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Who are the dead in Christ
Patrick:
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maybe God will feed me a little bit someday so I can understand a little bit more that is all I ask.
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sometimes we come to believe that God has given up on us, or maybe we aren't even being called by God to be an over-comer of sin. This is not true! God is calling you alright - your request for spiritual help is proof of this.
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Ricky, your asking for God to feed you a little bit so you can understand a little bit is FROM GOD. He places that desire in your heart.
If you can read this forum, you can read your bible and Ray's teachings. The Word is our spiritual food; man cannot live by bread alone (have you read or heard that before?).
Read Ray's teaching on prayer. http://bible-truths.com/praying.htm
Get your bible, and read through Ray's spurious passages paper, http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php?topic=6638.0 ; highlight those passages or mark them out.
Read Ray's teaching on understanding His Word. http://bible-truths.com/twelve.htm
Read or listen to what Sampson posted regarding foundational truths. Transcript - http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,6452.0.html
--- Quote from: mharrell08 ---Seek and ask of the Lord for understanding when reading His Word...he will not fail you or ignore you. Though it may not come all at once, the Lord will begin to open your understanding here a little, there a little.
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Psalms 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and a shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
2 Peter 3:18
But GROW in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and for ever. Amen
Ricky:
Hello Mharrell08, Thankyou for your reply, because I do not know how to to put up a quote on here, when someone has replied to my questions, I will have to type out what you have said, you stated that, This is referring to God's elect who He has been choosing and working His grace in through the last 2000+ years. Some of the chosen & faithful whom the Lord has predestined [Rom 8:29] will be waiting in their graves for the resurrection while others will be alive at his coming. That is what 'dead in Christ' means: those who are chosen and faithful and have died in that truth. They will be resurrected into eonian life. I will now ask another way, 40 YEARS AGO, 100 YEARS AGO, 1000 YEARS AGO, was Ray here then?? was the internet here back then, how could they know the truth without Ray or the net? IF THE TRUTH HAS NEVER BEEN ON THE PLANET UNTIL NOW!! WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE THAT HAVE DIED IN CHRIST, WITHOUT KNOWING THE TRUTH BECAUSE IT HAS NEVER BEEN HERE BEFORE. This what I do not understand[.Thankyou. Ricky p.s. would you believe that what I have just typed out. has taken me over an hour to do. That is how slow I am with all of this, keyboards do not have sterring wheels for dumb truck driver`s. /color]
Marlene:
Ricky, Just, want you to know we would not be in here , if God did not lead us here. Yes, the Bible is spiritual food. That, is a blessing God gave us. But, God can do miracles today! He can use any means he wants.
Back, then he had his ways. Maybe, he used men who knew the truth when there was no internet. He could use our time in Babylon. Who, knows the ways of God. God has strange ways. Ray talks about this in his Nashville, Conferene notes in 2007. I do am like you have not figured out how to put things on here without typing.
Maybe some one can direct you better then I can. But, I was reading all of that last night. There, are some good things in there to help how you feel about your past and your life.
Now, I believe God does miracles. I could tell you quite a few of mine. I did not know truth then. But, I did believe some things that were true, because God was leading me while I read them. But, my one on one talks with him really helped me. When, I found Rays website, I was in need a big miracle.
I had failed God big time right before that. I came down very ill and I had a deadly blood infection. He walked with me through that. He kept me awake through that. There I learned I was not in control of any thing. But, he wants us to trust him. I had failed him there. I was so sure God could not forgive me for this last mistake. I wanted to die and go to the make believe Hell that I believed was true. I cried out to God please give me your truths cause I dont want to live the rest of my life in regret. It was a Hell of my mind. I believe, forgiving ourselves is important. We cannot live in the past, but we can live in the future. I had a post about miracles God has given us or ways he kept us near. To me these experiences give people hope. They may even teach us trust. I know, my experiences with God has. I feel your pain. Those articles of Rays really helped me reading them over last night.
Maybe, some one in here and lead you to them. They are Conference notes from 2007
I don't know why God uses different ways to reach people with the truths. But, I am so blessed for the internet. God gave me my Miracle that night. I typed in Hell. L. Ray Smith was used to give me my miracle. Well, Love won me over. Thats, how God is going to win humanity. LOVE
Now he wants to win your trust and erase your past. Your, past is not over as long as you dwell on it. But, to let go is a Miracle from God.
You are here for a purpose . I would say God Loves you alot. Have faith, this might seem strange do you. But, God works in strange ways man cannot even see it is from him sometimes.
In His Love,
Malrene
Ricky:
Hello Marlene & Horseman, Thankyou so very much. Both of your replies is the way that I can understand. Plain and simple English. I have always had the feeling that my biggest problem with the Lord is, TRUSTING HIM. I am a man that trusts no one. I now know that not putting my trust in Him IS THE PROBLEM I HAVE WITH EVERYTHING.As of today I believe that I have dumped all of my sins, except one, and that one will be very hard to let go. I want it GONE. I have asked God to help me get rid of it. I do pray every day, and sometimes 3 or 4 times a day. I have ALMOST,told God to get lost and leave me alone, you have more important people to play with. For years now God has being haunting me 24 hours aday everyday. There is a christian song done by a group called Silverwings, I do not know the name of it or the words to it, but it has been stuck in my head for 12 years now and cannot get rid of it. I have always thought that the bad things that happen to me is punishment from God. I now know that it is teaching, and not punishment, I only hope I am not wrong on this one. When I was in church between 1995-2000 I was the Moses of the 21 century, I was so fired up for the Lord, people were scared of me, I did things for Jesus in public that no one would ever have the nerve to do. I don't know why but without the church I do not feel that I am wanted by God. In church I had some friends and now I do not. I do miss the church, but I will never go back to one. Everything in my life was almost perfect back then, I was happy, I felt the love from God (so I thought) It would be so wonderful if every city had one church that teaches the truth, then we could have a home to go to fellowship together in person. Thankyou all so very much :'(
Bless you all. Ricky
Linny:
Ricky,
I am always amazed at the people God uses. In the Bible and in my life. Especially that He has chosen me to know the truth. I was not the picture of a person who had it all together or was even on the right track. :-[ But for some reason, He pulled me out of my self-made mess and 19 years later, here I am.
You are no different. You may not be able to see what He sees yet. But you must get it through your head that He picked you just as you are. Therefore, He must have a pretty great plan for your life. Just start gazing forward and stop looking back. For that matter, stop looking at what you see today because that is not what He sees. He called Gideon, while he was hiding, a mighty man of valour because that is what He saw.
Jdg 6:11 And the angel of the LORD came, and sat under the terebinth which was in Ophrah, that belonged unto Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
Jdg 6:12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him: 'The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.'
He sees what you are to become and He called you out to bring you to that end. You should be ecstatic rather than down on yourself.
The fact that God has called you out of your comfort zone (your church) isn't a bad thing it is a great thing. Apparently, the plans He has for your life mean leaning on Him and not other people. He took you out to teach you that.
So I say chin up and let's go on this journey together. You are in great (formerly crappy) company! We are in for a wild ride and I for one look forward with glee to what all God has in store for us. We are all a work in progress with only up to go! 8)
Blessings, Lin
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