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This takes me back to another testimony particularly on behalf of my wife which I have told before but maybe not on this forum. Where we attended church services regularly for a number of years the people regularly dressed for church in the best apparel they could, which usually meant long...

Jesus won the war in Jesus, but he must also win the war in each one of us. To do so we must first allow him inside of us so that he can join in our battles.

I may indeed be an honour as you say to be the weaker vessel, but any man who married a good woman was elevated as a result: "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD." Prov 18:22 The good thing found is the wife with the Spirit of God leading her as she...

Never mind the NC. Consider the type or shadow in the OT seen in in the OT with Abigail [source of joy], the wife of Nabal [fool or dolt] when she took it upon herself to do for David and his followers what her husband should have done. [I Sam 25].

But God still recognized that ultimately for Him there is to be no difference, even if men... and women too... were treating the whole physical female gender as effectively second class citizens. Even in the OT where we regularly may come across the bias against the women we see types and...

I have also remained in touch with Pia, but did not realize she also knew Pastor Marty. I will mention him to her on my next contact.

If a person does not grow, he stagnates and dies. This old temple of flesh which houses all that we have is dying... even in the young people. I recall in school they speaking of the dying cells being replaced by the new cells. In a teenager the new cells grow faster that the old cells die...

I met someone in the opposite situation many years ago. He was a young Wiccan who had been a Christian. When the supposedly Christian people in the church he attended ignored his needs and repeatedly condemned him for lacking faith he finally went elsewhere to the Wiccans and they took him in...

@Heart2Soul Nothing wrong with words if they really come from a heart which is open to and filled with the things of God. Jesus said, "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking." Matt 6:7 The key word there...

Yes, God gave each of us dominion over ourselves, but He really wants us to choose to give the dominion back to Him. Most people never do and suffer the consequences. What will happen to those try to stand in the middle? "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert...

This is good and yet it is a shame for there is some advantage to being able to interact with a person on a face to face basis offline. Unfortunately, there are few church settings where anything like that would be allowed. I only have one offline friend who interacts with me that way. He was a...

Of the several teachers I have had over the years, there was one who certainly taught some falsehoods, but much of his false teaching was indirect. By indirect I mean that his example was teaching the wrong things even to my very inexperienced mind. It was under him that I received the baptism...

This thing of churches or those in churches saying the wrong things to us is a real problem. It is a problem of course both on the part of the ministers who should know better and the audience who too often could really care less. When someone new does come in if they stay they will in most...

I remember visiting my paternal grandmother's home in Oklahoma City when I was young. Her house had only one back door, but it did have two front doors: One on the left and one on the right.

That is a good verse and one that Jesus certainly exemplified during his time walking planet Earth as a man. We, each of us, begin as very selfish. Jesus showed us the way we are supposed to be as described by the verse you quote. This another one of those things that for any man alone is...

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But even at that he needed to keep his eyes on Jesus. Perhaps that was the test. Then when he looked away from Jesus he started to sink, but he remembered who he could depend upon calling out, "Lord save me".

"And he said, Come..." Matt 14:29 When Jesus said "come" was that not a test of faith?

We need to always be led/directed by the Holy Spirit. Some people, I believe, who have received the Holy Spirit have been taught so vigorously and repeatedly to quench the Spirit, they are as a result deep in delusion. The delusion comes when we lose the love of truth. There is a solution for...

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:" Ecc 3:1 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;" Ecc 3:7 "But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." Matt 5:37...