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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 22:31:49 GMT -6
2014 CONT'D
07/24-
UNDATED, PROBABLY SPRING, 2014
I have been training my dog using tips from YouTube on the internet and from Cesar Milan on TV. Buster seems happier today, happier today, happier than he's been in a long time.
Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 22:32:54 GMT -6
07/28-
MONDAY
When Shane went to a picnic with me, after the sermon he told me he wasn’t sure he was saved. I knew he had accepted Christ and his burdens had been lifted, had witnessed it, so I told him the truth, that salvation was a process. After we got out of the barn his doubts started taking over and he started even doubting the resurrection. We had a discussion about experiences we had had and I tried convincing him of their reality. (Many of which experiences were false, and salvation is a process, despite what the RLDS traditionalists think, and salvation and conversion are also incremental serieses of personal crises. No wonder he was doubting; I was not speaking according to the truth.-B.L.S. 8/12/19 2:38:10 PM CST, 07/27/2021 AD 6:12 CDT)
We also discussed it riding with Mom on the way to his home, then Mom drove me to my home. The next day Shane sent me at least three texts. One was luv you too, because I had told him, love you, brother the previous day. Another was ‘Okay i believe that jesus did die for our sins and rise from the dead. No more dobts from now on.’ Also I asked him if he was reading Acts and Moroni (as I had suggested to him earlier), telling him I was on Moroni 6 and Acts 7. He texted that he had finished Moroni and he was on Acts 14. I was astonied.
Henry Kissinger said on March 1, 1973: “The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”
- Richard Nixon Presidential library. Saw today on CNN.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 22:33:42 GMT -6
08/01-
FRIDAY
Transcript of part of a text conversation between Shane and I today:
Me: “…..I accepted Christ as my savior when I was 16 and I was baptized at 22. Both are a kind of salvation. There are three. The last one is being saved at the end. conversion is almost the same thing as salvation but usually only happens once”
Shane: “Really.”
Me: “That’s what I believe. You don’t have to take my word for it. Study it out for yourself and ask God if it is true.”
(Later)
Shane: “Okay”
(8.7.14)There is more to it than that. (7.27.21) Conversion, like conviction and salvation, can happen many times during a person's life.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 22:34:41 GMT -6
08/03-
SUNDAY
Today Seventy Ron, Shane and I had another cottage meeting. After Ron and I took Communion, which Shane observed, Ron taught Shane about the Reformation, Seventy, baptism and the Holy Spirit and answered Shane’s questions about authority and laying on of hands. We closed and opened with prayer. Then Ron answered a concern Mom wanted me to take to him about something I did yesterday.
Ron is willing to come here more often if Shane is willing to commit to it.
Brent Lee Sohlden Koivopolo
Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 22:35:49 GMT -6
08/07/2014-
THURSDAY
Today, at a cookout at a Protestant church, after a long pause, not knowing what to say, I told him, “I don’t want everyone to know this, but I’m a Latter Day Saint.”
He said “What kind?”
I said “Reorganized”
. He said “What branch ….Vienna Rd, Bristol Rd. etc… (which are Community of Christ congregations)”
I replied “Not Community of Christ, Restoration Branch Movement.”
He then told me over the course of our ensuing conversation that he had been baptized sometime in the sixties. I told him when I had been baptized and about the JCRB and gave him Seventy Ron’s phone number and the JCRB website. I mentioned how the JCRB was rebuilding the church from the bottom up and was going to take care of the leadership issue, and “the future of the church will be exciting” and “the church is alive” &c.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 22:37:10 GMT -6
08/11-
MOON'S DAY
I am 30 years old. I am still young. When I drink the water of life from the Missouri spring I will eventually revet back to the physical appearance I have now if I am old then. (That is a supposition according to the book Visions of Glory by John Pontius, which I now know is mostly a false book. B.L.S. 6/12/16, 12/20/2019 AD)
Shane is to my knowledge reading Ether and Acts, and several days ago he finished Moroni and before that he read John. Shane's level of reading comprehension and understanding of terminology is low, so things have to be explained to him, which, during the cottage meetings, Seventy Ron has shown he is more than willing to do.
Father, please help Shane to want to read the rest of the Book of Mormon after he finishes Ether, in Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
I ran into a man, who used to have an RLDS girlfriend, at the a thrift store today. We had an interesting conversation. He gave me a warning about Benny Hinn, about the New Age and occult teachings being incorporated into his teachings. We agreed Jimmy Swaggart was good. He said Creflo Dollar and Joseph Prince were better than they used to be, that they used to be “fringe”. I told him I supported the JCRB, told him what the letters J-C-R-B stood for, and told him I also supported the Remnant and the Jubyites. He said that “sounded fringe but what did he know”. I told him I wasn’t Community of Christ but I was Restoration Branch Movement. He said he knew about the split, and he also knew about the LDS/RLDS split. \ When I had told him I was RLDS he had said I was a follower of Joseph Smith, and not of Brigham Young. (Three minor revisions 8/12/14)
I never finished St. Augustine's Confessions, and I gave City of God away. Confessions fell apart and I taped it up as best I could (which wasn't good at all, I just messed it up even more) and gave it back to the church I borrowed it from.
Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 22:38:36 GMT -6
09/27-
SABBATH
Several Fridays ago, Shane came to a church with his friend and I. Shane raised his hand for salvation at church for the second time. The first time he had done so he had been discouraged because they didn’t tell him anything he hadn’t learned. He started doubting his faith again. But the second time he discovered that he was already saved and he rededicated his life to God. The next Friday his friend truly accepted the Lord Jesus into his heart.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 22:39:32 GMT -6
10/01-
UNDATED
Date Unknown [PUT UNDER OCTOBER]
Experiences of my life:
By Brent Sohlden
When I was in elementary school, I was in the principal’s office and while there I pulled out an old copy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to examine it. Later the principal told me that at that time when I pulled the book out, his grandmother or mother, whom it had belonged to, was saved from something, whether death or illness I do not recall.
Brent Lee Sohlden Koivopolo
Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 22:51:13 GMT -6
2015 AD
11/09- THURSDAY
On Sunday Shane and I studied the Book of Mormon and watched an RLDS sermon after church. We studied I Nephi, Ether, and I John and somewhere else in the writings of John. On Tuesday I sent Shane some texts:
Brent: While Ron was here last time you wondered if you could show the lesson to Vick. Jesus told you Shane, Shane Vick’s not ready. On the day that Jesus told you that the bom was his word he also pleaded with you to believe in the spirit world again and told me to do my challenges. the devil wouldnt tell me to do my challenges
Shane. It was really Jesus.
(No, it was a false Jesus. The Book of Mormon was the bait. It's true. The false Jesus then told Shane to continue to be a Psychic and a Medium and to do my Reformers Unanimous Challenges, tying both me and Shane to Michigan.)
On Wednesday Shane texted me back:
Shane: I dont know what to say than. Really I have nothing to say to that. (He did not yet have enough discernment (and neither did I) that satan was trying to keep us tied to Michigan with our challenges, and this was a false Jesus.)
Several days ago Carolyn and I had a meeting at my house and we discussed things we needed to do to get ready for the big move.
On Monday Joy will come out to pick me up in her new truck. We will then go to Joy’s sisters’ in Michigan. We will stay there a couple days so Joy can rest, then Onward to Zion!
Brent Lee Sohlden Koivopolo
Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 22:53:21 GMT -6
11/20-
11/22-
LORD'S DAY
As of now (8:40pm) Joy is already now well on her way to get me.
As of now (9:23pm) I am almost all packed. Joy will go through the stuff I want to take and tell me what I can and cannot take tomorrow.
I spent time with Dad and Buster today.
Brent Lee Sohlden Koivopolo
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 22:54:52 GMT -6
11/20-
FRIDAY
Today I called the book steward (I think, or the librarian) at Oakwood Branch about the book The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith which I borrowed around 2009-10. She called me and left me a message saying I could keep it. I left her a message saying, thanks I appreciate it. This is the fulfillment of Joy's prophecy in which she said that when the time was right that book would fall into my hands.
Brent Lee Sohlden Koivopolo
Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 22:59:11 GMT -6
11/23-
MONDAY
My first stay at Joy’s from 2005-2009 was my first way station on my journey to Zion, to prepare me for Zionic living, 4 years.
My second way station was my stay at my Grandma Sohlden’s house by myself to help my family and others from 2009-2015, 5 years.
Now I’m on my way to Zion, at another brief way station, Joy's sister's, two days.
This morning Joy and her husband arrived, and we packed up the white truck. Dad came over to talk to Joy. I kissed him on the cheek. Then we were on our way.
Brent Lee Sohlden Koivopolo
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:04:42 GMT -6
11/24- TUESDSAY
Today I got a new laptop.
“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalise, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.”
-Frantz Omar Fanon, Marxist.
Any man can say something that is true. This, although spoken by a Marxist, is a true statement.
I am glad I watched In the Shadow of the Moon. The man who testified of going to the moon later had a personal testimony of Jesus Christ.
I know people went to the moon. I know that people went to the moon to escape the flood.
The man I started listening to was going off the deep end. He said the Jews were all bad, and that the Star of David was an occultic symbol.
The Star of David has every Hebrew letter in it. Zionism is not evil like he says. If I should forget thee O Jerusalem let my right hand lose its cunning and let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. Zionism is a move of God even though secret combinations were involved, just like there were secret combinations involved in the formation of America although the formation of America was also a move of God.
You need to find a balance. William Cooper said it’s not the Jews but some Jews are involved. [In Secret Combinations].
I remember Lou Giglio confirming that the Hubble images are real. Such beauty could only come from God, not an elaborate man-made hoax.
A false Jesus told Shane and I that 1% of the UFO’s are from other worlds.
I have seen too much evidence to the contrary to support what he is saying. The going down and the rising up of the sun bespeaks that the earth turns and the seasons bespeak that it turns on its axis at an angle.
The tides are controlled without the moon, I do believe that though.
Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:06:23 GMT -6
11/25-
WEDNESDAY
We are leaving now for Zion. We will stop at a local grocery store near Joy's sister's first.
As of now [8:39 AM] WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO ZION, having left the grocery store just now.
4:40p.m. We arrived in Illinois not too long ago after passing through Indiana. We ate lunch near Ft. Wayne.
As of now (Around 6:00 p.m.) we are about 80 miles from St. Louis, Missouri.
Another proof that there is zero-G in space around Earth: satellites! The pastor of the church in Michigan Shane and I went to was talking about how he could see them from earth floating in space just the other week. The Believing Yoga teacher that made the video I watched most of is in his own little world and has not found a balance. He accepts all conspiracy theories. That is a sad state to be in. Granted, the term ‘conspiracy theory’ was invented by the CIA to discredit people who know the truth about secret combinations in world governments and many conspiracy theories are true.
But Akiane Kramarik has made a similar error when she said “accept everything”. Well, falsehood does exist and there are good and bad spirits. Before you even read or watch something you must find out if God wants you to, and that is true discernment. We need to “choose and cherish all things good” and reject the evil and the lies.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:07:36 GMT -6
11/27-
FRIDAY
Wednesday, around 10 PM we arrived in Zion. The next day I unpacked and Joy and I sorted through the stuff I brought with me, then put the stuff I could keep away.
I am starting a new life! A life of pages waiting to be filled!
I am so blessed to be part of the JCRB and I am also thankful to God for this.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:08:21 GMT -6
11/28-- SABBATH
I need to learn more, so much more, about the Holy Spirit.
Happy the home where Jesus’ name is sweet to every ear!
Joy gave me her dog Chance today, to love and take care of.
[And I did, O I did! And I learned WAY more through contemplation than I did through books!]
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:09:26 GMT -6
11/29
LORD'S DAY-SUN'S DAY
Today at Israel’s Gathering, my Uncle who baptized spoke to me under the influence of the Holy Spirit.
The Lord said, Prepare yourself. Study. Pray. Come before me often. Allow the Holy Spirit in your heart. I will show you many things. I have a work for you to do. I will deliver you as the children of Israel.
An Elder confirmed the message.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow! Praise You, thank You and bless You Father. In Christ’s name, Amen.
Also a Priest asked me before service started to help take up offering today. Thank You Lord for service opportunities in Thy Church. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:11:05 GMT -6
12/07- MONDAY
Yesterday I took my first Communion in Zion since 2009.
There is a new dog named Beth in the house. She is Joy’s new 3-month old puppy. She got her for free from Joys' brothers' daughter.
I was also asked to help take up offering again, for which I am very thankful, Lord, Amen.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:12:52 GMT -6
12/10-
UNDATED, A DAY IN 2015
I am 33 years old. I have a new life.
I have let go of so many falsehoods, and also encouraged Shane over the phone to do so so that the True Christ can give us the True Riches.
It is not what is lost, it is what remains.
A just man brings out of his treasures both the old and the new.
Shane still lives in Michigan. Were to God that he moved out here to Zion.
I no longer have to worry about a messy house, for that is a thing of the past.
My thoughts have been established. I have let go of so much of my wrong thinking and confessed my secret thoughts to God.
I have examined all my main beliefs and only kept the ones that are true, the ones that I have the most evidence for, though some beliefs I as yet take on faith (but even those I WILL and DO NOW have plenty of evidence for as of 07/27/2021 AD).
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:16:09 GMT -6
12/25-
FRIDAY
Each service of Israel's Gathering Restoration Branch is Spirit-filled! The men on the Rostrum allow the Holy Spirit to lead them and in Sunday evening classes we are learning about surrender to the Holy Spirit! And some of them believe in God's work he is doing in the JCRB.
There were some things the JCRB did wrong, such as fighting for the RLDS name instead of trusting God to do it. The Lord told us not to worry about the name. He will take care of it. Also, the JCRB wasn't supposed to try to be the continuation of the Church. [The JCRB never claimed to be the continuation of the church but has always maintained, and still does, that it is a continuation of the church, which it is. - 05/27/2016] But now the JCRB is heading in the right direction again. God started the JCRB and God will use it to build the Kingdom. Hopefully in the future the JCRB will unite with the Remnant and God will take good men and women out of all churches and unite them under the standard of the RLDS church. The initials of Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints can be RLDS. The Centerplace of Zion shall be redeemed by power and sometime either before or after Zion's redemption there shall be stakes again, So much is going to happen! I am so excited! And Christ will appear to us many times!
Once, when I was in Michigan the Christ appeared at Israel's Gathering, pleading with them. Joy's daughter Gina saw Him. Joy did not.
During a Wednesday night prayer service I attended recently God's love filled joy's daughter and she spoke under the influence of the Holy Spirit. It was such a beautiful experience.
Recently Joy told me that she notices that I am different than I used to be when I first came out to Zion in 2005. She told me that that means that God is in the process of healing me.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:23:08 GMT -6
12/27,
LORD'S DAY-
RLDS DC 85:18(a.),(b.)
(a.) And if your eye be single to my glory, your whole body shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you, and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things.
(b.) Therefore sanctify yourselves that your minds become single to God, and the days will come that you shall see him: for he will unveil his face unto you, and it shall be in his own time, and in his own way, and according to his own will.
Today the morning worship was brought by an Elder and he talked about abiding in the Vine. In Sunday School we studied III Nephi 5. Another Elder brought out a Scripture in the Doctrine and Covenants about keeping an eye single to the glory of God that has corresponding parallels in III Nephi, Matthew, and other places. (RDC 85:18) and was related to abiding in the Vine. A Sister brought up how the first thing Jesus said in America was Come unto Me and know that I Am, the second thing was His Doctrine and the third thing was the Celestial Law, because the first thing he said was the most important to Him, etc.
Joy's husband's offertory sermon was about how we shouldn't hesitate to ask for needs from the oblation fund. He said also that we all contribute to it.
An Elder read from the Book of Mormon about speaking with the tongues of angels and seeking, asking and knocking, and told of a dream he had about being in a place like the belly of a whale and the only way out was the Lord reaching down and helping him out.
Another Elder preached about the nature of self, and taking Jesus' yoke upon you.
Then my Uncle who baptized me in 2005 preached, making some remarks and building upon what the other two Elders had brought.
It was a beautiful service.
Notes on Sunday Evening Class
Joys' brothers' call to worship this morning was about the people being called Zion because they were of One heart and One mind and dwelt in righteousness.
Another Elder preached on repentance this morning.
Joy's brother this morning posed a possible situation to us: What if all the priesthood had a dream where they were all supposed to meet in a certain place and Jesus would come in all His glory and they would no longer need authority to baptize, etc. (We will ALWAYS need Authoritie frome Heaven to Baptize and Confirm-(06/25/AD 2019-B.L.S.)
My uncle who baptized me talked about how soon we would hear a mighty rushing wind, very loud, and we would be filled with the Holy Spirit more than we've ever been.
When my uncle blew in the mike (he said it would be louder than that even) it took an Elder's mind back to a peace, stillness, quietness of His coming.
Another Elder (some of these are repeating) preached this morning about the lightness of the yoke. Joy's brother said tonight that it could be that (what someone else preached earlier as a possible misinterpretation of the lightness of the yoke, which Joe acknowledged could also be an additional insight) lightness of the yoke could mean light to the world.
We are reading “Dying To Self,” a Dialogue by William Law with commentary by Andrew Murray.
The Simplicity of faith.
Alma told his son to let his sin trouble him more than his salvation.
Are we ready to go when the time comes?
MY Uncle preached about how that even though we are baptized and confirmed, we can receive an additional necessary blessing from receiving Christ into our hearts.
Death to the dominion of self.
We must abide (keep our eye single) 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week.
More abiding means less repenting.
Joy's brother mentioned the process of breaking people down to build people up at AA meetings he led.
This morning I was asked by an Elder to help take up offering. Thank You Heavenly Father, for this and the entire day, both service and evening class and everything in between. Amen.
Additional things said at class.
People stand on the Church as their foundation rather than Christ, who is the head of the corner.
The Spirit will lead people to see their need to come to the waters of baptism, and laying on of the hands for the Spirit.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:24:27 GMT -6
2016 AD
02/13-
SABBATH
God is my help and my strong salvation! To Him be the glory, honor and praise forever!
O how I love Jesus, because He first loved me!
Blessed be Your name when the Sun's shining down on me, when the world's all as it should be.
Blessed be Your name when I'm found in the desert place, though I walk through the wilderness. Blessed be Your name!
Tomorrow, Lord willing, I will be doing my first early morning worship at Israel's Gathering. This is not a priesthood function, as any member may do this, including women and priesthood. I am so excited!
I recently read The Full Blessing of Pentecost, The Secret of Spiritual Strength (both by Andrew Murray) and Search For The Sacred Record by John Moody.
Church has continued to be very good.
Another Elder, who is nearly deaf, after asking for administration for his hearing several weeks ago, this week (see, because ordinarily when he would come to a church service he could barely hear anything being said) during Sunday evening class on Dying To Self by William Law, the Elder could hear every word being said by all of us [and this has continued -4/12/16].
I have recently been talking a lot to Shane via video chat. Now I am praying (and hopefully, so is he) that the Lord will open the doors for him to move down here.
Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:25:35 GMT -6
02/28-
LORD'S DAY-SUNDAY
I was asked to take up offering today and I thank you Good, good Father, for this! Amen.
Nephi has been missing in the Alaskan mountains near Anchorage since last Thursday. Joy and her husband, Nathaniel, Noah and my Uncle have all been interviewed by the media. Joy and her husband, Noah, Ken and I have been on TV, Joy and Noah twice. The Independence Examiner and Nigeria Teller have ran stories and other news programs that have not interviewed Joy or her husband or my Uncle or Noah have run the story. Many, many people and churches have been praying for Nephi since this ordeal began including Israel's Gathering and the church in Michigan Shane and I used to go to (who found out because of Shane).
(The following is how I felt. I never gave up hope til the very moment the Deputy Sherriff informed Joy and her husband that Nephi had been found, and not alive. -06-20-2016) Joy and I are confident that Nephi is alive. He will either be found safe or walk out.
The thought came to Joy early on in this ordeal, that the longer the wait, the greater the miracle. (Later on I asked God why Nephi hasn't been found yet and he said that if he'd have been found yet not as many people would come unto Him. -04/12/2016) (The miracle that God told Joy about when this started was how Nephi was found. The searcher was in the helicopter and happened to look down and thought it strange that there was only one piece of ice out on the lake. The person listened to the whisper of God (although he/she did not know it was God) to take a closer look. Nephi's frozen body was on that piece of ice. -06/20/2016)
Today I was administered to for a toothache by two Elders.
I have been reading Abide In Christ by Andrew Murray. It is an excellent book.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:26:29 GMT -6
03/07- MONDAY
Today another of Joy's daughters arrived from out of state. Lord willing, she, my Uncle and Noah will be flying up to Alaska tomorrow.
Yesterday my Aunt came to church. It was a beautiful service. Another Elder gave the sermon. We took Communion. The men's class was very good also.
When we took Communion, my Uncle served his wife both the bread and the wine.
Before the Communion portion of the service we had a prayer and testimony service. An aforementioned Elder said, during the men's class, that during the prayer and testimony service the spirit of repentance could be felt by him.
The cross we are all called to isn't an actual physical cross to be nailed on, but a giving up of all that we have and are.
A total consecration of all that we have and are. I have been abiding for a long time, renewing it each day. If it is not renewed each day, I am not abiding. I have not yet apprehended Christ but I am already apprehended of him for Christ apprehendeth and comprehendeth all things.
Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:29:02 GMT -6
04/11- MONDAY
Today is the first day of the 2016 JCRB General Conference.
It started with a revelation from God through Patriarch-Evangelist Fred Greene followed by testimonies of callings to Apostle and Patriarch-Evangelist by the ones who will be ordained to those offices on Friday. Lord willing, Joy and I will be there at the Conference for the ordination service. There will also be a Seventy ordained on Friday I believe.
At the Remnant Conference a revelation was given and a standing High Council was called and ordained.
I would like to write out some testimonies from my life's experiences in unity with those of the Conference who are also writing out testimonies at this time.
Dear Lord, please bring those testimonies to my mind that you would like me to write, In Christ's Name I pray, Amen.
When I first met Shan it was at Freedom Work Opportunities of Genesee County and he and I started talking and I gave him a small pocket size Book of Mormon. He had previously been told by his Shinto sensei that someone would give him a book with the word 'ether' in it.
Not too long after I gave him the Book of Mormon he started coming to my house. Eventually the Lord got him to start coming to a non-Restoration church that I was visiting at the time. Jesus had made himself known to Shane many times in dreams and visions.
Later Seventy Ron and I were meeting at my old house and Shane Jones arrived. Ron invited him to have a meeting with us, and our first cottage meeting began.
With each passing cottage meeting Shane became more and more convicted that the Book of Mormon was true.
Eventually I was able to invite Shane to a Restoration Branch, Sanillac. While he was there, the power of the Holy Spirit shot through him. This also happened to him at some non-Restoration churches.
During all this time, Shane went to a local Protestant church many, many times (and is still going) and a local Baptist church also many many times.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:30:37 GMT -6
05/01-
LORD'S DAY
Joy and I did end up going to the last two services of Conference. They were beautiful. We witnessed the ordinations of two apostles and some patriarch-evangelists and a president of seventy. We are commanded to keep the doors open and the promise is that the people will move toward unification.
Notes from Men's class at Israel's Gathering:
Today an Elder asked me to help take up offering. Thank you so much for this, Father!
This morning Joy's daughter testified that during last week's prayer and testimony service, between prayer time and testimony time, she saw a red-colored liquid falling over her face and heard a voice saying “This is the blood of Jesus” or words to that effect. When she gave this testimony, my Uncle said that she was covered by Jesus' blood.
Tonight after reviewing this morning's service, an aforementioned Elder, who was absent from this morning's service, was served communion by an aforementioned Priest . Then we discussed memorial service plans for Nephi. It is now May 27th and that memorial service was beautiful!
Man must go down before he can be filled and rise again. -Same Elder.
Going down is the spirit of repentance. -my Uncle.
He loves His love into you- something another aforementioned Elder says.
He loves His agency into us -First Elder I mentioned.
When you convert something that is not human, like a car, you are changing it from one use to another. -Joy's brother.
You have been Church members all your lives and you have never been converted -First Elder I mentioned, quoting Arthur Oakman.
If you have a desire, he will put a greater desire in you for you to know it and you will be filled.- Same Elder.
A lot of times God gives you the answer but we do not recognize it because we think we already have the answer. - my Uncle.
John 17 -First Elder I mentioned.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:32:48 GMT -6
06/06-
MONDAY
Yesterday, a deputy sheriff came to our house to inform my Uncle (who had just left on his motorcycle for evening church class) that Nephi had been found around 11:00 a.m. Alaska time and that they didn't find him alive. Since my Uncle was not home Joy and her husband, Nephi's grandparents were informed instead. Joy's daughter, and my Uncle were both of them informed by phone.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:33:49 GMT -6
07/31- WEEK 30, DAY 1-DAY 7 OF THE WEEK, SABAOTH, LORD’S DAY
Thank You Heavenly Father for this little notebook. Amen.
An aforementioned Sister, doing Early Morning Worship, shared story of a man whose entire estate was worth the price of the portrait of his only son.
She also read from ‘Abide In Christ’ by Andrew Murray, and some Scriptures from the Bible. “He that hath the Son of God hath life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (I John 5:11-12, 20)
She played a song about the woman at the well by Casting Crowns. (John 4)
When God asks you to give something up, he will give it back to you.
“All who thirst will thirst no more, and all who search will find what their souls long for.”
"Leave it all behind, come to the well”
Notes on Book of Mormon Class:
People of Brother of Jared live righteously; righteous kings; wicked kings; people of Brother of Jared live wickedly; prophets come more than once; secret combinations.
We talked about how Christ is the anchor to the soul (Ether 5:4).
Praise God! An aforementioned Elder came back to Israel’s Gathering today! (PAGE +N1+)
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:41:33 GMT -6
08/08-
WEEK 31, DAY 2- DAY 2 OF THE WEEK
On Wednesday, the same aforementioned Elder reconciled with us entirely by apologizing.
When I lived in Michigan, an angel baptized my spirit with pure water and it felt so wonderful! This was an experience I had around 2014 or so.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 23:42:46 GMT -6
08/10- WEDNESDAY-WEEK 31, DAY 4
On Lord’s Day, 07/31/16, an Elder gave a sermon on Romans 8:35.
On Lord’s Day, 08/07/16, during Men’s Class (also called Priesthood Class, but called Men’s class for those men not in the PH), we started a new book by Andrew Murray called, ‘The Spiritual Life’. That morning was First Sunday. We took Communion.
In Michigan and once when i was living here in Missouri recently and Shane was still living in Michigan, false spirits claiming to be Jesus, Michael the Archangel, Mary and Joseph Smith have deceived Shane and I and given us much false information. (PAGE +N2+)
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