AmericanAngel

Hi Bondman and Sister. I have scratched my head about whether I am in fact suffering from this also. I literally crawl out of bed every morning...but it IS painfully , slowly getting better!(CFS,as well as IBS) I have changed some things in my diet that has brought much releaf, but still have bouts. Sugar! and sugar subs. They are NO-NO'S!!!! I gave up diet cokes about 6 months now. I drink teas, with limited sugar also water with lemon and club soda with lime. The citris alone builds the immune system! I notice that when I injest sugary sweets or carbs, I hurt more than usual. Also I discovered that too much magnesium causes an aching sensation in me.
What's happening is your body is attacting itself. The immune system is compromised. It can be a simple as food allergies.

Hey, do you remember me from another site?

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Bondman

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Bondman

Yes I do, tho I can't remember your name from over there, sorry! (dreadful CFS memory...)

I agree that in serious CFS sufferers the immune system is in trouble, sometimes serious trouble!

From our long experience we would not think that CFS problems can be as simple as food allergies - or any/all allergies for that matter. How we both WISH that by sorting this matter out we could become well!! - but the totality of all the problems CFS sufferers cop goes MUCH deeper than that, and sadly covers a much broader range of problem areas.

However, it's incredibly exciting that you are finding answers to your problems! Wow! - even if you still have bouts and symptoms. Sure pray that you'll continue to improve.

Blessings!

- BM and his lady-love

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AmericanAngel

^ same username on the CF
It's Patty BTW

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Fluffy

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Fluffy

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Please pray for your local emergency responders, daily.

Boanerges

Nice Kitty!

Bondman

- IMPORTANT! -

Sorry guys, but I have to take a break here... Which is very upsetting cos I basically haven't even got started: little time on the thread, even less posting, and now needing to take time off. *not happy*

The problem has been and remains the months and months I've been working on our computer system. Then Beloved got extremely ill, and I had a bad collapse that I just can't get out of!! It's all been too much for my sick body...

I don't know why the Lord got me to start The Inner Room when He did, but these days I never query His leading whether I understand it or not. I will be working totally on the computer situation, selling bits, replacing bits, and getting us back to a properly reliable computer system. We expect this to take a fair deal of time given the state of my health - some days I get nothing done at all!


MY SUGGESTION

1. I do NOT want to go off CFS, but must for a time. However, YOU CAN STILL PM ME while I'm off.

2. Meantime, PLEASE DON'T POST HERE AT ALL okay! DO MAKE SURE you are Subscribed to the Thread though.Cos that way you'll KNOW if I write something - as you'll get an EMAIL to say so! Like if the Lord tells me to do a special post or Message - or if we need special PRAYER then you'll be notified from the Thread. If I don't write, you'll know I'm still bogged down in computers...

3. Then when I return you'll also know - just make sure you're subscribed! (I'll also write this on Fluffy's Thread).

4. Fluffy's Coffee House is still going strong and I'd love to see you go there for fellowship, prayer, friendship, care, support and love!! Daily FELLOWSHIP is an opportunity most Christians simply do not get! Please DON'T take if for granted, and get slack about it. In other words, LOVE ONE ANOTHER - and show God that you mean this!!

Hope I won't be tooo long away! Please pray for our health, and computers to not take months to get done. Thankyou!


I shall miss you guys a real, real lot!!!!

Peace and blessings!

- BM and his Beloved

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Bondman

PRACTICAL NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANITY

MESSAGE #6


CORRESPONDENCE (1)

When someone writes to me, for quite some time I've thought of sharing with everyone the things I say back to them. Cos his/her problem is almost certainly gonna be someone else's problem too! And while I'm "not here" - I've already written the reply, so no extra work to just pop it here as well!

Here's the first one (names and places may have been changed to protect the guilt... err, innocent! *hehehe*)



Thanks for writing, sweetie! And expressing how much you care about us. THANKYOU!!

I don't call all the stuff we and you and others are experiencing 'nonsense', even though I sure understand why you called it that! Cos IF satan really is messing in our lives when he shouldn't be, AND we're not managing to close him down - then I'd certainly call THAT 'nonsense' (or maybe an even stronger word!!)

But other than that, what's happening in our lives IS WHAT GOD WANTS! Let me see if I can explain. Would you say that Paul the Apostle was likely the greatest Christian who ever lived? I would. And here's what HE says about hardships:

2 Corinthians 12
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

He takes PLEASURE in all those HARDSHIPS!!! Is he KIDDING?? NO, he's not. He takes pleasure in them - FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! That's the key!!

And notice how he handles the hardships: "For when I am weak, then I am strong," he says. But what does that mean, for goodness sake? It's really quite simple: when I try to be strong, I will fail every time. However, when I truly and honestly admit to God (this is not easy to do) that: "LORD, I CAN'T DO THIS!!!" then I'm saying that I am weak. I'm confessing my weakness - and stopping trying to succeed in life on my own - and THEN, but not BEFORE then, God can help us! So... in allowing myself to be WEAK, God will give me STRENGTH! Do you get it? (Please ask if it's not clear enough, no problems.)

Here's another passage written by Paul - deliberately placed there by God to make absolutely CERTAIN that we 'get' that He will not just ALLOW hard times for those who love Him, but He will ENSURE that we experience exactly those we need, in order that we may grow to be like Jesus!!!!! - wow, I just love that!!...

2 Corinthians 6
4 But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses,
5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings;
6 by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love,
7 by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8 by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;
9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed;
10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

There are nearly 40 things set down there! I guess that if we don't get it after THAT, then maybe we never will! Hardships are not only part of life, but especially are they part of God making us the people He saw that we could be, even before He created the worlds! Isn't that simply awesome!!

And here's the solution, the secret, to all of this: what we need to do is change our ATTITUDE to hardships!! Instead of seeing them as bad and to be avoided at all costs, rather for us to accept them AS FROM HIS LOVING HANDS. Working towards making this major attitudinal change can begin a life-revolution for you! Start doing this NOW, and in time you can learn to even REVEL in hardships as I now can and do. Why/how can I do this? - hey, THAT'S GOD!!!

Lots of love to you!

- BM and his Lady

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