how are you brothers and sisters...

[Anonymous]

OH, you are wrong on making me laugh, as I laugh a lot with friends and relatives when talking on the phone! I don't have many visitors, so phone calls are about it, when I am in the mood for talking and many times I am not, because of feeling depressed or too ill ! As a new Christian I understand where you are coming from and I was one for many, many years, because I didn't become an adult Christian until I truly was saved in Jesus at the age of 50, when I went with my brother and sister-in-law to a Pentecostal Church and had many prayers prayed for me because of my impending divorce and that is when God took a 2X4 and hit me between the eyes to get my attention and believe me He did (there is a story that goes along with the reason for this but won't go into detail concerning it...just a promise I had made to God when a small child....one thing I learned we had better keep our promises or else)?? :sad:

I didn't like to be held either and it was because of an unloving father....it wasn't the custom in our home to have lots of hugs or say prayers at bedtime! Maybe your wife had raising like this, if so, she needs more encouragement and hugging, anyway, for she needs it but wants to be sure that it is the real thing and not for or because of other things! One thing a woman needs is to be sure that she is loved and wanted and is the one true love of a husband's life....I wasn't!!! Be patient but keep hugging and telling her you love her and that you are glad she is your wife! Beleve me that is what she wants to know and be sure of! Just take it from an ole lady who has been there! I know a husband needs encouraging and know that he is needed and appreciated for what he does for wife and family, but that is hard when raised without much love being shown to a person! May God Bless to work all things together for you and your wife's good! Amen!

I am serious when it comes to my faith and now days is not the time to not be serious and ready for our Lord's coming! Time is short and satan is working hard to get as many into the Lake of Fire as he can and we need to be helping to save as many souls as we an by serving our Savior, faithfully! Amen!

Well, I hope you don't have too many skeletons in the closet, but whatever they are...just remember, when saved in Jesus, He forgives you of every sin and wipes out those skeletons by putting His love and eternal life into your soul! No more regrets or anything hidden (which were never hidden from our Heavenly Father) because we are made new creations in Christ! Does my flesh fail, oh yes many times, but my spirit is willing and we can just ask forgiveness again and start anew by drinking of the fountain of life...God's refreshing Holy Word, and begin again! Don't ever let ole slew-foot the devil lie and side track you into going the wrong way, for Jesus is there guiding you all the way home to a bright mansion in heaven by praying, worshiping and obeying Him, daily! Don't ever give in to satan and don't lose the light of Jesus Christ, for He leads us on the straight path...the King's Highway! I may be too serious but I am serious for the right reason and the right reason is living for and honoring JESUS!! Amen! Ma Betty

 

[TreasureDigger]

LOL Sorry you were in the dog house, Bob. Hope all has been forgiven by now. I think 9 hours of detecting is perfectly acceptable! However, I'm pretty sure my husband would feel the same as your wife. He and I don't have the same hobbies and he just doesn't "get it" when it comes to mine. Too bad for him! I go on an do what I've got to do without him; sometimes alone, and sometimes with my cousin. In regards to your description of me (lol), yes, I am a wife (for almost 28 years now). You are correct in assuming I am a mother - I have 2 grown kids. As for the career, you are right again! I used to be a high school teacher but changed careers last September. I am now the case manager for my neighboring county's corrections & drug court.

Lisa

 

[McMurphy]

LOL Sorry you were in the dog house, Bob. Hope all has been forgiven by now. I think 9 hours of detecting is perfectly acceptable! However, I'm pretty sure my husband would feel the same as your wife. He and I don't have the same hobbies and he just doesn't "get it" when it comes to mine. Too bad for him! I go on an do what I've got to do without him; sometimes alone, and sometimes with my cousin. In regards to your description of me (lol), yes, I am a wife (for almost 28 years now). You are correct in assuming I am a mother - I have 2 grown kids. As for the career, you are right again! I used to be a high school teacher but changed careers last September. I am now the case manager for my neighboring county's corrections & drug court.

Lisa

Well Lisa Chief says you've got good face
Out the dog house... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ! for now

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And Peter went out and wept bitterly (Luke 22:62).

He wept because he'd given in to fear when he knew he should have headed into faith. Like you and me, Peter had followed his instincts for survival.

In his grief, he failed to understand something Jesus had explained at their final supper together. Jesus said he had to go away so the Counselor would come (John 16:7). The Holy Spirit sent from God would enter the lives of those who loved Jesus, creating a permanent connection between the Creator and the created.

The Holy Spirit was coming to teach and to guide, and to help us live by our new nature. We may still make mistakes of impulse and instinct, falling back into sinful thoughts and actions -- what Corrie Ten Boom refers to as echoes of the past.

But in the present and the future, we are "a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that [we] may declare the praises of him who called [us] out of darkness into his wonderful light" (1 Peter 2:9 NIV).

Fitting words from Peter, written years after the night he probably thought he'd ruined the rest of his life here on earth and for all eternity.


Now I like that a lot

 

[TreasureDigger]

I like that a lot, too!

Lisa

 

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[McMurphy]

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Get squared away soldier. You don't get to quit Gods army anymore that you could the Marines. My gear might be in the closet but it's not dusty or malfunctioning. Something wicked this way comes and we get a small piece of it before Jesus calls it unnecessary roughness for his true believers. Life does seem too long for those who know how the story ends. How boring it would be for us if we couldn't see the fight coming our way so fast. I wonder if my grandfather and great grandfather felt exactly the same way, this is where things get fussy for me. What if everyone who ever lived before us thought Jesus was putting on His slippers and about to bring it? A sense of urgency is the driving force that brings a good harvest, politicians know this. What if there was a hundred or a thousand years left before rapture? Now look what you've gone and made me say.

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Paul highlighted six emotional costs.

You will experience confusion. Paul said,

 

[Anonymous]

I think you have Bill all wrong, Jim, because he is a Christian and baptised in the Holy Ghost (Spirit)! He has been very ill and went through surgery not too long ago! He is only saying what I would like to be happening, also, and that is for God to save those who will be saved and then Come Quickly, Lord Jesus! Whether it be today, tomorrow or a thousand years or more, it doesn't stop us older folks from wanting him to return because we know that there is a far better land awaiting where no sorrow nor any more death will be! This life isn't easy and our Rose Bed contains lots of thorns that stab us in this life, but those little or big stabs (can't say the other word that starts with pr and ends in k, because it is not allowed) are what keeps us on the straight and narrow way of this life's path by leaning on and trusting in Jesus!

And since Bill and I have a more difficult time in using the coil, the Rapture of God's faithful saints, would be better for us, and, hopefully, we are ready and stay ready to be caught up when it is time...but whether dead or alive in Christ, at the time of Jesus' coming to gather us up we shall be in the Rapture with the dead rising first and then those who remain and alive will meet Jesus and each other in the air! Praise the Lord for His mercy and grace to save sinners like me...but when saved in Jesus we are no longer sinners, for if we were then what have we been saved from and call Him a liar! The Bible is the absolute truth, as God cannot and never lies! We must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth, for when we turn around in life and commit ourselves to serving Jesus, we don't sin willfully any more but if we slip and sin anyway, we have an Advocate, our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, to go before God our Heavenly Father for us and we again are cleansed from all sin by asking and repenting in what we did wrong! This human flesh is weak but our spirit is willing and by keeping our minds upon Jesus and the faith He grants us to endure and overcome, then we will! Bless the Lord, oh my soul! Amen! Ma Betty