Rick Collins My Testimony
A Rest for the People of God
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Finding
rest in Christ Jesus is the greatest enjoyment of my newly found oneness as a Christian.
For me, it was like spiritual retirement to receive the grace of God by revelation
knowledge. You know the story or your story about when you received rest. Rest is
a person. It is Christ Jesus. Because of His grace, He gives us revelation knowledge
revealing the Father’s nature and purposes.
This is my story or journey of finding
that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that is so special and life changing to
each one, who receives it. The Lord saw fit for me to complete the entire 40 yrs
in the wilderness before going into the promise land, which I would call, “Me in
Christ Jesus or Christ In Me.” When we receive this revelation that Christ lives
in us as our life, that is where the real rest, enjoyment, peace and happiness begins
as a Christian. It is no longer you that lives, but Christ lives in you as your life.
This is the good life or as one of my friends would say, “I am living the dream.”
That is how sweet it is to live with Christ in you and you resting in Him, instead
of only knowing about Him with just head knowledge.
You might be asking, what is resting
in Christ Jesus? Rest is ceasing to work to become who you already are in Jesus Christ.
If there is any work to be done, Christ will do it. The world is full of religious
busy bodies. Working their fingers to the bone, trying to please God and to be right
with God by what they do. If we are Christian, we are already right with God, because
of what He did at the cross. Our old nature was crucified with Him on the cross and
our new nature is Christ in us as our life. (Gal. 2:20) Christ in us is eternal life
and cannot be altered or changed, such as save today and lost tomorrow. Christ cannot
see us as the person we were before He came to live in us. The reason He cannot see
you that way is because that old nature, which you had, does not exist any more.
It is dead to Him. God crucified His Son, so He could see only Christ as us.
I was
saved at age 12 and did not receive the revelation that Christ lives in me as my
life until 40 years later. My Christian experience started by spending 25 years living
in the flesh and running from God, because I did not know what to do with all the
condemnation and gilt. Then my life came to a stand still, when a great tragedy gripped
my life, and the Lord took me down low to show me what He was not. For the next ten
years, I was caught up in religion with intense Bible study habits and a strong will
to know about the end of the world and the antichrist. I knew more about Satan than
I did about Christ. Boy, if you want to know about missing the bulls’ eye, that is
it. I understand now why Paul said he didn’t want to know anything, but Christ and
Him crucified.
For a while, I cursed my past because of all the years, which I thought
were wasted in the wilderness just wondering around from one religious experience
to another. Then the lord taught me that it was not all wasted. The world is a schoolhouse,
and God is the principal. In His school, there are all kinds of classes, which we
must take in order to learn and to know Jesus. The Holy Spirit uses all of my experiences
to teach me more about the Christ that lives in me and desires to be my life. You
have to know what Christ is not, before you can enjoy and know who He is. You have
to be a witness unto Him in oneness, before you can be a witness for Him giving testimony
of the mystery of the Gospel of Christ in you. Col. 1:27
For the last 5 years of my
40 year journey, the lord put me through a detox center on religion before giving
me the revelation that Christ was in me. Boy, you would not believe the religious
cargo that I had picked in my life’s journey. The co-
Dove Love,
Rick
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I am so blessed by the cd’s of "How then shall we live!!!!!" . My mom is listening to them now and also is so blessed.
The Holy Sprit has enlightened the eyes of my heart in ways that words cannot describe. I have heard so many Grace pastors and its all grace but still something missing I just can’t seem to put my finger on it. Pastor Warren says that when the Word that we read , which is truth , connects with the Word within , there’s an explosion that takes place on the inside and I've seen that happen ........ when the Holy Spirit highlights a scripture, I understand truth.
But many pastors even when not mixing grace and law they still lack one thing, the focus is still on health and wealth, I am so blessed and thank God for opening the eyes of my heart to see ONE THING – CHRIST as my only life.........healthy or sick .......................its His Life now.
Im just so blessed!!!.....................Love L
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I like this , I have the same experiences , my parents was very religious , they sort of forced
me to go to church as a child and that put me of , as a teen ager I did not go to church I live as there was no God , round about 23 years I start to attend church every now and again , only
because I was married and my wife attended a specific church, in this church I experience that it was run like a business , enrol , pay your dues/tithes do this program to improve your spiritual relationship with God or help with certain jobs in the church , I have never been encourage by preacher to have a close relationship with my Father in heaven , I later join a church who was heavy under the law , man there we kept all holly days , the Sabbath day , we will not work on those days from sunset to sunset like the Jews did . The sabbath day was our salvation , if you keep the sabbath then you are saved . We pay 1 tenth of our salary as tithe another tenth as second tithe which we save to go to the feast of Tabernacles , every 3rd year we have to give another third tithe , so you can see I was heavy under the law , Well all of this did not teach me any thing about Christ in me , it was all man made doctrines rules and regulations , man did I have enough of it , I always felt that there was something missing , something was not right , I could not pinpoint it. To tell you to be under man's law and doctrine is very exhausted and frustrating , there is no fulfillment in it , you really have to work hard to get more faith , you have to fast , pray long hours and , do heavy bible study to get your self righteousness , I always failed and I later feel like a loser because I just cannot get it right.
Fortunately this church change it's doctrine and because of this the church brake up in different groups , I left that church . Shows you what happen to human institutions. If only everyone can see Christ in him only then we will have unity . Well lucky me about ± 2 years ago somebody gave me a cd of Warren Litzman where he explain the Birthing , man I tell you since then my life change completely , I learn it is not me who live any more but Christ in me , He is now doing what ever I must do , He is now living the life as me , I have rest , I have peace , I have faith ,I have happiness ( my wife always asking “why are you laughing “} I am in love with Christ and with my Father in heaven , this is all possible because of Christ in me He is all those things , and you know what, I can face whatever problem come my why , I just give it to Christ , He sort it out , I do not have to do any thing to build up any faith any more , faith is in me and that is Christ , I just rely on Him in me. You know what , I have a wonderful teacher , sent by my Farther to teach me about Christ in me , the Holy Spirit , He always comfort us , and He will always guide you to see Christ in you , usually in any circumstances or decision you have to make , the first voice or inspiration you hear or feel would be the Holy Spirit , we must just fine tune our ears to listen to Him. The Holy Spirit taught me that I am just a cup or a temple for a deity , it is either satan who live in my temple or Christ , fortunately I know my Father has birthed me and that His divine nature ( that is Christ )is now living in my temple and it is His living water which must flow through me as me.
I am still learning and the progress in my mind/soul will always be there until my mind is Christ's
The battle in the mind is necessary, and all the circumstances and situations in my life force me
just to see more and more Jesus in me , I don't have to seek him any more , He is in me as me .
Well Rick not long any more , brother ,we will join our Father .
Peter Porter
More to come
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TESTIMONIES FROM THOSE WHO HAVE LEARN THAT CHRIST LIVES IN THEM
