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rrammfcitktturjsp:
Arcturus,
I guess where it could be in my life, the spirit is willing but the flesh is so weak. It hurts sometimes, and I am learning what I have been praying for paitence and perserverance <sic?>
Have a great day. Just out of curiosity, how many hours are you ahead of Central Time?
Sincerely,
Anne C. McGuire
Deborah-Leigh:
Hi Anne
According to the time zone chart I am about eight hours ahead of you. :)
That means I am asleep when you guys are awake....It figures! :D..blame it on the time zone! ;D
Peace to you....
Arcturus :)
Robin:
Thank you all for sharing your hearts and proclaiming your faith!
I do believe that God is in control of all. Sometimes when he deals with me I can see that even the words that others speak are in his control. I've experienced times when every circumstance in my life was directed at the one thing that God was working on in me. It seems that all of it is working on the carnal and putting it to death. Bringing that which is secret into the light and exposing it. The hard part for me is when that carnal within myself is sitting in the light and I have to sit in it as God leads me to repentance and deals with it. Sitting and looking at that beast is not much fun. That is harder than any of the suffering. Through it all I gain more faith and learn more truth. I decrease a little more and Christ increases a little more. Being conformed to his image. God forgive me for my attitude and complaints when I am being blessed so much by being called and hopefully chosen.
1 John 3
20For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
When I first started this journey I was tempted to try and fix the carnal. Now I know that I need to wait on God because he is the only one who can deal with my carnal mind and let me tell you it feels like a bottomless pit of carnal. I've been going through this for years and it just keeps coming. Different areas, but all the same beast. I will confess that at times I lose hope that God will ever be able to finish this work in me. When my carnal is exposed and put in the light it's hard to see past it and sometimes I panic for a little while. God always wins though. Always. Please never stop telling me who God is. There are many times when I am the weakest among us.
Matthew 23
25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Psalm 51:6-8
6Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Romans 8
30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Jackie Lee:
This thread is totally awesome.
I at this time have no other words. :-X
gmik:
--- Quote from: Jackie Lee on February 21, 2007, 10:26:01 PM ---This thread is totally awesome.
I at this time have no other words. :-X
--- End quote ---
EXACTLY!!!!
Arcturus, you may have told us before, if so, I have forgotten. How did you happen upon Ray's site??? (PS-I (we) am so glad you did)
I LOVE that scripture from Habakkuk. I first heard it from Jimmy Swaggart (!) and have loved it for 20 years. Funny tho, in the last year I had forgotten all about it. Its all there in a nutshell--TRUST GOD. Period.
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