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Afraid of dying
aqrinc:
Heidi,
The only advise i could give is be always doing what is your first Commission: 1. Love God with all your Heart
and Mind and 2: Love your neighbor as yourself. Doing this all the time you will have no time to be fearful of
dying as Jesus Christ Will then Be Working In you Fulltime. Put these together and no power or principality
of this world will have any sway over you.
Peace, Love and Trust Sister,
george.
--- Quote from: Heidi on October 29, 2008, 06:10:45 PM ---If anything then this is where I feel comfortable in discussing things with my brothers and sisters because I know that I will get heavenly advise.......I have a real fear of dying.....not that I don't know that I will be sleeping, it is just the thought of what I am leaving behind.....lets be honest, I enjoy living.....it is awesome to be alive!
I know that this is an idol of the heart and I pray to God to help me to overcome this fear because there is really nothing to be scared about.....but still I am. And I also feel guilty because Paul writes and says "for me to live is Christ and to die is gain". I pray to get peace about this and to overcome this.
Please.....if anyone can give me advise I would appreciate it.....and prayer
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Heidi:
I have been away from my computer for the day and when I logged in now I saw all the emailed responses to my post. Thank you all for replying. I am glad now that I have asked this question because I am getting heavenly advise from all of you. It is evident that I need not be to overly concerned about this and that God is doing a work in me that only He can complete. The "when" and "how's" I suppose is physical only and I need to set my eyes on the spiritual. It is my prayer to say like Paul "to live is Christ and to die is gain"
I love you all
Heidi
Ricky:
Hi, to me the real fear of dying is not knowing what comes next, as soon as you die, you wake up again sometime in the future standing before God. It appears that you pass from one life instantly into another, and you cant change anything, its done. And where you sit with God in the end, or when you die has already been determined from the very begining. What I really dont understand about God is how He has decieded who dies a peaceful death and who dies a violent death. Hope someone can help out with this one.
Ricky
cherokee:
Ricky you ask,
--- Quote ---"What I really dont understand about God is how He has decieded who dies a peaceful death and who dies a violent death. Hope someone can help out with this one."
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Here is what the scriptures say,
"Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:"G4381
Here is what "respecter of persons" means.
G4381
προσωπολήπτης
prosōpolēptēs
pros-o-pol-ape'-tace
From G4383 and G2983; an accepter of a face (individual), that is, (specifically) one exhibiting partiality: - respecter of persons.
Hope this helps.
A sister in Christ,
Suzie
P.S. Here is an email from Ray that should help also.
--- Quote ---Favortism
« on: August 19, 2008, 05:44:11 PM »
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dear Ray,
in Acts 10: 34, Peter says that God does not show favoritism,
yet we know He favored Abel , Joseph , Jacob , Ephraim (and some others)
and rejected others.
how can we be sure that God does not show favoritism?
thanx for your website.
Sara
Dear Sara: We need to be careful about assuming the meaning of words, and then changing them to different words. The Scriptures say that God is no "respecter of persons." And Strong define this as "partiality," and you then change it to "favoritism." But aren't they all one and the same? No, there are similarities, the they are different. Surely God does not respect a one person over another because of some inherent goodness of one over the other. But that does not mean that He does not "favor" one over the other, He does. "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." Where there something about the person of Jacob that God liked better than Esau? No, God made that decision BEFORE THEY WERE BORN.
And so God does show favor or favoritism, but it is not based on "partiality" or "respecting of persons." God's "Elect" are the ones He has "favored," and that is how Strong defines "elect." So God chooses and blesses different people at different times according to His purpose, but none of it is based on any "respect" that God has toward one person over another.
God be with you,
Ray
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indianabob:
Thanks Suzie,
Very appropriate selection from Ray's responses.
"God's elect are favored" and not more deserving of unmerited grace
Bob
--- Quote from: Suzie on October 31, 2008, 06:59:41 AM ---Ricky you ask,
--- Quote ---"What I really dont understand about God is how He has decieded who dies a peaceful death and who dies a violent death. Hope someone can help out with this one."
--- End quote ---
Here is what the scriptures say,
"Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:"G4381
Here is what "respecter of persons" means.
G4381
προσωπολήπτης
prosōpolēptēs
pros-o-pol-ape'-tace
From G4383 and G2983; an accepter of a face (individual), that is, (specifically) one exhibiting partiality: - respecter of persons.
Hope this helps.
A sister in Christ,
Suzie
P.S. Here is an email from Ray that should help also.
--- Quote ---Favortism
« on: August 19, 2008, 05:44:11 PM »
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dear Ray,
in Acts 10: 34, Peter says that God does not show favoritism,
yet we know He favored Abel , Joseph , Jacob , Ephraim (and some others)
and rejected others.
how can we be sure that God does not show favoritism?
thanx for your website.
Sara
Dear Sara: We need to be careful about assuming the meaning of words, and then changing them to different words. The Scriptures say that God is no "respecter of persons." And Strong define this as "partiality," and you then change it to "favoritism." But aren't they all one and the same? No, there are similarities, the they are different. Surely God does not respect a one person over another because of some inherent goodness of one over the other. But that does not mean that He does not "favor" one over the other, He does. "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." Where there something about the person of Jacob that God liked better than Esau? No, God made that decision BEFORE THEY WERE BORN.
And so God does show favor or favoritism, but it is not based on "partiality" or "respecting of persons." God's "Elect" are the ones He has "favored," and that is how Strong defines "elect." So God chooses and blesses different people at different times according to His purpose, but none of it is based on any "respect" that God has toward one person over another.
God be with you,
Ray
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