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Hmmm? Now that one has me stumped for the moment. Maybe it will come to me later. If you mean that I will not die physically before you [bbyrd009]. I cannot say. I am in relative good physical health, but I am closing on 74 which means my time is probably than half way finished. Then again...

Knowledge is necessary, the problem with believers is that they seldom are able to distinguish between what they know and what they believe. As we are growing in God what we know should be on the increase and eventually replacing some things believed. Of course, some thing believes will turn out...

My friend, once a person has received the gift of the Holy Ghost, the inspiration is there. Some people read the Bible and understand things without realizing it is God talking to their heart by the Holy Ghost that has given them any real understanding at all: What power is it that the Holy...

Oh yes, and I have reaped some very edifying but uncomfortable things as a result of my ignorance and/or foolishness and/or stubbornness over the years. People [meaning usually church groups or denominations] want to have it all quiet and settled right now with no waves allowed, and they...

My own pastor only graduated from high school. No college and no seminaries of Bible schools, but he is a man of God, in my opinion, well beyond the measure any other that I have ever known. I have over the years had quite number of different men holding the position of pastor over me, but he...

Someone who had the Holy Spirit within and is not quenching that Spirit, but rather is paying attention will be able to discern the difference. Some people, I believe, say they have the gift of the Holy Spirit when they do not, or they have formed the habit of quenching the Spirit when doing...

The Book was written by men inspired by God. To understand God message from the Book requires the same kind of inspiration in the reader or hearer.

I was baptized Catholic at age 6. At age 32 [1976] I was drawn to the UPC and began for the first time in my life to read the Bible. I left the UPC the last time in 1987 when I moved to Oklahoma. For the most part I learned from my own Bible reading and studies with help given to me here and...

I used to try to prepare beforehand something to say until I realized that God seldom allowed me to use that preparation. Now, when I study and pray in the A.M. I just ask God to help me move always according to His will rather than my own. It works better when I really do place it in His hands...

The "eyes" to see are the Holy Ghost in us and therefore they cannot and do not disagree with God. The problem and the reason believing people do disagree with each other, is that they mix up their spiritual vision with their carnal vision and the result is mixed conclusion. This is confusion of...

Indeed! What is it some say? "All's well that end well". It is well at least in consideration of the fact that we are not throwing daggers at the other's departing back...

@bbyrd009 Yes, it could that God really wants us to do nothing. Remember when Jesus said nothing in response to false accusations made against him? "And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee. But Jesus yet answered nothing...

What should our understanding of this verse be? "But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom." Heb 1:8

People will believe different things about what it means to be Christ-like. Some will never bother themselves with it one way of the other. Why would we be want to be like him? Look at our world, planet Earth and the men we have encountered and what man has done with the things that God has...

He can follow the lead of the Holy Spirit. That might still mean sitting back quietly. Some people may be incapable of recognizing the difference between good fruit and bad fruit.

Without even touching the details of the twelve numbered items, your final statement makes me wonder. People serve God at a multitude of different levels according to their own experiences and gifts and opportunities or the lack of certain things. In more than one place, I have been hushed or...

I certainly will, dear sister. We do serve a wondrous God.

I am glad to hear that something like that is available somewhere. It is not a solution to the world's troubles by any means but it is probably at least one small step in the right direction. May God bless you as you work with and for Him. I've never been much into sports. I did used to...

@pia The following verse goes alone with what you said in the OP and it is one for anyone who questions your experience with our Lord to consider seriously before opening their mouths: "For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but...

Actually, while she is doing well on the recovery from surgery, she now apparently has some other kind of infection. Her immune system was compromised some years ago by prescribed steroids taken to control her asthma. The asthma is under control now, but she easily gets almost any infection she...