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Deborah-Leigh:
Gena, Chuck, Mongoose and EVERYONE READING THIS
I really like what you are all saying!
I am in a situation right now where I am being PERSECUTED BIG TIME. I have been shut out of my job today, and this has happened because the Company has sided against the law and against me. You may say, well God is removing you and yes I agree.
Here is my situation. If I expose them then the one person who is bringing this into effect against me, stands to loose their job and possibly marriage too......Should I expose them and risk the fire in my heart to see them possibley destroyed as a family? or should I not expose them?
Who am I if I expose them? >:(
Who am I if I do not? :'(
I would really appreciate to recieve some scripture here. I have already forgiven them and I really do not desire for them to be harmed. I think I should do nothing that will result in them getting hurt no matter how guilty they can not see they are. I can see that they do not know what they are doing....... It could hurt their family terribly if I act. If I do not act and recieve the full impact of what is happening against me, I do not want to come under a false sence of holiness or Christlikeness. There is One who is Christ, that is Jesus!....
Hey I just discovered another HERESY through all this! Strongs Concordance says Christ means annointed and I have been duped to accept that we are little Christs. The Church is big on teaching about annointing. Haven't you heard them say, that preacher is annointed or you are annointed or worse...you have lost your annointing. That is how they treated me....as if I had lost a so called annointing..... NO WAY! THERE IS ONE WHO IS CHRIST AND THAT IS JESUS!....we can imitate Him only. Can the imitation of real currency be real currency? NO WAY!
Not from what I have seen written in this forum....Hey everyone...you are real branches and Christ Jesus is the real vine!
I know God will show me who I am and who He is making me to be through this.....I know that who I am IS NOT who He is making me to be.....
Arcturus..... :( in persecution
gmik:
Wow. Prayers going up for you.
I can't remember if I shared this before. Anyway:
5 years ago my husband put his hand on a student and pulled him back into the classroom. The kid yelled & screamed like he had been hurt. Now, my husbands class had witnessed the whole thing. But the student went to the principal & showed him red marks on his arm.
Well, after school that day, my husband went to the kids house to talk to the parents. They werenot at home so my husband told the student to tell them he had stopped by.
That night we get a phone call from the POLICE!!. Not only for touching the kid but for coming over to the house. Of course the kids version was much different.
We had to go to the police station, get a lawyer, lose sleep, worry worry worry........
The schooll district altho believing my husbands story and the class of witnesses were afraid of a lawsuit so....they suspended him. Now the Lord intervenes!!!! My husband (Jerry) calls our old pastor to pray and Jerry totally forgave this family and asked for blessings on them. I get home from work and jerry is crying and praising the Lord and is so happy-he doesn't care what legally happens he has been set free!!
NOW FOR THE LORD-- Next thing we know, if Jerry won't contest the matter-cause he had witnesses to stand up for him-the district gives him 1 year off with pay, he can retire with a buy out of $20,000 to boot,after the year offf, he can be on medical leave (which is more $ a month), and the student gets flunked for that year!! Since my husband had taught for 32 years in the same district with an exemplary record, he took their offer. We were flabbergasted but gave all the praise to the Lord. The school & his classroom gave Jerry a big party with gifts etc. It just all worked out so well.!
That was 5 years ago!! At the time we thought Jerry had made several big boo-boo's and that the Lord bailed him out. Now we know it was all God's will from beginning to end.
Arcturus, God will be with you thru this entire situation. It is tough going thru it but the end result will bring peace to you and glory to our Lord.
Love,
gena
Deborah-Leigh:
Gena
What a wonderful testemony you share. That is so powerful!
I have had the scripture come to my mind of the servant who pleaded with his master to let set him free of the huge debt he owed. The master conceeded and then this wicked servant went and demanded his debtors to repay him and he gave no mercy.
Matt 18 : 27,28...And his master's heart was moved with compassion, and he released him and forgave him cancelling the debt. 28 But that same attendant, as he went out, found one of his fellow attendants who owed him a hundred denarii and he caught him by the throat and said. Pay what you owe!
As Jesus tells this story the message to me is one I do not want to hear My Lord speak to me.
Matt 18 : 32 ...You contemptible and wicked attendant! I forgave and cancelled all that great debt of yours because you begged me to. 33 And should you not have had pity and mercy on your fellow attendant, as I had pity and mercy on you? 34 And in wrath his master turned him over to the torturers......if you do not freely forgive your brother from your heart his offenses.
THIS SCRIPTURE is restraining me! .....from what I can do!.....I can charge this "attendant" and he is guilty, and I have the witness on record.....He is unrepentant and is blind. Like Jerry, I can contest the matter! Gena, I do not want to contest it!....I do not want to harm this person because truly HE KNOWS NOT WHAT HE IS DOING! He has a family. His wife is a teacher. Their children are in the same schood as my son....If I bring against this man, what was brought against your Jerry....only then will he see and understand the seriousness of his errors....but by then it will be too late....I hear the Lord talking to me via your testimony! I truly do not want to be like the child who brought a kids version against you and had the police call you....I have lost my job because of this person and because of larger circumstances beyond him. If I lay a charge against him it will seriously harm him and his family...In my heart I KNOW he KNOWS NOT what he is doing....So Gena...I am forgiviing him because Jesus Christ is holding me back from being the beast that I can be. Jesus is giving me Himself as a source of forgiveness that He has already given to me. .....I have wounds inside my heart over this but a sence of peace at the same time....The man is blind. I am going to fulfill my obligations as a professional. I have to report the matter to the Council. This will not cause any harm to this man or his family. I have to do this because I am bound by Statutary law to report such matters under penelty of loosing my licence....I am going to do that. Without malice, without predjudice and with gratitude that God has given me the above Scripture to guide and WARN me not to MOCK GOD. HE alone is preventing me. It hurts and I am grateful for HIS helping hand through your post, HIS SON, my source of forgiveness.....God has given me the wisdom to forgive and the council why I should forgive and the means to forgive....ALL HIM!
I am so comforted with your witness that God will be with me through this entire situation. Thank you for sharing your story. I will be advising the Council this week end and I feel peace .......Thank you for your prayers.........
May His peace continue to garrison and guard you!
Arcturus :)
gmik:
Praise God Arcturus. This is what the Body is about. I am so glad this helped you.
God is Good
All the Time!
love,
gena
jennie:
That forgiveness thing is a hard one to swallow. I can tell ya'll that that is one of the hardest things in the world to do. I understand the dilemma with whether or not to expose. It is confusing and scary. My Michael was in a situation at a church we were at once. The pastor was having an affair with someone. there was taped evidence to back it up. The other woman was married also. She confessed all to her husband but the pastor where we were wouldn't acknowldege his actions. I am sure he liked his approx. $175,000 salary package! He didn't know that a tape existed. My Michael was in the altar one evening alone praying. The deacons were having what they called a "secret meeting". One of them came and got him out of his prayer time to go the conference room to let him listen to the tape and help them figure out how to keep this covered up. Meantime they had let the pastor know that there was a tape but it wouldn't matter. Michael wouldn't go along with the cover up and told the whole group that God was not in cover-ups and he would have no part of it himself. 2 whole families had been destroyed. It was heart breaking. At that time Michael was in a full time position at the church. Because he wouldn't go along with the coverup... we had to leave. I don't think we could have stayed anyway because we were already having our eyes and hearts opened by God. There was no longer a paycheck and we didn't know what we wre going to do. God provided for us. We questioned too whether we had made the right decision but God showed us down the road a ways that there was something far better for us. so , in our case it turned out okay. It is a hard place to be in but prayers are going up for the decision you make. Jennie
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