She was laying on the ground and crawling like a snake--literally. children were all around her and they said to me, all she does is sit in a chair and listen to that rock music. I reached out to her to deliverance her. She reached up and scratched my arm, just a little blood though. All of a sudden she got up stood up strait and walked away as though she was normal and nothing happened. She wasn't free but did not harm or say bad to me. I learn that not everyone can be set free unless they want to. In my early deliverance for myself, in some areas of life, The demons would try to choke me to death but Jesus won't let that happen-- he is a savior and deliverer and won't let us be hurt. that is concerning self deliverance . Death for us is victory. glory to Jesus name if you were one of the devil favorite kids, better stay covered with the blood and walk righteousness.

For the most part Charismatics who are faithful and true disciples, are a threat to the kingdom of darkness. Every time the world, and even Christians see a negative or fake thing, ( especially covetous ministry) it brings reproach, name calling, and disinterest and a happy devil. There are conservative full bible believing Holy Spirit filled soldiers for the kingdom of God who understand the world will hate them and their Christ. Yet still they continue to be a hope and love to all mankind as well as prayer warriors. Their revival is not just coming--it is here always through Jesus.

It doesn't make sense to me that one can pray to saints and or pray for the dead, when seeing a parallel in 1 Sam. 28:7 Where Saul seeks a woman who has a familiar spirit. She also talks with the dead. I notice also that she must also be a Necromancer because they talk with the dead.

Hey I just got word of this, revival is breaking out in a big way in Asbury Kentucky, if you can't get down there you can watch online, something like 10 million are watching around the world Login to view embedded media

Titus 2:11-14 ESV


In America, where I live, many professers of faith in Jesus Christ have this idea of God’s grace as though it is just forgiveness of sins and the promise of heaven when they die. But is that all there is to it? No! God’s grace, which sent Jesus Christ to the cross to die for our sins is about delivering us out of our slavery to sin so that we can now be servants of God and of his righteousness.

We, who are of genuine faith in Jesus Christ, died with Christ to sin, and we were raised with him that we might walk in newness of life in him, not like our old lives of living in sin. For our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. Therefore, we are not to let sin reign in our mortal bodies, to make us obey its passions. For if sin is what we obey, and if obedience is not what we obey, it leads to death, not to life everlasting.

For the righteous requirement of the law is fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For if we walk according to the flesh, it ends in death, not in eternal life with God. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. And, yes, it is required of us that we live to please God, regardless of those who are saying that we are already pleasing him and that we don’t have to do anything.

[Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 2 Co 5:9; Gal 6:8; Eph 5:10; Col 1:9-11; 1 Thes 2:4; 1 Thes 4:1; 2 Tim 2:4; Heb 11:6; Heb 13:6; 1 Jn 3:22]

Also, a lot of people professing faith in Jesus Christ have this idea that our salvation is secured for us based off a one-time profession of faith in Jesus Christ, regardless of how we live from that moment forward. But is that biblical faith? No! And is that biblical salvation? No! For God’s grace is bringing us salvation, and it is training us to renounce ungodliness, etc., while we wait for our Lord’s return. Our salvation is to be continuous until the day we die or until our Lord returns and takes us to be with him.

For the Scriptures teach that we are saved (past), and we are being saved (present active), and that we will be saved (future) when Jesus Christ returns for his bride, which is when our salvation will be completed, and not until then. But this is all conditional on us walking according to the Spirit and not according to the flesh, and us walking in holiness and in righteousness, in obedience to our Lord, and us not making sin our practice. And it is conditional on us continuing steadfast in that faith until the very end.

[Matt 24:9-14; Rom 8:24; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; Jn 8:31-32; Jn 15:1-12; Rom 11:17-24; 1 Co 15:2; Col 1:21-23; 2 Tim 2:10-13; Heb 3:6,14-15; 2 Pet 1:5-11; 2 Pet 2:20-22; 1 Jn 2:24-25]

There are a lot of verbs in the Scriptures which are continuing verbs which are not always clear in our English translations. For example John 3:16 should read “.. that whoever believing in him..” This is ongoing faith, not a one-time profession of faith. And this isn’t the only example. There are many. And belief in Jesus comes from God, and it is gifted to us by God, and it is not of our own doing. And biblical faith involves repentance and obedience to our Lord.

[Eph 2:8-10; Heb 12:1-2; Jn 6:44; 1 Co 10:1-22; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Acts 5:32; Tit 2:11-14; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Eph 4:17-32; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Lu 9:23-26; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Co 6:19-20; 2 Co 5:15,21; Matt 7:21-23]

For Jesus Christ 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. And, yes, works are required of us, but they are the works of God which he prepared in advance that we would walk in them (See Titus 2:14; Ephesians 2:10).

[Eph 2:8-10; 1 Co 15:58; 2 Co 9:8; Gal 5:6; Php 2:12-13; Col 1:9-14; 2 Thess 1:11-12; 2 Tim. 2:21; Tit 2:11-14; Jn 15:1-11; Tit 3:8; Jas 2:17]

So, just know that a one-time profession of faith in Jesus Christ is not enough to secure you salvation from sin and eternal life with God. We are all required of God that we walk no longer according to the flesh but according to the Spirit, and that we no longer walk in sin, in practice, but that now righteousness, holiness, and obedience to our Lord are what we practice. For how we live in this life matters for eternity with regard to where we spend eternity. But all this is only possible in God’s power and strength.

[Matt 7:21-23; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 9:23-26; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14,24; Rom 12:1-2; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-17; 1 Pet 2:24; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 3:6,14-15; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

Full Release

An Original Work / April 15, 2012

Walking daily with my Savior
brings me joy.
Loving Father; precious Jesus;
He’s my Savior and my Lord.
Gently leads me; follow Him.
I’ve invited Him within.
Now abiding in His presence,
oh, what peace.
From my self-life
He has brought me,
By His mercy, full release.

Hope and comfort,
peace and safety Jesus brings
When I daily bow before Him;
Obey freely; do His will.
Follow Him where’er He leads.
Listen to Him; His words heed.
Now obeying his words fully,
oh, what love
That He gives me
through salvation,
By His Spirit, from above.

Loving Father; precious Jesus,
He’s my friend.
With my Savior, by His Spirit,
I will endure to the end.
Share the gospel, tell what’s true.
Witness daily; His will do.
Tell the world of how their Savior
bled and died.
On a cruel cross He suffered
So that we might be alive.

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I think I'm understanding myself a little bit better, in that I have obsessive thoughts about my intentions. "Did I mean to do that, what did I really mean by saying that, etc." And I tend to assume the worst in myself. When I was younger I was terrified of cheating in school, I would hide my face or sit away from students so I could make sure I wouldn't cheat, but I was so obsessed with "don't cheat don't cheat don't cheat" that I hyper analyzed every little glance to the side and ended up confessing to a lot of cheating. I still don't want to go back to college because of this, and I'm in my late 20s.

But that story is relevant because now I have a boyfriend, my first boyfriend ever. And I'm struggling so hard with physical affection. "Is this too much, is this sexual, my mind wants to go further but I know it's wrong and we should stay right here, is this touch ok, is what he's doing now okay," etc. It got to the point where, one day, I pushed us to go almost too far because I followed my lust, and so we stopped kissing for about 6 months. And us not kissing is a huge factor in why we almost broke up recently. So we are back to kissing, and I WANT TO KEEP IT HOLY AND PURE, but I get so obsessed over the torrent of "is this ok, is that ok, am I sinning, am I over thinking it."

It's kinda funny but I almost feel like it's something that could be solved by ERP (exposure and response prevention) therapy. It's just so hard to be so anxious over something so important.

JEREMIAH 34:8-22, 33:25-26


Jeremiah is known as the “weeping prophet” because Israel had returned to idolatry, and corruption, YHVH sends him with a message to Israel, “Repent” and “turn from your sins”, one of the sins was to go back on their word. Jeremiah told them that God had said, “release your slaves” since they had not released them after 7 years, they did that, but afterward, they “re-captured” their slaves and returned them to captivity, this is to be “double-minded” for “appearance sake” they released the slaves/servants, but when they thought that “the prophet wasn't looking” they went back on their word. Result? Babylon came and captured Israel! And king Zedekiah was taken to Babylon as a slave.

How well do we as believers respond when someone calls our attention? When we are in the wrong, do we really repent, and turn from our sins? or.... when we think no one is looking, go back to our sins? Our old attitudes, our old “issues?” A thief looks ahead, in back, to the left, to the right, to make sure that no one is looking, but the thief never looks “up”! Yes, our Heavenly Father who is on high is looking down on us all, and observes ALL our actions, even in private, so, we really are NEVER alone! Someone is always watching us.

God, his holy angels, Satan and his demons, all that are in the spirit realm are always watching our every move. So, make sure our lives are holy, unto God on high.

MARK 1:1-2:28


The talmid/disciple Mark writes about John the Baptist, and his ministry to prepare the people for the coming of his cousin, Yeshua, preparing hearts, and minds. Baptism was important in Jewish life, it symbolized who was once unclean, is now clean, from “Tamei” to “Tahor”, from “death to life”.

When a born-again believer is baptized, the believer identifies himself or herself with Yeshua in death and life, death, burial, and resurrection. But John was just “preparing” the way for He who is THE WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE. In the early part of the first century, the followers of Yeshua were known as "those of the WAY" even before the name "Christian" was used. "Christian" came from the Greek "Kristianos" from "Kristos" while "Messianics" came from the original Hebrew "Mashiach" or "Messiah" Both titles point to those who follow Yeshua. Yet the way God looks at us is;
"B'nei Elohim" (Sons and daughters of God)

Yeshua is the WAY to eternal life, He is the TRUTH, which is the opposite of lies and deception, and He is LIFE eternal, to those who embrace Him as Savior and LORD.

So, How are we to walk our “Halacha?” (Spiritual walk) we need to walk in HIS WAYS. What are HIS WAYS? The way of the Torah, obedient to HIS mitzvoth. If we are walking in HIS WAYS, We are walking in the TRUTH, and if we walk in the TRUTH, and we have accepted the LIVING TRUTH (Emet Chai) then we have ETERNAL LIFE, No wonder Yeshua identifies himself by these three words.

Yeshua went walking along the Sea of Galilee, and there he invited Kefa and Andrew to come with him, and later, at K’far Nachum (Capernaum) went to the synagogue there and began to teach the people. I thank God that I visited that same synagogue back in 2015 when I went to Israel to serve the IDF with the reserve units. My friend Alon and I went by car to Capernaum, walk around, and visited the part of the lake that served as a dock for the fishing boats, that is probably where Yeshua met Kefa and Andrew.

We are all called by Yeshua through his spirit, to follow him, do we follow Him? or...do we expect HIM to follow US? He teaches us through HIS word, are we listening?



Shalom

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My prayers are being answered in ways that do not make sense to me and the results are confusing to me. It's starting to shake my faith in a bad way. At one point, I thought to myself that if this was the way that God was answering my prayers then maybe I should stop praying. I've thought and wondered to myself why things are turning out this way and maybe I've made some mistakes in hearing God's voice of direction in my life. But no, He's ordered my steps... The results just haven't been what I thought they would be. It's been a rough road. Can anyone relate? What's most important?

Can anyone recommend anything on Orthodoxy for a Methodist or Methodist-sympathizing audience?

Edit: or not "on" Orthodoxy, but Orthodox and somehow appropriate to represent Orthodoxy to such an audience?

Thank you.

What language did Adam and Eve use in speaking to God and Satan, and where did they learn it?

I am feeling down about trying to find another job.
I am tired a lot from my current job so have little energy left over for the rest of my life let alone applying for jobs (but I'm still applying for jobs and visiting potential workplaces on my day off.
I feel like I'll never find another job.
it's just difficult.

The last great revival in the US has been made into a movie and will be out shortly

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The service at the Kemah Daud Christian Church (GKKD) on Jalan Soekarno Hatta, Rajabasa Jaya Village, Rajabasa District, Bandar Lampung, Lampung was forcibly disbanded by residents and local official (Ketua RT).

Residents and the local officials (Ketua RT) argued that there was no permit to use the building as a place of worship. Meanwhile, since 2014 the permits that have been taken care of have always been complicated by local Muslim residents.

Local Officials that disbanded church services (Ketua RT) :


Source: Viral, Ketua RT Bubarkan Ibadah Jemaat Gereja di Lampung

I'm afraid that it's going to come down to this, eventually. And it won't be a divide between political parties---it'll be a divide between liberty and sanity, and totalitarian lunacy.

article said:

“We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done.”

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The results pretty well describes my faith…

80% Methodist
78% Baptist
73% Puritan
63% Pentecostal
53% Calvinist
45% Lutheran
00% Catholic

Researchers from Germany say a man has been cured of HIV following a stem cell transplant that was performed after several rounds of chemotherapy, making him the fifth known case of the virus being cured in an individual.

In the study published in the Nature science journal, German researchers detailed the case of a 53-year-old patient who was diagnosed with HIV in 2008. After their diagnosis, the patient was placed on antiretroviral therapy (ART) which suppressed the viral load within their system.


The patient was enrolled in the University Hospital Düsseldorf’s IciStem program, which explores potential HIV cures requiring stem cell transplants.

The patient was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia about three years after being diagnosed with HIV. Remission of their cancer was achieved through an initial round of chemotherapy but was followed by a relapse shortly after.

During the patient’s treatment for their cancer, they received a stem cell transplant from a female donor with whom they matched. This transplant occurred roughly two years after their cancer diagnosis and five years after being diagnosed with HIV.

The female donor had a mutation that is believed to confer resistance to HIV infection.

There were 22 schools who had no students who could read at grade level, and another 33 schools claimed no students could perform math at grade level. . .

Just this fiscal year alone, Illinois has allocated $9.4 billion to Chicago Public Schools, while the federal government has also allocated an additional $1.8 billion to the school system through the American Rescue Plan.

\\Chicago Democrat sounds alarm as 55 schools report no proficiency in math or reading: 'Very serious'

Correction: Note there are only 40 schools, some were counted twice.

I am thinking that God told a couple people that are praying for me not to pray for me anymore Just like God told Jeremiah not to pray for those people in Jeremiah 7:16. I have been seeking God but Grinding. I think God has hardened my heart. There is such a thing as being too sinful to be saved.

Hi there, I'm a convert to Orthodox Christianity who relatively recently had something of a crisis of faith, where I felt like my faith in the Church was completely unravelling. Not my belief in God, but my faith in the claims that the Church makes about itself. For the most part this passed, though a slightly uncomfortable feeling has remained.

Today I happened to wonder whether a full Church Council would still be possible, or whether the lack of an Emperor to call it would preclude that. In my reading, I was quite shocked to discover that there is no actual definition for what constitutes an Ecumenical Council. There seem to be two opposing views, neither of which can be entirely correct given the facts of history. One is an authoritative, top-down approach, which is that the council is authoritative in and of itself due to the authority of the hierarchs. Buy this cannot be the case as we recognise that there have been so-called "Robber Councils." The alternative view is 'Receptionism' which is the idea that what makes a Council truly valid is its reception by the entire Church. But this cannot be true, as at Chalcedon, it was not received by the entire Church, hence the Schism. Some could argue that the the people who accepted it were the Church, and those who did not accept it put themselves outside of it. But that is circular reasoning, and goes against what happened with the so-called "Robber Councils" - they could have just said the same thing then, that those who disagreed put themselves outside the Church by doing so. The other problem with the Receptionist view is that early Councils clearly did not see themselves in that light. They did not wait for the whole Church to receive them before acting upon their decisions. The Receptionist view seems to have been developed fairly late as a way to explain the phenomenon of "Robber Councils," but when considered in the light of the statements and behaviour of the early Councils, and the Chalcedonian Schism, is simply doesn't make sense.

From what I can see, the only option remaining is simply that what happens is what is supposed to happen, because it happened. But thst undermines the idea that doctrine is correct based on its actual truth and internal consistency, and leaves it entirely to the playing out of events in history. It also leaves open the possibility that there could be some Council in the future that changes doctrine in a way that people today would consider unconscionable, and would say go completely against Tradition. Such as female Priests, or adding new books to the canon of Scripture, or scrapping the Liturgy, or something else of a similarly extreme nature.

Now, some might say that as the Holy Spirit guides the Church, and Christ promised that the gates of hell would not overcome it, that will not happen. OK, but that still doesn't explain what defines an Ecumenical Council, what makes it an Ecumenical Council, it can only define them as being such from a position of hindsight by the fact of that being what was handed down.

And then I realised that the doctrine of the Holy Spirit guiding the Church and Christ saying that the gates of hell will not overcome it completely undermines the Church's claims about the central importance of free will. If people have free will, then everyone could apostasise and there be no-one left for the Holy Spirit to work through. If people have free will, every Orthodox Christian on earth could decide to follow a different confession, or a different religion, or no religion at all. The claim that there is this absolute certainty about the future of the Church cannot be reconciled with free will. And yet so many of the arguments that the Church Fathers made about doctrine were based on the supposed truth of free will. The entire basis of the Church's doctrine on sin and repentance, on asceticism, on holiness and Sainthood, and the repudiation of things like astrology, rely on free will.

This stuff is all just so much more messy than I realised. I never had the chance to get into this stuff beforehand as I did not receive catechesis, and my Priest was very keen to baptise me. I was Baptised after four months of attending Liturgy, and that was because I made my Priest wait for an extra month, or it would have been three months.

It's really difficult because on the one hand, I'm glad I didn't wait and have more thorough teaching cos if I did I might not have been Baptised, and I really do love the Church, but on the other hand I'm struggling with the thought that to continue I will have to switch my brain off and force myself to accept things that just don't make sense. I have no problem with miracles and the Resurrection, things like that, I don't mean that, what I mean is the internal consistency on what the Church claims about the Church. This issue of what exactly makes an Ecumenical Council and Ecumenical Council doesn't seem to have an answer. Every potential answer seems to have a flaw in it. Can anyone explain this in a way that makes sense and is consistent?

Thank you.

God created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he created them nude... He declared his work good.

After eating from the tree of knowledge Adam and Eve felt shame at their nudity.... Why? What was wrong with nudity? Clothes were contrary to God's plan for humanity...
I don't understand why Adam and Eve decided nudity was shameful when it was God's wish for us to be nude... how can it be sin?

Would you think it possible that Russia had attacked Kiev and killed Biden while he was there?

And if so, what would happen then?

I suppose with much of the news coming out of Ethiopia these days being on the trouble with Tigray, we're bound to miss some things as laypeople in her sister churches, but I was still shocked to learn yesterday that about a month ago, a bishop within the EOTC in the Oromia region of Ethiopia went into schism by attempting to elevate himself to 'Patriarch of Oromia', a position which obviously does not exist (the EOTC Patriarch is HH Abune Matthias, period), and moreover could not exist because Oromia is not a separate country. This is, as far as I'm concerned, one step away from the dreaded heresy of ethnophyletism that has plagued our EO friends in the past (the only reason I'm even writing 'one step away' is because I don't know anything about the ethnic background of the renegade bishop in question, so I don't know if he is an ethnic Oromo or not). Ethiopia itself as a country may arrange its regions according to their primary ethnic makeup (e.g., Tigray from the Tigrayans, Oromia from the Oromo, Afar from the Afar, etc.), but the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is a fittingly 'supra-ethnic' institution, embracing every people from the Semites of the highlands, to the Cushites of the south and east (the Oromo themselves being the largest single group), to the Omotic and other peoples of the south like the Dorze and many others. So this is distressing, and certainly not something that the EOTC or Ethiopia more generally needs on its plate right now (or ever; Lord have mercy).

Obviously HH Abune Matthias and all others within the EOTC who are not among those who conspired to hold this 'Oromia Holy Synod' which announced this phony elevation in the first place completely reject this action (HH already summoned bishops from the around the world to discuss this when it originally happened, back in January). In addition, here is the official statement of the Coptic Orthodox Church concerning this situation:



May the Holy Trinity protect our bishops in every place within the holy Orthodox Church of God, and may schisms cease and those who precipitate them renounce their evil works and return in obedience, with a spirit of repentance.

Joe Biden has visited the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, defying threats of Russian missile attacks, to announce a new package of additional US weapons supplies worth $500m (£415m), as Ukraine prepares to mark the sombre anniversary of last year’s full-scale Russian invasion.

The US president, closely surrounded by a large security detail, was escorted by his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, on a walkabout around central Kyiv as air sirens could be heard, confirming rumours of a visit that had been circulating during the morning.

Joe Biden visits Kyiv in major show of support for Ukraine

US president meets Volodymyr Zelenskiy days before first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion

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This is good for the defence of Ukraine and Europe - and the free world. Putin is wrong-footed, again.