MY STAND FOREVER MORE, AMEN!
THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY has impressed on me to give you all my STATEMENT OF FAITH. I do this in order for you to know me better and enjoy all of my proclamations or eternal joy based solely on the Word of God, forever praise Amen! And Amen!
Beloved, one of the snares of the devil is this trap: “I hate to read.” or “Reading is so boring!” or “I don’t have time to read.” Therefore: at the very start of this JOY STORY JEM (for that is what all my work is) I beseech you to read all of this. You don’t have to read it all in one sitting. But to know me, learn to know this child of God, Ann Marie Turner, who measures everything by the Word of God and strives to put her Creator first, loves all people and wants to repent quickly when she has done wrong! In addition, I beseech you to do the same when listening to any other Christian leader (in all the various forms of the five-fold ministries) – and every Christian layman. Truth, Jesus Christ, must be received and loved in the context of the Bible.
Sola Scriptura: This phrase means the Bible is the Supreme Authority in all matters of doctrine and practice.
Sola Scriptura: it is not the man – any man. It is God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit as He speaks through His written Word – the Bible – these are always in agreement with one another.
Selah…
As I proclaimed the Word of God in my prison ministry, I found myself regularly telling these precious men: “The Bible is your Authority. All your beliefs must be in line with God’s Word – His written Word. If you think you are hearing from the Holy Spirit and what He says does not line up with the Bible – you are not hearing from Him.
Beloved, it is imperatively crucial to know the source you are taking counsel from. As I would inform the men in prison, I also choose to inform you: there are false teachers now, as in there were in biblical times:
1 Timothy 4:1-2
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Hebrews 6:4-6
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
Herewith is my STATEMENT OF FAITH:
I, Ann Marie Turner, know the Truth and the Truth has set me free!
*NOTE: If you want the faster method – go to the end of my STATEMENT OF FAITH and simply note the Scripture references.
John 14:6-7
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well.
The God I believe and know is the only the True and Living God as He is revealed in the Bible.
Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Psalm 89:5-8
The heavens praise your wonders, Lord, your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones. For who in the skies above can compare with the Lord? Who is like the Lord among the heavenly beings? In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him. Who is like you, Lord God Almighty? You, Lord, are mighty, and your faithfulness surrounds you.
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.
2 Peter 1:20-21
Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Genesis 3:26
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image”
Matthew 28:18-19
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
2 Corinthians 13:14
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Matthew 28:18-19
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
John 17:1-2
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
Revelation 3:21
To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Philippians 2:5-8
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
Luke 1:26-33
In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
1 John 2:1-2
My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
2 Corinthians 5:20-21
We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 15:3-5
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.
Mark 16:19
After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.
Matthew 28:18-19
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
John 14:16-17
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Acts 2:4
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Acts 2:38-39
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”
Acts 19:1-7
While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” So Paul asked, “Then what baptism did you receive?” “John’s baptism,” they replied. Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. There were about twelve men in all.
2 Corinthians 13:14
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
All men were created in the likeness of God; born with a sin natural due to Adam’s sin. Only through regeneration by the Holy Spirit does one obtain salvation. Each person who is born again, born from above, is a new creation who must stand firm in Christ until their death or being caught in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, so to be forever with Him.
Genesis 5:1-2
When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.
Romans 3:10
As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one”
Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—
John 3:3
Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
Romans 10:9-10
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
Hebrews 3:14
We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.
Revelation 12:11
They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
John 3:3
Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
Ephesians 1:22-23
And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.
Ephesians 1:22-23
And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
John 3:3
Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
Genesis 2:8
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Genesis 2:21-22
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
Psalm 139:13-16
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body;
Ephesians 6:18
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.
Mark 16:17
And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
Romans 8:26-27
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
Jude 1:20
But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 28:19
And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
Romans 6:4
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
Colossians 2:12
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Acts 8:36-38
As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Romans 14:23
and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
Hebrews 3:14
We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.
Isaiah 45:17
But Israel will be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; you will never be put to shame or disgraced, to ages everlasting.
Ephesians 3:6
This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.
Romans 15:26-27
For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the Lord’s people in Jerusalem. They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews’ spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings.
Acts 1:11
“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
1 Corinthians 3:11-15
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.
Hebrews 9:27
Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment
Revelation 19:20
But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
John 14:2-4
My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”
Revelation 22:1-5
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.
Isaiah 66:24
“And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”
Psalm 11:6
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup.
Revelation 20:10
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Simply put: My STATEMENT OF FAITH is this:
I believe God and it is credited to me as righteousness and I am called God’s friend. My greatest desires you all of you are: be a child of God – now (on Earth) and to come (in Heaven) and join me before the glorious majesty of the True, Living God: The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
May the LORD God Almighty bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you. And may I, myself, see you in eternity.
GOD IS THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS. HE IS HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, WITHOUT FLAW, ETERNALLY EXISTENT:
Deuteronomy 6:4; Psalm 89:5-8; John 1:1
THE BIBLE IS GOD-BREATHED AND THE BIBLE IS THE ONLY INFALLIBLE, AUTHORITATIVE WORD OF GOD.
2 Timothy 3:16-17; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Peter 1:20-21
GOD IS TRINITY: ONE GOD IN THREE PERSONS –
FATHER, SON, HOLY GHOST
Genesis 3:26; Matthew 28:18-19; 2 Corinthians 13:14
THE FATHER IS THE FIRST PERSON OF THE TRINITY.
Matthew 28:18-19; John 17:1-2; Revelation 3:21
JESUS IS THE UNION OF GOD AND MAN: TRUE GOD AND TRUE MAN. JESUS WAS CONCEIVED OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY. JESUS LIVED A SINLESS LIFE AND BECAME SIN FOR ALL MANKIND. HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN; NOW SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER. JESUS CHRIST IS OUR HIGH PRIEST AND ADVOCATE.
Philippians 2:5-8; Luke 1:26-33; 1 John 2:1-2; 2 Corinthians 5:20-21;
1 Corinthians 15:3-5; Mark 16:19
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ALSO GOD WHO COMFORTS AND GUIDES BELIEVERS, WITH THE FINAL PURPOSE OF GLORIFYING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN THE EARTH. DURING THIS DISPENSATION OF GRACE, THE HOLY SPIRIT INDWELLS, GUIDES, INSTRUCTS AND EMPOWERS THE BELIEVERS FOR GODLY LIVING AND SERVICE. EVERY BELIEVER SHOULD BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, EVIDENCED BY SPEAKING IN TONUGES.
Matthew 28:18-19; John 14:16-17; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:4; Acts 2:38-39; Acts 19:1-7;
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
ALL OF MANKIND NEEDS THE ONLY SAVIOR – JESUS CHRIST
Genesis 5:1-2; Romans 3:10; Romans 5:12; John 3:3; Romans 10:9-10;
Ephesians 2:8-9;2 Corinthians 5:17; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17; Hebrews 3:14;
Revelation 12:11
THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH ARE ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE BORN AGAIN THROUGH FAITH IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST
John 3:3; Ephesians 1:22-23; Colossians 1:24
THE CHURCH IS THE FAMILY OF GOD IS: THEY ARE ALL THOSE WHO ARE BORN AGAIN. THE INDIVIDUAL FAMILES CONSISTS OF A HUSBAND AND WIFE (ALL CHILDREN ARE A BLESSING FROM GOD’S COVENANT OF MARRIAGE.) ALL PEOPLE (BORN AND UNBORN) ARE FEARFULLY CREATED AND ARE TO BE HONORED THROUGH THE PURSUIT OF LIFE AND LIBERTY.
Ephesians 1:22-23; John 3:3; Genesis 2:8; Genesis 2:21-22; Psalm 139:13-16
ALL CHRISTIANS NEEDS TO COMMUNICATE WITH GOD THROUGH PRAYER CONSISTENTLY BY PRAYING WITH UNDERSTANDING AND IN THEIR HEAVENLY LANGUAGE
Ephesians 6:18; Mark 16:17; Romans 8:26-27; Jude 1:20
WATER BAPTISM AND COMMUNION ARE ORDINANCES CHRISTIANS ARE TO FOLLOW DURING THE PRESENT AGE. THESE ORDINANCES DO NOT BRING SALVATION: ONLY BELIEF AND FAITH IN THE SHED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST AND HIS RESURRECTION BRINGS JUSTIFICATION AND SALVATION.
Matthew 28:19; Romans 6:4; Colossians 2:12; Acts 8:36-38
FAITH IN THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD MUST EXIST AND REMAIN
Hebrews 11:1; Hebrews 11:6; Romans 14:23; Hebrews 3:14
GOD LOVES ISRAEL. CHRISTIANS ARE TO HONOR GOD’S COVENANT WITH THEM, LOVE THEM AND GIVE THEM FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
Isaiah 45:17; Ephesians 3:6; Romans 15:26-27
THE PRE-MILLENNIAL SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST: JESUS WILL COME IN THE AIR TO RESURRECT THE RIGHTEOUS DEAD AND CATCH AWAY THE LIVING CHRISTIANS. NEXT HE WILL COME TO EARTH AND ESTABLISH HIS PHYSCIAL KINGDOM, BEGINNING HIS THOUSAND-YEAR REIGN.
Acts 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; Revelation 20:6
THE DEAD WILL BE BODILY RESURRECTED: SOME TO EVERLASTING JOY; OTHERS TO JUDGEMENT AND ETERNAL DAMNATION.
1 Corinthians 3:11-15; Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 19:20
CHRISTIANS WILL LIVE WITH GOD IN HEAVEN
John 14:2-4; Revelation 22:1-5
THOSE WHO REJECT GOD WILL BE CAST OUT FROM HIS PRESENCE IN HELL
Isaiah 66:24; Psalm 11:6; Revelation 20:10
Growing up in a home without the love for God, an invalid father, heavy financial hardships, and tremendous (sometimes dangerous) discord is always difficult. Add on to that extreme shyness, a feeling of inferiority, and some may think this girl was rejected. But God’s hand was on her and His heart was for her. Today, Ann Marie Turner has performed many great services in Jesus’ name for the love of God and man; and for herself! She has ministered in the male correctional for over ten years. Along with this website, Ann is the author of Joy Stories, Volume One and The Free Incarcerated Man. Writing about the joy of the Lord and the victory that is available for a willing soul is one of Ann’s now greatest joys! Ann’s prayer for you is to overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony. Celebrate the God of the Bible and your personal victories in Christ unceasingly! Revelation 12:11 They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.