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In my humble opinion, a very close, loving, surrendered relationship with Our God is needed for this verse to be true in one's life...I look at The Bible as a Living Book Because My Jesus Is Alive...I can walk in every promise...It's possible with God for All Things Are Possible-Luke 1:37- For with God nothing will be impossible.

Amen...Blessed, Neb and Floatingaxe, above... Before I was saved and so lost...sin separated me from God...How can I be a sinner now-if God will never leave me or forsake me? And now have the withal to "ask" that I have help with the capture of my thoughts!!! And to not act on every thought that comes in my mind and feel like those thoughts are stronger than I am....I'm born again and have been made brand new and I have a renewed mind...a choice now!!! Not saying it was easy being changed because it wasn't...God had a work to do in me...but worth it? Beyond any words-worth it... Wow...I love ya'll...This discussion is so good...It took a long while in my walk before I believed the verses Floatingaxe listed...and it's like you don't even know when that "Jordan" is crossed...it's like one day the thought comes and The Work In Me has been completed...Whew!!! My my...I Love You Lord Jesus!!! I'm reading a pretty deep book right now how The Shed Blood and The Holy Spirit Work Together...and how we can't stop The Working of both just because we aren't thinking about them at that very second...Amazing...I'm still up to my knees in it...Hahaha My my, Lord Jesus Indwell Us Mightily For Your Glory...In The Name of Jesus, I Pray...Loving you In Him, Kathy

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On earth as it is in Heaven... I know we have all been taught differently as to our upbringing...I am of the persuassion that I am in the born again state...and readily admit I am not a Bible Scholar...and therefore with The Kingdom of God inside of me...bringing Heaven to earth...(I'm not of the persuassion that I have to wait for anything-because I have experienced The Power of God Working Through me...(Have gone through hell on earth too-almost died without Him) and so in Seeking My God With my Whole Heart am being shown how it is in Heaven...pure joy...full of His Rest...Light and not darkness...My my...am lead and guided as to Carry Out My Fathers Desire Upon The Earth-through intercessory prayer...and all The Gifts of The Holy Spirit... In my humble opinion we are still in the midst of the enemy on this earth...and they need binding...I don't think they are in Heaven...seems to me like they got kicked out...so here are some of us: Born again Seeing The Kingdom of God on this yukky earth...so what do we do? Nothing? My my...I'm not made that way...Humbly...changed from a worrier to a warrior...Kneeling at The Throne of Grace...Coming Boldly and Being Changed To Make A Difference On This Earth For Those That Haven't Seen Heaven Yet...Giving Hope...Where There Is None... Lord...I Need You...More and More and More...

I heard it said this simple way: When I am born again, it just means that now God is my Father...and my spirit is now of Him...Amazing How That Works...Way to simple...

Floatingaxe...You have the most beautiful bracelet I've ever seen...Big big hugs to you...I've often thought about my crown...I don't know a whole lot about what The Bible says about that yet...but...I've often thought and wondered if it would look somewhat like your bracelet...It's so so beautiful...No, not worshipping jewelry...Hahaha...Worshipping The Gift Giver!!! My my... Sorry I kinda strayed off the path there...but wanted to tell you that...

It is amazing to me how I can only give what I have...there was a time I didn't have anything on the inside of me except selfishness and many other wonderful "attributes" "of this world"...and at times even now find myself needing the closeness of My Lord and Savior...couldn't even "see" or "feel" how others might feel...The Bible talks about this: we are blind and lost without Christ...and we don't even know it...That was me-a non-Christian...Pride kept me from "needing" anything or anybody especially Christians because in my blind state they were only hypocrites...trying to tell me to: do this and do that...don't do this and don't do that...I didn't understand I absolutely love the above verse!!! It is Truth that I have lived... 1 Cor. 1:18 For the message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is The Power of God... No more is it just "talk" for me...I have been changed from the inside out as the song suggests...and only The Power of God can do that...I am not the same as I was...No longer are "Christians" hypocritical...I faced life or death and found LIFE...In Christ...It's not a game...

My life verse...The one that I hung onto when I thought there was no Hope... This verse, because I didn't give up, has come true in my life... The New Life I have been Given...Whew Jeremiah 29:11-13 (New King James Version) For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says The Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me, and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with your whole heart. All I can say is: He Is Alive!!! Lord, I Pray Indwell Us Mightily For Your Glory...Equip us, Your children to live The Life You Have Given Us... In The Name of Jesus, I Pray...

Been playing around with tools. The toggle switch changes the quote box in my reply window; but then it posted the same as if I hadn't switched it. I'm seeing how the quote thingy is working and shouting Joyfully!!! I'm so grateful to be right here right now...Love ya'll...Singing a New Song!!! Hahaha

This is how the song is listed on youtube...All of a sudden...it's like I need to put some songs on the forums... Love you In Him, Kathy "One Single Drop", Gateway Worship, Song led by Walker Beach...

Shiloh...Big hugs...I think we were writing at the same time...Be Assured not all of us will "coddle"...Time is short and precious...and have seen Some Light In The Darkness...

As happens many times...and at all times seeing how patience can have her perfect work...I'm frequently interrupted by my precious, God-Given, child...and now is the time to bring up what just happened...My my... We have been having lengthy discussions about how she wants what she wants and gets quite perturbed when she doesn't get it...Like a "I deserve this" attitude...She is relentless!!! I admit I've spoiled the youngun...having her late in life and so grateful that God would even trust me having a child...Only after a relationship with Him did it happen...He Is Amazing...He brings Relationship not Religion...In my humble opinion... So we have these desires: And I have just stood my ground-put my foot down...probably the most severely I ever have...(and I do not like having to do it) and told her that we have many many/and will have many desires in our life...and most of the time what we want is not good for us...And would I be a good parent if I let her have or do everything that "she wanted to have or do"? I asked her that question...She said, "No...I would not be a good parent if I let her do everything or have everything she wanted." So having found myself Needing A Savior...Needing A Lord...and In Seeking HIm...Through His Word, Through Others Who Have Walked The Same Path, Through Prayer and In The Desire To Be Changed...Eventually I came to the place where I was not the same...(Ephesians 2: 1-3, and the rest of the Chapter is so so good!!!) I found Truth...Because He (Jesus) Is The Way, The Truth and The Life...and I Was Changed... Many a sermon I heard and couldn't believe because I had not experienced a life-changing "born again" experience with The Man Jesus Christ...where things that were/are seen or heard through my eyes or ears are seen or heard in a different Way...Full of The Potential For Hope and Life...What keeps coming to me is "Come up Higher"...My ways are higher than your ways...There are verses in The Bible that I feel like don't apply to me...but if I Seek Him...The Way, The Truth and The Life...and Keep Seeking Him and Stand Under The Cross and Get Washed In The Shed Blood of Jesus...(1 Cor. 1:18) I Will Be Forever Changed By Him...I will eventually walk in The Truths of The Bible...If I'm not walking In A Truth of The Bible...I just keep Seeking until I do walk in it...because I know it's possible... If this seems kinda choppy...Hahaha...it's because I wrote the middle before the top... I just wanted to really, really bring out this fact and Truth...Laws are made by people...the majority vote (well supposedly...Hahaha...anyway) that does not make all of them right, in my humble opinion...Before Christ...I thought the same way...Well it's legal...so I had an abortion...it's legal...but they forgot to tell a vunerable young lady that she wouldn't be able to live with that decision unless Jesus Saved her...because even though it's legal-I committed murder...I made the decision to murder my first child at 21 years of age...God Blessed me at the age of 44, with my first and only birthed child...I walk today, Forgiven and Loved By God...Walking in His Truths...I got to the point where I had to know if He was Real...If He Was Solid and If I Could Put My Trust In Him...I Found Out...He Doesn't Lie and He Doesn't Leave us...or Forsake us...But We Have To Come To Him!!! Everything isn't just floating around in la-la land...We make a decision for Him and Life is Better and Is Changed For Our Good...If we don't give up...Thank You, God...For Jesus!!!

I love what Strong's Concordance says about "baptised"...There are different variations of the word...but I'm only using "baptised"...Only Greek #907 is used in the New Testament for the word "baptised"... It is a very very long definition but here are some highlights: To make overwhelmed, ie: fully wet, used only (in the New Testament) of ceremonial ablution, espec, (tech.) of the ordinance of Chr. baptism... the rite performed by John The Baptist who called upon the people to repent that they might receive remission of sins. Those who obeyed came confessing their sins, thus acknowledging their unfitness to be in the Messiah's coming kingdom (Acts 1:5, 11:16, 19:4). The phrase in Matthew 28:19, "baptizing them into the Name" would indicate that the baptized person was closely bound to, or became the property of, the one into whose name he was baptized. Oh Yes I Am Yours, Jesus!!! Whew...Hahaha In Acts 22:16, it is used in the middle voice, in the command given to Saul of Tarsus, "arise and be baptized," the significance of the middle voice form being "get thyself baptized." The experience of those who were in the ark at the time of the Flood was a figure or type of the facts of spiritual death, burial, and resurrection, Christian baptism being an antitupon, "a corresponding type," "a like figure," (1 Peter 3:21). I just knew there was a very good reason that the desire to be baptised was put in me...

I know some men right now, being from The South, that will read his book: "Happy, Happy, Happy" and won't pick up a Bible!!! Whew... As a matter of fact, one of them bought me the book!!! And then I said it was a great book he ought to read it...He said he had stopped reading!!! I said...You need to do something good for yourself and read this book! The last I knew he was on Chapter 3-It is a Miracle of God!!! I believe what Phil Robertson said is true. I truly believe God is behind everything that is happening for and through them!!! No doubt in my mind. Because Phil is not ashamed...Yeah!!!

Always praying for The Holy Spirit to lead and guide us into All Truth...In The Name of Jesus... For me, instead of wondering, fussing etc. etc. I know I was fully immersed in water before I was born in the natural from my natural mother...Then later in faith I was fully baptised in water...fully immersed...and now I'm satisfied-that's the way it came to me to be done-through much prayer...have since been baptised in The Holy Spirit too...Real satisfied now...My my...anyway...This topic just caught my attention because I've started a new book by Andrew Murray, The Blood of The Cross...(This is in reference to the second quote below) So Indwelled he Was and Is...The Revelation That God Gave him Still Lives On...That is what amazes me...I can pick up one of his books (there are many) and Life Comes...to me...Whew...and He goes very very deep...it's like the deep calling the deep... So naturally I got into my Bible and along with John 3:5...unless one is born of water and the Spirit...Acts 2:38 is referenced right here (Talks of Repenting and being baptised in the Name of Jesus Christ) This is also a really deep subject because I'm finding out that this verse is also true and goes with it: 1 John 5:6-8 [6] This is He who came by water and blood-Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. and it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. [7] For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. [8] And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one. This comment goes right in line with the book I'm reading by Andrew Murray...because his insight is that The Blood and The Spirit are inseparable in The Power of God...going back to 1 John 5:8... Well we know in part and I'm just starting this book...and it is deep...Whew...I love it when this happens...just in the interim until my mind is renewed again...Hahaha...I have to be baptised in water for anything to happen to me and in me...

Jesus himself said the Holy Spirit will show us things to come. So, with that said I ask everyone, even those who don't believe in them or have much faith in them. to keep someone like me in prayer. I seem to have a lot of them. Not all from God. I ask you all Keep me in prayer, that Jesus will remain first in my life. That I won't be decieved into believing lies. That I will keep his word before me, that As I pray and study and seek Jesus , I will not be fooled by the lies the enemy tries to feed me through dreams, visions or any other source. God bless you all Firestormx Joseph Oh yes He did say it...and I believe it...and I'm praying for you...I've experienced visions from God too...I was out of myself looking at myself-as though dead...Oh me...and then The Holy Spirit endued me with Power as is explained in Luke...I've been called all kinds of things-been through too many battles-it doesn't bother me anymore...I'm on my knees "running after Jesus" I love that song: Klaus Kuehn-Running...on youtube... Father, we come to you as Your children, asking...as my brother asks...I pray...In The Name of Jesus, for Clarity... Heavenly Father, I ask You to give me and each person I have prayed for today clarity of vision, clarity of sight, clarity of thought, clarity of mind, clarity of knowing, and hearing Your Voice according to John 16:23 and I Thank You and I Praise You For You Are Holy and Worthy To Be Praised...Thank You For Walking With Us During This Life on Earth...Doing Your Will...My my

O God...Thank You For Saving us... Pretty sure I've testified to this before but at 19 years old; I was standing out in the middle of a dirt road...drunk...wondering why I was born...asking God why He never answered my prayers...Mind you, I had been saved from drowning twice in my life...ummm...had been to church Vacation Bible School at 11 or 12 years of age...and that was it-as far as church went.. I totally agree that God hears the prayer of a repentant heart...He sure did mine...Oh dear it was bad... One verse that particularly stood out and was like a revelation to me...was John 9:31 "Now we know that God does not hear sinners: but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him." I know this is in the context of the Pharissees being amazed that Jesus had opened the man born blind-opened his eyes...for me-and God knowing the journey that it would take for me...I went after not being a sinner and being changed By The Healer...Jesus...My my...I need all the verses...but I also needed God to hear me...Whew... Love In Him, Kathy

Like I said before...Love you more than you'll ever know...My my...I love your new picture!!!

Eventually...Still Seeking God we know which gifts we have been given...He will let us know...Patience having her perfect work...and: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from The Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning (I heard a teaching one time-no darkness in it) James 1:17 And we will know when we are ready-always praying...He builds up our confidence...He is patient and kind...Remember He is Love...He is opening our eyes now...and we see...Oh me... At some time or another...I have walked in almost all of the gifts...I know it's hard in the beginning...a human walking in the Spirit...but He won't leave us or forsake us... He sees the desire of your heart, Hall7...and He Is So Good... Love In Him, Kathy

Whew...Oh yes it is going from Glory to Glory!!! When Walking with God...In The Spirit and not our flesh...being led and guided...oh my...and He asks over and over...Do you Trust Me? It has happened to me...in the very beginning of not being quite sure if I should...and didn't...and given more opportunity...My my, Hall 7...If you are Seeking God and being led like this...It's been my experience that He will give us the words and indwell us with Power to Do His Will Upon The Earth...Always leaving the results up to Him...Always praying without ceasing...I'm so excited for you!!! Being indwelled with the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead... And then being led (we don't do things on our own...just as Jesus did-He only did what He was instructed or saw The Father do) being led to specific places and sick people show up there...or are already there...or a Simple Word to tell someone...or go and pray for someone in the hospital (I didn't go on my own-oh in the beginning I wanted to heal everybody in the hospital!!! Hahaha ) but asked to go to a hospital and pray for someone and they were miraculously healed...(all these are my own testimony) and you ask them to pray right in a restaurant and they say that they have tried all that...(still knowing I am to do this) then I said: But I know The Healer...and His Name is Jesus...then immediately they accepted prayer...The next morning he was to have his foot amputated...Did I leave the results to God...Oh yes I did...This is His Ministry in me...and He is Responsible for it... Always being led...It is His Purposes Upon The Earth That We Want To Accomplish For Him...So He Gives The Instruction To A Willing Obedient Heart...Whew...and it's my experience that if there is anything in my life that has to go...Well I can't do His Perfect Will until it goes...He had to clean me up big time...It's true!!! Whew...He is so good, Hall7... Love to you In Him, Kathy

I have loved reading everything that has been written...Big Hugs...I remember the day when God gave me The Revelation...Oh we need Revelation...Enlightenment of God's Word...Whew... It was so WonderfulThat Day...How do we communicate with God? The only way is Prayer...God's Pretty Particular About it all...He Loves To Hear us Request His Heart and Mind For Our Lives and The Lives of Others...How do I find out what is available to me...? I have to get into His Word and Find Out!!! Walking In His Spirit and Not My Flesh... Does He Hear Us When We Pray? I questioned that for a long time...I came to Him just as I was-from my heart...and still do...just as I am...Seeking Him-with everything in me...Yes...I'm not the same---It is the Goodness of The Lord That Brings us to our knees (repentance)...and on our knees we find Life...Whew...Oh Yes We Do...If we don't give up (faint)... It's this part that keeps me Renewed and Wanting To Be In Him More and More and More... Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed be Your name...(I am in Awe of You) Your Kingdom Come. Your Will Be Done On Earth As It is In Heaven. (I live With You In me right here on earth) Whew Lord, Light Your Word...My my...Bring us out of the darkness and Into Your Marvelous Light...In The Name of Jesus...

When I was "born again" I was changed in the blink of an eye...All of a sudden I heard things a different way...I could see the world differently...It actually felt like I had been filled with God's Love and Peace...It was an incredible experience...and beautiful...I haven't been the same since...and it's been a very long time... It is true: we are made new...In Him...Jesus my Lord and Savior...

Whew...I love this video...Yes I Know Him!!! He Is My King!!! My my

First and foremost I agree with Gary...God Is Who He Is...And There Is No Other...He Is A Rewarder to Those That Diligently Seek Him (Hebrews 11:6) He Is The Author and The Finisher of my faith...He Is Wholly Sovereign and Sits Upon The Throne...Even The Throne of my Life...The Life That He Gave...For His Good Pleasure... There is so much...Even just getting started with my Study Bible and The New King James that references every verse with every verse that applies to it...My my I've been to the Old Testament and back 2 times over...so with all this...we only know in part and also if anyone has anything to add: Please do...we need each other's perspective...and other's leading and guiding...also one verse that keeps coming to mind even before I start is: Knowing The One True God and The Christ Whom He Sent...I know this is a life long process...and it's wonderful... The subject as I understand it is: God heals but does He also cause us to get sick? In simple terms the way I've always understood this: The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. and Jesus: I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10-It is so very very hard to keep things very very simple...by faith... I know in the Old Testament there are many examples of God's Wrath...Well before I knew anything about God / before He Made Himself Real To me...In my mind He was nothing but mean...He just destroyed people and it was hard to even want or need Him at all for anything-through my eyes at the time I couldn't imagine The Greatest Love Ever Known To Mankind Coming From Him...but the longer I have had to get to Know Him-Through His Word and Being Indwelled By His Spirit...Oh my...He has a heart, a mind (1 Samuel 2:35), can get provoked to anger for sure (Jeremiah 32:29), has a heart and a soul (Jeremiah 32:41) and if we don't faint or give up...and if we read the "rest of the story"...I don't even pretend to know the whole story---yet; but if we focus on Him...(side note) That's another reason to keep trudging...or skipping happily down the lane of salvation...Hahaha...Because it's so good...it can get rough-at least it does for me...and no, I haven't been severely persecuted like the pastor in Iran right now...Oh I Pray For Him...but to go through things I don't even have to leave my house!!! and that's the Truth... So we know God gets angry...Oh boy can He!!! But the rest of the story is after all the deeding of land and the wonderful prayer to God, oh dear, something happened that wasn't supposed to I guess, because there was a little discussion between He and the prophet...as far as I can tell...but...in the end...God was upset because of the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth. (Jeremiah 32:30) Then He does something: He says He will bring them back from where He drove them in His Anger, Wrath and Fury...I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely!!! (verse 37) Wow...They shall be My people and I will be their God... This is the miracle of it all...Jeremiah 32:39-42...then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me. Yes I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will assuredly plant them in this land, with all My heart and with all My soul. For thus says the Lord: Just as I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them. And don't stop there...Hahaha...There are 44 verses in this chapter...and more Chapter's in the Book of Jeremiah...and a Whole Bible to Read... One thing I'd like to also point out...The Bible is written in such a way that it just Lives!!! Hahaha...God wrote into the future sometimes...Like telling of Jesus coming hundreds of years before He came...Then at times it looks like it's just for that day-but in praying and Seeking His Face He Will Give Revelation...My my...So many times I can apply what I read-into my own life-another words, for me, it is not just a history book for me...so-in short-The Bible for me...Lives and is Alive...Just as my Jesus Is...and that's not the half of it...Hahaha...There is a New Testament that is just as Amazing...but I'm guessing I've written enough for now... Always Loving you In Him...Opppsss...I have a new saying: Alright I love being sappy...Greetings with a kiss of love...(1 Peter 5:14) and ya wonder why I Love Him!!! And no, I'm not getting in the flesh!!! In The Spirit...

That's so good, Back2... I can relate...The last 2 weeks I smoked...I couldn't get enough and The Prayers Were Constant!!! Just like you said...Completely I mean just as if I had never smoked...The addiction taken from me...(29 years)...No withdrawal...None... Oh that's so good...the devil couldn't stand the prayers...