Mark_18

I just (Hopefully temporarily) sort of lost a friend because of arguing. We are too different, so there was lots of arguing. I'm not going to elaborate anymore, because there will be no blaming here, just a heads up...

"It's all too easy to insult someone by stating the truth as you see it. We ALL must learn when to humble ourselves enough not to give the truth unless it is clearly and specifically asked for, and be careful not to elaborate so much as to be perceived as making assumptions."

-Mark

I was bugged by how doing this is like lying or dumbing down, BUT, that is far from the truth. It is actually Christ-likeness, which is fancy and effective truth-telling! Let us absorb that and get it down to a practical way of behaving.

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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

forgivenWretch

In today's ever so hardening world, the true meaning of friendship has been pushed to the wayside, as so many other things.

On the first forum that I ever participated in, during daily conversation, a lost cousin and I were re-united. We began what I felt was a new friendship, only to find out that she was quite the user.

The owner of the forum also became a friend, or at least I thought. But is was a very short lived mind game and there never was freindship involved on their part.

One was so messed up on very hard pain medication for chronic pain and the other loved to tip the bottle. My cousin was the greatest disappointment, as she began using people to simply make her self better liked by the staff. I should have caught on quicker when she told me that she and her brothers and sister had been totally pushed out of her life because everyone was out to get her, and how she trampled on the family name laughing all the while.

Reality so many times is very upsetting and digs deeply in those hearts who are faced with it's realization.

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~Galileo

Boanerges

Pro 18:19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

Let your friend cool off for a while and then let them know that they are more important to you than an argument.

A wise man once told me this- "sometimes we have to build a bridge of friendship that is able to sustain the weight of truth."

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“Neither skill nor knowledge is needed to go to God, all that is necessary is a heart dedicated entirely and solely to Him out of love for Him above all others.”
Brother Lawrence

Jon-Marc

Friends come and they go. There is only one Friend who will always be faithful and will never leave you nor forsake you.

Daniels

Jesus Christ is our True friend.

Proverbs
17:17 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

18:24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a

friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

27:5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are

deceitful.

John

15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not
what his Lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things

that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

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Eccle 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep

his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret

thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.