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cjwood:
--- Quote from: G. Driggs on October 26, 2010, 07:46:59 AM ---Hi Alex, and welcome back! I've often thought of you and prayed for you since you left. I will most definitely continue to pray for you. It's good to have you here again.
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george, i was thinking the same thing when i saw our lil italien boi's post. i have missed your posts alex. i will surely pray for you. it is an honor to pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ. i too still experience the feelings of my fingers on the bars of my own prisons, shaking at them to break open so i can be free. prisons brought on by the lusts of the flesh. it is a very HARD thing to die to the pulls of this flesh. surely it is part of our gehenna fire. alex, i know that feeling guilt about our inadequacies when we miss the mark is a good thing, in that it causes us to know we are helpless to overcome this beast on our own, this beast which must surely die. guilt causes us to seek His counsel. to turn, and repent. and, i know you know, we can't even come to that point until He causes us to. but, we are to always seek His higher calling. the higher ground. being on His potter's wheel can be a stressful experience as He molds us into His image of righteousness. but, He knows what is needed in His work. we are in His most able hands.
claudia
judith collier:
Alex, you are still afraid. Do the best you can and don't worry if you fail. Not too many times does one conquer a biggy like this one all at once. My dad always said everyone would be a saint if they lived long enough. Usually it's little by little. By nature we are physically like the animals. The more you focus on this the worse it gets, when you hate something your focus is tuned into it. Forget about it, the raging war you are spearheading is for nothing. Surrender to the fact you can't do anything and then maybe at least you won't be hating yourself. More things are conquered by love than by striving. The more you love God, not the more you hate yourself because of the nature he has set in you, it will get easier. Like anything, drugs, alchohol, pick the sin, it's all sin. Only a deepening sense of the beauty and holiness of God will make choices a bit less difficult and this due to the grace and mercy of a understanding God. Eventually like any overcoming you will pick yourself up quicker, ask for forgiveness, accept it and move on knowing you are like the rest of us always and at all times suffering ourselves.
God's mercy and understanding is so much more than your "sin" We are nothing and God deigns to look on us. Of course we are going to act like beasts. We are. Have a little more faith in God's love and when you are forgiven over and over times a million and you appreciate this love more and more and you want with all your heart to love Him worthily, then your sin is no longer the issue, He is. This is repentance by love alone, not disgust, wanting perfection, shame, pride or whatever.
His goodness is our cross. love, judy
grapehound:
Judy,
There aren't many posts I cut and paste to my journal, but this one of yours is a nugget.
For me, these words God gas given you are straight from the 'Throne Room'. They hit me like a 'Stop Press'! Awesome clarity and understanding of His love.
Thank you dear Sister for sharing that precious gift.
And thank you for this thread Alex, your courage and honesty have seeded some wonderful replies and I'm sure have opened the doors to many 'cells'. This is fellowship at it's best.
Just as Ray teaches we need ' all them Good words', so we need all the members of His body to share His loving and tender care.
Keep posting and praying guys, especially those that don't think anyone would be interested in their view. God called you here for His own good reason. Take courage, silent beloved; you too have a voice.
Blessings to y'all :-*
Grape
Deborah-Leigh:
Judy!
You have been HEARING HIM!... 8) Your King and Lord ~ you are sharing with us what HE has said. Oh how very wonderful. 8) ;D 8)
Grief dwells in the dark but Joy is the countenance of His Glory and has to be shared! ;D
THANK YOU for sharing HIM with US dear sister! 8) ;D
Grape…I loved the “Stop Press!…” Translation ;D :D ~ Shabat Press.. 8) ;D 8) "Shabat" [Strong's #7673: To rest (x11), to cease (47x) to stop, to end.] ;D 8) :)
8)…. the Voice of The Shepherd our King….is that tender whisper to the “silent beloved”…that is sharing His Love with the gentle loving deliberation of His Heart. 8)
Alex this is a fine Thread dear brother!
Shabat ;D 8)& Shalom ;D :)
Deborah
judith collier:
Arcturus and Grape, if you only knew. In order to encourage others to post I am willing to reveal myself who, by the way, is a very proud person.
When i write something I hope you will never know the agony that i endure afterwards. i am not a person of confidence when speaking without scripture to back me up or having experienced something deeply because i know how easy it is for Satan to enter. I always second guess myself and pray i do no harm. I believe more and more when one speaks out for God, Satan, the accuser of the brethren, attacks with viciousness those whose weaknesses are fueled by rejection and shame. Satan is a coward who preys on the insecure.
I really never know for sure if God is using me or i am just a full blown egotist. But, for the sake of others in whom i spot the same rejection of self =(who is made in the image of God Himself and where all beauty lies but has been wounded, belittled, rejected, abused and forgotten) I will in the face of Satan himself come to their side. Erring on the side of mercy can do no harm. (one must trust their instincts or be humble in the face of hatred because it can be dangerous by themselves)Theologically, i let others do the teaching of the ways of God.
This is where each voice is so important, no one is good at ALL of God but everyone knows something of Him, even the worldly know they have beauty, but not knowing the root, attribute it to themselves. i think this is why we love newbys because we know we are going to hear either falsehoods or truth, and if by the grace of God it is truth, then we all see a new facet of His beauty. (or correct the heck out of them, (funny) Our Lord is a diamond whether rough or polished. He is the Crown Jewel, the Lover, the Lifter of our Heads.
Dear God look what a little appreciation has wrought! And to think i was afraid to say what i did. How much we all need God's love. Thanks, judy (and now the agonizing begins anew, will I never, dear God, be rid of this old man or old woman (chuckle) Heaven has got to be a total annihiliation of our earthly selves and then we will no longer be looking at God through these murky little mirrors.
Ok, got a question, what i just wrote, i think I now understand what Arcturus has said more than a few times. This is for me too, isn't it?? This is as much for me as it is for others. I could never see it before. Right??
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