TheBlade

Yeah if you think about what God told Abraham, if he could count the stars "And the LORD brought Abram outside [his tent into the night] and said, “Look now toward the heavens and count the stars—if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “ They say what we can see is about 6000-8000. Hmm looks bad for all us huh haha..sorry. Yet what they also say" If you were to look outside on a clear night, you could see as many as 6,000 stars over your head. That seems like a lot, but it's just a tiny fraction of the total number of stars in outer space. According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe." Yeah God said the stars.. no one can count them way to many. As He showed me this tiny tree with so many branches said "Show me a branch that was not originally of the vine. I am the vine you are the branches". Then as its written, as Isaac was we are the Children of promise. He said to them "‘When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress or mistreat him. But the stranger who resides with you shall be to you like someone native-born among you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God." He has not changed.. All that are grafted in no one but no one can tell what branch was original vs grafted in. They are the same to GOD.

"No temptation [regardless of its source] has overtaken or enticed you that is not common to human experience [nor is any temptation unusual or beyond human resistance]; but God is faithful [to His word—He is compassionate and trustworthy], and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability [to resist], but along with the temptation He [has in the past and is now and] will [always] provide the way out as well, so that you will be able to endure it [without yielding, and will overcome temptation with joy]." "Therefore, my beloved, run [keep far, far away] from [any sort of] idolatry [and that includes loving anything more than God, or participating in anything that leads to sin and enslaves the soul]." I like that word flee "To flee, escape, shun. by analogy, to vanish." Keep the faith, walk by faith live by faith and remember His promises and at all costs do not let what's happening in the world distract you.

The word doubt. The just what three days ago just before I went to sleep He said "don't entertain doubt".

I just was watching something and one preacher says women come to the meeting and feels sick and gets healed. The other preacher says "maybe she was feeling sick but when she left she just felt better". I personally believe after this life He is going to show all the thing He did as in signs that I thought was just nothing.. normal. Thanks AIT

I believe you might have already said it but He does not. Well Eph 4 "that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness." "and put on the new self [the regenerated and renewed nature], created in God’s image, [godlike] in the righteousness and holiness of the truth [living in a way that expresses to God your gratitude for your salvation]." Take away this flesh.. He is still here :)

RDJ "God can say something else than a Bible text, but He will never go against His Word and you have to test it." This made me laugh. Well so many years ago you kinda get caught up with it has to be word for word in the bible or its not God. As if that book was all God could ever say. I'm sure most here have read some verse or word so many times and even looked it up in the original text and yet He shows you something that you can't explain how you never saw it before. Make sense? But yeah I agree Rdj

I have God's unmerited favor but maybe its talking about how we show grace to others. Do we ever let bitterness spring up? That would effect how we show grace to others :) Just one view

There you are. Haha.. I was just thinking about this and how to say it. Yeah I had heard some talk so many yeas ago about how faster it will be meaning what seem to take so long happens with God is much faster. I have personally witnessed this. As for something huge coming. It wont make sense but for a few years now I only see gray. As a believer you always know within you to live right in every area of your life but I can't explain it I have this .. not feeling but so much stronger within me to be right with God like I have never been before. Now if I was to just look out side Israel in full bloom yet being hated more day after day. What use to be wrong, sin, mental health issue is not being called moral. Try saying there is only male female in Canada. Christianity... I am reading hearing did just yesterday how we are a threat to democracy. That is growing every day. We are still here and the gates of hell will never prevail against it. Greater is He that is in us then he that's in the world. I do believe we are the last generation. It could be one more day or another 20 years still be inline with Gods word. Still looking out side this verse comes to mind in Isa "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"

That's it huh. Well so much happened when I was younger but .. lol well I was going to say when I got older.. no lie. I don't think people believe me when I say this stuff.. Well the song at the same time said "then I grew up, then I got older, then my life got tough and we grew apart. I wanna go back Jesus loves me this I know" its by David Dunn I Wanna Go Back". Life happens to all of us so what seems harder is really for me I let life get in the way where as a child everything was Him. I only read the bible.. lol took it ever where. So many times when I share something .. I had the bible and wonder.. what happened to me? When did I stop carrying it all time.. oh the song so perfect.. I wanna go back Jesus loves me this I know. Awesome.. thank you Father

"The Bible says, faith comes by hearing the word of God. But the more I read, the more inconsistencies I find, with more unanswered questions, and the more I lose faith." Faith like a child. Children just believe anything and everything they are told. Take what I quoted from what you said in your post. Just take what He said and believe. He said faith comes by hearing hearing by the word of God. That's it. I don't read it for min, hours, days, weeks then ask "hmm where's the faith". We walk by faith we do not walk by what we feel and see. So He said it will come .. that's it. So just believe because He said it and know your not alone in this. Tell HIM everything you said here. Tell Him about losing faith or what ever. KNOW He will do something.. He loves you. The fact your here saying this shows.. He is working already. There were those that saw Him face to face doing so many wonders yet still said "I know you can but do you want to" "I believe help my unbelief". Ever time He ALWAYS helped. You ask.. He will not say no.. but huge smile and YES! Just don't think about it. Its all HIM.. you just read knowing you don't fully understand how but.. oooh He will do it.

I remember years ago went to see this preacher who would always say "they are normal he is wired" until one day the lord corrected him said "no your normal they are wired". Now even though I am a man I fully 100% understand what your saying. Also the part about someone passing away. At 15+ I went to this bible study for a long time. One night ever time I thought of the grandmother that also ran that bible study who prayed 4 hour a day. Every time I thought about her I could not stop crying. I called her about it and she was very very quite that was odd. Just after that she went home.

I'm not saved because I sin or never sin. I am saved because I believe He is who He said He was and where He came from John 3:16/Rom 10:9-10. Sin is fun for a season but what sin does is takes you away from God and then it will kill you. He loves us so much and He knows this is a fallen world. We come to Him as we are not only if we stop sinning first. For me 55y in the lord He has never once made me feel bad or guilty nor condemned me for any sin. The times I got stuck seeing just my sin wanting to walk away from all this.. all He did was tell my how righteous, in right standing with God. Its not how we see our selfs its how He sees us. Its already finished, Christ did it all not us. I don't have any right to sin but He already died for the sin of the world. So we are no longer slaves to sin but slaves to righteousness. Your looking at it wrong. Your "works" do not touch salvation. Some do tend to see sin as more powerful then Salvation. Stop sinning.. like He told the one "go and sin no more least a worse thing come on you". If we focus on the sin that's all we will see. Look at what He already did...focus on Him. This is not a race to see who is the best at not sinning for we all lost already. Who do we rely on, lean on when we fall is what matters. Never take your eyes off Him. Do not get stuck looking at self. Its all Him.. His joy, His strength, His peace, His armor, His might blah blah blah. My wife once said to me about 35y ago "if you love me you would not do that". Just knowing she was right was not good enough. I had to know I was wrong and want to change. I'm getting at .. I don't do good works because I was told to or thats what the bible says. Doing it that way.. well its not good works. It has to be from the heart.. its just in me.. I want to do good things yet there is the other side that loves so sin. Its a fight we do every moment of ever day no one is free YET from it. Its why in Eph we read "And be renewed in the spirit of your mind" and in Phil where we think on these "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things" and "where we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ”. We have to do these things 24/7 for sin is always as the door. So you are in right standing with God not because of good works but what Christ has already done.

But the Law came to increase and expand [the awareness of] the trespass [by defining and unmasking sin]. But where sin increased, [God’s remarkable, gracious gift of] grace [His unmerited favor] has surpassed it and increased all the more. Well we know nothing shocks or surprises our lord. This evil has been here since before and after Adam. We know how it ends and we fight the good fight. Greater is He that is in us then he that's in the world. There is nothing impossible with our God and nothing impossible to them that believe