Thank you. I never thought about that, when we stay focused on him time and space may not matter, but only him, in the midst of the storm he has all control. Lord help me to remember his word.
When you are a chosen vessel of GOD... Look for extreme opposition from all around... Even in the church... The enemy knows your importance... You are a serious threat to him and his people... Look out for opposition... Look up to JESUS in the middle of the storms... The Battle is already won... Quicken me Holy Spirit today to do battle the right way.... On my knees.... Amen
Thinks the moral of the event is; once the disciples received Christ, in the midle of the storm, they didn't take their (eyes off Him) and they were safe and sound on the shore.
Hello Blackfoot, didn't mean to sound like a dog barking at anyone. It is not wrong to point out the obvious. But sorry if it offended you. I was just making a comparison of Jesus to us. It is good to remember that there is a difference. That's all.
Dear Heartbroken. I am so sorry to hear that you are so very depressed, lonely, and losing hope. I will pray for you today.
Dear Heavenly Father, Heartbroken needs Your touch on his/her life right now. Make Yourself know to heartbroken and lift up him/her in spirit, mind , and body. Send Heartbroken a caring person to befriend him/her and be a true friend as well as one who can help to bear this burden of Heartbroken. Father, we know we can cast ALL of our burdens upon Jesus, because of how He cares for each of us. Help Heartbroken to do this today, Father. Bring healing into Heartbroken's life right now and take away this spirit of heaviness which is threatening Heartbroken today. LORD GOD, rescue heartbroken from all that is burdening him/her and restore to Heartbroken a spirit full of hope, joy, and love from You. Help Heartbroken to, by faith, put his/her hope fully in You and trust You for bringing recovery in this situation. Father, we plead the blood of Your Son, Jesus, upon Heartbroken and believe that the blood of our Savior is powerful to overcome all that hurts, depresses, and keeps Heartbroken's mind and spirit in bondage. Help! Father. Bring Your help swiftly to Heartbroken. We ask this of You Father, in the name of Your Son, Jesus. Amen.
Dear Heartbroken. I can tell that you are in a very real troubling condition and my hope is not only that my prayers for you will be answered swiftly, but also that you will fully seek the LORD and fellowship with Him always, but especially in times like this when you are feeling so desperate, weary, and in mental and emotional pain. He is faithful and will always be with you.
I believe I recall that the Queen was Anglican, not Catholic. But either way, God may have chosen her for salvation, as He did you and I. We do not know. We can not judge a person by their religious label. We leave this judgment up to God. I know many Catholics who love God dearly and trust Jesus as their Savior. Isn't that what we do? We all have areas of our belief system that are incorrect. Does that disqualify us from being true believers? I do not think so. I do think that there are essential beliefs that are a must for one to have a saved relationship with God. But our correctness or incorrectness on other beliefs does not disqualify us from being under the grace that produces salvation in us.
The Corinthian church had many errors. Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 spoke what the essentials of the faith were. That Jesus died for us, rose from the dead, was seen alive after the resurrection by over 500 people, ascended into heaven. Elsewhere Paul speaks of Jesus being the propituary sacrifice for our sins, bringing us forgiveness and reconciling us to God by making us alive to God again when we were dead in our sins. He also says that it is by grace that we are saved through faith and this grace, faith, and salvation is a gift, not earned. He says to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. So these are essential doctrines that one must hold to as a Christian believer.
I do not know what the Queen believed in this matter, so I leave her destination and judgment up to God, knowing He will always judge rightly. I do think that we will find many people in heaven who were Catholics and Anglican, etc. in this life. I, personally will be very happy that they are numbered among the multitude of saints in glory when I get there, just like I rejoice in believers who belonged to other Christian denominations in this life.
Thank you, T. Levis. What you wrote was very encouraging! I dearly love that passage in the KJV you cited! I pray God will bless you in your youngest son's consideration of entering America's space program. America has far too many scientists who approach America's space program (and all science, for that matter) from an Atheistic mindset. If he hasn't already, I suggest he do a Google search on scientists who are Christian in their research. I have one organization in particular in mind, but the rules here rightfully disallow advertisements. God bless!
I have the deepest Faith in Our Lord, I thank Him every day, throughout the day and in the evening, for the Faith He Gifted me with before I was born. (I say this with great confidence that I was Blessed with this Faith before I was born because my first memory from my childhood is this: I was around 3 years of age and suffering from a very painful, recurring ear problem that the medical profession couldn't resolve. I was crying from the pain and standing with my Mother while she was at the medicine cabinet getting children's aspirin for me. As I stood with her waiting, this was my thought: I know I am going to be okay because God will protect me and help the Doctors find out what was wrong with my ear and He would help them fix it, AND He had given me the best Mother in the world and He would guide her as well. Although I was much to young to understand, I came to realize over the years that this belief at such a young age was in fact a gift from God. To address your question, I have two thoughts, the first being the knowledge that much of the Bible was written by man, man who is not perfect and therefore could/would inject their own interpretation of the Words of Our Lord. The second thought is this: Jesus walked among us and reached out to those who were considered sinners, he spoke with them, broke bread with them and talked with them about the way they lived their lives and offered words of a better way for them. He did not turn away from those who were sinners, AND HE DID NOT JUDGE THEM, God does not condemn any of His children, certainly not His children who are different from the main stream, Jesus didn't live His life following the main stream. Your Son and Granddaughter ARE NOT SINNERS AND GOD WANTS YOU TO LOVE AND EMBRACE THEM. He knows what is in their heart and soul and He loves them AND EXPECTS US TO LOVE THEM AS WELL, THESE ARE HIS CHILDREN AND ONLY HE KNOWS THEIR HEART. If they are kind and caring, the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs. Enjoy loving them
I am not wishing to debate either. Thank you for your input.
I read last night in Acts 15:6-11. Peter says that God had chosen him to preach to the Gospel to the Gentiles so that they would believe. He went on to say that God gave the Gentiles the Holy Spirit just as He had done for them in Jerusalem. So, apparently, Peter was preaching the Gospel to Gentiles before he knew Paul.
My point is that it is wise to avoid hard and fast views concerning how the Gospel spread nor when the church began because I think that God is the only One who truly knows what He did in those days, as He builds the church and chosen whom will preach the Gospel and where.
We have the book of Acts an the writings of Paul, Peter, John, James, and Jude to reveal some information about the church in the 1st century A.D. But this is not a running history that includes the work of all the other apostles, nor the others of the 120 who were in the room at Pentecost. if we did, we would know better how things transpired. Since Scripture does not include a full account of the workings of the church at this time, perhaps we can be satisfied that the Word of God concerning the Gospel of Jesus was spread throughout the known world during that century by Jesus' apostles and disciples as well as from Believer to those in their sphere of influence. That is the important matter, in my opinion. When the apostles became apostles or began their work or when the church truly began are somewhat peripheral matters to me. But since there is this discussion on these topics, we can share what the Scriptures say about this to one another and share what we learned from them.
Any scripture referring to "God Is", "I Am", etc., clarifies the infinite, eternal God. "God Is" reflects His omnipresence, i.e. He is
eternally everywhere. This should lead us to consider that if there is this Omnipresence, what room is there left for anything other than God/Omnipresence, Who is also omnipotent and omniscient? God Is; thus what opposes (the opposite of) Him "is not". God could never be (exist) as what opposes Him. This would render him something else. There is no compromise between what God is and what He is not (cannot be). God is the sole reality, and what is real always denies its opposite.
God is Light, not darkness. Bring darkness to light and the light will reveal the darkness, and what I thought was hidden in it is not there; not my reality. When light enters darkness the darkness is abolished. In similar manner, God is everything, and everything and nothing cannot coexist. The truth of one (God, Light, Everything) must make the falsity of its opposite ("Satan, darkness, nothing") perfectly unambiguous.
God Is. God is Love. The opposite of love is fear: yet What (God) is all encompassing can have no opposite. Love creates Itself and nothing but Itself. It is impossible for Love to create evil, and to do so would render God as capable of denying and opposing Himself: Impossible!
In regards to the trinity: The trinity in its Oneness transcends the sum of its parts.
I am glad you answered my question, too. Yes, we do learn more when we work together in community. I read your posts and find them helpful. Thanks for your contribution.
I have , over the course of my life , utilized what was available, to study as long as was reliable & accurate .Today ,we have electronically available , everything & anything. Just looking for best reliable references to resource. This website has proven to be such a resource with reliable mentors that I have followed for a long time & have relied upon. Learning is an ongoing process.Thanks be to ....God Bless !
The emphasis of grace and the grafting in of the Gentiles is all through the old testament in types and allegorically. Even in the articles inside the tabernacle such as "The written commandments, manna, Arons rod that budded, and what overshadowed them was the mercy seat.
The Promises included them also.
Genesis 12:1-3
also the Ingathering, Shavu'ot, and Pentecost ( Exo 34:22; Num 28:26; Deu 16:10,16; Lev 23:15-20).
Mike Gyver, about the division of the waters during the Creation time, where the Warters were placed above "heaven" is speaking of our water in the sky, which is basically a lot. He had it in a great place of early time. If you read in the Genesis, it says it did not rain, but had due to water the plants. When the flood of Noah's time came, God opened the gates and let the water come back to Earth as the Flood. After this went by, God set in evaporation to gradually send the waters into the atmosphere in the form of clouds. Then is when rain began. It is a gradual pace over the Earth, so there will never be another Flood of the sots in Noah's time. We do have floods dome of the time, on some of the Earth, but not all at once. People cause the floods by turning away from God. Just as with droughts and storms. When people start obeying God in life, He blesses us with good weather.
Thank you I was not aware of this. The queen is the perfect example of benevolence. If America can learn anything, it might consider Her example in the leadership ii needs to move ahead in the future.
ST. MATTHEW 5:7, was the first verse that I learned from the Bible. I was a Pastor's and Pastor's wife, son and Most people learned ST. JOHN 3:16 first, I didn't.
Thanks for the effort in gathering these scriptures. Jesus is Lord and blessed by God Almighty. By his grace and mercy through faith I am saved and nothing can change that.
Some questions have no simple answer or specific scripture that clarifies the infinite, eternal God. Any question that speaks of the relationship between God the Father, Jesus the Christ and Holy Spirit cannot be easy. I have a mind, heart and spirit that longs to worship God with all my strength. I believe this is one of the ways that God created us in his image.
In this respect, God has separated us into 3 distinct personalities. Physical, mental and spiritual.
I am not sure why I put that question to the typewriter since we all must ponder the Holy Trinity of God during prayer, reading of the scripture and indeed day to day hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and feeling his presence.
I rarely get replies to my posts. I love to hear replies such as yours. God bless you, I will read the words of the last supper. Thank you once again ,I thought if I ask questions I could learn more from others!
So soon after her visit with the new p.m.. two days after. I have become so suspicious and sceptical of people . Perhaps , these thoughts I have are from the evil one and not the holy spirit. Our world is in chaos, again are these .thoughts motivated by what is seen a.nd heard. Thank you for your response. God bless.
I also love the Word of God, in Acts 1, the former treatise referring to Luke's gospel, "all Jesus began to do and teach". In vs. 2 after Jesus ascended, He gave commandments through the Holy Spirit. At that time, they were still looking for the Messiah to set up the kingdom and free them from Rome, vs. 6 "Lord wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel".
In vs. 7 and 8, Jesus told them it was not for them to know the times or seasons and after the Holy Spirit came, they would receive power and guidance. They were told they would be witnesses unto the uttermost part of the world, but they were not told when, the Holy Spirit would tell them when and whereas we see throughout the New Testament.
They stayed in Jerusalem, it was not until after Stephen's death by the same council that put Jesus to death, stopped their ears, their rejection of the Messiah was complete. Not until then did the Holy Spirit direct them to preach Jesus to Samaria. It was Philip, not the apostle but the evangelist, one of the 7, Acts 6:5 went into Samaria and was the first to preach Jesus. When the apostles who were still in Jerusalem heard, Peter and John went to see, Acts 8. Acts 9 Paul and Acts 10 Peter's dream.
We see how the Holy Spirit led Peter; Peter even said it was unlawful for a Jew to keep company with one of another nation, but God through the Holy Spirit showed him that God is no respecter of persons. My understanding is at this time the 70-week prophecy given to Daniel that was determined upon Daniel's people and the holy city was fulfilled,
You do not have to reply, I did not intend to create a debate, I just thought you may like to study it. I know many places the 70th week at the end times but what if it has been fulfilled?
Will they hunt the souls of his ppl that they should make them fly????
Meaning ? I think God has told me the meaning but curious to hear others .
Example: Matthew 17:1-3,
Hopefully helpful
Proverbs 15:25,= Jeremiah 39:10, Jeremiah 52:16, Proverbs 21:13,
Deuteronomy 15:9, = Jeremiah 34:8-22,
Hopefully these are helpful
Dear Heavenly Father, Heartbroken needs Your touch on his/her life right now. Make Yourself know to heartbroken and lift up him/her in spirit, mind , and body. Send Heartbroken a caring person to befriend him/her and be a true friend as well as one who can help to bear this burden of Heartbroken. Father, we know we can cast ALL of our burdens upon Jesus, because of how He cares for each of us. Help Heartbroken to do this today, Father. Bring healing into Heartbroken's life right now and take away this spirit of heaviness which is threatening Heartbroken today. LORD GOD, rescue heartbroken from all that is burdening him/her and restore to Heartbroken a spirit full of hope, joy, and love from You. Help Heartbroken to, by faith, put his/her hope fully in You and trust You for bringing recovery in this situation. Father, we plead the blood of Your Son, Jesus, upon Heartbroken and believe that the blood of our Savior is powerful to overcome all that hurts, depresses, and keeps Heartbroken's mind and spirit in bondage. Help! Father. Bring Your help swiftly to Heartbroken. We ask this of You Father, in the name of Your Son, Jesus. Amen.
Dear Heartbroken. I can tell that you are in a very real troubling condition and my hope is not only that my prayers for you will be answered swiftly, but also that you will fully seek the LORD and fellowship with Him always, but especially in times like this when you are feeling so desperate, weary, and in mental and emotional pain. He is faithful and will always be with you.
You can read the ten commandments in Exodus 20.
I believe I recall that the Queen was Anglican, not Catholic. But either way, God may have chosen her for salvation, as He did you and I. We do not know. We can not judge a person by their religious label. We leave this judgment up to God. I know many Catholics who love God dearly and trust Jesus as their Savior. Isn't that what we do? We all have areas of our belief system that are incorrect. Does that disqualify us from being true believers? I do not think so. I do think that there are essential beliefs that are a must for one to have a saved relationship with God. But our correctness or incorrectness on other beliefs does not disqualify us from being under the grace that produces salvation in us.
The Corinthian church had many errors. Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 spoke what the essentials of the faith were. That Jesus died for us, rose from the dead, was seen alive after the resurrection by over 500 people, ascended into heaven. Elsewhere Paul speaks of Jesus being the propituary sacrifice for our sins, bringing us forgiveness and reconciling us to God by making us alive to God again when we were dead in our sins. He also says that it is by grace that we are saved through faith and this grace, faith, and salvation is a gift, not earned. He says to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. So these are essential doctrines that one must hold to as a Christian believer.
I do not know what the Queen believed in this matter, so I leave her destination and judgment up to God, knowing He will always judge rightly. I do think that we will find many people in heaven who were Catholics and Anglican, etc. in this life. I, personally will be very happy that they are numbered among the multitude of saints in glory when I get there, just like I rejoice in believers who belonged to other Christian denominations in this life.
I am not wishing to debate either. Thank you for your input.
I read last night in Acts 15:6-11. Peter says that God had chosen him to preach to the Gospel to the Gentiles so that they would believe. He went on to say that God gave the Gentiles the Holy Spirit just as He had done for them in Jerusalem. So, apparently, Peter was preaching the Gospel to Gentiles before he knew Paul.
My point is that it is wise to avoid hard and fast views concerning how the Gospel spread nor when the church began because I think that God is the only One who truly knows what He did in those days, as He builds the church and chosen whom will preach the Gospel and where.
We have the book of Acts an the writings of Paul, Peter, John, James, and Jude to reveal some information about the church in the 1st century A.D. But this is not a running history that includes the work of all the other apostles, nor the others of the 120 who were in the room at Pentecost. if we did, we would know better how things transpired. Since Scripture does not include a full account of the workings of the church at this time, perhaps we can be satisfied that the Word of God concerning the Gospel of Jesus was spread throughout the known world during that century by Jesus' apostles and disciples as well as from Believer to those in their sphere of influence. That is the important matter, in my opinion. When the apostles became apostles or began their work or when the church truly began are somewhat peripheral matters to me. But since there is this discussion on these topics, we can share what the Scriptures say about this to one another and share what we learned from them.
I appreciate your instruction to me. It helps me.
Any scripture referring to "God Is", "I Am", etc., clarifies the infinite, eternal God. "God Is" reflects His omnipresence, i.e. He is
eternally everywhere. This should lead us to consider that if there is this Omnipresence, what room is there left for anything other than God/Omnipresence, Who is also omnipotent and omniscient? God Is; thus what opposes (the opposite of) Him "is not". God could never be (exist) as what opposes Him. This would render him something else. There is no compromise between what God is and what He is not (cannot be). God is the sole reality, and what is real always denies its opposite.
God is Light, not darkness. Bring darkness to light and the light will reveal the darkness, and what I thought was hidden in it is not there; not my reality. When light enters darkness the darkness is abolished. In similar manner, God is everything, and everything and nothing cannot coexist. The truth of one (God, Light, Everything) must make the falsity of its opposite ("Satan, darkness, nothing") perfectly unambiguous.
God Is. God is Love. The opposite of love is fear: yet What (God) is all encompassing can have no opposite. Love creates Itself and nothing but Itself. It is impossible for Love to create evil, and to do so would render God as capable of denying and opposing Himself: Impossible!
In regards to the trinity: The trinity in its Oneness transcends the sum of its parts.
Peace.
God Is
I am glad you answered my question, too. Yes, we do learn more when we work together in community. I read your posts and find them helpful. Thanks for your contribution.
The emphasis of grace and the grafting in of the Gentiles is all through the old testament in types and allegorically. Even in the articles inside the tabernacle such as "The written commandments, manna, Arons rod that budded, and what overshadowed them was the mercy seat.
The Promises included them also.
Genesis 12:1-3
also the Ingathering, Shavu'ot, and Pentecost ( Exo 34:22; Num 28:26; Deu 16:10,16; Lev 23:15-20).
It's a great study.
God bless
Some questions have no simple answer or specific scripture that clarifies the infinite, eternal God. Any question that speaks of the relationship between God the Father, Jesus the Christ and Holy Spirit cannot be easy. I have a mind, heart and spirit that longs to worship God with all my strength. I believe this is one of the ways that God created us in his image.
In this respect, God has separated us into 3 distinct personalities. Physical, mental and spiritual.
I am not sure why I put that question to the typewriter since we all must ponder the Holy Trinity of God during prayer, reading of the scripture and indeed day to day hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and feeling his presence.
Again, thanks for the effort.
Love in the brotherhood of Christ.
I also love the Word of God, in Acts 1, the former treatise referring to Luke's gospel, "all Jesus began to do and teach". In vs. 2 after Jesus ascended, He gave commandments through the Holy Spirit. At that time, they were still looking for the Messiah to set up the kingdom and free them from Rome, vs. 6 "Lord wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel".
In vs. 7 and 8, Jesus told them it was not for them to know the times or seasons and after the Holy Spirit came, they would receive power and guidance. They were told they would be witnesses unto the uttermost part of the world, but they were not told when, the Holy Spirit would tell them when and whereas we see throughout the New Testament.
They stayed in Jerusalem, it was not until after Stephen's death by the same council that put Jesus to death, stopped their ears, their rejection of the Messiah was complete. Not until then did the Holy Spirit direct them to preach Jesus to Samaria. It was Philip, not the apostle but the evangelist, one of the 7, Acts 6:5 went into Samaria and was the first to preach Jesus. When the apostles who were still in Jerusalem heard, Peter and John went to see, Acts 8. Acts 9 Paul and Acts 10 Peter's dream.
We see how the Holy Spirit led Peter; Peter even said it was unlawful for a Jew to keep company with one of another nation, but God through the Holy Spirit showed him that God is no respecter of persons. My understanding is at this time the 70-week prophecy given to Daniel that was determined upon Daniel's people and the holy city was fulfilled,
You do not have to reply, I did not intend to create a debate, I just thought you may like to study it. I know many places the 70th week at the end times but what if it has been fulfilled?
God bless,
RLW