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Posted:Sep 17, 2005 5:30 pm
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Hi Neet,
I enjoyed your blog. Forgiveness is a very important principle for Christians.
However, the problem is that we do not understand the concept of forgiveness and
it is not properly addressed.
When we recite the Lord's prayer, we are speaking damnation on ourselves if we
are not clear what we are saying.
Again, when we recite "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that
trespass against us". What we are saying to God is to forgive us as we forgive
others. So, the understanding of this should be that if we fail to forgive
others, then we are telling God not to forgive us. To hold us as accountable as
we hold others. Therefore, it is in our best interest to forgive... For God alone
has power over Heaven and hell.
Therefore, let us be cognizant of our prayers and let us strive to incorporate
God's will into our lives.
Be blessed,
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I agree Word, and the only reason that people believe that God cannot forgive
some people is because they won't forgive them. If they did forgive all others
then could it possibly be all that difficult for God. He being more powerful and
more forgiving than we are will be seen now as a lamb and not as a lion. It will
set free things we never knew bound us.
When we chose not to forgive, it is like putting a person in prison. Only, most
time it has no effect on them that we have imprisoned them and instead now we are
making ourselves into a prisoner that must stand outside the cell and guard the
prisoner we have put in there.
When we choose to free them, we set ourselves free.
Forgiveness and being set free always go together.
It is the power to overcome even the devil.
This has given me an idea to repeat a study I did once one complete forgiveness.
That is a message I like to share.
Thank you for standing in agreement with me for the power of forgiveness, Word.
God Bless You,
Anita
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Awesome Scripture I found in Ephesians:
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Posted:Sep 17, 2005 2:36 pm
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1181 Views
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Put away from you all unforgiveness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:31-32
WOW, what do you guys think of that one?
Any comments?
(please be nice now, no asking me what I mix with my kool aid or nothin') LOL
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Yes, God does rejoice!
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Posted:Sep 17, 2005 1:32 pm
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1035 Views
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Yes, God does rejoice!
God rejoices in the finding of His lost sheep, as any sheperd. Those who would feel regret for this are wrong. The sheep who were not lost should celebrate with Him.
It is not difficult for God to save anyone. We are not actually ever lost per se, we just didn't know we weren't lost. God was able to find Adam and Eve in the garden, even though they could not see Him.
This life is a celebration, but, it is not our reward. It is not even close to what we are about to have. When our flesh comes off, we no longer appear to be seperate. We never were. This whole "life" is an illusion and very soon, Jesus will be back; to wake us up to what life really is. I cannot tell you when, but if the owner of the house had known at what time the thief would break in, he would not be found sleeping.
This world has nothing for me and it has everything. I am happy and filled with joy more than ever, not because I found my place in the world, but that the desire of my heart since I was six years old is to find God, be with Him in Heaven and everyone else would have that too. I never believed people were evil, just unloved and unwise. If they knew better than the world teaches them, surely they could do better and if they knew real Love, the knewing better and doing better would come.
Inside each one of us is a seed, put there by God, it is a piece of Himself. It is impossible for God not to love a part of Himself and to want a piece of Himself to be destroyed.
Through us, His , God is bringing His entire body into subjection, reconciliation and order. ( UT, OH, sounds like daddy's been working out at the gym..., I always wondered how He got that strong! ) It will be for His glory, not ours. It is through us, His body that He has His existence; and we have ours. For without worshippers, it is impossible to be a God. Our God is the King of all kings, God of every god, and Lord of all creation.
To have been promised a place with Him and know there is no way I could ever deserve it, everything has become my joy.
Loving Him is really the only thing I want to do. He knows that I love Him, because I love all others. That IS what brings me JOY, because I just love to hear my Dad rejoice!
LOL
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Names of God - Doorway
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Posted:Sep 16, 2005 4:07 pm
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1033 Views
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Hello, and thank you for giving me a moment to explain my "doorways."
A lot of my earlier blogs are still active, though not on the main list.
Some people may have not had the opportunity to see the earlier blogs, and my doorways open up a path for them to be WELCOME to join the discussions.
The following link is the doorway to Names of God:
Names of God
Thank you and God Bless you.
Always Love,
Anita
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Say One Word - Doorway
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Posted:Sep 16, 2005 4:03 pm
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1032 Views
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Hello, and thank you for giving me a moment to explain my "doorways."
Some of my earlier blogs did well, and the posted responses from others were incredible!
Some people may have not had the opportunity to see the earlier blogs, and my doorways open up a path for them to be WELCOME to join the discussions.
The following doorway is the path to the Say One Word post:
Say One Word, a Question
Thank you and God Bless you.
Always Love,
Anita
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Messiah - Doorway
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Posted:Sep 16, 2005 3:52 pm
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1139 Views
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Hello, and thank you for giving me a moment to explain my "doorways."
The doorways lead to a former post that is still active.
Some people may have not had the opportunity to see the earlier blogs, and my doorways open up a path for them to be WELCOME to join the discussions.
The following link is a doorway to Messiah.
Messiah, misi'a, n
Thank you and God Bless you.
Always Love,
Anita
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I Call Him Daddy...,
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Posted:Sep 16, 2005 5:32 am
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1122 Views
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I was just sitting here thinking about all of the wonderful ways we refer to our Father.
King of Kings, I like that one.
Lord of Lords, ditto.
Hope for the hopeless is one I use a lot.
Savior of the world.
Creator of the entire universe.
The great, I AM.
Awesome God,
but most times, I just call Him Daddy...,
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Come Together
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Posted:Sep 16, 2005 3:12 am
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1118 Views
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You might all call me crazy,
for the crazy things I say.
You can laugh all you want to,
but I know there will come a day
when we all will come together
and learn to set aside our hates
we can learn to love our neighbors
just as we should love ourselves
we've got to come together
cause in the end we can make it alright
we've got to brave the weather
through all of the storms
we've got to learn to love.
We've got to learn to love.
You can call me a dreamer
but these dreams will come true
and yes I am a firm believer
in the things that we could do
if we will all just come together
and let the Lord lead our way
there is nothing that we can't do
there is nothing we can't face.
We've got to come together
cause in the end we can make it alright
We've got to learn to love.
And I know that there will come a day
when the Lord will call His own away
to a place that He has made for all of us.
But, until the day of His return
there's a lesson that we've got to learn
we are brothers we are sisters we are one.
We've got to come together......
Ooops, got caught listening to my Third Day cd
again! LOL
Anita
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Messiah, mi-si'a, n.
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Posted:Sep 14, 2005 9:19 pm
Last Updated:Jun 29, 2006 3:56 am 1928 Views
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Messiah, mi-si'a, n. [Heb. mashiach, annointed, < mashac, to annoint.] The deliverer and Savior promised to the Jewish people; Jesus, regarded in the Christian religion as The Savior,; also Messias. (Usu. l.c.) a promised liberator; and ardent leader. -- Messiahship. n.- Messianic, mes e an'ik, a.
Savior, Brit. sav-iour, sav'yer, n. [O. Fr. sauveour (Fr. sauveur), < L.L. salvator, <alvare, E. save.] One who saves, rescues, or delivers; (cap). a title of God and esp. of Christ, often preceeded by 'the.'
Christ, krist, n. [L. Christus, Gr. Christos, lit. annointed as ruler; the appelation given to Jesus of Nazareth by the Christian world as the one fulfilling the prophecy in the Old Testament as a deliverer., a Messiah; first used as a title , Jesus the Christ, later as a proper name, Jesus Christ; an ideal type of person who resembles Jesus Christ.
Deliver, di-liv'er, v.t. [O. Fr. delivrer (), <M.L. deliberare, <L. de, from, and liberare, set free, <liber, free.] To carry and turn over the intended recipients things such as letters or goods; to give into another's possession or keeping; to give forth or emit; to give forth in words, utter, or pronounce; as, to deliver a course of lectures, to deliver a verdict; to discharge, launch, or direct; to cast, throw, or project; to set free or liberate; to release or save, as from evil or trouble; to aid in the process of giving birth to, as offspring; to aid in the process of being born; of oneself, to disburden of thoughts or opinions.-- v.i. To give birth; to make delivery; to pronounce an opinion or verdict.--de-liv-er-a-ble, a.--de-liv-er-er, n.
Deliverance, di-liv'er-ans, n. The act of delivering or condition of being delivered, as
from captivity, oppression, or danger; an opinion or decision communicated, esp. publicly; archaic, an utterance.
Jesus the Christ, He is described in his exaltation, with His Great Kingdom that shall be Spiritual rather than temporal. Ps. 2, 21, 40, 110. In other places He is seen as suffering for all mankind in humiliation. Ps. 16, 22, 40. Later on the prophets show the Messiah as King and ruler of David's house, who would come to reform and restore the Church, as in Isa. 11, 40-66. The blessings of the restoration, however, will not be confined to Jews; the heathen are made to share them fully. Isa. 2, 66.
Jesus Christ being both human and divine is fitted to be the true Saviour of mankind. In this, as in every action and character, he is shown to be "the wisdom and power of God unto salvation." As human, he reaches down to our natures, sympathises with us, shows us that God knows all of our feelings and weaknesses and sorrows and sins, brings God near to us, who otherwise could not realize the Infinite and Eternal as a Father and friend. He is divine, in order that He may be an all-powerful, all-loving Saviour, able and willing to defend us from every enemy, to subdue all temptations, to deliver from all sin, and to bring each of His people, and the whole church, into complete and final victory. He is to be the ruler of the entire world.
The crucifixion planned by hearts full of hate remains the only way we have of ending hate that this world has ever seen. Jesus gathered up unto Himself the sins of the whole world, took them with Him to the cross, bore the guilt which no man can bear for Himself; satisfied whatever needed to be satisfied in the justice, holiness and love of God and finally made possible the full and complete forgiveness for every human being, in every age, under every condition for all eternity. The of God is the King of Kings Who rules by enslaving Himself and by dying for His whole creation. He stole the keys of hell, death and the grave and set the captives free.
Just pray about it and realize that Jesus took His ministry out to the hopeless that the church rejected as unworthy and He proved that they could be saved, and quite easily at that. They had no pride or hope for heaven, that is what truly makes it a gift. They have no works to justify why they should recieve salvation, but cry to God in their hearts anyways. Like lambs led to the slaughter they have accepted that death is their fate without resistance.
What lie has been put into our hearts by the false pens of scribes and the traditions of man that would have our King to be found insufficient, mocked, His mercy to be less than mercy, and His love to be a lie. Was His death to be for less than what it was worth? The King of Glory turned King of maybe. He didn't die for nothing, He sacrificed His life for everything, and each and every one of us. To accept less than this is to hang Him back upon the cross to crucify Him once again, and say that what He did was not good enough.
Either Jesus was the perfect sacrifice, or He wasn't. Jesus came to save the world and die for all sin. Period. I believe that He has accomplished what He came to do. To say that He has not saved the world after that is what He came to do is to say that Jesus failed. Love never fails. The bad news is wrong!
The world teaches us that God starts saving at the top, with the really good, really "easy" ones and works His way down to the more questionable characters. The people at the bottom have little to no hope of being saved. That is a house that is built on the sand. God starts at the bottom with a firm foundation and then builds His mansion upwards. It is not difficult for God to save anyone; it shows no awesome power to start building a roof before the foundation; and an awesome God could not do anything less for His creation than to apply first His unlimited love to the point of its greatest need.
I am not willing for one to be lost. God is not either. If we expect Him to give us complete forgiveness, then we are completely forgiven when we completely forgive. For if we do this it will never again be a question which one of us shall be lost. And that is the way the Law of Love says it should be. The last shall be first and the least shall be the greatest.
God does not judge us for what we do not know. If we knew better we could do better. We as Christians should know better, that these words are not the proclamation of a new "religion" but the fulfillment of the same faith we claim to have and should already know.
It was the goal of our fore fathers to see to fruition their dreams of a salvation that would extend to all mankind.
This is the God I serve, God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the Lord of my life Jesus Christ. They didn't believe that God would half way save His creation. I do not either.
I cannot follow any other shepherd, for I am sure that if any sheep are lost Jesus will leave the others on the mountainside and search for the lost one until it is found. And when He does find it, truly, He rejoices over it more than the ones who were never lost.
This world belongs to God and everything in it. Every knee will bow, every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord and King over all the earth.
Can I get an "AMEN" ?
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Names of God
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Posted:Sep 14, 2005 4:39 am
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1398 Views
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Elohim...The All-Powerful One
El...The Strong One
El-Elyon...The Most High God
El-Shaddai...The All-Sufficient One
El-Olam...The Everlasting God
Yahweh...The Self-Existent One
Jehovah-Elohim...Lord God, as Creator
Jehovah-Jireh...God Will Provide
Jehovah-Tapha...God Who heals
Jehovah-Nissi...God is my banner
Jehovah-Shalom...God is peace
Jehovah-Shammah...God is there
Jehovah-Tsidkenu...God our righteousness
Jehovah-Raah...The Lord is my Shepherd
Jehovah-Sabaoth...The Lord of Hosts
The living God...God gives strength
King...God rules
Strength...God gives us power
Redeemer...The God Who saves
Rock...God's strength
Savior...God rescues
Ancient of Days...God's global authority
Father...God loves His family
God of Gods...Above all Gods
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