Have a Blessed day!
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Posted:Aug 29, 2005 3:29 am
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I have met so many wonderful people here and I wish I had the opportunity to tell each and every one of them how much I appreciate the faith and kindness they have shown.
It is nice to have new friends and smiling faces to share the hope of Christ with.
So, to all of you out there to whom I haven't had the opportunity to say thanks to, here it is.
Thank You.
Have a very blessed day, may the spirit of peace be with you; and I hope you share that spirit with those around you for me too!
Love always,
Anita
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calling all blog buddies!
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Posted:Aug 27, 2005 3:58 pm
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1536 Views
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Hey, where you guys been?
Anybody have any revelations or praise reports?
Come on, the mood says "ecstatic,"
but the truth is I am actually kinda bored.
I know, I think I'll put on that really cool Jennifer Knapp CD 'till all my friends get here.
Anita
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To the Pure
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Posted:Aug 26, 2005 6:41 pm
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1561 Views
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You in the mirror staring back at me,
oh conscience let me be.
To the pure all things are pure,
to those who are defiled, unbelieving nothing is pure.
Their minds, their conscience defiled
they profess to know God but deceive Him by works all the while.
Where do I stand on the rock or in the sand,
Holy Spirit won't you help me understand.
Holy Spirit won't you say a prayer for me
with your groanings?
My mind my conscience defiled?
Send the blood of the lamb don't leave me in exile.
What was that promise on the cross at Calvary?
Confess the Lord and the truth shall set you free.
Create in me a clean heart, Oh God;
renew a steadfast Spirit within me
to my prayers you've always given heed.
Blessed by my God Who NEVER turned away from me
Hid His face from all my sin,
forgot my iniquity.
Raise your hands sing praises to the Lord,
He is the King and He reigns for ever more.
He died upon a cross at Calvary,
He died to save a WRETCH like me......,
OOPS, got caught listening to my Jennifer Knapp CD again!
Anita
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The Laws of Sin and Death
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Posted:Aug 26, 2005 6:28 pm
Last Updated:Dec 29, 2006 4:39 pm 1414 Views
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The Mosaic Law, or Ten Commandments, i.e., the laws of sin and death were given to the Jews. They can save no one. Christians are given the command to love one another. Comparing the two is like the classic case of condemnation vs. justification; ritual vs. celebration.
Christians who are still trying to fulfill the Commandments and use them to judge others are not fully mature. The Commandments condemn us, they never saved anyone. Jesus came to fulfill the Law. He died a sinner’s death in our place.
By continuing to live under the Law we become slaves to it, and have not yet matured our relationship with God.
By using the Law as a way to measure spiritual maturity we reject what Christ did for us. It’s like hanging Jesus back up on the cross and crucifying Him all over again, saying,”OK, Jesus, what you did wasn’t good enough; we still have to work our way in.”
No one should be under the bondage of failure and separation by the demands of the letter of the Law, fleeing from God caused by fear of retribution. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. No amount of works can earn our salvation, what amount of works can destroy it?
Christians who are mature have accepted Christ’s gift in faith. We stop trying to prove our salvation by performing works. With thanksgiving we marvel at the priceless gift He paid for us. We accept that what Christ accomplished in our lives by His death could never be accomplished by the Law. In so accepting this, our faith becomes demonstrated through our works, which become perfected in Christ.
The Law does not rule over mature Christians. As we love everyone, fulfilling the law is a natural result of that love. The Law becomes as unnecessary as a law against picking a green elephant’s nose with a spatula, at sunrise, naked, on the third Monday of the month.
Christ fulfilled the Law. So, the Law is for those of little faith who have not accepted that salvation comes from what Jesus did on the cross. The death and resurrection of Christ heralded in a new commandment, Love One Another. In fulfilling this Law, we fulfill all other laws.
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I need friends...,
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Posted:Aug 26, 2005 1:37 pm
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 3669 Views
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Anybody wanna be my friend? Sure could use all I can get!
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Third Day Ya'll
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Posted:Aug 26, 2005 8:53 am
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1554 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.
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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Revive Us, Oh Lord!
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Posted:Aug 25, 2005 8:46 am
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1570 Views
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Once we get rid of all of our unforgiveness, we are no longer slaves, we are sons.
As a man freely accepts the promises of God, he is more able to obey God’s greatest command to love one another, and all.
I am not proclaiming the gospel of a new religion, but the fulfillment of the same one you should already know ‒ the message of the complete reconciliation of God’s creation.
God is more concerned with the "revival of the unfit" that the "survival of the fittest."
The saying is sure and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners ‒ I am first in line. 1 Timothy 1:15
The believers that look the most hopeless to this world are actually not as hopeless as the world believes they are.
The more a person practices righteousness the greater is the likelihood of their suffering.
It is not difficult for God to save anyone and He saves us in our lowest moment of despair.
The more rejected and outcast by the world that a God fearing person becomes, the closer they get to the proverbial narrow road.
We come to a point where all we have left is God.
When we count ourselves as the lowest among men, this is what it means to be humble.
Humility was one of Jesus’ most obvious qualities.
A humble person feels unworthy of casting judgment on others.
Those who are in Christ Jesus do not condemn others.
When we stop judging others, God no longer holds judgment against us.
This is the truth that leads to righteousness before God.
And this is my prayer that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless. Philippians 1:9-10
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Here..., Bite this Apple
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Posted:Aug 24, 2005 11:54 pm
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1579 Views
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The world is under the impression that we are all separate spirits, and that a great deal of God's creation is, "bad."
Why? He called it, "good."
The illusion of "bad" is caused by the fruit from the tree of good and evil.
That is the lie perpetuated from the separation that occured in the garden of eden.
It gives us the illusion that evil has power.
It teaches us that Love fails.
It produces unforgiveness.
It leaves us starving.
Suppose we are separate beings, as our flesh deceives us into believing.
If pieces of our foundation were broken or lost then our foundation is not solid, and our house will not stand.
That would be a like a house built on the sand.
The fruit from the tree of life is quite another story indeed.
When we eat from it we turn in love from evil.
We see the truth that we are all created in the image of God.
We agree in faith that our spirit should be one and either we all stand together or together we all fall.
Complete forgiveness is what each of us require, and we are completely forgiven when we completely forgive.
Savor love and forgiveness and see that it is very good, indeed.
Offer the fruit to all mankind.
For if we eat of it, we will never hunger again.
This is the house that is built on a rock.
This faith has the power for salvation of all mankind.
The faith of others seems to be only for themselves and a select few.
It is a shaky faith at best.
Once again the Pharisees are crucifying our Messiah.
Why are we teaching that Christ came to save the world and failed?
If it is God's will that none should be lost, why is that not our will?
Why do we pray God's will be done and then believe it won't?
What is powerful enough to overcome His will?
Why do we believe that worldly success is evidence of God's favor?
Why do we believe that it is difficult for God to save certain people?
Why do we believe that making mistakes takes one farther from God rather than closer while going through trials?
Lets put away our spiritual measuring sticks.
Our love for them (or not) is OUR trial.
We are not called to judge them and decide they cannot come.
Are you the one who died to save them, that you can make that choice?
God would not have us to be as tax collectors throwing rocks at our
brothers and sisters; the very ones that Jesus based His ministry around; the rest of God's creation that He called, "very good."
God chose what is low and despised in this world to shame the wise, so that no man can boast.
These are only a few of the mysteries that God has shown me.
I believe God.
When Abraham believed God it was reckoned unto him as righteousness.
For to this end we toil and struggle, because we have our hope set on the LIVING GOD, Who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe. 1 Timothy 4:10
Jesus will lose nothing, but raise it all in the last day. John 6:39
See, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for me? Jeremiah 32:26
Hey, Ya'll look over there, I see it..., lets get out of this wilderness and go to the promised land!
Some Christians I know are such silly sheep. They follow the wrong shepherd; they even follow other silly sheep.
The crucifixion planned by hearts full of hate remains the only way we have of ending hate 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.
That's what I believe.
My God is an AWESOME GOD; why can't we do more than just sing about it!
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Who Is Worthy?
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Posted:Aug 24, 2005 8:40 pm
Last Updated:Jun 22, 2006 2:14 am 1640 Views
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Hasn’t the Bible taught us that Jesus is the good shepherd? “What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And when he finds it truly I tell you he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.
Matthew 18:12-13
When Jesus returns to rescue His chosen, many of the hopeless that look least likely to make it will be taken. Don’t be surprised that there will be more taken from the poor, starving, prisoners and homeless than the front row of the “churches.” This will be God’s witness as to who is truly righteous.
Jesus is coming back for truly repentant Christians most of whom have a long list of offenses and have been labeled “lost causes” by the “church.” These are the lost sheep. It is because of our overwhelming need of forgiveness that we have been chosen to prove the depth of God’s love. Since we all have great need of forgiveness, that means everyone qualifies.
The Kingdom that Christ came to proclaim was an inclusive one, as evidenced by His ministry to the poor, the hurting and the unwanted.
Why are people still under the impression that God's Kingdom is so exclusive that a great many will be lost?
Why do you believe it is so difficult for God to save whomever He chooses?
Yours is a sHaKy faith at best.
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 hasn’t 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.
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What is Heaven Like?
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Posted:Aug 24, 2005 5:30 am
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1556 Views
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What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love Him.
1 Corinthians 2:9
We won’t be changed into something we will never understand and be put somewhere so foreign that we won’t be comfortable.
It will be just like waking up.
We will be whisked through this universe in 11/100 of a second (the twinkling of an eye), through the dimensions of space and time and arrive in a new world, in a new body, and we’ll be in the presence of God forever.
This new world is impossible for us to obtain until we are able to care for it properly.
Where we are going is to an existence on a higher dimension, which has conquered the limitations of time and decay.
Therefore we will never age, or get sick, or die.
We will have control over the elements; there will be more elements.
Mastery of gravity and space travel will be possible.
We will be able to create.
I believe there will be more colors, more sounds more vibrant manners of expression.
God will open the mouths of all beasts, cattle, and of birds, and of whatever walks and of whatever moves, so that we will be able to communicate with the animals.
God’s ultimate plan is to restore us to that higher dimension where we will be safe with Him.
We will be in a perfected state in a perfect world.
The most amazing thing about the vision He gave me is the way that people treat one another.
We really will love others more than ourselves. We won’t give each other occasion for offense; rather to be wronged than to be the one responsible for not perpetuating peace.
Just imagine, without any laws, there can be no criminals.
The only weapons ever used will be truth and forgiveness. They are better than a two edged sword, they can never come back and hurt us unexpectedly.
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