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Kat:

Hi Pierdut,

Prayer is certainly good, but it is not enough by itself. If you are really serious you must study what the Scripture teach to be righteousness/obedience and apply these things to your life.

Ray has given us a incredible amount of material to help us understand what the Scripture is saying to us. If God has opened your eyes to these truths, then it still takes an incredible amount of study, meditation and praying to begin to see what the Spirit is saying. God reveals His will to us in His Word, that is where you can find the answers that you seek.

Think about how much time you/me/anybody spends doing these things (study, meditation, prayer), striving to understand the will of God, compared to how much time we spend on others things. How much time spent doing something is a good indication of where your priories are.

Now I'm not saying that we can do these things by our own will or desire, but God's Spirit will stir these desires up within you and that Spirit will also give you the help you need to overcome and do these things. It's God that does it all, but He is doing His work in us and through us to teach us how to overcome and obey.

Eph 2:10  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

John 14:16  And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever--
v. 17  the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
v. 18  I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

G. Driggs:
Pierdut,

Everyone here has given you some excellent advice and encouragement. Please listen to them, take it in and seriously consider it all.

It's gonna take a lot of time to get to a point where sin no longer has rule over you. The fact you express and acknowledge your an horrible sinner is a good thing. Let it humble you as you realize God has made you this way. Trust that only He can and will fix you in His time and not yours.

All of God's Elect has gone through, is going through and will go through what you are going through now. That old serpent wants you to believe God does not care.

We who have this hope are with you bro.

1Pe 5:6  Therefore be humbled under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time,
1Pe 5:7  casting all your anxiety onto Him, for He cares for you.
1Pe 5:8  Be sensible and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour;
1Pe 5:9  whom firmly resist in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions in the world are being completed in your brotherhood.
1Pe 5:10  But the God of all grace, He calling us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, He will perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 

Here's a great email reply from Ray on the subject.

http://www.bible-truths.com/email11.htm#stop

In one of your e-mails you said that God expects us sin, which means he's not disappointed or angry with us?

The question here is: Everytime I sin, I ask forgiveness and repent. I feel that it's not working (repenting, asking forgiveness, etc). Am I doing something wrong?

[Ray Replies]

Dear Jeff:

Unfortunately, there is not a magic bullet that will instantly clean us of all sin and bad habits. Even the physical analogies of this spiritual washing, purging, and cleaning of our carnality, indicate that time is required. It takes time to wash clothing, it takes time to purify gold and silver in a furnace, etc.

The penalty of sin issue can be settled in your heart and mind the instant you come to realize that Jesus PAID IN FULL the penalty for your sins and all the sin of the world. However, paying the penalty for sin does not instantly PURGE AND WASH US CLEAN OF SIN. The penalty is paid, but the condition lingers.

The more you SEE your sins and shortcomings, the more you will DESIRE to rid yourself of these things. We are crucified WITH CHRIST, yet we live, but the life we live is one of OVERCOMING THE SINS FOR WHICH WE AND CHRIST DIED FOR.

We have been HAND-PICKED by God to be in His kingdom. Now we must go through the training course that He has set before us.  Jesus said that He overcame THE WORLD. We too are to overcome THE WORLD. It's a HUGE task, that requires the power of SPIRIT to accomplish.

Don't become discouraged in well-doing. You will triumph in Christ if you have His spirit working in you. God will even give you the DESIRE to want to do right and be right.

This life is a life of SPIRITUAL WARFARE. There will be many battles before the final victory. So we must endure and we must overcome. For those whom God has chosen, this will be accomplished!

God be with you,

Ray

Ian 155:
Wee bit off the topic,
Pierdut,
When I started getting understanding of the word it was a bad dream come true,I lost everything I mean everything right down to the fridge [refrigerator] I was in so many situations all at one time and with 5 children in tow and a disgusted wife well bro this seems like it must happen,you see we have to be born again in otherwords revisiting all we ever learned from this corupt world and getting accurate insight unlike clever human insight and this happens in Gods time and the recognition/understanding is from God I no longer fear giving, I no longer put Me first our situation is still disgusting but there are deep changes and I have no idea or cannot pinpoint any direct incident responsable.

Whether we like or dont like this, these things will happen, its not like you have to give almighty God the nod of acceptance in whatever you are about to go thru, this happens Gods way,anyway

He that was with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fire is with you, he is GOD


Ian

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