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The Holy Spirit Has And Will Guide Us Into All Truth 2007-06-26 20:43:00 When and if God moves to,what we might call change,He does so,under the former declaration.Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothingwithout revealing his planto his servants the prophets.Amos 3:7And the promise in Amos's discourse has He kept;so we follow His directions till He decides its time to reveal new truths,"not new gospel,"the Holy Spirit has and will guide us into all truth,as we merit new,or renewed light,or responsibility.If it falls into our area of responsibility,and we do not respond then the light indeed has grown dim,or has been extinguished.Some day some of you may have the privilege of seeing it;it will not be necessary to have The Lord's Supper-sacrament,we shall be immersed in,not just His memory of Him but be immersed in His life and service-call it "Zion", "Utopia", "Kingdom On Earth".But,this has to happen before he can accept His bride,"The Church."To bring to pass the immortality and eternal live of man-this is not over night,but line upon line,precept upon pr Read more:Guide
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Faith 2007-06-26 23:50:00 Don't get trapped by discouragement and sorrow! It will paralyze everything. Memories can be wonderful, but you can't live on them! Make the memories effective in your life. So we experience it and grow it.Make the memory of Christ so personal that it is like praying without ceasing. It becomes our very nature. Eventually, the emblems won't be needed. We experience Christ completely. We may or may not see Christ on Earth. But we can and must experience Him. For in Him we live, and move and have our being.Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.To be 100% certain of who we are and where we belong is something that most people seek, yet sadly few find. Full assurance of faith means that as children of God we can trust and depend upon Him to do all that He says. It is a matter of faith.Faith
represents the washing and cleansing o
Greed 2007-06-28 20:47:00 Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." Luke 12:15Greed
is defined as a selfish excessive or uncontrolled desire for possession or pursuit of money, wealth, food, or other possessions at the expense of another person's welfare. It is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. It is also called Avarice or Covetousness. Greed is, like Lust and Gluttony, a sin of excess. However, Greed particularly applies to the acquisition of wealth. Thomas Aquinas wrote that Greed was "a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things." In Dante's Purgatory, the penitent were forced to kneel on hard stone and recite the examples of avarice and its opposing virtue. Avarice is a blanket term that can describe many other forms of sinful behaviour. These include disloyalty, deliberate betrayal, or
Alone 2007-07-01 19:26:00 O LORD, you deceived me, and I was deceived; you overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me. Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed. For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?Jeremiah 20Alone. Who hasn't at one time or another felt alone? "You don't know what it's like to be. To have people stare at you like they hate you. To be alone in a crowd."The words he spoke hung heavy in the air as if it was awaiting a response. I sat on my father's tombstone and listened to his words. The sun was beginning to sit on that hot summer day. My mother listened to his words of pain as he shouted at the world. I came to visit my father's grave trying to do my own soul searching. And here stood one who knew me better than anyone struggling with his hurt soul.I just hung my head and said nothi
I Just Pray 2007-07-02 22:40:00 By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.Psalm 42:8"I just pray."These words resound in my head as I look into his eyes. My words fail me so many times.After facing mockers at work, I run into one who mocked me and now asked me for prayer. Tears steamed down his eyes for his father who was now ill. I was there to pray for a friend's grandmother facing surgery. This in another city so many miles from where we lived. We got lost and ran into him. What was I going to do? There I stood with the chance to just ignore him or just say some small prayer and be on my way. Instead, my heart broke. All wrong done to me mattered not. Love for him welled up inside me. I prayed from the heart with my feeble words. I embraced him as I left. His sorrow was now tears of reassurance.I am not skilled to understand what God has willed or what God has planned. I just feel others burdens and pain. This leaves me vulnerable to be hurt while being open.
My Dove 2007-07-05 00:10:00 I said, "Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest- Psalm 55:6Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee. Author: George HerbertWings Of A Dove (Hymn)On the wings of a snow white dove, He sends His pure sweet loveA sign from above, On the wings of dove.When troubles surround us, When evils comeThe body grows weak, The spirit grows numbWhen these things beset us, He doesn't forget usHe sends down His love, On the wings of a dove.On the wings of a snow white dove, He sends His pure sweet loveA sign from above, On the wings of dove.When Jesus went down To the river that dayHe was baptized In the usual wayAnd when it was done, God blessed His SonHe sent Him His love, On the wings of doveOn the wings of a snow white dove, He sends His pure sweet loveA sign from above, On the wings of dove.When Noah had drifted, On the flood many daysHe searched for land, In vario
Birds Of Heaven 2007-07-05 17:38:00 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?Matthew 6:26Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught The dialect they speak, where melodies Alone are the interpreters of thought? Whose household words are songs in many keys, Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught! - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDid you know that birds have long been used as symbols in Christianity? Not just doves either but other birds.There is a story or more appropriately a legend of the robin. It tells how the robin received his red breast. Story goes that as Joseph, Mary, and Jesus as a child was resting on their flight to Egypt sparks of a fire flew toward Jesus. The robin caught the sparks of fire on his breast instead thus protecting Jesus. His reward was the beautiful red breast that robins are known for.Another bird the peacock is a symbol f Read more:Birds
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In The Garden 2007-07-07 18:39:00 10Then the disciples went back to their homes, 11but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.13They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?""They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him." 14At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.15"Woman," he said, "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him."16Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher). John 20A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. ~Author UnknownI come to the garden aloneWhile the dew is still on the rosesAnd the voice I hear, fall Read more:Garden
Martyr 2007-07-17 23:40:00 Martyr
- Greek word for "witness". One who chooses death rather than to deny Jesus Christ or His work.
The only apostle’s death the Bible records is James' (Acts 12:2). King Herod had James put to death “with the sword” – likely a reference to beheading. The circumstances of the deaths of the other apostles can only be known based on church history.
The most commonly accepted church history in regards to the death of an apostle is that the Apostle Peter was crucified, upside-down on an x-shaped cross, in Rome, in fulfillment of Jesus’ prophecy (John 21:18).
Following are the church history in regards to the deaths of the other apostles:
Matthew suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, where he had drawn to take the gospel. There he performed many miracles and great teac
Huguenots 2007-07-16 20:13:00 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Acts 6:57-60
"Ours is the seed-time; God alone Beholds the end of what is sown;Beyond our vision, weak and dim,The harvest time is his with Him." --Whittier.
"What sought they thus afar?Bright jewels of the mine?The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?They sought at faith's pure shrine.Aye! call it holy ground,The soil where first they trod,They've
Wedding Band 2007-07-16 18:13:00
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine. Song of Solomon 2:16
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.- Book of Common Prayer
Open your bible to anywhere in it. Then take a wedding ring and place it on end inside the bible between the pages. Put some light behind the ring. Notice the shadow that it casts. It looks like a heart shape. Neat trick or is it something more?
The story behind the wedding band is a unique one.The ring symbolizes seeing the circular band with no break representing eternity and love, endless devotion, with no beginning and no end. Even the ring hole has the meaning of a door to events known and unknown for two committed to each other. It being placed on the third finger of the left hand,
Never Realized 2007-07-16 17:31:00 In my time on this earth there are things I never realized,
just fanciful dreams a young man idealized.
But the older I get I have come to a realization of you,
Not in how you look but the things you do.
But what is it about you that makes me love you?
It's your gracious smile that makes all things new.
Your self sacrificing heart of putting others first,
the bountiful love you have dispersed.
Thinking of the family I have through you,
Their little eyes glowing sky blue.
Seeing how you unwaveringly love them,
Your eyes sparkle back like a gem.
For the love you give to our children two,
Is reflected back in my eyes to you.
by
Lance Gargus
Books:Christianity,Bible,Jesus,Angels,Soul,God,
Holy Spirit,Doves,Love,Children,Heaven
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Unworthy To Be Called Your Son 2007-07-16 14:49:00 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. Luke 15:20-24"It is not flesh and blood but the heart, which makes us fathers and sons." - Johann Schiller I don't want the man I was to rise up in me again,He keeps me awake at night.I try to silence t
Christian Brotherly Love 2007-07-14 00:36:00 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.John 15:12Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.Peter 1:22Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.1 Peter 2:17Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble.1 Peter 3:8Above all, love each other deeply,1 Peter 4:8and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.2 Peter 1:7This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.This is the message you he Read more:Christian
Abandoned 2007-07-08 23:48:00 Then everyone deserted him and fled.A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, he fled naked, leaving his garment behind.Mark 14:50-52For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica;At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. 2 Timothy :14 and 16And I alone of all mankindWere left in loneliness behind.Author: Barnes, WilliamJesus and Paul were abandoned by their friends. In their darkest hour everyone ran off. But there was one in each situation that stayed. John the beloved stayed and watched the proceedings of Jesus trial and execution. Comforting Jesus mother at the foot of the cross. Luke alone stayed with Paul as wri Read more:Abandoned
A Letter From My Grandmother 2007-07-08 20:34:00 I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.2 Timothy 1:5Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever. ~Author UnknownThis letter was written in 1988. My dad wasn't the only patriarch or matriarch concerned about their children and grandchildren. My grandmother on my mother's side wrote this letter from her deathbed. Even then pleading with all loved ones to turn around and see Christ. For all of us not to take our eyes off the prize.Here is her letter:Dear love ones,I love everyone of you all. Your daddy, you three kids, all the grand kids, my sister, and all the rest of my love ones. I don't like some of their ways, but I still love them. I don't Read more:Letter
, Grandmother
Young Love 2007-07-07 20:02:00 Love is patient, love is kind.It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Love never fails.I Corinthians 13:4-8This is my beloved, and this is my friend.Song of Soloman 5:16When my wife and I married, this is what we wrote each other after the birth of our first child. The poems reflect young love in its beginning stages of life together and the start of a family. May you find something in them that makes you stop and reflect on someone special to you.If I was not meant to love you, why does your hand fit so well into mine?When you are not near, you cause my heart Read more:Young Love
This Do In Remebrance Of Me 2007-07-18 21:40:00 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me."Luke 22:19and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me."1 Corinthians 11:24"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." ---Sarah Williams He "Christ," broke and blessed the bread.He "Christ," gave it to the disciples.(Symbolically) take-eat,"this (experience) (this occasion) and remember-I gave my very life for you.Why could He not let his disciples break and pass it? I believe because He was demonstrating His humility. "Let he who would be master, be the servant of all." He did surely give His life a
Holy Spirit Live In Me 2007-07-19 23:18:00 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.Romans 8:26 The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, co-equal with God the Father and Jesus Christ. He is the one who pulls at you when you sin. That still small voice that convicts you when you sin. And the one who reveals the truth to you to turn away from sin. The word translated into "Spirit" in the Bible has its root meaning as "breath" or "wind". He dwells with Christians as a guide and comforter. Having these characteristics similar to a mother as a comforter in times of trouble and guiding us when as we try to make spiritual decisions in our lives. Paraclete comes from the Koine Greek word π
To Gain The Whole World 2007-07-21 18:01:00 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Matthew 16:26
He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him. Author: Benjamin Franklin
Are we blessed by God as the poor in spirit or do we pray to be blessed with wealth of this world of shifting sand?
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was Read more:Whole
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Pick Them Up and Hold Them 2007-07-22 17:16:00 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.Mark 10:15-16The soul is healed by being with children. Author: English ProverbThis is a story of a father with his two children. As he was showing his daughter of about 5-7 years of age photos in a photo album she inquired about who the people were."Are all these my family members?" she inquired."Yes," was the father's response back,"Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Grandpas and Grandmas,too." "Wow, that's alot of family. Where are all of our families' pictures?" she asked while little hands picked up images of long ago and looked at them. "Well, it is like this," the father explained,"the pictures we have are
Not One Of Them Is Forgotten Before God 2007-07-23 00:43:00 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
Luke 12:6
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
Psalms 84: 1-3
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ~Henry Ward Beecher
I was thinking about all the verses where it talks about God's heart being for the small, seemin Read more:Forgotten
No title 2007-07-24 00:00:00
And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
John 16:22
Never let anyone steal your joy.
Mike Richards
Joy is defined as an emotion of great happiness. I think nobody represented this greater than my dad. Always in good spirits even when he felt bad. A person can only make you feel bad if you let him. If you seen
Mamaw's Dogwood Tree 2007-07-24 01:05:00 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree1Peter 2:24 The trees are God's great alphabet:With them He writes in shining greenAcross the world His thoughts serene.~Leonora SpeyerAs legend has it, the cross on which Jesus was crucified was made from a dogwood tree.When Christ was on earth, the dogwood grew to a very large size. Its branches were strong, and for Christ's cross, its
Life Is So Wonderful 2007-07-24 21:06:00 Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.Isaiah 25:1The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed. Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLife is so wonderf Read more:Wonderful
Ring The Bells Of Heaven 2007-07-27 16:25:00 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD;Zechariah 14:20Bells on horses symbolized the coming of someone important on horseback. Our Lord Jesus Christ will come on a white horse with bells that have inscribed on them-Holiness Unto The Lord.Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Chr Read more:Heaven
Nails In The Fence 2007-07-25 22:36:00 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Ephesians 4:31
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline Schiff
There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence.
The first day the boy had drive
On The Anvil 2007-07-29 16:08:00
The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Psalm 93:1
Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon. The Christian anvil has broken many hammers.
- St. Ignatius of Loyola
"On the anvil they put us. Thousands of hammers hitting the anvil of my destiny."
Financial Stewardship 2007-07-27 23:37:00 and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7
God's Word commands us to be good stewards of our finances. Dave Ramsey and other Christian financial advisers speak on this topic. They refer to it as grandma's common sense advice. More appropriately it's a Great Depression mentality. If you can't afford it, don't buy it.
The advice continues with prepare for the worst, and pray for the Read more:Financial
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Christian Attorney (Christian Lawyer) 2007-07-29 22:27:00 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.Titus 3:13Paul calls Zenas "the lawyer." The meaning of this is, that, previous to his becoming a Christian
, he had been a Jewish lawyer. The lawyers were that class of Jewish teachers who were specially learned in the Mosaic Law, and who interpreted that Law, and taught it to the people. They are me Read more:Attorney
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