Faithwoman

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If we truly LOOK, though, if we really WANT to see, then He can show us Himself...

That is the key.. if we really WANT to see, then he can show himself.

I personally believe there are many people that are straddling the fence.. I for one, can just say stop straddling..life is way to short, for he is coming, do you not want to be ready?

He will guide you over the fence.. he will bring you to peace, just Trust in him...

Blessings
Faithwoman

Bondman

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Fluffy

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Be transparent before God, He sees right thru you, anyway!
http://www.likepreciousfaith.org/testimony_val.htm
Please pray for your local emergency responders, daily.

Fluffy

Hey! I was listening to something on the tv today, and they were talking about persecutions and stuff, and they prayed before really getting into what they were talking about. And one mentioned a scripture verse where it says that He is our "ever-present help in times of trouble". The 'ever-present' part just washed over me.
He IS ever-present, whether in times of trouble, or want, or need, or blessings or peace. He is there, ALL the TIME!

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Be transparent before God, He sees right thru you, anyway!
http://www.likepreciousfaith.org/testimony_val.htm
Please pray for your local emergency responders, daily.

Faithwoman

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And one mentioned a scripture verse where it says that He is our "ever-present help in times of trouble". The 'ever-present' part just washed over me. He IS ever-present, whether in times of trouble, or want, or need, or blessings or peace. He is there, ALL the TIME!

Amen to that... so how come you suppose we forget that now and then..

Faithwoman

Fluffy

Like Bondman says, we get too busy with the world and forget about Him.

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Be transparent before God, He sees right thru you, anyway!
http://www.likepreciousfaith.org/testimony_val.htm
Please pray for your local emergency responders, daily.

Bondman

Wow, this is really really great stuff, guys!! (I'm just loving "ever-present"! Thankyou, Lord!!!)

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Bondman

Fluffy pointed out how posts in the IR were approaching 1,000 (up to 985 when I last checked). How amazing! And does "something" happen when we hit the one thousand like she was wondering? Still don't know...

Something I find, well, kinda funny, is that with 985 posts here - which is a pretty good total - Bondman's personal post count is still down at a rather pathetic 516! *tries to convince himself that maybe it's quality rather than quantity - FAILS! lol*

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Mark_18

Oh Bondman don't kid yourself. Your messages bless us more than you know. I may have more posts than you, but how many of them are not filled with blessings? Like say - when I complain. And I haven't nearly as much to complain about as you do.

Hey this is like waiting for the new millennium. Waiting for this 1000th post.

The sky is falling!

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Luke 15:31 - And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
Joel 2:28 - I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
Matthew 7:7 - Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Psalms 126:5 - Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.

JOKE POLICE

Bondman

Message #99

WHAT THE BIBLE DOES NOT SAY (AND DOES!) - Part 3

... continued from Part 2 ("What God Himself Says About the Scriptures")

I've had personal experience of all things I speak of in all the separate Parts of this topic - sometimes actual involvment I got caught up in, other times observing the involvment of others.

A member here wrote of what I well remember experiencing for the first time myself in a large meeting of about 2,000 people, all speaking in tongues at the same time (and singing – no difference). It was very eerie and spooky. I wanted to run out of the place. My VERY SERIOUS QUESTION is this: WHAT SCRIPTURES support this massively common practice today (but which started only about 100 years ago) in countless churches right across the world? The answer is NONE!! If you truly wish to PLEASE and OBEY the Lord in speaking in tongues, then you should get out your Bible now, and carefully study the whole of what God says about this in 1 Corinthians Ch 14. Here’s part of His commands to us on this subject:

1 Corinthians Ch 14:26 How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. 28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God.

So in meetings of the church, FIRSTLY, everything is to be done for EDIFICATION, to build Believers up in the Lord! - that is, for members to hear and learn SPECIFIC TRUTHS OF GOD, that they may grow and become better Christians, walking more closely with the Lord. So SECONDLY, for edification to take place, God carefully instructs the following: 2 or 3 ONLY may speak in tongues, one at a time (NOT 2,000 at once), and then ONLY if the unknown languages are INTERPRETED into PLAIN language! Otherwise, GOD says: KEEP QUIET!! (Instead, just pray to yourself and God PRIVATELY!) How CLEAR is that!!!!!

Such churches as this MAKE UP DOCTRINE AND MAKE UP PRACTICE OF SUCH DOCTRINE, i.e., here, as an example, we see church leaders wilfully and specifically teaching and encouraging FALSE PRACTICE IN CHURCH MEETINGS, leading tens of MILLIONS of members into regular DIRECT DISOBEDIENCE of GOD'S HOLY WORD!!! (I would NOT want to be in their shoes at Judgment time!!!)

Can you understand why when I see churches with one doctrine or practice wrong, then another, and another, and with blatant DISOBEDIENCE OF GOD'S CLEAR WORD, I tend to get a tad upset!! Most of all UPSET for the LORD, (as well as His people) that is, that those calling themselves by the name of CHRIST, His only Son, and claiming to be Scriptural, care SO LITTLE ABOUT HIS TRUTH!!

continued in Part 4 ("To Tithe or Not to Tithe - That is the Question?")...

- BM, with his lady-love

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