Peter Daly

Hi. My name is Peter Daly and I live in Meriden Connecticut. I have the great pleasure of having as a best friend, Kathy Seibert, who attended your Louisville reunion last summer and came home in the wholeness of a revelation which the Lord has since given me. We attend the same church and this is where I met her. Over the course of 3 years, the Lord gave to Kathy the revelation of Christ as us in bits and pieces through our Pastor's teachings. She also received literature from you guys which solidified the revelation in her. Then she went to your Reunion and came back changed, on fire, and in possession of something I didn't have but wanted. I was jealous. I wanted this thing but was afraid of being led astray.

There have been two times in my life when I have been led astray by false teachers and false teachings and I didn't want it to happen again. I apologize to you folks as I write this but to me, the very name "Christ As Us" seemed to be cultish but then again, I was in myself at the time and had not yet been given the revelation. I did not understand. So I approached this thing very cautiously, prayerfully, asking God if these things be so and if so, to prove them to me in His word.

My friend gave me literature which she had brought back from Ky, Norman Grubb's "Romans 6-8". Very meaty. I read that little booklet halfway through and tried to understand but all I got was a headache and had to put the book down. I was afraid for my friend thinking she was being led astray. I was vexed and in the midst of my fear and confusion, the Lord spoke to me and said, in essence, "This thing is not learned but is spiritually discerned and these are a people who share a revelation of Me few others yet have."

I said "OK, Lord" and went about my business. My business at that time, as I call it, was living in hell, basically. You see, I lost my job in February of 2004 and went through a year-long stripping process, the Lord stripping me of myself, self worth, self esteem, self motives, self effort etc., and all the things that drove me and I thought I was. It was sheer hell. There were times of depression, obsession, lust, paralyzing fear and insanity where I literally thought I was losing my mind and was ready to commit myself to a mental institution. God was faithful and in the end, through this experience, brought me finally to the realization that I am nothing, that I have nothing and all is Christ, that I am in Him, identified with him, found in Him and that everything that is self is garbage, worthless, filthy rags.

It was then, after about 2 months, that I picked up the book again and began reading. It was then I understood what God was saying, first through the apostle Paul, then Norman Grubb. The eyes of my understanding being enlightened, the Lord burst forth into my consciousness and my heart pure gems of wisdom and truth, Christ as me, the hope of glory. I became alive again, with hope and wonderful restoration, restored not to my former self but into the self for which I was created to be, the living expression of Christ as He walks this earth through me, this emptied vessel, poured out by Him and being poured out daily as He flows through me, as me. It was then that everything changed, that I began to see "my" life through the eyes of Christ.

I have hope now because He is hope. The joy of my salvation has returned after years of sadness and hopelessness. Scripture has become easy to understand and apply for He is the living word and I am His and He is me. Witnessing the love of Christ to those who don't know Him yet has become easy and a joy and is now coupled with the fullness of the gospel, not just half of it. Praying to the Father, who has now become my Daddy, brings times of such incredible intimacy in His love that it causes me to weep. I cannot contain such love but am overwhelmed by it and in it. I can hear His voice now, more clearly than I ever could before and this thrills me and finally, I now share a unity, a bond with my friend which will never be broken, no matter what, and which will always be in Him. We have a Christ centered friendship and I find this very cool indeed!

You see, God allowed me to first live, through experience, His revelation of who I am in Him, who He is in me and what my "self" is and then gave me literature, information, the written word to further expand and make concrete the knowledge He had already placed in me. As my Pastor would say, "A man with an experience is greater than a man with an argument".

I am still in the same place I was when I started on this journey. At the time of this writing, I am unemployed with no income, having maxed out my unemployment benefits. I am in the process of changing careers. Having become burned out by my former profession, I went back to school in July of 2004 to become a Christian radio DJ and am now working on my demo. Where as before, being in such a place would cause me no end of fear and strife, now I know who I am, where I am, and whose I am. I am in Christ, all of Him and he fills me with all of Him. My former self has been exposed for the lie that it is and I have been freed to be a vessel, a container, a branch of the vine which is my Lord. I have a peace which surpasses all understanding in the knowing that He is me, that this day is His will, that I am in the center of His perfect will and He is Lord, through me, His vessel. He will see that this vessel comes to no harm but will continue in His health and prosperity to do His perfect will for as long as He sees fit, and this peace guards my heart and my mind in Christ Jesus. I am a very rich man and lack for nothing for all the fullness of the Godhead bodily resides in me, as me and God will have His way, hallelujah! That's it. I pray this blesses and gives hope to all those who read these words.

Your brother in Christ Jesus,

Peter.