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What I Believe about Trials...
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Mar 26, 2006 10:13 am
Mood: courageous,
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I have come to the point in my life where I believe the following about trials:
1. Trials will continue to come into my life as long as I am alive.
2. Trial are for my good.
3. God has a solution to the trial before it ever starts.
4. He alone has allowed the trial because the enemy can't do anything to me without my Father's permission.
5. God won't let the trial last one second longer than is necessary.
6. I will come out the other side with more spiritual maturity than I had before the trial started.
7. Being thankful for the trial makes the trial go by faster, allows the Lord to teach me all that He cares to during the trial and takes away all the glory my enemy would like to get from the trial.
8. That the Lord will give me the strength to go through the trial.
I guess the Lord has taught me some things, huh? Thank you, Lord!
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We Don't Have to Become What We Were Taught!
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Mar 26, 2006 10:08 am
Mood: hopeful,
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Thank God that our childhoods does not have to determine our adulthoods. Christ can take away all the influences from our childhoods from our lives. I was taught to hate everyone. I was hated. I was beaten. I was sexually abused. I was told by my parents that they wished I had never been born. I was taught racism. I could have become what I was taught and I really should have, statistically. However, the Lord made me a new creature in Him. He healed all those places of hurt. He taught me His ways to replace my childhood ways. All things have become new; the old has passed away. The cycle has been broken. Hallelujah! God will do the same for anyone who asks Him. I pray God's richest blessings upon you!
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Follow Up on the "Lord, Help Me!!!!" Poll
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Mar 26, 2006 5:55 am
Mood: hopeful,
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Thank you all for the wonderful words of encouragement. I appreciate you all so much!
There were actually two men that I have been thinking about since I read Kianan's post. I don't know why I said one. I didn't realize it until after it was posted and figured why change it.
Anyway, I did it! I told both men how I feel. I still haven't heard back from either of them, so I am sitting on pins and needles here! Oh well, I did what I thought I should. One I replied to an email he sent me and the other I winked at. He replied with an email and I wrote back and let him know how I feel. Time will tell whether I am rejected by one or both. Experience tells me that neither of them will work out, but who knows, right? I am content as I am, but always hold out hope of finding that special someone, someday.
Thank you all again for your wonderful support! Be blessed!
Jean
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How God Sanctifies Us
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Mar 24, 2006 3:08 pm
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I am no better than anyone else, even though I don't participate in a lot of the sins I used to participate in. The Lord has done some stuff in my life! I used to swear, have sex outside of marriage, gamble, listen to rock music, dance, watch bad television shows and bad movies, play video games, dress provocatively, smoke, drink alcohol, do drugs, plus some other things that I won't even mention here. And I did these things when I was a Christian! I didn't know how not to do these things! I didn't want to do them; I just didn't know how to stop! I was like Paul in Romans 7.
Did my doing these things make me not a Christian? NO! Did God condemn me for doing them? NO! Did other Christians condemn me for doing them? YES! Instead of reaching out to me and showing me how to allow God to take these things out of my life, other Christians just looked down their noses at me and kicked me down even further than I was already! How Christian was that? NOT VERY! Do you think God was any less pleased with me for what I was doing than He was with the people who were kicking me? NO! Sin is sin!
Do you want to know how I stopped doing all the things I was doing wrong? It was really easy after God showed me what to do. He showed me about grace. He told me that He loves me unconditionally. He told me that He did not condemn me, that there was nothing I could do or say that would make Him stop loving me. He told me that it was others and Satan who were condemning me. He told me to just stop trying to do things right and just concentrate on getting to know Him, and to spend time with Him. So, I did. I read my Bible all the time, I spent time talking with Him and worshiped Him. I learned to love and trust Him. I stopped trying to change myself and decided to let Him do the changing when He was ready. And you know what? It worked! All the things that I was so ashamed of doing before but was unable to stop doing just started melting away. One after another of them just stopped being part of my life.
The Lord was so very patient with me. He didn't make me stop all of them at once. He showed my very gently which one He was ready to work on at any given time. I would acknowledge that it was a sin and gave Him permission to take it away and He took it! Sometimes it took awhile, but He took it! Praise Him! I look at the things I used to do and realize just how far the Lord has brought me. He is truly an awesome God.
Do I feel like I am better than anyone else is because I don't do a lot of the things I used to do anymore? NO! I am a testimony to God's handiwork, nothing more. And I know that if I take my eyes off of Him for a moment, I could be back to doing any one or all of the things I used to do again very quickly! I know I am helpless to remain pure without the power of the Holy Spirit keeping me. So, I don't look down upon anyone else if they mess up.
The people I have a problem with are the ones who sin and don't admit that what they are doing is sin. I never did that. I always admitted to myself, to others and to God that I was sinning. I discovered that God can work with someone who admits that what they are doing is wrong. He can't and won't work with a proud person, though. "He opposes the proud."
So, if you find yourself stuck in sins that you hate but can't seem to pull yourself out of, don't worry! Do the things the Lord showed me to do and you will be set free! Remember, "He whom the Lord sets free is free indeed!"
Well, that is all I have to say about that, as Forest Gump would say!
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We Are Spiritual Beings!
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Mar 24, 2006 8:19 am
Mood: contemplative,
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"We are not human beings going through a temporary spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings going through a temporary human experience." - Unknown
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A Good Samaritan For Sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mar 24, 2006 8:14 am
Mood: thoughtful,
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A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. "Your son is here," she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened.
Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out
his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.
The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed. All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words of love and strength.
Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest awhile. He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital - the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients. Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words.
The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night. Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited.
Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her. "Who was that man?" he asked.
The nurse was startled, "He was your father," she answered.
"No, he wasn't," the Marine replied. "I never saw him before in my life."
"Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?"
"I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn't here. When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me, I stayed."
The next time someone needs you...be there. Stay. You'll be glad you did.
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