Willa
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She no longer has seizures but still has tremors. She has to receive more tests and drive 2 1/2 hours to get them from the only doctor she has found that can help her. Please pray that the tests are accurate and clearly show what is wrong, and that God heal her quickly.
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Praise God for answering prayers! Prayers don't work; our loving, powerful Creator God worked on your behalf.
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My opinions have also changed since I have been here due to reading the Scriptures posted to verify others opinions. It had made me take a stand in the middle of an argument rather than at the poles. In other words, I don't agree with much of anyone but I do agree with the Bible. lol The only problems that arise are when people don't accept the Bible as the only authority. So I have been trying to avoid those individuals and just pray for them.
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I also am thankful that most of us don't have to view the abusive language and bad attitudes that are directed toward George et all.
Right now I suspect the enemy is using people with mental problems --delusional--to bombard us with weird posts. It is sad.
The worst of the strange and blatantly unbiblical doctrines get sent to an area that is not viewed by the general public. It sometimes takes some time to move them. Often we try counseling and teaching before moving them.
We have 0 tolerance for verbal assaults. These used to be frequent and have been cleaned up pretty well. Those who are still around that did this have greatly cleaned up their acts. It is the way of the world to do such things. It is not Christ like at all. Even I have slipped and occasionally get a bad attitude.
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I would get the NET for the study notes. It explains the reasons the translators chose to translate the words the way they did. It would be a good study Bible. However, Nelson's bibles don't hold up well in most cases, especially large study Bibles. They need to be Smyth sown bindings to last long, not just glued. In years past they only glued their Bibles. I even called Nelson to ask for a sewn Bible.
MEV seems to be conservative yet making it more readable. It spends a lot of time on spiritual warfare in its notes. I would give it to new Christians but for that. They need it but don't need to be scared or focusing on the enemy. They included "rules for spiritual warfare" as one study note. Things like "don't talk to the devil".
I don't have either Bible but just read the pages given of each on the Christianbook site in their Bibles for sale. I recommend that you do the same.
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Were I teaching a portion of Scripture I would do so in the context you explained. When God is speaking to me in answer to a prayer often a verse or passage seems to shout at me. It directly answers my prayer and I know it is God. Often the same thought was repeated several times within a week when I was first learning to hear God. God can use any portion of Scripture and sometimes even a hymn when He speaks to us.
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On 2/19/2022 at 12:26 PM, missmuffet said:
I occasionally get muscle cramps at night. They are really painful.
they found that I was extremely low in magnesium and had to be given it I.V. yesterday. I was immediately much better but by midnight was having problems again, as well as today. Need to take it orally now. they couldn't give me more mag. without keeping me for 24 hours. I may have to do that eventually.
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On 2/19/2022 at 12:25 PM, missmuffet said:
I am having problems with my thumbs. One thumb will not bend down all the way and another thumb will not extent out all the way. Joint problems.
I have arthritis in that joint as well and can't make an octave on the piano anymore. It is the sciatica that is killing me. I can't move in bed and it hurts to move from the brake to the gas when driving. Sure glad I don't have a clutch anymore.
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On 2/9/2022 at 1:46 AM, MonicaWife said:
Can this thread be renewed? Are some new "oldies" in here?
I'm one of them, even if some would not consider 54 years as an oldie, but it is so for this oldie. 😊
You are my son's age!
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11 hours ago, Mama Etna said:
We have fox tails and reeds where I live. No lilly pads.
We have those as well, cat tails and lily pads like Oregons on the lake. They tolerate the cold since I have seen them near Spokane WA.
It was 45 degrees F. today when it began snowing! Didn't think it was possible. The snow cooled it down to 36 when we had 2 inch flakes! I had never seen such large flakes and didn't know they were possible either. Strange weather today. I am ready for Spring.
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Personally, I would rather celebrate Jewish holidays than the goofy ones like Valentine's Day.
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The Catholic Church taught that the Jews killed Jesus so they were hated. People didn't read the Bible. They just believed what they were taught. Luther also became bigoted in his final years, and possibly senile. He was also very bitter toward the Catholic Church which was seeking to kill him and continued to support the sale of indulgences, or buying loved ones out of purgatory.
Augustine taught that Rome was the new Jerusalem that took the place of Israel. It teaches that the Revelation is just an allegory to that effect. It is a strange read. Augustine had a lot of good teaching but this was not one of them.
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The "Jewish" people have been persecuted by "Christians" for 2000 years. I don't believe that a Christian can be indwelled by God's love for Israel and persecute the Jews or anyone else.
Nevertheless, Jews are Jewish by birth so they think we can be Christians by birth. (Some Christians think that as well.). They have been bigoted toward us for good reason. Centuries of persecution.
Many years ago I bought a menorah at a little Jewish shop in California. The clerk was so puzzled why I would want such a thing since I am Christian. I explained to her the many references to it in both the Gospels and the Revelation, so it gave me an opportunity to witness to her. I told her that many Christians support Israel. She was amazed.
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I so agree with Omegaman and would urge you to obey the Scriptures he quoted. Don't know if it is possible to have your permit changed to include religious services.
Personally, I have seen the type of revivals that you describe come and go. Most have not been so much of God moving but of the flesh and people looking for something exciting rather than to seek Gods face through the word and obedience. The latter is true revival.
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Are you talking about the men that like to act like John Wayne? My father in law was one of those. However, he was cruel, arrogant, controlling, selfish, unforgiving, unloving, unfaithful, and just used people, especially his own family. He hated everyone there was to disdain including Christians and every race and nationality. God used him in my life to teach me how much I needed Him to live in me to love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable. He died rejecting Christ as far as we know.
My dad was so opposite that. He was a very strong person in character but reasonable, fair, compassionate, gentle and kind. He didn't spank me often but I clearly remember when he did. He was the strength of our family and led by example, but he always got his way. He considered himself a scholar and a philosopher till he was saved.
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The commandments are to be kept. Believers go beyond the requirements of the law when we walk according to the Holy Spirit. We go the extra mile and become a blessing to our neighbors. We are no longer under the law when we walk in the Spirit.
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As long as your heart is good with God and you know that you don't harbor bitterness, just forgive them as well. Satan is the accuser of the brethren and you don't have to listen to him. Sometimes he uses people. Those people are his victims and to be pitied. So we love them anyhow and forgive them.
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I might promise myself a reward for doing my taxes, which I dread doing this year. In previous years I looked forward to doing them and had them done by this time but his year I just can't face it.
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The beer barrel.
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Life goes one without him, but it will never be the same. Such a big hole is left. We ache with you as you reel from this. Praying.
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5 hours ago, NickyLouse said:
This is wrong because it contradicts the free gift of faith and the idea of justification by faith alone. Hebrews 11:11 says, "By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive". If her faith was manifested by her obedience, how did she make herself able to conceive? All of the examples of faith in that chapter say that faith enabled obedience - not the other way around.
It is not faith or works but faith that works. Faith is not static but dynamic.
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3 hours ago, Your closest friendnt said:
Without examining and arguing whether Jesus fulfilled the law of Moses or not.
And without talking about Jesus at this time, but only about the righteousness of the Law.
The point in the making is that there is nothing in the Law of Moses that says that the righteousness of the Law can be transfered to anyone or for that matter imputed to anyone.
While it is not in the Old Testament, it is taught in Romans explicitly. Since this is salvation by grace through faith taught by the Holy Spirit through Paul, I believe it also is righteousness by grace through faith. It also teaches the law of love which we now practice which fulfills all the OT law. People can't impute righteousness, but with God all things are possible. He credited the righteousness of Christ to our accounts. Praise His Holy Name! This is why we have a better High Priest, a better testament, a better law, a better faith than the Jews had. Read Hebrews as well.
Rom 4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Rom 4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
Rom 4:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
Rom 4:25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
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They say that when we focus on not doing something it just intensifies, because that is what we focus on. In Romans 7 that is what he does. The evil he doesn't want to do is what he does because that is what he focuses on. When we focus on following Jesus and the things of the Spirit then we do that. That is why I keep going back to Romans 8.
Rom 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Our associate pastor was also a clinical psychologist. He said that when people hold unforgiveness and always dwell on that person they eventually become like them. This is why we need to focus on Jesus. We will eventually become more like Him. All through the book of Hebrews we are admonished to look at Jesus.
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8 hours ago, teddyv said:
I've got a very dominant left eye. My depth perception is not that great, I can drive and all that, but 3D movies do nothing for me.
I had the same problem with depth perception and spatial perception. It was also hard to judge speed for that reason. My vision therapy really helped that. I still have some problems but it is mostly resolved. I always have to check the stairs when I go down, for instance.
When to speak and when to be silent and when to take a vacation
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Rom. 15:4, whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope. Therefore we reject the following errors:
17 1. As when it is taught that God is unwilling that all men repent and believe the Gospel.
18 2. Also, that when God calls us to Himself, He is not in earnest that all men should come to Him.
19 3. Also, that God is unwilling that every one should be saved, but that some, without regard to their sins, from the mere counsel, purpose, and will of God, are ordained to condemnation so that they cannot be saved.
20 4. Also, that not only the mercy of God and the most holy merit of Christ, but also in us there is a cause of God’s election, on account of which God has elected us to everlasting life.
21 All these are blasphemous and dreadful erroneous doctrines, whereby all the comfort which they have in the holy Gospel and the use of the holy Sacraments is taken from Christians, and therefore should not be tolerated in the Church of God.
So I found that my beliefs became more solidly Lutheran in many things.