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Yes. For me...
it happens during altar calls. I get over whelmed when an elderly person or lots of people go forward. I put my shades on in church when it happens to me. :)
I think it's the joy of the Lord filling me up to the brim. As I consider myself a strong person as well, and don't do this either in normal life.
I always take my sun glasses to church. lol
Last Sun. the preacher gave a really good sermon. People all around me were wiping tears from their eyes. I just sat there unmoved agreeing with everything the preacher said. Different things (spiritual) effect different people in different ways.
It also happens to me during baptisms.
We serve a wonderful God. (Judeo-Christian) Yeah!!
Just slap your shades on when it happens. :)
Only thing wrong with tainted money...
is there taint' enough of it. LOL
One Lord, One faith, One baptism...
When ever I see this, I think of an old tape I use to have by Aretha Franklin. This was the title of the tape. :) Thanks tenac for sharing that new music board. I board marked it but haven't had time to really check it out yet. Still haven't caught up reading here on the Bible board and can't wait to see what else I can find to tap into and reply from way back yonder. ROTFLOL
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. (Against yourself as well as anyone else) Depart from evil,(saying evil words and believing evil thoughts about yourself as well as about anyone else!) and do good: seek peace and pursue it. (Pursue means to choose it.)Psm.34:13-14
A man who is at war with himself will be at war with others. When you like yourself you will be free to like and appreciate others. When you are hard on yourself you will be hard on others. Remember any thoughts that reflect hopelessness, desperation, hate, fear, bitterness, jealousy or envy are the words and thoughts generated by demonic false-hood.
Our lives hold meaning because God loves us and because we are His. Jesus Christ is the foundation of our lives, not ourselves alone and not another person or persons.
Hebrews 11:1-2
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. NIV
2Peter 1:20-21
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
1:19-21 By Grant Jeffrey
Peter shares some very important principles by which we should evaluate the prophecies of the Bible. First, he validates the message of prophecy (1:19), explaining that prophecy is intended to be a spiritual light to enlighten the dark times in which believers live. Peter also urges vigilance and paying close attention to prophecy because it motivates us to holy living. He also notes that prophecy is an inspired message from the Holy Spirit, not from mere humans, given so that the church will live expectantly "until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts" (1:19; see Rev.22:16).
Rev.22:16
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
2Timothy3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Revelation 1:3
Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near. NIV
1:1-3 John declares that this vision was sent to him by God through his angel. Note that John issues a unique blessing of God on anyone who reads or listens to "the words of this prophecy"
(1:3)
(I'll take the blessing ;)
I don't know how to respond...
So you get the full effect:
(of some of the wars)
Rev.16:12 KJ
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Rev. 9:14-16
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
9:13-21 By Grant Jeffrey
The sixth trumpet (the second woe) will kill one third of humanity. God releases 200 million soldiers to wreak havoc throughout the earth. (9:16). The enormous army of the kings of the east will cross into Israel from Asia to fight for world supremacy against the armies of the antichrist and his false prophet. This judgment will set the stage for the Battle of Armageddon, ending the seven-year tribulation. (see Da 9:27).
For thousands of years the Euphrates River has served as a great military barrier to armies attacking from the East. However, in the late 1980's Turkey finished construction of the huge Ataturk Dam, designed to control these vast waters. For the first time in history, the flow of this great river can now be stopped at the push of a button. The prophecy of Rev. 9:14 can be fulfilled in our lifetime.
Note that when God makes an appointment with destiny for a person or an empire, that appointment will not be postponed. Amazingly, despite every opportunity to repent, the sinners in the tribulation will refuse to turn from their wickedness (9:20).
The Orient Factor
By William Goetz
China, the world's largest nation with a population of some 1 billion, is considered by many to be another of the nations which astir in accordance with biblical prophecy.
In the context of the three end-time wars predicted in the Bible, there are references to a massive eastern power. Rev. 16:12 refers to the "kings from the East" who come over the Euphrates to do battle in Israel at the time of Armageddon. In what many feel is a companion reference Rev. 9:14-16 states that the number of the army is 200 million demonically energized people. Daniel 11:44 contains another reference to this eastern power which figures in end-time events.
To me, it is quite significant that Mao Tse-tung boasted on several occasions before his death that China could "field a people's army of 200 million militia." This is particularly interesting if it is remembered that, at the time when the apostle John penned his prophecy--some 1,900 years ago-- such an army was absolutely unthinkable. Two hundred million was virtually earth's entire population at that time! For anyone to say that just one nation could have such an army was utter fantasy! Yet today it is a very real possibility.
China has nuclear capacity. In 1979, it completed the Karakoram Highway from Singkiang province down through Pakistan to the Indian Ocean. A spur of this highway goes through Afghanistan and Iran to Iraq, where the Euphrates River runs from Turkey to the Persian Gulf.
It requires no great imagination to see that this great eastern power is no longer asleep, but appears ready, or gearing up, to play the role envisioned for her by the ancient prophets.
(Like it or not wars are comming) And sorry for typo's
Of course many are Orthodox Christians.
I don't know anything about Putin except I heard once he made the sign of the cross in Orthodox, which I do believe they cross themselves opposite of the Catholics. fwiw
BUT Christians or not.
The Motive for the Battle
(By Grant Jeffery)
Ezekiel's prophecy indicates that Magog will attempt to destroy Israel and capture her land as a geographically strategic prize. This narrow strip of land has historically been fought over by any empire that wanted to dominate the world. Today, whoever controls this small strip of land along the Mediterranean controls the Middle East as well as the vital oil supplies that flow through it. Because of worldwide dependence on Middle East oil, this outcome of this strategic battle will affect the economies of all industrialized nations.
According to Ezekiel, Magog (Russia) will need help in acquiring the land of Israel and wil form a confederation of nations to attack the promised land (see 38:1-6). Historians and Biblical scholars have identified these nations as modern-day Iran, some of the Arab states adjacent to Iran, Germany, Turkey and central Asiatic peoples allied with Russia.
1 Best I don't know where to begin.
I'm just going thru post because I'm so far behind on this board and these post of yours jumped out at me.
The U.S. and Israel (If I remember right?) needs Georgia. Our Air craft fills up for fuel there if I remember right.
The Bible says:
Ezekiel 38:1-7 and 38:14-16.
Read it.
By Grant Jeffery
38:1-7
Ezekiel prophesied that in the last days, after the return of the Jews to the promised land, a confederacy of nations would join together militarily to invade and destroy Palestine. Ezekiel called the leader of this alliance "Gog," who was "the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal." (38:2.)
Ezekiel declared God's determination to stand against Gog and destroy the armies and leaders that attempt to destroy God's people. Though the alliance is strong, God is the one who will control the outcome of the battle and will lead Gog around like a beast with a bit in its mouth.
From another commentary: (By William R. Goetz)
For centuries, students of prophecy have believed that the great northern power which leads a confederacy of allies in an attack upon Israel is Russia. The Destiny of the Nations, written in 1864 by Dr. John Cumming, outlined this view long before Russia was a major power.
What are the reasons for believing that the northern power which leads the attack is Russia? There are at least three.
1.The meaning of names used. Josephus, the most famed of ancient Jewish historians, held this view based on the fact that Genesis 10:2 list Magog as the second grandson of Noah. History records that he and his descendants moved and settled north of the Black Sea.
Tubal and Meshech, the fifth and sixth grandsons of Noah, moved south of the Black Sea. Intermarriage over the centuries followed. The descendants of Meshech and Tubal are identified as the Mushki and Tubali of the Volga River basin and present-day Moscow and Tobolsk.
The famous nineteenth-century lexicographer, Dr. William Gesenius, emphatically states that the word Gog could properly be translated "the prince of Rosh" and says that Rosh is definitely to be equated with Russia.
Scofield Bible Notes, the Watson Bible Dictionary, the SchaftHertzog Commentary and others support this view. Another extensive documentation for identifying Russia as Rosh is found in After the Empire by Mark Hitchock.
2. The homeland location of the leader of the invaders. Ezekiel 38:15 says that the invader will come "from [his] place out of the north parts." (KJV), or, as it is rendered in some translations. "out of the uttermost north."
Now, remembering that compass directions in the Bible are always given in reference to the Holy Land, we can identify the invader. There is only one nation which fits the description of being to the uttermost north of Israel, and that is Russia. To check this out for yourself, get a globe. Run a line from Israel to the North Pole. You'll discover that it passes almost directly through Moscow. Russia, and only Russia, is to the uttermost north of Israel.
3. The character of her leader. God says to Russia, through Ezekiel (as recorded in chapter 38:3): "I am against you, O Gog." Such a statement seems contrary to God's very nature, for He is revealed in Scripture as being a God of love, mercy and patience. Could it be that God has set His face against Russia because of her anti-God stand and her persecution of the Jews?
For seven decades, she was officially anti-God. And, in spite of the recent changes, practical atheism is still the attitude of the vast majority of Russia's leaders and people.
Most serious of all was and is Russia's official treatment of the Jews. God has clearly indicated that Israel is His chosen people, and that "He who is not with me is against me." Though the Russian government has pursued somewhat a more lenient relations with Israel, its history is one of anti-Semitism. Thus, Russia's cruelty to the Jews- second only to Hitler's- is believed to be a powerful reason for this indictment from God" "I am against you, O Gog."
The leader of the invasion, then, is Russia. But what about glasnost and the collapse of the Soviet Empire? We'll look at these questions later. First, let's complete a consideration of what is prophesied about the nations which join Russia in the invasion of Israel.
O.K. I've typed enough for now. lol
God says "I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army...etc
This will happen and you can take that to the bank!! Also sorry for typo's.
Come, Thou Fount of every blessing...
Prone to wander Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love,
Here's my heart O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
Robert Robinson, 1735-1790
I'm not in the mood to do a search on Robert Robinson, but off the top of my head, I heard, he got saved I want to say under George Whitfield, or someone like that. He made many songs and the fame got to him. He later then became and lived a life of a boozer.
He was on a train one day...perhaps drunk.. and a lady on the train had a hymnal and recognized him. She opened the hymnal to that song he wrote ""Come Thou Fount" and dropped it in his lap. He then rededicated his life to Christ.
Hebrews2:1 NIV
We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
Drifting (back sliding) comes from neglect. Being out of the Word and not praying. We're suppose to be doers of the word. If you're just hearers your deceiving yourself. If you neglect your heart goes wrong. You go from neglect to denying the Word of God.
We need to be careful in what associations we make with the world.
Romans 8:8 NIV
Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.
Also
Jn3:33 KJ
He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
This kind of didn't set well with me.
"They're over paid, over-sexed and over here," the British groused about their American allies.
That's not what my best friend told me.
She told me that if the Americans hadn't come they would of lost.
She was born and raised in a town called Coventry (sp) England. She was about 14 yrs. when the gov. started to order out certain families and hide them in the country. Her family was asked to leave. When I asked her why she told me because Hitler was trying to exterminate their race. I will call her a "poodle" as her aunt or great aunt? was the lady in waiting. (I found this out when I helped her move and saw her family tree in a box...she didn't tell me) Her parents asked permission to stay in town and they were allowed to and her brother and sister were moved to the country with strangers. She wanted to remain with her parents to help with the war effort and the gov. said o.k.
In her town was a Jaguar factory that they turned over into making maybe tanks? I forgot. At any rate they had what was called the "blitz." Everyone would black out everything (no lights) so the planes wouldn't know where to drop the bombs. The planes would drop the bombs. Maybe every three nights.
She would wake up and go outside and see her classmates dead. Arms, legs, all struin about. A patty wagon would come and pick up the dead bodies, and dead body parts and take them out of town and burn them so disease wouldn't spread. No time for any proper burial so to say.
Everyone would pool together and help each other with food. If you had food you would share it with your neighbors. It was all they could do to stay alive.
She married an American. She was not a war bride. She paid her own fare here.
Her father disowned her for marrying an American as we were considered low class to him. He never talked to her again and cut her out of the will.
When she came over here she took the test so she could vote. Time went on. Her son worked for the Pentagon and married an Army "bratt" (Bratt doesn't mean bratty she told me) Her other son enlisted for Vietnam.
About 15 years ago she was invited back to England to give a speech. I forgot the name of the organization but it was like our Red Cross. She said sure if her sister could come up on stage with her. Her sisters knees started knocking and they had to get her a chair to sit down in. Thousands and thousands of people showed up to hear my friend tell about the war and the "blitz."
When I asked her what she said to them she told me "I just told them what happened during the war... then I preached the Gospel to the whole lot."
LOL She's still alive and when I called her a "poodle" after seeing her family tree she blushed. She's humble.
Anyway they had what was called the "blitz" over there and I don't think they "jitterbugged" the night away. NOT And if it wasn't for us she told me they would of lost. FWIW
Me three! end.
Nice to see ya tenac...
LOL Now where were we....I remember. My friend...who has a Purple Heart from WWII didn't die. He got hit on his femoral. I suspect machine gun but I didn't ask. They hauled him off into a tent...where I guess he just passed out.
There he stayed out of it...so to say...like almost dead, then if I remember right they flew him to Germany? after he was stable. There he laid on his back for two years.
Then he got the chance to come home. They flew him along with Italians and Germans (from what I understand who were on our side) and all kinds of different nationalities to a hospital here in S. Calif. (They got the choice of remaining here after the war) Anyway there he laid on his back for another year. This makes 3 years total on his back. Jacked up.
He did all kinds of brave stuff. I don't know what he got the Purple Heart for. I didn't even know what that meant when he told me.
Anyway he didn't die,,,but about died.
He needs to be honored today! Dead or alive.
Hi chunga1. I have been following this board for some time. I was like your 12 board mark. :)
Thanx PL1
This post of yours gave me the courage to honor my neighbor and close friend today. He faught (sp) in WWII and has a Purple Heart.
I made him a card and put a wooden heart on it with the colors of the flag with a nice saying that I ripped off from another card. It was appropriate for today. The other card wasn't nice enough I thought for him.
Then I got him a lap throw that says "Freedom isn't free" and put it in a nice brown paper sack with handles.
I rang the door but he didn't answer. I left it on his porch.
He just called me to thank me and tell me he was on the phone with his late wife's nephew, who lives in Texas who also served. (WWII) They call each other on these occasions.
At any rate he called me "doll" twice and said he can't understand why some guy hasn't married me. ROTFLOL
This man is one of a kind. He was very appreciative. Last time I honored him with a card and military type lap throw for Veteran's (on Veterans day)he had to wipe a tear out of his eye. That's how moved he gets for someone thanking him for serving.
I was raised in a pacifist family. My father HATED the military. My father said "Life was good then I got drafted." My father didn't get drafted. He joined the Navy so he wouldn't have to go into the Army under the draft.
My neighbor much didn't like the military either. He got drafted into the Army. He has really interesting stories. A Purple Heart in my book is something. I didn't even know what that was and had to ask my brother. We weren't allowed to talk about the war at my childhood home. When Vietnam broke out no way was my brother going to go. That was just life for me growing up.
I will add at school when I was a child, everyone told stories about their fathers and the war and how proud they were. I just listened and kept my mouth shut. I was the odd ball and didn't want to tell anyone about how my father HATED military service. Come to find out from my Purple Heart neighbor he didn't much like war either.
None the less they served and I agree they should be honored. My father is with the Lord now, but I wouldn't dare honor him on any day. War was a taboo subject growing up for me.
I do have a military board..board marked here on I Hub and go to it often.
Thanks PL1 for serving in the capacity that you do! My neighbor isn't saved and is a master on avoiding and turning the topic around to something else when I try to witness to him. Maybe by my love towards him one day he will listen to me. I don't have the guts to invite this man to church. Once again he is one of kind and they broke the mold when they made him.
You take care and have a special day today yourself. You too tenac if you're reading this. I agree with PL1. :)
Grace
Those Intriguing Arabs
From the book: The Economy to Come (In Prophetic Context) by William R. Goetz
1998
God has a plan for the Arab peoples as well. Abraham's son Ishmael, the forerunner of the Arab nations, received certain predictions and promises from God (Genesis 16:10-12 and 17:20)
God also said that Ishmael would be a wild man whose hand would be against every man, with every man's hand against him. God also said that he would be fruitful and multiply exceedingly; that he would begat twelve princes and would become great nationally, dwelling in the presence of his brethren.
These promises have seen at least a partial fulfillment. The Arab nations have been "wild"---that is, free and roving and fiercely independent. They have also been against every man in that they traditionally been warlike and have spawned and experienced much military opposition throughout history.
Salem Kirban, a Christian Arab author and publisher, suggests in his Reference Bible that the twelve princes of Ishmael may well be present-day peoples of Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Iraq.
The Arab block has become a factor in our era. Far from being the unimportant, backward desert countries which world opinion once held them to be, the Arabs are now a major consideration in global affairs. Oil has done it.
The twelve nations considered to be the "Princes of Ishmael" today control 3 million square miles of territory in which are to be found two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves. They compromise almost all of the OPEC nations, and whether they are raising the price of oil, as they did after the 1973 war with Israel, or forcing a glut and threatening to dump oil on the market, as they did in the early 1980's, or fighting among themselves, they are a significant factor in world affairs.
Ezekiel 20:20
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
Genesis 2:2-3
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God had created and made.
Mark 2:27
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.
This was a nice post of yours. I was raised up (since tenac is sharing his past) lol in the faith. The Catholic faith. I went to Catholic school. As you might know they believe in transubstantiation. The day came which I was to take communion for the first time. I honestly believed I was going to be eating flesh and drinking blood. Hey I was in second grade and not being the sharpest knife in the drawer so to say, this is what I thought. When the day came and I didn't get human flesh to eat, or blood to drink, I was some what relieved. I can remember that day like it was yesterday. Looking back, and examining the host, (the communion wafer) I thought to myself, this isn't human flesh. LOL And I'm still learning Biblical truths to this day. :)
Thnx for sharing...
The Lord, the everlasting God, creator of the wide world, grows neither weary nor faint; and yet He's ready to give vigor to those of us who are weary.
Isaiah 40:29
"He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength."
From my Elisabeth Elliot desk calendar.
Figured you and your son might be a little tired today after working yesterday and just thought I would share.
By Phillip Keller
From the book: A shepherd looks at PSALM 23.
(edited by me)
When all is said and done the welfare of any flock is entirely dependent upon the management afforded them by their owner
Wool in Scripture depicts the old self-life in the Christian. It is the outward expression of an inner attitude, the assertion of my own desire and hopes and aspirations. It is the area of my life in which and through which I am continually in contact with the world around me. Here is where I find the clinging accumulation of things, of possessions, of worldly ideas beginning to weigh me down, drag me down, hold me down.
It is significant that no high priest was ever allowed to wear wool when he entered the Holy of Holies. This spoke of self, of pride, of personal preference--and God could not tolerate it.
....Sheep do not really enjoy being sheared and it represents some hard work for the shepherd, but it must be done.
....Turning to the Christian life we are confronted with the same sort of problem. There is the man or woman, who because they may have done well in business or their careers or their homes, feel that they are flourishing and have "arrived." They may have a sense of well being and self-assurance which in itself is dangerous. Often when we are most sure of ourselves we are the most prone to fall flat.
In His warning to the church in Revelation 3:17 God points out that though some considered themselves rich and affluent, they were actually in desperate danger. The same point was made by Jesus in His account of the wealthy farmer who intended to build more and bigger barns, but who, in fact, faced utter ruin.
Material success is no measure of spiritual health. Nor is apparent affluence any criteria of real godliness. And it is well for us that the Shepherd of our souls sees through this exterior and takes steps to set things right...
Anyway in Philipians 4:17
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
(We have an account up in heaven building up for us. Those who give to rip off ministries are just waisting their money.) IMHO Anyone can give anything they want to anything. But it isn't going to THE account.
"Filthy lucre" !?!?? eom. lol
Jealous?? Yeah right...
LOL... It's "Feed my sheep" NOT "Fleece my sheep" fwiw
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
The novel idea is, God is sovereign and we aren't.
He is our arbiter which makes him sovereign.
You couldn't pay me to sit under your leadership. Sorry excel...I'm in a bad mood today. lol
Scholars aren't sure what the thorn is.
Some think it was his eyes. I think it was his eyes but it could be other things (which I forget at the moment).
He never got rid of it. If it was his eyes he had someone else pen his thoughts is what I seem to remember. IMHO and FWIW
You forget there might be Baptist on this board and they might become quite vocal in their beliefs, but regardless they are our brothers and sisters in Christ. :)
Sovereignty of God
A term by which is expressed the supreme rulership of God. This is rightly held to be not an attribute of God but a prerogative based upon the perfections of the divine Being.
The possession of the most complete sovereignty is a necessary part of the proper conception of God and is abundantly declared in the Scriptures (e.g., Pss. 50:1; 66:7, 93:1; Isa. 40:15. 17; 1 Tim. 6:15; Rev. 11:17).
The method of the divine rulership is, however, to be judged in the light of special revelation. The term absolute sovereignty as used in Calvinism means the sovereign election of a certain number to salvation and the sovereign reprobation of others. There is a sense, indeed, in which the sovereignty of God is absolute. He is under no external restraint whatsoever. He is the Supreme Dispenser of all events. All forms of existence are within the scope of His dominion. And yet this is not to be viewed in any such way as to abridge the reality of the moral freedom of God's responsible creatures or to make men anything else than the arbiters of their own eternal destinies. God has seen fit to create beings with the power of choice between good and evil. He rules over them in justice and wisdom and grace.
This is the whole tenor of the Scriptures and the plain declaration of many passages (e.g., Deut. 10:17; Job 36:5; Acts 10:34-35; Rom. 2:6; Col.3:25; 1 Peter 1:17)
Thus understood the sovereignty of God is the great ground of confidence for His people, and the proper basis upon which to urge sinners to repentance.
E.M.C.
(I didn't have time to look up the Scripture, but perhaps you can)
2 Corinthians 2:7
At lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
8. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
9. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
I'm happy to hear that he's home.
Please pray for me today. I have a Dr.'s appointment with another new Dr. today. Please pray for travel mercies for me and that the Dr. would find favor with me. This will be my third Dr. out at UCI (the new place I'm going to.) Also that I would control my tongue. TIA
Worry is a sin...
(From a sermon I heard and took notes)
But before I forget excel...I started singing this song after I read his post.
K.J. (That's what my preacher uses)
As a man thinketh so is he...(or something like that. I don't want to look it up.)
1Peter5:7
Casting all your cares upon him; for he careth for you.
Psalm 55:22
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Cast your burdens upon the Lord. (Let go) Worrying isn't letting go. Worrying is sin.
Philippians: 4:6-7
Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
In 1Peter 5:7 Cast (Give) Greek = throw, lay it down (give your past)
anxiety Greek = (tear apart), separate. Your anxiety are your cares. You give them to Him because He cares for you. Psm. 55:22 Cast your cares (burdens) on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous fall. Phil.4:6-7 Will guard (keep)
1. He cares.
2. He will sustain.
3. He will (keep) guard.
Worrying is not O.K.
Worrying is sin and you have to confess it and start to trust God. Worrying is not trusting God.
Fear is from Satan. Leave all your worries with Him for He cares for you.
1. Casting all your cares on Him. Throw upon His feet. Lay it down. God knows what drives you crazy. I'm going to place it at your feet because I can't deal with it no longer. All things work together for good...Cast my past...
2. Talk to God. Cast my burdens on Him. Cast your burdens upon the Lord. Sometimes you get paralyzed. Let the weight fall. Look to God when you let it go. God will pick it up. You don't because you don't trust God. Worrying is not trusting God. Go to God, ask God and tell God. God listens. Ask God to help. Say Jesus will you help me?
3. Why should we give Him our problems?
God cares! It bothers God when you're hurting and He thinks you don't care.
God sustains. Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you.
Phil.4:7
Peace of God which passes all understanding will keep you.
God is for you!!
It was a really good sermon and I didn't do it justice with my notes but thought I would try to share anyway. My preacher got molested by his science teacher when he was a kid. That's why the "past" remarks?? Now he was responsible for getting teachers down here finger printed. So he sees the good that came out of the bad. (He's talked about this in the past) fwiw
O2opida If you're reading this I have been praying for your brother. I sure hope he gets better!
plugger I agree.
I'm a woman. I've never been on a church board. When I lived on that Mission Field I faithfully attended every board meeting for years and years. I was allowed to put my 2 cents in... of course.... at the proper time that was allowed to do so. Survive, and not worry (nuts) is the TRUTH.
Maintaining my spirituality was not my test as I wasn't on the board ever. But to offer uplifting and encouraging words to those who were on the board...more than once I had that opportunity.
Over all my small "missions" church board (board members) usually had over 100 years of ministry put together. WoW
At my next church I served on the Mission board. That was a challenge for me.
I didn't miss any of that church board meetings either, and I got in trouble at least once. (Roberts? rule of order??) thing.
O.K. that subject we were hashing out at the time did test my nerves...and I did need to be corrected on the "rule of order" BUT I was more embarrassed than mad, although I was kind of mad. I'll tell it like I see it anytime. LOL Bunch of can't speak up wusses.imho
o.k. I guess it is hard to maintain your spirituality sometimes. (my wuss comment)
I can't stress how correct you are with this post of yours!!
Hang in there! They need people just like you. I can tell by your post!!
JDUB I don't blame you.
On Sundays...when I can...I like to listen to a radio station here in the Los Angeles area called KJLH. It's owned by Stevie Wonder and on Sundays they ROCK with the kind of music I like. (Black Gospel)
They play Bible Jeopardy which is FUN to listen to. They ask a Bible trivia question and the callers call in to answer it. They then give away free concert tickets usually.
They also have what is called "roll call" you call in...say your name.. and say what church you attend and who your pastor is. (Most have I want to call it Bishops) But anyway...
Sometimes they have the local pastors on as guest. They talk to them about what's happening in the community (small talk) and talk about spiritual things.
This is all involved around the poorer communities of the Los Angeles area.
The callers sometimes say,,,, Thank you for letting me role with a brother...And they will say "thank you for letting us role with you." Or they will say "Thank you for letting us role with a sister" etc. meaning you are in Christ.
They update some of the events that some of the local churches are having sometimes.
They laugh and carry on...over the air..usually 2 men and a woman... and Stevie always has good food sent in for them to eat. lol
It's a way fun radio station to listen to on Sunday and I look forward to the callers calling in for the Bible jeopardy. You call in and then they ask the question. You get maybe 15 seconds? to answer. It's way funny when they don't know their Bible and just guess anything. Sometimes they let you pick who you want to ask the question (of the three? that host this program) I would never pick the visiting pastor if they have one on. They ask rather difficult questions. LOL
My vote is you play Bible Jeopardy and give away a prize. Or play roll call. Your name,,, your church... and your pastor. People like to say they were on the air is my guess....and plug where they worship. lol They will say "Where do you worship?" and the caller is more than happy to share. :)
And I have been praying for you for some time now.
tenac Mandrake
Mandrake (Heb. duday; Gen. 30:14; Song of Sol 7:13). A narcotic plant of the order Solanaceae, Mandragora officinarum, L., esteemed by the ancients as a love medicine and evidently so referred to in both the above-cited passages. Taken in considerable quantities, it is an acrid narcotic poison. It is not used in modern medicine.
fwiw
Sorcery: A. Nouns
1.Pharmakia (or-EIA) (Eng; pharmacy etc.) primarily signified the use of medicine, drugs, spells; then, poisoning; then, sorcery, Gal. 5:20 R.V., "sorcery" (A.V., "witchcraft"), mentioned as one of "the works of the flesh." See also Rev. 9:21; 18:23.
In the Sept., Ex. 7:11,22; 8:7,18; Isa 47:9, 12.
In sorcery, the use of drugs, whether simple or potent, was generally accompanied by incantations and appeals to occult powers, with the provision of various charms, amulets, etc., professedly designed to keep the applicant or patient from the attention and power of demons, but actually to impress the applicant with the mysterious resources and powers of the sorcerer.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words.
Then from a book I read, Who knows from which one, I have:
Pharmakia The usage of mind altering drugs for the expressed purpose of "altering your mind" is as the sin of witchcraft.
By LaHaye/Jenkins 1999? (edited by me)
DRUGS
From the Greek word translated "sorceries" in the King James Bible we get the word pharmacy. Unfettered drug use will be common during the Tribulation. But even today, drug and alcohol use is skyrocketing out of control.
Drugs and alcohol are a way of life for many nonbelievers. Adopting a drug-riddled lifestyle during the Tribulation will not require any change for many inhabitants of the world--it will merely be intensified.
The Top Seven Sins Of The Tribulation
A passage we just reviewed, Revelation 9:20-21, lists the top seven sins of the Tribulation:
1. Rebellion against God ("they did not repent")
2. Worship of demons
3. Idolatry
4. Murders
5. Sorceries (drugs)
6. Sexual immorality
7. Thefts
You can get fired up all you want...doesn't bother me any. lol The world (nations) is on its way to judgment. IMHO
Pestilences; Matthew 24:7
Pestilence, By Grant Jeffrey
Worldwide pestilence would also signal Jesus' return. In the past twenty years, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), health professionals have diagnosed more than 25 infectious diseases with no known treatment or cure. These have come about as a result of the ease of travel between nations, poor sanitation, growing urbanization and overpopulation. Sexually transmitted diseases are increasing, causing sterility and death. Recent studies predict that AIDS may wipe out as much as one quarter of the global population (see Rev.6:8).
Jesus warns that these terrible judgments will only set the stage for the terrible judgments of the tribulation.
1998?
I did a google. I remembered the name. They called it "Gay Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome"....before they called it AIDS. FWIW
Tenac You said...
Something like it gets real quiet around here when you mentioned homosexual's. LOL
Tap in this post of mine, and notice the date.
I was around when AIDS was first discovered. It was in the 80's ? if I remember right. Prior to that in the 70's men were coming out of the closet so to say, and it was sheek for them to vamp... I want to say on Sunset Blvd...with their convertible tops down in their cars, and and fling their tu's tu's and people walking on the side walks would shriek with delight. It was the "in" thing back in early 1972-1974. I was there and saw this.
Then the mysterious disease struck. If I remember right it was first called Immune deficiency syndrome. They couldn't figure out if it was the junkies who were passing it or the homosexuals. They shut the bath houses down in Los Angeles. That developed into any outcry from the homosexual community. Then the homo's blamed the junkies and the junkies couldn't get it together to defend themselves but they blamed the homo's. It got ugly between the two.
Someone (non user) stepped up to take the junkies side. The fight continued between the junkies and the homo's each blaming each other with the homo's winning. Then they put a stop to the fight and named it AIDS.
I've watched how this disease has blossomed out of control all over. At any rate I've lived and seen the whole thing. The homo's got it together so to say,,,while the junkie's...well I don't have to tell you how that one goes.
I've always been for the needle exchange program...fwiw
I guess some Christians, aren't for this. They would rather see the junkies die...than offer free clean needles. I quit following that topic but when I arrived in Los Angeles back in 2000 it was a hot topic here.
Back in 1974 when I left Calif...Hollywood was still o.k. Now I haven't been back there as I was told it was seedy and well..I'll I spare you the details. (Of what I have been told) Also Hollywood always had a problem with prostitution I would say. People would come out here thinking they were going to strike it big in the movie industry only to find out it wasn't going to happen. They turn to prostitution to support themselves and before long get strung out on drugs. So it goes, and I bet this has been going on since before I was even born. (The prostitution angle) but now...it's young boys pimping themselves off as well.
No I'm not quiet. But what the heck I don't expect much to change....And I sure don't plan on making it my ministry to minister to them. Not my bag.
Sacrifice. Origin.
(Edited by me)
Origin. The beginnings of sacrifice are found in the primitive ages of man and among all the nations of antiquity. Cain and Able offered sacrifices to God (Gen. 4:3-4).....
Noah expressed his gratitude for deliverance from the Flood by presenting burnt offerings unto the Lord. (8:20). The patriarchs were in the habit of buildings altars and offering sacrifices on them, calling upon God at the places where He revealed Himself to them...(If you want the scriptures to this post me)
"Indeed, to sacrifice seems as natural to man as to pray; the one indicates what he feels about himself, the other what he feels about God. The one means a felt need of propitiation, the other a felt sense of dependence" (Eldersheim, The Temple, p. 81)
Fundamental Idea.
The fundamental idea of sacrifices may be gathered partly from their designation, partly from their nature. Sacrifices do not appear to have been instituted at first by divine command; though they must not, on that account, be looked upon as human inventions.
They are spontaneous expressions of reverence and gratitude that man feels toward God.....Neither must we lose sight of their expressing the idea of propitiation and substitution. Nor can we afford to forget that in all ages blood has been the symbol of life and its shedding the symbol of the offering of one's life.
Abundant testimony is given of this in The Blood Covenant, by H. C. Trumbull. He says that in the earliest recorded sacrifice "the narrative shows Able lovingly and trustfully reaching out toward God with *substitute blood, in order to be in covenant oneness with God; while Cain merely proffers a gift from his earthly possessions. Able so trust God that he gives *himself to him. Cain defers to God that sufficiently to make a *present to him. The one shows unbounded faith; the other shows a measure of affectionate reverence" (p.211).
Again in the sacrifice of Noah we have an expression not only of gratitude and reverence but of a desire for further communications of divine grace. This seems to be implied in the answer given by the Lord to Noah. "I will never again curse the ground on account of man" (Gen. 8:21). In the presentation of the best of his possessions the worshiper symbolized the giving of himself, his life, his aims, to God.
Sacrifice, Human.
As a supreme test of Abraham's loyalty to Jehovah, he was asked to offer up his son Isaac....
Such sacrifice was in harmony with the fierce ritual of Syria. "The belief in the efficacy of the sacrifice of the firstborn was deeply enrooted in the minds of the people of Canaan.
In the time of distress and necessity they offered to the gods their best and dearest, 'the fruit of their body for the sin of their soul' (Mic. 6:7).
The king of Moab, when he saw that "the battle was too fierce for him," took his oldest son who was to reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall." (2Kings 3:26-27)
(The Early Religion of Israel, p. 254)
"To Abraham, not unfamiliar with various ways in which among his heathen ancestors the deity was propitiated, the testing question comes, 'Art thou prepared to obey thy God as fully as the people about thee obey their gods?' and in the putting forth of his faith in the act of obedience, he learns that the nature of his God is different.
Rom.3:24-25
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
1Jn.2:2
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1Jn4:10
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Propitiation (edited by me)
Through the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ, he who believes upon Him is by God's own act delivered from justly deserved wrath, and comes under the covenant of grace. Never is God said to be reconciled, a fact itself indicative that the enmity exists of man's part alone, and that it is man who needs to be reconciled to God, and not God to man. God is always the same and, since He is Himself immutable, His relative attitude does change towards those who change. He can act differently towards those who come to Him by faith, and solely on the ground of the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ, not because He has changed but because He ever acts according to His unchanging righteousness.
The expiatory work of the Cross is therefore the means whereby the barrier which sins interposes between God and man is broken down. By giving up of His sinless life sacrificially, Christ annuls the power of sin to separate between God and the believer.
Vine
I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live:
I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. Psm.104:33 KJV
Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise. Psm33:3 KJV
Joshua 3:7
And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. KJV
Psm.34:3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. KJV
I like "magnify" but that sounds like a recording label name to me.
Then... I would like God to magnify me (Joshua) and I would like to magnify Him. (Psm34:3)
A loud noise skillfully (To the Lord) suites me fine. lol
Magnify the LORD electrified.
There you have it. LOL
Hi JDUB
Your request wasn't too buried for me. lol (I'm still behind on the board but keeping up at least)
I'm not very good at coming up with names but I thought of an old song by Steve Camp. I think it might of been called? Beat it out on the threshing floor, or maybe threshing floor.
I kind of like the sounds of threshing floor. I don't know why though. Maybe that would be a better name for a band than a radio show ministry?
s/b ethnically. We have no ethics here. LOL j/k eom
" * next to their name?"
LOL
I was sprinkled as a baby and raised up in the faith. The missionary/preacher at that community church on that mission field I lived on insisted that I get dunked. (I enjoyed pluggers story...lol)
Anyway after much debate with the missionary/preacher...I just went ahead and got dunked in our new cattle waterer? (I kid you not) and it had a warmer (maybe JDUB? would know coming from IL. lol) So excel do I get two ** next to my name? LOL
I'm sure the pool was heated. :) We have all ages getting baptized. When elderly people come forward on the altar call I get real emotional. I read the stats once on old people coming to the Lord and it's not good.
After the baptism we have a barbecue at the park so they can get to know their new "church" family. This morning when the music pastor shared about yesterdays events he said some of the people who were baptized are having problems with their families. I got tears in my eyes over the whole thing (baptism) that took place yesterday.
Los Angeles is an ethically diverse area. With this diverseness comes all kinds of religions. I can imagine this is not easy for some of them.
Oh well...I can't worry...I feel for them though because of the extra earthly problems that will come for them from becoming a Christian. The baptism seals it a good one for Jewish people and their families. fwiw I've heard and read bummer stories. They get disowned by their families after the baptism. I now know others have problems with their birth (natural) families too. Well I kind of knew this all ready.
Glad to hear about your radio show going well JDUB.
Glad you are back!
Yesterday my church baptized over 100 people at a new place. (This place has an olympic size pool so we won't be so crowded the preacher said) Yeah!!
In the summer we go to the ocean at a lagoon. In the winter to a community type pool.
The pastor says from the pulpit, "If you want to be baptized just show up and wear a T shirt."
Please pray for these new believers who have been baptized that they grow in the knowledge of the Lord.
My church ROCKS! It's so exciting to be apart of a growing church. :)
The Day of the Lord
Malachi 4:1-3 NIV
"Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire, says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them. But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things," says the LORD Almighty.
That story about the Communion service is one I will never forget! In fact (this is just me) I could of lived without hearing about that story. When I was in New Orleans once, my brother told me not to go to the slave museum because it would make me cry. He was all bummed out himself over it as I guess he went. He didn't want to talk about it. fwiw