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I believed that ever since mankind fell away from God (who is a Spirit in heaven), that that SPIRIT OF GOD came to mankind, and talked to mankind, giving mankind His (God's) heavenly doctrine (Spiritual Word), so that mankind could get back to God again.

And I saw that this heavenly doctrine (Spiritual Word) of God, came to mankind as SCRIPTURAL WATER, as SCRIPTURAL RAIN, in order to wash mankind in it's HEAVENLY SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND HIS GREATNESS.

For example I saw Beloved Moses speak of this heavenly doctrine (SPIRITUAL WORD), for Beloved Moses said,

"Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the WORDS of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Because I will publish the NAME OF THE LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. " Deut. 32:1-3

Here I saw that THE NAME OF THE LORD was to be found IN THIS HEAVENLY SCRIPTURAL RAIN (WATER OF THE WORD). And I wanted so much TO KNOW THAT NAME, THAT 'WORD' OF HEAVENLY DOCTRINE THAT COMES AS SPIRITUAL WATER in order to publish THE GREATNESS OF GOD.

And again, I saw the same thing in the prophets. For example it is written,

"Ho, every one that thirsteth, COME YE TO THE WATERS, and he that has no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread? And your labor for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; AND I WILL MAKE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH YOU, even the sure mercies of David." Isa.55:1-3

Here I saw, that IN THESE WATERS, GOD WAS GOING TO MAKE AN EVERLASTING (Eternal), COVENANT (SPIRITUAL Law), WITH ME.

Oh, how I wanted THIS ETERNAL LAW written on my heart, because knowing THAT GOD SAID THAT IT WAS ETERNAL (everlasting), I KNEW THAT TO HAVE IT WRITTEN UPON MY HEART WOULD MAKE ME ETERNAL, THE WAY GOD WILLED FOR THE FIRST MAN TO BE AT THE BEGINNING.

I KNEW THAT THIS WAS THE ETERNAL LIFE GIVING LAW (THE SPIRITUAL WORD OF LIFE), THAT WOULD MAKE ME IN GOD'S IMAGE AND LIKENESS.

And again, I saw the same thing in the gospel of the Lord. For example it is written,

"In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, OUT OF HIS BELLY SHALL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER."
John 7:37-38

Now I knew that our Lord was referring to Proverbs 18:4, for it is written,

"A WORD in the heart of a man is a DEEP WATER, AND A RIVER AND FOUNTAIN OF LIFE SPRING FORTH."
Proverbs 18:4. Septuagint Bible

And so knowing this, I knew that THIS WAS THE WORD, THE LIVING WATER, THE FOUNTAIN OF ETERNAL LIFE, THAT BELOVED MOSES, WAS SPEAKING ABOUT, AND THE BELOVED PROPHETS WERE SPEAKING ABOUT, AND THE MESSIAH AND HIS APOSTLES WERE SPEAKING ABOUT.

So I trusted God on this, and knowing that I had now COME TO THE WATERS in order to get this EVERLASTING COVENANT, I REPENTED GREATLY OF MY DEAD CARNAL DOCTRINE ABOUT WATER BAPTISM, AND I WENT TO THE SPIRITUAL WATERS, AND WENT INTO THEM WITH THE HOLY HEAVENLY BRETHREN, AND FOUND THE EVERLASTING COVENANT OF GOD.

AND IN THAT EVERLASTING COVENANT, I FOUND THE ONE HEAVENLY LORD GOD, AND HIS ONE HEAVENLY CHURCH, AND HIS ONE HEAVENLY FELLOWSHIP WITH ALL WHO ARE THERE. ALL PRAISE AND GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
Edmund

I found myself desiring a place of faith in Moses, and the prophets, and in the Lord Jesus Christ, and in His death, burial, and resurrection, however I knew that I didn't have their Love and Wisdom working in my life.

I knew I wasn't seeing a Life Giving Word that they ALL SAW. I knew that there was something I needed to see that I wasn't seeing. I prayed for spiritual sight, again, and again, and again.

When upon believing the Truth of Romans 7:14,

"For we know that the law is spiritual"

Then the Lord Jesus Christ began to open up my spiritual sight; by His Grace and Mercy, through His Holy Spirit; His Eternal Word, took on a new understanding, and revelation.

Wherever I was reading in the scriptures, if I was in Genesis, seeing that I was made to be in God's image and likeness, i.e., made in HIS ETERNITY AND HIS DIVINITY, made in His Righteousness, and not my own; or if I was in Isaiah reading of how,

"...All flesh (carnal flesh,) is grass (corruptible), and all the goodliness (religious piety) thereof is as the flower of the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.": Isa. 40:6-7

The NEW SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE began to bring The WAY of salvation to my soul.

I rejoiced in laying down my old mind, and receiving the immortal, eternal understanding of His scripture, the Word of Life. I turned to Christ to lead my thought, and understanding to be in His Heavenly Zion.

My heart desired no longer to follow the strange woman, Agar of Galatians 4:24, the woman that gendereth to bondage, nor even to follow the harlot of Proverbs 7:10; Who leads one's soul in the ways of darkness, and night in the scriptures.

I recognized by His Grace and Mercy, that He, Jesus Christ is truly the Light, and only He could truly bring Life unto my soul. I had finally, after many years of being tossed to and fro by false doctrines, found God's heavenly Church, the Church of His eternal sight and knowledge.

And it was there that I received the revelation that there, by the Holy Spirit's spiritual teaching of scripture that I was able to see God's heavenly Church, that has been since the beginning. I really saw what the Lord Jesus Christ spoke through Moses, and the prophets, and what He truly did, on His cross, for the soul's of mankind, as it is written,

"And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it."
Colossians 2:13-15

I realized that I had been trying to keep a law that my Savior had blotted out, and that, that dead letter law was against me; the dead letter law was contrary to my drawing near to my Redeemer.

So, learning of the ignorant state I had been in regarding the Truth of God's Living Water, I was humbled to know that all of my sinful life in the carnal word, and ministry of the lies below was being washed away and forgiven by my coming to His Truth of the Eternal Word (voice), of Life.

By His Grace and Mercy He had led me to repent and enter His LIVING WATER, and become a new creation in His Truthful Water by hearing His voice; as it is written,

"The voice of the Lord is upon the Waters..."
Psalms 29:3.

I heard that voice, and HIS WATER became my sanctification, as it is written,

"That He might sanctify and cleanse it (the Church) with the washing of water by the Word."
Ephesians 5:26

Or, as The New Testament 1582 Rheims Bible reads,

"That He might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water "in" the word of life:” Eph.5:26)

Or, as The New Testament Wycliffe Bible reads,

“Men, love ye your wife’s, as Christ loved the church, and gave Himself for it, to make it holy; and cleansed it with the washing of water, “in” the word of life.” Eph. 5:24-26 Wycliffe Bible

Or, as The New Testament Bishops Bible reads,

"Ye husbands love your wife‘s, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, To sanctify it, cleansing it in the fountain of water “in” the word.”Eph.5:24-26 Bishops Bible

(Note! Here in Eph. 5:26, we see that Christ's Church is sanctified and cleansed only by His washing. If Christ's Church, is sanctified, and cleansed by only Christ's baptismal washing, how can anyone who advocates any other baptismal washing other than the one that Christ gave to His Church, be of Christ and His Church?)

And again,

"For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of Waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Revelation 7:17

So, how blessed I am, since my being baptized spiritually into Christ, to have the continual washing, by Christ's perpetual fountain, of His Life Giving Word.

In His Eternal Water of Love,
VeraLynn

"God setteth the solitary in families. He bringeth out those which are bound with chains, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land." Ps.68:6

And that makes me think about the land that I now dwell in since I turned my heart from rebellion against God's Spirit and His heavenly spiritual Law.

" And He showed me a pure river of water of life clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb." Rev.22:1

And Ezek.47:1-12 shows me the healing waters from the temple, the heavenly temple of God which is the Body of Christ.

"And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem". Zech.14:8.

And my favorite place right now Isa.35, The whole chapter blesses me so much but here are a few of the thoughts ... The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as a rose.... for in the wilderness shall waters break out and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water....and it shall be called the way of Holiness.

This is the land that I now dwell in. His pure river flooded through my soul and washed filth and sin and evil out of it. No earthly water could ever do this. No carnal ordinance had ever washed the inside of my cup.

All my life I have longed for the way of God's holiness.

All my life I have known that my soul was thirsty and dry. I have struggled with sin and depression and lack of true peace through out my entire 24 year experience in the Christian movement that is all around me.

I now see why I struggled so.

Jesus said to the woman at the well that He had water that He would give her wherewith she would never thirst again. He has given me this water!!!!

But this water was not easy to find, I had to search diligently, and I needed help to understand, and His Holy Spirit helped me.

It cost me my life, it's way was through the cross, and His sword passed through me and painfully separated me. He wanted my single eye (The Song of Solomon 4:9), focused on Him, His truth, His righteousness, His Holiness, to believe His promises of incorruptibility and peace and joy and love.

I turned from the lies of wisdom below that taught a righteousness that was not of Him. That taught a way that did not lead to Him. That twisted His Word and trampled His promises.

I love the Word, I love His body, in it He refreshes me continually, He strengthens me, and He purifies me.

May God bless this place where seekers may come and learn of the Living Water that poured out of the Lambs pierced side, and may they be healed, because everything shall live whither the river cometh. Ez.47:9

Much love to you all!

In the Love of the Lamb,
Dawn

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