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  • Alex1939 - In Reply - 2 years ago
    alex1939...Gerald Gbu But we have to keep in mind that the Kingdom does NOT come till the woman births the manchild...Rev.12:10...Its the Kingdom we are all hoping for...Remember Jesus said the Kingdom of God will come as a man who sows seed in his field...And our hearts is that field where the good seed is sown...Thats y he is saying unless you receive the Kingdom of God as a lil Child you will in no wise enter there in...( A spiritual pregnancy ) via his seed the word...The woman in Rev 12 had to go thru a spritual pregnancy...By hearing his word his seeds as he said the good seed is the words of God...The book that he wrote with his own blood contains the living words of God and is that New Covenant in his blood...Drink ye all of it...Remember when he took the cup and said drink ye all of it this is the New testament in my blood...( the new covenant. )

    .....And we have to keep in mind that the manchild fits the spirit of truth that is gonna rule all nations....Goes back to Jeremiah 1 when Jeremiah said he cd not speak he was just a Child...Jesus said the spirit of truth cd not speak of himself....Thats b/c he is gonna be born in Humanity...He is just an infant...A Spiritual infant...She brought forth a manchild a kingdom Child...As Jesus said that which is born of the spirit is spirit...Our new innerman has to be born in us via the seed of Jesus...As his seed/word triggers a spiritual pregnancy Which is Faith the substance of a baby Christ the Kingdom ...That New Born Babe desiring the sincere milk of the word is the H.G. and is that Child of Promise, the H.G. The Kingdom...Unless you receive the Kingdom as a lil Child you will in no wise enter there in...Remember even back in the O.T. only the babes cd enter the promise land... Numbers 14:31..That woman in Rev. 12 is a beautiful picture of the Church birthing Christ...The son of man...mankinds fruit unto God...Keep in mind Gerald this analogy fits the New Birth via his blood..The New Covenant..An Israel of God.k
  • David Allen - 2 years ago
    please remember me and my family today in your prayers please pray my son in law get a job
  • Arnfinnius - 2 years ago
    Oh our Father in heaven, I am a sinner, I have been angry and caused hellish fire, if needed, so no one shall suffer more from it, let me drink the fire I have caused ten times, but let me remember Your name and the teaching of your Son, Jesus Christ, and let Him have mercy with me so I do not fall in total despair. AMEN
  • Gerald - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Faith has no real substance at all if it is not resting in God.

    All men have faith but not all men have their faith in God .

    It is often said in the UK that people are losing faith in their politicians .

    For decades the vast majority of the electorate has blindly voted for a party and elected someone they have never seen,heard met or had a decent conversation with . Thus have no idea what sort of people they have elected to represent them ..

    That is more a vain hope than faith .

    Real transparency is knowing with some degree of certainty what principles ( if any) rule and govern a candidates life .

    A man who cannot keep his oath to his wife is unlikely to keep his oath to those who elected him .

    A politician who cannot judge on such a simple matter as to what is a man or what is a woman will find it increasingly difficult to judge aright on the more graver issues facing a nation.

    People have but a vain hope they will do otherwise .

    The whole sorry mess this world is in is primarily due to not believing God in the first place as to what was good and what was in effect evil to eat .

    For man shall not LIVE by bread alone but by every Word that proceedeth from the mouth of God .

    Did not God say to Adam " of all the trees in the garden you may freely eat. This included the tree of life .

    But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat for in the day you eat of it ye shall surely die"

    Thus God gave him ,HIS knowledge of what was good and what was evil and by that word they lived .

    Unbelief is not just no believing God its believing another message .

    In doing so " she SAW that the tree was good to eat " and reasoned thus " it would make her wise "

    When you don't believe the truth you will believe the lie and once you believe the lie you become blind to the truth .

    But thanks be unto God mJesus came " to restore sight to the blind".

    God was right and true in the beginning ( as He is now)and for ever shall be .

    Amen
  • Gerald - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Continued :

    Now faith is the substance of things hoped for ..

    A farmer sows in hope because of the promise that is in the seed .

    Unless he sows in faith he will not get a harvest but believing in the promise he sows .

    And gives substance to his hope . Faith without works is dead .

    Real faith is not blind but sees that which is as it were afar off and being convinced of it acts accordingly .

    "It is the evidence of things as yet unseen .."

    When no one is at the bust stop you nearly always think you have missed the bus . But if someone is there you have hope .

    By you standing at the bust stop not only do you give substance to yiur hope ( in the promise) but you are the evidence of things as yet unseen .The bus!

    And in due time your faith is rewarded and you get on the bus or you have a harvest or you get your flight .

    The bus company says you must stand at a particular bus stop . If you think the bus will stop for you anywhere else you will be disappointed . The airline states the time of departure if you think it will wait for you ,you will be disappointed .

    The farmer knows he has not only to sow that seed but that there is a time for sowing .

    Faith has rules! Wether you faith is in God or something else .

    It is not something you have to get you already have faith and use it every day . Faith in God works by the same principles as to what faith IS . It is not a different faith it's simply put in its right place .Or rather in the right person .

    Faith can grow and a new born child of God has a measure of faith in God .

    There is " little faith " there is "great faith " there is faith as "small as a mustard seed "

    Peter had little faith despite the fact that he had just walked on water .

    The only two people who the Lord said had " great faith" were interestingly ; gentiles .

    Abraham " the father of the faithful" had faith but it had also to grow .

    He was only partial in his obedience to God at the beginning . So also are we .

    To be continued
  • Gerald - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Beg to differ.For given much misunderstanding of what faith is on the one hand and none sense on the other by the world not only do we need a biblical definition of faith and thus a proper understanding of it but also need to recognise what is faith and what is not .

    Now faith is

    It should first be understood by the scriptures that " God has given every man a measure of (true )faith to profit with all "

    Everyone has a measure faith and uses it everyday Wether saved or not . The difference between a true born child of God and the lost is that a child of God's faith is in God or should be and the unsaved faith is in the world .

    Now faith is . Faith can only be exercised in the now the present . Not the past or future .

    "The substance of things hoped for " Real faith is not blind it has to be founded or rest upon spiritual reality .

    What is called today " world faiths" is nothing of the kind . All of them are but vain and empty hopes that the scriptures says " will die with them" for when a man steps from time into eternity you are faced with that eternal spiritual reality of God and you religious ' hope' will die in the light of it . The only sure and certain hope is having your faith in Jesus Christ .

    The substance of things hoped for .The Word of God ,the promises of God . For faith in God comes not only by hearing the Word of God but by also understanding of it .

    Being convinced of and by the Word of God you act or obey in accordance with what you are convinced of irrespective of prevailing conditions . Thus you give substance to your hope in the Word of God .

    The word or promise of a London bus company or an airline are well known and understood . You can believe it till the day you die but if you do not act in faith on what you believe and obey the instructions you will never fly or catch the bus .

    Going and standing at the bus stop gives substance to yiur hope . Going to the airport likewise .

    to be continued .
  • Christina - 2 years ago
    spiritual warfare
  • GiGi - In Reply - 2 years ago
    No problem, Jesse.

    I spoke up primarily that there are many who truly hold to the "kenotic" theory that Jesus did divest Himself of some of His divinity in the incarnation resulting in Him possessing less of the divine nature. This would mean that He was not fully God and that as God, He changed in His nature as to the degree of divinity He then possessed. This is a theory that does not align with sound doctrine about God's nature.

    I did not necessarily think that you hold to this theory, but I wanted to make sure to clarify to one another and to others reading this important doctrine concerning what Philippians 4 is really talking about concerning God the Son "emptying" Himself to become a man.

    Have a good night. Time for ed for me.
  • GiGi - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Spot on Chris.

    I, too, was thinking of His servanthood in ever way necessary as primary aspect of Him humbling Himself.
  • Jesse - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Gerald,

    Hebrews 1:1 is a description of faith, not a definition of faith. The only definition is found in the meaning of the word itself.



    In the Greek text, ( Hebrews 1:1), this is a description of what faith does. The description of faith is two things: The substance, or basis of things hoped for, and the evidence, more literally conviction, of things not seen.



    Now if I take this description of what faith does, and its definition of persuasion, that faith is the basis of things hoped for, why do I have hope for the coming of Christ?



    Why do I have a living hope that one day when I die, I'm going to go to heaven? Either it's something that I am persuading myself to believe, which means there's a possibility that someday someone will persuade me not to believe.



    Or, my hope is based upon, which the next phrase says, the conviction of things not seen. It's a conviction. That's a persuasion! It's not a definition, but describes what faith does.



    There are times when we as human beings doubt what the bible says. Have you ever had those moments when you look over at the bible and you think "It's just a book?"



    I mean you open it up and it has ink words in it. It didn't fall down from heaven, somebody printed it. How do I know that it's not just our western culture religious book? Other religions have their book, so what's the big deal?



    But I can't get away from it. It's a conviction. I can stand before you right now and make the announcement that I am denouncing the Lord and His word, and I'm finished.



    But I will never be able to get away from Him, never! I have never been able to get away from it, and I can't now! My beliefs are based on the conviction of God's Spirit that lives in me. That's faith. It's not my faith. My human faith waivers.



    But when I look down deep, there's something there that is a stabilizing force that is the basis of things hoped for, and the conviction of things not seen, spiritual things, spiritual truth.
  • BSanders84 - In Reply - 2 years ago
    You are in my thoughts and prayers!!!
  • BSanders84 - 2 years ago
    I have a special prayer request that God helps out in the situation I'm in. I'm not handling it the way I should and I realize that I can't buy myself. I need his help. I really need a spiritual uplifting and God to see me through everything that I'm faced with from here on out. I surrender! I cannot do this alone. God I need you now more than ever. I pray for the people around me and everyone that I come in contact with. I only wanna see people through God's eyes and not my own! I ask for this prayer request in Jesus'name. Amen!
  • Jesse - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Gerald,

    I'm happy to answer your questions on these scriptures.

    Galatians 5:16 starts off by saying, "This I say then, Walk in the Spirit." That's a Present Tense Imperative. What it is saying is "Be (continually) walking under the influence of God's Spirit." That's actually a command. In Ephesians 5:18, Paul says be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit. The word filled means influenced. Seek to be influenced by the Spirit. Paul focuses on the influences in our life, the persuasions and the various things that influence us and take us captive.

    Romans 6:12, "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body." That's easier said than done. But again, it's the sin. Let not the (sin principle) reign in your mortal body. How can he say that? It's because he is leading us into the fact that when we get to Verse 14, where it says that sin shall not lord it over you, that is a factual statement, (not should not, but it cannot). If I sin, it is because I made the choice. But once I'm saved, it's the power of God's Spirit in me that gives me the power over sin.

    Lastly, 1 John 3:6, "Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him."

    It sounds like a Christian does not sin according to scriptures. But here's what it's saying: The word abides is a Present Participle, (abiding). Whoever is abiding in Him "is" (Present Tense), not sinning, (continuously as a habit of life). It's not talking about committing an act of sin. It's talking about committing sin continuously, a lifestyle of not surrendering to Christ.

    It's a condition. Whoever is continuously remaining (Abiding/MENO) in Him, does not practice sin, ever!

    As someone who has been born of the Spirit of God, I can never go back and live the old lifestyle I lived before I received Christ. It's impossible!

    The contrast: "Whoever sins, and again that's a Participle. Whoever is (continuously sinning) has not seen Him, neither have they known Him.
  • Karla - In Reply - 2 years ago
    I pray that the blood of Jesus covers your veins, arteries, and heart with complete healing of hypertension, or at least that he provides steady management of it. I am also having cardiac problems, specifically heart palpitations. Please pray for me as well.
  • Jesse - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Brother Chris,

    Very well said, Amen and thank you!
  • Chris - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Thank you brother Jesse for sharing those comments & particularly this passage which is so precious to me ( Philippians 2:5-8).

    The point of Paul's teaching here is Jesus' Servanthood. His Coming in the flesh was purely as a Servant & a Sacrifice, for how could God ever present His Glory, Divinity & eternal Nature to secure man's redemption, unless He first condescended to man's finite, lowly estate. Thus that glorious Nature was hid from the world (though in time, some realized that He was no ordinary Man) and then coming to full realization of this Truth with great joy & power, as God's Spirit made the full Person of the Godhead clear to them.

    How would Jesus' Life, Ministry, & Sacrifice worked out if His Divinity wasn't veiled from the people, & of course Him not taking on human flesh? To the pagans, they might have easily exclaimed, "the gods have come down to us in the likeness of men", but to the Jews, Jesus would never be given any platform or voice as it would be preposterous that God would come to Earth. But as a Man, not only to be able to give up His Life, but to show to His people that indeed God had appeared to them by Word & demonstration of His Power, Jesus was in every way a Man, but came veiled so that they could see Him for Who God wanted them to see. The clear-thinking, clear-seeing Jew would have seen a truly holy Man, serving others in every way by word & deed, and that God was with Him & speaking to them. "A prophet?" Maybe, "more than a prophet", to some.

    Had Jesus held onto His Glory & Position, He could never take on the "form of a servant", for these positions oppose each other. Jesus knew that he could not 'grasp/tenaciously hold onto' (= "robbery") His Glory & Position & then identify with His people in their sufferings, grip in sin & ignorance, and their need for salvation & new life in Christ. So it seems, Jesus chose the path of Servant-hood, that which was necessary; a display of pomp & power would surely negate God's Plan.
  • Karla - 2 years ago
    I continue to pray for those of you that submit prayer requests here, and now I humbly ask if you would keep me in your prayers as well.

    The good Lord knows I have been struggling for months with severe anxiety, heart palpitations, and other symptoms, due to the discontinuation of a medication I had been taking for many years. I have decided to start taking my medication again and am asking our Almighty Father for complete elimination of symptoms, relapse reversal, and for peace, healing, and comfort to return to my mind, body, and spirit. He is the Great Physician, and I must accept that the tools he has made available to me are for my benefit. I ask for these things in the precious name of Jesus Christ, amen.
  • PM - 2 years ago
    Please pray for me, i have been experiencing some health issues for the past year. I continue to trust God that he is doing something great in my life. I will continue to trust God for complete healing and deliverance.
  • Chris - In Reply on John 8 - 2 years ago
    Hi Deniyzce. God is wholly a Spirit Being ( John 4:24), hence He, or any of those in spirit form are color-less. Likewise, we too might have color because of skin pigmentation, but our spirits know no color.
  • Mitch - 2 years ago
    I'm believing God for a significant financial blessing that I have not received yet. I am in a place where I am in need of a breakthrough in my finances. I have been very depressed and anxious about this for a number of months and really don't know what else to do. I would ask you to petition God on my behalf that He would move on my situation and bless me financially. Thank you.
  • Jesse - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Hello GiGi,

    No worries. When I read what you sent me, I was thinking oh no, I gave the wrong impression on who I believe Christ is. I believe we're on the same page.

    And my apologies for not responding to you by name. I'm not sure why I did that. Probably because I was still working on my first cup of coffee.
  • Gerald - In Reply on John 14 - 2 years ago
    Given the medium and the time misunderstandings can occur . My apologies then.

    The number of questions I have raised should not be taken as being troubled by any question the Bible may throw up . But rather they were put to provoke thought not needlessly stir up dust or in anyway undermine peoples faith in the Bible .

    But rather to show that many long held thinking and concepts do not hold up in the light of scripture .

    Sound doctrine always does .

    But you know the seed that fell by the way side in the parable of the sower?

    I think that is a well trodden path of our own thinking or passed down and accepted without scrutiny .

    So well an habitual way of thinking that no seed can last and the fowls of the fair simply take it away and produces no fruit .

    Nothing wrong with the seed " but by our traditions we make the Word of God of none effect "

    The world is going crazy and millions are chained to the chariot of the devil and are on their way to hell.

    I fear the church is too busy ' celebrating' to notice .

    When in truth such good news should be bursting at the seems of the church .

    Just as all the angels of heaven being a very disciplined lot held their peace while the message was given but once given heaven could no longer restrain itself and burst its banks in giving glory to God for having fulfilled His promise to mankind in the garden of Eden .
  • Gerald - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Given that there is no male or female IN Christ . How then does our spiritual nature be both man and woman?
  • Richard H Priday on Psalms 55 - 2 years ago
    Psalm 55. An impreccatory Psalm; not mincing words about destruction and hell for the wicked. This Psalm also has prophetic implications as well.

    The first five verses show at the very least an anticipation of death; verse 4 discusses the "heart is sore pained within me."...The description of this could be David himself but also as with many other passages in Psalms could also be describing Messiah's sufferings.

    Verses 6 through 8 reflect the desire to escape such as was stated by other Prophets and by David himself in 1 Samuel 27:1.

    Verses 9 through 11 also discuss a general observation of Jerusalem; which was particularly true before God's judgments such as with the Babylonians; although it could apply to other times as well.

    Verses 12 through 15 describe a prophecy of Judas Iscariot and betrayal; although conceivably it could describe a friend of David's as well. ( Matt. 26:21 and 30 other verses discuss this in the N.T.)

    Verses 16 through 18 talk of the importance of prayer and deliverance. Verse 19 and 23 talk again of the destruction of the wicked. Verse 22 just beforehand gives the opposite promise that He will "never suffer the righteous to be moved."

    Verses 20 and 21 could very well signify the Antichrist himself with the 1st Seal behavior also mentioned in Daniel 9:27. It is not evident that this had any relation with a direct experience David was having.
  • Deniyzce on John 8 - 2 years ago
    what color is God
  • Ian on Matthew 1 - 2 years ago
    I will try my best to have a good relationship with the most high
  • Sammi - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Thanks , you too .
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Amen Sammi.

    Welcome to the site and if at all possible find you a bible teaching church along with what you have here.

    May the Lord bless you on your journey.
  • Brittany Green on Revelation 12 - 2 years ago
    It's Israel, because the twelve stars represent 12 tribes. See Genesis 12:9: "And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.". The church does not have 12 stars, but SEVEN: "The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches." ( Revelation 1:20). And as for Mary, she does not represent all twelve stars, save in the fact that she's an Israelite.
  • Alex1939 - In Reply - 2 years ago
    alex1939...Amen Gerald Hebrews 11:1 is the best description of faith, Its simply a spritual pregnancy that precedes the New Birth...The Child is the H.G. THE Child of Promise...When a woman is pregnant she has the substance of things hoped for the Evidence of things not seen...But in the spritual realm the bridegroom is Jesus and his words are his seeds...Thats y he has to know us, Thats when the good seed the living word is sown in our hearts...Forming Christ in us...My lil Chidren of whom i travail in Birth till CHRIST IS FORMED IN YOU...Thats y he always refers to himself as the son of man...Impling mankinds fruit unto God as Romans 7:4 tells us...Thus the Wheat is truly a baby Christ...Simply b/c the sower of that heavenly seed is Christ the bridegroom...Our hearts is the womb in the spirit...Thats y he is saying that which is born of the spirit is spirit thus the Child IS OUR NEW INNERMAN the H.G. the multiplication/regeneration of Christ in us..The Child is the Evidence we have known the bridegroom.

    .....But this is gonna initiate war in heaven...Its gonna be Kingdom against Kingdom...Simply b/c satan is gonna sow a tare in

    us which is satans seed...Remember satan the dragon the tare wanted to kill the woman with Child Rev 12:5 a great warfare with in us...This war rages in our hearts and minds simply b/c the Kingdom is gonna be with in us...The woman is the world as God so loved the world but she is also bride the good ground where the good seed was sown impregnating her with that heavenly seed...The Children of Promise an Israel of God...But these things are hid from the wise and prudent and revealed unto babes...Thats y Jeremiah saw all men in travail and birth pains... Jeremiah 30:6...Men & women are gonna birth a baby Christ...Kings shall be your nursing father and women are gonna be your nursing mothers..Faith under this New Covenant is gonna fulfill the great promise of multiplication n regeneration in humanity....ok lemme go


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