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Thank you for your reply. It says in 1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind. I know God/Jesus wants fellowship with us, Christians struggle & God works all things for good. When you say that you feel God in my spirit, Is it like a voice coming from within your chest ? I experienced that once, but when I told my pastor & he told me to just ignore it & now I feel like I'm going crazy. I know God knows our heart & if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins & cleanse us from all unrighteousness, but Psalms 66:18 says - If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear [me] and Isaiah 59:2 says - But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear. I am struggling with unforgiveness, so I don't think that God hears me. The church I go to all read the KJV Bible, but I don't always agree with the pastors interpretation of it & they don't believe that the spiritual gifts are for everyone & say that they were only for the disciples & that if we all have the gifts then we should all be able to walk on water & heal the sick. Mark 16.17-18 says - And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Nobody speaks in tongues at this church, but a lot did at my old church.
Thank you for your words of comfort & encouragement. P.s does anyone ever feel their body vibrating ? I've felt this a few times, but can't find a reasonable explanation for it. I feel like I'm on crazy pills sometimes.
God bless you & your family.
Kind Regards
Claire
- I would like prayers to find a job, restore my marriage, regain health and be a good Christian. Be blessed !
I am 72-years old and I can tell you from the word of God that none of us is good. That is why Jesus came. Please believe me when I say that God hears every pray you pray and the most important thing he wants with you is fellowship. How many people do you know have seen a burning bush? Maybe those who are looking up, should look down. I came from a family of 10 and a very Godly home. Even the best of Christians struggle with the same things. Just remember God may not answer your prayers immediately. He is working out what is best for you and all involved, but rest assured, he will answer your prayers. Sometimes I feel God in my spirit and sometimes I don't. That doesn't mean that he has forsaken me. I read from the KJV. You keep doing what you are doing. God knows your heart and we all sin, but God is faithful and just to forgive us if we confess the sin AND the sweetest thing is that he remembers it no more. If you are attending a church that does not preach TRUTH (by that I mean that it does not line up with the scriptures) RUN RUN RUN. They are a cult and you do not need to be there. I hope this helps you and I pray that God will open your heart and mind to his truth.
I've prayed for your daughter. I can't imagine what this feels like. It sounds like you have been praying faithfully for so long and tried to help doing everything you can think of. Ultimately it's her choice, however. No one else can save her, but Jesus, if she truly accepts and follows Him. She will then find peace, rest, purpose, and all these things will be added to her. Paul in the Bible had it rough, in prison, beaten, shipwrecked, he had a dark past, but he found the secret of being content in all situations through Christ. The external circumstances no longer were allowed to affect his internal joy. I pray this for your daughter to truly embrace and go 'all in' for Jesus. I believe this will break the bondage of addiction and so many other sins and problems that haunt people in this world. God bless you and your daughter.
Peace, love and light,
Aleta (Momma whose had a broken heart forever it seems)
No worries
Kind Regards
Claire
Thank you for your reply. I do see myself as a sinner & I do pray & ask God to forgive me daily for ALL my sins, yet I'm still waiting for my pastor to allow me to be baptised !!! I know that The Holy Spirit will not make me perfect until I go to Heaven, but will be with me until I die. I use to believe that I had to be a good person in order to get into Heaven too, but I know different now. I have already looked at the verses on how to be saved, death & salvation, deliverance & many more, but I will read the scriptures they you suggested in John & Romans also & let you know if you have any questions.
Thank you for all your help & encouragement.
God bless you & your family.
Kind Regards
Claire
My dad had an affair & left when I was about 9. Shortly after, I was having my photo taken with the creepy landlord at a xmas party & either accidently or on purpose touched the side of my bust which mortified me. I ran into the toilets crying & told my cousin & she told my dad's g/f. My dad's g/f told me to not tell my dad & spoil the party because my dad would beat him up & end up in prison. (This taught me to not trust people when bad things happened because they wouldn't believe me & I didn't matter.) I went on to be sexually, emotionally, physically & mentally abused in my teens & early 20's by a number of different people & never told anyone.
I moved in with my dad & his g/f when I was 11. My dad's g/f never made me feel welcome, only spoke to me when she had to or for show in front of my dad. I moved out when I was 16 because I had a row with his g/f because their daughter kept going in my room & ruining my things, but she never seemed to ruin any of theirs ? Anyway, I ended up swearing at his g/f & slammed the door in her face (not literally). Because my dad's g/f never makes me feel welcome, I now have a rocky relationship with my dad & only see him briefly on his b/day, father's day or xmas to give him his things & I also feel obliged to buy her xmas & b/day things to keep the peace. I try to take them when she's at work because she still makes me feel unwelcome. This has gone on for over 30 years, so unfortunately I can't just say how I feel because on the odd occasion when she triggers me with her degrading comments & I have spoke up, my dad takes her side & makes me feel like the bad guy, so I don't want to completely destroy my relationship with him by me dragging the last 30 odd years up with no witness to back me up & make myself look like a trouble maker. I want to forgive them & have asked God to forgive me & them, but I still feel hurt.
God bless you & your family
Kind Regards
Claire
God bless you & your fa
If you havn't the strength to pray do speak to God through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ by saying the Lords Prayer. OUR FATHER .... he knows your needs and what will be good for you. Keep saying it. It's in HIS plan for you. Remember he LOVES YOU.
May God Bless You David
Ruth
Hi again Chris,
Thank you for your continued support & advice. Yes, that was the verse I was referring to, So if we have to be born again first, then how would we know when we've born again ?
I have a couple of testimonies, but my younger pastor says that they are not sufficient for being baptised, So at this point I'm unsure what he wants from me.
1st testimony
I had depression & anxiety & it got to the point were I didn't want to wake up anymore. This night I woke up from a nightmare sobbing & asked God to give me peace & within a couple of mins I felt peace & contentment & was able to go back to sleep. (Praise God !!!)
2nd testimony
I was in a carpet shop with my mum for the 2nd time as we had been a few weeks earlier. Before we went in I said to my mum, I'm not going to mention the price that he gave me last time & see what price he says this time because I thought it was expensive last time, so tried another shop which was more expensive. Last time the carpet that I wanted was 10 per sq meter. The guy asked me if he had given me price last time & I said no. Then my mum turned round & said yes !!! (Did my mum honestly just say that & make me look & feel like a complete idiot !!!) I immediately felt condemned for lying & couldn't wait to get out of the shop, so that I could repent & ask for God's forgiveness, but I had to endure this shame for longer whilst he looked at the price & said this is not right. He said that he had made a mistake & that the carpet was 12 per sq meter. I just felt like he was just trying to take advantage me, so I said I'd let him know. I wasn't able to repent for a few hours later because my mum came back to mine for her tea as usual, but I finally repented & felt relieved. (Praise God !!!) I have just had my carpets fitted by another shop for 5 per sq meter, so I didn't have to go back to that other shop. (Praise God !!!) God is good !!!
God bless you & your family.
Kind Regards
Claire
-help reading your Word, daily
- divine wisdom from your Word
-healing, favor in marriage preparations,
- divine favor in family and business
- abundant prosperity
-shield me from satanic attacks
- angelic support
- the release of finances
Give me strength I need to stand against spiritual oppositions and to keep my eyes on you everyday.
Amen
I agree with you that God will oversee and undertake in the return of your health. Cast all your cares and concerns upon Jesus. I pray that your faith in Him to heal, will not be shaken. Start praising Him and give thanksgiving for your help. Many healing scriptures in Proverbs. Speak them out, so your eye gate, ear gate and mouth gate will help your faith be stronger.
Have faith in God. Praise Jesus for delivering you. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. When doubts attack you; bind the spirit of Infirmity and send it into outer darkness in Jesus's Name
Less tv and more Bible reading. ;)
Jesus loves you and so do I.
Holding resentments & grudges can be quite a stumbling block in a believers' life of victory. It can only be the Spirit's Work that will help you & heal you in this matter. Have your Dad's girlfriend & daughter hurt you in some way, or is it just their relationship that has brought your resenting them? If they have hurt you, the first step to healing is to let them know your pain & to clearly tell them that because of Christ's love in you, you forgive them for what they've done to you. Then bring the matter to the Lord & allow His Spirit to cleanse you & to work in you to truly forgive them & accept them. To play 'happy families' when you have anger in your heart is hypocrisy & detrimental to you & they too will see it. But if anger lingers in you, you cannot move forward spiritually as it will always be an impenetrable wall in your relationship with God.
All this takes time, even by being incommunicado with them for a while, till you accept them & see them as how God sees them: in love & mercy as to those who are without God's love & hope for eternal life. Remember that any unconfessed or harboured sin will always be an impediment in a believer's life; the Christian adage: "always keep short accounts with God" should be uppermost in our minds.
Hi again Claire. Thank you for reading that lengthy sermon - it was heavy going. I had to re-read it quickly to find the portion I think you're referring to. The part that seemed significant is:
"God cannot write his law in our inward parts till with water and with blood he has purged us. Tables on which the Lord shall write must be clean, therefore the heart on which God is to engrave his law must be a cleansed heart; and it is a great joy to perceive that from the person of our Lord heart-cleansing blood and water flowed, so that the provision is equal to the necessity. Blessed be the name of our gracious God, he knows how to erase the evil and to cleanse the soul through his Holy Spirit's applying the work of Jesus to us."
If this is the portion, then I don't believe Spurgeon is referring to water baptism or the requirement to be baptised first & then born again - that would be totally erroneous. His mentioning "water & blood" is his direct reference to 1 John 5:6, 7: "This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."
There have been several interpretations of this "by water & blood". I feel it indicates Jesus' physical birth (water) & He speaks of this in John 3:5 & then the "blood": of His Sacrifice. Or, Spurgeon could even be recalling the water & blood that issued out of the Lord whilst on the Cross ( John 19:34). We're unclear but it wasn't anything to do with water baptism which can only be taken after first being born again by faith in Jesus's Sacrifice & the indwelling & renewal of the Holy Spirit.
It would be great if we all made Heaven our home. God still has rules and those that obey will make it to Heaven. Those that reject the truth do not make it. We can choose to obey or not. We choose to believe the Bible or not. The Bible still says there's a Heaven and a Hell as places for spending eternity. Heaven for the ones that love and obey God and His Word and have been saved from sin. Hell is for all that reject His truths and die an unrepentant sinner. The kingdom of God includes all that are freed from sin, and excludes all that still sin against God. Sin is a willfully disobedience.
"And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."
Again. Just saying.
Blessings.