Not me Posted February 4, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 14 Topic Count: 512 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 3,184 Content Per Day: 1.44 Reputation: 3,349 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/06/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted February 4, 2019 1 hour ago, noblenut said: yes, but u didnt say that, said u are possessed by God, and God does not possess people the devil does, possession and possessed don't mean the same thing Hi, I’m sorry for the misunderstanding. I think I see where the situation lies. You see the word “possessed” only meaning as, “that man was possessed by satan”. Meaning a total forced demonic takeover. But it can be used in a positive sense also. Would it not be a good and proper statement to say; “he was possessed of by a kind spirit”. or “he was possessed of by a mercyful spirit” or “he was possessed of by a Godly spirit” These are examples of the phrase “possessed of by” being used in a positive sense. Then here are a couple of examples of the phrase “possessed of by” being used in a negative sense; “he was possessed of by a worldly spirit”. or “he was possessed of by lying spirit” Hope this helps with the understanding of how I meant for the phrase “possessed of by” to be understood. Blessings, Much love in Christ, Not me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1to3 Posted February 5, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 138 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 4,181 Content Per Day: 1.22 Reputation: 3,070 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/28/2014 Status: Online Share Posted February 5, 2019 (edited) Hi StJoek; Life can seem at times very lonely, the thing is we all will die one day and hopefully truly come home to God and be secure forever more in Him. Until then we live by faith and His Word to find that security , strength, courage , endurance to keep going onwards. Some people can feel alone in a crowd, even with a spouse and family around them, others can truly not feel alone even though they may not have a whole lot of human contact around them. For sure we all need other human beings around us, for also a sense of humanity. And to be blessed in life to find a good friend or a couple in your lifetime is a blessing. We also can loose good friends, those who die before us, and that also can bring grief, sadness and a feeling of being left with no more good friend or family. But what Gods Word imparts to us is to have faith hope and love in our hearts, and never give up as you never know what is to be found around the corner. New friends can happen throughout our lifetime. Reaching out to someone is also a way, to be friendly, and as long as we practice throughout our lifetime reaching out to others, you never know where you might find another really true gem of a friend. I live in the country now for over 14 years, it is very different life from the city lifestyle I had before that. But in 14 years, so much has changed, the city has become much more busy and with more cars and construction going on, much harder to get by from one place to another. Now when i return home from work in the city to the country , I find my peace, my calm and my opportunity to embrace nature. Many friends of mine have passed away in the fourteen years I have lived here, Some where very close and good friends dear to my heart with whom I could visit with and spend time with and who also could visit with me here in the country and spend time with me here. When i moved here, i still had many hopes and plans, but some of those hopes and plans where not what God wanted for my life. But for sure growing in Christ was very much in His plans, and this country place gave me the opportunity to focus more on Him and less on the world. Now I am 14 years older, and my energy levels have dropped some, I still have plans, that I would like to accomplish here, but sometimes when I feel overwhelmed, I feel that perhaps I am living my last stretch here in the country, taking care of my 13 year old dog, my now two cats and six chickens, and keep in mind that maybe, some time in the future, I may one day have to return to the city, just because it is closer to hospitals, stores and community places . However my heart is here in the country, I rather live and die here, but if the time comes that i have to move back, I know that I will readjust and that other opportunities will come my way. Because that is what life can bring to us: opportunities and solutions to problems, until we are finally called Home. But until then, no matter what befalls us we are called to run the course and utilize our faith and His Word to see us through In these years, to keep me from feeling alone I have had animals who also had a good life here with me and through old age some have passed away now. What is left are some good memories of how they came into my life, the good times we shared and also the loneliness in not having them around me anymore. But new animal friends have come along and renew my joy . So one thing I know, is that you can always make friends, you can always save animals or get one or several for companionship. The thing is when you truly have friends or are involved with some project in life, however humble it is, or go to some community gathering of sorts, these all help at times to lesson the load, especially in difficult times, when the feeling of hardship and loneliness tries to set in. Remember also winter time, is cold & dark, weather wise, it can be physically, emotionally, a trying time . Many people from January till spring can get a more intensified sense of isolation & loneliness. But unless we are deserted on an island, there are always animals, people, places, resources we can reach out to, to ask for help or sometimes to go and help out. Many times when we reach out to help someone else, it sometimes can be just a phone call, we end up helping ourselves as well. The world is unfolding as it should, in everything there is a season, in God hands we place our trust and march on to fight the good fight of faith/faithfulness for His Glory. Not looking back but pressing on forward in His Love. God Bless you to find the beauty and hope that surrounds you in Him. In Christ Jesus always 1to3 Edited February 5, 2019 by 1to3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobleseed Posted February 5, 2019 Group: Members * Followers: 1 Topic Count: 83 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 341 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 117 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/02/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted February 5, 2019 8 hours ago, Not me said: Hi, I’m sorry for the misunderstanding. I think I see where the situation lies. You see the word “possessed” only meaning as, “that man was possessed by satan”. Meaning a total forced demonic takeover. But it can be used in a positive sense also. Would it not be a good and proper statement to say; “he was possessed of by a kind spirit”. or “he was possessed of by a mercyful spirit” or “he was possessed of by a Godly spirit” These are examples of the phrase “possessed of by” being used in a positive sense. Then here are a couple of examples of the phrase “possessed of by” being used in a negative sense; “he was possessed of by a worldly spirit”. or “he was possessed of by lying spirit” Hope this helps with the understanding of how I meant for the phrase “possessed of by” to be understood. Blessings, Much love in Christ, Not me God does not possess people nor does he control anyone just remember that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted February 5, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 950 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,532 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,027 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted February 5, 2019 2 hours ago, noblenut said: God does not possess people nor does he control anyone just remember that God absolutely controls me! He foreknew and predestined me. God the Son possesses me for I was given to Jesus the Good Shepherd by God the Father to be of His flock, and Jesus does not lose a one of His own, God the Holy Spirit even indwells within me. Romans 9 English Standard Version (ESV) -God's Sovereign Choice- I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. For this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.” And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’” “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.” And as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.” What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobleseed Posted February 5, 2019 Group: Members * Followers: 1 Topic Count: 83 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 341 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 117 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/02/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted February 5, 2019 1 minute ago, Neighbor said: God absolutely controls me! He foreknew and predestined me. God the Son possesses me for I was given to Jesus the Good Shepherd by God the Father to be of His flock, and Jesus does not lose a one of His own, God the Holy Spirit even indwells within me. Romans 9 English Standard Version (ESV) -God's Sovereign Choice- I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. For this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.” And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’” “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.” And as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.” What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” good one neigh but that isn't what i meant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted February 5, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 950 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,532 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,027 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted February 5, 2019 1 hour ago, noblenut said: good one neigh but that isn't what i meant But it is what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted February 5, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 950 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,532 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,027 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Accentuate the positive- (ac-cent-thu-ate the positive, E-lim-inate the negative, Ac-cent-thu-ate the positive, an' latch on!) You gotta accent-thu-ate the positive, E-lim-inate the negative, An' latch on To the affirmative Don't mess with mister in-between! You gotta spread joy up to the maximum, Bring gloom down to the minimum, An' have faith (amen!) Or pandemonium's Liable to walk upon the scene Read more: Perry Como - Accentuate The Positive Lyrics | MetroLyrics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobleseed Posted February 5, 2019 Group: Members * Followers: 1 Topic Count: 83 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 341 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 117 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/02/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted February 5, 2019 5 minutes ago, Neighbor said: But it is what I mean. if God possessed people no one would ever sin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not me Posted February 5, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 14 Topic Count: 512 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 3,184 Content Per Day: 1.44 Reputation: 3,349 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/06/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted February 5, 2019 4 hours ago, noblenut said: God does not possess people nor does he control anyone just remember that I wish you all good things with your walk with Jesus. May He increase Himself in you and may we be conformed to Him in all things.. Blessings, Much love in Christ, Not me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sower Posted February 5, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 14 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,243 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5,845 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/09/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted February 5, 2019 On 2/3/2019 at 7:01 AM, StJoek said: How/where do you go about finding a Godly friend? Don't limit yourself. Show interest. Your future best friend you haven't met yet may be the mailman or the clerk at the corner store. Might even be that guy who offended you in church. Remember, God is in control. You can be a friend to anybody. Remember the good Samaritan. Become a sower of the seed, the good news. Share your interest's. Wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. Purpose in your heart to be friendly. "A friend is a present you give to yourself." 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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