I did it friends. I went down to the river to pray. Story inside.
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This story began on Friday, that some of you may have read/seen already. https://greatawakening.win/p/12jcqqa1dW/god-is-great-just-sitting-here-i/
I had posted a continuation of that day, in the comments below. And there it was. A moment I had asked for, from our loved Heavenly Father. I had been saved already, I knew this. I had accepted Jesus Christ into my heart and knew he died for my sins and was resurrected, with no doubts, but I had never been baptized. And that’s the celebration. An important part of one’s spiritual journey. To celebrate the Lord, and my connection with Him. In front of any and all who witness it. And many were.
I don’t belong to a church. Don’t even go to church. I’m wanting too. I would like to find a place a worship outside my home. So it’s time to venture out. The man who baptized me knew this, understood this, and once we had talked for a bit, he wanted to know my love for Jesus. What brought me this point in my life. My story. He wanted to know if I had been saved. He wanted to get to know me as a brother in Christ. I got emotional, couldn’t help it. Was hard to explain some of the battles in my life. The long journey to get to this point. To finally be broken before the Lord. And I wanted to celebrate this moment for me and the Lord in baptism. None of this would have happened if not for my wife and a friend of hers, whose a member of that particular church. She had mentioned the incoming baptisms for this Sunday. Of course my wife was like, my husband would love this!, I wonder if they would let him participate. Well our friend asked a fellow member of the church, and that woman said she didn’t think so. That this was for members, or new members only. So...guess that’s it. But. My wife had told her a story of our local jail, this past Easter, and how a few pastor’s went down to the jail preached a service and said who wants to accept the Lord today, and get baptized in the lake? It’s the same lake we fish in all the time. And many people around here watched online of 25-30+ inmates getting baptized that day. If I would have known about it, I would have went down with them. We had found out afterwards . So, hearing that story, and hearing what that woman said it’s only for members...God went to work on our friend. She said to herself, this ain’t right. Anyone should be able to be baptized if they want to. So she text her preacher and asked him. And his response was , “if he has never been baptized, and he is saved or wants to get saved, then I’m going to put it like Phillip said to the Ethiopian. The Ethiopian said , look there is water, what prevents me from being baptized? Phillip told him “nothing if you believe with all your heart”.
I had said many times this past 7-8 months that, I don’t want to be baptized in a warm bath behind a pulpit. I wanted a river or a lake. God’s water. I have no problem with anyone doing such, but this was my celebration, and had asked God, if I could do this, this is how I would love to do it. A river baptism! I knew, not belonging to a church, I didn’t know if this was possible. And so, God made it happen. And I mean everything was like a roller coaster. In basically 24 hours I went from one day, to, here we go! As I’ve said, sometimes, you just gotta hang on, Gods on the move!
It was amazing. My heart was pounding, and the water was freezing! And to top it off, one of my sons went down to the river with me. My other, the witness. Even the preacher said during my son baptism, “a father leading his sons to the river, how can it get more biblical than that?”
I just thank God for that moment. I thank the people who were all there. For the gentleman who initially wanted a river baptism, that lead to me being apart of it. To my wife, our friend our family, our new friends we’ve made. All of it. Even y’all here on this forums. I mean WWG1WGA right? I’m here for all them and for all y’all as well. My brothers and sisters.
NCSWIC, and that coming is God. He’s reaching out to you, grab ahold of him and hang on...He’s got us. 🙏
The title image is the real river the church posted, and the one we all were baptized in. With the son “going down to the river to pray” as the background music.
Just some pictures of the river. Looking one way. https://ibb.co/Bz2W9kV Lolling the other. https://ibb.co/8K7sZxs
One of my sons, The Witness. https://ibb.co/JQ71JPy. Love that picture.
God Bless y’all. 🙏
That is such an uplifting story and sounds like an utterly amazing experience for you.
God bless you!
I noticed the letters afterwards on my sons picture. The letters A G....A=1 G=7
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God works in amazing ways 🙏❤️ I’m hoping for the same 🙏❤️💕
What a wonderful way to bring your eternal soul to the Lord! Reminds me of John the Baptist and the river he baptized Jesus in. Wear the armor of God proudly brother!
Blessings....
What an awesome story, fren. Welcome to the family! WWG1WGA! WRWU!
God will help you brother/sister, to anyone reading this, I know it in my heart. And if nothing else, I don’t know how far you are from West Tennessee, but I’ll drive you down to the river myself. Introduced you the man that baptized me, I’ll walk down to the river with you, and we’ll get this done. As I said I’m not apart of their church. But I’m gonna keep it touch with them, and this river baptism has gotten a lot of attention around here. As someone said “that church is on fire for God!” I’m sure they will do more down the road. If this is the celebration you want, to show the love of our Lord in Heaven, nothing can stop it. Amen! God bless you! 🙏❤️
Welcome to the family!
Thanks for sharing that incredible story! Be blessed!
Im so happy for you. This is amazing and a wonderful story. God bless you
What a great and wonderful day. You accepted the invitation to The Lord's table. This just makes me grin.
Beautiful story, pede. Jesus Christ is King!
Yay! water baptism is very important. it deals with a person and his relationship to sin. it washes it away yes, but it also transforms you. the old sinner man is dead and a new man raises up with jesus. romans 6:7 is an eye opener for many. you raise up and are freed from sin. holy spirit in you, equips you to go and sin no more, you don't serve sin. the sin nature is changed. (ya, you can still commit sin but it is profoundly different in your new walk). jesus came to save you -- from your sin and free you from your sin nature.
Romans 6:3-7 KJV Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? [4] Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. [5] For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: [6] Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. [7] For he that is dead is freed from sin.
some people will claim romans 7 contradicts and you're still bound by sin, but carefully notice that romans 7 is addressed to the unsaved jews (first verse). paul is taking a pause with romans 7 to revisit your old life and address jews who are not baptized. then read romans 7:24,25 and romans 8:1-2 and you can see that you are transformed
Romans 7:24-25 KJV O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? [25] I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. [8:1] There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. [2] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
The sin barrier between you and God is broken down. Now receive holy spirit and walk in the spirit. The rest of romans 8 tells you, walk in the spirit, pray in the spirit, put away the carnal mind. you are now equipped to do this.
Thank you so much for posting this. The pastor that baptized me and my son had a sermon that morning talking all about baptism and what the Bible says. I had went to my mother in laws church instead to a Sunday school class I was interested in instead. I kinda wish I had gone to the other church to get the sermon, mainly to get the real details. I found later he had posted it online so others could watch it. The words “buried with Christ, raised to new life” is what he said for each of us, as our heads went under water. Looking down the river, I knew my sins of old were washed away. I haven’t watched his sermon yet, but the things you have just posted is as good as it gets, for the education I wanted. Of what the Bible says and probably what he preached about that morning. So a huge thank you for posting this. I’m going to pass this around, to a few this morning.
I had mentioned to him, the pastor, about this forum. Told him the name, and how this forum was apart of my journey to that river. The people apart of it, whose names I don’t even know, just there words have helped me more than they know. If your reading this and preach about our Lord here in these forums on occasion, I’ve probably read it. Your helping more people than you know. So never stop. Never stop showing our fellow brothers and sisters the Father in Heaven. Your love of Him. It helps people. Your helping deliver us. And someone like me can’t thank you enough. Thank you Jesus for the people of The Great Awakening. You’ve placed people in my path my whole life, you never give up, and we’ll never give up on you. We love you, we worship you, in your Holy name Jesus Christ, Amen.
Thank you. 🙏
Yay! So to summarize, you use to be romans 7, you got baptized and transformed described in Romans 6. Now you have to be discipled to walk in romans 8. So focus on romans 8 and and pay attention to mentions of the spirit. Then maybe we can talk offline and I can explain this stuff. (I do this often). This will equip you to learn and grow and walk in the spirit and the word.
What a wonderful story. God bless you and yours. :)