Thread by @GbengaWemimo

It is not strange to read or hear a believer saying “This born again thing” is not working!
They were told that once they gave their lives to Christ, everything will become new, there will be a transformation and a turn around in their lives! They believed it and longed for it...

But it didn’t happen!
After they had believed and confessed Jesus as Lord and Saviour, they joined the church and went through the baptismal class, new believers class and other classes! They started dressing in a certain way to church in a form of conformity but it was outward!

There was no change on the inside! The thief still stole, the liar continued to lie, the fornicator still fornicated, But this time, they had to pretend they were no longer this way! This made them more dangerous to the church and the world because they now operate as agents

Of light while they were darkness!
People trusted them easily and as a result they took advantage of those who assumed they were what they claimed to be!
It is natural to hear people say “I can never trust a pastor or a Christian” due to a this experience or that experience

I was once like those confused Christians! I was a total calamity as a believer between 2004 and 2007! I preached, I taught, I understood the gospel but it was not real in my life! I was terrible! I tried to be better, I tried to do better, I fasted and prayed and cried! Zero!!!

I was a tongue-talking Christian and I love the Lord and yet...
I was the best hypocrite ever!
I did many evil things that my reputation as a Christian covered for! People just didn’t believe I did them because they couldn’t reconcile such acts with who they saw in public...

Sin was a burden! I was dying under it! One night I read my Bible and cried to the Holy Spirit! I said “Cigarettes and alcohol are killing me, masturbation was damaging me and yet I was suffering in isolation because I couldn’t tell anybody I was doing these things! Help me!”

The Holy Spirit came to me that night! He said “Rest! Stop struggling”
I didn’t get it!
How?
I had been taught that I have a doing part (Work out your salvation with fear and trembling)
He said “No! Trust me and rest”
As long as you continue to struggle, you will be a calamity

He said “After Phillip baptized the Ethiopian Eunuch, I took him away! No follow up or instructions were given to him! Philip trusted me to keep my children! Trust me too! So I stopped struggling!
A few days later a lady came visiting, we were right in the middle of foreplay

When I lost the urge to sleep with her! It had never happened to me before! I wanted to sleep with her but I couldn’t. I remember watching her dress up and saying to myself “Don’t be a slacker” and yet...! It was the very first time sin was divinely checkmated in my life!

There was no thunder from heaven! I found my rest in Him! The lying tongue, covetousness, masturbation, smoking and drinking all left. I realized i was full of love! I couldn’t judge others because I didn’t do anything! I couldn’t brag about it! I just felt loved and joyful!

Somebody told me “When sinners cry bitterly for their sins they won’t sin again! It is a lie!!!! Except the Lord builds a believer, they Labour in vain that builds him or her! Self determination and performance is a dud! We have too many pretending believers! It is time to REST!