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How long indeed? Over the years I have done a lot of wandering, but the very idea of turning my back on God in favor of the best the world of men has to offer holds no appeal to whatsoever now. My biggest battles now are not usually dealing with the lust of the eye or the lust of the flesh...

And of course you were there in person to witness both events as the official observer and judge standing in apparently for God!

Citing why Jericho was destroyed says nothing about America nor the specific questions I raised. Unless Americans respond sincerely in a manner corresponding to the words of II Chron 7:14 why should God have more mercy on them than on the people of Jericho or on His people the children of...

@Pearl Consider this verse: "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." John 16:33 What world did Jesus overcome? Certainly not planet Earth. What Jesus overcame was the...

This takes me back to what the man a told me many years ago. That man along with his family lived for God before us and they were the living epistles that attracted my wife and I to God in April of 1976. He said: "It is hard to live for God easy; but it is easy to live for God hard." Not many...

What I understand is that in many [or most?] the new groups of believers there was a man or small group of men who were really seeking and led by God. They started well, but perhaps the main problem for most of them was that once the initial leadership passed away [died] the people remaining...

I might also like to go back and be a real witness for the Lord as a young person, but as we both know, that is not according to God's plan. We should remember the story of Lazarus and the rich man and the following words which to me do relate to such a hypothetical situation: "And he said unto...

Indeed, what does this adversary really know and what does he only think that he knows? Do those confessing their belief in Jesus ever have such a problem? This may be an error people make when they in their minds [and also at times with their mouth] jump too quickly from living by faith to...

What most men call Christianity may indeed be near to its end... Too many people are willing to listen to and then repeat stuff that tickles their ears.

While you may not be completely wrong, consider this: Why is our sovereign country of America better than was the sovereign country of Jericho? Why was Rahab the harlot right to harbor the Hebrew infiltrators or spies whose purpose was to discover the best way to undermine and destroy her own...

Think! If you knew a truck was going to demolish you today as you walk across a street, would you try to stop sinning as much, thinking evil thoughts, whether or not there also a rapture coming? None of us know how much time remains to us unless like King Hezekiah we were specifically told by...

@MetalMike Welcome to the forum!

Not even then!

No turning back!

Consider that man had a Spirit from God in the beginning, but he defiled that Spirit... so that only a spirit of man remained... until Jesus opened the way for people to be born again [born from above] with a new Spirit, the Holy Spirit in us. Do you suppose that old defiled spirit should...

God brought me out of a seemingly bottomless pit back in 1976... but as I for the first time in my life began to read a Bible, I began to focus. I focused on what I had never done well in secular schools, study and learn what I was reading. Eventually I assured myself if I kept on at this pace...

@Episkopos I only just read through this thread today. It really touched my heart. My own experiences are different but very much the same if you understand my meaning. Give God the glory!

Tornado watches and warnings most everywhere with flood warnings as well because of soaked ground from recent previous storms. Enough water is enough and too much is too much. But... God does know what He is doing even we miss His point. We had one tornado likely to hit us, but it dissipated...

No maybe about it. Paul wrote this warning: "Quench not the Spirit." I Thess 5:19 A common problem today [perhaps for a longer period of time than that] is that people quench the Holy Spirit so much and so often they no longer recognize God's voice at all. Too many [probably all] church groups...

Proper direction by the Holy Spirit will help us in this, will it not?