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Nearly died twice and one day over in Vietnam and I realized there really wasn't as

excited about this as I thought I was.

And I just started studying the word and that's where God began to change me and he began to show me things like I'll never leave you nor forsake you

That the fruit of the spirit is love joy and peace and that's not something that comes and goes it's there all of the time

I begin to understand this spirit soul and body and that in my spirit I had this all

of the time but I didn't want to just have it in my spirit. I wanted to feel it and I was begging and

pleading with God about I've got to feel this love and this joy.

And I had this experience, which I haven't got an explanation

for this the theologically.

I'm just telling you what happened.

You can figure it out.

But I was begging God for this feeling and emotion

and not just appreciating the fact that he had never

leave me nor forsake me in the peace that I had.

And so anyway, for three days in

Vietnam I just woke up one morning and it was like God was gone. It was like there was no God.

And the reason I'm bringing this up is to say, I think that this is going to be like hell.

I don't have the words to describe that but I mean it wasn't like depression it was

absolute stark terror I was terrified. It was just like there was no God like God it left me and I know

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