farouk Posted March 28, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 6,671 Content Per Day: 12.13 Reputation: 3,404 Days Won: 31 Joined: 11/18/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted March 28, 2023 20 hours ago, Sower said: "simply learning to let Him live and operate in and through me!" Are we or are we not loyal courageous soldiers in the army of God? *Quote* I AM A SOLDIER IN THE ARMY OF MY GOD-poem I am a soldier in the army of my God. The Lord Jesus Christ is my commanding officer. The Holy Spirit is my code of conduct. Faith, prayer and the word are my weapons of warfare. I have been taught by the Holy spirit, trained by experience, tried by adversity and tested by fire. I am a volunteer in this army, and am enlisted for eternity. I will not get out, sell out, be talked out or pushed out. I am faithful, reliable, capable and dependable. If my God needs me, I am there. I am a soldier. I am not a baby. I do not need to be pampered, petted, primed up, pumped up, picked up, or pepped up. I am a soldier. No one has to call me, remind me, write me, visit me, entice me or lure me. I am a soldier. I am not a wimp. I am in place, saluting my king, obeying His orders, praising His name and building His kingdom! No one has to send me flowers, gifts, food, cards or candy or give me handouts. I do not need to be cuddled, cradled, cared for or catered for. I am committed. I cannot have my feelings hurt bad enough to turn me around. I cannot be discouraged enough to turn me aside. I cannot lose enough to cause me to quit. When Jesus called me into this army, I had nothing. If I end up with nothing, I will still come out ahead. I will win. My God has and will continue to supply all my need. I am more than a conqueror. I will always triumph. I can do all things through Christ. The devil cannot defeat me. People cannot disillusion me. Weather cannot weary me. Sickness cannot stop me. Battles cannot beat me. Money cannot buy me. Governments cannot silence me, and hell cannot handle me. I am a soldier. Even death cannot destroy me. For when my commander calls me from His battlefield, He will promote me to captain and then allow me to rule with Him. I am a soldier in the army, and I’m marching claiming victory. I will not give up. I will not turn around. I am a soldier, marching heaven-bound…Here I stand! Will you stand with me? @Sower Reminds me also of Ephesians 6, and the whole armor of God... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve morrow Posted March 29, 2023 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1,064 Content Per Day: 0.62 Reputation: 376 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/15/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/07/1955 Share Posted March 29, 2023 JESUS CHRIST IS LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS JOHN 14:6 ---JESUS--- saith unto him ---I am the way -- the truth -- and the life -- no man -- cometh to THE FATHER BUT BY ME --- PROVERBS 8:20 I lead in the way of righteousness in the midst of the paths of judgment PROVERBS 8:8 ALL THE WORDS OF --MY MOUTH-- ARE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS THERE IS NOTHING FROWARD OR PERVERSE IN THEM PSALM 119:104 THROUGH THY PRECEPTS I GET UNDERSTANDING --- THEREFORE I HATE EVERY FALSE WAY LOVING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
com7fy8 Posted March 29, 2023 Group: Senior Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 873 Content Per Day: 0.45 Reputation: 520 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/05/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted March 29, 2023 (edited) On 3/22/2023 at 11:25 AM, Vine Abider said: 1. He loves us beyond measure! 2. He died to set us free! 3. He now lives in us! 4. My job is simply learning to let Him live and operate in and through me! 5. He will return soon in bodily form to fully manifest His kingdom on earth - with and through His saints! PRAISE THE LORD - HE'S GOT THIS!!! One thing > yes, these things are true, how our Father so loves us and cares for us. But I personally have been discovering how Christianity is not only or mainly about God blessing us. I keep seeing and hearing how God loves me, wants to bless me, expects me to think and choose what is good for me, will control things for me, will come back for me. (1) But Jesus is the focus of all our Father does with us > Romans 8:29 < all is related, in our Father's all-management, with how pleasing Jesus is to our Father and therefore how our Father is perfecting us in Jesus, and this is the central focus of Christian ministry > Colossians 1:28-29. God's grace-favor, then, is mainly about how He favors Jesus His Son and favors how Jesus is. (2) But Jesus is not at all conceited about being so superior and favored. But Jesus desires to share with us His own glory (John 17:22) and His own peace (John 14:27), and Jesus has claimed in prayer how our Father loves us even as He loves His own Son Jesus > John 17:23. (3) Because God who "is love" (1 John 4:8&16) is so sharing of His own self, by sending us His own Son, and having His own Son so die for us and rise for us. (4) How He loves us is not only for us and about us, though, but God through Jesus is our example required of us! "forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you." (in Ephesians 4:31-32) "And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma." (Ephesians 5:2) (5) Jesus our example on the cross was about sweetly pleasing our Father while going through all that, plus He was about loving any and all people and not only getting His own trouble taken care of > He now uses His experience for ministering to us > "For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin." (Hebrews 4:15) This is our example, so that we, like Jesus, use our problems to help us feel for others and love them by helping them with the grace which makes us able to do well while going through things. We are to follow His all-loving example > "if you love those who love you, what reward have you?" (in Matthew 5:36) In prayer, then, love any and all people as well as we care about our own selves > 1 Timothy 2:1-4. And as we grow in Jesus, like this, we discover how personal and intimate we can be with our Father . . . while being personally ruled in our "hearts" by Him in His own peace . . . as we all are "called in one body" > Colossians 3:15. Edited March 29, 2023 by com7fy8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vine Abider Posted March 29, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 6 Topic Count: 207 Topics Per Day: 0.36 Content Count: 3,507 Content Per Day: 6.12 Reputation: 2,354 Days Won: 3 Joined: 10/25/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/01/2024 Author Share Posted March 29, 2023 4 hours ago, com7fy8 said: One thing > yes, these things are true, how our Father so loves us and cares for us. But I personally have been discovering how Christianity is not only or mainly about God blessing us. I keep seeing and hearing how God loves me, wants to bless me, expects me to think and choose what is good for me, will control things for me, will come back for me. (1) But Jesus is the focus of all our Father does with us > Romans 8:29 < all is related, in our Father's all-management, with how pleasing Jesus is to our Father and therefore how our Father is perfecting us in Jesus, and this is the central focus of Christian ministry > Colossians 1:28-29. God's grace-favor, then, is mainly about how He favors Jesus His Son and favors how Jesus is. (2) But Jesus is not at all conceited about being so superior and favored. But Jesus desires to share with us His own glory (John 17:22) and His own peace (John 14:27), and Jesus has claimed in prayer how our Father loves us even as He loves His own Son Jesus > John 17:23. (3) Because God who "is love" (1 John 4:8&16) is so sharing of His own self, by sending us His own Son, and having His own Son so die for us and rise for us. (4) How He loves us is not only for us and about us, though, but God through Jesus is our example required of us! "forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you." (in Ephesians 4:31-32) "And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma." (Ephesians 5:2) (5) Jesus our example on the cross was about sweetly pleasing our Father while going through all that, plus He was about loving any and all people and not only getting His own trouble taken care of > He now uses His experience for ministering to us > "For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin." (Hebrews 4:15) This is our example, so that we, like Jesus, use our problems to help us feel for others and love them by helping them with the grace which makes us able to do well while going through things. We are to follow His all-loving example > "if you love those who love you, what reward have you?" (in Matthew 5:36) In prayer, then, love any and all people as well as we care about our own selves > 1 Timothy 2:1-4. And as we grow in Jesus, like this, we discover how personal and intimate we can be with our Father . . . while being personally ruled in our "hearts" by Him in His own peace . . . as we all are "called in one body" > Colossians 3:15. Certainly agree with all you've said here. Yes, Jesus is the focus of everything God has done and is doing - it's all in His Son! "Hear Him!" And as you point out, while Jesus is the example for us, God doesn't leave us with just an outward template to try and apply ourselves. Grace and reality comes through Jesus . . . grace supplies us through His indwelling Spirit, to be able to do those things. Amazing! What is too often missed or forgotten (by myself and others) is that Jesus wasn't sent only as an outward example (like the objective law), but rather to also get into His born-again believers --> so that He can now live this life through us! "What is man that thou art mindful of him?" (Psalm 8:4) Jesus - the Last Adam - showed us, as the prototype, all that man is to God! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
com7fy8 Posted March 30, 2023 Group: Senior Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 873 Content Per Day: 0.45 Reputation: 520 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/05/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted March 30, 2023 (edited) Excellent, Vine Abider ! The example most essential is in the heart, in the sight of God. And God spreads this from Jesus to us, and His grace through us spreads to one another (1 Peter 4:9-10), to affect our character so we grow in how Jesus is and loves while so pleasing our Father. But it is also true how God is blessing us individually and He cares about our personal things, and I would say He does desire that we trust Him and share with Him in everything > "casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." (1 Peter 5:7) Edited March 30, 2023 by com7fy8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farouk Posted April 2, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 6,671 Content Per Day: 12.13 Reputation: 3,404 Days Won: 31 Joined: 11/18/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted April 2, 2023 On 3/22/2023 at 11:32 AM, bropro said: I embraced and spoke this saying just before going under the knife for quadruple by-pass surgery. That was over 3 years ago. He truly "had this." Gary @bropro Mine was a quadruple (not all the bypasses are functional any more). Glad yours went okay. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve morrow Posted April 2, 2023 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1,064 Content Per Day: 0.62 Reputation: 376 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/15/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/07/1955 Share Posted April 2, 2023 REMEMBRANCE MATTHEW 6:33 --BUT SEEK YE --FIRST-- the kingdom of --GOD --- and HIS righteousness-- and all these things shall be added unto you PROVERBS 22:20 have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge --22:21-- that I might make thee know --THE CERTAINTY OF THE WORDS OF TRUTH-- that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee 2 TIMOTHY 3:16 ***ALL SCRIPTURE*** IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION GOD --- AND IS PROFITABLE FOR --DOCTRINE -- FOR REPROOF -- FOR CORRECTION -- FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS -- ROMANS 16:25 now to HIM that is of power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of --JESUS CHRIST-- according to the revelation of the mystery --which was kept secret since the world began-- --16:26-- but now is made manifest and by the ***SCRIPTURES*** of the prophets --ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF THE EVERLASTING GOD-- made known to all nations for the ---OBEDIENCE OF FAITH--- JUDE 1:5 I will therefore put you in --REMEMBRANCE-- though you once knew this how that --THE LORD-- having saved the people out of the land of egypt afterward -- DESTROYED THEM THAT BELIEVED NOT -- LOVING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vine Abider Posted April 2, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 6 Topic Count: 207 Topics Per Day: 0.36 Content Count: 3,507 Content Per Day: 6.12 Reputation: 2,354 Days Won: 3 Joined: 10/25/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/01/2024 Author Share Posted April 2, 2023 3 hours ago, steve morrow said: REMEMBRANCE MATTHEW 6:33 --BUT SEEK YE --FIRST-- the kingdom of --GOD --- and HIS righteousness-- and all these things shall be added unto you PROVERBS 22:20 have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge --22:21-- that I might make thee know --THE CERTAINTY OF THE WORDS OF TRUTH-- that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee 2 TIMOTHY 3:16 ***ALL SCRIPTURE*** IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION GOD --- AND IS PROFITABLE FOR --DOCTRINE -- FOR REPROOF -- FOR CORRECTION -- FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS -- ROMANS 16:25 now to HIM that is of power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of --JESUS CHRIST-- according to the revelation of the mystery --which was kept secret since the world began-- --16:26-- but now is made manifest and by the ***SCRIPTURES*** of the prophets --ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF THE EVERLASTING GOD-- made known to all nations for the ---OBEDIENCE OF FAITH--- JUDE 1:5 I will therefore put you in --REMEMBRANCE-- though you once knew this how that --THE LORD-- having saved the people out of the land of egypt afterward -- DESTROYED THEM THAT BELIEVED NOT -- LOVING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waggles Posted April 2, 2023 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,790 Content Per Day: 0.76 Reputation: 983 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/20/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted April 2, 2023 On 3/23/2023 at 1:55 AM, Vine Abider said: 3. He now lives in us! That is only a fact for some not all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bropro Posted April 2, 2023 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 212 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 314 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/29/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted April 2, 2023 21 hours ago, farouk said: @bropro Mine was a quadruple (not all the bypasses are functional any more). Glad yours went okay. Is there anything that can be done to correct the non-functional bypasses? Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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