"Behold, I stand at the door and knock..." Thank you Yahushua for sending your Spirit to touch my heart and lead me out of the darkness and chaos of modern, deceived churches. I have been on a journey with you for some time now, Lord. I have taken my family along with me on this journey. We have been to the Baptist Church, and found mediocrosy and hypocrosy, and you told me that was not where you wanted me, so I moved on.
I took my family to "The Door", a pentacostal church that told us that we were not saved unless we spake in tounges; but wait, the "Holy Spirit" won't do it for us, we have you open our mouths and start to speak before the "utterances" would come forth. OH I can not thank you enough, Yahuwah, that you gave me enough descernment NOT to stand up and lead my family into that demon possessed pit of HELL! My wife has always been my sounding board in this adventure. You gave her a gift, much like you gave Ellen White. You "speak" to her, much more clearly than you "speak" to me... or was I just not listening. So off we went to another denomination. Which one this time? Later Day Saints? No, we always knew they we not of you, because Joseph Smith added to your WORD. No, the Methodists for a little while, then the Lutherans. They were too much like the Catholics, whom we knew also had it wrong, for it is written that, "This is how you pray; Our Father which art in Heaven...", not Father forgive me, for I have sinned, to a meer man. No we went to amost all the denominations it seems and we finally settled on "Non-Denominational" because it sounded like they had the answer.
All the other denominations had gotten it wrong. Well, they are right, but unfortunately, they are preaching the same falicies! Yahuwah, I will I could convey to the people all around the world who are reading this, the joy and peace that you have bestowed on me, for tonight the Seventh Month, 25th day of "The Year of OUR LORD", Yahuwah 5997 I have finally come to know what I have always known I was missing but could never figure out what it was! That YOU actually STILL expect us to KEEP your COMMANDMENTS! My children, as you know Father, are all teenagers, and I have always told them "Don't do that, because God doesn't like it" but at the same time, I would not keep your commandments MYSELF! No wonder you called the Pharisees, VIPERS! I have been teaching your commandments to my children all these years without really BELIEVING that "I" was supposed to keep them too! After, "reasoning together" with your fellow true believers, I have found that ALL the EVIDENCE I EVER needed was and still is, in your LIVING WORD! More ALIVE to me now, that it has EVER BEEN in my life! I was "Saved" by repeating after a Baptist Decon, when I was 12! And I got "re-saved" once a month after that, until my dad (also a decon in the same church) told me to STOP, because I was only doing it for the attention! What WISDOM you had, Yahushua, when you said that we should believe as CHILDREN! I WANTED TO OBEY YOU! IN EVERYTHING I DID! But since I was being taught that NO MAN can obey ALL the commandments, I was LOST! There was NO way I could be saved, "except by Grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ our Lord"! Oh that was a relief, now I could just SIN, and ask for forgiveness, and STILL BE SAVED! So I grew up like many of the readers out there, filling my THIMBLE full of your WORD, every SUNDAY, and spilling most of it on the way out the door to go to the restaraunt after service; all the while, your WORD was gathering DUST on the shelf between Sundays! Oh Lord, You know how much I have studied your word in the last 3 months! A little here and a little there, at first. And then a little more, and I deleted all my movies to make room for your WORD in VIDEO FORM, from your children at WLC. And then I'm staying up WAY too late (like now) because your Word is inside of me and giving me LIFE and ENERGY and ENTHUSIASM! And I tell my Chaplains, HEY! LOOK! Maybe we've all had it wrong? Maybe the 10 Commandments ARE supposed to be kept!
So I'm told, "NO! Don't listen to Ellen White! She CAN'T be a prophet!" "But why not? She's not contradicting the Bible like the LDS church, or the Catholic church! She's just 'restating' it, and it makes sense!" "NO! That's a CULT! Don't listen to them! They'll steer you away from the truth, which is, that we are NO longer held to those old Jewish Laws! We are CHRISTIANS! Jesus did away with the JEWISH Laws!" "But it says here..." "NO, Stop! I don't HAVE to LOOK at what THOSE people SAY, to know they're wrong! Read Acts 10!" They tell me. So I read it, and I understand that the "Food" wasn't FOOD at all, it was SOULS that Yahuwah wanted to bring to HIM! But that's not what they believe, so for now, I will pray for them, Lord! I will pray thanksgiving to YOU that you have BLESSED me SO much with a woman "after your own heart" that would never let me "settle" for the deception and contraditions. "They honor me with their lips..." Thank you Father Yahuwah for sending you only begotten Son, Yahushua, to willingly live a PERFECT LIFE, according to your UNCHANGING laws, and then DIE for MY SINS (Broken Laws) that I might CHOOSE Eternal Life through HIM and Love HIM and YOU by obeying those very same Laws the Yahshua obeyed!
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Very Respectfully,
SGT Charles Pruett
Charlie Company
4BSTB, 4BCT, 101DIV
APO AE09311
"May Yahuwah bless you and keep you: May Yahuwah make His face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you: May Yahuwah lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace." Number 6:24
