THE INNER ROOM - "Learn and Grow - to Maturity". Please read the OP. - Page 2

blankgirl · 01-01-2008, 04:00 PM

Hi everyone! Happy new year! You can call me Rebekah. Good to see you all!

hisdreamer · 01-01-2008, 04:03 PM

Hey BM! I was able to not only pray today but get back into my Bible.

(There is a back story to all of those that don't understand what this means but I'd rather not get into it and just the past stay in the past)

I've started the lifejournal over again and I'm going to try and keep with it this time. Basically the lifejournal helps you read the Bible in a year and has you read the Bible in a theme for each day.

hisdreamer · 01-01-2008, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by blankgirl

Hi everyone! Happy new year! You can call me Rebekah. Good to see you all!

Hey BG - (some habits are hard to break but I'll try to get used to calling you Rebekah)

Bondman · 01-01-2008, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Dusty

Hey Bondman and Lady,

What a great idea. I am ready as well as well to learn and grow together in the Lord Jesus Christ as last night in church we were all challenged not to stay in our boats but to launch out and take risks...... For Jesus that is.... He does not want us to stay in the same place as we were last year . Let this be a year of new oportunities, new adventures with Him, sharing our burdens , praying for one another and most of all growing in His love that He has for us. He is going to do mighty things for us. Praise His name forevermore. Hallalujah !!! Glory to His Name. I feel like dancing.

Hallelujah, Dusty!! I'm with you and your Pastors!

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Originally Posted by hisdreamer

you just did

the IR (at least how it has gone in the past) is a place to come together - challenge each other, share things that God has laid on our hearts, study together, share messages, and offer and ask for prayer requests

all that you need is a open and willing heart to give all glory to the most high

Amen and Amen!!

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Originally Posted by Honeybare

I'm ready! How do ya sign up?

Great to see you Honeybare! Amanda said it spot on!!

Bondman · 01-01-2008, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by blankgirl

Hi everyone! Happy new year! You can call me Rebekah. Good to see you all!

Hey, Rebekah!!!! Yee-harrrrrr!! Welcome, dear one...

Quote:

Originally Posted by hisdreamer

Hey BM! I was able to not only pray today but get back into my Bible.

(There is a back story to all of those that don't understand what this means but I'd rather not get into it and just the past stay in the past)

I've started the lifejournal over again and I'm going to try and keep with it this time. Basically the lifejournal helps you read the Bible in a year and has you read the Bible in a theme for each day.

Fabulous news, hon! You stuck at this and you've got there. Way to go, girl!!!!

hisdreamer · 01-01-2008, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Bondman

Fabulous news, hon! You stuck at this and you've got there. Way to go, girl!!!!

Somehow I did

hopefully things start picking up here soon and looking good - my hope - is a break from all the trials :P a little R&R would be nice before we start the fun stuff again

o and a side note my new favorite smiley -->

Bondman · 01-01-2008, 05:02 PM

PRACTICAL NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANITY

MESSAGE #1

PERSONAL RIGHTEOUSNESS

Freedom07 spoke about the Holy of Holies - that incredibly special place in the (Jewish) Temple where God dwelt! And he wrote this thinking about how can we get closer and closer to God here in The Inner Room. Can we? Oh YES!!!

But here's something deeper involving the word Holy. Peter speaks this utterly astonishing thing that God says to us (are you ready for this?): "Be holy, as I am holy!" 1 Peter 1:16. Is he kidding? How can this be? I'm a sinner, not a holy man!! I'm to be HOLY... like GOD!!

Wow, that really is a bit much! God is, well, He's PERFECT. That's what holy means. Or we could use the word righteous here also. He is both Holy and righteous. And we're to be the same. Yikes!

But here's good news. The moment we accepted Jesus, immediately the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit took up residence IN US. Our sins were taken away, we were cleansed, and we were made perfect - all in and because of the Lord Jesus. That is, when God looks at us ever since, all He sees is Jesus' PERFECTION (not our sinfulness). Sees only HIS perfect holiness. HIS righteousness. So we can say that "POSITIONALLY" - in Christ - we are all perfectly, 100%, holy and righteous!! Can you handle that? I sure can!!!

Okay, let's go further. God is NOT satisfied with me being righteous just in Jesus. He wants me to start getting some... I'll call it PERSONAL righteousness. That is, some "goodness" of my own. Some... yes, some perfection! How can THAT possibly happen? Well as we LEARN and thus as we GROW, we can begin to see how to live RIGHT!! And then a bit more right, and so we start on this journey towards getting some personal righteousness and holiness (Scripturally true - I'm not making this up!)

And the best possible thing we can do to get our righteousness started is --- OBEDIENCE! To do and be good, we need to know HOW to live, right? It's all there in the New Testament for us. Then we need, and need desperately - to start actually BEING OBEDIENT to what He says. And I'll write more on this real soon, okay?

Bless all you guys real good. Thankyou for being part of The Inner Room. That means so much to me and my Lady - AND to the Lord!

- BM and his Beloved

EDIT: Comments, queries, etc. always welcome!

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hisdreamer · 01-02-2008, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Bondman

PERSONAL RIGHTEOUSNESS

Freedom07 spoke about the Holy of Holies - that incredibly special place in the (Jewish) Temple where God dwelt! And he wrote this thinking about how can we get closer and closer to God here in The Inner Room. Can we? Oh YES!!!

But here's something deeper involving the word Holy. Peter speaks this utterly astonishing thing that God says to us (are you ready for this?): "Be holy, as I am holy!" 1 Peter 1:16. Is he kidding? How can this be? I'm a sinner, not a holy man!! I'm to be HOLY... like GOD!!

Wow, that really is a bit much! God is, well, He's PERFECT. That's what holy means. Or we could use the word righteous here also. He is both Holy and righteous. And we're to be the same. Yikes!

But here's good news. The moment we accepted Jesus, immediately the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit took up residence IN US. Our sins were taken away, we were cleansed, and we were made perfect - all in and because of the Lord Jesus. That is, when God looks at us ever since, all He sees is Jesus' PERFECTION (not our sinfulness). Sees only HIS perfect holiness. HIS righteousness. So we can say that "POSITIONALLY" - in Christ - we are all perfectly, 100%, holy and righteous!! Can you handle that? I sure can!!!

Okay, let's go further. God is NOT satisfied with me being righteous just in Jesus. He wants me to start getting some... I'll call it PERSONAL righteousness. That is, some "goodness" of my own. Some... yes, some perfection! How can THAT possibly happen? Well as we LEARN and thus as we GROW, we can begin to see how to live RIGHT!! And then a bit more right, and so we start on this journey towards getting some personal righteousness and holiness (Scripturally true - I'm not making this up!)

And the best possible thing we can do to get our righteousness started is --- OBEDIENCE! To do and be good, we need to know HOW to live, right? It's all there in the New Testament for us. Then we need, and need desperately - to start actually BEING OBEDIENT to what He says. And I'll write more on this real soon, okay?

Bless all you guys real good. Thankyou for being part of The Inner Room. That means so much to me and my Lady - AND to the Lord!

- BM and his Beloved

EDIT: Comments, queries, etc. always welcome!

O noes! Its that dreaded O word!

Hey I know that reaction well but I try to obey. And I'm just about the most fiercely independent do it my own way kinda person I know. I HATE giving up control and doing what someone else tells me too but I know that when I do give up control and accept God's word, timing, and instructions wonderful things happen.

Bondman · 01-02-2008, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by hisdreamer

O noes! Its that dreaded O word!

Hey I know that reaction well but I try to obey. And I'm just about the most fiercely independent do it my own way kinda person I know. I HATE giving up control and doing what someone else tells me too but I know that when I do give up control and accept God's word, timing, and instructions wonderful things happen.

Yep, sorry 'bout dat! - the dreaded O word again!! *haha*

Gotta tell ya a secret: I am also the "most fiercely independent do it my own way kinda person I know"!! But if you'll stick WITH HIM LONG ENOUGH, God has this incredibly wonderful habit of slowly wearing you down on that - WITH LOVE!!! (Yes, I know, fairly 'dirty' tactics there! *NOT!!*)

And over a fair ole period of time, He's 'worn me down' to being OBEDIENT to Him these days! Wooo, I tell ya, what you said is absolutely and positively right: the TRUE blessings that flow from doing what He says are worth more than all the gold in the whole world!!! And the silver and platimum too. Well, I sure wouldn't ever exchange, anyways!!

Bondman · 01-02-2008, 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hisdreamer

O noes! Its that dreaded O word!

Hey I know that reaction well but I try to obey. And I'm just about the most fiercely independent do it my own way kinda person I know. I HATE giving up control and doing what someone else tells me too but I know that when I do give up control and accept God's word, timing, and instructions wonderful things happen.

Yep, sorry 'bout dat! - the dreaded O word again!! *haha*

Gotta tell ya a secret: I am also the "most fiercely independent do it my own way kinda person I know"!! But if you'll stay WITH HIM LONG ENOUGH God has this incredibly wonderful habit of slowly wearing you down on that - WITH LOVE!!! Yes, I know, fairly 'dirty' tactics there! *NOT!!*

And over a fair ole period of time, He's 'worn me down' to being OBEDIENT to Him these days! Wooo, I tell ya, what you said is absolutely and positively right: the TRUE blessings that flow from doing what He says are worth more than all the gold in the whole world!!! Well, I sure wouldn't ever exchange, anyways!

01-01-2008, 04:03 PM	#12 (permalink)
hisdreamer Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Tennessee Posts: 107 Blog Entries: 9 Rep Power: 1	Hey BM! I was able to not only pray today but get back into my Bible. (There is a back story to all of those that don't understand what this means but I'd rather not get into it and just the past stay in the past) I've started the lifejournal over again and I'm going to try and keep with it this time. Basically the lifejournal helps you read the Bible in a year and has you read the Bible in a theme for each day. __________________ All things are possible through Christ who strengthens me Every generation has its heros - mine is not different Amanda http://www.godtube.com/view_video.ph...3418003b47d7d5

01-01-2008, 05:02 PM	#17 (permalink)
Bondman Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Posts: 427 Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 1	#1 Personal Righteousness PRACTICAL NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANITY MESSAGE #1 PERSONAL RIGHTEOUSNESS Freedom07 spoke about the Holy of Holies - that incredibly special place in the (Jewish) Temple where God dwelt! And he wrote this thinking about how can we get closer and closer to God here in The Inner Room. Can we? Oh YES!!! But here's something deeper involving the word Holy. Peter speaks this utterly astonishing thing that God says to us (are you ready for this?): "Be holy, as I am holy!" 1 Peter 1:16. Is he kidding? How can this be? I'm a sinner, not a holy man!! I'm to be HOLY... like GOD!! Wow, that really is a bit much! God is, well, He's PERFECT. That's what holy means. Or we could use the word righteous here also. He is both Holy and righteous. And we're to be the same. Yikes! But here's good news. The moment we accepted Jesus, immediately the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit took up residence IN US. Our sins were taken away, we were cleansed, and we were made perfect - all in and because of the Lord Jesus. That is, when God looks at us ever since, all He sees is Jesus' PERFECTION (not our sinfulness). Sees only HIS perfect holiness. HIS righteousness. So we can say that "POSITIONALLY" - in Christ - we are all perfectly, 100%, holy and righteous!! Can you handle that? I sure can!!! Okay, let's go further. God is NOT satisfied with me being righteous just in Jesus. He wants me to start getting some... I'll call it PERSONAL righteousness. That is, some "goodness" of my own. Some... yes, some perfection! How can THAT possibly happen? Well as we LEARN and thus as we GROW, we can begin to see how to live RIGHT!! And then a bit more right, and so we start on this journey towards getting some personal righteousness and holiness (Scripturally true - I'm not making this up!) And the best possible thing we can do to get our righteousness started is --- OBEDIENCE! To do and be good, we need to know HOW to live, right? It's all there in the New Testament for us. Then we need, and need desperately - to start actually BEING OBEDIENT to what He says. And I'll write more on this real soon, okay? Bless all you guys real good. Thankyou for being part of The Inner Room. That means so much to me and my Lady - AND to the Lord! - BM and his Beloved EDIT: Comments, queries, etc. always welcome! GOTO: Previous Message \| Next Message __________________ –––––––––––––– *» The blood of Jesus cleanses me from ALL my sin! «* • Born once, die twice. •• Born twice, die once! Last edited by Bondman; 02-03-2008 at 11:37 AM.

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01-01-2008, 04:00 PM	#11 (permalink)
blankgirl Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Penang, but studying in the state of Kuala Lumpur Posts: 39 Rep Power: 0	Hi everyone! Happy new year! You can call me Rebekah. Good to see you all!