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I believe we do have control over what the Holy Spirit teaches us. The Holy Spirit can only act on the raw materials available. If a person never reads the Bible or listens to someone speaking God's Word, there are no building stones so there can be no building. Also, even if we have the raw...

Up until we moved to our present location a little more than 10 years ago, in addition to attending our own services I regularly visited many others available in that town on our off nights or times. Many of them were a one time visit. That is once visited I felt no inclination or incentive to...

We were geographically fairly very close to one another then. I transferred on my job from Richmond, CA to Merced, CA in 1981 where I worked until 1984. The Merced office was a branch of the Modesto District Social Security office so as part of training or covering when they were short-handed I...

Yes, this mix up of what is good and what is evil is where a lot the trouble is. It is why it is difficult even to know what to say with regard to God to a person who is deeply immersed in the things of this world. In our own pasts we had lots of people who were in darkness, but they put on a...

I spoke before of living in a small California town, but my father lived all of his life in Oklahoma City. While I lived in California with my mother I visited my father almost every year. I remember the difference between Oklahoma City and our nearest large city of San Francisco was like day...

No doubt confessing to a priest in a dark closet could have been easier than saying "I'm sorry" to the actual victim. But when my cited experience occurred while I was still nominally a Catholic, I had not been to a confessional in about 10 years. Neither have I been to one since that time...

I believe I understood that for some things which I had not considered or remembered might later require repentance. In time that became even more clear to me. I cannot speak for anyone else, of course. My own perspective on many such things surely had changed since 1976. What I did was laugh...

Helen, this is where the "fervent prayer of the righteous" is important. We cannot make their decisions, but we can see to it that some are able to make informed decisions. If after they come to understand the consequences, they still decide against God, we have done all that we can do.

In ourselves is where can meet the enemy and defeat him. Our victory in ourselves will make a difference, but if too few of us stand on God's side in this, we will be saved but what of the others? The fervent prayers of the righteous [you and me hopefully] avails much toward opening doors, but...

The way we commonly use as it relates to our walk with God is to "Confess (admit) guilt". To simply confess something may no more than a declaration of opinion or fact as opposed to an admission of guilt, but the guilt part is what we are wanting to understand.

I remember only too well when I severely hurt a young German girl with my words during the year I spent as a student in West Berlin [1969-1970]. It always bothered me but later when God called me to Him [1976] I needed to resolve the issue within myself. I lived in California and had no way to...

It is a bit difficult to find and when we do find something what is it that meant by God that we should do? "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." I John 1:9 That taken along with that other verse what is it that we...

In my flesh I see no hope in the future for the USA. But, I do know the Lord and because of Him there is hope at least for the individuals. For the nation, it could be too late, but I'm not the judge. "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my...

I was too quick in checking my simple "like" to the poster without really getting into what she was saying or quoting. I also did not read it or I would not have left it until being stirred up by our good friend @bbyrd009

I did not look to the Greek as I seldom do that. I had not intended to get into this, but it seems that God has other ideas... What does the verse say in English? "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in...

@Hidden In Him The two spirits in the nation I would see as the two spirits struggling for dominion over the individuals who have met Christ and acknowledged Him. For the unbelievers there is no contest unless they meet the Master along their way. The one spirit is of course the one that had...

Yes, God hears especially the fervent prayers, but if we are simply faithful to pray, I believe that He stills hears us. We may not hear an immediate or clear answer but that does not mean that there is none. Sometimes the apparent lack of an answer is the answer that God wants us to deal...

One thing I learned for myself with the repetitious Hail Marys and Our Father for penance was don't do them in repetitious way. I remember when I caught myself on it. I had gotten into the habit of saying the memorized prayers as fast as I could to get on with things a kid wanted to do and I was...

My active Catholicism ended when I graduated from high school in 1961. My Pentecostalism began in 1976. There have been several major changes over the years, but I have been growing.

It just disappeared. I never got around to asking where it went. That happened to many of my things when I did not use them for long periods. Even when I got older. I remember going off in the army for three years and when I came back my mother had sold the piano. Technically it was hers as she...