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FASTING
Deborah-Leigh:
We should not be fasting in the Spirit but banqueting with the Lord G. Driggs. :)
Look again. Jesus did NOT send the crowd away fasting.
Mat 15:32 Then Jesus called His disciples and said, I have compassion on the crowd because they continue with Me for three days now and have nothing to eat. And I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
Babylon has no compassion.
Mar 4:15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
Arc
musicman:
The bible meant to say "eat fast". That's what I do and my wisdom has increased 10 fold. Excuse me, the 10 fold is in my stomach.
Roy Coates:
--- Quote from: musicman on February 04, 2010, 08:33:22 PM ---The bible meant to say "eat fast". That's what I do and my wisdom has increased 10 fold. Excuse me, the 10 fold is in my stomach.
--- End quote ---
;D me too and I thought I was alone.
On a serious note lots of good replies
Deborah-Leigh:
G Driggs
You deleted your comments and questions out of this thread leaving bare only my response made conspicuous by your absence.
I wrote to our Lord in response to a most kind PM from another member in our family here. After crafting my letter to the Lord, I saw it applied both to you and to the kind message I received in the PM lines. It also embraces other members here who can relate. Here it is. I asked the Lord :
What is knowledge without YOU. It is a clanging cymbal. What is spirit if not YOUR SPIRIT. What new song do You require from the depths of our longing for YOU. Our flesh is weak and we fail in energy to lift ourselves up to even progress along the lines of our circumstances without LOVE>
I asked what of Your Spirit if not involved, invested, equipped by Your Heart and Mind.
Isa 38:17 Behold, I had great bitterness for peace; but You loved my soul from the pit of destruction. You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
All my feelings are Yours. All my circumstances are of Your making.
What is mere conversation without meaning saying nothing and meaning less. Vast are the empty places and reserves of barren waste land into which a talking tongue can entertain itself and muse itself with others dancing to songs of fellowship in vacancy.
I know my life moves Your Heart and Your Great reserves of sympathy and sorrow for me as You elect others to let my ears and soul touch and taste Your Spirit and Your Life that is marrow to our bones and breath to our lungs. Oh Lord.
To be able to communicate knowledge of YOU and sensitivity to that same hurt suffered by those who do not know their wounds and do not know the origin of their hurts vested against the bloodletting curdling errors of Babylon. Yet they press on vehemently in their defiance against their pains and numbing influences of balm inducing prayers that are not lifted up to You but up to their gods in shining armor leading them ever forward into the cutting wounding penalties of listening to the errors and lies of such a harlot as Babylon.
What is the feeling of such a sight? What is the deep despair of such agony as this? This surely is Your Cross You suffered in Your agony in Obedience to the Love of Your Father.
DougE6:
Beautiful prayer Acturus... here is a segment of an email I wrote a couples days ago, to an athiest friend, with whom I enjoy I enjoy a sharing relationship..
.Please forgive this, I am only saying this in self disclosure...I could not imagine existence without being able to share my heart/thoughts/prayers/songs/inner feelings with God. I do it all the time sometimes non stop for days, even when I am doing other things. I do not expect you to understand this, and ,maybe you do!. I just want to say, for me, I could live no other way. I do not tell anyone this either. since I am private by nature. Yet most every thought, for the most part, is shared, with Him, either overtly, or with the full understanding that He is there.You probably think that soumds skitzoid? sp?. But that is my reality. I ask for your forgiveness because I do not want you to think I am always trying to change or convert you, by bring this up, again.. I am not. I am just being transparent.
That is why I wish I could sing. As wonderful as everything is that is, even more wonderful than that, is feeling!. Feeling is more wonderful that knowledge. Even if I understood all mysteries, but if I had not love, than I am only a clanging gong. And knowledge combined with feeling is incredibly sublime. Why can't I communicate knowledge through feeling?.....
So when you wrote(prayed) this, it gave me a bit of a start .... "What is knowledge without YOU. It is a clanging cymbal. What is spirit if not YOUR SPIRIT. What new song do You require from the depths of our longing for YOU"...
We do so long for Him, to be more like Him, to live like Him, to die to ourselves like Him, to be filled with Him
1Co 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity(love), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1Co 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity(love), I am nothing.
1Co 13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity(love), it profiteth me nothing.
These words are sobering just like the words of Mattthew 24 when Jesus says I never knew you, to those who say they did great works in his name. It is NOT our knowledge, nor our works, it is our LOVE
What I mean and I think you meant is to be motivated by love, to be willing to give our all, to feel the same love of Christ, ...motivated by the same love present in our Lord, as he forgave his enemies and poured out his lifes blood for the redemption of mankind
You also wrote..
To be able to communicate knowledge of YOU and sensitivity to that same hurt suffered by those who do not know their wounds and do not know the origin of their hurts vested against the bloodletting curdling errors of Babylon. Yet they press on vehemently in their defiance against their pains and numbing influences of balm inducing prayers that are not lifted up to You but up to their gods in shining armor leading them ever forward into the cutting wounding penalties of listening to the errors and lies of such a harlot as Babylon....
May that be all our prayers, God be merciful to them in their ignorance and blindness...may all our ministries and actions to each other, to those in Babylon, and those who are lost elsewhere, be motivated by love for them alone...
Yet, speaking only for myself, I truly hope, when all is said and done, that NOT all (emphasis on a minority) of those in Babylon(the babylon of the church) will be judged as "being weighed in the balances and found wanting" Because I have(want?) to believe, in light of this 1Cor 13 scripture, that even their insuficient understandings can be less important than love, and the love of Christ shed forth to others.. Because the apostle said all knowledge(and we have a LOT more knowledge) is of NO consequence if we do not have love, so apparently love is greater than knowledge. So when some missionary, forgives the tribesman, who killed his only son, and then he goes back to live among them, and be Christ to them, and introduce them to Christ, that he appears to me that did undergo judgements and will have shown Christlike character to have gold and precious stones of character and love, even if not of complete understanding.
So to me the biggest mystery of all is whether some of these great works were done in love for Christ and their neighbor. I think beautiful unselfish acts of forgiveness could only come through Jesus.
I am open to receiving anyone who loves or names Christ, unless they love the doctrines of eternal loss. That I would not understand, and is very sad. . That would not be LOVE. That would have to be burned away.
Doug
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