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@FHII Many years ago when I thought I needed to memorize some scripture the ones you cited in the OP were among the first ones that came to mind. My mind, [natural or carnal mind] was already slipping so I before long quit my memorization task leaving it God to bring to mind that which was...

I have for many years always read my Bible to myself out loud. My comprehension falls short often these days as a part of aging. When I stop and think about something I just read and am unable to immediately recall the gist of it, I will most definitely go back and immediately reread it. It...

I did just this not so long ago when you suggested as an alternative to the somewhat expensive Microsoft office. When I encounter some of my own very old writings where I used Microsofte Word which I had at the time I simply tell the computer to use one of my other programs... including...

It also comes down to where a person is in God and to what it is that God draws him. Why is it that one servant of God will be consumed with reading all of the Bible continuously, repeatedly, while another will be more inclined to reading according to certain topics, using a concordance and/or...

When I asked the question, I did not know my own answer, but consider what I encountered this afternoon: Is Sorrow Equal to Nothingness? “And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and...

Is sorrow equal to nothingness? "And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing." I Cor 13:2

For it to work there must be people on both sides who would seek God's help to make it work. The evangelists need to allow God to work through them and the people to whom the evangelists speak must be hungry for they know not what from God. There were undoubtedly charlatans among those old time...

Well, in a real way we are always in His presence, but if and when we gather together supposedly to be in His name together, we must be wanting to set our flesh and the things of the flesh aside. We cannot do this alone certainly, but neither should we purposely do things which put additional...

Going out on a limb means you may expect or fear that it will break under your weight... or even that some person will cut it off next the trunk and down you go. I have cut people off like that but when it happened I did not know Jesus as I know him now. I still don't know him as well as I...

I really don't see Facebook as a 'bad guy' any more than many other things we have today. It is simply presently not for me. I also don't watch or pay attention to football and watch very little television. There is simply only so much time in a day. As God directs me I try to use it... and will...

Yes, something inside of us. Even to discuss this correctly I guess takes a bit of a leading from God. I know of at least one former atheist who reading and studying the Bible for what he thought were his purposes to disprove what "Christians" believed was converted in that reading. The Father...

Thanks for this old friend. One appears to be in Ontario, Canada while the other is in New Jersey. Neither one is close enough to run right over there from Oklahoma. I guess not belonging to Facebook has its disadvantages, but I quit that place several years ago and have seen nothing to convince...

Well my friend don't you ever let up on your walk with God without regard to what others about you may or may not being doing. We can wish for the horses so that the beggars may ride, but only God can provide enough horses to get the job done.

Yes, but can an atheist with no present calling from read the Bible with understanding in his own attitude or spirit? This is my point. When I read the Bible each day I try to always read it prayerfully, to open my heart up to God as I read. Sometimes I still fail because I have allowed myself...

Yes, they have gone the way of small town circuses. When I was a small child a small circus came to our little town of population around 1000 people. I loved it and the idea of it, but even then they were on their way out. They could not compete with everything else the world already had to...

Your point is perhaps my point as well. Communication is always the problem. Anyone speaking and reading any human language can be a follower of God becoming always more and more like Him. As we become more like Him it is unlikely we will become more like those who had Aramaic or Hebrew or Greek...

Not getting into your discussion of the lack of J's on the one hand and the abundance of them on the other, specifically, but generally. Your thoughts bring to mind the following event in the book of Judges: "...when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of...

@Grailhunter Indeed, there is power in the Name, but even a deaf mute in the natural may take hold of the power through the Spirit of God, can he not? Are we limited by God because of our carnal/fleshly limitations? I would think not for as in all things, God is looking at our hearts rather...

Give God the glory my friend. Hopefully it accomplished some of God's purpose for those attending. I remember back in the late 1970's attending our very first non-Catholic church the pastor started holding prayer services daily, 7 days a week. They were held every night starting at about 7:00...

Here I am right in the midst of what people have in the past named the "Bible Belt", but it has been years since I saw a tent meeting set up in my neighborhood. Before responding to you I read @Willie T post about the tent meeting around St Petersburg. I surely hope they are better than the...