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Pray without ceasing! Rejoice in the Lord always!

There really are times when our best course of action is to be silent. Long before I had ever read a Bible myself I was taught that if you cannot say something good about a person it is best not to say anything at all. But who alone is able to control their own tongue?

Yes, sister, it is called repentance. Without it our words are empty indeed!

To God I believe that sincerity makes all of the difference and it should make a difference to us. People who have become hardened criminals or even some not so hardened may be really sorry they got caught and have to pay a penalty. God expects us to be sorry we did our dirty deed and also to be...

"Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked...

Without your specifically identifiable history, I can relate to the programming and deprogramming. When I came to the Christ definitively in 1976, I started to read a Bible and to learn some things about God's ways. It was not so long before I began to understand that much of what I had learned...

We cannot make others do what we believe that they should. The only one we control in even a limited way is our own self. I believe that every instance in my own history where I needed to apologize but did not is still embedded in my memory to remind me of me. The worst one that comes...

@April_Rose I am praying with you!l Do our prayers make a difference? "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." James 5:16

Remember that friendship needs to be a two way street. Somehow we need to love even our worst enemies. Have you encountered any of your worst enemies on this thread? Jesus does ask us to do the impossible, but for God, what is impossible? "And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is...

@Ziggy @K9Buck A very happy birthday to each one of you!

What does God want for you sister?

Not everyone walking around us are God's children. Many of them are really dead to God. How can a dead person be brought to Life? "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you." John 6:53

Perhaps so when we do not make Him cry too much...

The example of Robert Sheffey was not a new one and it seems to be a continuing one... the lack of really selfless rather than selfish workers. He gave himself to the work and yet when he was running out of his own time, much still remained to do. Try, if you @rockytopva will, tying it into...

Are we led by the Spirit of God... or by our own carnal spirit? Consider what Apostle Paul wrote here: "Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ." I Cor 11:1

But then alone, we can do nothing! So then we see a promise: "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." Acts 1:8

@Pearl "For many are called, but few are chosen." Matt 22:14 First the Father called us, that is drew us, to His Son, Jesus! "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:44 And Jesus says to us: "Come unto me, all...

"I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." John 9:4-5 "And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world..." John 17:11 "Ye are the light of the world. A city that...

Rather Jesus is the Head of the Body. The Body of Christ is to be all of the parts consisting of each of us made flawless and perfect for Him to be able to rest His Head... that is Jesus on and in us... "And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but...

I have been reading it for more than 40 years if time is important. Without the quickening Spirit, what is it [=manna]? A dry empty and even dead thing, is it not? A barren place then would be Zion the place for Him to rest His head! The son of man with no place to lay his head. Give God the...