Full Gospel Believers Staying Spiritually Hydrated: The Retained Truth the Fire of the Holy Ghost Dealing with the Me Factor

By Margery Cobb Johnson

This Godly inspired book is written to man; the whole of man! No matter our professions, no matter what we have attained in this life; we need God! God is one God, Creator and maker of all men! He wants the soul of man which is in his likeness and image that came from Him to be with Him! With God man acquires a more significant spiritual nature. With that spiritual relationship comes some sacrifice! How bad then do we want God? Relationship with Him? Make the sacrifice of obedience needed to secure the relationship. Stay spiritually hydrated.

It's time to come up in God through the Word, by the Spirit. The Word speaks for God and the Spirit moves upon the spoken Word and make things happen for God. We must stand up in the Word, be a living Word as we were created to be and be counted worthy of God. Stop being tricked out of this joy filled life and release our self from the struggle of sin.

To be like Jesus, a living Word in flesh we have to know some things; know Christ Jesus, know God, know His Word, His Spirit, His Way, His Will, His Purpose, know Our Redeemer, know Our Creator, Maker, Master, Keeper, know Good and Evil, Sin and Holiness, Know The Natural and The Spiritual World. Get wet and stay wet for God!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 20, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984579614

Margery Cobb Johnson

I write about myself and the truth of God's Word and righteous nature as I have learned and come to know. I also maintain a honorable respect for him and endeavor as I have been taught; to try to teach that we can live holy and righteous in this present world. How we go by accepting Christ in our life and allowing Him to live in us determines if we become a Bible Believer or not. We can live Holy to the fullest of our potential now. We are told about our self; the good the ugly and the bad through the Word. As I think about my life now and what is going on, I understand the plight of man. Most times things we know may not be acceptable to be spoken at that time; for they won't be received properly In a time of anger. But the Word is true; God is true and we need the leading and guiding of the Holy Ghost to live this life; for God is the very breath we breathe. I went through a lot to get to where I am now and where I stand with God. I am not the desperate woman that I had been portrayed to be in time past. I am a woman, a real Bible Believer, a true vessel of God that loves Christ, and I am in Christ Jesus. This is what being a real Bible Believer is about. Getting to know God as I know Him now took a strong, firm foundation that was rooted in me at the feet of my grandmother, Rosetta Cobb. After everyone was gone to bed at night, she took time with me to teach me, she taught me the Word. She read the Word to me, as well as listen when I read the Word too! She explained many things to me. She taught me how to pray and prayed along with me. My grandmother left me with a spiritual inheritance of love and that of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am thankful yet today of that firm foundation, that firm belief she left me with at her death. Before she died she reminded me of what God had promised me; God's going to always make a way for you. I raised my children in like manner to give them a strong foundation in Christ. I dedicate this book to her memory.

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Introduction

Staying Spiritually Hydrated

What is A Christian

The Time, Then The Times

Grab, Hold, And Swallow All Of God

Can You Accept What God Allows In Your Life

The Road Of Salvation

Self Gratification

The Holy Ghost And The Gift Of Tongues

Putting On The New Man

Seeking God’s Preservation

Self Discipline

Enduring This Race To The End

The Times And Seasons Of Life

Idolatry, It’s Repercussions

Be Sure Your Sin Will Find You Out

The Tempter

Full Gospel Believers

The Retained Truth

Sound Doctrine

Temple Of God

A Harvester Of Souls

Saved Now, Being A Bible Believer

God Wants Us To Be United Believers

God’s Prayer Tower

Be A Victory Temple

Be A Temple Of Greater Healing

Be A Wayside Believer

A DOUBLE DOSE A DOUBLE DIP

REGENERATED BORN AGAIN

Introduction

Know Christ Jesus, Know God

God Is Unsearchable

God Is To Be Feared

A New Heart And A New Spirit

It’s Twofold Lost In The House

Perfect Likeness And Image

The Error Of Religion

What Keep Believers Out Of The Presence Of God

Change Of Mind; New Mindset

God An All Sufficing God

Spirit of Denial

The Fight Of Faith

God’s Extended Love And Goodness

Religion Destroys, Relationship Builds Up

We are Kingdom Seekers!

Its Time To Arise In Relationship

Lord Turn Us Again

The Abuse Of Unfruitfulness

In Danger of Hell’s Fire

Check Things Out

RELIGION VERSUS RELATIONSHIP

Are We Just Shadow Boxing?

It Takes A Turning

Where Is The Sense

The Marriage Foundational Covenant

The Choice; Good or Evil

Jesus, The Risen Christ Leads Us To Heaven

The Wound Of Sin

This is my Testimony

The Day Of Reckoning

What About The Bible

The Word Today is Fear!

First Things First

Be Hot Or Cold Believer

Where Did We Go Wrong

An Idolater, Idols And Idolatry

What Have We Allowed To Come In

Allergic To This World

From The Author

My Praise Won’t Be Understood

Dedication

This Godly inspired book is written to man; the whole of man! No matter man’s race or ethnic background, their professions, no matter what they have attained in this life! God is one God, Creator and maker of all men! He wants the soul of man which came from Him to be with Him!

It’s time to come up to the saving knowledge of Jesus

Christ? It’s time to stand up and be counted worthy

Stray away from the tricks of the devil; release

our self from the struggle of sin

To be like Jesus We have to know some things

Know Christ Jesus, Know God, Know His Word, His Spirit,

His Way, His Will, His Purpose, Know Our Redeemer, Know

Our Creator, Maker, Master, Keeper, Know Good and Evil, Sin

and Holiness, Know The Natural and The Spiritual World

Introduction

There is a place in God every believer must attain! It’s time for a spiritual makeover, Let God Make Us Over!

Jeremiah 18:5-10 Then the Word of the LORD came to me saying, Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel. At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it.

The spiritual Change Agents of change is the Word and the Holy Spirit come from God, the spiritual conduits of change. Man and woman come to God through the Word and Spirit working together in them! We must join the team! To do that and become what God require we be; we must be spiritually made over!

How Do We Perceive Christ? How we know and understand God, is through his Word that was always with Him, his Son sent in flesh as we are to redeem us to right relationship with his Father. We need to see Jesus as He is. The Disciples had Jesus walking, talking, teaching and living with them in the flesh but He was gone away from them. He rose from the dead in his glorified state as the Christ! They now needed him to be there in the flesh with them: but He was in Spirit. He had promised them that the Holy Ghost; the Spirit of God would come upon them and go on the inside to dwell with them. We too must take the Word on the inside of us that He live, move and have being in us to work from the inside to the outside! Who was He?

It was the Holy Ghost breathed on us and in us that first made us a living soul, Genesis 2:7; why wouldn’t we want Him now? God want us to wear his heart in our heart, in our mind, in our hands, and in our feet! He wants to be the life ruling guide of our mind, heart, hands and feet! Can He trust an App of Himself in our hand? It is through the Word and Spirit! They brought the App God sent to us to maneuver us through the terrains of life here in earth for heaven.

In the game of life, almost is not good enough! Conversion should bring with it a conviction on the inside. To be convicted of sin means we were tried by God, his Word and Spirit! We were found guilty in an area of life and after being found out we should feel so convicted by it that it brings about a change to do something different. If we don’t feel we need to turn from that wicked way; that ungodly act, then we haven’t really accepted the conversion we say we now have. Conversion demand change!

If we say we love God, we must live a life that show forth that love. How can we say we love God but live not a life pleasing in his sight? God is watching, you know! He is booking our every move. A life lived God’s Way is lived for his Will and Purpose of Salvation to come forth. There is but one way to God and that’s through Christ, God’s Son, the Word come in flesh, called by the name Jesus and died, buried and resurrected. Acts 7:48 howbeit the most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands.

We come to Him after hearing the Word, accepting him in our heart, believing that He is the Son of God sent to redeem man back to God and make a confession that He is Lord. Then because of the conviction felt from within, we deny our flesh wants and accept the promised eternal life God through Christ by his Spirit have given when He forgave us of our sins. On top of that He gives us grace that’s continued throughout our walk in holiness. A life lived in Christ is after the Word Holy because we serve a living Holy God that said be ye holy for I am holy.

How’s our living? Are we living to live again? When we leave this body that have housed us for life on Earth; we have a life with God that has already been prepared in heaven; a prepared place for a prepared people. A life lived here in earth; in natural flesh for God prepare us to live again with Him a Spiritual life in heaven. It’s real! Prepare now, have a life lived now for a life to come! God is real, heaven is real and hell is too! A life lived! Where will it take us? We are living to live again! If we died today will the life we live now bring us through the gate of heaven? Are we sure? Will we hear God say, Well Done thou good and faithful servant or will we hear Depart I know you not! Today, consider our ways and see if they are of God’s Way!

Did you know Satan can’t see his way to God? Stop allowing him to use us to get to God on God’s throne! His days are numbered, he is desperate to have our souls!

A life lived! If we say we love God we must live a life that show forth that love. How can we say we love God but live not a life pleasing in his sight? God is watching you know! He is booking our every move. A life lived God’s Way is lived for his Will and Purpose of Salvation to come forth. There is but one way to God and that’s through Christ, God’s Son, the Word come in flesh, called by the name Jesus and died, buried and resurrected. We come to Him after hearing the Word, accepting him in our heart, believing that He is the Son of God sent to redeem man back to God and make a confession that He is Lord. Then because of the conviction felt from within, we deny our flesh wants and accept the promised eternal life God through Christ by his Spirit have given when He forgave us of our sins. On top of that He gives us grace that’s continued throughout our walk of holiness. A life lived in Christ is after the Word, Holy because we serve a living Holy God that said be ye holy for I am holy.

How’s our living? Are we living to live again? When we leave this body that have housed us for life on Earth; we have a life with God that has already been prepared in heaven; a prepared place for a prepared people. A life lived here in earth; in natural flesh for God prepare us to live again with Him a Spiritual life in heaven. It’s real! Prepare now, have a life lived now for a life to come! God is real, heaven is real and hell is too! A life lived! Where will it take us? We are living to live again! If we died today will the life we live now bring us through the gate of heaven? Are we sure? Will we hear God say, Well Done thou good and faithful servant or will we hear Depart I know you not! Today, consider our ways and see if they are of God’s Way!

A spiritual infection is caused by sin! It’s the process of infecting one’s soul or the state of being infected where our soul lie dead within us. To avoid being caught up in this sinful state we need a strict hygiene; a watering of the Word of God, fasting and prayer. Denying the body it’s flesh wants and lusts: will limit the risk of a soul infection! Righteousness blocks sin’s inflammation process that brings about contamination, poisoning our spiritual life with God through his Word by his Spirit. Sin causes an ulceration, suppuration and inflammation. It loose germs and bacteria all around us. It’s just as catching as AIDS, HIV, and the CORONAVIRIS going around now.

Sin is just as much an infectious disease as those are. It sets up infections that block our hearing the Word, studying the Word, living the Word and it blocks us from accepting God in his fullness. It blocks our heart from functioning after God! It causes a loss in the mind concerning spiritual things. It inhibits our spiritual growth. Because it is a chest infection, it brings on death.

Sin is a disease we need to avoid. It is a virus we definitely do not want to spread to others, for it’s a contagion that brings disorder to a whole nation. It gets God caught in a crossfire and the condition gives Satan permission to bring afflictions upon us. Our disobedience is a problem! God has a complaint against us and our sinful illness. We will be found with ailments we never knew before because the sin sickness causes us to have an infirmity and brings on an indisposition; we have a sin bug in the presence of a virus that is an introduction into the system of hell.

God through his Word, walks with us! We must have a healthy diet of the Word daily that Jesus Walks in and through us, alive; a Living Word! Jesus is King, I am nothing but his God Ordained Change Agent trying to tell the World that Jesus; He is King! I release through my writing unto the world that I am very much a part of the truth of Christ as I have come to know! God is releasing a new work into the life of man as Disciples of Jesus Christ! It is more than just a song; its a life! New life as we have not known before. What God have done in me; I want the world to know! What I am feeling right now; I want the world to feel! It feels so good to go to bed with him and rise up in the morning with Him still alive on the inside.

I took a second look! Where is the sense I am searching for? I had shortcomings I didn’t understand. I was lost in a world of sin and the cares of life was choking me to death! I had it all but what was I saying to my soul? I walked but was not being faithful to God! Something was missing!

When I was suffering a mental breakdown in sin, only God was with me! It was Him sending me visions and inspiring me to realize who I am and my purpose in this world. No one else was there! God broke into my mind, filled my heart with a new thing, a fresh revelation of who He is! I lost my mind for his mind at that time! I gave Him my heart! I am here today because my work was not, then and is not now finished!

I stand before you today and give you what God gave me; his Word, his Son, Jesus, the Holy Ghost to live life as He always ordained; a spiritual life with Him in this flesh!

Men everywhere today have been met with much skepticism by those who doubt the sincerity of their conversion to Christ, but it doesn’t really matter because its all about God in their life! For Him they now live and in Him they will die! It took a turning in the life of man to see God in their life.

Every new creature had to believe and be saved by grace for eternal life. They had to pull down the strongholds in their life. To save their soul alive, they realized there had to be a turning; they had a choice.

No one, nobody is worth our soul in hell! If there’s a problem with our worship to our God our now ruling King; oh well they can take it up with their God. I know who reigns! Jesus brought us to reign with God! We have an inherited blessing! Whatever hang-ups people have about our salvation is theirs alone! We are in spiritual warfare! What are we feasting on? We need a mind ready for heaven. At the end of our life is death. We will have eternal life somewhere!

We need to be converted! I have been converted! In the midst of being converted, changed, we will face opposition and doubt that God have done something new in us! During Paul’s conversion there’s a biblical parallel, when Christians were skeptical about the conversion! They had, had Jesus with them but yet didn’t really know him spiritually.

Man in flesh today claim to know Jesus but never had a true spiritual encounter with Him. Paul, as I have; had a spiritual encounter with Jesus, the risen Christ! In worship we are to reach a place where Christ come alive spiritually so to us that He become our whole desire for living! We want to take Him to the world! We want everyone to know Him!

What about the children? Where do the church stand in the face of this new generation of children being birth forth into the world? There is an on going battle for the soul of man through the children today as never before! We live amongst a generation of people that have forgotten God! What’s the new face of the world being presented to children today? Do we know and recognize the demons being presented?

Why do we not have a choice in who or what we are? We make ourselves an idol to God when we choose to do that which He says we should not. The first Commandment tells us that we should have no other god before Him. That includes taking a mind of what he made us to be opposite of what our body says we are! Do we realize how we have destroyed God’s Order thereby destroying his Legacy?

We stand on opposite sides of God, his Word and his Spirit that gave us life as we are! That’s blasphemy! Its unforgivable; the new age death! Its automatically a death sentence in hell; no matter who it is that do it! Why is that!

Man have rejected God in almost every way possible. Jesus warns us in Matthew 10:33 but whosoever will deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father, which is in heaven. Satan know we will need Jesus to escort us unto the Father. So he stir a mess up in the heart of man that Jesus is just a man like you that died just like a man! It’s nothing to Him.

Jesus was the Word, is the Word, and He shall ever be the Word on the right hand of his Father. He came to redeem man of their sin, took on a body of flesh, died a horrific death, murdered as a man in the flesh, was buried as a man in flesh but resurrected spiritually as the Christ. He was now as the first man Adam was created in the image and likeness of God; a spiritual being again as He was in heaven in the beginning.

Man fail to deny themselves to follow after the one God sent; his Word to be restored in relationship to the Father. Jesus said in Matthew 16:24 if any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. To deny mean we give up our wants for what God wants. We declare that God is true and Jesus is real. We accept the Word to be true. We acknowledge that we need Jesus, follow the Word to know Him and refuse to do that which displease Him. We do without that which we desire not like God. Why is denial so hard? It mean we have to give up somethings. It implies a refusal to accept God as true, Jesus as real and valid; we say he is nonexistent; an emphatic denial!

How can man believe in something they can’t see? It’s a problem! Satan have in this time beefed up his efforts of deception and implied a direct force against man’s own identity. It’s a very forceful attack against that which one calls into question their own identity as a man or woman! He know to call that card, man is in not only denying self, God, and his Word but the Holy Spirit that gave man life as man know it. The body itself made by God tell us what we are. All else takes on a mind apart from God! We call our body a liar too! Denial of self!

The Church then face the wrath of speaking truth against the demonic forces that rule the heart of man outside of God’s Will! Man have a will that goes against the Way, the Truth, and the Light of God’s Word. God spoke his Word, let us make man and the Holy Spirit got on board and provided the Spirit man needed to make them living souls as man and woman! How can we say they didn’t know what they were doing? In the time we live in we find that we are being pulled on from every area of life, including our belief system. We are being challenged by society in ways we are not accustomed to. We need God to make us over again. We must continuously daily be made over spiritually if we are to endure this race we have with God to the end.

God want to refill us, restore our relationship with Him. We face problems knowing who we are snd whose we are. The devil know who we are and whose we are long before we can realize it. He set traps for us before we are born into the world to take us out. He know God better than we do for he once was in Heaven with God. We are trying to get there.

Satan, the devil will show us ip and we will find out if we are of God or not. He have much respect for God, but not us. He laughs us to scorn as he try working his evil magic against us for failure. He seeks to keep us walking after the fleshly lusts presented us in this world.

To know God is to love Him; to love Him is to obey Him, to obey Him is to keep his commandments and fo his Word. In this time are we doing the Word or are we fearfully afraid to do it? We have been given power to sustain us as we maneuver through the terrains of this life. The Holy Ghost given was sent back to us by Christ Jesus. The Holy Ghost is the promised sustainer of life after Christ. Take Him with us everywhere we go.

Staying Spiritually Hydrated

The Fire Of The Holy Ghost

Malachi 3:2 and He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

Mark 9:49-50 for everyone shall be salted with fire and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good but if the salt has lost its saltiness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves and have peace one with another.

Where is the power God has given us? The fire of the Holy Ghost is a symbol of God presence. Even the devil respect the fire of the Holy Ghost! When He speak they bow down. They listen too! Have we not been endued with power from on high to cast out demons, unclean spirits, sickness and disease? Where is the power needed today to heal the sick, deliver from sin, and set at liberty them that are bound up?

Mark 3:11-12 an unclean spirits when they saw him, fell down before him and cried saying, thou art the Son of God. And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.

Luke 4:32-36 and they were astonished at his doctrine for his word was with power and in the synagogue there was a man which had a spirit of an unclean devil and cried out with a loud voice, saying let us alone, what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee, who thou art, the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him saying, hold thy peace and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him and hurt him not. And they were all amazed and spake among themselves saying, what a word is this? For with authority and power he commanded the unclean spirits and they come out.

Where is our spiritual hydration? Christ is the source of new life. He stand forth as more than just a mere man. Indeed even as more than a supernatural envoy or representation of deity. He is very much God come in the flesh. Who knows best what we need than God Himself?

John 3:5-6 Jesus answered, verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

The Water And The Spirit he says we need very much work together to get us spiritually hydrated. The fire of the Holy Ghost will burn up the junk in our life that we continue the course Christ set for us in earth. His works has already been validated, he is the Christ, the Son of God. His works also reveal not only his power but attest his glory as the divine bearer of redemptive grace. Jesus is te great I am, the only hope of an otherwise hopeless race.

Staying Spiritually Hydrated mean we continually seek this great source of new life Jesus has given to us. He is the water of life and the bread of life. He came seeking to rescue man from sin and doom and to restore him to divine fellowship and holiness. Through his grace fallen man becomes qualified to abide in God.

John 14:20-21 at that day ye shall know that, I sm in my Father and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and manifests myself to him.

We need God in this time to manifests Himself mightily that the world will know and recognize that they need Jesus. Jesus sent to us the Holy Ghost as He promised He would. John 14:26 but the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my Name, He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

The Holy Ghost is not a strange fire. In Leviticus 10:1 and Numbers 3:4, fire; strange fire was used unlawfully in the priestly services. Fire was also used as an agency of destruction from God, Numbers 11:1-3 and 2 Kings 1:10.

Fire is a symbol of God’s presence, of his glory, of his wrath against sin, and his purifying chastisement; Malachi 3:2 and He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

The fire of the Holy Ghost will burn up the junk in us! We have been salted with its flavor that will drive sin far from us! Salt changes the flavor of food naturally.

Righteousness exalted anation but sin sets a nation for destruction. Mark 9:49-50 for everyone shall be salted with fire and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good but if the salt has lost its saltiness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves and have peace one with another.

The Holy Ghost work to keep us spiritually hydrated in Christ for God’s use. It keeps the blinders off that comes to make us miss God. It causes our eyes to be evil so that our full body be in darkness.

We must be able to hear the Word that is being sown that bring the change we need in us. We need the fire of the Holy Ghost to keep us spiritually hydrated where we can discern that which is good apart from evil.

The water and the Spirit join forces to cause us to become fiery and on fire for God. We are born again of the Water and Spirit. We take on a character after God. He are given his qualities and nature away from the flesh we are born in. What are we believing? What is our belief system toward God? When we come to Christ, we are born again of the Spirit and we are baptized in water by way of the outward confession of our inward conviction.

God is the very air we breathe. We are now of the Spirit or the soul distinguished from the body. We are spiritual now, fired up for God, Spirit filled, Spirit led and Spirit controlled. We seek after spiritual things that keeps us salted and staying spiritually hydrated.

What is A Christian

Acts 26:28 and Agrippa replied to Paul, in a short time you will persuade me to become a Christian. Paul, now a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ King Agrippa said; almost persuaded him to become a Christian; a believer of Jesus Christ. Almost is not good enough. Either we will be in Christ or out; but not both.

A Christian is one who is relating to or professing a belief in the Work of God through Christ or its