Richard T said:

Will Russia really stop if we appease them?

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Of course, it is all about money and Trump is a businessman. He lets people make their money and he gets his. Democrats like to play Robin Hood. They take money from one person to give it to another. Musk does not mind being the biggest taxpayer. But it cooks his cookies that there is so much waste in the money that he gives the Government. He thinks two trillion dollars a year is being wasted and he wants to straighten that out.

I often realize that I can be more driven than I think. The journey to inner freedom is not a one-time event; it is an ongoing process throughout life. It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that I must never stand up for myself, thinking I somehow deserve poor treatment. This can be an unconscious process, as my inner voices disguise themselves in many forms. Fear of what others will think of me often keeps me from speaking up, creating a psychological prison that is hard to escape.


Over the years, I have learned to be gently blunt when I am grounded. However, when I am not, my bluntness is something I try to avoid. Prayer has been a great source of inner healing. It is not just about asking for something but understanding that God is one with us, even though it is easy to be blind to that reality. Over time, prayer has made me aware that I need to speak up for myself and not worry about what others think. If I can’t stop worrying, I speak up anyway. I have found that I need to swim upstream to grow into freedom, allowing me to face myself and understand that I am responsible for my situation. Blaming others is useless.-Br.MD

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What do you think is the cause @Vambram?

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IMO, there are probably multiple causes leading to an increase in suicides by military Servicemembers. But, if we can have better morale, closer and/or better friendships amongst each other along with increases of emphasis about the importance of having real faith in the Lord; then I believe we will be able to reduce the amount of suicide in the military.

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Ephesians 1

13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED

What happens when a person truly trusts Christ for salvation?,
One of the things, is that he/she receives the precious Holy spirit, who is their teacher, guide and comforter.

One of the things that the Holy spirit does is to seal us, to authenticate us in the sight of God.

When you have a piece of porcelain from a world famous factory, it will usually have the makers or artists mark on it, it is the same with us, we are sealed with God's seal or stamp, we are his.

God has purchased us as his prized possession, he now seals us, remember that the Spirit of God is fully God, he can and does do this, the seal is the guarantee we will receive the inheritance.

One day we will receive our full inheritance, it is a sure thing, there should be no doubt in our minds.

I come to all these verses and they are my favourite verses in the whole bible, their focus is on God and what Jesus did for us on the cross.

They go back to the dawn of history and look forward to heaven and to the glorious realisation that we will be his forever.

They are reassuring words for the believer, but also thay are words to motivate you, to share and proclaim what Christ has done for you.

It's truly awesome, but it's no good keeping it to yourself.

I pray as we delve deeper into Ephesians, these truths will resonate in your heart and mind.

God bless you

Keith

EPHESIANS 1

11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
THE BEST INHERITANCE

If salvation, redemption and adoption weren't enough, we now come to the promise of an eternal inheritance. Jesus mentions this in John 14:1-3 and Peter must of been thinking of this, when he wrote these words under the urging of the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 1

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Our parents and other relatives leave us money, but that inheritance will not last, the inheritance we received through Christ, never loses it's value, it remains constant.

As I have read this passage, I realise one thing, God doesn't have to do any of this, he makes a deliberate choice, he gives all these blessings, simply because of his love and mercy towards us. The counsel of his own will, he does these things, not to glorify us, but to glorify himself, our salvation , our redemption, adoption and inheritance are about Him and always will be.

God does all things for us glory and our good, he saves us that we should bring praise to his glory and supreme majesty.

Heaven is our inheritance, intimate fellowship for eternity is our privilege, we shall see his face and serve Him forever.. amen.

We are heirs of this promises and joint heirs with Christ, have we received our inheritance yet?

No, but we will, it defies description, it simply blows our minds to even think of it.

If you have this inheritance, then you want others to have it too, this is a motivation to share the gospel. Do you know Christ and have this inheritance?

Let's finish with this amazing verse from Romans 8, rejoice Christian, you are an heir and a joint heir with Christ.

Romans 8:17
King James Version
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.


Next time the devil, tells you that you are worthless, tell him this you have an inheritance that lasts forever, that's how to answer him.

God bless you

Keith

Who am I?

I am an ordinary Christian just like you and me, I love to study the scriptures and share what God shows me. I am from the UK, and at present live in Nanjing China. I am an English teacher. I have been saved from my teenage years, am now eligible for Pension.
I believe the whole of the bible, especially love the five Solas of the reformation.

I am saved by GRACE alone by FAITH alone in CHRIST alone through the WORD OF GOD alone for the GLORY OF GOD alone.

James 5:​

KJV
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he who converts the sinner from the error of his way
shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
NKJV
19 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,
20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way
will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.

“do err from the truth”; “wanders from the truth”.
In spite of the softer terms ‘err’ and ‘wander’ James here is dealing with deception.
[G4105]: planao=deceived, led astray.

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you.
He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

Matthew 24:
4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you.
5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.
11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
24 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders
to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Revelation 12:9 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.

‘Save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins’.

1 John 3:​

14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren.
He who does not love his brother abides in death.
15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that
no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

1 John 5:​

16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask,
and He will give him life for those who commit sin not to death. There is sin leading to death.
I do not say that he should pray about that.
17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not to death.

Dale said:

It is widely believed, or assumed, that God cursed Adam, or Adam and Eve, in the third chapter of Genesis. It follows that this curse has been inherited by the human race. Actually, Genesis never says that God put any curse directly on Adam. This is particularly clear if we consider that God does curse Cain in Genesis 4.

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The curse was upon the ground. I have yard full of weeds to show that. So the curse (of the ground) extended to all of mankind.

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”

Eze 8:

16 He brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.

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These people shamelessly worshiped idols on sacred ground.

17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

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What did this expression mean?

The exact meaning of this phrase is uncertain, as it is not used elsewhere in the Bible and has no clear parallels in other ancient Near Eastern literature. There are a couple of guesses:

1. Some pagan gods were associated with sacred trees or poles. Their worshippers might put a branch to their nose as a ritual.
2. It could be a gesture of contempt similar to "thumbing one's nose." People were defiantly engaging in idolatry right under God's nose at the entrance of the temple of the Lord.

In any case:

18 Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”

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The expression "put the branch to their nose" meant people brazenly engaged in idolatrous practices, provoking God's anger.

Is the woke era over?​

Democrats have just suffered a thorough electoral defeat and are wondering what went wrong​

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., removed her pronouns from her bio last week. It was a small shift but a perceptible one.

The Democrats have just suffered a thorough electoral defeat and are wondering what went wrong. The most impactful ad of the election season focused on the far-left trans madness and had the tagline "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you."

Democratic political strategist James Carville blames the loss on "wokeness," and there’s an impulse to optimistically proclaim "the era of woke over" because of President-elect Trump’s decisive victory.


This article covers numerous aspects of the Left-Wing nonsense.

The Left are starting to turn on their own, in their epic failure for the American people.

Mk 4:

21 Jesus also said to them, “Does anyone bring in a lamp to put it under a basket or under a bed? Doesn’t he set it on a stand?

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When you have the light, let it shine. Don't hide it.

22 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be brought to light.

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If there is darkness in you, you can't hide it anyway.

23 "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”

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Pay attention to what Jesus says.

24 He went on to say, “Pay attention to what you hear.

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Jesus emphasized the importance of listening and responding to his parables/teachings.

With the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and even more will be added to you. 25 For whoever has will be given more.

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Positively, be receptive and obey it. As you apply Jesus' words, you will be given more understanding. This is our daily sanctification and spiritual growth. The more portion you exercise your spirit, the more portion will be given to you. The more we live out Jesus' teachings, the stronger our spirit is.

But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”

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Negatively, when you hear Jesus' words but you don't act on them, you will experience growth stunting in your spirit, even shrinking or negative growth.

Be attentive and responsive to God's Word. Practicing his truth leads to greater spiritual enrichment and growth. You can't hide the light in you. Be warned. If you hear and do not practice, your spirit will stagnate, and you will eventually lose your Paraclete. You can't hide the darkness in you. Our spiritual growth is directly tied to how we steward the truth we've received. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

China is pulling some economic maneuvers that could greatly weaken the dollar.

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Police are searching for a thief who entered the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street in Manhattan on Nov. 20, 2024, and stole a gold rose that memorializes a priest who perished in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. | Credit: Courtesy of NYPD

Police are searching for a thief who entered a Manhattan Catholic church this week and stole a gold rose that memorializes a priest who perished in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Police said in a release that on Wednesday afternoon an individual entered the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street and “removed a gold-plated metal rose from the 9/11 memorial inside without permission or authority to do so.”

The suspect on Friday was identified as 21-year-old Deikel Alcantara. The incident was being treated as an act of grand larceny. In New York State, grand larceny involves the theft of property worth at least $1,000.

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The family of murdered American missionary Beau Shroyer, whose wife has been accused of plotting his Oct. 25 murder with three men in Angola, say they have been struggling through grief as they prepare for his funeral at the end of this month.

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Despite 10 Catholic bishops in China in being held detention, “disappeared” or forced from their positions, the government-installed bishop of Shanghai at a conference this month spoke only on President Xi Jinping’s “Sinicization” of religion, without mentioning hoped-for pastoral plans.

Shen Bin, installed as bishop of Shanghai by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on April 4, 2023 — more than three months before Pope Francis officially “appointed” him to the post — did not mention the prior month’s Vatican Synod or the resulting papal documents at the Nov. 4-6 conference on Sinicization, according to human rights magazine Bitter Winter.

“On the contrary, he focused on ‘Sinicization,’ which, as it is now clear, does not mean adapting religion to Chinese customs but to the CCP’s ideology,” Bitter Winter reported. “An optimist could object that Bishop Shen Bin did not explicitly tell Shanghai Catholics ‘not’ to listen to the pope’s teachings, which oppose the CCP’s ideas on key matters such as abortion and the role of religion in society. But for a bishop ignoring the pope and his documents in such solemn events is tantamount to rejecting them.”

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The leaders of President-elect Donald Trump's proposed Department of Government Efficiency have indicated that funding for the nation's largest abortion provider may be on the chopping block as they seek to make drastic reductions to government spending.

Billionaire Elon Musk and former 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy discussed their plans as Trump put them in charge of the new department in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal published Wednesday.

Stressing that they intend to serve as "outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees," Musk and Ramaswamy highlighted their plans to assist "the Trump transition team to identify and hire a lean team of small-government crusaders, including some of the sharpest technical and legal minds in America."

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I will wager a 10 that God does not distinguish between clean and unclean anymore according to the OT law.

I pray that people around the world will choose life in Jesus Christ

iluvatar5150 said:

Sounds like he'd be a good DHS secretary or FBI chief in the new Trump administration.

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Feds: Man pleads guilty after leaving threatening voicemails at office of Muslim group​

Michael Shapiro, 72, of West Palm Beach, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court to one count of transmitting threats in interstate commerce, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

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Agreeing in prayer in Jesus' name

All sin is is our putting our will ahead of the will of God. (breaking Jesus' first commandment). In doing so we become selfish. Loving all as self (the 2nd commandment) counteracts that as we can no longer seek gain at another's expense. Hence love covers all sins.

JimR-OCDS said:

I saw a video on YouTube alleging that November 9th we would see and event in Mexico
that would put fear into the world, but not to be afraid.

Well, nothing happened and the video message changed from November 9th, to
a last warning. FYI, the messages supposedly came from Medjugorje and Garabandal.

I have problems with both, but reading about Garabandal, it seemed demonic rather than
from Heaven.

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I wouldn't trust groups such as "Countdown to the Kingdom" or anyone who posits any "last warning" content, it just raises your blood pressure.

Love Fountain said:

Got Questions is not reliable or correct and is very poor scholarship based on the embracing of corrupt and incomplete Egyptian Alexandrian Texts which are not the best or most reliable

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Reference?

Trump Picks Big Tech Opponent to Lead FCC​

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Brendan Carr, a leading Republican on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to chair the agency, signaling a potential shift in telecommunications policy and regulation.

At a Glance​

• Trump picks Brendan Carr as next FCC chair, praising him as a “warrior for Free Speech.”
• Carr plans to end the FCC’s focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
• He aims to dismantle what he calls a “censorship cartel” amid claims of anti-Republican bias from big tech companies.
• Carr opposes the reinstatement of net neutrality rules and advocates for broader FCC oversight of major tech companies.
• He has been critical of Chinese telecom companies and supports a hard line on China.

Trump’s Choice for FCC Leadership​

President-elect Donald Trump has announced his selection of Brendan Carr to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a move that could significantly impact the regulatory landscape for telecommunications and technology companies. Carr, who has been serving as an FCC commissioner since 2017, is known for his strong stance against big tech and his criticism of the Biden administration’s telecom policies.