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G. Driggs:
--- Quote from: gene hall on October 25, 2009, 06:06:46 PM ---Dear Bro Driggs, just read your post and could not control my tears. You are not alone. I do find life hard and I to wish I could stop sinning. I am terribly vexed with sin. I think I am the worst of sinners. God knows our hearts and he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. I await the day when I shall see my Lord Jesus face to face and He will comfort me and make things right. God be with you, Gene
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Thanks Brother Gene, out of all this pain and misery and sinfulness there is good news. Jesus came to save sinners, and He has saved some of the worst in the world, and if He can save the apostle Paul who really was the worst ever, then He can and will save us too.
1Ti 1:15 Here is a saying that you can trust. It should be accepted completely. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the worst sinner of all.
1Co 1:26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when God chose you. Not many of you were considered wise by human standards. Not many of you were powerful. Not many of you belonged to important families.
1Co 1:27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise. He chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
1Co 1:28 God chose the things of this world that are common and looked down on. He chose what is not considered to be important to do away with what is considered to be important.
1Co 1:29 So no one can brag to God.
Mat 9:11 The Pharisees saw this. So they asked the disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and "sinners'?"
Mat 9:12 Jesus heard that. So he said, "Those who are healthy don't need a doctor. Sick people do.
Mat 9:13 Go and learn what this means, 'I want mercy and not sacrifice.' (Hosea 6:6) I have not come to get those who think they are right with God to follow me. I have come to get sinners to follow me."
I find alot of hope in knowing He likes to save losers, base things, sinners and nothings of the world like me. It gives me faith and hope to know He made me like this and He can destroy and re-create me to be something better. This might sound crazy, but Im very thankful He made me like this.
Jer 18:4 His hands were shaping a pot out of clay. But he saw that something was wrong with it. So he formed it into another pot. He shaped it in the way that seemed best to him.
Rom 9:21 Or has the potter no right to make from a given lump of clay this pot for honorable use and that one for dishonorable?
2Ti 2:20 Now in a great house there are not only gold and silver utensils, but wooden and earthenware also, and some indeed for honor, yet some for dishonor."
2Ti 2:21 If, then, anyone should ever be purging himself from these, he will be a utensil for honor, hallowed, and useful to the Owner, made ready for every good act.
These Scriptures gives me alot of hope, and gives me a desire to stop sinning, and it is my sincerest hope that it gives someone else hope and confidence not in yourselves but in Christ. I dont say or post theses things for my glory, or to make myself look good, cause Lord knows what a sinner I have been, how can I possibly brag or think Im anything good, how can I think all this comes out of me, considering what a low life I have been, and how much I use to love to sin? All the glory and power is His and His alone. What an awesome work He is doing.
Peace, Hope and Faith
G.Driggs
Marky Mark:
--- Quote ---All the glory and power is His and His alone. What an awesome work He is doing.
Peace, Hope and Faith
G.Driggs
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George my brother,to see your growing in the Spirit brings a happiness, to my spirit ;).
All things belong to and of the Father. :)
Now for some blessed Scripture...
Pro 3:13 Blessed is the one who finds wisdom and the one who obtains understanding.
Pro 3:14 The profit gained from wisdom is greater than the profit gained from silver. Its yield is better than fine gold.
Pro 3:15 Wisdom is more precious than jewels, and all your desires cannot equal it.
Pro 3:16 Long life is in wisdom's right hand. In wisdom's left hand are riches and honor.
Pro 3:17 Wisdom's ways are pleasant ways, and all its paths lead to peace.
Pro 3:18 Wisdom is a tree of life for those who take firm hold of it. Those who cling to it are blessed.
Job 5:17 "Blessed is the person whom God corrects. That person should not despise discipline from the Almighty. Job 5:18 God injures, but he bandages. He beats you up, but his hands make you well.
Job 5:19 He will keep you safe from six troubles, and when the seventh one comes, no harm will touch you:
Job 5:20 "In famine he will save you from death, and in war he will save you from the sword.
Job 5:21 "When the tongue lashes out, you will be safe, and you will not be afraid of destruction when it comes.
Job 5:22 "You will be able to laugh at destruction and starvation, so do not be afraid of wild animals on the earth.
Job 5:23 "You will have a binding agreement with the stones in the field, and wild animals will be at peace with you.
Job 5:24 "You will know peace in your tent. You will inspect your house and find nothing missing.
Job 5:25 "You will find that your children are many and your descendants are like the grass of the earth.
Job 5:26 "You will come to your grave at a ripe old age like a stack of hay in the right season.
Job 5:27 "We have studied all of this thoroughly! This is the way it is. Listen to it, and learn it for yourself."
Mat 5:3 "Blessed are those who recognize they are spiritually helpless. The kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
Mat 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn. They will be comforted.
Mat 5:5 Blessed are those who are gentle. They will inherit the earth.
Mat 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for God's approval. They will be satisfied.
Mat 5:7 Blessed are those who show mercy. They will be treated mercifully.
Mat 5:8 Blessed are those whose thoughts are pure. They will see God.
Mat 5:9 Blessed are those who make peace. They will be called God's children.
Mat 5:10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for doing what God approves of. The kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
Mat 5:11 "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, lie, and say all kinds of evil things about you because of me.
Mat 5:12 Rejoice and be glad because you have a great reward in heaven! The prophets who lived before you were persecuted in these ways.
Peace...Mark
cjwood:
AWESOME last post gdriggs, just absolutely AWESOME. it spoke volumes to me. i too have been nothing less than the slime of sin. i thank my God that He has caused me to cry out to Him to renew my mind to walk in step with the mind of Christ Jesus.
claudia
cjwood:
--- Quote from: Marky Mark on October 26, 2009, 04:08:04 PM ---
Now for some blessed Scripture...
Pro 3:18 Wisdom is a tree of life for those who take firm hold of it. Those who cling to it are blessed.
Mat 5:3 "Blessed are those who recognize they are spiritually helpless. The kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
Mat 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn. They will be comforted.
Mat 5:5 Blessed are those who are gentle. They will inherit the earth.
Mat 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for God's approval. They will be satisfied.
Mat 5:7 Blessed are those who show mercy. They will be treated mercifully.
Mat 5:8 Blessed are those whose thoughts are pure. They will see God.
Mat 5:9 Blessed are those who make peace. They will be called God's children.
Mat 5:10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for doing what God approves of. The kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
Mat 5:11 "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, lie, and say all kinds of evil things about you because of me.
Mat 5:12 Rejoice and be glad because you have a great reward in heaven! The prophets who lived before you were persecuted in these ways.
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mark, all the scripture you posted are inspiring. these particular ones are meditative for me. thanks for bringing them up.
claudia
aqrinc:
Hi G.Driggs,
I am happy to see you are learning to be an overcomer; by GOD's Grace and Faith. Rather than say a lot, please read the Scriptures below, yes i put them in that order by design: NT to OT.
1Jn 2:1-2 (ROTHERHAM)
My dear children! these things, am I writing unto you, in order that ye may not be committing sin. And, if anyone should commit sin, an Advocate, have we, with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous;
2 And, he, is, a propitiation, concerning our sins,—and, not concerning our own only, but, also concerning those of the whole world.
Isa 53: 1-12 (ROTHERHAM)
1 Who believed what we have heard? And, the arm of Yahweh, to whom was it revealed?
2 When he came up as a sapling before him. And as a root-sprout out of dry ground, He had neither beauty nor majesty,—When we beheld him, there was nothing to behold, that we should desire him;
3 Despised was he, and forsaken of men, Man of pains and familiar with sickness,—Yea, like one from whom the face is hidden, Despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Yet surely, our sicknesses, he, carried, And, as for our pains, he bare the burden of them,—But, we, accounted him stricken. Smitten of God and humbled,
5 Yet, he, was pierced for transgressions that were ours, was crushed for iniquities that were ours,—the chastisement for our well-being, was upon him, And by his stripes, there is healing for us.
6 We all, like sheep, had gone astray, Every man—to his way, had we burned,—And Yahweh! caused to light upon him The guilt of, us all!
7 Hard pressed—yet, he, humbled himself Nor opened his mouth—As, a lamb, to the slaughter, is led, And, as a sheep, before her shearers, is dumb—Nor opened his mouth.
8 By constraint and by sentence, was he taken away, And of his age, who considered That he was cut off out of the land of the living, For my peoples transgression, did the stroke fall on him?
9 And, appointed with lawless men, was his grave, And with the wicked, his tomb,—Though no violence, had he done, Nor was guile in his mouth.
10 Yet, Yahweh, purposed to bruise him, He laid on him sickness:—If his soul become an offering for guilt, He shall see a seed, He shall prolong his days,—And the purpose of Yahweh, in his hand, shall prosper:
11 Of the travail of his soul, shall he see He shall be satisfied with his knowledge, A setting right when set right himself, shall my Servant win for the Many, Since of their iniquities, he, taketh the burden.
12 Therefore, will I give him a portion in the great, And the strong, shall he apportion as spoil, Because he poured out, to death his own soul, And with transgressors, let himself be numbered,—Yea, he, the sin of Many, bare, And for transgressors, interposeth.
george :)
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