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What was Mary doing at the feet of Jesus? She was LISTENING to Him, filling up with His word, and contemplating THAT, not emptying her mind. We all need to take time and make prayer and reading the bible a priority, as well as meditating on it. The devil sure likes to pervert the things of...

Exactly. I were you I'd very much stick to what the bible teaches and not add in things that men say/write that aren't scriptural. We are to bring our thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ.........who is the Word made flesh.

Sister He is merciful but there is also His wrath. He is a consuming fire. Remember that being like God means knowing both good and evil. He is the one who created the destroyer to work havoc and bible also says in Isaiah (Ch. 45 or 46 I think) that He creates both good and evil. But He...

Amen, yes exactly.

Yes Job ended up speaking what was right in the end.....he had beforehand only known God by the hearing of the ear, but when he finally "saw" the Lord face to face, it made him realize what he was next to a holy God and repented in dust and ashes.

Yes indeed.....nevertheless Job did need to repent of something didn't he? And why does God likewise chastise us and prune even our fruitful branches? That we might partake of His holiness. (And don't forget God's graciousness, ie, grace, to sometimes call those things that be not as though...

Uh-huh. Slowly warming you up is how the devil operates. But by all means you feel free to show me this practice in the bible and I will consider it. (Whereas I seem to recall the Lord telling the Israelites not to adopt the ways of the pagans in the land and not to worship Him the way the...

Were they wrong? Turned out Job did have something to repent of in the end. Of being righteous in his own eyes. I think the fault of those witnesses had to do with their heart attitude towards the suffering of Job. Maybe like a plank in their eyes.

I think God gives false shepherds and their sheep over to death in a spiritual way. And I am not sure but suspect that maybe the abomination of the Egyptians to be sacrificed to God was simply the sheep that the Egyptians abhorred....? I doubt that the the Israelites were going to sacrifice...

But why? Is Jesus not enough? It's another form of spiritual entertainment and fad, like "soaking" and likewise potentially dangerous to lead you astray. Two different churches I attended at different times....when each one brought in soaking prayer the Holy Spirit urgently told me to leave...

Yes there are those who claim to know Jesus but are not following Him......think we can blame the greasy grace gospel for that at least in part........and God will separate out the wheat from the tares in the end. But I was responding to your comment that the liberty we have is from...

I'm glad your Dad is doing better. I'm sure he'll enjoy that corn chowda, lol. Better than hospital food I'm sure! I think socialism itself is often a reaction to the suffering brought on by greedy big corps or upper classes, so they bring it on themselves......but sometimes there is just...

What is ludicrous to me is thinking we have "claim" to no benefits from being born again and knowing Christ and being washed in His Blood and having His Spirit dwelling in us. Not that we "claim" them in that attitude, but we see and read and grow in understanding the magnitude of what we have...

And there's a lot of it going around unfortunately. You be encouraged brother.

Yes, we are saved from sin, but the bible ALSO says we are saved from wrath through Him. That is the liberty we have now. Freed from the condemnation of the Law and the kind of fear and bondage it brought. And that is the reason we are admonished not to use this liberty and grace as an...

There is nothing superficial about it....it's a miracle and gift that cost Jesus everything. I just dont' think we should ignore and despise those small beginning like some appear to be doing. And I sure do not oppose holiness and walking in the Spirit......I do not oppose growing up into the...

I agree.......on a deeper level, as you are saying, we don't even know the half of it until we grow more and the Lord begins shining His light into the deeper depths of our darkness, then we begin realizing the depths of what is in us...and that sin and iniquity isn't just something that we do...

Totally agree that most are preaching and serving a man-centred gospel these days. It's actually a stage of infancy in a way, and many remain stuck there and don't grow out of it. Flesh is ruling where Jesus should be. And this has always been the battle......while Paul lived he battled to...

Amen! it's all written as a mirror...think God didn't hide the foibles and failures of His saints, or His responses to them, so that we would see and learn for ourselves. Learn about ourselves as well as learn about God.

So you didn't depart from iniquity and add virtue to your faith then when you were born again? That was a specific question, not general.