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I have many bibles from childhood I think some are in poor shape l believe my mom highlighted lol notes lol . I have many books and reflective study material.The reading helps, but as you get older understand man created religions and they take out and put in what they want.Catholics keep wine drinking and idols in. Baptist take out well some ..smoking drinking and dancing . The Morman hot drinks like coffee .Jews some take out New Testament .go to church where your comfortable then read and meditate but interpretations are subjective. The most important things are first do you believe in God ? How about Jesus?then ask yourself why ? Don't let others turn you off from it. Explore explore explore ask God for guidance but you will find you change views on the details over time. It is part of growing. I do believe you should continue to discuss read meditate pray.
"Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?"
The Apostle Paul encountered so much divisions in Corinth: division amongst the preachers, divisions in the congregation and division upon whom each should follow based on their Faith in Christ Jesus? No! Their final division was on who physically baptized them in water.
What's the point?
Paul ends with "I of Christ (as we should ALL be ONLY)" and "Is Christ divided?" Every denomination is a division. Every denomination is religion. They set their doctrines, their conditions for Salvation or additions to scripture and the body (the church) becomes divided. If you attend a church -- make sure that a movement, name, denominational religious regime or even these YouTube "preachers/conspiracy ministers," doesn't remove you from the doctrines which Christ Jesus established in His Word.
Let it be known, I trust no one (aside from my wife & Christ Jesus). I remove all other distractions and religion to focus solely on the Holy Bible for what I should know. I was raised in the false catholic religion for 19-years, agnostic for 5-years, evangelical non-denomination for 6-years, charismatic for 3-years and in the Baptist church for 5-years. I found no wisdom, no sound doctrine and no agreement with those of organized religion. Christianity isn't a religion and don't let religion guide how you serve God. Let the Holy Bible be the first and final Word on EVERYTHING.
Thank you Daniel, we all need to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves, checking all that we read, hear, or think against the Scriptures.
Some believers thrive in a church congregations, others do not. it is good to find out which one one is. Any believer who participates in a church congregation should not assume that this church or denomination has everything right. All churches, sects, denominations have erroneous teachings or emphasis. Every believer has erroneous beliefs and emphasis, too.
Therefore, everyone should be humble, and submit to the Scriptures in all things.
Amen and amen Bro. Earl...The Anointing will teach us all things which is the gift of the H.G. that Child of PROMISE...From the seed of the sower the words of God...A lil Child is gona lead you...Which is the H.G. that Child of PROMISE...
.....She brought forth a man Child that is gonna rule all nations....thank you Jesus...GBU BRO. EARL... Rev 12 v 5 kjv
Over the years, I began to realize that I heard a LOT of people saying, "We have to get people to church." That was never preached by the apostles. They led people to CHRIST, preached CHRIST crucified, buried, and risen again! When we COME to Christ and believe on HIM we BECOME the church!
So often now days, the church has become the 'head' in its own eyes, when all along we as believers are to HOLD FORTH THE HEAD, and CHRIST is the HEAD! We put something on our candlesticks other than our Preeminent Lord and Savior!
People are often 'discipled' into a church system, a man-made organization, a creed, etc. -- when what is truly vital is that they be grafted into Jesus Christ with no 'mediators' in between them and the Lord!
MULTITUDES have been grafted into a 'church', when in reality, they are not wholly grafted into Christ and rooted and grounded in HIM. MULTITUDES are 'rooted and grounded' in a system, which will not, and cannot, save them and stand them in good stead. I groan in my spirit because perhaps these will be among those who say, "Lord, Lord" in the great day - but find out they didn't really know HIM (they knew a system) - and He didn't know them!
Hello, Kay. I am doing so much better. I can actually get a regular shoe on now (though it is a few sizes larger than normal-gives more room in the toe area. My hand is getting stronger, but gripping is still iffy.
My Mom went into the hospital Friday night. She is still there and will be there for some time. She is 88 and was found conscious but unresponsive at her home Friday night. Diagnosis is sepsis, which is very serious and often deadly for people her age. She is responding to antibiotics, fever has come down to normal from 105 and steadily improving. But this infection affects all organs and systems of the body since the blood to these is infected throughout her body. It is a terrible trauma to the body. I was able to be one of the two visitors yesterday and spent the day at the hospital with her and my oldest sister. ( there are 10 kids in all). I asked her if I could pray for her. She id not say anything, but didn't say no, so I laid my hand on her chest and prayed out loud for her. I was really hoping I'd get a chance to do that.
I am so sorry to hear about your Mom! Sepsis IS very serious for anyone, and as you said, more so for Mom because of her age! How marvelous that you had the opportunity to lay hands on your Mom and pray for her! I will surely and gladly join you in prayer for her! May the Sun of Righteousness, Who has healing in His wings rise upon her! Amen!
That's wonderful to hear you're wearing regular (albeit a bit larger-sized) shoes again! What rapid progress you've made I'm not surprised that your grip isn't fully returned yet. That will take a bit more time. In some recoveries, 'slow and steady' progress is best! :)
I also want to thank you, Gigi, for always being so sweet and encouraging. The graciousness of God's Spirit shines through you, sis. I thank God for you!
Have a blessed night! You and your dear ones are in my prayers!
Kay, you, too, are so sweet and loving. Thanks for your outreach to me and prayers. My Mom is tough and comes from a family with longevity (late 80's into the 90's. She birthed 10 children. Had appendix removed in her twenties, had a ruptured ulcer in her seventies along with a torn ACL/meniscus from a fall. So, overall, she has not had many negative incidents requiring hospitalization for someone her age. But Sepsis takes many people out of this life. I am being realistic as well as hopeful. I urged my brothe (who lives in Hawaii) to get a flight home as soon as he cane because things can turn so fast. I am praying he will be able to be here very soon. All of my other 8 siblings live in the area and so we can all be available for Mom at this traumatic time.
Good Day, Gigi, and grace and peace in Jesus to you and your house!
I was wondering how you...and how Mom..are! You both have been in thought and prayer. How wonderful to know that God is thinking on us this very minutes. He understand our needs. He understands our concerns. And for SURE, our God is no 'dead-beat/absentee' Father!! He ATTENDS to His children! Therefore it is with joy I pray, KNOWING that ALL things will work for good, for you are the called according to His purpose! Praise the Lord!
Hello Kay, Thank you for your kindness. My Mom is hanging in there. But she is in many ways "done". This morning the Dr. asked her if she knows what is wrong with her and she said, "Death". She told my sister that she does not know why God hasn't taken her by now. When I read the text I replied that those there with her should ask her if they can pray with her and to remind her of our great hope in Jesus.
The hospital staff is doing a good job of clinical care. She is not as acute as before but still volatile as we bacteria is still showing up in h er blood draws. I encouraged my other siblings to pray for the best and prepare for the worst scenario. My hope is that if God chooses this illness as the one that will take her from this life that it happens sooner rather than later. We do not want her to go through days and weeks of pain. But we do not know what God's plan is, so we just are thankful for the days she is with us and hope we can have more of them.
I continue to be in prayer for your Mother, yourselves as family members & hospital staff, GiGi. May you know God's unsurpassing peace at this time - for it's only His Peace that can truly comfort our hearts & keep them focussed on Him. And for your Mother to be especially ministered to at this time by the Lord - fully aware of & experiencing the abundance of mercies upon her ailing body, mind & spirit. The Lord is gracious, mindful of all that we go through in this life - His Power & Love are limitless & so much the more, to aboundign to His beloved children. May "the peace of God rule in your hearts", that will even be the catalyst for spiritual restoration to your children. In love & prayer.
I am good with letting God take her at any moment. I have resolved that many years ago. I just want the medical team to continue to treat her as long as there is hope of a positive turn around and to relieve her pain and keep her comfortable. If there should be an unrecoverable downturn, I hope that God will give the team wisdom to recognize that and cease to administer any extraordinary means (which she has been adamant about for 20 years) and work on keeping her pain free until God takes her.
But with 9 siblings, I cannot speak for each of them. They need to come to a place of peace like I have, I hope.
I appreciate your prayers. She has lived a long life with very little health problems. She accomplished her calling in giving birth to ten babies as God saw fit to bless her and my dad with and raise us all up on meager income. I know she hopes to see my dad in heaven, but we both know that the sight of Jesus will be far more joyous than seeing anyone we loved in this life.
But we shall see how things go, day by day. Every day we have with her is a blessing, as she could have passed before my brother went to check on her. So God is gracious to us.
Thank you for the update, Gigi. My heart goes out to Mom. She sounds very weary in her soul, which depletes that sense of having 'a will to live". There comes a point where one has had so many battles in life, there's just not strength enough to keep swinging! And without that inner will - it's hard to fight a serious condition like sepsis. I ask the Lord Jesus to just blanket Mom in His grace, in His mercy, in His comforts, and bring her to a strong faith in Him in these twilight days! May He also give those special graces to you and your whole family as you walk through this season, Gigi. May the Lord, Who is our VERY PRESENT help manifest Himself to you all mightily!
Prior to this, she did not have many health issues. Comes from healthy, mid-west stock.
If she does not have a will to live, that is o.k. with me and most of my siblings. She is old, tired, pretty much a shut-in (we visit her often). She has often commented that she just wants to go to sleep and not wake up, but be in heaven. So, it is good to ask for God's mercy to be upon her (we know it is) and seek to reduce her pain and keep her comfortable while still treating the sepsis. Her condition is still critical, but not needing ICU care. We love her and want the best for her. She will be so happy in heaven! But until then, we keep supporting her by having family at the hospital with her every day.
The condition of the church, the condition of souls, has been a burden on my heart for years. If the Lord sees fit to let me see this coming fall, I will have been saved 39 years. What things were like all those years ago, and what they are like now are so different in so many ways.
What I shared earlier comes from observing a general decline take place over the decades. Of course, I can't paint with too wide of a brush; there will always be a true remnant reserved unto the Lord. I praise Him for that! Yet, I have to say, it has been shocking to see what has happened in 'Christendom' generally speaking.
We must get back to Jesus. It is ALL about Jesus. Paul said it the best in Phil. 3, Suze -
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Jesus is all in all. Nothing else is even a close second...or at least, that is the way He deserves it to be in our lives. May He help us and grace us to walk worthy of Hm more and more!
"Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?"
The Apostle Paul encountered so much divisions in Corinth: division amongst the preachers, divisions in the congregation and division upon whom each should follow based on their Faith in Christ Jesus? No! Their final division was on who physically baptized them in water.
What's the point?
Paul ends with "I of Christ (as we should ALL be ONLY)" and "Is Christ divided?" Every denomination is a division. Every denomination is religion. They set their doctrines, their conditions for Salvation or additions to scripture and the body (the church) becomes divided. If you attend a church -- make sure that a movement, name, denominational religious regime or even these YouTube "preachers/conspiracy ministers," doesn't remove you from the doctrines which Christ Jesus established in His Word.
Let it be known, I trust no one (aside from my wife & Christ Jesus). I remove all other distractions and religion to focus solely on the Holy Bible for what I should know. I was raised in the false catholic religion for 19-years, agnostic for 5-years, evangelical non-denomination for 6-years, charismatic for 3-years and in the Baptist church for 5-years. I found no wisdom, no sound doctrine and no agreement with those of organized religion. Christianity isn't a religion and don't let religion guide how you serve God. Let the Holy Bible be the first and final Word on EVERYTHING.
Some believers thrive in a church congregations, others do not. it is good to find out which one one is. Any believer who participates in a church congregation should not assume that this church or denomination has everything right. All churches, sects, denominations have erroneous teachings or emphasis. Every believer has erroneous beliefs and emphasis, too.
Therefore, everyone should be humble, and submit to the Scriptures in all things.
So I don't go to one . I read and pray on my own for years . Sometimes it's hard but Jesus is my back up . Amen .
It says that God seeks those that worship him in Spirit and TRUTH.
We must separate from sin or errors or we become partakers of it .
I learned this many years ago . It has done me very well in separation from these things .
1 John 2:27 ......you need not that any man teach you....
The ANOINTING will teach you.
God Bless You!
.....She brought forth a man Child that is gonna rule all nations....thank you Jesus...GBU BRO. EARL... Rev 12 v 5 kjv
Over the years, I began to realize that I heard a LOT of people saying, "We have to get people to church." That was never preached by the apostles. They led people to CHRIST, preached CHRIST crucified, buried, and risen again! When we COME to Christ and believe on HIM we BECOME the church!
So often now days, the church has become the 'head' in its own eyes, when all along we as believers are to HOLD FORTH THE HEAD, and CHRIST is the HEAD! We put something on our candlesticks other than our Preeminent Lord and Savior!
People are often 'discipled' into a church system, a man-made organization, a creed, etc. -- when what is truly vital is that they be grafted into Jesus Christ with no 'mediators' in between them and the Lord!
MULTITUDES have been grafted into a 'church', when in reality, they are not wholly grafted into Christ and rooted and grounded in HIM. MULTITUDES are 'rooted and grounded' in a system, which will not, and cannot, save them and stand them in good stead. I groan in my spirit because perhaps these will be among those who say, "Lord, Lord" in the great day - but find out they didn't really know HIM (they knew a system) - and He didn't know them!
Blessings, Joyce!
How are you feeling? I hope by now you're able walk a lot better, and use your hand better - and that you feel better all over! :)
You've been in my heart and prayers! You and your family have been in my prayers! :)
Blessings, dear sister!
My Mom went into the hospital Friday night. She is still there and will be there for some time. She is 88 and was found conscious but unresponsive at her home Friday night. Diagnosis is sepsis, which is very serious and often deadly for people her age. She is responding to antibiotics, fever has come down to normal from 105 and steadily improving. But this infection affects all organs and systems of the body since the blood to these is infected throughout her body. It is a terrible trauma to the body. I was able to be one of the two visitors yesterday and spent the day at the hospital with her and my oldest sister. ( there are 10 kids in all). I asked her if I could pray for her. She id not say anything, but didn't say no, so I laid my hand on her chest and prayed out loud for her. I was really hoping I'd get a chance to do that.
Please pray for her. Her name is Joan.
I am so sorry to hear about your Mom! Sepsis IS very serious for anyone, and as you said, more so for Mom because of her age! How marvelous that you had the opportunity to lay hands on your Mom and pray for her! I will surely and gladly join you in prayer for her! May the Sun of Righteousness, Who has healing in His wings rise upon her! Amen!
That's wonderful to hear you're wearing regular (albeit a bit larger-sized) shoes again! What rapid progress you've made I'm not surprised that your grip isn't fully returned yet. That will take a bit more time. In some recoveries, 'slow and steady' progress is best! :)
I also want to thank you, Gigi, for always being so sweet and encouraging. The graciousness of God's Spirit shines through you, sis. I thank God for you!
Have a blessed night! You and your dear ones are in my prayers!
-Kay-
I was wondering how you...and how Mom..are! You both have been in thought and prayer. How wonderful to know that God is thinking on us this very minutes. He understand our needs. He understands our concerns. And for SURE, our God is no 'dead-beat/absentee' Father!! He ATTENDS to His children! Therefore it is with joy I pray, KNOWING that ALL things will work for good, for you are the called according to His purpose! Praise the Lord!
Love in Jesus, Gigi!
The hospital staff is doing a good job of clinical care. She is not as acute as before but still volatile as we bacteria is still showing up in h er blood draws. I encouraged my other siblings to pray for the best and prepare for the worst scenario. My hope is that if God chooses this illness as the one that will take her from this life that it happens sooner rather than later. We do not want her to go through days and weeks of pain. But we do not know what God's plan is, so we just are thankful for the days she is with us and hope we can have more of them.
I am good with letting God take her at any moment. I have resolved that many years ago. I just want the medical team to continue to treat her as long as there is hope of a positive turn around and to relieve her pain and keep her comfortable. If there should be an unrecoverable downturn, I hope that God will give the team wisdom to recognize that and cease to administer any extraordinary means (which she has been adamant about for 20 years) and work on keeping her pain free until God takes her.
But with 9 siblings, I cannot speak for each of them. They need to come to a place of peace like I have, I hope.
I appreciate your prayers. She has lived a long life with very little health problems. She accomplished her calling in giving birth to ten babies as God saw fit to bless her and my dad with and raise us all up on meager income. I know she hopes to see my dad in heaven, but we both know that the sight of Jesus will be far more joyous than seeing anyone we loved in this life.
But we shall see how things go, day by day. Every day we have with her is a blessing, as she could have passed before my brother went to check on her. So God is gracious to us.
Love in Jesus,
-Kay-
She has been ready to go to Jesus for many years.
Prior to this, she did not have many health issues. Comes from healthy, mid-west stock.
If she does not have a will to live, that is o.k. with me and most of my siblings. She is old, tired, pretty much a shut-in (we visit her often). She has often commented that she just wants to go to sleep and not wake up, but be in heaven. So, it is good to ask for God's mercy to be upon her (we know it is) and seek to reduce her pain and keep her comfortable while still treating the sepsis. Her condition is still critical, but not needing ICU care. We love her and want the best for her. She will be so happy in heaven! But until then, we keep supporting her by having family at the hospital with her every day.
The condition of the church, the condition of souls, has been a burden on my heart for years. If the Lord sees fit to let me see this coming fall, I will have been saved 39 years. What things were like all those years ago, and what they are like now are so different in so many ways.
What I shared earlier comes from observing a general decline take place over the decades. Of course, I can't paint with too wide of a brush; there will always be a true remnant reserved unto the Lord. I praise Him for that! Yet, I have to say, it has been shocking to see what has happened in 'Christendom' generally speaking.
We must get back to Jesus. It is ALL about Jesus. Paul said it the best in Phil. 3, Suze -
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Jesus is all in all. Nothing else is even a close second...or at least, that is the way He deserves it to be in our lives. May He help us and grace us to walk worthy of Hm more and more!
God bless you, Suze!
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