"Donnettas Personal Testimony"
What I "Believe"...and "my purpose" here on earth...
I Peter 3:15
"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear"...
***The "Bible" is God's "divinely inspired Word"...
II Timothy 3:16-17
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully equipped for every good work."
***There is "one God" eternally existing in "three persons"...
John 10:30
"I and My Father are one".
Deuteronomy 6:4
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one"!
***"Jesus Christ" was fully God and fully man and was sacraficed for our sin, raised on the third day and is coming again...
John 3:16-17
"For God so loved the world, thatHe gave His onlybegotten Son, that whoever believes in HIm should not perish but haveeverlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved."
Ephesians 1:19-21
"and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe , according to the working of His power which He worked in Christ when He raised Himfrom the deadand seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come".
***"We are all sinners" by nature and "in need of salvation"...
Romans 3:23-24
"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus"...
***"Salvation" is a gift from God and is only by God's grace "through faith in Christ Jesus"...
Ephesians 2:8-9
"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, least anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship,created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them".
***We are the "body and bride" of Christ...
"For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free-and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but many".
***We received the Holy Spirit at conversion...
I Corinthians 6:19-20
"Do you not know that your body is the temple of theHoly Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's".
Ephesians 1:13-14
"In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your slavation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit ofpromise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory".
"My purpose" here on earth...
Matthew 22:36-39
"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law"? Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." "This is the first and great commandment. "And the second is like it: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself ".
Mark 16:15
And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preachthe gospel to every creature." He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned".
Romans 1:16
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek".
Romans 12:1-2
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrafice,holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God."
