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Much love to you jaberwockie and everyone... When I was an unbeliever...I heard only: Repent or Go To Hell...There was no love not whatsoever revealed to me at that time...And even in the very beginning I was like the seed that wasn't sewn on fertile ground but on the rocks...I would just slip away at any little ol' doubt that came up... All that has changed...and since this is a wonderful journey...and we are running a magnificient race...and just knowing that I have been touched "By The Master" Who Is Now My Lord and King...and been filled with His Love and Peace With Grace and Mercy Following us Wherever we Go...Well...The only way I can describe it for me is that I'm not waiting...I am getting to live "Heaven on earth"...and that is the only way I can describe it...Is every second blissful and no problems...No...but we are overcomers of those things now... See, in the beginning, I had to throw away everything I thought I ever knew...and start all over...all my thoughts needed changing-I was losing my mind, literally-because I needed The Mind of Christ...and I love your signature AlanLamb...Whew...It took me back for a minute but some of us get to live that!!! Oh Yes...The Lord Wants All of us...every bit...and when I got to that point that; that, was my desire, too...I have read your signature twice now and my my...I'm a witness!!! Would anything separate me now? No...Not even if my final destination is different than what I understand it is...To not live what I am living now on earth...now-that would be the travesty...

Oh God...You are so good!!! My my...

Much love to you, LadyKay... It's amazing how and when God enlightens us to His Truths...He does allow some of us to live through many things-this is just my testimony...I suppose it is so that when we do eventually choose Him and His Way...He can use what we thought was horrible and bad-all those things That He Can Certainly Turn Around For Good...Of course, at the time, I didn't want to hear that-when I was going through my bad stuff with no hope of it ever changing...(Not saying that I have always made the right decisions-but I've never lived the same horror twice...the circumstances have always changed) but I didn't want to hear that God was going to use it one day...because at the time without the correct understanding-I looked at it like God just loved me being in horribleness so that He could use it...(there are more Truths about this part) but the fact remains He does and Has used it...In some cases to save another person's life...Only after I came to a faith IN HIM...Only after He indwelled me mightily For His Glory...I Thank God For Free Will...or else I would be dead without Him... Just to see it in real time...Hahaha...and the understanding that comes...When I was without God-I was living with a man not married-and we drank every night...and because I so loved this man (he never ever told me he loved me-never) I decided that I had to be totally honest with him so that he would know me...and not knowing that I was living Ephesians 2:1-10 at that very moment...eventually in drunken stupors he used everything I told him against me...If there was an awful human being that lived on this planet it was me-according to him...I believed his lies for a very long time...notice he never ever told me any of his past-never...Ephesians 2 Is my Truth...and is what has happened to me...By faith I believe!!! I made some very hard choices for this above situation to change-mainly a belief that God loved me like He said in His Word...I've always wanted to do the right things...That meant staying with somebody forever...I just got everything out of order...Belief in God...Changed by Him...Relationship with God...Spend much time with God...Know Him...Wait for person to marry and live with that has-belief in God-that has been changed by Him...that has a relationship with God and spends much time with God...Knows Him...It's really quite simple...But did I do this? Nope...I couldn't see it-didn't know to do it... Now...this has helped me to understand what is happening... Adam did lose "God's perfection that we were to all live in"...and when he did...he lost it for all of us...which had to be-because sin separates us from God... Satan was given permission, Ephesians 2:2-3...to rule on the earth... Romans 5:19 describes: through (A man), (Eph. 2: 2-3) with the spirit of the prince of the power of the air; the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, Adam's disobedience-many were made sinners and through (A Man), with The Holy Spirit, Jesus' Obedience-many will be made righteous... So we are born into sin...into "the world"...then hopefully-at some point-we hear about Jesus...somebody please bring me Hope In Jesus...and so now we have free will to choose...Life or Death...but sin is so good for a while...but then it tries to steal, kill and destroy...and will succeed unless we choose differently...and stop believing the lies...And Come To The Way, The Truth and The Life... This is what I've decided...I will read God's Word for myself and pray That He Will Enlighten His Word In me...and that He will Light my Path...and lead me and guide me where He would have me go...I don't believe what everyone says...but I can pray and ask God to Reveal His Truth-to enlightened the part He gives me...He will enlighten it at the exact right time... Let us Walk In The Light...Love you in Him...NeedYouLord

Much love to you, cross...The only reason I can see so much of The Hand of God in your situation is because it is so similar to mine...and regardless if there was abuse or not as a child...I think without God in our lives...being led and guided by Him...we just plain walk around with insecurities-and still being a human in the flesh-we sometimes still do have these insecurities at times...In Him, His Word and our brothers and sisters is our answer (because He is in them)...Sometimes I go through periods where I just need to hear: It's going to be ok...and like Hall said: We need our medicine (The Bible) everyday...A dose of it everyday...That's what I need...and like that ol' Southern Gospel song I heard the other day said: My doctor (Jesus) is in the (Prayer) closet... I only know in part but the part I do know...I know...Hahaha Being completely honest with an unbeliever or a carnal believer is the way I have chosen to go...I expressly express my belief in God...and I don't deviate and I stand!!! See I was called out by God in the very middle of my 2nd marriage...surprise surprise...I did the same thing you are doing now...Went after God!!! And still am With All of me!!! At first it was for a different reason but the outcome is the same...He will take care of that desire that is in us for Him!!! God Will...You just go after Him...what happened to me was I saw miracle after miracle...(Ummm...the call from the college?) My husband was promoted twice!!! So that we could live on what he made...I was laid off when the baby was 4 months old!!! and I really don't even think he applied for it...we never talked about it...but I know what happened...miracle after miracle...Does he give God all the glory? Nope...not yet...but there is so much hope...so many changes have taken place...I've been at it a while now and have chosen to obey The Bible this time...It's like before I knew The Truth...I could just run from trouble...well, God made sure this time I couldn't run so easy!!! Hahaha...I have chosen like Ms. Joy said in another thread what the Bible says: to stay and pray...and that's what I do... Have I learned to keep my mouth shut sometimes? Yep...Cause ya'll have seen how it gets me in trouble sometimes...I'm still learning but it's worth it to go after God...He can turn it all around for good...That's been my experience...

Much love to you In Him...Christ My Lord... Just Believing He Can Overcome Even That...Go to God with all of you...just as you are...Praying for you and your family...

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Much love to you, Sitara...I am so glad you brought this up...I have been blessed beyond belief at everything that has been said... Whew...God, You are so good-All the time!!!

Much love to you In Him, So many times, too, we do not even know the exact moment we have what we have been seeking...God is Amazing...He takes our little humble hearts and changes them for the better...and then one day you look around and say...Wow, I haven't done that for awhile...or Oh, I understand that verse now... I just have to tell you this: a testimony because its what happened to me...Jeremiah 29:11-13 is my life verse...The verses I hung onto when there was no hope for me...or at least I thought there wasn't any hope... There have been many things I've learned and much understanding has come in my walk...but there is nothing just about that has affected me more than going to God and Seeking Him "With my Whole Heart" for someone else...and that was my dad...my real biological dad...I came to know Jesus after I was grown...I was 12 when he and my mom divorced over his adulterous affair...and I loved my daddy and missed him!!! All the time growing up...I loved and missed him...He was fun-but anyway...He didn't know Jesus...So here we are years later and my sister and he had been talking and my sister told him that he should call and ask me to pray... So one day the phone rang and it was my daddy and he told me that he had been diagnosed with Alziehiemers and that he wanted me to pray for him... It changed my life...I only thought I knew something...I didn't know anything...yet... I went after The Healer...Jesus...Like never before...I wanted to know how He healed people...I wanted to know everything about Him...God would bring all kinds of anointed pastors into my path...anointed books...and He began to show me...and because I didn't give up...My "whole" heart was changed...I did everything led by God for my daddy to for sure be saved...I truly believe he was saved before he died...It was a long distance endeavor... I truly believe that until I cared about someone else's condition more than my own and went after Seeking God for the solution and what happened was I ended up experiencing so much of The Bible in the process...my whole heart is God's now and He leads and guides us into all Truth...

Much love to you In Him, What really helps in some situations is finding a testimony-then you can just mention that there is this person that was a homosexual but now is not...I haven't looked for one yet on homosexuality...but I sure have gone to youtube to Seek-testimonies on Healing...because testimonies sure do show the power of God and how He changes lives...You'll get scoffers and those that don't believe...oh well...I sure do believe...

Much love...Oh Yes He Does Still Heal!!! Whew...Thank You, Jesus!!! Show us Your Glory!!! In Your Name, I pray...

Much love to you In Him, I think God finds His Creation Funny at times...I know that I had this thinking before much maturity...but I would think this: that God thought it was funny as He watched me go to and fro...searching for Him...(I'm glad He kept me alive until I could find Him...Hahaha...(Until really I chose Him above all-and left all the world behind for Him, His leading and Guiding, to the very best of my ability) I used to think God was saying: Well, there she goes again... There is definitely a difference in "being in the world" and laughing at something or somebody... and being born again and having a changed "merry heart"...Now there is Peace and Joy-usually that is...Hahaha...and I get just pure Joy out of thinking about how God Created different things...How He put ideas in people and they create things that help us on the earth...or thinking about Wow-God...Why did You do that? Whatever it is...that is funny...so it's like we, us and God can have a relationship...goes both ways you know...praying-talking...The Wonderful-ness of it all... I have a different perspective now, too, about myself and other people...We are all God's Creation...and in every person there is a little bitty bit of Light...sometimes have to look hard for it...sometimes there is a brick wall that has to be knocked down that is keeping the Light from shining...but in every person there is a God Light that is trying to Lead and Guide them into All Truth... I agree too that Flame's given verses are in the process of our maturity...The verse in James is talking about sinners getting clean and when I was there in that place...My laughter needed changing...My heart needed changing and everything...I needed God's Joy...I needed Hope...and there is Hope after...If we don't give up...Biblegateway .com signifies that James: 4:7-10 is talking about Humility Curing Worldliness...James 4:7-10 (The last verse, v.10, is The Hope for me) (7) Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. (8) Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. (9) Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. (10) Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and He will lift you up. He is the One Who Lifts us Up!!! Oh Yes He Is!!! and All of Psalm 27 is fabulous but especially v. 13, which gives me Hope again...Psalm 27:13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living...I get pure Joy out of seeing The Goodness of The Lord...Here on this earth...Love you In Him, Kathy

Zion...I know you can be a laugh riot...(I love love your sense of humour...I have seen it...Hahaha...read it) that is what drew me to you!!! and maybe for me laughter was the wrong meaning in some instances...A Merry Heart is what I was meaning by laughter...because it doeth good like a medicine...Proverbs 17:22... I found an old timey good ol' song that talks about How Our Lord Gives us Our Medicine In The Closet...I find My Doctor (Jesus) In The Closet...Whew...(In The Prayer Closet) I know we can laugh at something and it be like...in a bad way... But that isn't what I was referring to...and I know we shouldn't disrupt a service...but that laughing (merry heart) on the inside just might cause someone to walk up to you after and ask you what is going on? Why are you so happy-merry?...Hahaha...Much love in Him...

Oh yes He does... I've gone through extreme Seeking places and one time I heard a joke in my spirit!!! It was: Take off your sunglasses so you can see My Light at the end of the tunnel!!! Hahaha...I laughed so hard because at that precise moment I needed Him...I needed encouragement...We are made in His image...Oh yes...He is Wonderful and Amazing...and Glorious... One time He gave me a rapping song and I'm a pretty "old" young lady...That almost rocked my own socks off...Hahaha and the third one: I asked Him if this "heat" that I was feeling; was it Him and His Healing Anointing, or was it a hot flash...I think He thought that was pretty funny... I just read your what's on your mind: Being like Jesus...and Spock saying: Might be asking for long lines...Yeah...People needing and wanting to be healed...Whew...They are standing in line...Whew... Much love in Him, Kathy

Much love In Him... I agree that we do not know the path that someone will take to get to that "born again" for sure place...That relationship place...for some of us, it's not easy-and takes many turns and a long time...and some of us go unconventionally...Hahaha...Just look at Saul who is Paul...I wouldn't trade the lit path where I found Jesus for no amount of money, not for a million trillion dollars... He needs prayer covering him...for sure...as this may be the very place God has designed-that he will live through, the place where he finds Jesus for sure and gives his testimony and thousands are saved...Jesus is in it Somewhere...but prayer is what will make the difference-in my opinion... We are born into an unsaved world-with free will...and those that don't want to believe God, I believe, God removes His Hand...so we pray...Asking God to change His Mind...Asking God to change (the person's heart)...It's all possible...and happens a lot...Thank You God!!! Whew...tearing up now...Save him to the uttermost, I pray, In The Name of Jesus...