I have been quite off these past months. Strangely, it has become in recognition from those around me. Not in a positive way at times, at tines my state of mind puzzles me. Having NO idea what is happening to me. I do ask God, threw his son to please heal me. Whether it be of mind or a physical matter. Will you please come together and prat that God shows me through the Holy Spirit what it is that troubles me so. I am a FIRM believer in the POWER OF PRAYER!
I ask you my sisters and brothers in Christ, please pray there will be some answer to my situation soon.
I refused to let a relationship go but God found a way to permanently remove him from my life. I feel like I'm losing so many battles right now, including keeping but store together, my house is falling apart and my money is low. I pray but it just feels like words and then I carry on about my tasks. I feel like I'm just existing, but barely existing. My brain feels like I have 20 tabs open at the same time that won't close. I have a trip scheduled in 2 weeks and don't have enough to but a plane ticket, not to mention food for that week. I need prayer for my small store, my finances, my brain and most of all my relationship with GOD
I am very troubled by the fact that my mom is tuning out during our telephone conversations from the hospital she is being treated .She called me and initially sounded like herself.But then she just goes silent and i say mom ?Mom?And she doesnt seem to register that i am trying to communicate with her.This is heartbreaking for me ,please pray for her and i.
Plesse pray i can find a ride to the hospital my moms at.Even if it means me paying for a taxicab to see her.I dont want to just stay home and miss seeing her again like yesterday.I miss my mom and she has asked me to plesse come and visit her today.It is very warm here in jax ,florida today.And my friends are all elderly and despise this high temperatures.
Hi Fellow Christians ,i am back after being off a while from here.I still am in need of prayer for my mom Paula L. She is back in the hospital again for confusion and i am concerned about her.I think her urinary tract infection may be over.But she is still acting odd and i pray she is not losing her mind.I love my mom very deeply she and the Lord Jesus are all i have.Plese do pray for me too because i am very sensitive and i get very hurt over things a lot easier than most.And i know that i wont have my mom forever but i hope to have her in my life a few more yearx at least,please pray for her a sound mind.And most of all plesse pray for her salvation ,i am not 100 % sure of her salvation,i have tried to be a witness but i dont think that i am able to reach her because of my own faults and shortcomings .And i really want her to be in Heaven ,nothing else matters .
I need $700 deposit to move into new apartment. I thought I had the money but made a grace error after reading my lease agreement. Totally my error but I gave my 30 days and I have a new place to move to but need the deposit. I feel sick. I am a grandmother raising a 4 year old. I am also a 3rd grade teacher. We start school on the 16th. All this is happening and I'm starting school. Then the school hit say with a zinger instead of getting paid on the last Friday of the month like usual we are getting paid the 31st? The money situation is further hurting me. I feel sick. I need help. If I end up on the street I look unfit to raise my granddaughter. Please help me. Pray for God's mercy. Pray I come up with the deposit and people to help me move. Please pray my current and future landlords work with me. Help. -k Jones
This past week, my wife requested a divorce. Pray that my wife of 18 years would open her heart to forgiveness AND restoration. She seems to consider forgiveness to be a weakness and a loss of personal control. She is iron-willed, and has not sought God in her life, though she was presented to me as a Christian by her friends from the beginning. We are on good terms, she just desires my departure. We have one 16 yr old daughter.
I am asking for prayer that God shows me favor in my marriage. I am also battling fears of health problems, I know God is more than able to handle things. I just want some extra support. Thank you.
I am asking for prayers for me and my two kids . I am asking that we come together as a family and to show love and care for each other despite our differences. Also for healing of my arthritic knees as I don't want an operation . Also for my family to draw closer God in these challenging times . I am asking for a big financial break through before the end of this year . May God bless you .
I'm having UTI issues; as well as some effects of constapation from a virus. May have to seek medical attention tomorrow if it doesn't subside. Please pray for me.
Asking for strong protection and breakthrough for us and all in need. Lord Jesus please fight our battles ( Ex. 14:14). Please grant more strength and encouragement. Thank you.
My email, youtube, and facebook got hacked. i'm hoping and praying i will be able to get them back. i made a prayer request 5 days ago about my computer being hacked for it be repair. good news my computer is repaired and working fine but i'm am still hacked from my email, youtube, and facebook. keep praying for me it's been about 2 weeks.
Good morning! Just meditating that our Oil of Gladness should never run dry by placing our hopes on anything seen or heard in the world. We must be ready when He comes.
Father I'm asking for us and all in need. Please grant salvation to our unsaved loved ones and all the unsaved. Deliver those in bondage. Protect us and our loved ones. Guide us Father and us to bear good fruit and plenty of it. Its been so tough lately for so many. So many enemy attacks but you said in your word that the battle belongs to the Lord. Please rise up Lord. We need you. Father please send the Holy Spirit for Jesus' sake. And Father you know the specific requests we are raising up to you. Please send breakthrough. Praise and glory and honor be unto you. I pray in your holy name Lord Jesus. Amen
My prayer request I'm a born again Christian and I understand you're safe through grace through faith there's so many other scripture in the Bible besides those two I'm okay living on the streets I'm okay going hungry I just want prayer that I keep my phone power up so I can feed my spirit yes I know I can read I hope Jesus Christ comes back because our countries headed down the wide road of life and please pray for all the other homeless people there are so many Jesus knows me he knows my heart I'm not perfect I do have love
An interpretation of chapter, 1 Corinthians 14. (PT 3).
Later the word barbarian was used to mean the uncivilized people at that time. Ancient Greeks used to be a bit racist about the other nations and looked down upon them, they were aware and very proud of their achievements during that time. Same as other nations during history.
Anyway what Paul means here is that if tongues are not be interpreted then we can not understand each other. That is why he suggests us to be zealous about gifts that they are actually beneficial for the edification of the church.
Verse 13, Here again Paul suggests that he who speaks in tongues, that they ask God to give them the interpretation as well. This doesn't mean that they suddenly understand that foreign language, but God puts words of interpretation in their mouth, similarly as He puts the unknown words in their mouth.
Verses 14. Here Paul says that when we pray in tongues our spirit prays but our mind doesn't take any part in the prayer since there isn't any understanding.
So how should we pray? Verses 15-17. Paul says both in Spirit (in tongues that I don't understand) but in understanding (with my mind) as well. How should we sing, praise God? Both in the Spirit and with our mind. Because if we only pray and sing in Spirit how could the other christians say Amen and give thanks to God since they don't understand anything? There is not any benefit to them. Paul always has in mind the function of the church as a whole here.
Verses 18-20. Paul says that he speaks tongues more than any other, but in a congregation he prefers to say 5 words that others understand rather than thousands of words in a language others don't have a clue what is about. So He asks us to be mature in mind.
To be cont. tomorrow. I wish you all a blessed night.
An interpretation of chapter, 1 Corinthians 14. (PT 2)
Prophesy is not in an unknown language (in grk tongue and language is the same word, ie "glosa"), but in the native language of people.
Verse 4. One who speaks in tongues edifies himself. Why? Because tongues are a sign that someone is filled with God's Spirit. And the Spirit when is in work inside a believer produces a fruit, the fruit of the Spirit. That person does not understand what they say in a foreign language but the Spirit inside them does a work, sanctification, so edification is taking place inside them. But the rest of people who hear him talking in an unknown tongue are not afected, nothing occurs to/inside them, the only thing they hear is unknown words.
The one who prophesies edifies not only him but the church as a whole. As said direct messages from God are for the edification, and exhortation, and comfort of all.
Verse 5. Paul wishes everybody to talk in tongues, ie to be filled with God's Spirit but he wishes even more that everybody prophesies so that the congregation as a whole is benefited. So when comparing those 2 gifts, obviously prophesy is more important in the congregation than tongues UNLESS there is somebody who can interprete those mysteries said in an unknown language and so the whole congregation is benefited since they understand now what is said.
In the following versew 6-9 Paul uses the example of musical instruments to make clear that tongues if not interpreted is like "... for ye shall speak into the air.". Nobody hears, nobody understands, no work done.
Verses 10-12. In V11 it says, "Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.". Here the word barbarian has to be understood as the ancients meant it to be. When Greeks heard other nationals talking in their languages at that time, all they were hearing was a continuous bar-bar-bar. So they called non Greeks as barbarians.
I ask you my sisters and brothers in Christ, please pray there will be some answer to my situation soon.
God's peace be among you all!
Sister Star
Thank you
Veronica G
Later the word barbarian was used to mean the uncivilized people at that time. Ancient Greeks used to be a bit racist about the other nations and looked down upon them, they were aware and very proud of their achievements during that time. Same as other nations during history.
Anyway what Paul means here is that if tongues are not be interpreted then we can not understand each other. That is why he suggests us to be zealous about gifts that they are actually beneficial for the edification of the church.
Verse 13, Here again Paul suggests that he who speaks in tongues, that they ask God to give them the interpretation as well. This doesn't mean that they suddenly understand that foreign language, but God puts words of interpretation in their mouth, similarly as He puts the unknown words in their mouth.
Verses 14. Here Paul says that when we pray in tongues our spirit prays but our mind doesn't take any part in the prayer since there isn't any understanding.
So how should we pray? Verses 15-17. Paul says both in Spirit (in tongues that I don't understand) but in understanding (with my mind) as well. How should we sing, praise God? Both in the Spirit and with our mind. Because if we only pray and sing in Spirit how could the other christians say Amen and give thanks to God since they don't understand anything? There is not any benefit to them. Paul always has in mind the function of the church as a whole here.
Verses 18-20. Paul says that he speaks tongues more than any other, but in a congregation he prefers to say 5 words that others understand rather than thousands of words in a language others don't have a clue what is about. So He asks us to be mature in mind.
To be cont. tomorrow. I wish you all a blessed night.
Prophesy is not in an unknown language (in grk tongue and language is the same word, ie "glosa"), but in the native language of people.
Verse 4. One who speaks in tongues edifies himself. Why? Because tongues are a sign that someone is filled with God's Spirit. And the Spirit when is in work inside a believer produces a fruit, the fruit of the Spirit. That person does not understand what they say in a foreign language but the Spirit inside them does a work, sanctification, so edification is taking place inside them. But the rest of people who hear him talking in an unknown tongue are not afected, nothing occurs to/inside them, the only thing they hear is unknown words.
The one who prophesies edifies not only him but the church as a whole. As said direct messages from God are for the edification, and exhortation, and comfort of all.
Verse 5. Paul wishes everybody to talk in tongues, ie to be filled with God's Spirit but he wishes even more that everybody prophesies so that the congregation as a whole is benefited. So when comparing those 2 gifts, obviously prophesy is more important in the congregation than tongues UNLESS there is somebody who can interprete those mysteries said in an unknown language and so the whole congregation is benefited since they understand now what is said.
In the following versew 6-9 Paul uses the example of musical instruments to make clear that tongues if not interpreted is like "... for ye shall speak into the air.". Nobody hears, nobody understands, no work done.
Verses 10-12. In V11 it says, "Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.". Here the word barbarian has to be understood as the ancients meant it to be. When Greeks heard other nationals talking in their languages at that time, all they were hearing was a continuous bar-bar-bar. So they called non Greeks as barbarians.