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Just now, Marathoner said:

It's time to have the wool clipped. It's been over a year and it's driving me nuts. 

I suggest looking for a good wool clipper. I was clipped right before I left. Technically he slightly over clipped me, but it fits here.

I hope you are having a great time whatever time it is.

Thank you lot.A pastor wanted to treat us so here we are. I don’t know what it is but bacon is involved.

After a few days things seem semi normal if I don’t think about my old time. I’m waking later and later.

how are you all doing?

8 hours ago, ladypeartree said:

can you hold a pen without dropping it and shaking ?????

I was about as tired as I could be with still being jet lagged and off in time 13 hours. The cappuccino helped to keep me going I think, in more ways than one.

If I ever want to return to the all you can drink bar someone stop me.

3 cappuccinos and three additional drinks. 

Chicken curry hot. 

Inbreeding isn’t a good thing.

Useless trivia 163.678854

I was unaware men with beards are generally a part of the mob. That was a few years back I’m told, so maybe not so much now. At least I hope it was a few years ago.

1 minute ago, Michael37 said:

I'm blessed everyday just doing routine tasks and needing to decide on the method and means to do something and I will be given the answer by the Holy Spirit. If I'm not onto it the enemy will try and get me to dismiss the Spirit's solution, which is a good reason to pray and take every thought into captivity, as we are exhorted to do:

2Co 10:5  casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

It says to bring EVERY thought into captivity TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST, even the little ones, like what tool to use.

Maybe similarly when I walk into a store I ask for good buying choices which often means I leave with nothing. 
This week is a week leaning into the Lord with no point of reference and no familiarity.

I believe I know what you are referring to. I get them like little passing heart tugs. And I seem to know when the enemy is running interference. 

12 hours ago, ladypeartree said:

always fun to see other cultures especially if you dont understand the language 

They do lots of different stuff here. Lonely people will pay a girl to talk to them while Q tipping their ears. It’s only 20dollars. and my ears probably need to be cleaned but no thanks.

Now a nice back scratching I might consider, but I’m pretty sure my wife would have a problem with that. I was kidding anyways, almost.

I bring you a dose of energy. Do you feel like dancing yet?

4 hours ago, enoob57 said:

I bring Yoder noob

You going all orthodox on us ?

It’s like a tea bag that opens into a filter system. Pretty ingenious.The coffee is regular ground coffee. Not instant.

And this is just what I need at 3am. Jet lag still with me. It would normally be 2pm my time.

1 minute ago, warrior12 said:

There are aspects of worship that the different denominations adhere to.  I have been to a few of those, mainly the pentecostal and the fundamental baptist.  The baptist belive that worship is of an orderly manner as God does, and the pentecostal, well, when one start to speak in tonges and it can be at any time in the service, it can turn into the whole church service speaking and crying ect.

More to say on this later as it is something I have always been curious about as God is the God of all his people. Some say, you can quench the spirit ect, but I have questions to these statements and more. 

I would say those “orderly” denominations I have been in didn’t discourage this. It was more a don’t ask don’t tell kind of thing, although I have heard a few pastors come out and go against it. This was few and far in-between. In most cases congregants didn’t know and were never told. What a church does says more about it than what it claims to be. 

Many of the Pentecostal churches can’t seem to fall in line with doing things according to the word which can turn into mayhem. Same with many of the charismatic bunch. Granted they are all individual churches. One church might be following Paul’s admonitions while the other isn’t. 
 

Oh yes. Although the cat in the pic didn’t look very happy wearing it. In addition I would need a cat and that ain’t happening.

They took me to a sushi place.I tried to show the food conveyor in the second pic. The food comes by and you select what you want. TBH I’m not much of a sushi person.

On 5/8/2024 at 7:32 AM, Michael37 said:

This has led me to ask the Holy Spirit to speak louder to get my undivided attention if I'm not picking up.

I tend to be the same way. In the small groups we attend a leader will often wait a few minutes for the Lord to speak to us. This helps me in my prayer life when I apply it.

I like the idea of asking the Holy Spirit to speak louder.

3 hours ago, Marathoner said:

The Lord does whatever He pleases. It pleases Him to declare the end of a matter in the beginning (Isaiah 46:10) just as He has does whenever He sets a task before me. Before it begins, the Lord declares how it will end. It's been that way ever since God poured His Spirit upon me in the mountains. 

The day before the gang who had been terrorizing my adopted mother left for good, the Lord declared what would happen. They would flee in terror --- scattered like leaves in the wind --- and never return. That's exactly what happened. Before I came to this city the Lord declared where I would go and what would happen after I arrived. Every word was true.

I've never been the least bit concerned with scoffers, revilers, unbelievers, and the like. Religion hardens hearts, brother. Instead of listening for His voice and heeding what He says, a system of beliefs governs the heart and mind of the religious. They worship idols of their own making, blind to the living God who reveals Himself to those who love Him. Leaders?

Never forget the words of the Lord regarding leaders:

And do not be called leaders; for only One is your Leader, that is, Christ. (Matthew 23:10 NASB)  

More accurately a leader would be charged with accurately relaying, teaching, preaching God’s word and maintaining order. Oversight, elders, deacons and so forth. I believe there is further context to that verse.

5 hours ago, Willa said:

When personal prophesies have been given to me, the genuine ones have all been confirmation of something God had already told me.  However, most have been false.  One in particular was an accusation.  I prayed about it and opened the Bible randomly to an Old Testament page and pointed my finger to a verse that proclaimed it was a lie.  I rarely have done this and being skeptical I randomly reopened to a New Testament passage that turned out to be a quotation of the previous passage saying again that it's a lie!  We are told that the truth will set you free, and at that moment the heaviness that had come over me totally left and I felt light and free.  We are also told that satan is the accuser of the brethren.  I had the witness of Scripture to not believe that personal prophecy.

At one time I attended a pentecostal church.  Many of the members were there because they had been kicked out of their mainline denomination upon receiving a spiritual gift!  They were told it was contrary to the churches doctrine.  Someone asked whey the gifts don't occur in the Baptist church--That is why.  When they do the people are asked to leave.   Others who experienced this were Lutheran.

While in this church they were contemplating construction a new building.  While praying about it I saw myself and family worshipping in a gymnasium.  As it turned out, we changed to a Baptist church so I never saw what they built.  However, after attending the crowded little church for several months we learned that the new addition they were building was to be a gymnasium that would double as their new sanctuary.  We worshipped there for nearly 20 years. When we again changed it was to a Calvary Chapel.  We first worshipped in a remodeled shopping center for 2 years, then a community center for 2 more years, and for the last 15 years in a gymnasium!  Why God showed me this I don't know, except perhaps to confirm that this is where He wanted us.

When giving a prophecy in church God always gives me a short phrase to speak out and then either gives me more words or I see something taking place that I describe.  So I never am never given a whole prophecy that I could take to the elders to be judged.  It is something that unfolds as I speak out in faith.  Very rarely have I been given a personal prophecy for another person.

Like others here I am very wary of self proclaimed prophets.  As one lady put it, "Well, Willa, If God could speak through Balaam's ass, I suppose He can speak through you!"

I similarly received a bad word from someone but knew right away in my spirit it wasn’t right, so I never considered it.

Yes in many denominations these gifts are squelched and the leadership will be held responsible.

1 hour ago, ladypeartree said:

HEY dont get lost we need you back here you cant stay in Japan you know 

I hope to get back if they let me on the plane… in three weeks.

I bring…..well I’m not quite sure.

11 hours ago, tatwo said:

Where are the prophets and apostles in regards to these forums…gone? Where are they in regards to the modern version of institutional denominational Christianity? If one (apostle or prophet) showed up in these forums…how would they be treated?

If this forum is a cross section from the religious world…and to a degree it is…I am curious. With the multitude of “experienced and elder” biblical intellectuals in our midst…why did this forum…now 6  pages and 58 replies deep…“not” get more intensely into the bible than it has…to bring forth a spiritual understanding of the roll of the New Covenant apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd and teacher?

To his credit…Ray12614 did briefly along with perhaps another…with the lightest of brush strokes…reference the location of the answer to the question of modern day New Covenant apostles and prophets…I am surprised no one has yet gone deeper into this…perhaps I can.

These gifts [apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd and teacher] are given to men (sons of God) so that under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit Himself…you remember…the one who…"when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.” That’s prophecy no doubt.

These [apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd and teacher] are all gifts of the grace of the Lord Yahshua…which are nothing less than some of the eternal attributes and characteristics of God manifest in the flesh…Himself. These gifts are Him…He is the Spirit…this Spirit indwells select humans who are then being assembled into the Body of Christ by the Holy Spirit. These gifts are given to assist this divine plan.

Of course…this is to allow for the raising of the “new born the spiritual infant”…born in the temple of the Lord…up into a “spiritually mature adult” member of the Body (family) of Christ…to serve in the roll, call, function, or to carry their unique cross…you know…”to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work”…which by the way is how they are spiritually fed…that they might grow…these five ascension gifts if you will…are instrumental in the growth of the Body of Christ on the earth.

If these gifts are not openly operational in your life…personally or in others in your spiritual affinity…well that would go a long way to explain many things now wouldn’t it?

Additionally…as a reminder…”the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy”…so wherever the Holy Spirit is…the Lord Himself is…because they are one and the same…He is the Spirit of Truth…and also the One who brings forth “prophecy at His mere presence”…in that…He discloses to those indwelt with His Holy Spirit among other things…”what is to come.”

Suffice it to say…as long as the Holy Spirit is working among mankind in the earth…there are apostles, prophets, evangelist, shepherds and teachers working among the Body of Christ exactly as the Lord set forth at His ascension…and these will continue unto the maturing of the sons of God on the earth to the full stature of the Lord Yahshua Christ Himself.

This many membered corporate “Christ – Head and Body” as "one new man"…is being prepared to destroy the works of the devil for the last time in this creation…with the dragon himself ending up in the abyss.

Tatwo...:)

I mention God shows me things. He can show anyone things.

Much of the issue, at least in North America is the lack of knowledge from leaders on the subject.

They also have coffee in the rooms. It’s some kind of weird bag contraption. I’ll try  to show it.