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I'm not without hope by any means.
John from Kentucky:
Well, I hope I never come to a point where I do not desire women. God, please kill me then.
Women are the best things God created. Thank you Jesus! Love those curves.
Rick, to answer your original post. It takes a long time for a mighty oak tree to grow from a little acorn. That's how God works.
rick:
I’m really relieved hearing these comments I’m reading, no I’m not healed by them but the main point being driven home for me is if God doesn’t bring change about its not going to happen.
One of the things that come to mind in all this would be that I’m learning patience, learning to wait on the Lord, learning to wait takes patience. I’m just thinking, we are told to build upon our faith but I see its Christ who is the one who adds to our faith not us.
onelovedread:
Just wondering how these scriptures tie in with our condition:
1 Corinthians 5: 17 Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!
Revelation 3: 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he [will eat] with Me.
Matthew 5: 28 But I say to you that everyone who so much as looks at a woman with evil desire for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
It keeps nagging at me that God requires us to be accountable, not in our own strength, but by allowing His Spirit to strengthen that new creation which is within us.
Romans 8: 6 Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].
7 [That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God’s Law; indeed it cannot.
8 So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him.
9 But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God].
Do we truly believe this verse, men? ;) ;)
Romans 8:11 And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.
cjwood:
to all the men, and even the women, who are reading this thread;
the Holy Scriptures, given by inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God our Father, declare to us how we win this battle:
"For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under the law but under grace." (roms. 6:14)
"But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law." (gal. 5:18)
claudia
rick:
It does appear that many scriptures convey if one’s converted they sin not. Whether I’m apart of the many or the called I know not, this I do know, I’m not without sin.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
Because I’m not without sin then Rom 8:2 tells me I’m not free from the law of sin and death. If I’m not free from the law of sin and death then I must be free from the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
Then, if I’m free from the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, it only stands to reason I’m not converted which explains why I sin.
Rom 8:5 For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Although I read scriptures and God is usually on my mind and I not only understand these truths Ray has taught but except them, I somehow must only be after the things of the flesh.
Rom 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
Rom 8:8 and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Well then, Rom 8:7 explains why I sin and because I sin, then Rom 8:8 tells me that God must hate me because I cannot be pleasing to God.
I find life’s experiences to be difficult , frustrating and full of wickedness of all sorts, there are seven days in a week, I work six of those days and have close to five hundred dollars in taxes taken out from what I earn, that is frustrating to me.
I’m told to save for my future, that is difficult to do, being tax as much as I’ am. Now I discover I’m not even converted.
Thank God for tomorrow, I’ll start all over again and try harder with my free will and choice and if I don’t succeed in this age then I hope to in the next age.
Or maybe I will succeed when God says I will succeed and not one minute before.
Anyhow, I still have this desire for God and will continue on hoping He will eventually get me to where I need to be, after all its Gods responsibility to save that which is lost, and I’m no doubt lost. :(
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