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Hi Gigi!

I'm sorry for the physical pain you endure, but admire the spirit that the Lord has given you to not give up, and to do what you can, when you can! There is something SO therapeutic about gardening!! I don't blame you for loving to get out there and poke around in the dirt! Ha ha! I love it myself!

When my children were younger, and before their Dad died (at 38 years of age), we did a lot of camping. Sad to say, at the moment, my family is very divided. My children don't really speak to each other...and all of us live very far from each other, for the most part. It's challenging, but the Lord knows! We just pray on, and believe on for our families! Unless the Lord works in hearts, nothing true and lasting can change. So, I try to keep my flesh out of things, and trust in the Lord!

I rejoice to hear that things are going well with your family, step by step, Gigi. When we dwell together in unity it is a huge, huge blessing! Praise the Lord!

Over the years, I've heard many testimonies of the 'power of a mom's prayers'; I'm sure as we pray for our families, God will yet do a work. When I pray for you, I want to remember to pray for your daughter-in-law! May she be drawn by the light in your lives, and by the sweetness of your words!

Well, I have to finish up some stuff, so will close for now! It's so pleasant to get

to know you through this discussion page, Gigi! What a blessing!

:)

Just because you can't find it, don't mean its not true.

IS MAN MORE THAN A BODY

Can you exist without God's breath and God's Spirit?

The answer is NO.

Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the BREATH OF ALL MANKIND

You are only A VESSEL (made of clay).

The LIFE in that vessel is GOD.

YOU, the vessel, are doing what the LIFE (God) wants THE VESSEL TO DO.

Colossians 2:13 For it is GOD that WORKETH IN YOU (the vessel) both TO WILL and TO DO his good pleasure.

God Bless You

Hello, it seems you assumed words were added instead of assuming they weren't.

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amen! great testimony man! GOd is good all the time

i was introduced to God from a young age. i was around 3/4. my grandmother is the one that made sure we went to church. i had a genuine childlike faith and love and belief in the Lord. then i started being sexually abused around the same age by an older male cousin. He eventually moved from molestation to raping me at 5 years old. i remember crying out to God to save me. but the abuse didnt end till i was 10. so at 5 i turned my back on God and was angry with Him and His believers. and i grew hateful and bitter and angry as the years went by.

at age 10 the abuse ended cuz i got older n was able to avoid him or say no more or fight or run off more than i was able to before. at 11 i started self harming via cutting myself with whatever i could get my hands on. i also started strugglign with my sexuality from age 7-25. thinking i was bisexual. hating being a woman/female and gender issues. so it was an awkward time. and of course i didnt tell anyone of the sexual abuse and rape until i was 14. i told when i was 14 because i was going to commit suicide but backed out cut instead n the next morning told my family. my nana tried taking em to church around that time n id go and pretend to be Christian but my heart wasnt in it.

from 14-25 i struggled with mental illenss and suicde plans and i got to a point i was going to save up and buy a gun to kill myself at age 25. God reached out to me june 10 2018 at 3am with the movie "woman thou art loosed". and it set me free. the God i thoughbt abandoned me and that i abandoned in return, loved me. forgave me. saved me. was always theree. and was calling out for me to return to Him. the following weekend i was in church and 3 months later i was baptized. my life hasnt been the same since. He set me free from sooo many things. from my sins, from myself, from the enemy. and He is ever healing me steadily now. i am 28 going on 29 and im getting my life and growing in my love and knowlege of the Lord. wont He do it!

Hey Linda,

If I may give another understanding of why Jesus told Peter "Get the behind me Satan". We find this in Matthew 16:23 and Mark 8:33. It may seem that Satan was influencing Peter, but Satan wanted Jesus to be killed because that would stop Jesus the Messiah from setting up the kingdom on earth, God's plan was hidden, even from the disciples.

Everyone and the disciples thought when the Messiah came, He would set up the Kingdom and set up the new world order. Jesus told them several times He would be killed and be resurrected, Matthew 16:21 Matthew 17:22-23 Mark 8:31 Mark 9:31-32 Mark 10:32-34. In Luke 9:44-45 it was hidden from them until He was resurrected Luke 24:6-8, and later the Holy Spirit would bring all remembrance to them, John 14:26.

The understanding of those sayings was hidden, and Peter took Jesus aside and was saying surely God would have mercy and not let this happen. Jesus turned away and when He said what He did all the disciples heard what He said. The word Satan was originally a common noun meaning adversary.

The disciples were amazed Jesus was going to Jerusalem and they were afraid Mark 10:32. Even though they were told what was going to happen it was hidden they did not have a clue, they were still looking for Jesus to overthrow the Romans and set up the kingdom. That was the reason they all scattered when Jesus was arrested and Peter's denial, they all were devastated and shocked because the Messiah when He came was to set up the kingdom not to be killed.

Jesus' response to Peter and the disciples was drastic but it was a message relevant to them all, a message they all needed to hear to get them through what was shortly to happen. One other thing, when Jesus came it was for the lost sheep of Israel only, even after Pentecost it was still for the house of Israel until the mystery of the gospel of grace was revealed.

Jesus only lost one, Judas who He called the son of perdition, John 17:12.

Hope this helps

God bless,

RLW

Robert:

1 Corinthians 15:28 And WHEN all thing SHALL BE subdued to him, then shall the Son ALSO HIMSELF be subject to HIM (the Father) that put all things under him, that GOD MAY BE ALL IN ALL.

Meditate on this verse:

Can man be in hell and these WORDS OF GOD BE TRUE?

Man can be IN THE GRAVE; until he is raised up and brought to truth.

The wages of sin is DEATH.

God Bless You!

Salut! J'aime visite ce site J'aime le travail beaucoup. J'ai probleme, pourquoi on ne peut pas faire un rchercher d'un Chapitre ou le verset que je veux avoir?

Par exemple si je veux aller dans Apocalypse Chapitre 20: 1 il faut que je passe tous les Chapitres.

Those are the letters of the ancient Hebrew alphabet. They were used instead of numbers. Koph is the 10th letter, so the verses under Koph are in the 10th section of Psalm 119.

Hello, I thought I'd share my thoughts on your last paragraph about God's goodness.

God is the author of life and has the moral right to take it. Some people seem to be falsely comparing their narrow view of the world to their creator and some even border on blasphemy by accusing God of being "bad." People should be afraid of getting anywhere close to this line, because it could be the unforgiveable sin. People often falsely assume people who commit evil deserve their rights to commit evil, while disregarding the rights stripped of those they harm. So, on occasions where God steps in and removes an evil threat, then some complain and accuse God of wrongdoing. I bet if God removed everyone's freewill and eliminated all evil then people would then complain about having no freewill. Either way, people complain and act self-entitled to everything they demand, as if God is some kind of genie to serve them, rather than the other way around. God bless.

No. God made them in the beginning, and only them. And through the commands of God, they were married, and made love for children.

No, He is not anything close to evil. But the devil is evil. The reason why there is those thoughts that we have is because of the devil. Ever since Adam and Eve ate the tree of knowledge, we have been in his temptation. The sin of the world came in because of them, and God knew they would do it. And since He knew, He would a long time later give Christ so we could overcome the temptation and know God for ourselves. If you accept Him, and put on the Holy armor of God, you will have the authority to rebuke the evil thoughts, and repent from all sin. You will slip up once in a while, but you just repent, and continue living for your Lord. Hope this helped

Tell her. Even if she does not want to hear it, just say about it. Try to get her into it and actually feel something that is true and something that you think she will turn to.

Mostly in Revelation. If you are trying to look it up in the Word and find the parts where it does say about the rapture, look everywhere, study every chapter. Other chapters it says is mostly Matthew, and mentions it in Psalms and many other chapters. Hope this helps.

who was king james

Hi Alex , I hope you had a lovely time and I'm sure your family were very pleased to get to spend some quality time with you , I'm glad we've got you back with us now though , much love in Christ .

After reading all comments, Now I understand the first word in the verse and for every eight verses are the 22 Hebrews alphabets. Why it would be necessary to add them in the verse I really do not know.

Hello Alex,

I believe that unredeemed mankind is influenced by evil because of the sin nature that abides in us due to Adam succumbing to

evil temptation. I do also know that Satan is not omni-present, He can only be in one place at one time. The same is true for

each of his fallen angels that follow him. So, I do not believe that Satan is in every human person. Sinfulness is in all of us,

though, but our humanness is not to be despised as it is a work of God's creation that he said was good. Gnostics saw our

physical nature as evil and that our spiritual nature as good. This is called dualism. But Scripture clearly says both our whole

humanness is good as created by God. But, since the fall, sinfulness attached itself to our whole nature, physical and spiritual,

what God has created as good has been corrupted by sin. This is why we are helpless to overcome sin and evil in our

unredeemed state. When we are redeemed by God, are spirit is changed by the Holy Spirit so that we can believe the gospel

and receive the salvation accomplished for us in the death and resurrection of Jesus. Our redeemed human person now has the

Holy Spirit in us to give us power to resist the devil, sin, and put to death our sinful nature whenever it arise to tempt us into

sin. In this life we will not have total victory over this sinful nature. We will battle it until we die or are resurrected with the

coming of Jesus.

Good morning Kay, well, too bad we haven't met in person yet! I am sure we could teach each other a thing or two!

I am 65 and recently retired due to lower back arthritis and severe trouble with respiratory viruses exacerbating asthma. The classroom full of kiddos was no longer the best place for me to be! I love to garden and am slowly regaining better endurance for some of the prep work in preparing the ground for planting. I can work for about 1 hour then need to rest my back for the day. My husband wishes to do woodworking, so I hope to learn that with him. We will be building planter boxes when i can get up and about better. That will teach us some of the skills for more advanced woodworking projects. Who knows, maybe it will become a "cottage industry" for us in our retirement. Maybe our sons will get the "bug" and work with us on projects, too.

Whatever we can do as a family, I am happy for that. Our oldest son got us all into learning to use guns. We go shooting as often as we weather permits up in the hills by our house. he is a good teacher, very knowledgeable and safety conscious. We love to camp together and try to go for at least one family camping trip each year. My sons like to hike, but I cannot do that due to my back.

I don't know if you experienced this or not, but each of our sons went through a time as young adults when they did not want to have a thing to do with parents. So we have been working on developing better adult relationships with each of them over the last dozen years or so. they are becoming more relational with us over this time. I pray every day for them to be drawn to return to the Lord again. I pray for my oldest sons new wife to turn from Islam to Jesus and I pray for God to bring the best women for my other two sons to be their wives. All are in their thirties.

Thank you for sharing. As believing parents we do our best to raise our children up in faith, but at some point we need to release them wholly to the Lord.

The strong delusion that is the lie in 2 Thess. 2:11 is called: "The finished work of Christ on the cross" which cancels and denies the fact that "Christ Jesus took our place in hell." Preaching a lie saves no one; God hates liars! We are dipped in water in likeness of Jesus who God dipped in hell as Rom.6:3-5 tells. God cut his 3 days and 3 nights horrific suffering there in half to 36 hrs. (3 pm Fri. to 3 am Sun.) If you do not know that someone took your place in hell you will go there!

What is KOPH? Or any acronyms before the verse? Such is a very disturbing additions to the true word of God.

Revelation 22:18

Hiya Suze....Been gone for a week on a 7 day Cruise...I Missed you..Nice to see ya again...GBU...But its all my wifes fault...I was very happy just being at Home with my Dogs...But to keep peace in the family i had to go...

Dear Suze, So glad you are representing our lord to this friend. I will pray for your and her today.

Dear Heavenly Father, Suze's beloved friend needs you as You know. We ask to day that You will stir up the heart of this friend to inquire of Suze the reason for the hope within her so that she can share the gospel with her and You will do the work of salvation in this dear friend. Give Suze cause to speak about her faith in You to her friend as the You provide the opportunities. Soften the heart of Suze's friend and prepare it to receive the truth about You and Your Son, Jesus Christ. We as these of You, Father, in the name of Your Son, Jesus.

Hi Cheryl, when I search the word rapture, it doesn't show results in the text, but when you click the "related bible topics' link on the right that says "rapture" it gives you a page of scriptures about it: Link

It doesn't use the word rapture, but "caught up" and other terms. So, I think as a convenience someone came up with that word to describe these events as described in the Bible. God bless.

How many people in the Bible are named Judas? And, apart from Judas Iscariot, who are they?

Thank you, Richard. I'm still confused but I will meditate on the things written in this discussion thread.

We're does Rapture come from cannot find it in the Bible

I've met many atheists who've come to Christ. They have more hope than we sometimes give credit for as they're searching for answers. Most naturalist atheists I've met are more than willing to sit down and talk about the word of God. Those who have no political attachment tend to be more open to listening to the Gospel. I'd let her know that if she's your friend (your sister) that you love her and there's only truth in love. Tell her that the truth is simple. If we complicated the Truth, it would be hard for anyone to accept Christ Jesus. But here's that simple Truth of Salvation:

Titus 1:2, "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, PROMISED before the world began."

Acts 13:39, "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses."

[Law cannot justify, you can't justify your self, philosophy and religion cannot justify you...only justification through the Blood of Christ Jesus]

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" ( Romans 3:23)

Romans 10:8-13

"But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him."

The religious of this world seek to complicate the simple Truth (Salvation) of Christ with doctrines, sacraments, laws, pre-requisites and but these verses are Truth and the Truth shall set you free.

13For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

I accepted Jesus when I was about twelve. However, now in my early 60s, I have never felt differently. I have reiterated that prayer several times since and have never had a definitive feeling that I was saved. The Bible says one must be born again. I can't tell one way or the other. Help!