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My prayer request is that that all my brothers and sisters in Christ will pray for each other that we stay on the narrow road and we feed the spirit in our angel will guide us and protect us in Jesus name I pray amen

Please, pray for me, Linda, that God may cause backfire on my enemies, who are poisoning me with class A drugs, witchcraft and all wickedness, in Jesus Name. He may evict and convict Tatiana, Barry, David, Nicola & accomplices of their sins by the power of the Holy Spirit and Jesus Name and they may flee from me, immediately as is written in Psalm 7:16 "The trouble they make for others backfires on them. The violence they plan falls on their own heads," as they are making my life a misery for over 8 years, poisoning me for over 4 years and the police & housing are colluding with them, bullying me and lying to their teeth. God may bring justice to me as in Luke 18, in Jesus Mighty Name. Amen.

please pray for Kristie and me today

Thank you very much GiGi for the kind wording. Follow you in your thoughts and want to see this happen in a short time. With all of us. We love the community and each other with Holy kisses and hugs. Come Jesus we wait, and stay close to Him now is soo important. We get many trials but overcome them all because we have our Savior Jesus Christ, Amen. live well all and wait for answers to prayers with zeal and thanksgiving. When we do the best we can, we can do no more.

1 John 1 chapter.

Hello everyone, I wish you all a very happy and peaceful new year.

I did some searching here in the early hours Good time, withe the Lord.

Outside minus 15 degrees and up to several cm of snow is expected. There will be extreme conditions for a while again. In the Northern Hemisphere. The Nordic countries.

And I read a wonderful text from the 1611 edition, here in the web. In some ways, the wording could be a little easier for me to understand. Don't ask me how that can be possible! And this wonderful prayer I must share with you, those of you who have read it before and those of you who have not yet come this far (smiley sign). Or should I say, gone that far back in time?

Prayer of Azariah 1 chapter. God bless us all in understanding and revelation. Love u all in Christ.

Dear God, Father in Heaven, You who are sole ruler and living God in the holy name of Jesus Christ. We pray that You strengthen "Dennis jenkins" in spirit, soul and body. That You give revelation over things that seem to be locked. Thank You for extending Your Hand to all who ask You God Almighty, in Jesus Holy Name, Amen.

Stay close too the word. 1 John 1 chapter, love u in Christ.

Hallelujah Praise be to God Almighty that He looks after all families who are struggling. He holds His Hand over them all so that they will be saved. In Jesus Christ holy name above all other name, Hi is the Lord, the King for ever and ever, Amen.

Stay close too His word and never loose hope in Jesus name, love u in Christ.

1 John 1 Chapter

I would like prayer for my self in good health and prospered in everything good. Stay in God words and live life as he want me to do also i want prayer for my mom been pain free and be the good woman she is, God help her like u always do in so many ways. God please help my grandkids everyday of wisdom and knowledge and understanding in doing good in school work. God help all the children to all they can be and more. God help my husband continue to be the good man he is in all thing, allow our pain to go away for good and help me and my family with money to save and pay off debt and help others in need. God u been so good to me and my family and I thank u Heavenly Father allways

Dear God, Father in Heaven, You who have created all that is on Earth and in Heaven, visible and invisible things.

We pray for Matt Lord. In Your word You say that we should walk in the light. In the light of Your Holy Name Jesus Christ, we put words to these impure thoughts, tormenting spirits and delusional spirits. Such spirits that want to destroy and kill. These are now thrown out in the holy name of Jesus Christ. They are allowed to go into the deepest darkness in His name, there they can wander, and never come back in the holy name of Jesus Christ. It is only in His Name that we can find light and salvation. So we thank You Lord with all our might that we are forever grateful because we know You hear prayers. Where two and three are gathered in Your name. There You are in the middle of us.

Thank You Jesus for You Are. The Way and the Truth and the Life. Help Matt here Jesus to and take every thought captive. Under the obedience under Your Name Jesus. So that the enemy no longer has anything he should have said over Matt's mind world. Hallelujah Praise be to God forever and ever. Because You are with us, Amen!

Stay close too the word og God and have peace in Jesus name. Take a copy of the pray or read promises from the Bible and tell it out load every time u need it. Jesus loves u and i in Christ. Never loose hope.

1 John 1 Chapter.

Hi Lee Ann.

This is saddening to hear.

We will be praying for you.

May the Lord have mercy on you and your family.

God bless you.

John

I would like to add one more thought comes to mind along with what Myself and Brother Jesse has shared.

Fruit is what's produced inward and expressed outward, the cleansing is internally and the action outwardly is caused by this cleansing.

This is what the natural man can not do.

This is what Jesus is telling the Pharisees in Matthew 23:25-26 "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

This is what Israel could not produce. ( Jeremiah 2:21.)

There was no heart change in the working/covenant of the law.

I believe this is why Jesus says in John 15:1. I AM THE TRUE VINE, and my Father is the husbandman.

This production comes by the new birth or " Born from above" being connected to the life giver.

We are branches baring what the vine produces, being that we're LIVE and attached.

You see the outward result in being a live branch in baptism or "Identified" with Christ mentioned in Romans 6.

I hope this helps.

God bless.

That would be a tall order to fill Sharmine - to give a full explanation of Proverbs chapters 1 & 2. But I'll share an outline for you that might be a little useful.

Proverbs 1:1. Clearly, King Solomon is the major Author/contributor. And the meaning of Proverbs: these are the sayings taken from everyday life & intended to serve as practical guidelines for 'successful' living.

Proverbs 1:2-6. Its Purpose is that the reader might know wisdom & allow it to govern his/her life.

Proverbs 1:7. The Theme of the book is that the fear (deep reverence) of the LORD is the starting point and essence of wisdom (and Wisdom is the correct application of knowledge that comes through a right relationship with God).

Proverbs 1:8 to Proverbs 9:18. Show the Precepts of Wisdom (rules to be followed).

a. 1:8-19 (avoid bad company).

b. 1:20-33 (to heed Wisdom's advice; wisdom personified as a woman inviting all to come to her & learn).

c. 2:1-22 (the master teacher describes the joyful results of pursuing & acquiring Wisdom: Wisdom is God-given (vv6,7) & is beneficial as it delivers one from the ways of evil men (vv10-15), from the arms of the adulteress (vv 16-19), and preserves one's life & character (vv 20-22).

Hopefully, this broad outline will help you read & learn these chapters' contents & the reason for their writing.

Amen Brother Chris!

A Pastor is a shepherd - one who leads, guides, counsels, & gets beside his flock in their needs.

An often overlooked roll of a pastor.

God bless.

Hi Linda

I would like to add to what Brother Chris has shared,

In Hebrews 11:4 it reads "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain",

Now faith comes by hearing the word of God,

So if Abel offered his sacrifice by faith it seems he was instructed to offer the sacrifice he offered.

BY WHICH HE OBTAINED WITNESS THAT HE WAS RIGHTEOUS, God testifying of his gifts: ( AND BY IT ) he being dead yet speaketh.

It seems God expected obedience from Cain to follow through with a specific command in Genesis 4:7

"If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Cain could have humbled himself and pleaded for forgiveness as Brother Chris said.

It is impossible to please God without faith. Hebrews 11:6.

God bless.

Hi Ernest. Elliux2 has given you some very good advice & Scriptures for you to ponder. But I would ask, 'is your desire to pastor a Church fellowship towards an existing congregation, or have you been evangelizing/holding a small group meeting that you want to bring together & be their pastor?'

In my understanding of this position, a Pastor is a shepherd - one who leads, guides, counsels, & gets beside his flock in their needs. Unfortunately, today, a pastor's role is predominantly centered around teaching/preaching & greeting at the door, leaving the shepherding work to others. If you belong to an existing Fellowship, then the elders are the ones who need to be in prayer & be led of the Lord to determine what Church positions need to be filled and by whom. You may present your desire to them to serve God's people in this way, but ultimately the Elders will need to decide. If there are no elders (or, bishops, as written in the KJV), then I'm sorry, this Fellowship is on shaky ground & may totter over spiritually.

But if you've been evangelizing and/or gathering folk into the faith & teaching them, then it would be right for you to assume the position of Elder/Pastor, building up the souls in the fear & knowledge of God, seeking to minister the Gospel to the lost around you, and waiting on the Lord to direct you to avenues of ministry & the right men to build up to join you in the work. You have a great & compelling desire Ernest and one never to enter into lightly. Keep the matter before the Lord & before those who may be your elders/leaders - the Lord will surely open up the way for you - even if it means first serving His people in other ways. He looks for men with hearts & hands who are already engaged in His Work, being prepared in the Word & in Faith, so as to lead others closer to Jesus.

Thank you for praying for me.

Thank you for your prayers.

Hello Linda. Many tend to believe that because Cain did not provide a blood offering, God had rejected it. But I cannot be sure whether at that time a blood sacrifice was mandatory, rather, that God was looking for something else.

Therefore, in Genesis 4:3-5, we read that "the LORD had respect (or, looked upon, attended to) unto Abel and to his offering". I read this as both the offerer & the offering were considered by the LORD whether to be acceptable or not. God was considering Abel, his heart, his motives, his giving, and found him acceptable, as also his offering.

But with Cain, his heart & offering were not right before the LORD, as we see that Cain flew into a rage when God rejected him & the offering. Abel had brought the "firstlings of his flock & its fat", while Cain might have just grabbed whatever 'produce of the ground' that came to his hand, deeming that the sacrificial act was more important than the quality of the sacrifice & of the heart.

Cain, who also walked & talked with God as did his parents, should have rather been humbled by his error & pleaded for forgiveness & sought corrective help. But he walked off in a huff & allowed his anger against the LORD & against his brother to fester, allowing the devil to have his way with him ( Genesis 4:7,8; 1 John 3:12). So, in my understanding of these verses, it seems that the LORD was requiring both the gift & giver to be in an optimal state before Him; unfortunately, Cain failed God, his family & left a murderer & a vagabond.

I am struggling with sickness. This cold or virus is dragging me down. Please Lord be with me.

Also I ask your support for my partner as its two years ago his mum died.

Amen

Thanks Hammer63. A very telling poem indeed, encapsulated in Galatians 5:25.

Requesting prayer for protection over me. I've had thoguhts that may from demonic forces putting into my mind. I've prayed to many prayer sites and it's caused me to be afflicted during the day. My thoughts will start thinking things that are not me, and torment me during the day. It won't stop, and im asking prayer for healing over this. I ask prayer for protection and healing over my mind, and body. Thank you

Hi John.

You are referring to John 15:1-12.

1) I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

2) Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

3) Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

The Greek word for purge is kathairo, which means "to cleanse. The Lord cleanses you that you bring forth "BEAR" more fruit.

Some people consider the purging to be pruning, and He does that too, but it really means to cleanse. There is no doubt that the Lord does some pruning. He moves into our lives and takes out those things that offend,

What is important to see here is who is producing the fruit? The answer is in verses 5 and 6.

4) Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

5) I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Verses 6-12.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

I will leave off there so others may add and improve on my reply and perhaps I will join later.

God bless.

Why did God reject Cain's offering? He was a tiller of the ground - he gave the first fruits of what he had. I do not understand why it was turned away. Thank You . . .

John,

The fruit is what is produced by Gods Spirit. A person who has been born of Gods Spirit continuously produces fruit because it is the Spirit in them producing the fruit.

In John Chapter 15, there are two important phrases that we need to understand. One is where Jesus says every branch (in me), and the other phrase is (abiding in me).

These are describing two different different branches, the first one (in me) is a dead branch unable to produce fruit. The second branch, the one (abiding in the vine) continuously produces fruit because this branch is feeding off the life source which is Jesus Christ.

It's like a fruit tree in your garden. There are branches in the tree that produce fruit, and there are branches that are in the tree that are dead branches which are incapable of producing fruit because they are dead branches.

So the person who has received Christ and been born of His Spirit, that person is the one who permanently abides in Him, and that person will be continuously producing fruit.

Otherwise, a person is just physically attached to the vine but they are a dead branch because they have never been born of Gods Spirit.

I can break down these few verses in John Chapter 15 if you would like me to? Otherwise I'll just keep this short.

Blessings to you in Christ Jesus!

Me and my cat are really really sick, please pray for us

Dear Tyler,

I will pray for you today.

Dear Heavenly Father, We come to You today in the name of Jesus and ask that You lift up Tyler's spirit and set him on a new plane of inner health. We ask that You mend his soul and spirit in every way and relieve him of this melancholy feeling. Bring joy to His heart as he reads your Word. Father, we ask these things of you for Tyler today and each day because he is suffering and needs your mercy and power to rise up out of this emotional downturn. Amen.

Thank you Mr. or Mrs. GiGi for your kind words.

For the record, I am a Mrs. Thanks to all who have prayed for me. God is Good and is aiding me in this time of illness. The last four days have been much improved from the precious week. So, I am on the mend from this respiratory infection. Nebulizer treatments have been extra helpful and the medications are working to reduce the inflammation in my lungs and fight the bacteria that settled in my lungs. Still very fatigued, but my breathing is much improved and I don't feel as compromised as last week. Mostly just coughing a lot now.

Praise the Lord for his healing work and the prayers of all here. I have been blessed.

Thank you for asking.

The wicked will not live out half their life according to Psalm 55:23 (loosely translated). The implied destruction here in this verse is well kproven in the article from the Washington Post March 31, 2015. Here there was Gospel music and a few other types at the high life expenctancy in the70's all the way down to punk and rap which was at best 30 years old as to the length of men and women (although the article was titled "Why a Musician's Life Expectancy Depends on What Type of Music SHE plays". Another article of similar charts was somewhere else (probably a magazine) at the time which also showed classical music on this same type of line chart at the high end.

It is of course debatable as to the exact cause (we all know it is sin). The lifestyles are mentioned; but the demonic language; rhythms; and harmonies that blaspheme God are not given insight.

Something like music once was generally looked upon as an art; and much classical music was written by Christians; especially J.S. Bach. There were of course romances and drama in Opera that sometimes invoked the pagan gods that were usually told for entertainment reasons. There are rumors that Paginini sold his soul to the devil; and we can certainly look at Hitler's fascination with Wagner and his the composer's anti semitic traits as a negative thing. Nonetheless; just looking at the effect of classical music and rap or heavy metal or rock on the mind and we see the former bringing patterns that some say resemble DNA (in the case of Bach there are numerous articles on the subject); whereas the latter music causes dissociation; schizophrenic behavior and other manifestations (as seen with the LSD trips in the 60s).

This particular subject of course could be examined in regard to broader scopes of sins which on their own may be "neutral".

If we prioritize God then He gives us the desire of our hearts ( Psalm 37:4). If we live for ourselves first; then we are following the error of James 4:3.

Alex1939...Gbu for asking such a question...Yes the good fruit is by his seed his words etc...And Jesus said the good seed are the Children of the Kingdom...The Woman and her Child in Rev 12:10 is the best example of what the good fruit is...Which is a baby Christ the H.G. simply b/c the sower of that incorruptible seed is Jesus the bridegroom...Thats y he has to know us ..That we might birth a Baby Christ...Thats y he is saying that which is born of the spirit is spirit...which is the H.G the gift of God...Behold me and the Children the lord has given me...John we need a new heart and a new spirit a New innerman...Which is that Child of Promise the H.G....But all this was hid from the wise and prudent and only revealed unto babes...The manchild the H.G...That good fruit... Romans 7 :4 Tells us we need to be married to Christ and bring forth fruit unto God...She brought forth a manchild that is gonna rule all nations...That Spirit of truth that has to be born in us the H.G. The only gift of God.

.....27 times in the O.T. The prophets saw the world in travail and birth pains...And in the N.T....The whole creation moans for the manifestation of the Sons of God...I will pour out of my spirit on all flesh..A lil one is gona become a1000 and a small one a strong Nation....I the Lord will hasten it in its time...These are the Children of PROMISE the H.G. That are gonna be born in us..via his Seed the words of that Book in the fathers right hand...That New COVENANT IN HIS BLOOD...Plz note the Kingdom does not come till the woman births the Children of Promise...But the Tare the dragon Satans seed wants to kill the woman and her Children...That Israel of God ( which are spirits Christ seed ) That great Promise was that Christ wd be multiplied as the stars of heaven..Thus an Israel of God...Which is our new heart and new spirit...The GOOD FRUIT...Is the son of man..The H.G.

Whosoever receiveth one such child in my name receiveth me..Jesus set a child in their midst.

Hey Patrick42

My understanding is the arm of the LORD revealed was for Israel and Jesus came for the lost sheep of Israel Matt. 15:24 and fulfill the law and the prophets, Matt. 26:54.

John 12:37-41 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: 38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed 39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, 40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. 41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

Also, there is Matthew 8:14-17 Luke 22:35-38 Acts 8:26-35 Romans 10:11-21.

God bless,

RLW