babyroses

thank you for reminding me of my safety and my family. i have a dangerous streak. it's not on purpose. it's more compulsive and just happens. i've had to go to jail before because of it. they always change or give me more medications and turn me back over to my gaurdians. i've never been in a jail with other people. and they never made me take my clothes off. they say that they do that to criminals. but now the police give me to the ambulance people. they always post an officer at my door. i've done bad things to myself. but when i've ran into traffic, i could have hurt others. i didn't plan it. everything just happened so fast. i really have to remember my safety and my family. i haVe some toys and colors that i take out to play with. but my old therepist say that adults aren't suppose to do that. it really makes me sad. i wish i could just be like i am withoput making people uncomforable. my family says it doesn't bother them. they even help me with my piggy collection. everyone gets my babies clothes too. i love scriptures. i might be sick on the outside, but i'm not on the inside. Jesus forgives me and the scriptures tell me all sorts of things. i have lots of favorites. i really am happy everybody wrote me. i'll try to be a good friend. i'm alittle scared because i'm already getting your names confused. i hope you won't get mad at me while i learn them all. i had some tears todfay. because you all sound very nice. i was scarted that i would get yelled at. i always feel baD for the poster when they get unkind posts back. babyroses

that happens to. that's when He pushes us out with armor on. but everyday. so much sex, drugs, violence, greed, lies, wounds, preditors, muders, fowl lanuages, unjust systems. blind, deaf, hungry, widowed, laziness, corruption. theivfs. pain, abuse, dysfunction. how canm i be content ?! how can the ways of the world not need us right now and e3verywhere. ofcourse we can't infringe upon peoples rights....... what if i did leave my family. leave all i know to souly exsixt for mimistering to others. what if i do live in the scriptures quite literal. what if i see thgings the way i do. to seperate me from the word. what if my reality is cokmpletely different fot a apurpose. these thoughts have been working there ways into my brain, since i was 8. when i wished i had been the three year old offeringto the temple. many times i have traveled through the dessert. i sought a burning bush, bu found none. but i sought God. He was there watching over me. but at that timt; i could not feel him. i dispared. i ran. later i learn, that He was there the whole time. we are all knit together, we are His tower and He our Corner stone. For I hold you by your right hand

Psalm 23 A psalm of David. 1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6 Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. isn't it bad if we live only in scriptures and promises? aren't we suppose to go out into the world and use God's love and truth to heal others? what if i sit in my head with all of this, unable to exspress it. sometimes i want to go live out in the streets and only have God with me. if i had nothing but Him, then i could feel Him more? see Him more? i won't be so confused and busy with life. but i would be busy with Him.

.... i've already taken my meds, so no, i'm not needing to go to the doctor. i need fellowship. i need advice. i need truth. i need concern. i need passion and i need compassion. my heart is black and wet with tears the dew on my hair has been here for years from the scales on my gruff old heals to the top of my brow with sweat i cling to my God and weep for him yet my life is spinning in circles no one understand my brain my biggest problem is i hold things upstairs in my head until i'm so confused i have no idea what i need to let go of. what do you work on when you can't socialize normally with people?! my comunnication skills are so bad that everyone avoids me. or worse, i get around them and can't talk. i mean can't. i've been on this board for over a year and made no friends. hardly posted. messaged very little. etc. ok. here's where everyone tears me to shards for being so imature and ignorant. i'll listen. but i don't know how easy it will be to post back. pray for me please. this really is not something i wanted to do. i felt i have to learn to socialize for maturity.

Oh yeh!!!!! Hi, I am so happy there is someone I know here! How cool!!! I can't wait to see the new features! Really though, I am glad things are looking better with this new christian therapy. It is just the more I say it, the less scarey it sounds and the easier it is to get through it. With that 10 hour session though, it just confused me more then I was before. I know I sound a little morbid when I talk about it but I really find it a morbid thing. It seems so much easier to write then it is to say. How are you doing? I am still praying for everyone whether it is up or not. Lily00 p.s. Really though, it is hard but I am getting through it. Confusion and SI are the main things I am working through but what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! (Can't wait to share the new spiritual fruit!!!) osbsevation/therepy is how they see best to help you. it's not so bad once you start to feel the value of it. don't be shy about your post. your feelings, even re-accurring ones are important. before you realize it, you'll be settled into a routine with therepy. i still have seen some real growth from you. you can't imagine spiritual growth. it shines through all your words. even your discouraging moments can't hide your growth.

i have lots of mental health problems. i use to hear voices all the time. doctors said it's deleyed stress.... (from not knowing how to heal or cope)... i learned to shove them out of my head. if i didn't, i'd re-live what i wanted to heal from. re-open the traumas that consumed me and allowed myself to get confused and hurt all over again.

i'm pretty sure i know who you are ( from fallowing your fruits of the spirit studies). your growth has been big. you are so courageously going forward and are being built so strong. i know you worry about 'strong'... but you are leaning on the one who is truelly strong for us.

christian music has some awesome heavy metal.

our youth group is totally cool. it has branched out at church and into homes and into two new buildings!! YOUTH GROUP TEAM MUSTS 1. youth pastor has adult youth leaders. 2. youth pastor has youth youth leaders. 3. regular meetings (even if it's some of leaders). 4. regular parties (even if it's a small turnout). 5. outside church, smaller bible study groups (for growth fellowship). 6. clubs/ interrest groups, feild trips/ BBQs or pinics. 7. everybody inputs and invites friend to outside activities. 8. fundraisers ran by kids with donations going to activities. 9. sports and hangout after church at park and school. (really popular!!) 10. sign up sheets for everything.

Luke 10:27 So he answered and said, ""You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,' and "your neighbor as yourself."' so when we mirror God's love we are being completely obediant... we are are loving Him back, loving others and that's being the lights of the world!! WHAT A MINISTERY OF LOVE

Matthew 22:37-39 37 Jesus said to him, ""You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself. God took me out of my mental illness when doctors and medicine gave me no hope. He found me in a pit that kept me from seeing what reality was... and taught me who i am. He gave all the piain inside my head a purpose... He commisioned me to show others that they have healling and love and purpose to. now all my pain has become hope and wisdom. He took me in the mist of rebellion and gave me a clean and new start. He re-newed my mind and spirit and put joy in my soul. He guides and teaches me. He lives in me and with me... and calls me His own.

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

John 15:12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. i want to urge each of you who come to this tread to share how God has loved you.... please leave a scripture of love or encouragement. the reason why i wanted this thread is because i saw all the heated debates and threads with strong comments. we are suppose to mirror God's love.... so can we help ourselves and study the law of God's love.

no one wants to offend anyone. i wanted to know what it means and why. since you have first hand info, see it as an opportunity to put our ideas in the light of what this means to you. i grew up in this church. it was not known or seen to me then.... boise, Idaho. USA i was a prim, missinette and on the nationals bible quiz team. maybe you can share some specific situation where you witnessed? that was not referring to your church, but airport ministeries he saw first hand... the comment was made as a stament to that. praying is something i think we all can agree on. again, no one was referring or attacking your church, or your beliefs. how nice for you to provide this. can you tell me where the word "slain in the spirit" comes from, and what is it's deffination? it is driving me nuts! i can't find it anywhere. please give all the details you can. thankx............. GOD BLESS! Roses

i don't like the sound of the word Justifying.... it sounds suppicious i know you being facious.

i have no doubts that i'm saved... just studying the scrpitures

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SCRIPTURES!! after reading all of the scriptures in referance i have come to the beautiful conclusion that it is more the person/or persons that i should test, and not their exsperiance... and that there should be nothing unbiblical... but we should always be watchful. i suppose i will never know unless i see it. Malachi 3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. 1 Corinthians 3:13 each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is. 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified. 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies. 21 Test all things; hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil. 1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

are a couple of you critisizing/or making fun of me for asking about this... or are you guys horsing around? *nervous* can i have scriptures that persuede you in your belief?

what do you mean? it sounds like you are saying that i'm not giving God credit for saving me/ and that that is deamonized or whatever. i left out a referance Mr. Ingram suggested:

well i think he's wrong. i read all of his series on spiritual warefare and i belived all of it... but this part about plit personalities being demon possesed. i'm so angery that he said that. i see nothing in the bible that says or describes it. i think that statement could hurt alot of mentally ill people. GGGrrrr!!!! i'm very positive i don't have demons in me. i know i get tempted and taunted, like Romans says and need spititual armor. so how can i be pocessed? *cries*

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is this a dumb question? no one is answering it.

HEY!! this below was copied from something else. the source of all my curiousities. anyone have something to say? Romans 5:12 12Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned-- John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Romans 5:8 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Ephesians 2:8 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, I John 1:9 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 2 Corinthians 5:17 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Galatians 2:20 20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. this above is GOD's LOVE. is is all about salvation. the milk we need to start on.............................................................................. ............ look at what the Isrealites did. how many times did they walk away from God after HUGE miracles. then see Judus the betrayer; he was in the very company of Christ. it is heartbreaking that we are caple of betraying God, but we are. we are designed as a holy temple, and created in His image.... and we are not worthy except to except grace and God's will. now what you say is correct about The lord will NEVER...can i hear that again....NEVER NEVER NEVER leave us nor forsake us. God will not leave us. when we stray and leave Him, he is faithful. He not only does not leave us, He is passionate at bringing us back, and forgiving every transgression. there is a balance: God is GOD = creator of everything. King, Savior, Friend, Master... and JUDGE. some of us will face judgement. according to the scriptures; we must mature and live Godly. Hebrews 3 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. 10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, "They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.' 11 So I swore in My wrath, "They shall not enter My rest."' 12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." 16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Hebrews 6 1 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do if God permits. 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 if they fall away,to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame. 7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;8 but if it bears thorns and briers,it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned. 1 Peter 4 17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 2 Peter 2 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; 5and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; 7and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked. without grace and mercy we would be without hope. we are not prsoners of the flesh.... we still have free will; we must be spotless in our ways, fallowing God's will as beloved Dear children: obediant in everything. the blood has freed us, saved us. now we have work to do. we will stand in judgement. if we are in Christ, will will not be condemned. Christ called us to be like Him. that is alot of work and preserverance (i'm so happy and filled with joy that the Holy Spirit guides us!)... we have food and promises... we can do it through God's mighty grace and love. we still have free will too, that can be the loss of our salvation.

hee hee hee......... just teasing.