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Tammi Nickle needs prayer...please read this Aug 14, 2008 8:50 pm
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this is her cry for prayer from another site:

First of all I need to tell you that I'm only 45 years old, I've had this disease all of my life,
I'm sure my trials are not unique, &really I don't have a lot to complain about but it's still kind of hard for me to deal with. I have a debilitating disease called "Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia" I don't know where the hereditary part came from, because as far as I know I am the first one in my family to have this, I fall alot i probably should be in a wheelchair, but I'm trying to put off the inaviteable for as long as possible.

My brother had the same symptoms but he was never diagnosed as having this. Probably because he just never saw a docter for it, he ended up killing himself several years ago. Anyway, back to the disease. It affects my walking, my motor skills, my equalibrium & my muscles. About 6 years ago I've had to use a cane to help me walk, before then I was able to walk on my own. I've always stumbled & stubbed my toes & could never run. See all my life I have been pretty active & all the jobs I have had we're unskilled labor such as waitress, housekeeper, nurses aid etc... so now I can't work, I can't drive very far & it's impossible for me to keep up with my two grandson's, who are 3 & 4 year's old.

I am very close to my family.I am blessed to even just have leg's, there are many who don't. I know God loves me & will never leave me or forsake me. But it is really hard for me, I need to use my walker outside, but to do that I have to get a cement or paved driveway. Financially we're not able to do that, I'm trusting God with that problem & all my other's. Please pray with me for God to give me the strength I need to deal with this & anything else that may come along.

I have faith in God, but I know I don't spend near enough time in His word, like I know I need too. There is no cure for my disease, I can only look forward to it progressively getting worse unless or until God heal's me.

But remember Paul complained of "a thorn in his flesh" & he repeatedly asked God to take it from him & God said "No, my strength is sufficient for you", there is no guarantee that I'll be healed.
So just keep me in your prayer's. I need your prayers & I need the Lord.............

Tammi
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Ladies with Long hair and time on their hands........... Aug 14, 2008 5:34 pm
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There is a group at the Children's hospital for Kids with Cancer. It is called Angel Hair. A friend of mine, Elena from Montana had hair to her waist.

Children taking Chemo lose their hair and human wigs can be made from your hair to help them feel normal. Its easy and its a blessing. Just check around any hospital for Children. Elena did this just 6 months before her wedding. What a wonderful young Lady!

Blessings
Dennis
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Pray for Buster Please Aug 14, 2008 4:41 pm
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someone left a door open and he got out. I am hoping he is back within 30 hours.

Thank You
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who should come to whoom? Aug 14, 2008 2:30 pm
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When in a long distance relationship, which do you think is more proper, the woman coming to the man or the man to the woman and why?
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his diggs or yours Aug 14, 2008 12:12 pm
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if you got together with someone from BC, would you want to live in his home or yours? Is it best to get a new place so it feels like ours?
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One thing I like about Big Church Aug 14, 2008 7:57 am
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On a lot of sites people call themselves Apostle so and so, Phophet or prophetess so and so or elder so and so. Positional jargon for wannabees.

we are all equal in Christ
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Lakeland 'evangelist" Todd Bentley divorcing Aug 14, 2008 4:45 am
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This is sad news, and we should be in prayer for him. It is no fun to see this happen or have to report on people that are misrepresenting God. Here is the story:
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LIFE AFTER LAKELAND: Sorting Out the Confusion-by J. Lee Grady.

Todd Bentley’s announcement that his marriage is ending has thrown our movement into a tailspin—and questions need to be answered. It was not supposed to end like this. Evangelist Todd Bentley had heralded the Lakeland revival as the greatest Pentecostal outpouring since Azusa Street.

From his stage in a gigantic tent in Florida, Bentley preached to thousands, bringing many of them to the stage for prayer. Many claimed to be healed of deafness, blindness, heart problems, depression and dozens of other conditions in the Lakeland services, which ran for more than 100 consecutive nights.

Bentley announced confidently that dozens of people had been raised from the dead during the revival. But this week, a few days after the Canadian preacher announced the end of his visits to Lakeland, he told his staff that his marriage is ending. Without blaming the pace of the revival for Bentley’s personal problems, his board released a public statement saying that he and his wife, Shonnah, are separating. The news shocked Bentley’s adoring fans and saddened those who have questioned his credibility since the Lakeland movement erupted in early April.

I’m sad. I’m disappointed. And I’m angry. Here are few of my many, many questions about this fiasco: Why did so many people flock to Lakeland from around the world to rally behind an evangelist who had serious credibility issues from the beginning?

To put it bluntly, we’re just plain gullible. From the first week of the Lakeland revival, many discerning Christians raised questions about Bentley’s beliefs and practices. They felt uneasy when he said he talked to an angel in his hotelroom. They sensed something amiss when he wore a T-shirt with a skeleton on it.

They wondered why a man of God would cover himself with tattoos. They were horrified when they heard him describe how he tackled a man and knocked his tooth out during prayer. But among those who jumped on the Lakeland bandwagon, discernment was discouraged. They were expected to swallow and follow.

The message was clear: “This is God. Don’t question.”So before we could all say, “Sheeka Boomba” (as Bentley often prayed from his pulpit), many people went home, prayed for people and shoved them to the floor with reckless abandon, Bentley-style.

I blame this lack of discernment, partly, on raw zeal for God. We’re spiritual hungry—which can be a good thing. But sometimes, hungry people will eat anything. Many of us would rather watch a noisy demonstration of miracles, signs and wonders than have a quiet Bible study. Yet we are faced today with the sad reality that our untempered zeal is a sign ofimmaturity.

Our adolescent craving for the wild and crazy makes us do stupid things. It’s way past time for us to grow up. Why didn’t anyone in Lakeland denounce the favorable comments Bentley made about William Branham? This one baffles me.

Branham embraced horrible deception near the end of his ministry... and his strange doctrines are still embraced by a cultlike following today... Why didn’t anyone correct this error from the pulpit? Godly leaders are supposed to protect the sheep from heresy, not spoon feed deception to them. Only God knows how far this poison traveled from Lakeland to take root elsewhere.

May God forgive us for allowing His Word to be so flippantly contaminated. A prominent Pentecostal evangelist called me this week after Bentley’s news hit the fan. He said to me: “I’m now convinced that a large segment of the charismatic church will follow the anti-Christ when he shows up because they have no discernment.” Ouch.

Hopefully we’ll learn our lesson this time and apply the necessary caution when an imposter shows up. Why did God TV tell people that “any criticism of Todd Bentley is demonic”? This ridiculous statement was actually made on one of God TV’s pre-shows.

In fact, the network’s hosts also warned listeners that if they listened to criticism of Bentley, they could lose their healings. This is cultic manipulation at its worst. The Bible tells us that the Bereans were noble believers because they studied the Scriptures daily “to see whether these things were so” (Acts 17:11, NAS.

Yet in the case of Lakeland, honest intellectual inquiry was viewed as a sign of weakness. People were expected to jump first and then open their eyes. Just because we believe in the power of the Holy Spirit does not mean we check our brains at the church door.

We are commanded to test the spirits. Jesus wants us to love Him with our hearts and our minds. Because of the Lakeland scandal, there may be large numbers of people who feel they’ve been burned by Bentley. Some may give up on church and join the growing ranks of bitter, disenfranchised Christians. Others may suffer total spiritual shipwreck.

This could have been avoided if leaders had been more vocal about their objections and urged people to evaluate spiritual experiences through the filter of God’s Word. Why did a group of respected ministers lay hands on Bentley on June 23 and publicly ordain him? Did they know of his personal problems? This controversial ceremony was organized by Peter Wagner, who felt that one of Bentley’s greatest needs was proper spiritual covering

. He asked California pastors Che Ahn and Bill Johnson, along with Canadian pastor John Arnott, to lay hands on Bentleyand bring him under their care. Bentley certainly needs such covering. No one in ministry today should be out on their own, living in isolation without checks, balances and wise counsel.

It was commendable that Wagnerreached out to Bentley and that Bentley acknowledged his need for spiritual fathers by agreeing to submit to the process. The question remains, however, whether it was wise to commendBentley during a televised commissioning service that at times seemed more like a king’s coronation.

In hindsight, we can all see that it would have been better to take Bentley into a back room and talk about his personal issues. The Bible tells us that ordination of a minister is a sober responsibility.

Paul wrote: “Do not lay hands upon anyone too hastily and thereby share responsibility for the sins of others”(1 Tim. 5:22).

We might be tempted to rush the process, but the apostle warned against fast-tracking ordination—and he said that those who commission a minister who is not ready for the job will bear some of the blame for his failures. I trust that Wagner, Ahn, Johnson and Arnott didn’t know of Bentley’s problems before they ordained him.

I am sure they are saddened by the events of this week and are reaching out toBentley and his wife to promote healing and restoration. But I believe that they, along with Bentley and the owners of God TV, owe the body of Christ a forthright, public apology for thrusting Bentley’s ministry into the spotlight prematurely. (Perhaps such an apology should be aired on God TV.)

Can anything good come out of this? That depends on how people respond. If the men assigned to oversee Bentley offer loving but firm correction, and if Bentley responds humbly to the process by stepping out of ministry for aseason of rehabilitation, we could witness a healthy case of church discipline play out the way it is supposed to.

If all those who were so eager to promote Bentley now rush just as fast to repent fortheir errors in judgment, then the rest of us could breathe a huge sigh of relief—and the credibility of our movement could be restored.

I still believe that God desires to visit our nation in supernatural power. I know He wants to heal multitudes, and I will continue praying for a healing revival to sweep across the United States.But we must contend for the genuine, not an imitation. True revival will be accompanied by brokenness, humility, reverence and repentance—not the arrogance, showmanship and empty hype that often was on display in Lakeland.

We are weathering an unprecedented season of moral failure and spiritual compromise in our nation today. I urge everyone in the charismatic world to pray for Bentley; his wife, Shonnah; his three young children; Bentley’s ministry staff; and the men and women who serve as his counselors and advisers. Let’s pray that God will turn this embarrassing debacle into an opportunity for miraculous restoration.

Rev Dan Sutton
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so ladies.... how do you let a guy down? Aug 14, 2008 4:12 am
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Lets say you have met someone, perhaps you had been in contact for awhile and you have decided he is not "the one".

How do you feel about telling him and how do you handle it? Do you just hope he catches your drift, or do you have your own way of telling him??
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just going along and accepting Aug 14, 2008 4:02 am
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That is what has brought us to face the issues at hand today. Our gas prices, because we stopped drilling and stopped building refineries.

Abortion because we voted for Presidents and politicians that thought its ok to make law from the Supreme court Bench, when all its described job is to decide if something is Constitutional or not.

The same can be said for our school systems as God has been replaced with progressive thinking

In our Churches as unscriptural and eastern mystical beliefs have been incorporated somehow as part of the bible. People that point it out are called witch or heresy hunters.

The founding forefathers of America warned us of this and the Bible warns us of false doctrine as well.

So do we just blindly accept, or do we do some research ourselves?
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