FOR ME I JUST WANNA BE READY, NOW IF HE WANTS TO CAUCH UP SOME AS A SIGN, I DONT NO, BUT I ANT SCARED OF THE TRIBULATION CAUSE GOD WILL USE US.

That I didnt have to go to my sisters wedding reception because I didn’t want to go to a party with a open bar because I end up drinking to much at those events. And I think it would be better Iam not there and just go to the church

My mom know this.. now I told my dad. He just get very mad goes on about my past saying where I would be and my son if it wasnt for him and I would of over dose and been died that was before I was saved and I only tried pot. I dont know what this has to do with not wanting to go to my sisters wedding. I agreed to be a braidmaid but I sincd prayed about it and changed my mind

why would god allow my parents to act angry towards me in that matter

and my dad thinks I listened to the devil because I don’t want to go to the wedding which I had pray to the Lord about. So he prays about me.
I had accepted the Lord as my savior and I also pray that my son get saved
I just don’t want to go to this wedding and my parents lose it. Why would the Lord answer a prayer like that.

State lawmakers file new bills that would allow officials to shield records from public​

The Republican governor called lawmakers to the Capitol for an extraordinary session to take up bills overhauling the state's open records law, cutting income taxes and banning covid-19 vaccine mandates for government workers.

But while bills to cut tax rates and prohibit a vaccine mandate sailed through Senate committees Monday, legislation to overhaul Arkansas' law on public disclosure and open meetings stalled.

Specifically, the bill would exempt "records reflecting communications between the Governor or his or her staff and the secretary of a cabinet-level department."

Also on Monday morning, the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act Task Force voted unanimously to oppose the bill. The task force, created through legislation in 2017, met via Zoom to listen to public comments and to vote on a recommendation.

"What this is going to do is take away the rights citizens have had since 1967 to see that deliberative process," Jimmie Cavin, a self-described Freedom of Information advocate, told the task force.

"It was You who crushed The Heads of Leviathan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert."
• Psalm 74:14


"And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, A Great, fiery red Dragon Having Seven Heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on His Heads."
• Revelation 12:3


"You were in Eden, the garden of God;
Every Precious Stone Was Your Covering:
The Sardius, Topaz, and Diamond,
Beryl, Onyx, and Jasper,
Sapphire, Turquoise, and Emerald With Gold.
The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes
Was prepared for you on the day you were created.
“You were The Anointed Cherub Who Covers;
I established you;
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,
Till iniquity was found in you.
“By the abundance of your trading
You became filled with violence within,
And you sinned;
Therefore I cast you as a profane thing
Out of the mountain of God;
And I destroyed you, O Covering Cherub,
From the midst of the fiery stones."
• EZEKIEL 28:13-16


"So The Great Dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."
• Revelation 12:9

Greetings, beloved in the Lord,

What a divine blessing it is to connect with kindred spirits in this sacred forum. My heart is bursting with gratitude as I introduce myself to this community.

This Spring of 2023, I experienced a profound moment of transformation, surrendering myself to our Lord Jesus Christ in the icy embrace of Lake Ontario. With every droplet of water that cascaded over me, the weight of the past was washed away, and I arose anew in His light and love. I am now gratefully a member of St. George's Anglican Church in Burlington, Ontario — a sanctuary where faith is nourished, and fellowship is cherished.

As a testament to my rekindled relationship with God and an outpouring of the passion that has ignited within me, I embarked on a project called ScriptureInsight.org. This is my humble attempt to delve deeper into the Holy Scriptures, seeking a richer understanding and hoping to grow ever closer to our Heavenly Father. Through detailed studies, reflections, and personal letters to Jesus, I explore each chapter and verse of the Bible, inviting others to join me on this spiritual journey.

I am profoundly moved to share my insights, joys, challenges, and revelations with each one of you. My hope is that, as we traverse through the divine narratives together, we will foster a vibrant community of believers, supporting and uplifting one another as we seek God's face.

I humbly request your prayers and insights as I continue this endeavor. Moreover, I eagerly anticipate learning from each of your spiritual journeys, testimonies, and reflections. Together, as one body in Christ, we can illuminate the path for each other, drawing ever closer to His heart.

In Christ's boundless love and grace,
Michael

Charlotte-area pastor Mark Harris, who was at the center of an absentee mail ballot scandal five years ago that resulted in a rare election do-over, said Tuesday he’s going to run for Congress next year in the 8th Congressional District.

Harris, a Republican, ran for Congress in 2018. But his apparent victory over Democrat Dan McCready was overturned because of election fraud.

The mastermind of the scheme to illegally collect completed and uncompleted mail ballots was political operative McCrae Dowless. Witnesses told state election officials that Dowless gathered hundreds of absentee ballots from Bladen County voters with the help of his assistants. Dowless’ workers testified at a state board hearing that they were directed to collect blank or incomplete ballots, forge signatures on them and even fill in votes for local candidates.

[Dowless later pleaded guilty to government theft and defrauding the government over Social Security fraud, but he apparently died before the election tampering trial could be held.]

Harris himself was never charged, but he ""appeared to mislead" the board with some of his testimony. Harris later acknowledged that some of his testimony had been inaccurate, blaming his health problems as an explanation for his erroneous testimony."

[When a mulligan was declared, Harris cited ill health as his reason for not participating in the do-over.]

Insurer wins case against Trump Tower in Chicago for their pollution of the Chicago River.
Five years ago, the Illinois attorney general sued the hotel for pumping 20 million gallons a day in and out for its cooling and heating systems — potentially harming fish with higher temperatures.

Fact Checked:

Another false claim about his own past​

It’s possible, of course, that Biden genuinely misremembered when his visit to Ground Zero occurred. As president, though, he has repeatedly made false claims about his past.

Have you ever noticed, that if you lay in bed after sleeping, and you unfocus your eyes, that you see strains of dust floating around on it, and you can see the walls of the dust and the insides, it`s because the eyes are microscopic, they analyse the blood all the time for even the smallest of particles, it`s a part of the immune-system, so people in society get`s sick because they hold onto things mentally, which affest the immune-system, they`re making themselves sick, people who are moral and live naturally as natives, for example, never get`s sick, so medicine is just there to cure illnesses which people impose on themselves, the dream is perhaps to live in a society and have a cure for everything, like cancer-cells forms all the time, but with a normal immune-system, it never evolves into something dangerous, only when you hold onto something mentally you get sick, I`m putting with this thread a picture of a floating dust-particle, just to show you what I mean

Philippians 4:4-7 ESV


Have you ever tried looking up this word “rejoice” in a Greek interlinear? Literally it means to experience God’s grace (favor), to be glad for his grace, and to delight in God’s grace. And his grace is a gift and a blessing brought to man by Jesus Christ. It is his favor, his kindness towards us. It is Jesus disposed to show us favor and to share benefit. This is the Lord Jesus freely extending himself to give himself away to people in order to bless them.

So, why did Jesus give himself away for us? Why did he go to that cross? What is his grace to us? For if we are going to be glad for his grace, it is important that we understand what that grace is. For there are many distortions and perversions of God’s grace being spread throughout the body of Christ these days, at least here in America. And far too many people are believing these distortions instead of the truth of God’s grace.

So, again, why did Jesus go to that cross? The Bible teaches us that Jesus died that we might die to sin and live to righteousness, and that we might now live for him and no longer for ourselves. The Scriptures teach that Jesus shed his blood for us in order to buy us back for God (to redeem us) out of our slavery to sin so that we will now honor God with our bodies. And they teach us that, via his death, we can be delivered from slavery to sin so that we will now serve the Lord with our lives in walks of obedience to him.

[1 Peter 2:24; 2 Corinthians 5:15; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; Romans 6:1-23]

And the Bible teaches us that God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, trains us to renounce (to say “No!” to) ungodliness and fleshly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s return. 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 (see Titus 2:11-14; cf. Ephesians 2:10).

So, does God’s grace give us permission to keep living in deliberate and habitual sin? No! Heaven forbid! For how can we who died to sin still live in it? For we who died with Christ to sin were buried with Christ by baptism (spiritually speaking) into death, and we were raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. So we are not to let sin still reign in our bodies to make us obey its passions. For if sin is what we obey, it will lead to death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it will end in eternal life (see Romans 6:1-23).

So, we are to be thankful for God’s grace to us, and to be glad for his grace. And then we are to let our reasonableness (or gentleness) be known to everyone. So this has to do with fairness, with justice, with gentleness (meekness), and with reasonableness, which has to do with what is sensible, rational, practical, realistic, wise, of sound judgment, appropriate, and of common sense, too, as long as all of that agrees with God and with his word. For all of this is to be measured by the word of God.

And then we are not to worry or to be fearful, but we are to take all of our requests to God. And then we must trust him with our lives and with our circumstances and with the other people in our lives. We must trust him even when things don’t go as we had planned or as we had hoped, and even when they go badly and may even turn against us. And then when our trust is in the Lord and not in other or people and not in ourselves and not in our circumstances, the peace of God will guard our hearts and minds in Christ.

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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A large storm hit the Mediterranean recently. Wind speends reached almost 60 miles per hour. That's almost hurricane strength. Libyan has had alot of flooding, as the rains caused dams to be breached. The storm also resulted in heavy rain, record flooding, and numerous deaths in Greece.




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Hello, please don't jump on me and tell me I am a fool. Leaving at 62 after 35 years is not easy. I am trying to be a good Christian, but I don't know how much the Lord expects of me.
This thread is about sex and deception
I have been married 35 years. We work well together, for the most part. Our sex life has almost always been boring and let's just say we are well below the average for frequency. When we were young, it was easy. You both want sex, you have sex, everyone is quickly satisfied. As we aged, I needed more - intimacy, a feeling that I was being loved, exploration into intimacy that was not simply the sex act. My husband would begrudgingly agree to the idea of something simple (for example, I once bought him silk underwear and asked him to wear them), but he would never do any of the things I requested. Foreplay was always predictable and was clearly just so he could get to the "main event". "Lovemaking" never existed.
My husband and I separated about 10 years ago for 2 years. He came to the Lord while we were separated and there was a real change. Leading to the separation, he dated. (I had no idea due to his work schedule) I suspect there was an affair, but I am not sure. The separation was with the under the agreement we would not see other people. He had affairs in this time. I found all this out after the fact. He was coming home and saying how much he loved me and how he did not understand what he had done to make me move out. (his behavior had become intolerable).
We reconciled, attended counseling, went to church together. Then he got transferred for what he thought would be an 18 month stint. It turned into 5 years. His work became increasingly stressful - you've no idea. Never since we reconciled has he initiated sex.
A side note - he repeatedly over the years had trouble with his personal hygiene and I would have a serious, medical reaction after sex. Apparently, he had trouble cleaning after using the bathroom and, he was all about getting to the sex act, I was never in the area to know there was a problem. When I confronted him, he said he did not know. At one point I insisted he shower before sex. He complied. Time went by. He stopped taking care of his hygiene again and I had such a reaction and was so hurt I told him I would not have sex with him again. We became sexless for about 2 years. He never asked for sex or tried to talk about having sex in that time. I finally needed something, and went to him. He did not say no, never has, but he never initiates.
Ok, so, my husband had prostate cancer at one point. He struggles to get and maintain an erection now, and he has never allowed me to "help" him. He has never been open to a new way of having intimacy. I, of course, at this point am 62 and have not had penetrative sex for about 6 years. Things are not working so well for me, either, but I have tried to introduce something other than PIV sex. No dice.
He had some type of personal breakdown the other day. He realized what family has told him, work colleagues have shown him - that he can be difficult and argumentative. It hit him like a ton of bricks. He keeps saying how he can't live with "all the things" he has done. He has been saying this for a while, actually. I've assumed it has been because he can't even tolerate his mother or the lies from the affairs or things he had to do at work.
It turns out, he confessed, that he has had a porn addiction and has been masturbating "obsessively" (in his words, due to stress) during our entire marriage. I had NO idea. There is no financial trail. He admits it has been to the exclusion of sex within out marriage. He masturbates in the middle of the night, in the shower, when he says he is going to the bathroom. I thought I was unattractive. I am not beautiful. I thought I was fat (I am not and have never been). I though I was not girly enough because I an engineer. I thought he thought I was too much like my family (several of my siblings are on the autism spectrum, I am not, I had myself tested as an adult). I have thought a thousand things about myself. I've struggled because he does not listen to me when I tell him my needs. I thought I was showing him the resentment that was building up, and so he was justified. It is all so warped.
I can not ever trust this man again. He has been a good provider and basically a good man, but this area of our lives is such a betrayal to me. I have to leave. We just relocated and bought our dream retirement house. Literally 6 months ago. I just can't take it anymore.

I recently switched to a flip phone and stopped using the smartphone and thought I would ask for your input on how to be more productive while not using a smartphone. Switching to a flip phone may be something I do for a few weeks or more permanently and I am thinking of doing this in order to avoid the distraction that can come from a smartphone.

With the smartphone I tend to spend my time listening to Christian podcasts, playing games of chess with people around the world, and texting friends a lot, enjoying the faster texting speeds. In the past switching to a flip phone meant there was less to do, so I would just go to bed way too early and sleep much more than usual. During my time not using a smartphone, I could be more productive by reading books and playing the guitar more, and memorizing Bible verses and praying more and fill my time with other activities rather than just sleep more. I am thinking I could find more friends in my church to text and call and chat, although I can tend to spend too much time texting even with a flip phone. I am trying to figure out how to be more productive during this time so I would appreciate your ideas. I also do not have my TV connected, do not have Internet, and I could try to go more than once a week to the fitness center I suppose.

I am not a Catholic but I very much admire what I have read about Katherine and her devotion to her faith. I don't know if she was telling the truth about being a virgin at the time of her marriage to Henry VIII but from what I've read she was a strong willed, strong minded, intellectual person who was devoted to God.

I hope if I'm ever tested in the ways that she was tested, I have such perseverance.

- In this thread, I want to compare the different visions in the Bible, the different characters, the different elements, all the details, how it happens, everything!

Hi all

I have recently asked for forgiveness and repented. I have changed a lot in my life and removed all things pertaining to sin, physically and emotionally, however because I know I hurt Jesus so much during my prior years, I carry a huge sense of guilt because this must have upset God and how terribly disappointed he was in me.

I pray daily, I fall to sleep with God and wake up with God, but I still find myself in this perpetual state of saying sorry in my prayer.

Because my change to a new Christian life is so meaningful, I am doing my best to educate myself, but this also leads to comfort and fear in equal measure……anxiety often leads me more to fear that I am not forgiven and my destination is set……….I believe with all my heart in the Holy Trinity but having had years of doing what I wanted without considering God, I’m struggling with the change.

I feel ashamed that I found God as a young child, my parents were not believers but Christ came to me and I knew the truth. How utterly shameful to then reject him, even though at various times of trial I went back to him. This time it’s different, I feel like a new person, I want to give love, kindness, compassion, faithfulnes, forgiveness. I ask the spirit to remove, anger, resentment, bitterness, selfishness,malice, gossip and anything that is not associated with love.

I hear the spirit remind me when I’m about to say things that are not in keeping with a Christian, this feels hugely different to the past, yet I’m stuck in a cycle of shame and guilt.

Can you help me understand please.

God Bless you all
David

I read the following article titled "Biden claims without evidence he was at Ground Zero on day after 9/11 attacks" (see MSN )
that claims what Biden said the day after September 11. But guess what, it is still September 11. How could that article ever be written without time machine?

I’ve been with someone intimately for over 4 years. I’ve recently come to understanding that I haven't been living in Christ and have been sinning through sex outside legal marriage and also drink. I use to have a very loose view on religion). I want to make changes. I feel conviction. But..

I’m very much in love with this person and am having a real difficult time breaking up, this person is also my only friend. We can’t get married at this time, but it is something we think we will do down the road. I don’t know what to do. Is there such a thing as being married in the eyes of Jesus? Is a legal document a requirement?

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Right after the Doxa at 1:13, I can't find this hymn, and pretty sure it's a hymn for Saint Kyprianos and Justina, but can't find this specific hymn anywhere.

During Holy Communion, our church offers both individual disposable cups and a chalice. How does one indicate they want the chalice? The servers offer an individual cup by default, saying "the blood of Christ," and it seems rude to say "no thanks." Is there a commonly understood "polite" way of handling this situation, or is it handled differently by each church? Thanks for any advice.

Can I ask God to make me hit lottery?
And I promise to give money to Charity NGO, to Churches.
Is that ok?

12 Sept 2023

Donald Trump seeks disqualification of US judge in case over alleged attempt to overturn election result​

Donald Trump has filed a motion seeking to disqualify US District Judge Tanya Chutkan from presiding over the criminal case in which he is charged with trying to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss.

The former US president said last month he planned to seek Ms Chutkan's recusal as well as a change of venue for the case.

He argued in a court filing that Ms Chutkan's prior statements appearing to refer to Mr Trump's role in influencing the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol raised questions about her impartiality in the case.

The court filing cites a remark Ms Chutkan made at a 2022 sentencing hearing for a Capitol riot defendant in which she suggested that the rioter was motivated by "blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day".

Mr Trump's lawyers argued that the comment indicated the judge's belief that Mr Trump "should be prosecuted and imprisoned".

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