It is so wonderful having this fellowship with you all here in this thread. It is like having a private booth at dinner time and we are all seated here together sharing the bread and wine of the Spirit and Love of our Lord in the Banquet Hall owned and provided by God.
Our conversations here all recall the suffering of our Lord who went before us and has arrived at the Victory won that He is sharing with us today as we fellowship in His Spirit.
Linny you say of your sweet husband that…
he is feeling so ignored by God
That is a
very real and agonising experience, we all suffer at some time some place in His Work within us. Having said that does not diminish the pain.
I recall the absolute agony of uncertainty regarding the loss of my physical residence before God established my boundaries elsewhere. I believe God causes us to endure, suffer and then be blessed with the joy of His provision either in this life time or in the next. Either way, God is the one to bring to us His light of our day, after He makes us stand at the painful edge of our lives don’t you think?
Act 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Act 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Act 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;DougE6 I am so glad you have joined us at this table. You are welcome and you bring, like the others here have done, your own unique gifts of encouragement and upliftment. Thank you.
It was sore to learn that God DID cause my sister to cut off ties with me. It was painful to see that at first, I made the mistake of having my vision blurred by the blow to my heart. You know, like being punched and for a moment you see double. Well that is what happened to me. I was seeing double, in defiance of everything I know better to believe! I know GOD CAUSES EVERYTHING, not some equally or more potently powerful demon that is at war with God. Demons OBEY GOD perhaps better than any one of us carnal, natural vanity bound weak hearted plank eyed citizens of Gods workshop that is making us into His Image!
What a weak insipid thing I have experienced through myself that God has removed or will continue to remove. NEXT time I get side swept, then God forbid, I see double ever again!
Doug, you say quote “yet we could never go back, could we”…I prefer not to take that for granted because the Scriptures do say there are some who within the prize of their liberty, they still resent where they are. Only two from the Hebrew nation, Caleb and Joshua, were found worthy to enter the promised land. Moses only saw it from a distance! That’s some food for thought isn’t it?
We can or should take nothing for granted and YES I do see your view point and YES I can really stand side by side with you to agree that NOTHING is worth the departure from what we have been graced to have learnt about the Truth.
You provide this comment quote “sweet water to the dehydrated” Yes DougE6 that is the water of His Spirit that assures we shall thirst no more! God rids us all of our carnal double mindedness through the suffering that we are appointed through His Love and Mercy, to endure and finally in His Spirit, overcome.
I have truer sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers, friends and family here at BT, than in my flesh and blood life that God is dissolving.
As Linny observed earlier on, God has a purpose….and what a wonderful and blessed loving purpose that is! I hope your husband is doing better today Linny.
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