The journey of faith is often marked by personal
transformation and the discovery of divine grace. "Apostolic Grace and my
Journey: A Testimony" explores transparency in one individual’s life. It delves
into the experiences of embracing apostolic grace, which involves receiving and
extending an extraordinary level of forgiveness and love and the way back.
It is a journey that reflects on the challenges and
revelations encountered along the way, illustrating a deep personal evolution
and a closer relationship with the Trinity.
For those interested in spiritual growth and apostolic
teachings, this testimony offers valuable insights and inspiration.
The journey of faith is often marked by personal
transformation and the discovery of divine grace. "Apostolic Grace and my
Journey: A Testimony" explores transparency in one individual’s life. It delves
into the experiences of embracing apostolic grace, which involves receiving and
extending an extraordinary level of forgiveness and love and the way back.
It is a journey that reflects on the challenges and
revelations encountered along the way, illustrating a deep personal evolution
and a closer relationship with the Trinity.
For those interested in spiritual growth and apostolic teachings, this testimony offers valuable insights and inspiration.
Apostolic Grace and my Journey: A testimony
9
December 2023
Back in 1992, when I gave my life to the Lord, I
never expected the turmoil it would cause. My journey had begun with many pit
stops, highlights, and lowlights which ended in the pigsty.
Yet God remained faithful through all the persecution
and His grace became my safety net. It was in the pigsty that I realised that
my only security is with God, and I returned to the house of Grace, as a
much-humbled person.
The last couple of weeks I learned the true
meaning of transparency and the influence it has on your life. This was
emphasised while studying the life of King Uzzia in 2 Chronicles 26, a man that
had become so delusional in his grandeur that he became a block for the
nation. Leprosy and death was the result of his life. In it there is a
warning to me. A choice that I have to make daily.
Over the last couple of days’ there was one
question that kept on twirling in my mind: what is the colour of
transparency?
Is it the colour red? Red is a dark colour that
looks more like doom and gloom than transparency. Red is also the colour of
blood which was shed for me.
Is it the colour blue? Blue is symbolic of water
and grace, but in its most natural shade, it is a murky colour that allows
little light.
Is it the colour yellow? No, I don’t think so.
Its brightness can be so overpowering that you must shield your eyes from its
glare.
Is it black? Definitely not.
When you look long enough at green or orange,
everything becomes that colour. Envy and strife are the number one
characteristic that come from it.
Then I realized, transparency is a mixture of all
the colours, like a rainbow. When you take the Word and angle it correctly, all
the colours combines, and it becomes a sheer white. A transparent colour where
no block or blind spot can hold its own. It has no room for errors or
wickedness. It becomes clear.
Apostolic Grace has become the prism in my life.
When I began to look at my life through the prism of apostolic grace,
everything slowed down. The light has bend against the Word and my life became
a focal point of change. The more I submit, the greater becomes the light that
is Christ in me.
This week I was confronted with the ugliness of
envy and lies. Words failed me at the venomous attack, and I realised that no
explanation would clear me. Only my life can be the antidote and what I stand
for. If people want to believe that I am busy with my own agenda, I cannot
change their mind. Only God can. My life must be transparent, and by now I
believe it is. Those that truly knows me, knows this about me.
A prism has three polished surfaces that are
designed to refract light. In the spiritual we have the Trinity God,
representing the three polished surfaces: God the Father, God the Son, and God
the Holy Spirit. When we become perpendicular, meaning we bend at a 90% angle,
darkness bows its knees and we become radiant: a brilliant shade of Christ.
Transparent in its truest form is the colour of Christ.
The moment I joined hands with the Apostolic
company, grace abounded. My journey has accelerated, and I must navigate the short
lefts, sharp turns and fast lanes much quicker than before. But through it all,
God guides me, and provides for me. Sometimes I don’t understand the doors he
opens or the people I meet, but one day it will make sense. Blocks become
obstacles I can move through with greater ease. Like a dance, I side-step,
twist, turn and move forward, one step at a time. All I must do is follow Him,
spend time in the Word, get the culture correct and pray. Because He is the
light to my path, I must stay transparent. Only then will I be a true witness
to the Father. An image barer of Christ with the Holy Spirit as my guide. To
me, there is no other path but to follow HIM.
Grace and peace to you all.
Lynelle
Hephzibeula Intercontinental Ministries: H.I.M.
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