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Bradskii · Aug 4, 2025

Valletta said:
The president...

Not interested.

Always in His Presence · Aug 4, 2025

ozso said:
How much of that is Prosperity Movement / Word Of Faith movement, that emphasizes personal health, wealth, and success?

The poll didn’t include that specifically, it was a minor percentage even at its heights, and dwindled down to minuscule since then From my observation.

There are hundreds of millions of Pentecostals, who are no way related to the former prosperity movement.

Assemblies of God not prosperity

Church of God in Christ, not prosperity.

So many others.

In fact, Kenneth Hagan ministries are better known as Rhema is not prosperity, either in fact, Kenneth Hagan before he passed away, attempted to rain in the prosperity movement, even writing a book showing the air of their ways.

Many of the proponents of the prosperity movement have repented and corrected themselves. it’s just a shame that the minuscule number that are left command all the attention while those of us who are leading people to Christ and planning churches globally are lumped into a group that we have no connection with.

JulieB67 · Aug 4, 2025

BelieveItOarKnot said:
Only IF you read half the scripture

Says the person that ignores most scripture proving their position to be wrong

Your position can't comprehend that there is an adversary

Oh, I know there's an adversary. And I also know it's possible he and his angels will be cast down to earth in reality in my lifetime putting on a show to deceive most of the world. That's what the gospel armor is for -to be able to stand in "the evil" day. Is it possible that I won't be here? Yes. But that's what we should be watching for.

Revelation 12:9 "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceived the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Revelation 12:11 "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death."

Can I bring him along to stand beside me during Judgement Day when the books are opened and blame him? No. Will he even be there during our Judgement Day? No.

Revelation 20:10 "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever."

Revelation 20:12"And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works."

He will have already been thrown into the Lake of Fire before the books are even opened, including the book of life.

But you will continue to ignore these scriptures just like you always do.....

PatrickTate · Aug 4, 2025

Dan Perez said:
Does that mean you have never had a verse , RIGHT ? or wrong ?

Any one who reads 1 Cor 12:15 will see what makes up the. Body of Christ That we are his FEET.

verse 16 we are his EARS

VERSE 17. We are his EYES , we are His Hearing and His Sense of Smell

Which means we make up the Body of Christ , and NOT A BRIDE !!

dan p

Exactly!

The Church, the Bride of Messiah plays the role of the feet and ears and eyes and hands of Messiah Yeshua - Jesus in this world.

Pastor Rick Joyner was shown that we are backslidden and we only obey The Head of the Bride, Messiah Yeshua - Jesus a percentage of the time.

Messiah Yeshua - Jesus told Pastor Rick Joyner that He had had much larger plans for a homeless guy who Pastor Rick had met than he or the churches in the area of that man were ready to handle.

The Final Quest [English] Rick Joyner

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[Pastor Rick Joyner]

Angelo

“There is still someone you must meet before you return to the battle,” He said as we walked. As we did, I continued to be astonished by how much more glorious He had become than even a few minutes before.

“Every time you see Me with the eyes of your heart, your mind is renewed a little bit more,” He proceeded to say. “One day you will be able to abide in My presence continually. When you do that, all you have learned by My Spirit will be readily available to you, and I will be available to you.”

I could hear and understand everything He said, but I was so captured by His glory that I just had to ask Him, “Lord, why are you so much more glorious now than when You first appeared to me as Wisdom?”

“I have never changed, but you have. You are changed as you behold My glory with an unveiled face. The experiences you have had are removing the veils from your face so that you can see Me more clearly. Yet nothing removes them as quickly as when you behold My love.”

He then stopped, and I turned to look at those on the thrones next to us. We were still in the place where the highest kings were sitting. Then I recognized a man who was close by.

“Sir, I know you from somewhere, but I simply cannot remember where.”

“You once saw me in a vision,” he replied.

I immediately remembered, and was shocked! “So you were a real person?”

“Yes,” he replied.

I remembered the day when, as a young Christian, I had become frustrated with some issues in my life. I went out into the middle of a battlefield park near my apartment and determined that I would wait until the Lord spoke to me. As I sat reading my Bible, I was caught up into a vision, one of the first ones I ever had. In the vision I saw a man who was zealously serving the Lord. He was continually witnessing to people, teaching the Bible, and visiting the sick to pray for them. He was very zealous for the Lord, and had a genuine love for people. Then I saw another man, named Angelo, who was obviously a tramp or a homeless person. When a small kitten wandered into his path, he started to kick it but restrained himself, though he still shoved it out of the way rather harshly with his foot. Then the Lord asked me which of these men pleased Him the most.

“The first,” I said without hesitating.

“No, the second,” He responded, and began to tell me their stories.

He shared that the first man had been raised in a wonderful family, which had always known the Lord. He grew up in a thriving church and then attended one of the best Bible colleges in the country. He had been given one hundred portions of His love, but he was using only seventy-five.

The second man had been born deaf. He was abused and kept in a dark, cold attic until he was found by the authorities when he was eight years old. He had then been shifted from one institution to another, where the abuse continued. Finally, he was turned out on the streets. The Lord had only given him three portions of His love to help him overcome all of this, but he had mustered every bit of it to fight the rage in his heart and keep from hurting the kitten.

I now looked at that man, a king sitting on a throne far more glorious than Solomon could have even imagined. Hosts of angels were arrayed about him, waiting to do his bidding. I turned to the Lord in awe. I still could not believe he was real, much less one of the great kings.

“Lord, please tell me the rest of His story,” I begged.

“Of course, that is why we are here. Angelo was so faithful with the little I had given to him that I gave him three more portion of My love. He used all of that to quit stealing. He almost starved, but he refused to take anything that was not his. He bought his food with what he could make collecting bottles, and occasionally he found someone who would let him do yard work.

‘Angelo could not hear but he had learned to read, so I sent him a gospel tract. As he read it, the Spirit opened his heart, and he gave his life to Me. I again doubled the portions of My love to Him, and he faithfully used all of them. He wanted to share Me with others, but he could not speak. Even though he lived in such poverty, he started spending over half of everything he made on gospel tracts to give out on street corners.”

“How many did he lead to you?” I asked, thinking that it must have been multitudes for him to be sitting with the kings.

“One,” the Lord answered. “In order to encourage him, I let him lead a dying alcoholic to Me. It encouraged him so much that he would have stood on that corner for many more years just to bring another soul to repentance. But all of heaven was entreating to bring him here quickly, and I, too, wanted him to receive his reward.”

A Different Kind of Martyr " [Pastor Rick Joyner, The Final Quest]

PatrickTate · Aug 4, 2025

BelieveItOarKnot said:
There are many scriptures about "praying always" or "continually."

The only feasible way to do that is to understand that the Spirit of Christ is within us, with every thought, word and deed.

As far as prayers and goals, if we think things through to their logical conclusion, there is only 1 viable prayer. I think Jesus nailed it already, in the Lord's Prayer...Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done.

IF we really believe that prayer, then everything that has ever happened and that ever will happen is in fact within God's Own Will for it to happen. Believing otherwise merely makes God out to be some powerless potentate sitting on his cloud somewhere waiting for us to figure it out. Not really a credible form of God, imho

I think that you are absolutely correct!

I plead guilty to being lukewarm and somewhat backslidden, as were the issues in the Laodicean Era of the Bride of Messiah Yeshua - Jesus, the Church and also were there even in the Apostolic or Ephesian Era.

If the Holy Spirit is given to me in a greater measure then surely I will become less lukewarm and less backslidden?

If I improve and manifest more of the Holy Spirit then people around me will benefit and I will pray for them a lot more and do so more effectively.

Former Atheist Howard Storm who had a near death experience was shown how important it is that we allow the Holy Spirit to speak through us and work through us.

Howard Storm's Near-Death Experience - Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife

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5. The Future of the U.S. and the World
....

They explained to me that their concern was for all the people of the world. They weren’t interested in one group getting ahead of other groups. They want every person to consider every other person greater than their own flesh. They want everyone to love everyone else, completely; more, even, than they love themselves. If someone, someplace else in the world hurts, then we should hurt, we should feel their pain. And we should help them. Our planet has evolved to the point, for the first time in our history, that we have the power to do that. We are globally linked. And we could become one people.

The people that they gave the privilege of leading the world into a better age, blew it. That was us, in the United States.

When I spoke with them about the future, and this might sound like a cop-out on my part, they made clear to me that we have free will.

If we change the way we are, then we can change the future which they showed me. They showed me a view of the future, at the time of my experience, based upon how we in the United States were behaving at that time. It was a future in which a massive worldwide depression would occur. If we were to change our behavior, however, then the future would be different.

Asking them how it would be possible to change the course of many people, I observed that it was difficult, if not impossible, to change anything on Earth. I expressed the opinion that it was a hopeless task to try.

My friends explained, quite clearly, that all it takes to make a change was one person. One person, trying, and then because of that, another person changing for the better. They said that the only way to change the world was to begin with one person. One will become two, which will become three, and so on. That’s the only way to affect a major change.

I inquired as to where the world would be going in an optimistic future one where some of the changes they desired were to take place.

The image of the future that they gave me then, and it was their image, not one that I created, surprised me. My image had previously been sort of like Star Wars, where everything was space age, plastics, and technology.

The future that they showed me was almost no technology at all. What everybody, absolutely everybody, in this euphoric future spent most of their time doing was raising children. The chief concern of people was children, and everybody considered children to be the most precious commodity in the world.

PatrickTate · Aug 4, 2025

BelieveItOarKnot said:
That statement right there should show most that the guy is whackO. Similar to those who are date predictors.

The world is full of voices, and even fuller of deceptions of various sorts.

You have to filter out these stories. I'm sure there are a few things about Mr. Pittman that are OK. I have friends who have listened to him.

But at some point you have to realize that people who make their living preaching tend to get a little overly zealous when it comes to filling their personal coffer's coupled with highly emotional or sensationalized stories.

Christ being raised from the dead is all the sensationalism I need.

IF you listen to anyone and come away saying "I was right," you're probably not. A more basic lesson about life in general is that everyone is technically WRONG. Best lesson I ever got, and still get

So do you believe that the statement by Jesus that "many are called but few are chosen" is incorrect?

PatrickTate · Aug 4, 2025

Lost4words said:
Jesus went down to the dead. Once he had done that, then i believe it became hell.....

When extra power and energy and understanding comes to heaven the stark contrast of hell would become even more noticeable. That is a very interesting way of looking at this Lost4words.

Here is one of the questions that has interested me for decades.....
does the Kingdom of Messiah Yeshua - Jesus eventually in a sense "Invade Hades and Sheol?"

And on that note why is the name "Azazel" in Leviticus 16 verse ten in the original Hebrew?

Does "Azazel" repent and get restored to Messiah Yeshua - Jesus and does play a role similar to General Abner who led the ten tribes over to King David after King Saul died?

Take a look at verse ten in the RSV:

"but the goat on which the lot fell for Aza′zel shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Aza′zel." [Leviticus 16:10 RSV]

Bible Gateway passage: Leviticus 16 - Revised Standard Version

The Day of Atonement - The LORD spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the LORD and died; and the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at all times into the holy place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is upon the ark...

www.biblegateway.com

Nithavela · Aug 4, 2025

BPPLEE said:
Trump can’t run for president again

Some of his followers seems to be of a different opinion.

Kathleen30 · Aug 4, 2025

Lost4words said:
Woof!

Meow : )

Nithavela · Aug 4, 2025

Oh, it's that rude talking head. Never thought I'd see her again.

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At least she seems to have the qualifications, ignoring her stint at Fox. But it's been more than a decade since she last practiced law, so hopefully she is not out of practice.

BPPLEE · Aug 4, 2025

Nithavela said:
2028 is still a long time away. Nobody can predict what will happen until then. Perhaps there will be a new Obama. Perhaps there will be another international crisis. Will Trump run again? Will Trump even be able to finish his term? (I'm not going to jump on the "dementia" bandwagon, but at Trump's age, that is a real concern). If Trump doesn't run again, all that attacking Trump will have been doubly useless.

But if the democratic party doesn't lay the groundworks for the 2028 election now, they will need another real crisis like a collapse of the economy or the covid 19 pandemic to make people want change hard enough to vote against the GOP.

Trump can’t run for president again

David Lamb · Aug 4, 2025

stevevw said:
But there is also a ministerial priesthood or Overseer that leads the church. Christ installed this ministry through the apostles who then passed this on to other overseer/bishops.

But where in the bible are the pastors/overseers called priests? They are no more nor less priests than every believer.

Nithavela · Aug 4, 2025

I like betting. It's like a tax for people that are bad at math.

ViaCrucis · Aug 4, 2025

Bradskii said:
Because all your posts are simply apologies for what Israel is doing and there's not the slightest indication that you care about this humanitarian disaster at all.

Apparently it's not a humanitarian disaster. Apparently it's just Palestinians are evil and deserve this because they are bad and Israel is good.

And, remember, empathy is evil.

-CryptoLutheran

Tuur · Aug 4, 2025

FireDragon76 said:
That's why I'm seriously looking into moving up north... probably to the Rust Belt, to escape rising temperatures and hurricanes.

Vote for clowns. Expect a circus. And alot of disasters.

Speaking of Hurricanes, take a look at this:

Historical Hurricane Tracks

Put in "Atlantic Basin" and you'll see the track of every recorded hurricane. Then pause and reflect that this only goes back to after the mid 19th Century. You won't find the hurricane Aaron Burr rode out on St Simon's Island, Georgia.

Now look at this:

Pecan - Wikipedia

Scroll down and look at the natural range map on the right side. Pecans do well across much of the Southern US, but surprisingly don't withstand high winds all that well. Have seen that all my life but it didn't sink in until the damage from Helene, and that had me looking for the last big hurricane to come through, and then the discovery that those groves I saw were all set out after than hurricane.

Why hurricanes and pecans? Because of that natural range map. Compare that to the recorded hurricane tracks. Since pecans do well across the Southeast, I suspect something else limited the natural range, and that something may well be hurricanes. If that's the case, the natural range of pecans might tell us something about hurricanes prior to about the mid 19th Century.

Nithavela · Aug 4, 2025

ozso said:
It'll be interesting to see how it turns out. And whether the people want to stick with the type of administration they have, or if they want a change. But whatever. No president has really affected my life much, and probably most Americans have experienced the same. They wake up, go to work, and come home the same as always for the most part.

2028 is still a long time away. Nobody can predict what will happen until then. Perhaps there will be a new Obama. Perhaps there will be another international crisis. Will Trump run again? Will Trump even be able to finish his term? (I'm not going to jump on the "dementia" bandwagon, but at Trump's age, that is a real concern). If Trump doesn't run again, all that attacking Trump will have been doubly useless.

But if the democratic party doesn't lay the groundworks for the 2028 election now, they will need another real crisis like a collapse of the economy or the covid 19 pandemic to make people want change hard enough to vote against the GOP.

ViaCrucis · Aug 4, 2025

Well this was a productive conversation.

Maranatha.

-CryptoLutheran

Tuur · Aug 4, 2025

The Barbarian said:
That's not global mean temperatures. That is, to accurately measure the rise or fall in Earth's temperature, we need to average the temperature over the Earth for an entire year. Here's that data:

How confident are you in that data and why? I'm confident in what I posted because I know the location of the station and note the data for each day in two databases: Microsoft Access for work and LibreOffice Base for myself. And it's not following what we are told is happening. Neither is another location I keep data on, but it doesn't go as far back as the one I posted days above 100 Fahrenheit from. So that's two data sets that disagreeing with what we're told. If you want two points separated by a long period of time, a high temperature noted by a colonial governor in Savannah, Georgia tied the all-time high set in 1986. Two data points do not a data set make, but it's interesting that an observed high from before the United States existed matches one well over two and a quarter centuries later.

Something's not lining up. I checked and there was a study done in the 18th Century on thermometer accuracy, so the thermometer wasn't off. Nor, from his description, did he have it by a heat source or in the sunshine. Nor is the data I'm collecting lining up, and one of them should even show a heat island effect. So who's off? Two recording stations and a thermometer in the 1700s or the global mean temperature?

You can, of course, dismiss the data I've cited as not global mean, But then there's the problem of explaining why it's not following what we are told is a global trend, especially since we're dealing with more than one site.

timewerx · Aug 4, 2025

stevevw said:
But there is also a ministerial priesthood or Overseer that leads the church. Christ installed this ministry through the apostles who then passed this on to other overseer/bishops.

Temporarily. I don't think that Jesus meant this to be a life long or career-long relationship.

We only need to sow the seeds of Truth and the Holy Spirit to others. That's the extent of our authority over those who are new. It doesn't go beyond that because the Holy Spirit takes over in authority. That's no longer our job.

Are you familiar with this verse?

1 John 2:26-27
I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 27And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His TRUE and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.

It's related to:

John 16:13
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

You can't ignore those verses unless you're not receiving any guidance from the Holy Spirit or too little to live entirely on it and you still need to be guided by other people in the Word your whole life.

You probably never heard these verses preached together in their proper context in church unless their pastor is crazy or don't care losing church attendance.

Aseyesee · Aug 4, 2025

BelieveItOarKnot said:
Only IF you read half the scripture and forgot the "but without sin" part

I'd call being God in the flesh somewhat of a huge difference, wouldn't you?

Was he bound like us from the womb? If not then he was not tempted in all points as we are ...

BPPLEE · Aug 4, 2025

Bradskii said:
Should you believe this?

'The intelligence community has assembled probably an unparalleled amount of evidence in regards to the Russian not just efforts to interfere in 2016, but ongoing efforts to interfere in American society.'

That's a quote from the Senate Intelligence Committee who issued a bipartisan review of the 2016 intelligence in 2018. The person who made the quote is Marco Rubio. You can listen to him saying that at the 3 minute mark on the video link that has been posted at least three times. Maybe you should watch it.

His view now (from here: MSN):

'Rubio, who previously chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee, said his own investigation into the matter found "zero, zilch proof" that the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia.'

Hey, whaddya know. I guess all that 'unparallelled amount of evidence' simply evaporated. But let's face it: the Sec of State lied to you. Your mission, should you wish to accept it, is to decide if he lied back then, or is lying now. But seeing that Trump prefers him inside the tent directing waste products out of it rather than outside the tent directing them into it, I have a good idea which it is.

And as for casting (some rather desperate) doubts about the bona fides of the CIA agent who was instrumental in preparing the evidence...

From here: Michael van Landingham — CYBERWARCON
'Michael E. van Landingham is an independent researcher through his firm Active Measures, LLC. Until 2019 he was a government intelligence analyst. He was the lead author of the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Van Landingham holds degrees in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies from Princeton and Harvard Universities, respectively.

And here: Active Measures, LLC Providers of Research & Analysis to Defense, Security, Agencies
'For eight years, Michael was an analyst for a federal government agency, where he provided strategic and tactical analysis across a range of formats to senior policymakers and others.
Michael received his Bachelor’s from Princeton University in Slavic Languages and Literatures. He earned a Master’s from Harvard University in Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies. Michael is in the process of developing a dissertation for the graduate program in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He resides in Wisconsin and speaks Russian and French.'

He's the guy who had his finger on the pulse. He's the guy that had the facts at his fingertips. He's the guy that produced what Rubio called an 'unparallelled amount of evidence'.

Deal with it. And note that everyone here seems to be able to pass gas and chew gum at the same time, so Epstein is still front and centre. Nobody has forgotten about it. It ain't gone aways.

Rubio didn’t say anything about Trump in the first quote. Is it possible that he is saying that Russia interfered in the election but there is no evidence that Trump colluded?

Normandt · Aug 4, 2025

189. The desire to find God

Faith is at the heart of the human being and it’s transmitted where we are.

Our existence on earth passes quickly. We are constantly on the move and often we change places. And the people we meet might be around for a short period of time.

Sometimes we have a tiny opportunity to let faith that dwells in us appear. Hence, it’s the importance of finding simple but effective, true and awakening answers.

One of the big challenges is not knowing the others and coming to fear them. We tend to fear what we do not know and distance ourselves from certain people. But their difficult questions help us find answers.

We are asked to go to the lost sheep and offer what God gives us for them. The mission of evangelizing is now.

On every occasion that we are presented with a sheep who seeks alone, a sheep who doesn’t know Jesus, a sheep who is thirsty to hear his Word, we are the one sent to them. All sheep, without exception, consciously or not, have the desire to find God. And God places us on their way.

The new American Bible, 2011-2014

Book: Here, where we are, Normand Thomas

Nithavela · Aug 4, 2025

ozso said:
As I recall Obama started off as relatively unknown to most. When he first started becoming noticeable, it was like "wow, who is this guy?!".

Absolutely, but his rise started about 4 years before the election where he became POTUS, so it is beyond high time that someone new appears.

Sadly, it's my impression that in the democratic party, it's not so much about who can energise the voters and actually win the election and more about who is "next in line" (meaning, who in the opinion of the DNC has served the democratic party for long and well enough to be rewarded with a shot at the presidency). They seem to believe that people will automatically default to whoever they put on the ballot when the GOP candidate is disliked enough. That kind of worked in 2020, but failed in the elections before and after that, and I wouldn't bank on it working again.

Christsfreeservant · Aug 4, 2025

Now the word of the Lord came to me saying,

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,

And before you were born I consecrated you;

I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Then I said, “Alas, Lord God!

Behold, I do not know how to speak,

Because I am a youth.”

But the Lord said to me,

“Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’

Because everywhere I send you, you shall go,

And all that I command you, you shall speak.

“Do not be afraid of them,

For I am with you to deliver you,” declares the Lord. (Jeremiah 1:4-8 NASB1995)

We who are in Christ, by biblical God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in the Lord Jesus, are the called of God to his service. Even before God formed us in the wombs of our mothers God knew us and he predestined us to be conformed to the image (likeness) of his Son Jesus Christ. Even before the ages began, before he laid the foundation of the world, he chose us in him that we should be holy and blameless before him. And in God’s book were written the days that were formed for us, before one came into being.

[See: Psalm 139:13-16; Romans 8:29; 2 Timothy 1:8-9; Ephesians 1:3-4]

So God has a unique plan and purpose for all of us individually as well as he has a collective purpose for us all, too. He did not call us to salvation just so when we die we get to go to heaven and not to hell. He called us to die with him to sin and to be reborn of the Spirit of God to now walk in holiness and righteousness, in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. And he gifted us with spiritual gifts and he assigned us our body parts within the body of Christ so that we will now live to fulfill his purpose for why he made us.

So God does not save us by his grace so that we can go on living in sin and for self and for self-pleasure and not in walks of obedience to his commands. He does not save us so that we can chart our own course and decide our own future and where we will live and what we will do with our lives while we might (or not) give him some of our time in a daily quiet time of Bible reading, and/or in attending a weekly “church” service. He has a very specific plan and purpose for each one of us he wants to do in us.

Now we are not all called to be prophets like was Jeremiah, but we are all called of God to be his witnesses in taking the message of the gospel of our salvation to the people of the world, teaching them to obey our Lord’s commandments. We are to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth in preserving and in spreading to the world the truth of what the Scriptures teach us regarding the gospel of our salvation. And we are to be those who proclaim the excellencies of him who called us out of darkness into the light.

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 26:18; Romans 10:14-15; Ephesians 5:11-14; 1 Peter 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

But if we are going to be the Lord’s servants and witnesses who are taking the message of the gospel of our salvation to the people of the world, we need to be students of the Scriptures who study them in their correct biblical context so that we make certain that the “gospel” we are spreading is the one that Jesus taught, and that his New Testament apostles taught, and not the diluted and altered version of the gospel that so many are spreading today in the name of Christ, and of truth, and of salvation from sin.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

And no excuses for why we cannot be who God created us to be, doing what he created us to do, as those who profess faith in the Lord Jesus. For I can attest to the fact that God can give us knowledge and talents and abilities beyond anything we would have ever imagined or even thought of. He can give us the words to speak and the lessons he wants us to communicate. We just need to be open to hearing from him and to following him wherever he leads us to doing whatever he had planned for us before we were born.

Your Servant Witness

An Original Work / March 13, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Humbly I bow, Lord, before You,
Bringing my requests to You.
May I listen; hear You speaking.
May I follow You in truth.
Gently lead me in Your service.
Guide my steps and strengthen me.
Fill me with Your love and mercy.
May I live for Thee!

Let me be Your servant witness,
Telling others of Your grace.
May I always share the gospel
With those I meet face to face.
May I show the love of Jesus,
Caring for the needs of men;
Be Your servant witness always
For my Lord, Amen!

My desire to be like Jesus,
Living for Him ev’ry day.
May I obey all His teachings
Given me, so I’ll not stray.
Love You, Jesus, Lord, my master.
You are the King of my heart;
Follow You where’er You lead me;
Not from You depart!

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Everywhere He Sends Us
An Original Work / August 4, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

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