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Always keep that in your heart my friend. It is easy to say, but our flesh always wants to stand in our way: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto...

One I had to leave... and most recently in a place where God had definitely placed me, I was forced out by those who replaced a called man of God so that they could establish their own glory. Of course they would deny that, but how many deluded people recognize their own delusions? I am calling...

And in which direction should our first step be? "O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!" Psalm 119:5

When I lived in another small city in Oklahoma the services where I attended regularly began at 4:00PM on Sundays so most Sunday mornings I would visit one of the many other church gatherings in town. The little "hole in the wall" churches were usually the best, the ones I would most likely pay...

Amen!

Perhaps there is and if it is God's will for me to find such congregation and join it, if I am pliant, allowing Him to guide me will I not find it? I have already been in places and God has brought me out of each of them. I am now where He has brought me to... Just need to keep on listening to...

Should we go searching for a "church" or should we surrender to God and let Him lead us? Will He?

In larger "well established" churches, the façade is already in place and usually even the local ministry "in charge" don't recognize it for what it is. It is probably the primary reason the churches in Europe have diminished and why the same thing has been happening in this country as well...

There are places where the Holy Spirit is allowed to lead some of the time. This is more likely to be seen in very small gatherings [congregations], but the larger the congregation and the better organized it is by men the more likely it is that God has been and is programmed right out of the...

The expression the "cart before the horse" means to go about something backwards. Notice the verse that I cited after using that expression: "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Matt 6:33 First things first! Nothing...

Babel or Babylon or confusion! "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints." I Cor 14:33

Should we not counsel against gathering for our own religious purposes rather than simply gathering really "In His Name"? How many of the folk who attend church services regularly even know what it means to be "In His Name"? When they don't know should it not be most important for those in...

Jesus would never be angry at someone for really seeking to gather In His Name, but with more than 2 or 3 it is in most places [churches?] nigh onto impossible! Why? Because someone is always quenching the Spirit.

Growing pains?

When we do avoid them all, all the ones doing this, it really limits very much our choices... that is if we are really wanting to attend a regularly scheduled "church" service and also really gather together In His Name.

Amen! Just look at their programmed services and restricted responses. Only the human powers in charge of their services have a say in who is allowed to have a say. God is out of it unless they allow Him in... which is not very often, if at all.

Every congregation where I have been a member or where I have visited have programmed themselves to the point where God Himself is blocked if He should choose to speak through someone in the congregation not approved beforehand by the pastor or other designated ministers leading the way. They do...

"Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord," Acts 7:57

You most certainly can trust the Holy Spirit to guide you to truth, but consider what it means to be one of His sheep. If you are not... then you may well be hearing the voice of strangers instead of His voice. "And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow...

As if by just saying it, or acting it, or even believing it, will make it be true. The façade! Again it is the cart before the horse as if we may arrange God's order for Him instead of continuing to seek it. His order is first things first! First is His kingdom and first is His righteousness...