Daily journal continued April 21, 2000, by – William Thomas Thompson
This is Good Friday. Today is remembered as the day Christ was crucified.
I paint and write my conviction, as I feel led of God. I believe Christ came to earth to suffer and die that we may live. Christ became the sacrifice for our sin once and for all. We are redeemed through the blood of Christ and have eternal life. Teaching of the church largely is of a Trinity as the throne of God in Heaven, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We say there is one God and then we divide the throne in three parts. I believe truly that God is one. I believe that Christ is from God. Some believe now that the Trinity doctrine is from the church of idolatry. Some say Jesus only and this becomes an issue similar to those who claim the King James Version of the Bible to be the only true version. There are fanatics that make a federal case out of nothing. Let us spend our time in meditation and prayer to God almighty to reveal Himself.
God is spirit and salvation is by faith, let us believe on Christ the Lord. Amen.
A national report about big brother listening in to every phone call, fax or e-mail. Uncle Sam’s computers are programmed to hear certain words and to label those people as potentially hostel. A bumper sticker I saw today on the street stated, do not steal because the government does not like competition. We live in terrible times of uncertainty. In Africa what was Rhodesia is now Zimbabwe where the blacks are taking the farms from the white landowners at the expense of murder. The people often think that they own land but they do not. Let the whites leave the land and take their families back to their native homeland where they will be safe. “What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his own soul”. What does it profit a man to gain the whole country but lose his own life? What is real treasure? The rich are no longer with us. Does a man live when he is dead? Does the soul sleep until resurrection or does the soul go immediately to Heaven after death? I believe that “to be absence from the body is to be present with the Lord”. I believe that the soul never dies as Christ told the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. The rich man was instantly in hell while Lazarus was instantly in Heaven. The rich can seldom go to Heaven because their money is their God and that is confined to earth or to the pit of Hell below the earth. Let us be broken hearted before the Lord in all humility and exhort Him with all praise and Thanksgiving. Put God first. The truly rich are those devoted to God that seeks no earthly wealth. Be ye servant to the Lord God. Obey the Ten Commandments; yes even all the Commandments of God.
I was anointed with the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues as in Acts chapter 2.
I had to seek the Holy Spirit for 2 years before I received it in Pentecostal tradition. Some receive it much sooner. After being saved and sanctified, I had to prove my humility before God and humble myself to a point where nothing stood between my master and me. I had to confess tiny little things to prove myself willing to be molded by God as a total servant. I had to want the Holy Spirit more than anything in the world. I had to seek for hours daily and finally to pray at the altar until 1a.m. when I was filled with the Great Holy Spirit of God and I shouted the praises to the Lord and celebrated the victory feeling as though my soul was in the heavens. I praised the Lord in an unknown tongue and his praises emitted out of my soul for days and still does except there are times of great trials, depression and defeats that I must endure. Receiving the Holy Spirit is a commitment as a change of one’s life to total service and dedication to God without exception. Come Holy Spirit.