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Hello, Warren, I will pray for this young man today.

Heavenly Father, we come to You in the name of Your Son, Jesus, to lay before You the need of this young man's need for a new heart. Although we realize that another person needs to die in order for him to receive a heart transplant, we ask that both the donor and this young man be of the faith in Your Son, Jesus, so that neither will be lost to perdition. We ask that You make this young man stronger and healthy to receive this new heart or even better that You will miraculously repair his damaged heart so that a transplant will not be necessary. Increase this young man's faith in You and help Him to trust in You no matter what the outcome is for him. We ask that You give him a long life filled with faith, hope, and health. Amen.

Dear Joanna, I will pray for Mauricio today.

Heavenly Father, today we come to You in the name of Your Son, Jesus, to ask that You intervene in Mauricio's life and marriage, delivering him from sinful anger that causes strife, fear, and harm to himself and those he loves. Protect his wife and family from the effects of Mauricio's anger manifestations and open Mauricio's heart to hear what his Mom, wife, and friends tell him about this anger problem. Give him true repentance and create a change of heart in Mauricio so that he can overcome this sinful anger by laying it at the feet of Jesus asking for forgiveness and help. Give Mauricio the will, skills, and love to bend to the working of Your Holy Spirit within him. We thank you that Mauricio is your saved child and trust that You are already at work in his life concerning this. Amen.

Mark,

Jesus said, lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. How much emphasis do we put on working hard and laying up for ourselves, for our retirement, and for everything here on the earth, and we bypass the spiritual things of God? We can go through serious financial struggles and cry out to God, but do we realize that God will do that at times when our dependency is on the world's means? It does not say it is wrong to have things. But if our dependency is on them, then we have a problem!

Matthew 6:21 says, "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." The Jews used to have a phrase, "Wherever you are at all times is where you treasure is, and that is where your heart is going to be."

Dear Mark,

Paul speaks in 1 Corinthians 13:13 that there are three things that remain (abide) (continue forever): faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. So I think this is a good start to laying up our treasure in heaven. Pray for God to grow these in your life. Above all this, those who believe in Jesus receive the treasure of eternal life in heaven. Jesus said that this is eternal life, that they (believers) may know God (the Father) and Jesus, His Son. John 17:3.

Also, participating with the Holy Spirit to share the Gospel and bring others into Jesus' eternal kingdom by faith is laying up the treasure of people redeemed by Him through your testimony and example of faith.

Dear Priya,

Thank you for bringing up Azmatara for prayer today. I will pray for her.

Dear Heavenly Father, Azmatara is seeking a husband. We as You today in the name of Your Son, Jesus to reveal to Azmatara that Jesus is both her Savior and eternal husband should she come to Him in faith. Please bring her and her family to true faith in You, the true God. Satisfy her need with Your gift of salvation and reconciliation with You as well as coming to know You as the Father, Jesus, Your Son, and the Holy Spirit who comes to dwell in each believer. There is no one who can be as intimate with a person as You, LORD God. Draw Azmatara to You.

Father, prepare both Azmatara and the man who will become her husband for marriage so that when they meet and grow in love for one another, they will share a faith in and love for You through Your Son, Jesus. Bring this about in the way You will it to be. We ask this in the name of Your Son, Jesus. Amen.

Michael, thank you for the prayers and I am going to find a church home. I am a saved devout Christian and take the word of God very seriously.

Thank you so much.

With peace and love

Brenda J Cottman

Hi Sir/Madam,

I am reaching out on behalf of my friend's sister, Azmatara(name), who is 36 years old and is still unmarried. The family is trying so hard to find a groom from her Muslim community. However, nothing is working out for her. Could you please pray so that God blesses her to get married soon and have a lovely relationship with her soulmate?

We really need the blessing for her as she is getting depressed seeing her friends and siblings being married.

Regards,

Priya S

Matthew 6:19. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Matthew 6: 20. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Please help me... What means can I lay up for myself treasures in heaven?

Thank you.

I have a prayer petition for my son Mauricio he is a believer but has anger issues. He is married and it is greatly affecting his marriage. Thank you so much.

Yes, FREE

We stand together and offer our prayers for one another either by writing it out for the one requesting prayer to know that someone has lifted their request up to God or quietly in our own space with God as our witness. Both are important, and we seek God's intervention and continuing benevolence to us in our times of need.

Please pray for on of my kids in my youthgroup he is getting ready to have a heart transplant he is very sick only 16 years old.

People need to read the Holy Bible

Proverbs10:11. How truthful The mouth of a righteous man can be used in uplifting, edifying bringing peace to others all he wants to talk is about God's love and what God has done for him

Psalms 136: God's mercy is truly why we are all saved. What I do see in this Psalm is a back and forth between the speaker and the congregation. The speaker gives the statement, the congregation gives back "His mercy endureth forever". Beautiful and pleasant, a reminder of what Israel has gone through.

Hi Carl. There was a leper in Syria, a captain of the King's army, who was healed of his leprosy by God through the prophet Elisha. You can read about it in 2 Kings chapter 5. Don't know if this story comes close to what you're looking for.

Psalms 139, Deuteronomy 4:30-40,

Words of Jesus : John 10:15,16, Matthew 15:24, Matthew 18:10-14, John 3:16, Romans 8,

Matthew 3:2, Matthew 4:17, Mark 1:15, Acts 2:38, Acts 3:19,

Hopefully these are helpful

The Transfiguration on the 7 th day was Christ presenting the Church ( his Raiment ) without spot of wrinkle to God.. Matthew 17: 1-13...I was naked and you clothe me....We are his Raiment.....He was presenting to God a Glorious Church without spot or wrinkle... when they saw him on the mount....Tho your sins be as scarlet that shall be white as Snow....They saw his Raiment white as Snow....We are his Raiment....Abide in me and i in you....There is no fuller on earth that can whiten us like his blood....His raiment was white as Snow thats us sinners...His face shown as the Sun....The sun shines on every body....He makes his Sun to shine on the good and the bad...If i be lifted up I will draw all men unto me....Nobody can escape the light of the world....The sun/Son Christ Jesus THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

......When he was on the Cross shedding his blood for humanity....He was PRESENTING up to God a Glorious Church without spot or wrinkle US SINNERS ...The New Covenant IN HIS BLOOD....Tell the vision to no man till the son of man is risen again...( when the book is opened )

1Corinthians 7:15, please read all of chapter, 1Corinthians 7, Matthew 19, Revelation 14:4,5,

Hopefully helpful

Michael, thank you for the prayers and I am going to find a church home. I am a saved devout Christian and take the word of God very seriously.

Thank you so much.

With peace and love

Brenda J Cottman

please pray for me and my family

Brian,

That's great you know how to "Link" straight to this website & the verse, I've been volunteering with the questions for multiple years & don't know how you guys do that. Isaiah 42:8,

If you look at the Link you've posted at the bottom of that page the words/short phrases are broken down, if you hover over [I am the LORD], it shows, the translation from (Yhovah) from the Strongs Exhaustive Concordance included in the website for study.

If you click on the words [ ] it gives much more information. Also including Brown-Driver-Briggs as "Yahweh"

Both from translation into English text as "Yhvh"

Strongs as a Transliteration.

Transliteration is a method used in phonics, sounds, similar from each of the languages, like sound in Hebrew was "Yhwh"

This is from the 1611 KJV, if you go to the 1611 KJV, tab, you can even read the pages of the photocopied pages on the right side of page.

I hope you find this useful as you study

Do you have a translation that clearly defines the differences in Names of GOD? I haven't seen or heard of one.That's why I study along with translation help like Strongs Exhaustive Concordance & other translations. I'm thankful this website recently included these tools.

Not bad, it's Referring to the smitings of God on the enemies of Israel,,, Israel meaning Christ, the enemies of Christ, The Chief Singer

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Does Satan have the authority to take away life? I believe that only God gives & takes away life. In Satan's domain (i.e. outside the Church to which a sinning believer might be sent), pain & destruction may well be the physical demise of the believer, to the end that his "spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus".

Re: "untimely death". I mean that a life was shortened because of God's action against sin. We see this in many instances in the OT & NT, & especially that we have already mentioned Ananias & Sapphira ( Acts 5); 1 Corinthians 11:27-30; Acts 12:21-23.

Re: Hebrews 10:26,27 & we can add, Hebrews 6:4-6 as well; these verses have been discussed previously by bro Jesse & myself & too long to deal with here.

Re: Acts 21:20. All I can see from this limited detail, is that the Church (the Jewish component), hadn't properly dealt with the separation of the Law & the liberty they ought to have enjoyed in Christ. Much like today, when those coming out of other religions or cults, might take a long time to understand & resolve matters that have been indoctrinated deep into their minds. The fact that the Jerusalem council seemed to understand & accept this matter didn't warrant them to address it. However, Paul always did & was taken to task for doing so.

I hope I've addressed the points you raised, brother. I know we will see these things differently, but I hope you can also see how I understand it: the Lord knows His children & they have been brought into His family by His indwelling Spirit. Does God make an error in doing so? Or, are His children secure in Him & when they err, His correction done in love, will always bring us back into fellowship. If it doesn't do so, then, speaking personally, I would have to question my salvation, that it was merely a mental or emotional assent given, without a true change in heart & spirit. And that's the only way I can understand some of these difficult, apparently contentious, Scriptures. Every blessing.

Please read Matthew 25:31-46, Matthew 7, Matthew 13,

Act 2:41,42, Acts 4:4,

Hopefully these are helpful in your study

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b. I note your understanding of the two Greek words in question, that there is no significant difference between them. But why I earlier suggested that "fail" indicates 'falling short', is because of the earlier verses 5-11, indicating that believers who err, must be recipients of God's Chastisement - if not, those believers are imposters (illegitimate). So why then do we read verses 12-15, speaking about their learning from God's Discipline, to follow peace with all men, & holiness of life, and having careful introspection (episkopeo)? That they might not 'fail' (fall short) of God's Grace. If we apply 'failing God's Grace' to 'loss of salvation', then God's Discipline seems unnecessary, as that would provide no correction to bring one back to holy living. But to the true believer, God's Discipline must bring about the desired results, because if it didn't, then we would be illegitimate, even as Esau relinquished his birthright & was rejected.

c. Re: the prodigal son parable. I think that the point of the story was that a son wanted to go out on his own, fell into hard times, came to his senses, & was joyfully received back by his father. I don't see any reference here to "God's punishment to cause a change of course & come back". It is as you say, 'the son's decision' to return & he was welcomed home, just as a wayward believer would, returning back setting his eyes only on God. No chastisement or punishment here, as this parable wasn't suggesting that. But we do read of God's disciplining in Hebrews 12. How that takes place can be different to each one of us: whether the gentle urging of the Holy Spirit, a stern message from the pulpit, sickness, even death (as was for Ananias & Sapphira). The point is, that a believer will receive the Word from the Lord in some way & will be corrected. Why? Because he is a blood-bought child of a loving God, even as a loving earthly father would never reject his child but first offer correction & restoration.

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Thank you bro Giannis for your lengthy reply - & I trust you had a profitable time away. I'll try to deal with the points you raised.

a. Agreed, Galatians is written to believers & in Galatians 5:1, we read of Paul's urgent warning to stand fast in the liberty given by Christ & not be swayed by others to become entangled into legalistic bondage (the Law/circumcision). And so Paul lays out the Truth to these who may be considering/drifting towards this false teaching: 'if your justification comes by obedience to the Law, then God's Grace (salvation) would no longer be yours.' I see this as a warning towards a principal: 'Law & Grace don't mix, so stand fast in Christ's liberty.' Hopefully, those erring Galatians would heed Paul's teaching rather than the false ones, & hold onto the Truth.

But your question would be, 'what about those who don't heed it, won't they fall from God's Grace?' I agree that they would, but did anyone from their midst, come to this sad state of losing their salvation? Or was it simply Paul's warning to the Church about this false doctrine, that righteousness doesn't come by obedience to the Law, therefore don't be fooled by this teaching. And to add, Paul says in verse 10, "I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be." I guess, it depends how one wants to view this passage in Galatians: as a warning against false teachers or as a teaching that salvation can be lost.

Peter comes again to Capernium with Christ. Peter see's the tax collecters waiting for Him, Jesus goes ahead into the house. Why they would ask Peter for the tribute money and not Christ, poses a question. Why, would they seek the money from Peter, and not ask Christ himself?

Surely they knew Christ had nothing, only the tatered clothing on His back! No place to stay, homeless! Yet,

Peter a fisherman, could not have been doing very well either, since He nad not worked in awhile following Christ in His ministry.

Taxes can become an overwhelming affair, for anyone who has not worked , living and working with Christ the king!

Peter comes into the house, by now overwhelmed with idea how he is going to pay!

Jesus could have sent Peter anywhere to retrieve this mony! Instead He sends Him to the place of His employment! The sea!

Imagine Jesus sending you a fisherman with one hook! Telling you the first fish you catch, open its mouth too discover the coin that would pay this money!

Peter goes with the words of Christ, as He goes pondering Jesus word of freedom of those who are the children of the king. With the they serve. No longer strangers, but now children in the kingdom of freedom!

Freedom in light of the King we serve, experiancing the miracles of God! This experiance while gone, we wait to see the expresion on Peter's face as He flips the coin too them!

Serving the creator, is serving the King. If you are serving the KIng, then you are indeed free!

Repent and be Baptised

No sorry no sense God not confuse me you do sorry .

Simples because God told them to .

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the one leper who came back to give thanks and praise:

11-19 A sense of our spiritual leprosy should make us very humble whenever we draw near to Christ. It is enough to refer ourselves to the compassions of Christ, for they fail not. We may look for God to meet us with mercy, when we are found in the way of obedience. Only one of those who were healed returned to give thanks. It becomes us, like him, to be very humble in thanksgivings, as well as in prayers. Christ noticed the one who thus distinguished himself, he was a Samaritan. The others only got the outward cure, he alone got the spiritual blessing.

[mishael]. I didn't see a Kings house in this passage, in Luke.