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I'll try later to read and absorb and possibly reply to what followed, but I want to first respond to the OP.

Simply, I "take up my life" again every morning.  I don't, however, consciously awaken myself.  Whatever it might be that acts upon me to awaken, it's not by conscious choice or effort that I cease sleeping. 

I think that's what Jesus is saying...not that He can raise/did raise Himself from the dead.

Sorry if that wasn't actually your question.

Thank you Octoberose for starting this thread.  So thankful for the wisdom and insight you all bring to this forum!  It's not coincidence that just before easter I had also been thinking about the resurrection.  My thoughts always bring me to search this forum.  Once again, it's the Spirit's leading us back to solid biblical understanding to get answers.  My thoughts align with what has been said about all the doom, gloom, apostosy etc.  God's will will be done in order for what He wants to accomplish in His plan; we get it and are strenthened in this knowledge,   but it is hard to get others to understand that God uses evil at times to bring about His purposes.  Knowing this helps me to have compassion for others especially in my own household. 

May God continue to bless this forum and Youtube so that His truths are revealed to many more.

Diane

Thank you Porter
I will remember God is responsible and God works all things together for those
that love Him. And we all love Him , that’s for sure.
I have great confidence in God’s plan for humanity and I know it’s going to be awesome. Lately I have been wanting to say ( to parrot Arc) “hurry up Lord.

I am sorry you are in pain Porter . I don’t like to see people hurting and yet it is
a huge part of living life in this world. I have no problem with love not the world.
I am so grateful for bible-truths and all my brothers and sisters. I love you all and
pray for you every day. I can’t wait until we are all together with our Lord.
Thanks again my friend for your consolation. I pray for you and your family Porter.

Wendy, thank you for your support and prayers. Yes all the gloomy news does take
it’s toll on me , but again I have to remember it’s all part of the plan. It’s all of God.
Knowing that is comforting especially when it involves our children and grandchildren.
I pray for your family Wendy, May God Bless you all.

God Bless bible-truths

In Christ, Pamela

Hi Pamela


Sorry to hear you’re feeling this way. I pray the Lord comforts you through this .I too feel overwhelmed at times like I’m not going anywhere. I’ll read and pray it just seems like it’s the same old thing every day but like the Biible says it’s all in God’s time. Watching our family members suffer, and all the gloomy news going on around the world definitely can take its toll on you.
You’re so right Porter definitely by looking back we can see where we’ve been and where we are now. And the changes that have taken place are absolutely amazing.
Thanks Porter and everyone who answered your post on here it really is good reading
God bless
Wendy

You're doing just fine, Pamela. Nothing wrong with being aggravated or even angry at all the injustice. As long as you understand that, ultimately, God is responsible for it all and that all things work together for good to them that love God. You have to keep that truth to the very end. Perhaps this is God's way of improving the faith He gave you. That faith will be severely tried. Satan will accuse you and do whatever it takes to try to make you feel condemned and like a total failure in God's eyes. Satan is very good at that sort of thing. Look back once in a while to see how far God has brought you. Forgive yourself as He has forgiven you.

I'm often in a lot of pain too, physical and emotional. I think many of us here and many out there are that way. I'm not trying to minimize what you are experiencing, but what I'm trying to say is that the things you're going through are being accomplished in the rest of us as well.

1Pe 5:6  Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time,
1Pe 5:7  casting all your care upon Him, because He cares about you.
1Pe 5:8  Be sober! Be on the alert! Your adversary the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour.
1Pe 5:9  Resist him, firm in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are being experienced by your brothers in the world.
1Pe 5:10 Now the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will personally restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little.
1Pe 5:11  To Him be the dominion forever. Amen.   

Feeling stuck is normal if it's anything like Satan putting us into prison.

Rev 2:10  Don't be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Look, the Devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will have tribulation for 10 days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

I love that about the flowers. I saw an image not too long ago that looked exactly like the description you gave.

I can say with the utmost confidence that I'm quite terrible at saying things like this, for that I'm sorry. It may have something to do with the over bearing pressure to be a man. Just know that God sees your good deeds and that is all that matters.

I cried all through this post. I love all of these scriptures Porter.
They are in Spirit and Truth as are all of your posts and i sincerely
appreciate your taking the time to respond.
I cry just reading the Bible these days. Our Lord is so good.
I find myself getting a little hot under the collar lately with all this Apostasy.
I feel so sad for people and yet I know ….. it is an experience of evil God
has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by.( ECC.1:13)

I know this and still get so aggravated. This waiting is hard and I am beginning
to have more pain and suffering lately. It’s all necessary but sometimes I feel
like I’m not growing. I feel stuck . Does this happen to anyone else. I want to make more progress and I know it’s all in God's timing ,yet I sometimes feel impatient.
And that’s not good.

The wisdom of this world is foolishness ( Greek: stupidity) with God. For it is written
He takes the wise in their own craftiness. ( 1 Cor. 3:19)

Sigh 😞 I see and hear so much stupidity, it’s making me sick.

Im reading Hebrews now.
Ch.9:27…… and just as it is appointed for man to die once and after that comes judgement, 28…. So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many
will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him.

Titus 2:13…. waiting for our Blessed Hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ 14.. who gave Himself for us to redeem us from
all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession who are
zealous for good works.

Maybe I am a little too eager and zealous and need to be more patience.I think
there will be a lot more hardship coming. I pray for wisdom and endurance for all of us. God  bless you all, dear brothers and sisters in these trying times.
Come Lord Jesus

Thank you Porter and yes I see the Lord not far from the few everywhere in Scripture.
How about this…calyx… the sepals of a flower, typically forming a whorl
that encloses the petals and forms a protective layer around a flower in bud.
Ex.25:33&35, Ex.37:19&21

Ah yes we are to be a sweet smelling fragrance to our Lord and we are a protected
flower. Isn’t that just beautiful. But we are still yet in bud. God Bless Our Lord.

Good question Pamela. I don't know if I have the right answer, perhaps you or someone could confirm by testing the spirits to see if it's true.

Why does God reveal Himself to only a few at this time? Maybe it's as simple as what Paul said.

Rom 9:15  For He tells Moses: I will show mercy to whom I show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
Rom 9:16  So then it does not depend on human will or effort, but on God who shows mercy.
Rom 9:17  For the Scripture tells Pharaoh: For this reason I raised you up: so that I may display My power in you, and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
Rom 9:18  So then, He shows mercy to whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.

What does this knowledge do for you? Faith, in my mind, is akin to understanding Him with my heart.

Rom 8:29  For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
Rom 8:30  And those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified.

The only reason they know God and believe He is truly all powerful, is because He knew them first from the beginning. It's His spirit after all that was there in the beginning with His Son. There is no male or female, Jew or Gentile, free or bond in His Kingdom because God is One.

Psa 82:6 I Myself have said:you are elohim, And sons of the Supreme are all of you."

If you were known, then you know all this already.

God used Ray and bible-truths website to gather us together at this time. Many have left the forum, and I pray they continue to keep His word. God has only ever chosen a few to reveal Himself to throughout history through various people in various places. Does God change? In time, God will choose all of humanity to be His sons, “...every man in his own order” — 1Co_15:23. He will use the few to do this work for Him. But they, like the few, needs to repent of ever believing they were their own gods producing their own righteousness. There is no greater sin (as far as I know) than “free will” that needs to be repented of first.

The main bible-truths.com website is, as you say; a beacon of light for the earth. So what can you do?

Mat 5:14  "You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden.
Mat 5:15  No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house.
Mat 5:16  In the same way, let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

Your “good works” flow from your heart into your mind and come out of your mouth because you believe them and can't help but to proclaim them. You don't even have to say a word for God to notice.

Rom 10:8  On the contrary, what does it say? The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we proclaim:
Rom 10:9  if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Are we all teachers? Ray was a teacher who taught foolishness to those of us who would believe. Truly, the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing. God still loves them, but they are unable to love Him back without a new heart that only He can provide. Like you said, they don't even know what they don't know. So have mercy and you too will be a son. They are our enemies for our sakes, in the same way we were His enemies for His sake.

Mat 13:24  He presented another parable to them: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
Mat 13:25  But while people were sleeping, his enemy came, sowed weeds among the wheat, and left.
Mat 13:26  When the plants sprouted and produced grain, then the weeds also appeared.
Mat 13:27  The landowner's slaves came to him and said, 'Master, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?'
Mat 13:28  "'An enemy did this!' he told them. "'So, do you want us to go and gather them up?' the slaves asked him.
Mat 13:29  "'No,' he said. 'When you gather up the weeds, you might also uproot the wheat with them.
Mat 13:30  Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I'll tell the reapers: Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles to burn them, but store the wheat in my barn. '"

We can't have wheat without weeds, can we? This might seem like I'm really stretching it here, but please bear with me and judge for yourselves. Remember Jonah in Sheol?

Jon 2:5  The waters engulfed me up to the neck; the watery depths overcame me; SEAWEED WAS WRAPPED AROUND MY HEAD.

It's gets better:

Joh 19:5  Then Jesus came out WEARING THE CROWN OF THORNS and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!"
Joh 19:6  When the chief priests and the temple police saw Him, they shouted, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate responded, "Take Him and crucify Him yourselves, for I find no grounds for charging Him."

It is believed by some that the crown of thorns that was put on Jesus' head wasn't actually made of thorns, but rather, it was made out of a wreath of weeds. Anyhow, here is another:

1Th 2:19  For who is our hope, or joy, or CROWN OF BOASTING in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? IS IT NOT YOU?
1Th 2:20  For you are our glory and joy!

You wouldn't believe how many times we are likened to His crown.

Zec_9:16  The LORD their God will save them on that day as the flock of His people; FOR THEY ARE LIKE JEWELS IN A CROWN, sparkling over His land […it gives light for all who are in the house. — Mat 5:15].

Here is another, I think it's my favorite because it doesn't even mention a crown outright.

Col 1:27  God wanted to make known to those among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, WHICH IS CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY.
Col 1:28  We proclaim Him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
Col 1:29  I labor for this, striving with His strength that works powerfully in me.

One last one, but I assure you, you are written all over the Scriptures, in the same way your names are written in heaven.

Isa_62:3  You will be a GLORIOUS CROWN in the LORD's hand, and a royal diadem in the palm of your God.

This all goes back to believing Jesus did not “see” corruption in the heart of the earth. Why is that so important to believe? Because, God not only raised Jesus from among the dead, God raised us with Jesus at the same time so we would no longer be in the dark about Him; we love Him because He first loved us.

Joh 12:32 And I, if I should be exalted out of the earth, shall be drawing all to Myself."

Didn't He say He would never leave us? Doesn't that mean He is here now among and within us? Why then do we look for Him among the dead? He is like a hen gathering her chicks under her wings, but will they? Time will tell, I suppose.

Rom 10:17  So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.
Rom 10:18  But I ask, "Did they not hear?" Yes, they did: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world.
Rom 10:19  But I ask, "Did Israel not understand?" First, Moses said: I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that lacks understanding.
Rom 10:20  And Isaiah says boldly: I was found by those who were not looking for Me; I revealed Myself to those who were not asking for Me.
Rom 10:21  But to Israel he says: All day long I have spread out My hands to a disobedient and defiant people.

PS,,,, I get so discouraged with all this evil. It’s so bad.
I’m sorry to bother you , I feel so sad.😭

I agree with your post Porter.

The parable of the many called and the few chosen is everywhere, not just in the scriptures. I’m seeing it in life itself, it’s everywhere. I think Ray once said “ life
is a parable”. I believe it.
You quote the perfect scripture of Matt. 7:21-23 .
The many don’t have a true ,loving , obedient relationship with their Master.
They don’t even know who the many are that call Jesus Lord , Lord.
Has anyone ever asked them who it is that calls Jesus Lord, Lord , prophesies in His Name JESUS, casts out demons in His name JESUS, does wonderful works in His name JESUS ? Is it the Jews ? The Muslims? The Buddhas? The atheists, Hindus,
or any of the other religions in the world?
They must read these scriptures right, but they can’t see them or understand them.
Or maybe they are completely comfortable in their carnal state that they know
nothing about either.
What did Christ pray to His Father on the cross? Father forgive them, they don’t
know what they are doing.
They are in the dark where they not only love the darkness but it’s so dark that
they can’t see . This world is getting older, colder and darker as Ray taught in the
creation days, the laws of thermodynamics and the evening and morning spiritual
connotation of those things.

A word I hear in the news a lot is UNCERTAINTY. That’s Not knowing. People
don’t like not knowing, it knocks the nose off of their fabled free will.
You need the faith of Christ to be comfortable… not knowing and yet trust that
God has everything under control. That’s the Sovereign God that people hate.
Look at all the wonderful teachings on our website. They are marvellous and we don’t hardly get any comments, some are very nice and some are thankful,
others are just plain stupidity and ignorance and stubbornness.
But even that is in God’s plan. It’s just amazing.  And this stuff on our website
is exposing a lot of corruption . God has a reason for everything, why does He have
Dennis put it all up there for the world to see? Is it just to get a few more people
to join our little flock?  I am sincerely asking all you members this question
because I have been thinking about it for quite awhile and I would like to know
what some of you think about this . Will there come a time when God will use
Bible- truths. Com to open many eyes and not just a few. I guess that’s my question.  Please engage.
In Christ , Pamela💕

You gave me so much more than I asked for !  THANK YOU!  The search engine is hit and miss for me at times.  Maybe I’m too specific of too broad ?     I loved it when you said you didn’t mind being the blind man looking for him, because he is not far from any of us. He is real and a rewarder of those who seek him.  _
 And all the glory goes to Him.
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.  Romans 8:1