never was sent to school. He was put to work in the logging camp where his family lived. He met my mother who was dating his brother and she ended up marrying him. My mom came from a good family and it was hard for them to see her with this man and his family who were all drunks and lived in tar paper shacks. My mom had 5 children in less than 5 years, and the last 3 of us were 11 months apart. My earliest memories are of living in a one room tar paper shack, My father would take off and leave us with nothing, my grandmother (mothers side) did all she could do to make sure we were OK. My mom would leave my father and move us all to my grandmothers house and would after a few months bring us back to my father.
By the time I was 5 had been hospitalized due to abuse, My father's youngest brother was very mentally ill and lived next door to us and would abuse us. One day when my father was gone he raped my mother in front of us kids with a knife. He would sexually and physically abuse us kids and we lived in terror of him all the time.
My brother Ray was 11 months younger than me was mentally retarded and was institutionalized when he was 8. We felt that he was the lucky one because he got out.
Although my mother hated my father she would not put our safety above her own selfish desires and stayed with him..
My sister, 2 other brothers, and myself lived this double life. My mothers brother would come and get us and bring us to my grandmothers house where she would have cloths for us and would give us hair cuts, clean us up so the rest of the family would see all these cute little kids. All my childhood pictures show us in all our nice new cloths and no pictures were ever taken in the other place. I made a decisions when I was very young that I did not want to be like my father's family.
One other thing, back in the 1960s many of the kids who were impoverished were sent to special schools because in many situations the children were socially maladjusted because of neglect. My 2 brothers, and my sister were sent to one of these schools. But thank God I was sent to regular school.
Because of this I always felt like an outsider in my home.
God also gave me a wonderful older man who my older brother and myself worked for. He was a wonderful mentor for us. My mothers 2 brothers also were great to us.
By the time I was 15 years old I was a mess, I felt like I had no way of escaping from this the pain and agony in my soul. I had started drinking at 12 and smoking was going down a road to destruction. I had no way of dealing with the darkness that was growing inside me. The only thing I could think of was quiting school when I was 16, that was my great goal of my life. I had nothing beyond that to look forward too.
Then in the winter of February 1975 these three men came to my house from the church that was about 4 miles from my house and invited me to come to a youth group. That day my older brother and myself were just going to talk to them to mock the preacher boys. Something happened inside of me that day as they shared about Jesus to us. Then next Saturday 2-16-75 they came to my house again and one of them ask me what my greatest need was . I said I need help to get rid of my hate that was in me. He said Jesus would help me to get rid of the hate that was in me. So I said I wanted Jesus in my life. We all got on our knees in that old house where I had suffered so much, where there was so much evil, and there I ask the holy Son of God to come into my heart and you know what? He did.
I felt such joy that I wanted to cry. I never felt like that. I was a new creation and I have never been the same since that day when I met my best friend Jesus.
- My Testimony
- Nothing change in my circumstances, but everything changed inside of me. I was the first one in my fathers family to graduate from high school. I was the first to ever get an AA degree in Christian ministry, I was the first to ever become a licensed pastor. Although at this time I am only a lay minister.
I saw my father saved in 1995, I saw my mom saved in 1986, I saw my grandmother (Mom's mother)saved. Last December, I saw my older brother saved, and I was blessed to lead my sister to the Lord last summer. I also have seen many other family members come to faith, and have received this wonderful salvation that come through Jesus Christ.
This past February it has been 35 years since I have known this wonderful Savior. I have found him to be so faithful to me over the year. I have stumbled at times, but he is always there working in my life, and He is helping me to continue on and finish my race that I have been given.
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- r12 True Spirituality
Being a genuine disciple of Christ flows out of a relationship with Him. It's about experiencing God's grace, not earning His love through performance. A real relationship with Jesus Christ will produce a follower whose life looks progressively more like His life. Romans 12 provides a relational profile of an authentic disciple: someone who is surrendered to God, separate from the world's values, sober in self-assessment, serving in love and supernaturally responds to evil with good. Christians who live out this kind of lifestyle are what we call r12 Christians. God is willing to go deeper and grow you into a real disciple... are you ready?
r12online.livingontheedge.org/
- Favorite Quotations
- Secure in God's love I will nor surrender my self worth to the opinions and judgments of others. When I am rejected I will not retaliate; When I am hurt I will allow god's love to heal me. and knowing the pain of rejection, I will seek to love those who suffer from it's anguish.
Lloyd Ogilvie
- What would you say is your Spiritual gift?
- God has used me in evangelism, discipling new believers, teaching, and encouraging others.
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HE WILL NOT FORSAKE US
Posted on October 24, 2010 at 1:58am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Bitter Or Better, The Difference Is "I"
Posted on March 21, 2010 at 3:59am 0 Comments 0 Likes
LOVE IS OUR MISSION
Posted on January 22, 2010 at 3:54am 0 Comments 0 Likes
MATCHING UP OUR WORDS WITH OUR ATTITUDES AND WITH OUR ACTIONS
Posted on December 23, 2009 at 5:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
ARE YOU IN A RELATIONSHIP OR ARE YOU IN A RELIGION?
Posted on December 21, 2009 at 2:28pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
RESTORING THE OLD DOORS
Posted on November 19, 2009 at 4:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
WHEN I WAS A CHILD
Posted on October 26, 2009 at 5:15am 0 Comments 0 Likes
RESTORATION AND TRANSEFORMATION
Posted on October 15, 2009 at 3:55am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Taberah Fire
Posted on September 3, 2009 at 7:21am 0 Comments 0 Likes
OUTSIDE THE GATE WITH JESUS
Posted on August 27, 2009 at 2:28pm 3 Comments 0 Likes
OUR GOD WILL MEET ALL OUR NEEDS
Posted on August 19, 2009 at 1:15pm 4 Comments 0 Likes
Trusting in Humans or Trusting in God ?
Posted on August 17, 2009 at 7:20am 4 Comments 0 Likes
IT'S A SPIRITUAL BATTLE
Posted on August 14, 2009 at 5:27pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
HOW TO HANDLE THE PROPHECTIC IN OUR LIVES
Posted on July 11, 2009 at 4:48am 0 Comments 0 Likes
SPIRITUAL WARFARE
Posted on July 2, 2009 at 6:45am 0 Comments 0 Likes
DEALING WITH OFFENSES
Posted on June 26, 2009 at 6:08am 0 Comments 0 Likes
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Greetings and blessings in the True name of jesus Christ,
Thank you very much for sharing the scripture and all the word of God. The scripture you share is really the light of our path and guidence for our spiritual life. we all should a spiritual and very simple in our life.
Please brother see also my profile and I do hope that you will reply me soon. I will keep you in our prayers.
God bless you.
In Christ,
Bro. Zafar Masih,
I just stopped by to great you in the name of the Lord, and wish you a wonderful and blessed weekend.
I am here only every couple of weeks, unfortunately.
But I still consider LIBAW my spiritual home :-D
Stay blessed
Astrid
Beautiful words bob.
I trust the Lord is near, and I pray He will deliver me.
" For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
(Romans 10:13)
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