“For Your Good”

[farouk]

@Christine Swan Wordsword has started some very thought-provoking threads...

[Christine Swan]

On 10/11/2024 at 2:06 PM, farouk said:

@Christine Swan Wordsword has started some very thought-provoking threads...

Ok..?? I have no idea why I'm being mentioned about it... Does this mean you want me to search for those threads???

 

I need direction, please. I can't "read" someone's mind. Usually when someone is being mentioned it's about engaging a conversation. So, what is your purpose? 

 

Forgive me, I'm at a loss here. So confused....

[WordSword]

On 10/4/2024 at 11:26 AM, Gracejj said:

I agree with your post. Meanwhile, I also believe that for some people sometimes its difficult to see those life's struggles and circumstances from the lense of that Scripture when we are in the midst of all trials. But I guess thats where Faith & Trust comes to play. 

Hi, and much liking your reply and comments! Good instruction. Once we understand that everything, esp. trials, is used by God for the believer's benefit there will be that "patient in tribulation" mode that carries us onward and upward (Rom 12:12), via "escape" (1Co 10:13). We learn the most of God's love through the "trials."

God's blessings to your Family, and God be blessed!!

 

Edited October 15, 2024 by WordSword

[Gracejj]

On 10/15/2024 at 7:22 AM, WordSword said:

Hi, and much liking your reply and comments! Good instruction. Once we understand that everything, esp. trials, is used by God for the believer's benefit there will be that "patient in tribulation" mode that carries us onward and upward (Rom 12:12), via "escape" (1Co 10:13). We learn the most of God's love through the "trials."

God's blessings to your Family, and God be blessed!!

 

Indeed. 

Thank you and God bless to you and your family as well. 

[Neighbor]

On 9/27/2024 at 10:25 AM, WordSword said:

The primary issue in a believer’s life is always that which concerns the strengthening of one’s faith!

Hi, I do not personally think my "faith"  or the strength  of my faith is of much importance. Therefore the strengthening of it is of little concern. What is of vital importance is the faith  of my Lord God and savior Jesus. For without Jesus' faith my own is irrelevant.

[WordSword]

12 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Hi, I do not personally think my "faith"  or the strength  of my faith is of much importance. Therefore the strengthening of it is of little concern. What is of vital importance is the faith  of my Lord God and savior Jesus. For without Jesus' faith my own is irrelevant.

Hi, and really like your comment! It's the Lord Jesus that decides what He is going to do with the believer once choosing to accept Him. It's my understanding though, that the strength of our faith, along with the Spirit's guidance and enablement of it is that from which we receive growth in Christ; but it's our faith in Him that saves. 

Gob bless!

[Neighbor]

14 hours ago, WordSword said:

Hi, and really like your comment! It's the Lord Jesus that decides what He is going to do with the believer once choosing to accept Him. It's my understanding though, that the strength of our faith, along with the Spirit's guidance and enablement of it is that from which we receive growth in Christ; but it's our faith in Him that saves. 

Gob bless!

..."It's the Lord Jesus that decides what He is going to do with the believer once choosing to accept Him."...

Hi, I don't know whether you are stating once Jesus decides to choose or once the saint decides to accept Jesus (As Lord); but presuming that Jesus did not decide at all,  but instead He receives those given Him by his Father, I guess you are stating once a person chooses  to accept Him (Jesus as Lord God and personally  as savior from eternal destruction) becoming a saint in Christ, a born again believer in Jesus  as Lord God and savior.

With that  I always have to question, did I choose Jesus or was I drafted, conscripted as it were into His army? For I had no interest in Christianity, nor God, nor Jesus, yet it did not matter what I had interest in, not at all.

I was confronted by an angel in the form of a man whose voice was one of authority. One I could not outwit, nor out talk, nor deny, and so the best I could do was to state "If that is true I want it" to his challenge  to and of me.

It was not a free willed decision at all, but  defeat of my denial of God, and a give me the uniform and stand me out with the other recruits for first inspection. Been on many a duty station ever since, never knowing the why of it ahead of time, just going and finding myself being used as a little cog  in the works of a much bigger working.

Has my faith grown? Hmmm, my experience path sure has lengthened, but  I don't think my faith has grown  stronger than the day God paid me a personal visit via an angel in answer to prayers of others that I would come to know Him as my Lord.

That day was so overwhelming I don't know than any experience could make faith or reliance any stronger than from that beginning moment of challenge to me.

[WordSword]

42 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

..."It's the Lord Jesus that decides what He is going to do with the believer once choosing to accept Him."...

Actually, I was wrong about the Lord deciding, He doesn't have to decide because He already knows who will choose Him and reject Him. Once we choose Him the Father draws us to Christ.

Edited October 18, 2024 by WordSword

[Neighbor]

13 minutes ago, WordSword said:

Once we choose Him He draws us to the Father.

Hi again, I guess that is so, especially so from the viewpoint of those that choose or have chosen Him. I have a differing perspective, because I was drafted, I never volunteered.

I was drafted by the Holy Spirit using an angel in the form of a man as God's draft board officer. That man gave me an ultimatum; now, or  now, there will not be another time! It was a stern voiced demand/warning/ command. One that carried the voice of a man I had known, respected, and obeyed as a very young person.

It was more than a bit overwhelming, and really I suppose though not necessarily so emotional day after day and year after year and now decade after decade still is one amazing humbling sojourn.

[WordSword]

8 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

Hi again, I guess that is so, especially so from the viewpoint of those that choose or have chosen Him. I have a differing perspective, because I was drafted, I never volunteered.

The fact that He knew we would choose Him causes us to be saved, in my opinion, which may not be what others say about themselves.