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No time! No time!
Just wanted to say excellent posts, ya'll! Simplify! yeah! Truth. Hey, I heard a preacher say one time that the "belt of truth" in the scriptures is actually the mind set of seeking truth in all things. In Roman armour, the belt held everything together, and all his tools hung from it. So everything depended upon the belt. So when we dont take someone's word in a rumor, or when someone is speaking against a person, but seek out the truth of the matter; when we dont just take a preacher's word, but look it up for ourselves in the bible; that applies to teachings as well; when we are honest in all our dealings and conversations....THAT is wearing the belt of truth. Seeking truth in ALL things. Amen! Good posts, ya'll! 
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 Hey, Bondman! Everything alright? Are you on the road to recovery after your set back? How are you? How's the missus?
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RELATIONSHIPS - Part 1 I'm rather surprised I've not done a message on this major topic. For a long time now I've said that relationships are the hardest thing on the planet! And the closer the relationship the harder it is! So husband and wife is the toughest, then parent to child and child to parent, and so on. The reason we struggle with relationships is quite simply our sinfulness where we are focused on #1 more than on others! This easily brings conflict, and the next minute we're sticking up - or fighting - for our point of view, or what we want! It's really all rather sad. But there are some important things we can do to help. FIRST is the matter of GOODWILL. Goodwill means that we give the benefit of the doubt concerning what the other guy has said or done, i.e., if there's a bad way and a good way to take it, you choose the GOOD way. Makes sense, right. If BOTH parties make a pact to DO this, then a whole PILE of upsets can be avoided! Which raises the SECOND matter: it takes TWO to tango. That is, unless you are BOTH maintaining GOODWILL, then the relationship is either in deep trouble, or soon will be. I well remember a serious situation where I retained GOODWILL but the other person didn't. It took almost NO time for it to become patently obvious that my goodwill was having no effect whatever in maintaining that relationship! - so with great sadness I had to relinquish it... THIRD is COMMUNICATION. It still stuns me the proportion of people who seem blissfully aware that life simply cannot WORK without COMMUNICATING! - much less have any chance of WORKING well!! So talk! Speak! Speak up!! TELL your partner or friend or whoever, what you're thinking - AND feeling! Do this BEFORE it all blows up into an all-out barney! That is, if you don't talk about the problem, then it will very soon become A PROBLEM!!! So keeping the lines of communication open is arguably the very BEST way to retain goodwill, care, understanding and love!!! continued in Part 2... - BM, with his Love   Click the graphic below to check out all previous Messages
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04-15-2008, 03:52 PM
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THANKYOU once again to all of you who keep this thread going so amazingly by coming and reading here regularly.
This still mind-boggles me - and is so ENCOURAGING! Please pray for each one who reads, that God the Holy Spirit will HIGHIGHT to him or her exactly what they need. PRAYER CHANGES THINGS. It changes people! If we'll pray we can ultimately rise up a great army of those who LOVE and SERVE the Lord of Lords and King of Kings! Bless you with a thousand blessings in Jesus!! - BM
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CONFESSING, REPENTING, THANKING, AND MORE... Quote:
Dear heart, there is no problem whatsoever with what you don't know. We all come via different routes. I don't know everything. No one but God does. We're all learning. That's what The Inner Room is for!! So we can learn - and GROW! And the glory of it all is that we're doing this TOGETHER!!! Wow-eeeee!! CONFESS THEN THANK Yes, it's important to come to the Lord about our sin, to CONFESS it, to THANK Him for forgiving it - and ask for the Spirit's help and power so as not to sin again. That's it! Okay, for some sins you may end up doing this piles of times as you're trying to get 'on top' of it. No matter. God never gets tired of you telling Him you flunked out again, and thanking Him for forgiving and cleansing you. All of that helps keep your slate clean before Him, and is great for moving your Christian walk ever forward. On the matter of 'cleansing', you are already completely snow white and clean via Jesus total sacrifice on your behalf! So you don't need to beg for cleansing either. Again just THANK Him for it! ALL FORGIVEN! Now obviously you don't need to ask forgiveness for something that's already forgiven! So, no, you don't even need the 'one statement forgives all' either. It's DONE! It was accomplished for you the moment Jesus said, "IT IS FINISHED!" - a cry of TRIUMPH from the Cross as He KNEW that He had succeeded in redeeming every sinner who would ever come to Him for salvation!!! You've done that, so all your sin was knocked out of the arena, forever, by the Lord Jesus on the Cross. Is that a Hallelujah, or is that a Hallelujah!!! Maybe to finally grasp the sheer ENORMITY of this stupendous truth, consider this. The NT says that Jesus died for the sins of the world on the Cross. He paid full price for every sin - of everybody! How astonishing is that!! Only those who FULLY ACCEPT THAT AND ACCEPT HIM AS LORD OVER THEIR LIFE CAN RECEIVE THE FULL FORGIVENESS HE PROVIDED. So considering that He paid the price of ALL sin, then obviously our past sin, present sin, AND future sin is all forgiven - WAS forgiven long ago!! REPENTING Let me introduce a new word into this, that probly I should have done earlier. The feeling that we NEED to ask for forgiveness stems from the fact that we DO need to REPENT of our sin and sins, i.e., to turn away from them as bad and wrong, to determine to give them up, and to acknowledge to God that He was right when He says we are hopeless sinners, who sin and fall short of His perfection continually!!! Repentance is a change of direction if you like: AWAY from sin, TOWARDS God! Does that work for you? Does for me!! So my aim is OBEDIENCE to all that He commands of me and wants of/from me. That's a 180 degree turn AWAY FROM sin and sinful living - TOWARDS holiness and righteous living. And this is why I wrote above that we CONFESS our sin to Him, AND we turn away from it as we ask the Spirit to help us not sin again. In a Christian's early days a lot of confession and repenting may well be needed. The further you go into life, the more this lessens. HIS SONS & DAUGHTERS! So instead of asking for FORGIVENESS of our sins we confess, repent, thank, and ask for power to do better. We don't need to make this any sort of 'ritual'. Not at all. Do this any time or times of the day, as needed. A quick "Sorry, Lord!" as many times as you like during the day is great! Then maybe talk to Him a bit more about it later. What God is seeking is a CLOSE DAILY RELATIONSHIP with us - of God our Father to His Son or Daughter. That's the way to live The Life! I hope that has helped make these matters a little clearer for us all. - BM and his Beloved Click the graphic below to check out previous Messages
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04-15-2008, 08:19 PM
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With God in our lives [anything is possible]. When we can walk no more [He carries us.]
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04-16-2008, 01:25 PM
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Wow, that is a great post, JW!!
Still praying for you and all of your family! - BM
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Prayer people here...
I'm looking for 1 or 2 more pray-ers who know how to pray, to join a small personal prayer team for us and for the IR. Needs are rather great... Please simply PM me if you think you could help. Thankyou!!! - BM and Mrs BM
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