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Originally Posted by a mere housewife 
Dan did you then grow up in repentance and faith, simply believing what you understood of the gospel?
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I wish.
If I were to share my life, my words would not do God's work justice. When I read God's Word, there are so many things that happened long ago that show me what it is he is doing in my life. I'm not one who likes spiritualizing verses in the Bible, but there are also things that are undeniably parallel to what is happening in my life now (mostly because the OT passages are foreshadows of Christ's work and the NT ones are testimony of it).
Just a couple of examples:
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Ephesians 2:1-9
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
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John 4:27-29
Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you seek?" or, "Why are you talking with her?" So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?"
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I would put Ezekiel 16 up here, but I don't have the time to weed through and get all the verse #'s and superscripts out. I really need to learn how to post scripture on here the right way.