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No disagreement on my part! "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." John 14:26 Doesn't that verse really speak of understanding? And with...

Hello @BreadOfLife It would seem that you pretty much stand alone here. That's OK because we know that especially toward the end of His earthly ministry Jesus was nearly, if not completely, alone. Thousands had heard Him gladly and had eaten of the bounty in both spiritual and natural...

Indeed, and while many people so charged may deny it, too many in my experience act as if they are. God can put a man in charge of something, but when it comes to the overall plan of God, your expression for any man of flesh, however anointed he may be, is going to hold true, as I see it.

Interesting way to express it. It did catch my eye as I just read it. While it may be that there is truth to it, isn't it a bit of a generalization since not all trinitarians will easily fit into such a box? Could you expound a little more on your statement? I am not a trinitarian [although I...

No, neither have I ever sweated blood. When I was very young in the Lord, I read where Jesus "sweat as it were great drops of blood", and I without knowledge of wisdom, wanted to do that. That was long ago and I still haven't done it. I don't wish for it any more, but that doesn't mean that it...

The Time thing is expressed in Ecclesiates here: Ecc 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Ecc 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; Ecc 3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal...

Give God the glory, my friend!

A new creation indeed, but like the natural baby of flesh that first comes forth from its mother, it has only just begun. Some people are newly created in this manner but then their growth in the Lord is stunted or stifled or stopped by man. Can any man stop the growth in another? No, but...

"Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish." Psalm 49:12 "O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Jerem 10:23 Repenting one time doesn't take away all of the beast nature within us. Neither...

Indeed, it does not stop with what people do or don't do when they are supposedly gathering together as His people to serve Him.

@pia I copied your post #43 on this thread and pasted it as #4 on my new thread Do Man's Programs too often displace God and His plan?

Pia said on another thread:

I will certainly pray that God open the hearts of people in Texas confronted with the storm so that they will trust Him first and foremost.

No, it is not a small thing. In order to really "hear" the Word of God, first we have to be able to hear. Jesus put a lot of emphasis on it: "Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." Matt 13:9 The ears to hear of which Jesus speaks are not the two physical fixtures on the sides of our heads with...

Thank you friend for inserting this explanation here. I tried to read the OP, but I guess my mind simply cannot mesh with "position" and "condition" explanations given. Yours comes much closer to home for me. I recognize that I at times have sinned since I first believed. I recognize that with...

@Chloe See Welcome to the forum! Right here and right now in my heart. There may be an external appearance, but the most important one is in me. That is where Jesus is appearing and that is where we want to see Him, is it not? Give God the glory!

↑ Programs in church services often quench the Spirit of God people who are wishing to follow His lead. The pastor or preacher may not want it, but what if God does? Would you or anyone else want to stand in God's way because He is not on the program? Where I attend much of the leadership...

Where I attend much of the leadership [ministers] have long been working to allow the Holy Spirit to operate freely, but they also have too often [as I see it] missed the way. Probably every new assembly and every new denomination before it was even called a denomination has tried to do this...

As you already know and as I have said previously it is not I but God who gives the increase. If increase comes by me, it is God who worked through me. If I am wrong on any point, then it means on that point that I missed God. That certainly has happened before. This is why I pray and read and...

Amen, my friend! People get into trouble because they being certain they have it right take it up in their own hands and try to run with it. If what they have God already knows it and He has it all under control. He wants people to come to Him of their own accord because they love Him, not...