Willa

There are times in our lives that we can continue to give out, forgive and forbear, and there are times that our own need is so great that we can't take the added assault.  That is when we need to draw the line.  

Love you, too, dear Kwikie.  Still praying; my heart is with you even though the continent separates us.

We are also told to bless those who persecute us and pray for those who spitefully use us.  Try showering the person with kindness.

Mat 5:44  But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 

 1Pe 3:9. Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

 1Th 5:15. See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

While I used salvation as an example, the same holds true that when we recognize our need, that we have done all that we know how to do or that the Bible instructs us to do and are at the end of our selves, that then we cast ourselves on God's grace.  This can apply to answers to desperate prayer needs as well.

Eph 6:13  Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Praying that God's will be done in both of your lives.

Marry a spouse that has his/her priorities straight.  

1 God first in their lives.  Our lives should revolve around God.  That means a person should become a Christian who has a relationship with the risen Christ and should marry a person who is also this and who encourages each other in their relationship with God.  Pray together and read the Bible together, discussing how it applies to their own lives.

2 spouse/marriage is second and then children (unless children are being abused or badly neglected).  Physical, emotional and spiritual needs all should be met to have a healthy family.  It takes effort to be a good husband or helpmeet, and parent.  It means doing the things the Bible instructs concerning husbands, wives and parents.

3 work.  In some areas both parents are required to work to find a place to live that the halls don't stink of urine, or that is safe.  This is difficult.

I don't believe that over 60% of these marriages will end in divorce. God is faithful to help us.  Yet some will fail unless we learn to love as God does and forgive as He forgives.  It means giving 95% of the the time and expecting very little in return from out spouse.  Our help comes from God Who made heaven and earth--not out spouse.  God is our Source.  

While ὁ πένης is of narrow means, one who “earns a scanty pittance,” πρωχός is allied to the verb πτώσσειν, to crouch or cringe, and therefore conveys the idea of utter destitution, which abjectly solicits and lives by alms. Hence it is applied to Lazarus (Luk 16:20, Luk 16:22), and rendered beggar. Thus distinguished, it is very graphic and appropriate here, as denoting the utter spiritual destitution, the consciousness of which precedes the entrance into the kingdom of God, and which cannot be relieved by one's own efforts, but only by the free mercy of God.  Vincent

I see poor in spirit as recognizing our spiritual bankruptcy.    It isn't until we know we are utterly lost and without hope that we cast ourselves fully on God's mercy and grace.  That is when God can give us the Kingdom of Heaven which is a free gift based on the merits and sacrifice of Christ on our behalf.  

As long as we think we can change ourselves and become better people we are depending on self righteousness and not on Christ's righteousness.

On 9/3/2022 at 12:03 AM, kwikphilly said:

  Yep, some people you are just better off without!

I have a similar cousin, Kwikie, and just a couple of years ago I made the same decision.  Some people are abusive and poisonous.  We don't need to continue returning to that, forgiving and hoping for a better visit next time.  We do continue to forgive but it is foolish to continue being their victim.  enough is enough.

2 hours ago, other one said:

Hearing aids don't really help in noisy restaurants.   Everything gets mumbled up so you can't understand the words.    I am probably one of the most social people you would know, but I can't understand you in a crowd where everyone is talking.   Cracker Barrel is one of the worst places to meet me.   We usually pick places that are quite to eat out. and where they don't play music.

Yes, I do wear hearing aids and they are blue toothed to my phone so if you want me to understand you in a busy place just call me on the phone and I will hear better, but texting is better.

Newer hearing aids have directional microphone options (mine is called the restaurant option) that reduce a lot of the other noise.  It also helps in rooms that echo, like vaulted ceilings.  They are well worth the price.  

I recently heard a molecular scientist explain that the only way the shroud could have happened was from an atomic incident occurring from beneath it, such as the resurrection.  The blood had been pushed to the outside of the shroud.  Wish I could remember it all better.  It was a bit above my head, but there were many scientists in the audience who understood better.  I wasn't interested enough to buy his book with all his experiments, data and scientific method.  

17 hours ago, ayin jade said:

For unbelievers in Christ, no proof (artifacts like the shroud) is enough or even needed since it is by faith that folks are saved. For Christians, no proof is necessary. 

Amen! Jade.  Well said!

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On 9/7/2022 at 12:52 PM, Ghostdog said:

if only there was a car that ran on water

I used to see one out on the Columbia River occasionally.  Not lately.

On 9/2/2022 at 9:57 AM, missmuffet said:

We are in La Nina and they are predicting for us a very cold winter  Can't we have something normal?

My dog is also predicting a cold winter.  I have never seen her coat so thick and long, and it is still in the 90s F here.   She should be shedding now.  It did make me wonder.

What does the Farmer's Almanac say?

Thankfully I have had very few experiences with the occult.  But my grandfather was part of it so I have avoided anything resembling it.  Don't even read fortune cookies because I don't want anything to come between me and God.  However, we had young woman come to our Lady's Bible Study at church.  Her eyes were full of darkness--hard to describe.  It was pure evil.  Soon she was crouching and hissing like a snake ready to spring at us.  We all started praying.  The woman who brought her interrupted us and told us the girl was a shaman from a nearby Indian reservation.  She had once been a Christian but had got into this stuff because of her Indian heritage.  We broke up and I immediately went to my Baptist pastor and told him about it all.  He and my family had never seemed so full of light or so clean.  It was like coming into bright sunlight after being in a dark movie theater.  A breath of fresh air.  I do believe she was demon possessed.   

I agree that people tend to blame too much on the devil.  "The devil made me do it" just doesn't cut it.  Many Christians that claim to have demons simply need to repent.  

Jas 4:7  Then be subject to God. Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.  Jas 4:8  Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners! And purify your hearts, double minded ones!  Jas 4:9  Be distressed, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy into shame.  Jas 4:10  Be humbled before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

On the other hand, the occult has been growing in the USA since the 60s.  There are real demons out there that do attack our minds using satan's tactics.

 Has God said?  Satan asked in the Garden.  He wants us to doubt the Bible.   They attack our minds with fear as satan prowls about like a roaring lion (That was declawed and had his teeth pulled at the Cross.  We no longer need to fear death). He accuses and lies.  We don't have to listen to them. 

Seeking to know the future through mediums, spiritists, witches, fortune tellers or the like is evil.  In God's eyes it is like idol worship.  A woman I know became Catholic but continued with the occult.  I told her it would come between her and God.  So she became charismatic and instead went from church to church seeking a new experience or thrill and from town to town seeking Christians who would "speak into her life" about the future.    Meanwhile I saw no fruit of the Spirit, no compassion, no repentance, no real relationship with God or with other Christians.  She told me about her adulteries with no sorrow or shame.  I am a skeptic and I remain skeptical about some people. 

Praying.  Genuine pleurisy is a very serious condition that should be seen by a doctor.   Praying for God's healing irregardless, and for wisdom.  

On 8/30/2022 at 8:38 PM, JohnR7 said:

It looks like we are the ones that need to wash our robe. If we want to attend the marriage supper of Lamb. 

The wedding garments were furnished by the host.  We are not to furnish our own, or our own righteousness, but the righteousness of Christ is furnished to us.  

I wondered why some flags were at half mast today.  I also remember her coronation.  

I couldn't copy mine here.  It reads "I WANT TO BE SO FULL OF CHRIST THAT IF A MOSQUITO BITES ME IT FLIES OFF SINGING 'THERE'S POWER IN THE BLOOD'"

13 hours ago, Willa said:

 Gal 3:27. NKJV  For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

 Rom 13:14. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

Gal 3:27  AMP For as many [of you] as were baptized into Christ [into a spiritual union and communion with Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah] have put on (clothed yourselves with) Christ.

G1746  (Thayer)  ἐνδύω. enduō  Thayer Definition: 1) to sink into (clothing), put on, clothe one’s self

The Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament Third Edition by Gary E. Zeolla, a Greek man who translated Kione Greek into English.  He used the second edition of the Byzantine Majority Text, to which the translators of the 1500s and 16oos did not have access.  Their (Erasmus, Tyndall, Coverdale) Majority texts were incomplete, lacking The Revelation, and were not even the best Majority (Greek Orthodox) texts at the time.  Tyndall didn't complete translating the Hebrew O.T.  

Gal 3:20. ALT3. For as many as were baptized [or immersed] into Christ put on [or, clothed themselves with] Christ. 

Rom 13:14. ALT3. But put on [or, clothe yourself with] the Lord Jesus Christ, and stop making provision for the flesh, for [its] lusts [or, desires].

4 hours ago, DPMartin said:

Also, the AMP is what a west cost American Frances Siewert put into parentheses, her notion of what she thought the translators should have done, with a word-to-word approach which would have disregard for use of the words in the context they are translated from. Which hinders the intended meaning of the original writers.

Zeolla put into brackets alternative translations for words and phrases as well as the figurative meanings.   He is not an American translator nor is he a team.  However, he is not disregarding the context.  Some teams are so liberal in their approach they produce "Good News for Modern Man" which I consider a paraphrase.    Literal translations are much safer.

 Amplified is the first New Testament I read and could understand back in 1958, but Zeolla somewhat uses the same style.  I am dyslexic and could never grasp the meaning of KJV due to its archaic language which much of has changed in meaning and usage over the centuries.   I prefer Zeolla's literal approach as well as his text.  I hope you don't find it so offensive as you do AMP; it does still day what you don't want it to say.   I use NKJV, ESV and Zeolla most often now and hardly touch KJV because I still stumble through it and find it hard to comprehend. Coupled with that are word like "conversation" which has little to do with words and much to do with manner, life style or the way a person conducts himself.  I stumble over thees and thous as well.  You are welcome to it.  

On 8/30/2022 at 4:12 PM, Your closest friendnt said:

Does the scriptures support anywhere whether expressly or by an illustration that someone can be lost if he has not recorded the denial of believing in Jesus Christ,

Joh 3:18  "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

This says that all who don't believe.  ALL remain condemned for not believing.  Everyone is in this condemned state until we receive Christ and are born again. .  That is what salvation means.  He saved us from our sins, but also from satan's kingdom.   That is what redemption is.  

We can pray for them that God remove their blindness and soften their hearts, but until they can trust Jesus and give their lives to Him as their Lord they remain in the kingdom of the god of this world.  

18 hours ago, other one said:

If you want to know, ask them to repeat, "Jesus came in the flesh and defeated Satan...  Jesus us Lord of all."

 

Other One gave very good advice here on how to test the spirits.  It is Scriptural.  

On 9/5/2022 at 4:32 PM, Holytrinity said:

I'm trying my best to share the news of what is happening because I feel like it's my duty since it hasn't happened to anybody else yet.

There is a very great possibility that you have been deceived.  We all agree that time is winding down and the tribulation may be very soon.  Most prophesies to that effect have been fulfilled. You are definitely not the only person saying this.  What makes us doubt your angels is the way they act and make you feel.  It doesn't align with what we find in Scripture about angels sent from the Triune God of the Bible.  It does line up with what it says about deceiving spirits, seducing spirits and the like.   That is why we reject them and are trying to warn you to flee and shut the door to them at once!  Please listen.

No, but yours make good reading.  You should write them down in a diary so you can make a book of them.  Your talking squirrels and card playing dinosaurs are pretty amusing when you aren't being chased in a dream.

Revelation Song is one of my favorites of the modern hymns.