The Unity of the Spirit ....is by the Holy Spirit and for us to keep by our right attitude one to another otherwise we disqualify ourselves.

`I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.` (Eph. 4: 1 - 3)

The Unity of the Faith ....is believing the truths of how the Lord is building His Body and His purposes.

`And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the Body of Christ, till we all come to the Unity of the Faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;.....` (Eph. 4: 11 - 13)

The truths of how the Lord is building His Body -

Salvation, believer`s baptism, infilling of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the 5-fold ministries of the Lord and His eternal Purposes for the Body of Christ, Israel and the nations.

So, what do you believe?

1. All.

2. Some. (please write which, thank you).

Hello All!

Long journey to Christ. I was a humanist and had numerous supernatural experiences that took me a decade to process and realize what I experienced has a name; Prevenient Grace. There is a song where the chorus goes 'you never stop coming after me,' with no wall you won't tear down. That really fits my experience.

During that time, while I was still an enemy of Christ I had a powerful dream. 3 demons revealed themselves to me, one at a time. I was dress in linen as their hatred poured into me, I stretched out my arms to the side and knew to reflect their energy to heaven. My body elevated by the demonic power, higher and higher as their hate poured into me.

At the zenith of my ascend I recognized my true identity and announced, "I am a soldier of Christ." I woke profusely sweating.

If you’re one of those rare voters who just can’t get enough of LGBT extremism, you’re in luck! The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) plans to drop big bucks reminding swing-state Americans how they’ve successfully overtaken classrooms, sports, business, entertainment, and politics with radical gender ideology under Joe Biden. Of course, most people would say they don’t need the recap. As far as they’re concerned, the last three years of the Biden administration have been one long ad for the LGBT movement.

According to HRC, the $15 million campaign will focus primarily on six battleground states they believe could “make or break Biden’s reelection bid”: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Organization President Kelley Robinson told NBC, “This group of voters, when you break them down by state, can actually make the difference. … This is a powerful constituency, a powerful community. It’s our job to make sure that they have the tools that they need to show out to the polls. So we’re going to be knocking on doors, making phone calls, engaging every member that we’ve got to make sure that our people turn out.”

And while no constituency should be happier with Biden — after all, he did more to advance radical transgenderism than every president combined — the LGBT population’s outsized influence in the White House doesn’t exactly translate to election politics. Even this 7.6% of the country (a generous estimate, many believe) isn’t exactly thrilled with Biden, despite his unpopular decision to declare war on every social, scientific, and biological norm.

Despite the White House’s incessant pandering, his most overrepresented base (apart from illegal immigrants, who, at least for now, can’t technically vote) doesn’t necessarily believe that Biden’s overt LGBT gestures are enough. “Like much of the country, LGBTQ+ Americans aren’t particularly enamored with the president,” ABC News warns. “Though they’re more likely to approve of the job Biden is doing than Americans overall, the president’s approval rating was still flat with this group: An equal share (47 percent) said they approved of the job Biden was doing as said they disapproved.”

The following is adapted from a talk delivered on April 17, 2024, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Bellevue, Washington.

On April 6 this year, as the University of South Carolina and University of Iowa women’s basketball teams were preparing to play in the NCAA National Championship game, two press conferences were held featuring the two head coaches: South Carolina’s Dawn Staley and Iowa’s Lisa Bluder.

An OutKick reporter asked Coach Staley a question regarding an issue that needs to be answered honestly and realistically if women’s sports is going to survive—he asked if she supported the idea that biological men can legitimately compete in women’s athletics. And Staley failed the test.

To be fair, it was clear from Staley’s reaction that she didn’t appreciate the question and would rather not have answered it. “Damn, you got deep on me,” she said. But after some uncomfortable hesitation, she came around to admitting that she was “under the opinion [that] if you’re a woman, you should play. If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play.” Asked again to clarify whether she thought transgender women should be able to play women’s sports, she said simply, “Yes.”

It is rare that a women’s college coach is asked to address this issue, because the people in sports media tend to be woke and would rather let transgender ideology impose itself on sports without becoming a public controversy. It is not surprising, then, that the sports media’s reaction to this exchange was not to press Staley about the implications of her statement but to condemn OutKick’s reporter for having the audacity to put Staley on the spot.

There was good reason to press Staley. She has made a point of saying, after all, that one reason her women’s team is so good is because it practices against an intramural men’s team that is better. Indeed, she has thanked the men’s team for helping her women win a national championship. She is fully aware, then, that men are bigger, stronger, and faster than women. So why would she say, on her sport’s biggest stage and at the apex of her career, that men should be able to play women’s basketball?

Staley of course is by no means alone in this. To one degree or another, almost the entire sports world has surrendered to woke madness. Consider the story of collegiate women’s swimming standout Riley Gaines. Now on the staff of OutKick, she has been one of the few to speak out. Gaines was a swimmer at the University of Kentucky and a Southeastern Conference champion. But when she went to the NCAA Championships, she was placed in the position of swimming against a man going by the name of Lia Thomas. For three years, Thomas had competed unremarkably as a member of the University of Pennsylvania men’s swimming team. He then “identified” as a woman, was allowed to swim for the University of Pennsylvania women’s team, and became a women’s national champion. As a result, ESPN absurdly honored him during its Women’s History Month special as one of the top female athletes of the year.

How did we get to this point?

I've learned since starting confession that I don't share too much detail about a sin unless the priest needs to know. I ask the priest during confession if he needs any more detail, and he usually says no, but before I used to ask the priest, I think I would reveal too much.

Yesterday I went to confession at a parish that I don't go to and hardly ever do. I confessed face to face because the way he was sitting made it hard to enter into the confessional and him not see you anyway. However, the last time I confessed face to face with him was a couple years ago. During the latter confession, I was not seasoned enough on what details I could leave out and I think I said some things in the confessional that offended him. I hate that I might have done this. Fast-forward to two years later - meaning yesterday. I confessed face to face to him some sins and tried to "trim the fat" on them, and I can't tell if he remembered me from back then or not. I'm kind of worried that even if he didn't remember me, he might have sensed that I look familiar in a "bad" way. The priest is a very intelligent priest, but he doesn't have much of a personality, if any. I said what I needed to say, he gave my penance, I said "Thanks be to God" at the end like I always do at confession, he said nothing and just looked at me, and I left, and he had no specific form of hospitality - he just looks at you straight in the eye, no expression, neither frowns or smiles, and when you're done, you're done. I'm sure there are worse priests out there. However, as I said, I'm most worried that he remembers my "offensive" confession from two years back. I have one of those faces where people remember me for a long time.

Hello folks. I am a 24 year old man, a Christian, as most of you guys know. My parents are Christian (recently converted to Catholicism), but they do not believe that we are living in the End Times, and that Revelations is more metaphorical for something that happened 1900 years ago, which was Nero. My folks told me, that because of so many failed predictions, discussing the end times is bad. We both agree that credit scores are probably not the Mark, and we 100% agree the vaccine is not the mark (my folks and I are vaccinated, and are for pandemic safety). But, I told them that the Mark may happen in the future, but they are not convinced. What should I tell them? I do think Nero was the start of the end times, but that the End Times is kicking into high gear in the 2020s. We may only have a decade or two (2030s) to a few centuries (say, maybe the 2300s) left here on this Earth.

Failed Predictions:
1994 (Camping)
1997 (Applewhite)
2000 (Y2K)
2011 (Camping again)
2012 (Mayan calendar)
2019 (Weinland)
2020 (Dixon)
2024 (Eclipse)

It started out that you had to be terminally ill with a short time to live, now they're killing some healthy lady (with depression) because she wants to die. Where will it end? Will the pressure to have yourself killed be applied so you won't be a "burden on society"?

I often think about the great commission that Paul had in bringing the good news of Christ to the gentiles. His mind was so full of the ordinances in the history of his people, yet he had to set them aside to adjust to his hearers. His job was to fill in the blank of Mars hill monument to the unknown God to make Jesus of Nazareth known to them Acts 17:16 to the end of the chapter. How difficult that must have been for him that it took 14 years for him to set about it in a way acceptable to the Jewish Christian leaders Galatians 2:1-2

Except for in the book of Hebrews there is not much mention of the outline of the tabernacle in the desert which I believe to be an outline of Christ Himself. But I saw it from the book of Song of Songs today as "who is this coming out of the wilderness leaning on her beloved" Song of Solomon 8:5. From the distance all that could be seen of the tabernacle was fine white linen just as the bride of Christ wears at the marriage supper Revelation 19:7-8 So we see the bride coming out of the wilderness leaning on her beloved ready for the marriage. But how did she get there? Christ brought her there. But we have to look inside the workings of the wilderness tabernacle to see this.

The first thing seen upon entering the tabernacle is lots of brass, which stands for judgement. The brass altar of sacrifice, the brass lavar to wash made from the women's mirrors. we will stay in this outer court while we remember what the sacrifice of Christ Jesus accomplished. That can be found in the book of Hebrews. His blood was sacrificed (for the bride) and He Himself brought it into the Holy of Holies to cover the mercy seat (for the bride) The first sacrifice declared "it is finished" the bringing in the blood caused Him to sit, now waiting for death to be abolished so that the 2 that are now 1 will live together in the New Jerusalem prepared.

Blessed are those invited to the marriage supper, those who are being formed as living stones to become a spiritual tabernacle.

This may or may not be a science question, I don't know. Yesterday I heard the ZZ Top song "I Heard It On The X", and was reminded of how, when I was a kid, we could pick up a Mexican radio station, but only after sunset.

I found the Wiki article on "border blasters", and it mentions stations that broadcast different wattages at day and night. For example,


So if you want to improve reception, or reach a larger audience, why wouldn't you also want to do so during the daytime?

I am taking an America perspective here, although church-state relations are important in other countries as well.

Many people have criticized both the phrase “separation of church and state” and the idea behind it. I’m going to try to show that some of their most frequent claims are shortsighted, and downright wrong. If anyone doubts that Separation of Church and State is under attack, I will give some examples in later posts.

Critics almost endlessly repeat that the words “separation of church and state” are not in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. While this is literally true, it ignores the ideas that led to the First Amendment, especially the part that deals with religion. At the time of the American Revolution, Virginia was the largest state, or colony, in population and the most influential. As Governor of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote, and proposed, a bill now called The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. It was not passed immediately. Jefferson went to Paris as Ambassador for the fledgling United States. James Madison argued for this Statute and secured its passage. Although several prominent citizens argued that the US needed a Bill of Rights, James Madison actually wrote the text of all ten Amendments. So James Madison both managed the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and he also wrote the First Amendment. Thomas Jefferson wrote the VSRF and he also wrote the Declaration of Independence.

What does the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom say? It does deal with matters that were controversial at that time. When Virginia was a British colony the Church of England was the established church. Quakers, Catholics and Baptists, for example, did not appreciate paying taxes to support the Episcopal Church and pay its ministers. Yet the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom also expresses some general thoughts on church-state relations.

The VSRF asks whether we want “legislators and rulers” who are “but fallible and uninspired men” to assume “dominion over the faith of others.” It says that “Almighty God hath created the mind free” and goes on to say that “all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments” only leads to “habits of hypocrisy and meanness.” According to the VSRF, God is an advocate of religious freedom. The Statute concludes that “no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship,” and that no one should “suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief.”

The VSRF doesn’t use the term “separation of church and state.” It does strongly assert that people should pray in their own words, when and where they choose to do so.

Text of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom:

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that [Whereas] Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time: That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness; and is withdrawing from the ministry those temporal[ry] rewards, which proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct, are an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labours for the instruction of mankind; that our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions, any more than on our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right; that it tends also [only] to corrupt the principles of that very religion it is meant to encourage, by bribing, with a monopoly of worldly honours and emoluments, those who will externally profess and conform to it; that though indeed these are criminal who do not withstand such temptation, yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way; that the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

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We the General Assembly of Virginia do enact [Be it enacted by the General Assembly] that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

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And though we well know that this Assembly, elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding Assemblies, constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act [to be] irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right. <>

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Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

Yes, Douay-Rheims Bible, Gen 9:

16 And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.

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The word for "soul" is H5315, נָ֫פֶשׁ, nephesh. It appears 754 times. NASB translated it as soul (238), life (146), person (68).

Brown-Driver-Briggs:

that which breathes, the breathing substance or being
נפשׁ is used for life itself 171 t., of animals Proverbs 12:10, and of man Genesis 44:30

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Aramaic Bible in Plain English, Prov 12:

10 The righteous one is aware of the soul of his animal, and the evil withhold their compassions.

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Do animals possess nephesh-souls?

Yes.

Do animals have spirits?

I think so.

Do pets go to heaven?

I doubt it.

Do animals have personalities?

Yes. By personality, I mean memory, emotion, intelligence, volition, and consciousness. I would put it on a continuum. Lower animals have less personality, and higher animals have more. Humans are the ultimate in this continuum.

Hey everyone,

It’s been a minute since I’ve been heard around,rest assured I visit everyday.

Unfortunately I’ve found myself in a sad and heart straining situation.For those of you who aren’t aware,I raise chickens,and they all are like pets to me,pets that I love dearly,not more than Jesus however.

One of my “favorite” ones,Annie,has contracted something that is affecting her severely.My hypothesis is coccidiosis,a parasitic protozoan thag obstructs the intestines from absorbing food and nutrients and essentially causing chickens to starve.

I’ve been worried to death about her and I’ve been treating her extensively,providing her with the proper medication and encouraging her to eat and drink.Last night I begged and pleaded to The Lord sobbing to please save her life,to ail me Instead of her.

To make matters more difficult I’ve been having an anxiety attack worried that this trial is potential proving my faith isn’t real by some chance.Which is only fueling the fire of my concern as for those of you who know me,a deathly fear of mine is not being a child of God.

Overall this situation is overwhelming me,and I have deeply acknowledged this is all in Gods control and he is the one dictating the circumstances during it,and the breath of life my dear chicken has is his and he can do with it as he pleases.I try to look at it this way,if she remains here,she’ll have a great 10+ year life full of love and peace,and if she dies,her breath of life Goes to an even better place,back to the Father for eternity.

I asked The Lord to please not let her die,and I ask anyone here to pray on her behalf as well,I don’t see her as disposable or a $1 chicken,I see her as priceless

So we know that Jesus came with an interpretation of the law unbeknownst to the Jews. Being fallen ourselves, we of course should not judge others.

Of course, that could have been said from the beginning. But it was not so. Instead it was said that marriage is a contract only exited through death, because of the blood.

That being said, there were many prostitutes in the old days. One helped the prophet and was blessed, and another bore children to Judah.

I don't understand. How were they even alive? And why give such a commandment, and not uphold it?

Former president Donald Trump encountered an unusually tough crowd at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday night as the audience loudly booed him and used noisemakers to drown out his speech.

The first current or former president to speak at the third-party’s convention, Trump made several major promises to libertarians in the crowded, rowdy room, including assuring the audience that he would appoint a libertarian to his Cabinet if elected in November.

“Maybe you don’t want to win,” Trump said to a loud chorus of boos from the crowd. “Keep getting your 3 percent every four years.”

The raucous event for the former president marked a sharp departure from the typical celebratory atmosphere at such Trump campaign gatherings, normally full of thousands of supporters who travel from other states to see the former president while laughing and clapping to their favorite, often biting punchlines. Trump is said to derive energy from these trademark rallies and reacts to any disruption by threatening to have that person or people removed.

Trump received his warmest response when he said if reelected, he would pardon Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the online [illegal] drug [darknet] market Silk Road, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015. A Trump adviser was paid to seek clemency for Ulbricht in the final days of Trump’s administration, but no pardon was forthcoming.

In the midst of Trump’s address, a fistfight broke out between a Trump supporter and libertarian activist, and the libertarian was escorted out by security guards.

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AP story

Trump, accustomed to friendly crowds, confronts repeated booing during Libertarian convention speech​

Trump tried to praise “fierce champions of freedom in this room” and called President Joe Biden a “tyrant” and the “worst president in the history of the United States,” prompting some in the audience to scream back: “That’s you.”

An example of the abilities the police to extract false confessions.

Our salvation from sin is a gift from God. The faith to believe in Jesus is a gift from God. And in God there is no variation or shadow due to change. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His will for humankind is the same today as it was in creation, and as it was under the Old Covenant, that we should live holy lives, pleasing unto God, and that we should worship him only as our only God and Lord, and that sin is not to be our practice.

The Lord brought us forth by the word of truth. That means that our salvation should be in line with the word of truth, that it should agree with the teachings of the Scriptures and with God’s will for our lives. And since our faith comes from God, and God is holy, righteous, upright, honest, morally pure, and faithful, etc., so should we be also. We should be those who have died with Christ to sin and who are living to his righteousness.

And this is so that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures, i.e. the cream of the crop, the best stuff, the stuff that is pleasing to him and that is pure and that is suitable as an offering to him. Our lives are to be given to the Lord as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to him, which is our acceptable worship of him. And we should no longer be conformed to the ways of this sinful world but we should be transformed of God’s Spirit.

But many people today professing faith in Jesus Christ are being deceived into believing that they can make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ once in their lives and that all their sins are forgiven (past, present, and future), that heaven is now secured for them, that it can’t be taken away, but regardless of how they live. “But regardless of how they live” is not what is taught biblically. Jesus didn’t teach it, and his NT apostles did not teach it.

Jesus taught that if anyone would come after him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin, we will lose them for eternity. But if for the sake of Jesus we deny self, die daily to sin, and we follow him in obedience, then we have the hope of eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls Jesus “Lord” will enter heaven, but the one DOING the will of God.

And Paul taught that faith in Jesus Christ means death to sin and living to God and to his righteousness, and it means that we now live for the Lord and no longer for ourselves. We no longer walk in obedience to sin but now in obedience to our Lord and to his commands (New Covenant). For Jesus shed his blood for us on that cross to buy us back for God (to redeem us) out of our lives of slavery to sin so we will honor God with our bodies.

So we are not to be deceived into believing that we can go on living in deliberate and habitual sin and that God will not judge us for our sins. For the Scriptures teach that we are all going to stand before God/Christ one day to be judged by our works (deeds), and if we are those who make sin our practice, and not righteousness, and not obedience to our Lord, then we will not have eternal life with God, regardless of what our lips profess.

But this isn’t just about sinning habitually or not sinning habitually, for there are many people who live fundamentally moral and upright lives, who are “good deed doers,” and who attend weekly “church” services, but whose lives are not committed to serving the Lord Jesus Christ and to doing his will. For they are still living for self to do their own will. Jesus is not really their Lord (Owner-Master) for they are still lord of their own lives.

So we can be those who live basically good and moral lives, and even those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, but who are still not saved from our sins because we never died with Christ to sin, and so we were not raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. For we never denied self, died daily to sin, and followed the Lord Jesus wherever he led us to go.

And one of the reasons why this is the case is that not many are teaching the whole truth of the gospel, even if they are teaching holy living and not living in sin. For so many are reducing faith to a prayer that we pray or to a confession of Christ as Lord, but they are not teaching that faith in Jesus Christ requires that we die to sin and to self, not just once, but daily, and that Jesus is now owner of our lives and we are his now to do His will.

But even that is not all of it. Jesus and his NT apostles made it clear all throughout the New Testament that if we are to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God that this walk of faith in our Lord must continue until the day that we die and/or until Jesus returns to take us to be with him for eternity. For if we should revert to living in sin and for self and not for the Lord in obedience to his commands, we will not have eternal life with God.

So, when you are presenting the message of the gospel to other people, please make certain that you explain to them that Jesus died on that cross, putting our sins to death with him, so that we will now die to sin and to self and so that we will now walk in obedience to his commands and according to his will and purpose for our lives. So a prayer of faith is a prayer of surrender to the Lord to do his will. But if him we deny, he will deny us.

[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-21; Galatians 6:7-8; Acts 26:18; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Colossians 1:21-23; Colossians 3:5-11; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 10:23-31; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6,24-25; 1 John 3:4-10]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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Hi everyone, I had an idea- if you are praying for someone who is working for a living you may want to pray that God's anointing is on them in their line of work, I know of several other believers that are in IT and also ethical hacking for their line of work, I have been praying for them that the ethical hacker anointing would be upon them and that the IT anointing would be upon them! I also know of someone who is a college professor at Messiah University and I have been praying for the college professor anointing to be upon him. I have also prayed that the IT and ethical hacker anointing would fall upon his students!

Praise & Thank The Heavenly Father for ensuring that peace in restive Islamic region of Mindanao in the Philippines looks promising, and may it come to fruition:

Hi everyone- if you live within driving distance of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania you may want to take a road trip, there is a church in town called Christ Community Church. This church has a special anointing on it to heal people of mental illness! I have a mental illness called schizophrenia. I have been going there for prayer every sunday for about 5 weeks, I have experienced alot of healing doing this, the special anointing is real guaranteed! Just come for the 10am sunday service and go up for prayer at the end! I have experienced more healing doing this than ever before at any church! I previously had a symptom of schizophrenia called a flat affect, the lack of expression on your face. I got prayer one sunday am at the church, I felt God do something but I couldn't tell what it was. I left and came home and happened to glance in the mirror and suddenly I realized the flat affect was gone! This is an incurable condition, there is no treatment for it! I have also been healed of a number of other things going to Christ Community!

This is the last friend I had in Detroit. (That's me and him outside a bar.) I heard that he moved far away to live with his daughter. I was driving around yesterday and realized that I literally had no one to hang out with. Most of my friends have died and others moved far away and we lost touch. I'm not that close to my family, so I relied on my friends for support.
I have people who are friendly at church, but they're in their 80's and don't hang out anymore. Just asking for a prayer request that I find friends around Detroit who are decent and I can begin to have friendships again.
Thanks!

Matthew 7:6 NIV

“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces."

How do we determine who the dogs are? And how are we to do that without violating His command to not judge? Are the dogs different from the false prophets who we can identify by their fruits? And lastly, what are the pearls exactly - the wisdom gained from our own experiences that He gives to His children for our testimonies, or His Word alone, or His Word combined with our testimonies?

God bless!