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Lol lol lol.......I see you’ve found a mirror.
What was that you said earlier? Pot, meet kettle?
Yes but it's YOUR reflection I see.........lol lol!
Go eat yourself something you'll feel better.
Indeed, somewhere along the line Satan interfered as always with what God has said.
"Ye will NOT surely die" .
He has not stopped lying since.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Without wisdom ; the application of knowledge of the Lord is just that head knowledge.
Philip James
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I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live,
Freewill is a gift from God.
Choose wisely!
Pax et Bonum
Amen !
It is all about OUR decisions; our choices!
But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Philip James
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Hello Keturah,
hmm.. I would say, rather, that it's all about Him and His love for us, but yes our choice to serve Him remains our choice.
Love cannot be forced!
Pax et Bonum
Taken
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Hi Philip ~
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Hope you are yours, (especially your son) are doing well.
God Bless,
Taken
Taken
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@Keturah ... don’t know you well, but wishing you and yours Gods Blessings.
@Rita ... Haven’t talked too much lately, but think of you often, and pray for Gods abundant blessing upon you in your daily responsibilities.
@Johann ... enjoyed the recent conversations...fascinating to be a bazillion miles away! Met a man from your country a few years back, what a pleasant accent from his area. He was born and raised in Johannesburg. I’m not familiar if accents in your country are as Diverse and Different as in the US.
May God bless you and yours.
Glory to God,
Taken
@Rita ... Haven’t talked too much lately, but think of you often, and pray for Gods abundant blessing upon you in your daily responsibilities.
@Johann ... enjoyed the recent conversations...fascinating to be a bazillion miles away! Met a man from your country a few years back, what a pleasant accent from his area. He was born and raised in Johannesburg. I’m not familiar if accents in your country are as Diverse and Different as in the US.
May God bless you and yours.
Glory to God,
Taken
Thank you friend. What a lovely blessing of goodness first thing in the a.m.
May your household be also richly blessed from his storehouse of bounty !
Hi Taken
Thank you , family life has been a bit challenging of late but The Lord is using it all ( kind of in the classroom at the moment, if you know what I mean x )
I am here every day, although not so much on work days - I read more than I post these days xx
Thank you , family life has been a bit challenging of late but The Lord is using it all ( kind of in the classroom at the moment, if you know what I mean x )
I am here every day, although not so much on work days - I read more than I post these days xx
@Taken, you are a blessing and enjoy your pathos, zest and zeal for Christ Jesus and the way and manner you unpack the Scriptures.
No, our accent is not as diverse as in the US.
I have a soft spot for you in my heart and pray that our Father will keep you strong in Christ, sealed with the Holy Spirit till our final redemption.
Shalom to you and family
Johann
Taken
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Thank you friend. What a lovely blessing of goodness first thing in the a.m.
May your household be also richly blessed from his storehouse of bounty !
Thank you, thank you....Gods Blessings for you, Gods Blessings for me, Gods Blessing for our households....
And remember....(the strangest thing).... OUR blessings to Give...
(Sort of like what magnificent blessing can we Personally give?)
Yet is is true...We are to give OUR personal Blessings to the LORD.
(Can you imagine, OUR personal Blessing TO the LORD, mean something of great value to the LORD?)
Pss 1:
[1] Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Phenomenal.
Glory to God,
Taken
Taken
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Rita I know you have pressing and exhausting responsibilities, that do not always come with “instant” rewards... Yet also know, you are “patient” which is the “Big Picture”, the day you hear, well done my faithful servant and friend.
Sending you a kudos, a hug and what the heck... a chocolate too... :)
God Bless,
Taken
Thank you , I will take chocolate any day.
In many respects, since my dad passed,I am beginning to get my life back on my days off. I can actually arrange to see my children and support them through the ups and downs in their lives. Ididnt realise how much of me got lost while being my dads carer and working.
I am having to let The Lord redefine who I am again and what role I should have now ……another transition x
Hope you are keeping well xx
Sorry to hear about your dad @Rita, my wife passed a couple of years ago and I am still "lost/empty" if you know what I mean.
I still "see" her everywhere in this ol' house.
Shalom
J.
Taken
Well-Known Member
Thank you Johann...Always, Always with great joy to have such lovely thoughts extended from a brother IN Christ.
Don’t know who is tasked with Making all those “white robes” for the Lords sons to wear....simply elated every time “I know”, who’s who on the receiving end OF one of THOSE “white robes”. :)
The accent... in the US. Interesting, from wherever a person was born and raised, and travels from state to state, the accent and delivery manner almost always can be pinned down to their native state. Catch phrases as well, can add to the guesswork of an others native state.
We have traveled all over the the lower 48, (a bit in Canada and Mexico) and Just a fun pass time when I meet other people.
Glory to God,
Taken
I send my condolences to you both. I am well acquainted with the passing of loved ones.
Peace & comfort.
Peace & comfort.
I am so sorry Johann, I think it must be so much harder losing a partner xx
My dad was 90 years old and his body was failing, he also didn’t live with me. Grief and loss just changes so many experiences and people do leave massive holes in our lives. The family home is just down the road from me, it was new when mum and dad brought me and my twin brother home to live there 64 years ago. Now someone else is living there and I struggle when I go passed on my way to town or work. Memories and reminders are always around us all of the people we love xxx
Ah, dear @Taken...those white robes!
A Robe of Restoration
"So Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.'
Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph’s finger.
He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck."
- Genesis 41:41-42
The heart of God the Father is one of restoration. He walks with us and fulfills the dreams and destiny He ordained for us even from all eternity.
There are many aspects of Joseph’s life that have blessed and encouraged the body of Christ. The robe that Joseph received from his father when he was a young man is a great example. In Genesis 37:3, we read, “Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe for him.”
This robe is described in the Amplified Bible as (a [distinctive] long tunic with sleeves). It was a very special garment that signified his father’s love and favor, as well as the destiny he would one day fulfill. For Joseph, it would be a daily reminder that he was covered in his father’s love.
Every time Satan looked at Joseph, he saw the robe, which constantly reminded him of his own inability to destroy the ultimate plans and purposes that God had for Joseph.
Because of that hate, Satan incited Joseph’s brothers to jealousy: “So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the richly ornamented robe he was wearing” (Gen. 37:23). Although his brothers stripped Joseph of his physical robe, what it symbolized could not be stripped away. Even as Joseph entered into captivity without his richly ornamented robe, the covering of God’s love, favor and purpose remained over him.
Joseph walked through some very difficult places, and he must have struggled quite a bit to understand God’s plan for him in the midst of his circumstances. For a season, the Enemy took what had symbolized so much to him—the robe—out of his sight, and yet, his father’s love never changed. More importantly, God’s favor followed him wherever he went, and after 13 years of captivity, full restoration came, and he finally experienced the fulfillment of his destiny.
When Joseph was dressed in robes of fine linen, he had suddenly become the second-most powerful and honored man in all of Egypt. The robe of restoration was finally his!
Scripture also speaks of another robe, a robe that was provided at a great price—the life of a Father’s only Son—covering all who accept it as a gift. In Isaiah 61:10, we read, “I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God, for he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness.”
These garments signify in part, God’s provision, favor, healing and deliverance by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. All of this flows from His incredible love.
In Christ, we are clothed in garments of salvation and a robe of righteousness. The Enemy desperately wants to keep us from “seeing” the robe of Christ’s righteousness that covers us, and so he sends us accusations and condemnation to try and keep us from seeing our inheritance in Christ.
The Father wants to open our eyes to see who we truly are: joint-heirs with Christ, fully restored to the position of sons and daughters, and made worthy through the blood of the Lamb. When we “see” ourselves clothed in Christ’s righteousness, we will be able to rest in His love and His favor, and fulfill our God-given destiny!
A robe of restoration
By Debra Neybert, Training Specialist "So Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.'Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph’s finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck." - Ge...
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Don't know if you agree with this, but lately, the last couple of months, I am not sure re my salvation.
Being blunt with you Taken, sitting alone day in and day out, the mind/nous the battlefield.
I hope you understand what I am trying to convey to you.
J.
Taken
Well-Known Member
@Johann
Rita, its what humans DO...caring for, tending to something other than themselves. Sometimes it is consuming, exhausting, frustrating....but when that caring FOR an other “something”....child, parent, spouse, pet, livestock, “home”... changes, is no longer THERE TO care for....the VOID is huge....and sways back and forth from Relief to Sorrow...like a phenomenal up and down roller coaster, that from day to day affects our Emotions.
AND THAT emotional swing ... is personally comforted BY the awesome gift of the LORDS Spiritual Comfort and your living loving family and friends...
Johann...especially to you...you are expressing your LOSS, sorrow...You are NOT empty! And everywhere you see your wife IS unto you, A Joyful Memory, EMBRACE it with Joy.
No doubt we are SAD at OUR OWN losses....YET, the fact IS, our loss, IS the Lords Gain. That which we enjoyed, needed...The Lord needs them more. :)
God Bless you both Rita and Johann.
Glory to God,
Taken
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