This is an excerpt from my second book, The Reality of being a Believer. It is about the everyday requirements of believing in Jesus. My first book is Prayer by Crain Blanchard. This book is about learning how to pray and to get closer to God. It is available on Amazon.

The Apostle Paul was a very smart man. As leader in the Jewish religion, Paul or Saul, was destined to become the High Priest. Paul wanted this more than anything. He pursued this by trying to destroyed the church that the Apostles and disciples established in the first century in Jerusalem. Paul went about killing and putting in prison men, women and children that followed Jesus. Paul was a very learned man, a doctor of the Law. What he did not know was that this learning worked against him. On the road to Damascus, Paul met Jesus. The light of God was so strong that it knocked him off his donkey. Paul knew that this was God. That is when he asked God what He wanted. As Jesus told Paul what he was and what God required of him, Paul was blinded and understood who God is for the first time in his life. Jesus told him to wait in Damascus until a certain man came to him and tell him what to do. Paul was blind for three days. Then a believer came reluctantly and told Paul what God required of him. Paul was converted and wanted to join himself to the church. But no one wanted him to associate with them. Paul began teaching in the synagogues that Jesus was the Messiah. Then the Jews in Damascus plotted to kill Paul. He escaped over the wall in a basket. Then the Apostle Barnabas took Paul in and discipled him. No one wanted to accept Paul until God took him to the backside of the desert to teach him. God had Paul to unlearn the teachings of man and relearn to truths of God. When the church saw the results of Paul preaching the gospel in Antioch, they accepted him.

The book, The Reality of being a Believer will be out soon. Thank you so much to those that follow my blogs. I appreciate you and pray for your pursuit of God. God bless and keep you.

Crain Blanchard.

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