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Hello Beebert, dear soul I can empathise as I, too, am an over-thinker. We tend to get caught up with anxiety. Anxiety is from Satan. He knows our names but calls us by our sin. God knows our sin but calls us by our name. Hey, brother, others have said it so many times dear one. STOP THINKING and reasoning about it all. It is very simple - do what our brother Wounded Dog, our sister Kwik and other folk have told you to do. I notice you are caught up with "feelings". I feel this, I feel that. Well, salvation is not about feelings. It's about having faith that what God said He would do, He will do. It's about believing the promises of God, and believing what Jesus did on the cross for you and all of us! He TOOK all our sin, our faults, our mistakes, our shortcomings UPON HIMSELF on the cross of Calvary and removed them from us as far as the East is from the West! Stop thinking about how much you have sinned. We have ALL sinned. We all come to Jesus because we need to be saved! We cannot qualify for His love and redemption because JESUS PAID IT ALL! You can do nothing to earn it. To be quite honest with you, I was a dirty rotten sinner. Now I am saved by His Grace. I can claim no glory. It all goes to my Saviour because HE IS THE ANSWER for all your problems. If I can make it really simple - tell God what you have told us. Tell Him you believe in Him. Tell Him you need forgiveness for all your sin. Repent from it before Him and ask Him to be your Lord and Saviour - SURRENDER it all to Him. You will discover that He will begin to telling you what to do, how to do it.....He will lead you and show you the Way. Just learn to trust Jesus our Saviour and let Him do the driving and you just sit in the passenger seat and listen to Him. It's very simple. Don't let Satan keep you on that treadmill of anxiety. Just give it all over to Jesus and trust HIM. Love in Jesus' name, your sister.

Hi Lavender Recently the Lord convicted me about anything that was in my house that wasn't uplifting to Him. I went through all our videos, DVDs, CDs etc. and removed and threw away a lot of stuff. I only kept things that I knew would be a good witness for those coming after me to find. Some of the DVDs I hadn't even watched yet (some comedy stuff) and were still in their packaging. I don't think we have any books that are bad, but will be going through these as well. As our daughter keeps being attacked in her body with illness, I am going to recommend the same thing to her. (It doesn't mean I think it's because of this, or not, but it could be; I don't know. It's just best she doesn't have anything unrighteous in her house.) Bless you, my dear, for getting rid of these things. We do not need "Christian" Tarot cards - we only need His Love and His Word to witness.

On Christ the solid rock I stand.......... and on his Word. Satan's lies are perpetuated by people who do not know Jesus, and are used by Satan to attempt to undermine all that we believe and hold holy, precious and life-giving. Jesus my Saviour!

Hi Becky I will just share my experience too. In 2010 my husband and I shifted to a town two hours away from the city where we were living. It was a whole new thing to us; we "escaped to the country". God began speaking to me about mentoring younger women and children. In 2013 I gained the certificate I needed to become a school chaplain - the area I felt that God was leading me into. However, this did not work out well as I had a lot of difficulty in the role. I couldn't seem to make it work properly - one of the reasons was that, as a school chaplain in this State, I was practically 'gagged', could not comfort children by putting an arm around them and certainly was not free to pray for them. I asked myself: "what is the point?" when all they really wanted was a secular counsellor; but be paid as a chaplain. There are laws here and political correctness is huge. I decided to leave approximately 18 months after I started, frustrated...... as I really wanted to preach Jesus and tell the children about Him, and pray for them etc. However I had learned a lot; by taking the course and doing the job ........ as ........ God found people in the community to help for free! Oh, how much happier I am as I see women who really need help - and the flow on effect to their children! I can talk to them about the Lord! I can help them understand how to pray, be healed, love their husbands, bring up their children. Oh, what joy! I am useful; as a retiree I can be of practical help in their homes as well. Like Marilyn, I can see these people go on to talk to others as well. It is so much more rewarding. I go home with wonderful joy in my heart - what a privilege it is to serve our Master by serving others. Praise the Lord.

Ugh, Neighbor (better spell that right lol) - what a way to die. However, I shall try it.

Hello hmh Please re-read all the posts by the caring people above. They are absolutely right. GOD LOVES YOU PRECIOUS GIRL! Have faith; He will reveal Himself to you as you continue to seek first the Kingdom of God and all His righteousness.... all things will be added unto you (my paraphrase of Matt. 6:33)

Hi Paul. I was apologising for my bad attitude and rudeness. My beliefs with regard to the Sabbath day remain the same. I agree with Marilyn and several others. God bless bro.

Hello When Is Jesus Coming? I need to apologise to you. Upon re-reading my response to your OP I realise I have been abrupt and rude. Please forgive me. This is not normally my character.... I also thought you were another SDA sister or brother trying to push your point, and some of us don't want to go there any more. Instead of posting my comment, I should have simply refrained from saying anything at all. God bless you.

Thank you Marilyn. I shall read it all again, re-acquainting myself with this, as I consider it very important that we know what the order and timelines are, in order to share with others.

Looking forward to the next entry to your blog Marilyn. Thank you.

I go to church on Sundays mornings and use the rest of the day to rest. My SDA friend goes to church on Saturdays. She believes that Jesus is coming soon, too, and can't wait for His arrival. Is this a salvation issue? No.

When I was a little girl I didn't know my dad very well. He was always out "riding fences", striving to keep us all fed, looked after and educated. He has gone... I remember him as a loving, if not very demonstrative, father. Now I am older and have met my "heavenly daddy" nearly 40 years ago. Since being introduced to Him I have learned how to communicate with Him through prayer, praise, worship and learning to love ..... Him ..... and others. He wants me to talk to Him. He wants me to care about others. I am getting to know Him more and more. Now Jesus, my Saviour, is the same. I look at Him and all I want is to be with Him. That is for the same reason I know my Dad. I love and trust Him, like a little girl. It's because He takes my hand and leads me through every day; He is my helper, all three of Him. The Holy Spirit teaches me things, like how to serve my Master better. That's why I pray. I get to know Him, more each day, by asking Him to help not just me and those close to me, but others. He answers, and in the words of Dallas Holm, sometimes He says yes, sometimes He says no, and sometimes He says "wait a while". I don't try to analyse it; I just do it because He tells me to, and I love it.

Hey, Sinbad! Glad to hear you got a job, bro! Last time I saw you post you were looking for one. (Even though you are working in difficult times.) Praise the Lord; He is faithful... and I could go on...

Hi Shiloh Dear Bro, 99% of the time you get my vote. However, may I ask you to please speak to our sister Marilyn in love and gentleness. She is always respectful, and I believe her points were valid. She was simply pointing out other areas where different versions of the bible have changes, resulting in the meaning of the text being changed, as you did. I don't believe she was trying to derail the thread - this is not her character. Thank you, and may the Lord bless you for all the correct doctrine you and I hold dear.

Hi Equippers Nice to meet you. If I had that horrible realisation that it might be so (what you think it could be) I would never buy another pizza from that company! I actually don't like pizza so don't eat them at all.

Hi Mat007 My heart breaks for my family. However, MG is right. God said that the sower went out to sow. He threw the seed in four different places. Some of it fell on good soil. I often pray that my family have good soil in their hearts, that the seed of the Word of God might fall in there; be nurtured and spring up to yield thirty, sixty and a hundred fold. Only God can cause the growth. I pray fervently for them every day, and have to leave the rest up to our Master. God bless bro.

Most of the time I can find no words to express it better than what has already been said. So thumbs up to all of you. Praise the Lord. I can't wait to be with Him, however I feel I need to stay as long as He wants me to in order to pray for lost souls.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry! I think I will do both.....

Hello TruthSeeker 199 Glad to meet you, glad you came to Worthy. I can only tell you of my experience. I lived my life selfishly until I became dissatisfied with the "norm" (25) and realised that there had to be something more to life than what I was experiencing. The only church I had known was when my dad sometimes took the family to the local church, mostly Christmas and Easter. Somehow, deep within myself, I knew there was a God somewhere "out there". I began my real search, over two years, for the truth. I looked in many places - read books, looked into Eastern Mysticism, smoked marijuana etc. Nothing made sense to me, I would not settle for anything less than what I believed was the truth, and I was determined to find it. I began to have encounters in my life with people who pointed me, although I did not know it at the time, to God. I began to sense that I was "being drawn" inexplicably like a pin towards a magnet. I did debate with myself the idea of fighting this, but decided that I would go with it. After all, I was seeking the truth (excuse me). One day I met a woman to whom I described my experience thus far. She said, "You have tried everything else, why not come to church with me and see what you think?" I went and found a group of people praising God. All of a sudden, I had what I can only call "a revelation". The words came to me like some sort of bolt out of the blue: "JESUS CHRIST IS THE TRUTH". I went home that day and read the sinner's prayer over and over until I thought God had heard it! (27) That day was in the middle of February 1978. Since then I embraced following my Lord no matter what. He has bought me, taught me, and brought me into a real and true relationship with Himself and now abides IN ME and WILL NEVER LEAVE NOR FORSAKE ME, even until the end of the age. You must come as a little child, if you are to receive Him. "He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His Name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." John 1:11-13. Love in Jesus' Name.

Thank you David. Let's all be in prayer, in relationship with our Saviour, in His Word, in fellowship with Bible-based believers, telling every person we can about His great salvation, whenever we can! We are seeing these things happen right now.

One further thing: I remember way back when my friend and I were very young Christians. She was married to someone who was a born-again believer but was still working through his problems. She told me she had prayed to the Lord, asking Him to change her husband. He apparently answered her along the lines of "you change and I will change him". I agree with Marilyn C as well. I think she thought more thoroughly about the fb rants than I did. Champion! God teaches us every day.

Hi guys Yes, Yowm, it is. But it is a mild one. Hardly anyone says that anymore. The buzz word now is much worse - .... it seems every second word - and by women as well. However, so as not to lose the thread, I was shocked to see those responses - don't people care at all about their spouses anymore? Good golly. Have people sunk so low? As a retired Christian I guess I don't socialise in the world much and miss out on most of this kind of garbage (I also never entertained the idea of having a fb page). Don't want to sound like I'm on my high horse but, please, love the one you're with!

Thank you missmuffet. I agree with you. We need to keep our minds focussed on Him and His Word! As for me and my house, we will choose the Lord. Just wanted to add: Galations 1:1-12, especially V10, "For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.".

Hello Isaiahchapter59 Lovely to meet you. Please re-read this page. These lovely people have said it all. All I can add is: Oh, what a wonderful wonderful day, day I will never forget - when I had wandered in darkness away, Jesus my Saviour I met - Oh what a tender, compassionate friend, He met the need of my heart - Shadows dispelling, with joy I am telling - He made all the darkness depart - heaven came down, and glory filled my soul, when at the cross the Saviour made me whole - my sins were washed away, and my night was turned to day - heaven came down, and glory filled my soul. This is an old hymn that I love to sing, and Jesus is more than enough. Just surrender it all into His hands. Bless you brother.

Oh, Denadii, bro, I said previously in another thread that I was a bit like you. I didn't mean like this (telling people they are not Christians, which I think you have now apologised for). With regard to true disciples of Christ, He knows those who are His. There is a difference between being judgemental and being discerning. The Bible tells us to be discerning. We must be able to test the spirits and discern whether or not there are ravenous wolves amongst us, but not judge the world, which is for God alone to do.