LightofJesus

I have read many of these posts and am so glad to have come to this post. I have never heard or read something so God in response to this subject!!! God is so much bigger than many of us allow Him to be. We have not come close to all of Him yet and I believe that scripture is only an outline of what God has in store for us. I for one want all He has to give, but this is also a frightening thing cause the closer we get to God the more we see how we are dirtbags. Just to put it simple. We are so close to an explosive act of God and we want to wonder if God can slay us in the Spirit. Well He can do whatever He wants. So try and just let God be God all by Himself and watch the wonders of God in our very lives and those around us. He will if we let Him!!!!

I know without a doubt I would be dead and six feet under. I was in such a deep dark place I really didn't think I was ever going to get out, but GOD heard my heart and plucked me out of that despair and cleaned me up!!! Suicide was definetly on the top of my list but even too afraid to do that. Boy I was a loser! But now I am an overcomer due to our Lord and Saviour!!! Damon, Can I say one thing, you said something about the real world being this world we see, can I correct you on that, this is not the real world, we are spirit and our residence is with God which is the real world, our true identity is our life beyond this temporary exsistance!!!! Hallelujah!!! May God bless you Damon!!!

I am not condemning or meaning what I said to Suzanne about my life to be a reflection on anyone else. I am not presenting myself as a holier than thou. I do miss the mark in my life. I can look back with much regret at times when I have let the Lord down. I will tell what I do NOT have to offer to someone in the world and that is condemnation, shame or guilt. I am actually a very laid back person. I am a very accepting person in that I can hang out and love anyone who wants to be loved. I can and have eaten dinner with pot heads, and some of the most foul mouthed rednecks you have ever seen. I know and have worked with and had long conversations with people with a police rap sheet longer than your arm. What I have discovered is that most people know that that they are messed up. They don't need us to tell them that. They may not agree with us about God, but they know because they have a witness inside them, a moral compass that God has given all of us, that their life is not what it should be. They already know they have made a mess of things, and whether they openly admit or not, they are seeking the answer they need to set things right. But the Bible teaches that it is goodness of God that leads man to repentance. It is when we love the sinner genuinely, with no ulterior motives, no agenda, that they will see Christ. Ok Shiloh, I need to apologize for my misunderstanding of your post. I just read it as if you felt you had some special seat in the house here. I though, know I was what I was for a purpose by which God can use me for the comfort of those in the same position I was in. We have a ministry here in town where we minister to the misfits misdressed and misbehavin' types and they need Jesus too. It amazes me still how many of these are turned away to this day from "CHURCH". Well shalom to you too Shiloh!!!

Shiloh, Well I just need to say something here. I was an alcoholic, I used drugs and smoked cigarettes----until JESUS!!!! Now I want to know if this makes me less of a Christian just because of what I used to do?????? Does this constitute I am disobedient, oh yeah I've been married three times and now a widow. I even hope to marry again! Boy now I am really in for it! I guess I would really like to know what you have to offer someone in the world that is like what I was like?

cwill, you may be the perfect example needed for the others in your home. If they are Christians then they may get hungry for more of the word as you start praying for your household and they may be able to get their own places to live, or get a bigger place for all of you!!! Prayer is the power cord for change!!!

I do not know what kind of schedule you keep, but if you are a stay at home mom, try and get up earlier than everyone else! Or wait for everyone to go to work or school. Like I said I do not know your house schedule to help on too many suggestions!

First of all, what kind of friends are they? Are they friends that he had before he was in prison? If so he should not be associating with them. He needs Christian friends and more teaching of his new life. Limits and structure is what he needs if he wants the new life the Lord has for him. Also this woman needs to stay away, flags are going up everywhere here. All that needs to happen is for him to do one little thing that will cause for him to slip into the lifestyle he was living before. His whole environment needs to be restructured for change. This is not for him to make the rules here, he is on your turf and you make the rules and if he cannot stick to them then he needs to stay behind the bars until he can!!! This is my opinion!

Absolute truth here Damien!!!

I cannot seem to get the fonts or the size I would like to use when I type here????? HELP please?!?!

Those of us who are under the blood of Jesus will not burn but those that will not accept the gift of LIFE which is Jesus will not be in heaven. That is as simple as it can get. Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life!!!!

I think it depends on why you really want to drink? I was one that the Lord delivered instantly!!!!!! I was a heavy drinker and smoker and had my share of drugs all gone instantly!!! Praise God forever!!!! But I also think it is an issue that only you and the Lord knows what is best for you. I will not say that you should not cause it may not be an issue for you but for me it would be sin cause it is an issue for me! An occassional glass of wine with dinner or something I see nothing wrong as long as it does not take you down a wrong road as it probably would with me.

Awesome Awesome Awesome!!!

Desktop, Just to let you know I do read the word of God, the difference is I also read what Jesus said! He fulfilled the law not pound it into us so has to make it religion!!

How 'bout a little context to your verses, bud... Amen

Why is it you continually attack women. We are not to be bound to what you say and what you understand about the word. God did not say we could not wear make-up. How trivial in what you seem to be so important. What is important is getting the Word of God out to save souls. Now!!! If I was still in the world and came across things you seem to believe to be of God I would run from God and never think twice about it. Please pray and seek God for what words you should speak for you may be causing many to not seek after the Lord IMO

Another wonder of God manifested in our midst!!!!

People are not applying His Word to correct false prophets. They just ignore it and move on. Same thing with heresey. Or even an apostate movement. Maybe they feel they are not perfect so they don't care to judge as in correcting others. Maybe the cause for unity is such that they believe keeping it is far more important than dealing with errors. Maybe they believe that loving one another is more important, and they are leaving the correction up to the Lord since they may see that the false prophet feels bad enough as it is when his predictions turns out to be false kind of like having a pie in his face put there by a clown...which would be himself. Or maybe routine is all that is really going on and that people really do not want to be that involved since they are just doing their expected duty by keeping fellowship in going to church. Which kind of shows, can anyone really have fellowship when no one really knows if a beleiver has engaged in something not of faith but if they do, is known in his or her speech, but yet, to respect one another, we dare not correct or it will be seen as attacking that person and thus disrupting unity or fellowship? As long as everyone believes in Jesus is the Saviour, why quibble over what people would say... semantics? Maybe that is the reason they do not deal with false prophets? And maybe that is the reason why the falling away would happen in the last days. The falling away is I believe already happening. But the reason for the falling away is due to an apostate church. The church will not deal with sin as it is. A prophet is to tell what is on the heart of God for future things also for the moment things. He/she will recieve as the Lord leads them to tell. Now as far as coming true, that depends on the timing of the Lord, and to test the spirit requires a discerning gift from the Lord also, you will not know to check of the spirit behind this "prophet " without the gift of discernment. Yes the true "prophet's " word given has to line up with the word of God!! Now some think that when a prophet speaks he/she will quote scripture, not so. He/she will say what is on the Father's heart for things to come, or what will be going on in a personal matter, words of knowledge. But they will give clarity of what is already written in the Word!!! When we read what the word has for us as far as prophecy, so many things are still waiting to be fulfilled, now what if everyone in those times said, they haven't come to pass so therefore must not be of God. Be careful and ask God for discernent and for clarity so as to not just walk away from something that may change your life!!!

Hallelujah, the finished work of His miracle!!!

You have gone way overboard my brother. You have thrown rocks at the spirit of God Himself. He gives the gifts of which we are to operate in, He gives them freely to whom He wills!!! Please watch what you say about what God has purposed in many hearts today, mine included. We are to unite not divide and that is what I see you are trying to do. We are to work together as a BODY not by gender!!!

damo, What a mighty man of God God has turned you into!!! Thanks for the ideas for our local church to get into!!!

With all due respect, I am not talking about "the last war." Ezekiel 38 and 39 is not "the last war." Maybe you should try harder to understand what is being argued. Well we are in disagreement here. The war in Ezekiel is the war of Armageddon! When you read the total devastation in this chapter you have to come to reason that it looks pretty bleak as to who could ever survive such a catastrophy. Let's just leave it at that we disagree.

The last war is the FINAL war and it means what it says that all things will be destroyed and fall as it says. God has prepared for us a new Jerusalem and will be our new home. Why is this so hard to believe!? Yes in the great quake there will be nothing left!!! That is what the word says so believe what it says or just keep questioning and let yourself be unprepared for what is coming!

Well aparently your prayers worked. We think sometimes if God dosen't answer right away that our prayers are not being heard. You probably were under some kind of opression, God knows how to work in our lives, but I would seek the Lord on what this was and what it is you need to learn from it. There are times that God allows certain things to happen for us to learn from and to grow from. read Job he had alot of things happen but not without the permission of God. For I believe everything happens for a purpose and we should gleen from these things that happen in our lives.

First of all I have read nearly all of these entries and I must admit I am appauled at the name calling and the slamming of character. We are one body, the Body of Christ! When a part of the body is hurt the whole body is suppose to share the pain. I stopped coming to these boards because of the name calling and backbiting here. It is awful and if you are not feeling convicted by the things some of you have said then I would check my own salvation and not worry about someone elses. Instead of throwing stones we should be throwing our arms around them with love and prayer. We also better be asking God for forgiveness of slander and the like before we can do any good for anyone else. Well saying all that I may not come back here again for awhile I just do not like all this kind of talk about my family!!