NeedYouLord

by nickhornbacher

I agree so much with this statement...and others have said it as well...So many times I've wondered why things keep happening in my own life! Well after so long a time I can relate to Paul's "thorn"...and believe me...this is what keeps me In Him 24/7/365...Thank You God!!! He Makes A Way Where There Is No Way!!!

I sure do want to know Him...Whew...

I am so in agreement with Duggarfan... What is the best way to learn humility? Ask of God for it...and then wait... and along with that many many other things will be learned as well...Hahaha...Except it's not funny when going through it...

I do not believe that I can trust every person...Christian or not...But I KNOW that I can Trust God... Give an example: It took a long time and there are still times when judgemental-ism bothers me and I will run!!! I did for a long time...But when the rubber finally hit the road and I began trying to show up for my own life (still have trouble with it sometimes)...I got serious...I got serious with God...and I asked HIM where He wanted me to go to church if I was even to go...In prayer...I asked...and then I started waiting in full expectation for the answer...and it came...and I knew that I knew where to go...it was not like a piece of paper floated down from Heaven...Nope, not like that...Different things started happening...A lady showed up at the yard sale that changed my life...My my-God is Amazing All The Time!!! And so within 2 weeks of attending this new church...I was told (by a different lady) that I really should get my hair fixed or cut or something...I had already purposed in my heart (after much prayer) that I was after Jesus and Him Alone (Because in prayer about this-I had told Him that I wanted a church where He was-I didn't want to go where He was not Welcome)...but her comments almost ran me out of that church...One thing that was oh so wonderful about this whole thing, though, was I stayed in spite of what she said and received I believe everything God had for me at the time...

I'm making my robe pretty soon...Oiling up the sewing machine...White and beautiful...Flowing...Whew... Anyway, what I would really like to do is be clothed in God's Glory and Righteousness like Adam and Eve were...My my

Totally Believing and Knowing and Trusting That He Is My Help in Time of Trouble...That He Is My Everything and Everything Is In Him... He In me-and me In Him Has Solved All My Problems-Yes...As a matter of fact...Not too many problems when He is Around... (ok...I now feel like Mel (seems like I saw a wonderful name change maybe?) but what Mel said about what Bary was talking about) My brain has melted and run out all over the place!!! Hahaha... Huh...Do I have a problem now? Ok That's it... I'm Seeking The Lord-You Can't Stop me-I've come too far...Ok...serious now...Joe just brings that out in me-I can't help it...Hahaha...This is just some of the "liberty" I have found in one of the other Joe questions...Hahaha Lord You Are Good!!! Oh So Good!!!

I found out I could be long winded and I apologize...so short and to the point this time...Just a word...I love this Q & A...I've studied more than I ever have...Love ya'll In Him... Whew...Where The Spirit of The Lord is: ok looking up the verse...Hahaha...And there aren't many rules In Real Love...don't need them... 2 Cor. 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty...

Hi Candy, Humbly...I offer some of what has happened in my life because of Christ...Knowing with everything in me that I only know in part... There are many that believe that the only thing to it-is saying a prayer-and then going on living the same with no change...Oh, besides helping the poor...or feeding the hungry...clothing the naked...the widows and orphans...etc. etc. Many do "works" with no change within themselves...or the ability to effect change in others... In addition to all these things and whatever else God wanted to do in my life...I wanted my blinded eyes opened...my deaf ears unstopped...I wanted and needed Truth...(Once I learned that that was what was wrong with me-among other things...Hahaha...Ephesians 2:1-10) I need empowerment to live the Christian Life...I didn't want the spirit that works in the sons of disobedience!!! I can't do it on my own...I'm too weak-but With Him I Am Strong...and contrary to some beliefs-there is an enemy doing everything he can to shut down The Cause of Christ... So where is my Help? What is it that the Pastors or Preachers have, some do have I believe-I also believe that some don't. I would watch them...I would listen...and I started asking: What do they have? There was a Powerful Something Somebody In Their Life!!! I wanted to know...and because there was a great need in my life...I hungered and thirsted for His Righteousness...Seeking The Kingdom...Led and Guided Into Truth...The Truth That God Has In The Plans That He Has For me...Jeremiah 29:11-13...In so doing...In effect, I laid on the altar and everything that wasn't of Him was burned up!!! But because I am still in the flesh (Not there, yet, where I look like Him!!! not yet!!! So my spirit and flesh are at war...so that is where I must be indwelled and refreshed-on a continual basis...I needed The Baptism of The Holy Ghost...I needed to be able to Walk In The Spirit, while still alive on this earth, and not fulfill the lust of the flesh Galatians 5:16 The world has nothing for me...and I have had the opportunity to live some of the verses of The Bible...Call me crazy because I am...Crazy About My Savior, (Our Savior) Lord and King!!! His Name is Jesus...and He Lives!!! I'm just passionate!!! anyway... Father God ...I Pray...Show us The Way...In The Holy Name of Jesus... Believing truly that we have all been grafted into the Vine...No longer separated...In one body through the Cross...Ephesians 2:16. Having been given access through Him by one Spirit to the Father...Ephesians 2:18 My Jesus is Alive and so I Believe So Is His Word...I Believe That Jesus is Still Baptising...Still Empowering...And God is still Revealing Through Prayer...1 John 2:6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. I believe that Jesus, Himself, walked in The Gifts of The Holy Spirit...enabled to do what He did. There is much more to learn...How He couldn't Send us The Spirit until after He Shed His Blood on The Cross...How The Spirit and The Blood Work Together...I'm learning all about that now in a book I'm reading...My my... Every good and perfect gift comes from above...James 1:17 John answered, saying to all, "I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. Luke 3:16 and Matthew 3:11 Even Simon in Acts 8:18 wanted to pay money to get what the Apostles had...He can't be bought!!! He is a Gift...Whew...Has Gifts to Give!!! Whew...Can't be bought...I had to give up my whole life...Count the cost...The life that I knew...to find what I have found...and He Is Holy, Precious and I Adore Him!!! There is a reason there is so much division concerning this or anything to do with The Deep Things of God... But worth every single second!!! (48) "But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more. (49) "I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! (these words all in red) (50) "But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is accomplished! (51) "Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. Luke 12:48-51 This is so amazing to me: Christian Radio is where I first heard of The Holy Spirit...There were several different Pastors that I listened to...they all had programs that came on the same time every day...and they all of sudden, Hahaha...Started talking about being baptised in the Holy Spirit...Then I started hearing about churches that were having Holy Spirit rallies...well...I just knew I wanted this!!! And so, I lived this verse: Do not negect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. 1 Timothy 4:14 (6)Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. (7) For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. (8) Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, (9) who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began...2 Timothy 1:6-9 (8) Therefore He says: "When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men." Ephesians 4:8 And so...I Began Seeking Jesus Because He Had All The Answers I Would Ever Need...I learned that Everything is Through Him and His Cross...That's What I Now Know To Be True...And Really I Found More Than I Ever Could Have Ever Bargained For or Imagined Was Possible...being the down home, old Southern Girl That I Am...I want everything that God has for me and I want to believe the Whole Bible not just parts... Acts 2:3-4 then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. (4) and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (My experience is that this utterance is part of the "different kinds of tongues")...in 1 Cor 12 (Lists the 9 Gifts) I found out for me, too, that this is a lifetime journey of learning...that's why I can't give up anymore...there is nothing to give up and go back to...There are many mysteries and much Wonderfullness In God...The only way I can fully describe with words that Wonderfullness...is: I Am Complete In Him...and I Love Him...and I just want to be with Him all the time!!! I'll pray, Candy...That you find exactly what God has for you...In The Name of Jesus...Love In Him, Kathy

Bopeep...What you just said above is me too...and it's just ok-I'm not ashamed of anything anymore...And Getting to Know My Creator Has Made me Whole...Nothing missing...On the outside or the inside...In Him...I'm whole!!! I'm not trying to please the world or anybody else anymore...and can't wait to see What God Still Has In Store and His Future Plans For me...Wow oh Wow...I'm excited!!! I've said many times: Even if my house is not cleaned up and I need a change of clothes...I still invite Jesus into my house everyday...Not ashamed anymore!!!

Jesus died...Taking on all the punishment for sin...becoming sin...descending-ascending... New King James Version Proverbs 30:4 Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son's name, If you know? Ephesians 4:8-10 Therefore He says: "When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men." (9) (Now this, "He ascended"--what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? (10) He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) I've also heard the teaching that during that time He ascended to The Mercy Seat In Heaven and Sprinkled it with His Own Blood as The Final Sacrifice...Preparing The Way For us...As He Is Our Great High Priest...There is alot more to it...I'm going by memory of a teaching I have heard...and can't find all the scriptures...

I do not understand at times why some thoughts will not leave me alone...This has been bouncing around for a couple of days now and it's like if I don't post this now...(should have done it yesterday!) well...I'm transfixed in time and stuck until I type these words...Oh I Love You Lord... I'm reading a very deep book right now by Andrew Murray that has me just mesmerized about How God Works In Our Lives Once We Repent and Turn Toward Him...Laying our life on The Cross...Seeking First The Kingdom...How The Blood of The Cross Literally Made The Way For us To Be Reconciled and Is The Only Way To The Father...How Literally We Are Transformed-Returning to God If We So Choose To...Anyway on and on...How we take a journey into sin but change our minds and are drawn to Him... But This Will Not Go Away...What would we, our whole lives, this earth, etc. etc. look like if sin had never entered at all period? I have been relieved of my fear that if I use my imagination it is an awful thing...It isn't, I learned long ago that everything-and I mean anything and everything can be perverted...and how would it be using our minds to see Nothing But Good? So now some of us our renewed minds are works in progress...I don't know about you but I love to use my imagination thinking about "on earth as it is in Heaven" and how it could be...thinking about how we go from not knowing God and The Christ Whom He Sent...to knowing Him...how we've changed...going from perversion to Goodness...Living in His Perfect and Pure Love...My my... What would this earth look like if it was still the Garden of Eden before sin? If we walked with God in the cool of the day? I have in me a longing...a desire...an off the rector scale desire to be totally consumed by God while on this earth...because He is So Good... Another thing that has provoked this in me...I learned a valuable lesson more than 20 years ago...before anything happened with me and God...I mean before I really started Seeking and Finding... When being "interviewed for marriage", I was asked what was it that I wanted in the person I was going to marry...I described attributes of Jesus and didn't even know it...We all, whether we are Christian or not, long deep within to have the fellowship with Our Savior and for the people in our lives to be In Him...It's His Goodness...It's His Mercy...It's everything about Him...I just read in this book I'm reading that things in our lives are out of order and the personal relationship that we attain with Him puts things back in the correct order... I don't know if anyone wants to take the time to describe how they think it would be...to me it would be fun...If not, that's totally ok...Apparently I've said what I was supposed to...Hahaha...O God, You Are So Good!!!

Amen...

I'm thinking above the "accusing" level...into the let's reason together level...getting out of the "box" level where we are just kicking against the sides and can't get out...God is Bigger Than a Box...And Full of Love and Compassion... Jesus simply changed His mind-after being led by The Holy Spirit Into The Will of The Father... Love you In Him, Kathy

Also what was Jesus purpose...to do the Will of the Father...and knowing what I know now: The Kingdom of God is exactly opposite to "the world"...on earth as it is in Heaven...ummm...and to see The Kingdom of God, I have to be born again... This shows us a wonderful thing and then is confirmed again in other scriptures...It's always good to let scripture confirm scripture... What it is showing me is that His brothers were "in the world" (mainly because they didn't believe in Him) and "the world" says: Oh my, show off to others...(I can just see the brothers saying to Jesus, "You keep saying You are so and so and we see the "works" and we know that somebody wants to be known. And someone that wants to be known doesn't do anything in secret...) The Kingdom of God and The Will of God are exactly the opposite... Matthew 6:4 that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly. Matthew 6:6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. Matthew 6:18 so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father whois in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. I have lived these verses...There was a great need in my life that I told no-one about...I only went in prayer in secret to My Father...and what I received was more than I could have ever asked for...More...Whew...Having a God Moment...Thank You, Lord...I Need You...

I know that before conversion...(being changed)...born again...I thought little "white" lies weren't hurting anything...they were just little ones...not hurting anything...but why in the world was I thinking like that? I really didn't know the truth and didn't have a new way to think...I didn't have a renewed mind...I used it (so I thought) to get me out of trouble sometimes...I would rather go the Truth route...It feels better and is better. Ummm...Need to go to prayer and ask God why about Rahab...we know the obvious but there is always a deeper meaning...also were there non-believers involved in this? Maybe God's Ways That Are Higher Were Used to Show The Non-believers something...To them it might of looked like deception but God has a higher Way...A Higher Purpose...

Other one...love you...but don't won't to be around when the bears come out! I'm kidding around...Anyway...It's well known that God used AA for me to be able to find Him...And I'm so very grateful...Drinking adds nothing to me or my walk... I agree wholeheartedly with 1 Cor.10:31 if we can Give God All The Glory then do it!!! Whatever I do now I can say that-and that is a miracle for me! He set me free from drinking because for me it was bondage...I'm not out to please the world either...used to but not anymore...

As Angels4u stated and NeedYouLord, sin is the strength of the Law which brings forth death. Romans 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression Okay I'll do my best, If the strength of the law is sin (wrong doing, disobedience, trespasses, evil, wickedness etc., ). Then is it our personal wrong doing ("SINs") that we do in our lives that... then gives the law strength (power)??? The power to enforce or carry out the penalties (consequences) of our wrong behavior in God's sight.... Hence what is the strength of the law? I'm praying some more on this...but in the meantime...I love this definition of sin: Missing the mark of being reconciled with and knowing God...because it's so wonderful being with Him and knowing Him...being the way it was before sin...with Him...Oh my... anyway...I'm of course studying and praying more to see if there is anything else I can add to this later...Love In Him, Kathy

One way to understand better is that: The Kingdom of God is exactly opposite to "the world'...and we have to remember what caused us to Call out to God? It sure wasn't because I was in a rose garden enjoying the roses and the tulips...Now with God I am enjoying the roses and the tulips...but what got me to God? Unless I had suffered immeasurably I would never have called out...God takes what is bad and turns it for good if we are expecting Him to do that...and believe me...I wondered if I would get through it all... You are right to pray for Mr. Fred and his salvation...but the Bible also says that sometimes we ask amiss and so we don't get the answer we desire...and we also have to check our heart...Why am I praying for him? Do I have a selfish motive? Yeah, I have to be honest with God and myself...(Not saying you are...just writing some things that have helped me along the way.) In a lost person...they don't know they are lost...I sure didn't...I was just fine...so my Grandmother, as far as I know was the only one praying for me...and all hell started breaking loose...what if she had run up to me and said, "Kathy, I'm so sorry...I have been praying for you...Nope...Keep praying for those eyes to be opened and that heart to be softened and laborers to cross his path...and even everytime you see him just wait for The Lord to put a Word in you for him...The Lord will open the door...The Lord does the drawing...through us sometimes...Also we have to admit that we are only a small part...What if God has in mind that 1 year from now, someone else will lead Fred to Himself...Am I ok with that? I have to be ok with that...I can't take the responsibility for someone's salvation...That God's Job...I just do what He puts in me to do and leave the results up to Him...Many many times I remind God that this is His Ministry in me and He is responsible for it...(It helps me to do that.) It helps me to sacrifice my life again and again for His Will To Be Done... Just a little testimony...I'm living the part where Jesus separates us from our natural family...They want no part of what God has done in me...It's sad...I can't help it that I'm honest now...Didn't mean for this to happen...A while back, there was one day that I was talking to my brother on the phone and the first time that it ever happened to me-this was a miracle-the words came out of my mouth about him being saved-and it was not conscious on my part at all!!! I wasn't even thinking those words at the time...Miraculous is all I can say...and he informed me that he was going to get rich...It's been over 5 years since I've even talked to him much and he just lives up the road...There have been umpteen times my brother should have been dead already...he is a smoker and a heavy drinker...and fights...we have in the past conversed-he was of course drinking-but he knows Jesus real well...not a problem...yep...anyway...also my mom has smoked for over 40 years...I've never seen these effects on a person before like this anyway...and it's only been within the last 2 years...She has totally changed for the worst...Looks possessed now...Whew...chain smokes...can't get much done because she has a cigarette in her hand at all times...if not it's burning in the ashtray...I don't go over much...can't breathe it anymore...so I pray and cry...she is 72... Well I've waited...I really would like to have my family back...healed and whole... Here's the miracle: My mom informed me that about 3 weeks ago she went on the electronical cigarettes...Well she told me all about it...that my brother had too...Ok I'm seeing progress...They aren't dead yet there is still hope...so now my hope is renewed again and I'm still praying...Knowing my God is hearing me because change is happening...It's really true it happens in His Time I just have to be faithful...What does The Bible say about patience? Go to Biblegateway. com and keyword search all the scriptures with "patience"...Or a concordance...God's Word is Wonderful!!! I want to get deeper into it...Have Hope and Faith In God...Whew...He does love us even when we didn't Love Him...

Every second wanting to be with Him in Heaven...So I walk on this earth indwelled by The Spirit of God...The veil rent!!! Access...Granted...My my...Running this race until it is complete...Wow

For me I need a more specific question...So far all I can see is it has the strength of death in it...At the same time, we die to the flesh and begin walking In The Spirit... Romans 7:5-6 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. (6) But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

I want to expound just a little more on this subject if I could... Father...Asking according to Ephesians 1:15-21 (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, (18) the eyes of our understanding being enlightened: that we may know what is the hope of His calling what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, (19) and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power (20) which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places... Before I was saved and changed and made brand new...My life was like a rotting onion...Then with salvation and being born again, God, and now that I had become willing, began to throw away all the bad to get to the good stuff... I have been noticing that the Bible is written sometimes like it's happening now...It has happened in the past...or will happen in the future...Also I certainly know from experience I can't walk in some of the promises without dying to self...Really really walking like Jesus walked...Leaving my old life behind and not giving in to sin...Filling my new mind up with His Word...His Word is Life to me now...Wanting more than anything what God has for me...I can't have one foot in the world and expect "all" of God's "goodies"...I also, do not believe that we have to "wait" for many of the promises...of course the one that we will have a new body...look just like HIm...(we don't look like that now-and I know that) but our hearts can change while we are here...Alot of times verses are misconstrued by some in my humble opinion...or like me-which I have confessed to-all my life my sentences were finished by someone else...and I never finish all my thoughts all at once...Somebody will say something that spurs something else...Iron sharpening iron...anyway... I'm trying to get better at articulating what is in my new heart and my new spirit...According to Ezekiel 36:25-27 For instance...An example of misconstruing to me would be not referencing the other verses with Romans 3:23...For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God...If I stay there, and never get past that place, I'm a goner...with No Hope to boot...I had to have Hope that my life would get better with God...or I might as well just do what my mind was telling me to do in the first place...leave this world without Him...instead, By HIs Grace, that I didn't deserve...He saved me that day...and I've come to Know Him...To have a personal relationship with Him...Have been changed by Him...Oh my...He is So Wonderful...His Name is Jesus...Whew...Just The Mention of His Name...ok ok...Goodness...Bring me back, Lord...No, don't...Hahaha...See Heaven on earth is possible...with Him it is... I keep trying to get to this place: Hahaha...Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. We have died with Christ...some of us have...I no longer live but Christ in me...Asking every single day to walk in His Spirit and not my flesh...And the greatest miracle of all...No longer under condemnation...Jesus knows exactly what we have to go through here on this earth right now and He is praying for us too...And if I do sin...but just as Paul said...do I have a license now to sin...No, my heart and my mind have been made brand new...It's no longer in me to sin like it was...I was blind...now I can see more than I did...but if I do-I can still Go To Him and ask forgiveness...That's the miracle of it all...After salvation-I'm not separated from God-even if I sin -(it's a whole different story though if a person just continues and continues to sin-we have a choice now In Jesus) instead I don't choose to live that way...I go to My Father...Now I Can Through Jesus!!! Asking Forgiveness and am cleansed of all unrighteousness...Because I am not perfect but I'm not lost forever either...I Have My Hope In God...Who Loves me...

Having come from the place of being "in the world" and having lived through it-I have found a completely different Way of Life...I know there are others that know what I have experienced...The place where the impossible is possible... Used to: I would let every movie or anything else affect my emotions...affect the way I acted...etc. etc. kind of like took it on as a part of my life...My emotions were stronger than I was and my thoughts would cause me to act on them...And that was for me a part of the blindness I was suffering from without God in my life-Who gave me Life...Whew...The problem was I wasn't choosing Him...I was being blown to and fro...Didn't have stability...Didn't have The Rock in my life... Now a days, it's different...my heart, and emotions and everything else about me is different...I'm not blown to and fro anymore...I have a choice...I am missing nothing now...Complete in Him...200 channels on the television and can find nothing that is worthy-that says something...what do I want to put in my eyes and ears? Whatever it is goes to my heart...My heart is too important now...I watch the news so I can pray...Amazing huh...and I'm not broken anymore...Whole...Nothing missing...Complete... I spent a few years praying for what I could do for God...He saved my life-I need to know what He wants and needs-What are the plans Lord that You have for me...I haven't testified yet because it may take like 3 years to write the whole thing...Hahaha...so that's why I just testify in little bits...I'm living in Heaven upon This Earth now because He has revealed it to me...it may not sound so impressive and exotic to some...but in this ol' girl's shoes...I'm living a miracle and it hasn't even really happened yet...My whole life has been in preparation for this...For such a time as this... Most of all I have found that real life is much more exciting and adventurous than fiction...I have decided to show up for my life...The Life I Have Been Given From God...

I have been checked!!! Hahaha...In no wise do I consider myself-a totally finished work...Just wanted to clarify that...O God, You, have full reign to do with me as You will...Whew...And I want More of You!!! No...I want You to have more of me!!! Hallallujah!!!

Our God-Loves, has Eyes, a Heart, Mind, Spirit and Gives Advice...Jesus came forth from The Father and They are One...So Capable and Worthy of a Personal Relationship with us is Our God...All references are from the New King James Version...and Biblegateway 1 Sam. 2:35 Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in My heart and My mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before My anointed forever. 1 Kings 9:3 And the Lord said to him: "I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built to put My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. Isaiah 30:1-2 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the Lord, "who take counsel, but not of Me, and who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, that they may add sin to sin; (2) who walk to go down to Egypt, and have not asked My advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! The Father of Jesus: John 16:27-30 "for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God. (28) "I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father."(29) His disciples said to Him, "See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech! (30) "now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this we believe that You came forth from God." Wants and Has Given us The Ability to be One in Him... John 17:21-22 "that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. Thank You God...For Everything!!! E-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g!!! Whew...