> Introductions, Announcements, and More of Ray's Teachings
Here I am, on a rainy day in Oregon!
DuluthGA:
Well it looks like we've got another LIVE ONE on our hands! :D Beats the alternative. ;)
And I'm not sure quite yet what to do with you.... hug you or smooch you! :P :-*
Linda, it's great you've stepped out and stepped in! HA!! I too am one o' those who is filled with exclamations and ha's and ho's!!!!! I am filled to the brim... with Him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DOUBLE HA!!!!! ;D
I'm so v v glad U R here! Goodie!
Yes! 'Tis seredipitous, great word, and part of our God's plan.
To relate to you... I was so happy to learn ALSO not too long ago that:
GRACE MEANS UNMERITED FAVOR GRACE MEANS UNMERITED FAVOR GRACE MEANS UNMERITED FAVOR
You iz schmart and schpeak goot! Ha.
[As an aside to Dawn... girl you know I love flowers... that is one beaauutiful bouquet!]
Anyway Linda,
I love your lighter side...
... the German accent... ah haaaa...
... I too am incensed... good good one... :D
don't forget sweet person, lucky (there is no luck, it = favor too ;)
I'm glad you are well read and very functional despite your handicaps, God bless you more, from my heart to yours.
I just thought it was rather funny of our Lord to bring another Rah Rah Rah person into our midst... just as my Rah Rah Rah ooomph has started to dwindle due to time constraints. I'm up late tonight on my last leg as usual.
PICK IT UP AND KEEP IT UP!!
Under normal circumstances, in Ursula's group of smileys, I am the one in the back that is going supreme bonkers, and yes, I attest that to the intense power of love for God that I've been given. (Although I do have the audacity to question Him regularly. Ick. Little ol' me. Honestly Linda, I don't know what He's going to do with me...) :-\
Anyway Linda, it's nitey time for me and I have to hop... but I love your parting references to our New Jerusalem and ensuing citizenry.... as well as your reference to its GORGEOUS REALITY a great term of it all. Amen sister and right-on bigtime. :) :P :D 8)
More later,
Janice
Grateful:
Good Morninggg, Diana & Janice!!!
What a treat to see you both in my mailbox this morning! Thanks much for your beautiful, heart-filled 'Welcome' , Diana! ;-DDD And, Janice, hahaha, let's go for the hug & kiss!! ;-> !! You've been infected with the "God-Bug" too, I see!! hahaha! (Warning....it's incurable!! Once He REALLY gets "a-holt of you", there's no getting away!! ;-DDDDDDDD [ Biiiiiiig Smile !!] ). "And I, if I be lifted up, will draw ALL MEN (AND WOMEN) unto Me." :->
Janice, as for "what is God going to do with you," He'll show you sudden insights as you go about your daily living, resting, and lying in bed in night thinking about & to Him. Be sure to have a notepad & pencil handy all over the house to write down the sudden 'revelations' (of any good kind) that He gives you, no matter what time of day or night it is....and do it quick!! Because if you DON'T, you will in all likelihood NEVER remember it again!! I've discovered this time & time again, to my great chagrin (and there was NO "grin" about it!! HA!). When God gives you diamonds, SET THEM in a circlet around your finger immediately to be a REMINDER of Him and his NEARNESS, every time you re-read that note you wrote down! ;-DDD (This is the best simile I can give of what I'm talking about here.) Also, I know that there is no such thing as mere LUCK....you're right, it DOES mean FAVOR ! And it DOES cause our spirits to exult, doesn't it?!! Glory to God!!
The Jews have a saying, "See you next year in Jerusalem!" OH!!! BTW, I just NOW suddenly remembered something neat I discovered about the word 'Jerusalem'......it comes from the Hebrew word, 'Yerushalayim' , (the 'shalayim' meaning "Shalom" or "Peace") , and means either "Abode of Peace" OR "Possession of Peace". Soooo, the New Jerusalem WILL be just exactly THAT!! RAH!!! And Jesus said "Do not look for the Kingdom of Heaven here nor there, for it is WITHIN YOU." God GROWS IT on the INSIDE of us a bit more EVERY day, and His Exultation becomes OURS too,because that's just the kind of GOD He IS!!!!! As our Father, He wants His Children to feel the SAME way He DOES!! YAY!
All for the moment, girls! Have a very fair day....and be well !!
Love,
Linda
gmik:
Wow!!! Janice and Linda--I think you have scared all the fellas off!!! ;D
Girls, I love all your ha's and ho's and smilies and pics and as Diana (still queen of banners) says, infectious enthusiasm!!
I once prayed for more estrogen on this forum!!! Yahooooooo
(I would do a pic here but I am too laz, ahem...tired...and its too late)
nite all!
DuluthGA:
Hi Linda, :)
I'm so v glad to get back to you, have been desiring to all day, just been BIZZY BIZZY. [More like dizzy dizzy, ha! :D]
For starters, here's a tip for you that I use often... the Modify button. For example, in one of my previous posts to you I said something about the German measles (but meant: the German accent) so after it got posted, I just returned to my own post and in the upper right-hand corner clicked the Modify button and changed the word 'measles' to 'accent'. Voila! Now you know how to make corrections after making any post, just don't forget to click SAVE afterward.
Also, and you may know this already, but Ray has a really great and insightful paper or transcript (can't remember which right now) on how the word 'grace' is also actually a verb... as in... our Lord's chastening grace, an action word. Can't put my fingers on it now...it's fairly recent... hope maybe Kat our Resource Person can help out on this. Iz goodie!
So it's been about two years ago BOTH you and I discovered Ray's site, how cool. I didn't link to this forum until I read most of his stuff, I guess probably like you. I joined this forum four months ago. I really do enjoy Ray too. Lots of plain truth coming through clouded eyes and mind... happy happy and mind-blowing joy! But then there's the acknowledgement of the suffering part.... ouch and sigh... yet onward we go.... march march march to our Master! I still do so with joy... what else is there? :D THE BIG ULTIMATE HA!
I most certainly haven't always been 'rah rah' [if you have time, please see my testimonial thread 'Caregiver shares more' at: http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,5391.0.html] I am 'rah rah' for the most part for my father to whom I am clinging onto for dear life as he is my (worldly) everything and my joy, and over the past five years of living intimately together, I exaggerate my happiness and joy and my love for him in cheerleading-type antics so that he can receive it with his v v dulled mind. I shout, I cheer, I dance and perform for him and it makes him smile still today. This persona has been given to me to carry on, it seems, in whatever I do.
So yes, Linda, for me too, life's been no bed of roses... I was doing alright (in a rather carnal sense) most of my adult life until '96 then it's been a rough road for one reason or another. ;) ;) Yes dear new friend, we [you and I] have been brought through severe trials, and I also invite you to view the many many scripture verses on the theme of suffering/afflictions/tribulations thread which was given me to compile: http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,5482.0.html You cetainly WON'T get a sermon on these in any church, HA! Yet to me, they are the many many witnesses of God's word that we are to follow our Lord in His suffering. What a God! Why this? I don't know... but I do trust in that there is BOTH His and our glory at the end.
And so along with you Linda, I have been given to ENJOY.... no matter what.... exulting Him as well. Yes "luck" *wink* His sort of "magic" *wink* that so briefly as you say gives us sparks of His revelations (I know whacha mean about writing it down quick!) of truths here and there. How I love it all and love His fantastical magnificence.
John 3: 27 And John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it is given to him from Heaven. [Green's Literal Translation]
Also congrats on your FOURTH grandchild! Yip! :)
God bless and more later! :)
With Christian love,
Janice
P.S. Can't forget the HUG HUG and SMOOCH! :-*
THANKS!
Oh the joys of a sister in Christ!
Kat:
Well I had a little catching up to do here.
For the most part I'm self taught on using the computer. I just keep clicking on things and checking out what's there, till I figure it out.
Linda, I think you have a great attitude and your cheerfulness is a blessing to all. We all have been through our share of trials, that are indeed life lessons, which I think help us grow in faith.
Gena, You mentioned losing your avatar pic. When I changed mine to the apples, I had a really hard time. So I tried the 'I will upload my own picture:' with the browse botton, it worked.
Janice, The Bible study on 'Saved by Grace through Faith' audio link; http://bible-truths.com/audio/6-03-07.mp3
transcript link; http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,5417.0.html
mercy, peace and love
Kat
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