Shelby

I usually have some power point show going that I created with nifty sayings like..... If your happy and you know it then your face should surely show it! A smile is a curve that makes everything straight! If you see someone without a smile give them one of yours. I love smiles!

Okay, I do know that you can pray to God pretty much any way you want. But my husband and I were talking the other night about this and he said he follows a format he was taught as a kids and I love it. I had never heard of it (frowing up in a heathen family lol).

Ditto KBM

Normally I have a cool picture, but my computer is being irritable so just some boring thing right now. http://www.fci.crossnet.se/ is a great place where I get alot of mine from.

In a argument I was having with my husband a couple weeks ago he told me I was out of control, because I was crying. I said "just because you are uncomfortable with me showing my emtions doesn't mean I am out of control, it means I feel my feelings and know myself enough to be able to express myself. I am able to hold back when it would be weird, but with my husband I never expected to be that way. I was rasied with crying being bad. I can't tell you how many times I heard, "quit crying, or I'll give you something to cry about". For most of my childhood until I was about 20 I was invincible I thought. No one could make me cry at home. I would hold it in and get so mad. But now I understand that anger only comes from pain, so I feel my feelings now, and I deal with them immediatlely so as to not hold them in. My husband is now just understanding that it is not control that I need, it is more tolerance for my way of dealing with issues. (Unfortunately now since I learned this gift of feeling, I am a very empathetic person. I cry for commercials!)

Amen KMB. A personal relationship with Jesus is Key. As long as you pray to him and beileve in him and his word, you are fine. But I would encourage you to join a Bible study eitehr at your church or another. Probably one for new Christians, or for people your age. It will be so helpful.

Amen Steve and Kay. I am skeptical now because of so many false prophets. I don't think you need a special meeting, God can do it in your house, over the phone. When and where he wants. If we have someone who needs prayer for anything in my church, we call them up, lay hands on them at the altar and pray. It is when there is a publicized "Healing Meeting", that I get a little skeptical.

My results were quite obvious to me I think. I am glad that you posted this. It is always nice to re-evaluate our gifts and make sure we are using them to potential.

Yes her daughter is one little girl who knows who she is and whose she is. Katie has done a wonderful job with all of her kids. She is a great example too! Her new house is beautiful too!

Thanks all! I apologize for the tone of my last post. I was a little frustrated once again and i chose to put it into words. I am sorry. I am gonna take a short break, I might come on from time to time, but like Katie, I am going to be busy, like her I am moving the beginning of July and my church is moving into a new building. There is much more, but I just need some time to focus and contemplate on the things I have learned and been challenged by on these boards. I do see this as a ministry opportunity, but at times it seems more like a debate. I try to remember that it is still a ministry even when I am posting as well. I like Katie, have a hard time not taking some peoples words literally when they are pointed at me. I am learning more and more that it is very hard to read the tone of a post. Pray for me. I hope to be back soon. God bless all of you. (By the way there are select few that I have felt attacked or mistreated by, I do not consider the Worthy Family a hostile one.) Have a Great June!

I think I will follow suit, I might read every once in a while, but I think I am going to step away. People tend to get so defensive and agressive with their opinion. I am tired of defending myself and trying to resay what I have already said for the 10th time because people still don't understand. I am tired of all the semantics on here. People tend to get hung up on one word here and they won't let it go. I feel like I need a panel of editors to make sure everything I say is going to be said so that no one can pick it apart. There are those on these boards who have been just down right mean and I need some time. I am sure that I will just need some time to not take everything so personally, but it seems that alot of it is personal. My advice, Don't get stuck on semantics. People are not perfect and are not always able to state it as best as they can what they mean. Bare with them. Give them a chance before jumping on them. (This is for the whole worthy community not those who are in this post already) This is my 250th post and I am now Green I think. I think that was good. I pray that everyone will respond to eachother in love and compassion. GB

I hear you understand. I will sometime just post the scripture I am referenceing because I am am all for having scripture given in context. So that would mean for a long post. Those that are obvious cut an pastes I often skip. So I try to help by giving a reference in context. Scripture is the ultimate authority when speaking of those types of issues, but you know anyone can provide scripture, but the one who can convey that scripture to help a fallen brother is also helpful. Also luckily here we have plenty of people who will call you on it if you take soemthing out of context.

Amen! Jesus!

I never heard of tha tHoly Land experience. I want to go! I have family in West PAlm Beach, when we visit next I will see if we want to take a trip to Orlando and go there!

Great story! I hope I am willing to do that. We play a game where some one says Jesus, and then another person says it, and we keep saying it louder and louder until all but one have chickened out. The one who is willing to do it the loudest wins. Now of course you have to play this at the grocery store, or at a time that isn't totally dosrespectful. But we have done it in restaurants and waiting in lines, sometimes people get embarrassed because it isn't acceptabel to just shout JESUS out but I am not a socially acceptable girl! I don't want to be. SO, I usually win! To the embarrassment of my friends. This game started with a different word that wasn't at all Godly. We changed it. My husband and I do silly stuff like that all the time!

I myself have been considering leaving lately. It seems that I am constantly defending myself. But I am still praying about it. My best Friend Katie (Keslc) is on sabaticol from the boards for a while for similar reasons. I think we get really wrapped up in some of the issues and remarks some people make. I too rarely use scripture, but mostly because I have 2 pet peeves on here, hugely enormous cut and pastes, and scripture picking, people choose ones that will support their statements and I don't do it. I go by what I learn after studying the scriptures and try to put it in my own words. God bless us all.

Yes, Katie has great wisdom and I know her personally. These boards tend to get intense sometimes. I think it is good to take a break every once in a while and catch perspective. She will definitely be missed!

God Bless you snowdove, you are in my prayers!

How hard that must be CATS when you have family who wants to go just to have fun, but I applaud you. God bless. I went on my honeymoon in 1999 and it happened to be Gay days, since then I haven't bought or paid for anything disney! I will not, I felt so bad for those parents who had to go back to their hotels and explain why those two men were kissing or had bare naked butts walking around holding eachother. That had to be so hard to explain to their young children. I remember being on the Monrail and having a family sitting there and then this large group of me all wearing tank tops, and chaps. There were nothing under the chaps. The just had different colorred bandanas over their rears. Some other men on there were wearing "Daisy Dukes", very short shorts. It was gross looking, leaving nothing to the imagination, and disrespectful for all of those famillies with children who did not need to see that. God, please move in the Disney Corporation.

I agree with most of you too. I also think it is important not to pick and choose scriptures to support our stances but use all scriptures in context. I agree with AKA Mary, but I would go so far as to read the entire chapter and the one before and after it. It also helps to study about the author and the setting in which it was written. It can give great insight. REPENT then PARTY!

I am praying for some type of change at Disney, until then, they will not receive my money!

yes, Welcome Pensive!

I think that the community has not Idea that Freemasons are not some club for men, they are a cult!

I realize that I am not answering the question yet adding another one but.......Your church has "Healing Classes"? Where is that in scripture?

you are in my prayers SA.