THE TEN – ACTS and FACTS OF FAITH
The prayer of Francis of Assisi
LORD, make me an instrument of peace
Where there is hatred – Let me sow love
Where there is injury – Pardon
Where there is doubt – Faith
Where there is despair – Hope
Where there is darkness – Light
Where there is sadness – Joy
Divine Master grant that I may not so much
Seek to be consoled – as to console
To be understood – as to understand
To be loved – as to love
For it is in giving that that we receive
It is in pardoning – that we are pardoned
It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
SPIRITUALITY
SPIRITUALITY is the Kingdom of GOD within.
SPIRITUALITY is the free gift of GOD’S Love that man receives within from GOD.
SPIRITUALITY is the Power of GODS Love Living in men who serve Him and other men
SPIRITUALITY is like a mustard seed that once planted, grows to the mightiest of all trees and the birds of the air make their home in its branches and all living creatures seek its shade & protection. In Africa they call it Ubuntu. One who has GOD in him SPIRITUALITY is something that you have to give away, if you want to keep it. The measure you use will be measured to you and then some.
SPIRITUALITY is eternal life for all, in the family of GOD.
SPIRITUALITY is GOD, the indwelling Holy Spirit of GODS LOVE.
About the Program.
GOD FOR EVERYONE without religion for all religions is what United Spirit Fellowship is all about. The Ten Acts and Facts of Faith and Ten Formats to Create Spiritual UNITY are suggested principals and ideas designed to help UNITE people of all races, back grounds of whatever nature to have a UNITED belief in GOD without being a Religion, by coming to know and understand, what our relationship and connection with GOD should be and is, in a more meaningful and powerful way.
The United Spirit Fellowship is not a religion and does not want to be one, because it has no leaders or man made rules doctrines or sets of beliefs that people must abide to or believe in, which would make it a Religion. There is only a suggested program, which is not mandatory. Nor is there any leaders, high priest, directors, dictators or superiors. The only authority is a loving LORD as He expresses himself and gives growth and maturity in and through the members, as they share their own personal stories, experiences, strength and hope with each other. Meetings are run by servants of the group, on a roster bases not only by the elders or leaders. Every six months new Committees are set up, only to implement the wishes of the members of the groups, they do not rule, lord it over the groups or govern, they serve the group.
The primary purposes of these suggested concepts are to facilitate an Agenda, Platform, method and Foundation which anyone, or any group of people can come together in UNITY get to know the benefits of a relationship with GOD and to also be reconciled with GOD and each other, in a more powerful and meaningful way, and to be united in there purpose, of sharing with each other, their own personal stories, and individual understanding of the 10 Facts, Acts of Faith, their own experiences, successes, strength, hope, faith and beliefs in the use of the Power of GOD, by practicing these concepts.
Through the UNITY and fellowship of sharing of their own individual ideas experiences and successes while practicing these Acts and Facts of Faith, everyone becomes more aware of the existence importance and benefits of having the Power of GODS love in our lives.
The 10 Acts and Facts of Faith is a program of suggested spiritual principals for individual personal growth The Ten Formats for Unity is also a suggested set of proven principals not rules, to unite run and organize groups and the fellowship as a whole. Above all ells UNITY is the main consideration, which makes the whole idea work and grow. It even comes before personal growth. In fact personal growth depends on the amount of love and caring you show others, as you give so will you receive.
Throughout the world there are four and a half thousand different religions sects and beliefs. The Christian belief alone is divided into over a thousand different religions, all with their own set of leaders, rules, doctrines, codes and sets of beliefs. What keeps them apart is their separate leaders beliefs rules interpretation and understanding of GODS plan and word for us all, the fellowship has non of the above dictates, or leaders.
The 10 Facts and Acts of Faith are a logical process, by which we achieve and acquire spiritual awareness and power. Anyone following these concepts daily in all their affairs we have found, enter in to a new wonderful understanding and life with GOD and his fellow man.
All the concepts should be read through quickly to get an overall understanding and idea of the total idea, before actually doing each concept. Each one makes more sense when read in context with all the others. Greater success is also achieved by doing each one first, before trying to understand and analyze them.
It is of paramount importance at meetings, that a different person is chosen by the chairman or secretary on a roster bases to run the meetings. The duty of the person running the meeting is to ensure that everyone who wants to share or talk, can have their uninterrupted say on a round robin basis. After everyone has had their say, only then should anyone else have a second chance. The more people that talk, the greater the impact on new members and old to believe and grow. The actual meetings should last about an hour to an hour and a half, preceded, and proceeded, with the all important chatting, fellowship counseling and prayer for individuals and new comers for at least an hour or more thereafter. This is where the Unity and fellowship happens and should be promoted over tea, cake and snacks or even a special evening or get together at a braie.
To start each meeting the topic of each meeting should be, but not limited to, the next consecutive Act of Faith and Format for UNITY read or explained by an experienced member. Meetings can start with the preamble, Francis of Assisi prayer, or an explanation of how the program works. Or by reading the headings of the Ten Acts of Faith and close with the Lord’s Prayer. The main part of meetings should be talks by each member, of how they each understand the concepts, and stories by different members of what their lives use to be like, the reasons why their lives have now changed, and what their life is like now. Members are also free to talk on any other concept or principal if they so wish, and which one they are on or having difficulty with.
The Five Condensed Acts and Facts of Faith:
If a newcomer feels that the concepts are a bit too much to take in all at the same time the short version must be used to get him started on his way as soon as possible
1. We openly and honestly admitted that we wanted to know and understand God in a more meaningful powerful way, and sincerely wanted to do something about it.
2. Admitted that our lives and ways of living were not what we wanted, or what they should be, or correct, and we had a desire, and wanted to change to a new more abundant meaningful life.
3. We came to believe that there really was an all Powerful God, who could would, and wanted to come in and get involved and help us change our lives for the best and to give us a better understanding of him and his wonder working power and his purpose for us in our lives.
4. Made a determined decision to follow all the people that had already used these concepts. We then handed our will our life and future over to the care of GOD, as we then understood him. Asking GOD to come into our souls with the power of His Spirit and take control of our lives on a daily basis from here on in. To teach us, to mold us, and make us, into what he wanted us to be. One in Unity with the Lord and all believers in GOD.
5. We made a promise to ourselves and to God, to serve Him. That wherever and whenever possible, we would help and encourage others to come to know and believe in the power of GOD, and this program, and that we would try to the best of our ability to adopt these principals of Spirituality in all our affairs.
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-THE TEN – ACTS and FACTS OF FAITH-
Headings
1. We openly and honestly admitted that we needed to know and understand GOD in a more meaningful and powerful way and sincerely wanted to do something about it.
2. Admitted that our lives and ways of living were not what they should be, or correct, and that we desired and wanted to change to a new more abundant and meaningful life.
3 We came to believe that there really was an all-powerful God, who could, would, and wanted to come into, and get involved and help us change our lives.
4 WE abandoned our old life, and made a determined sincere decision to hand not only our destiny, but our will and our lives over to the care of GOD on a daily basis, as we had come to understand Him.
5. We became honest with ourselves and took a good long hard look at the past life we had lived, with all its defects of character nature and ambitions.
6. We humbly admitted to ourselves, to God and another human being, the exact nature of our life with its wrongs and shortcomings.
7. Having humbly admitted all our short comings and defects of character, we became willing and eager, to ask God to take them all away.
8. We rid ourselves of any and all resentments and we forgave everyone, and we made restitution to all those we had harmed or owed money to.
9. Through our own prayer meditation and study, we continued to find out more about the Power of God and his Son as we had come to understand them.
10. Realizing the Power wisdom and the strength behind these 10 Concepts of Fact and Faith we endeavored to carry this message to who ever, and when ever we could.
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FIRST ACT and FACT of FAITH (1Cor Ch1)
We openly and honestly admitted that we needed to know and understand GOD in a more meaningful and powerful way & sincerely wanted to do something about it.
Through the years we have always wanted to know GOD. On many occasions we have made an effort to go to church for a while. The result was always the same, somehow we stopped going and faded away. Some of us took our religion very seriously but soon found that what our preacher was preaching did not agree with our own understanding of GOD. Others of us thought the church was full of hypocrites. Some of us went to church because we were taught it was the right thing to do. The list is endless.
On numerous occasions we tried to find God in other religions and Faiths, but the result was always disappointing. We listened to all kinds of great Evangelists on TV and Radio and even went to their rallies. They seemed to make a lot of sense at the time, but the memory of them and their message soon faded. Some of us have looked at the four thousand and more different religions that all claim they are right, but we have never managed to find one, that really suited us or made any sense. Very few of us have found a good church and stuck with it all our lives.
Many of us have tried to read the Bible, but there again it did not make much sense and was difficult to understand and read. Some of us have read dozens of Spiritual books and interpretations of the Bible by Famous Theologians, only to find that even they, are in great division as to the true meaning and interpretation of the Bible, and who and what GOD is and is not. On the Internet one can read how they all differ in their opinions, as they try to convince each other of there own opinions and beliefs, or the opinion of other great Philosophers or Interpreters. We thought, what chance have we got to understand the Bible with our limited knowledge and education.
On the other hand, many of us have had such a tough deal in life, that it is very difficult to believe that there is even a God, or that He would be interested in us. Others feel that because of the type of life they have lived, that God would not want to know them, even if they believed.
The good news is, that no matter who you are, where you are in life, or what you have done, we came to believe that this Program has worked for thousands of people just like ourselves who have nearly all found a totally new understanding of GOD, and a wonderful life in and with the Lord, just by listening to the stories of the other members.
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-SECOND – ACT and FACT of FAITH- (1Corin Ch 2)
Admitted that our lives & ways of living were not what they should be, or correct, & that we desired & wanted to change to a new more abundant and meaningful life.
There is not one of us who did not want a better life. Nor is there any one of us who was living a perfect sin free life. In all of us there was something in the past that we dearly wanted to forget and put behind us. Some even carried deep pain, present and past. Or we had something in our nature and character or life that we were not proud of, and wanted to get rid of, or change.
Some of us were still involved with something that we knew was wrong, and wanted out. Some of us were addicted to something that was causing harm to ourselves, or was affecting our Families and close friends. We needed help to rid ourselves of the problems.
Generally speaking we were not proud or happy with our past or present way of life and living. It was not correct right or proper. Some of us had everything, wonderful jobs, some our own business, beautiful homes and families, but we realized that something was missing, and we wanted a more abundant and better life, with more love, meaning and purpose, and with a closer walk and understanding of GOD and our friends, that we could be proud of.
We openly admitted that we wanted to change our lives for the best, and to put our past behind us. We really wanted to know what God and His wonderful Power was all about. What we saw in our new found friends, we wanted for ourselves.
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-THIRD – ACT and FACT of FAITH- (1John Chapt 1)
We came to believe there really was an all Powerful GOD, who could, would, and wanted to come into, and get involved and help us change our lives.
By listening to others witness of how GOD had changed their lives, and seeing their obvious happiness and contentment, we came to believe in the Power of GOD that could would and wanted to change our lives. We saw and witnessed how others had overcome tremendous problems in their lives with the help of GODS Power.
Most religions through the ages, had God’s that were fashioned by men, that they believed in. Even today, people still worship Idols made of wood and stone, and many religions worship famous men of Faith. There are those among us who have made idols of their wives, husbands, money, jobs, sport or possessions. Some are totally possessed and obsessed with sex or an addiction to gambling, drugs or alcohol or some other type of perversion. All these objects of worship we found were mostly destructive and not uplifting or GOD centered.
We found that there are more than a thousand different beliefs and Christian Religions, most reading out the same Bible, and all purporting to know GOD. Each one had there own interpretation and understanding of GOD and His word. They nearly all have codes rules and regulations and doctrines, laid down by men, of what they do and don’t believe in. Most of us found it difficult to know which one to follow or believe in. Lots of us go to a church because they preach what we want to hear or we like the preachers style, character or nature
We who followed these steps, came to believe in the POWER of GOD. An all Powerful force that we could see working in and through all our lives, a supernatural power that we could call on to help us in any and all situations. This Power we called GOD. Belief in the Power of GOD was the main strength and foundation of our faith and hope. Jesus, the greatest Spiritual man ever to walk this earth said, that all he ever did or said was not of himself but from GOD. Jesus explained that It was GOD’S power working in and through him. He also said that if we believed in him and followed his example we could do the same, even greater things than he had done. This is the GOD and the Power we came to believe in, as we saw with our own eyes, GOD working miracles in and through others, and then our own Lives. All else was left to each individual to understand as they wanted to, through their own studies and experiences. We were not a religion that told people what to believe and do, we had no rules codes doctrines or regulations of what you must and must not believe in, only suggestions.
Yet we shared our own individual belief, strength, faith and hope in GOD and His Power, as we each came to understand Him, and know the Lord his son.
We had the freedom of choice, to follow and understand the concepts, in our own way. We could also follow whoever we wished, our own inclinations others failures or successes. We studied and meditated on the scriptures ourselves, we became quiet amazed at how much GOD by the power of His Spirit was showing and teaching us about Himself. We learn t to follow the winners and stay away from losers, and slippery places. We also got rid of some of our bad habits and attitudes.
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-FOURTH – ACT and FACT of FAITH- (1John Ch 2)
WE abandoned our old life, and made a determined sincere decision to hand not only our future destiny, but our will, ambition and our very life over to the care of GOD on a daily basis, as we had come to understand Him.
This step and moment in time became the cross roads and most important turning point in our entire lives, where we decided to put all our Faith and hope in God and His Son, as we had come to believe and understand them, and without any reservations or preconditions, we all asked both God and His Son to come into our lives and soul with GODS Holy Spirit, and to take total control and mold the direction and plan for our lives.
We decided that from here on, in this drama of life, it made more sense, to accept God and HIS Son to be our teacher, comforter, helper and guide in all our affairs. Being all Powerful, it was better for us to live our life with GOD’S Power and strength according to His plans, rather than our own human strength and self-centered plans, efforts and ideas. We decided to accept him as our new confidant, ever loving, protecting, caring friend, and Heavenly Father. We saw our selves as his beloved children, much more than even a closest friend, and an ever constant, help and guide. We decided to serve honor and be a channel of His Holy Spirit of Love, just as his son Jesus was.
With a friend, or alone in a quiet place, in all humility and humbleness, with a genuine sincere and penitent heart, we asked GOD to forgive us for all the wrongs of our past life, and to wash away forever our old lives with all its defects and sins, and to create in us a new life, heart and mind, we really wanted and desired to serve Him.
We abandoned the control and plans for our old life, and we asked God and His Son, to please come into our lives, and to accept us into His family of Love. We also asked GOD to fill us with His Holy Spirit of Love, to mold us, make us and teach us to live and do His will, and not our Own, and to use us and show us, His Plan for our Lives, and what HE wanted us to be and do,
Some of us immediately felt GODS Power of love flow into our Lives, others more gradually over a period of time, as we Honestly took steps to find out more about GOD, His Son and his will and work for us. We felt a new freedom in our spirit and soul, as we started to serve GOD with the Lord, and our fellow man. We became more aware of our special talents that GOD had gifted us with, and prayed for guidance to develop them to better and serve others.
As we helped others to come to the same conviction and conclusion as ourselves, we felt more and more of his power working in and through our Lives. We became more interested in working with and for and helping others. We stopped being a know-all and trying to dominate and rule and get everyone to do things our way. We became far greater servants and listeners, than Leaders, we knew how to stand back and share, and let GOD give the growth through His Spirit, working in and through us all.
We all soon came to realize, that our lives had indeed changed for the better, and that we had been truly born again. We had a new belief and a relationship with GOD and His Son, and a brand new lease on life. We found for the first time in our lives, that we were overcoming problems like never before, with miraculous ease. We had, crossed over the river to the other side. We even felt that we were free of our old way of life, free indeed.
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-FIFTH – ACT and FACT of FAITH- (1John Ch3)
We became honest with ourselves and took a good long hard look at
the past life we had lived with all its defects of character, nature and ambitions.
Rigorous honesty was the key to success here, having already admitted that our lives were not all that we wanted them to be, we made plans to change our selves, we made a list of all our defects of character and nature, and all our shortcomings. There is not one amongst us that can claim has never committed sin. A lot of our sins are omissions, things that we should be doing, or should of done, but did not, and still dont. The worst sin man commits is ignoring to thank and praise our Father GOD.
The most important aspects of this Step is too only just admit to ourselves and GOD what we are doing wrong, in contrast to what is right in our life style. Making a list of good and bad points and what we can do to improve them is also a good idea. This we do the rest of our lives.
Some of us were trapped in unhealthy or bad relationships or affairs, sometimes at the expense of other people. Others in positions of authority and trust were not being fare to those under them. The bottom line to look at was, were we or GOD proud of our life style actions and deeds. We also looked at forgiveness, patience, temper and anger with other people.
This step is a stock taking of all our affairs and actions past and present. If there are things that we wished we had never done or were still doing that we were ashamed of, and were still plagued with remorse and guilt about, now was the time when we admitted them to ourselves and made a list of them. It was important not to leave anything out as we were going to get rid of all these feelings and things once and for all time.
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-SIXTH – ACT and FACT of FAITH- (1John Ch4)
We humbly admitted to ourselves, to GOD, another human being,
the exact nature of our life with its wrongs and shortcomings.
This step called for courage and honesty, but we found that the old saying of a trouble shared was a trouble halved was really true. Listening to others talking about what they use to be like, as if it happened in another world and time, and what they did and did not do, also gave us the courage to share our past lives.
The more we shared and talked, the greater relief we felt, we started to no longer associate ourselves with our old lives as we felt it drifting away forever. For the first time we actually felt that we were really changing, we were not
the same person anymore. We found it easier and easier to talk to GOD about our old past lives.
Sometimes it is advisable to share your past with a trusted friend or experienced member of the group before openly admitting to the group. Care should be taken in the choice of this confident. It is important to remember that we only need to generalize and not to go into any details, as we did with our selves in the fifth step. The real life giving value of this step can only be really appreciated once done. We actually felt a great freedom and load being lifted of our backs as we shared our life with others and Our Lord and GOD.
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-SEVENTH – ACT and FACT of FAITH- (1John Ch 5)
Having humbly admitted all our short comings and defects of character,we became willing and eager, to ask GOD to take them all away.
Our past lives seemed to cling to us like chains and we wanted freedom from the bonds of the past that held us. We had an honest desire to serve GOD and our fellow man, but we did not feel fit capable or worthy, we really wanted to wash away our old lives and feel clean and renewed inside our spirit and souls, we wanted a clear conscience.
What we really needed was forgiveness for the past, and to get rid of the heavy burden we were carrying around with us that others had done to us, we wanted to bury it and forget it, so that we could put our old lives and habits behind us, and start a new life. We really wanted to obey and fulfill GODS purposes in our lives and do what was right and proper. We prayed and asked for GODS forgiveness, at the same time as forgiving all those who had harmed and hurt us.
In the days of Noah, GOD washed away all the evil of the old world in the flood. The Israelite s also passed through the Red sea, where their old masters, tormentors and oppressors of their passed lives were also destroyed in the water behind them. They also had to cross through the waters of the Jordan before they could enter the new Promised Land. We were also all born into this world by passing through the darkness and water of our Mother’s womb. We knew the feeling of washing away the days cares aches and pains by soaking in a hot bath.
Based on such an understanding, GOD’S plan made sense for us to be baptized in water, where we could wash away our old lives, bury our past with all it’s defects, hurts and short -comings, and leave them behind in the water. We know that you can’t put new wine into an old bottle or wine skin. We really needed a new start in life, to be born again if that was possible. We wanted to cross over to the other side, to a new life with GOD. So we made arrangements to do this and be baptised. This step did not make practical sense, but we needed to do it before we could understand it or feel its benefit.
Before Jesus started his ministry for GOD his Father, he was also baptized in the river Jordan. John the Baptist tried to discourage him, saying that it was not necessary or important. But Jesus insisted that it was right and proper to fulfil all righteousness. When he came up out of the water, the power of the Holy Spirit of GOD Descended on him like a dove. From then on after a short trip of reflection in the desert, he went forth in the full power of GODS Holy Spirit. We also needed and had to have this Power.
If we wanted to follow in Jesus footsteps, this was a good place to start with our first steps. We also needed to die, and be born again in the water of Baptism. We humbly, with all reverence, asked GOD to bury and wash away the burden of sin and hurts of our past lives in the water. We also asked GOD to fill us with the Power of His gift of Love, His Holy Spirit to help us live our new life.
After we had been baptized we could actually feel this new life in us, and we knew that what we had done was good and right for us. We continued to forever pray for true wisdom knowledge insight and understanding, so that we could be better enabled to do GODS will, to Honor praise and serve Him and His son, and our fellow
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-EIGHTH – ACT and FACT of FAITH- ( Ephe Ch1)
We rid ourselves of any and all resentments and we forgave everyone, as we made restitution to all those we had harmed or owed money to.
Having received GODS forgiveness, it was now necessary for us to forgive those who had cheated harmed and hurt us, to put a right the wrongs we had done in our old life. To pay back what we owed, and ask forgiveness from those we had harmed or cheated.
This step was not easy, and demanded determination honesty and humbleness of spirit. Before we were even half way through our list, we already felt a new freedom serenity and peace in our heart. We came to know and enjoy peaceful sleep and the joy of waking up and not having a care in the world, to be able to walk down town and hold our head up high.
We were careful not to upset people and open up old wounds that would only hurt others. There are some things in our life that are best, left alone, and let sleeping dogs lie. But wherever possible we apologized and did our best to make up for whatever wrong we had done. Where money was involved, we made an attempt to pay back even if it was so much a month. In our new life with GOD, we could hardly help others with handouts, with money we owed to others. We had to earn our right to give or help others, by first paying our debts and putting our house in order. Neither could we give advise to anyone, until we had cleaned up our act. A hypocrite is something we did not want to be.
There were some people that would not forgive us when we approached them. We should not hold this against them. It was only our duty to apologies. We needed to always remember, that if we wanted forgiveness for the things we had done, we had to be prepared to forgive and forget the harm others had done to us, even if they never sought that forgiveness. Jesus died for them also.
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We needed to get rid of every and all resentment in our life, so that we ourselves could be Free. Hating resenting and being envious of someone else could eat us up, and even bring on a serious illness. We were the only losers in this type of scenario, especially if family brothers, sisters, mother or fathers, ex or present wives, or husbands were the object of our resentments and hate. At all cost we must rid ourselves of this hurt and pain. The simple answer was to forgive and forget and to love and pray for those peoples good. Revenge belonged to GOD alone He would repay all wrongs done to us, our job was, to only love and forgive.
If we were thorough with this Step in cleaning up and clearing away our past, we were now ready to be of service to GOD and our Fellow man, providing we did a daily house cleaning. Whenever we were wrong, we admitted it, and put it a right before the sun set. We came to learn the mysterious value of crippling our enemies by pouring the hot coals of love and prayers on there heads, instead of being resentful, unforgiving, and even declaring war itself on our enemies, which only destroyed us in the end.
We also had to remember that the one that needed our forgiveness for the past more than anyone else, was our-selves. We must put our past behind us, but never forget where we came from. A humble attitude, took the place of our pride.
We soon found that we had truly been born again in the real true sense of the word. We were a new creation. The old had past away and the new life had come, a spiritual life of love and power with GOD and His Son.
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-NINTH – ACT and FACT of FAITH- (Ephes Ch 2)
Through our own prayer meditation and study we continued to find out more
about the Power of GOD and his Son, as we had come to understand them.
We had come to believe in GOD and his Power working in and through our lives. It was necessary for us to understand and learn more about GOD so that we could appreciate, praise, serve and honor GOD and his Son. Spiritual growth was the Key word for our new life or we would die. We learnt that GODS ways were not our ways. To grow in God and His Power we had to rely less on our own power, intellect, strength and help from our friends, we had to rely totally and completely on GODS help and provision. He was a jealous GOD and wanted us to rely on Him alone, no mater how dark the circumstances seemed. To our utter amazement we found that this devotion worked much better than depending on man or our own strength.
At this point, we had a one on one daily relationship with GOD, it was important that we continue to move in the same direction and improve our conscious contact with Him through prayer and study of His word. We could feel GODS Holy Spirit working in our heart, soul and spirit. He became our new comforter teacher and Guide, and our ever present help in our work and all and every situation. We had a new director, boss, Father, mother, friend and confidant all rapped up in one.
In the morning we prayed for help and guidance for the day ahead, so that we could better do GODS will in our lives. We prayed as often as we could during the day, for GOD to help us with our work. Last thing at night, we thanked GOD for the day and all the things that He had done for us. We also looked at the things that we had done wrong and where we had fallen short. We asked for GODS help and Forgiveness.
We prayed also for more of GODS Power to flow in and through us, so that we could be better enabled to do His will at meetings and help others. We had come to realize that without GODS Power in our life we could do nothing. We were powerless. We could not grow Spiritually, or even understand GODS word or purpose for us, or see our strengths.
We also prayed for more wisdom knowledge and a better understanding of GOD himself. There are many books written about GOD, but we found, that all we needed to know and more is contained in the worlds best-selling book The Bible. It was also written by many different men’s personal experience and knowledge of GOD as He GOD inspired them.
We read and meditated on the Bible as often as we could. Before reading, we always prayed to GOD to open our minds and spiritual eye, so that we could better understand what He wanted us to know and do for him. We also attended as many meetings as possible where we also found GOD talking to us through our friends.
The Bible was written by GOD through many spiritual people for spiritual people to understand No amount of reading, or studying of the Bible, or the works of great men of theology, or going to Universities, Colleges, this church or that, going to this Religion or that one, non of this helped us to know GOD if we did not have His power in us to teach us, only then did all these things work.
We listened to everyone at the meetings and read as much as we could. But from here on in, in our life and walk with GOD, He was going to be our helper, teacher and guide through our own prayers, and the power of His Holy Spirit, Not Man. We checked everything, and everybody out with GOD, in prayer and our own study of GODS word. We also joined a home cell group from our church to study GODS word, but we made sure we checked out every word we heard there in our quiet time.
Based on such a footing no man could, or would, ever be able to lead us astray again into false man made doctrines religions or cults. We shared and listened to all our new found friends in the fellowship, who had come to know the Power of GOD. We were free to follow and believe in who ever we chose to. Nobody dominated, or was superior to anyone else. We had one Leader only, a loving Lord who expressed himself through each and every member. The leaders in our fellowship were only servants. They did not preach or lord it over the others nor did we.
There was however only one man that walked this earth that we found we could trust, follow, put all our hope in and believe in all that he had said, that one was Jesus.
As we studied the scriptures we came to believe that Jesus came as a guiding light into the world to lead us all to the Father, Our GOD and his. We believed that he was, who he said he was, our everlasting High Priest, through him, with him, by believing in having him in our lives, and by following his example, we could all become part of the blessed beautiful family of GODS Love
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-TENTH ACT and FACT of FAITH- (Romans Ch 
Realizing the Power wisdom and the strength behind these 10 Steps, we endeavored to carry this message to who ever, and when ever we could.
If we wanted to keep and hold onto the power of GOD working in and through our lives, we had to give it away or we might lose it. We had to adopt these concepts and principals in all our affairs, in and out of the fellowship. We went back to our churches, and freely shared our new understanding of GOD when the opportunity arose. We were careful to never ever force ourselves, or our beliefs on anyone.
Jesus commanded all those who believed in him, and his GOD and Father who sent him and raised him from the dead, that they should go out into all the world and spread the good news of the gospel of GOD, about His Son. He said that all those who believed and were baptized would be saved and have eternal life. This was something that we needed to grasp and hold on to.
We could see the wonder working power of GODS love changing peoples lives in the fellowship and filling them with this new faith, hope, love, joy, peace and happiness. It really did work for all and any one, even the miracles.
This was the good news that GOD could, would, and wanted to come into and take total control of our lives, if we would only just invite both him and His Son in. This was the promised free gift of grace available to help and guide all men, The Power of GOD’S Spirit working and living in us and through us. This was the new concept we had now come to believe in with all our hearts.
Coming to know GOD was coming to know Love, GOD was Love. When we invited GOD to come in and take control of our lives we actually invited GODS Holy Spirit of Love into our very being. All Love comes from GOD. Jesus said that unless we knew GOD His Father we could not have this Love. This is what living and believing in a Spiritual life is. It is also written in GODS word that you can tell who the people of GOD are by the Love they have one for another. This we could see and feel as we worked with others in the fellowship, this understanding of GODS Love that only comes from Him really did make a lot of common sense. GODS Holy Spirit is the Power of Love that works in and through us all, to love and help and guide others to Know GOD His Son and His Love for us.
This Love could not be bought, earned, learned or acquired. It was a Free Gift, which only came from knowing and believing in GOD, and for all those who rely wanted it, and really believed and put their faith hope and trust in GOD and his Son. Believing in this actually earned us the right to receive this LOVE and eternal life
With this new found strength from GOD, we were all in a position to help others to a new and wonderful life with GOD. All we had to do was make our selves always available, prepared and ready for GOD to use us. It was not necessary for us to fly to the other side of the world to save someone. We had our hands full with the people we knew all around us. GOD would lead and guide us we only needed to be willing.
There were all kinds of services in the family of GOD and in the fellowship. We each had to find our own calling. Some of us were good at one thing and others were good at other things. If we had lost a child or loved one, overcome an addiction, divorce, cancer, lost a limb, we could be of great value to anyone who had just found themselves in the same predicament. We were all capable of sharing the Power of GODS Love with each other and reconciling people back to GOD through telling our own stories of how we found and came to believe in GOD and His Power.
To this and the UNITY of the fellowship our main priority, we dedicated our lives. We had learned, that we needed to continue to grow Spiritually, and that the more we helped and served others was the best way to achieve this growth. Everyone of us become a valuable important Spiritual part of the same Spiritual body of friends in our group, we each had a variety of Special Spiritual gifts that others did not have, and they had gifts we did not have, But together as a UNITED body we had all the Spiritual Power to Help anyone with any problem.
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KEYS TO THE KINGDOM
Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the poor in heart for they will see GOD.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons of GOD.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
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WHERE IS THE WISE MAN?
Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not GOD made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of GOD the world through its wisdom did not know him, GOD was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. GOD chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; GOD chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. HE chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things. So that no one may boast before him. But GOD has revealed it to us by His SPIRIT.
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