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Evil Spirits
Gina:
18 And He [Jesus] said to them [His disciples, of which Michael and I are], "I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.
19 "Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you.
20 "Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven."
Gina:
I'm not ashamed of what God has done for me, gk. I obviously have still a lot to overcome, but you have to start somewhere. I'm practicing at righteousness. How about you?
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
7 Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.
8 For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for BUILDING YOU UP and NOT for destroying you, I will not be ashamed.
9 I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters.
10 For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.”
11 Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present.
12 Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
13 But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you.
14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.
15 We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged,
16 so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another’s area of influence.
17 “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
18 For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
Dave in Tenn:
--- Quote from: Michael G on June 09, 2015, 07:37:57 AM ---Hi Ian, you agree with what I said, you said you lean toward the contrary most times. Yes Ian you made a choice to lean that way.
Yes it is Jesus who gives me his faith and He opens my eyes to these truths...
Act 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you:
Luke 10:19 (KJV)
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you
All day long I decide when circumstances come upon me from the Lord to make the decision to use His truths or not. And when I do I exercise them and they grow in me and become stronger in me and it produces a overcomer in me, all by the work of Jesus!
Yes it is His work and this is how he builds his temple. I have to do this all day everyday for as long as it takes.
Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure
PS and it is constant!
In Christ
--- End quote ---
Mike, I don't want to 'dismantle' your thoughts, but add to them.
There have been times in my life (and I am in no way suggesting this is a 'wise' way to live) that despite my desires to the contrary, I fouled up and did the right thing. It's no surprise (to me, at least) that people 'trying' and 'choosing' can get things right. And conversely gets things wrong when they really want to. What surprises me and teaches me deeply just how sovereign God is is when those not 'trying' and 'choosing' STILL do 'right'. And those 'trying' and 'planning' still get things wrong.
The night I came to BT was one such experience like that. I was given faith in a night where I was not only NOT SEEKING, but SEEKING the opposite. I cannot (and do not) take any credit for having been given faith, BUT I still believed whereas before I did not. That's one reason why I love Paul.
gk@rivervalley:
"gk You're jealous. So were the Pharisees."--GINA
From where does this come? Un-necessary and not relevant. You downcast your 'spiritual eyes' not in one, but three continuing posts?
Must you turn the topic to yourself Gina? Always? Your loose cannon diatribe of scripture, high-lights of your spiritual walk and where you are in your 'righteousness', Gina, is between you and God. It wouldn't make difference to anyone if you could throw it on the floor and growl at it.
But lecturing? Don't parade. Most un-attractive.
Mike Gagne:
Hi gk, You made A choice to not have faith in what I said! heres what I said...
Quote; I have the power to overcome, but just like LRay said, God won't force me to use it I have to make the choice to use it. End of Quote.
Christ is in me, thats the power I have!
Joh 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Joh 17:22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
Joh 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Joh 17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world
And Again
Act 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you:
Luke 10:19 (KJV)
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you
God has given us all a measure of faith and you choose not to use it in what I said. Now you can make a choice to use it in what LRay Smith said, here
is a quote from LRays teachings, not mine. Lake of fire series...
Jesus never sinned. Why not? Why didn't Jesus sin? I have said before: Because His Father wouldn't let Him sin, and because His Father inspired Jesus through His Holy Spirit to turn from the temptation every time. Jesus' motivation to not sin was much greater than His temptation to sin, and the stronger motivator (the love of God's Spirit in Him) always won out. This is how Jesus "overcame the world." Now then, is this powerful motivator available to us? Yes, thank God, it is:
"But you shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you..." (Acts 1:8).
And so, when a man who is tempted to spend more time looking at a woman than he should, looking at her to lust after her, the Spirit of God will give him power to turn away. God won't make you or force you to turn away, but He will give you the power to turn away, and then you have to do the turning. And should you fail to turn away before you actually lust after her, then you must "pluck out your eye. No not your literal, physical, organ of the body, but the lustful eye of your heart.
No man's physical eyes has ever lusted after anything. All lust comes from the heart, the carnal mind, and that part of the carnal mind must be "plucked out," or "cut off." But you must be the one who does the plucking and cutting or God will intervene and "cast your whole body into Gehenna fire" in a later Judgment where this spiritual fire is called "The Lake of Fire.
Now gk I haven't said anything through this whole post that has not been taught by Mr Smith. I used scripture with it and now you can make a choice with the faith God has given you to believe or not! Either way it is God which will open your eyes, you will just be the one to receive
In Christ
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