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Beloved:
I think that is the difference between babylon and here...everything there is about prosperity and blessings, not that we do not have these but we also have these dark times...these times ....where we feel forsaken...but are not....I am presently waiting to start back at my old job after two jobs fell through, I will only be working part time. Things will be tight.

I know that it is hardest to "rest" in God when you feel you are running out of steam but you have to...there is no Plan 2 ....God knows what he is doing and why.

God took me down to a total of $200.00 in Total assests a few years back , I had no place to live and no job.  Now I had a real tendency to think that I was in control and I sent out resumes and letters to places I was more than qualified for...guess what...nothing.....when I stopped all my activity.....and just volunteered a door opened up without my trying...I had already laid everything on the altar.

I was able to stay in my rental house a few months post lease until I could move closer to my new job.

God knows your need, you on the other hand may be struggling with your wants..... Read the email to Ray called Hypocrite that recently posted...and reread the article that Ray wrote on prayer...Perhaps in this numb state .....you are now ready.... for God to work in you

 
beloved

hillsbororiver:

--- Quote from: gmik on April 20, 2008, 10:08:14 PM ---Joe the first part of that verse, helping widows, fatherless in times of their affliction is very easy to get, black and white, no greys.  Got it!!

The second part...keeping the worlds' spots off us.....too grey for me...what do you suppose  SPECIFICALLY w/ DETAILS  :D that means!!

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Hi Gena,

In a nutshell it means do not become tainted with the cares of this world or become ensnared into the ways of the world, to focus on and follow Christ and the example He set for His own.

Jam 1:27  Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted784 from the world.

G784

ἄσπιλος
aspilos
as'-pee-los
From G1 (as a negative particle) and G4695; unblemished (physically or morally): - without spot, unspotted.

In keeping with what we have been taught about scripture interpreting scripture here are a few witnesses;

Eph 5:27  That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Heb 9:14  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

1Pe 1:19  But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

2Pe 3:14  Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

His Peace and Wisdom to you,

Joe

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