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Originally Posted by Pianoman
I think things just happen! Sometimes we try to read waaaaay too much into some events!  |
Perhaps.. but I will testify that my Dad had a vision one evening in 1975 that sobered me up and turned my life around. I stumbled in one September evening prior to the Fort Worth General Conference, drunk, high and reeking of both pot and cigarettes. There, to my chagrin, sat my dad in his well worn recliner.
He growled "sit down and shut up! I am going to tell you two things.. the first is what God told me and the second is what I am telling you!"
I immediately began to sober up and was instantly able to hear the wails of a travailing mother from the back bedroom of the parsonage.
Dad then began to tell me everywhere I had been, who I had been with, where I went, what I did while there, what I purchased, what I drank, where I bought what I drank all complete with times! I asked him who had followed me and his one word response was, "Jesus!"
He then told me that when he knelt to pray for me that night it was like he had gone to a moving picture show and God revealed to him everything he had told me and he was spot on in every detail!
He then gave me God's message. He told me that God had told him that HE was through messing with me. I had played games with my salvation and my calling to ministry long enough. If I didn't get it together God was finished with me!
By this time I was almost completely sober. Adrenalin has an amazing effect on sobriety.
Realizing that I had now sobered up, my dad then shared the second part of the revelation with me.
Using that short finger, part of which he lost to a mill saw, he pointed at me and with his piercing gray eyes boring into my tear filled brown ones he said, "Phil, if you ever come into this house in this condition again I am going to beat you like the man you think you are and then throw you and your clothes into the front yard. I will tell God and man that I never had a son named Phil."
Finally he broke and began to weep and came over and laid his hands on me and began to pray for mercy for my soul.
I had not planned to go to the Fort Worth GC with my parents but after this event it was either go with them or have them stay home with me. I went and it was there that I received a life changing experience and stepped into my call. Within months of that event I was preaching revivals with souls being saved.
So, all that said to say this: God is concerned with the salvation of your children and disobedience can and will result in your kid's souls being lost. If it is important to you and important to their salvation, Jesus will definitely bring those things done in darkness by your children to light for you parents.
you can argue with theory but it is hard to argue with experience.
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