From south Texas comes the incredible story of how a TikTok content creator channeled his channel for good—rescuing a cat and a cat shelter by inspiring thousands in donations.

Broken by Victoria Lopez at My San Antonio, the story is a reminder of social media’s stunning potential to do good if it can just manage to capture enough people’s fleeting attention.

Spencer is the brains and motor behind the SB Mowing TikTok and YouTube channels, which document his hobby of finding people who can’t mow their lawns and doing it for them. With a combined following of 15 million people, it’s a great showing that kindness pays.

In Corpus Christi, Spencer was fighting back a terribly overgrown yard when he found a little tabby cat with puncture marks from a fight with a dog or another cat, which to Spencer’s mind seemed infected.

Spencer called rescue centers in the area to see if anyone would help the cat, who would later be named Esbee, and only one reached out: Edgar and Ivy’s Cat Sanctuary and Rescue.


Edgar and Ivy is run by Director Anissa Beal, who was falling into a growing financial pit attempting to fund the cat rescue center. She had vowed to call it quits at year’s end if she couldn’t manage to turn things around.

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Luke 8:18 Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.”

That short phrase struck me to day as if I had never hear it. "Consider carefully how you listen."

akouete
ἀκούετε ;
you hear akoúō – properly, to hear (listen); (figuratively) to hear God's voice which prompts Him to birth faith

But to hear and to listen can be quite different. Almost leads more to "understand" Consider carefully how you understand.

16 “No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.
17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open."

It is difficult not to bring this back to the political understandings in our country and in the world. Each position seems so sure of its own understanding, its own hearing and ability to listen. But listening first takes silence. I think of being home alone and hearing a strange sound. What was that? Turn the tv off and try to get as quiet as possible and then just listen closely. To listen without preconceived notions?

"Consider carefully how you listen."

mindlight said:

The world is becoming more, not less religious, because atheism is not that attractive an option and because atheists do not reproduce

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How silly!

How religious the world is is incalculable. All the sums I have seen depend on huge assumptions, such as the one that counts the children of practising Christians as Christians; it is just daft to refer to christian, Muslim or Hindu countries and include entire populations in the calculation.

Then again, so many Christians are prone to denying the Christianity of their co-religionists on doctrinal grounds.

I understand the religious optimism behind the contention. I don't think the optimism is warranted.

But I agree that atheism is 'not an attractive option'. Nobody says it is.

Sofiahh said:

Is it blasphemous to write "God" for example, and for that note to end up being disposed in the trash?

Can blasphemy also happen when a word that has sacred meaning which was written down goes through an act of disposal?

The context for this is bc when I was eating a snack, I noticed the wrapping had written on it the address of where it was made, and in the country where I live in I often see addresses (streets, cities, etc) with religious names on such food wrappers like “Holy Faith” or “Saint Peter” etc… Out of doubt, I have been collecting so many food wrappers with addresses like that due to me not knowing yet for sure what I should do with them, and I don’t want to offend the sacredness of the meaning behind such words by the way of disposing the wrapper…I’m terrified of the blasphemy against The Holy Spirit..

I now started to worry on even doing transactions with businesses that have food wrapped with addresses like that, bc it seems for some reason wrong to me to sell or buy something with such words and for that to probably end up in the trash by many..

Is there something in the Bible that can give some thought to this? What verses are out there talking about a similar topic to enlighten my conscience? Is it blasphemous to dispose of those wrappers in the trash?

I think I saw somewhere that Jews try not to write the name of God, idk why, maybe out of a similar fear as mine? And that they bury texts with sacred words instead etc… is there a way to treat the thing (paper, wrapper, etc) where a word with a sacred meaning has been written? Does the paper require a special treatment out of the sacred meaning of the word it may have?
And is it okay to transaction with a business that sells food wrapped in paper with an address which contains word that has a sacred meaning and for it to end in the trash by many?

I’m a non-denominational Christian btw


Pls help my conscience
Thank you!

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No, it's not.

You can stop worrying.

Arcangl86 said:

I never made a claim about the efficiency of the vaccine. All I said was that even if you had been vaccinated you could still catch it, as a way of showing that Biden being sick isn't suspicious.

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No, I don't think it's suspicious at all. In fact, there is a near certainty that vaccinated or not, EVERYONE will get COVID at some point in their lives.

Arcangl86 said:

You are the one who decided to go into detail about the purported efficiency, not me.

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Yes, to show just how much the vaccines were oversold to people.

Arcangl86 said:

My apologies, I missed this before. But yes thank you, Dr. Walensky did speak broader then she should have. It's not "big pharma" but I will openly admit that somebody in an authoritative position spread disinformation about the efficiency of the vaccine.

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You probably missed this then also. Here is Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer claiming data showing the vaccine to be "100% effective". Certainly the CEO of Pfizer qualifies as "big Pharma".

Arcangl86 said:

Still doesn't really effect my point though.

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Not sure what your point is. Big Pharma (represented by Albert Bourla) claimed that the vaccine was 100% effective and the CDC overstated the efficacy by telling people they wouldn't carry the virus or get sick if they got vaccinated. Neither of these things has ever been even close to true.

Really, who knows for sure. I never said or assumed he was but the fact is, none of us really know.

keras said:

Actually; all the Prophesies are in plain view, all we need to know about Gods plans for our future.
But the problem arises when people have other ideas, they mis-read, mis-interpret and add to scripture. Classic examples are the verses like John 14:1-3, which those who like to think the Lord will rapture them away from testing and trials, use to support that false idea. John 14:1-3 has nothing to do with such a fable..
People should have no objection to reading what I present from the Prophetic Word.

Operative Words: ....when you see the AoD......

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It is not though the only problem when people have other ideas about the purely object aspects of future events.
There is the problem of not heeding the moral aspects of spiritual prepardness for the Lord.

Let me illustrate. The experts in the law OBJECTIVELY correctly informed Herod that the King of the Israel would
be born in Bethlehem. They were right objectively.

Yet why do we read that not one of them WENT there to see this tremendous fulfullment of prophecy? (Matt. 2:2-5)
Where was their heart? Where was their hunger for this Messiah King?
They may have been self satisfied just to "know the facts" as right information.
Where, I ask you was thier love, their heart, their longing to SEE the born King?

Compare thier attitude to the attitudes the unleared shepherds who went there to see?
And when the angels departed from them into heaven, the shepherds spoke to one another, Let us go then to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us. And they came in haste and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger. (Luke 2:15,16)

Where was the hunger like Anna the prophetess who earnestly petitioned God for the Messiah's coming?
And she was led by the God to see the young child and give thanks.
And she [Anna] was a widow up to the age of eighty-four, who did not depart from the temple, serving God with fastings and petitions night and day. And at that very hour she came up and returned thanks to God,
and spoke concerning Him to all those waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem. (Luke 2:37,38)

Where was the eagerness like Simeon who asked not to die before he saw with his own eyes the Messiah?
Now You release Your slave, Master, according to Your word, in peace;
For my eyes have seen Your salvation, (Luke 2:29,30)

You see that some were just satisfied to be learned, accurate, knowledgeable and correct as to the letter.
But there are those who had that AND such a cooperation, coordination, praying spirit - for God to fulfill His word.
They lived in the moral expectation of His coming and not just to be "dead right" about all the objective information.

So we need to ask the Lord to save us from just the self satisfaction of having it "all right".
We may not have it as right as we should because we see it only objectively.

Valletta said:

It's not for elitists.

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The gathering of rich people speaking for other rich people isn’t for elitists? LoL, k.

All the kids are wacky. We just know this one is nuts. The rest are secrets.

He's got that Robert Downey Less Than Zero vibe.

~bella

MrMoe said:

Like I've said, Trump has done a lot of things. Can't have a conversation if I don't know what they are.

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But Trump's off topic. remember?
Were you serious?

Tell you what...I'm game if you are.

Let's see....nothing about Trump, and I'm not going to start defending Biden from whatever it is you have a problem with...

And....we're left with....

-- A2SG, have a nice day!

And yet the idea of getting rid of culture war nonsense altogether and focusing on studying and learning doesn't seem to occur to most people; strange. Maybe I had a somewhat unique college experience (I completed my undergraduate degree in a year and nine months, so I didn't have time to do anything else), but even the few signs I saw of potential activity like that on campus (e.g., the street preacher guy with the big sign that told various groups that they were going to hell because his reading of a Bible verse in isolation told him so) were so distasteful that nobody seemed to really want to engage. Occasionally the agitators were laughed at, but that was it.

JUDGES 11:1-33

This lesson is about “Yephtah” who was bullied and mistreated by his brothers and was excluded from his father’s inheritance, he ran away and got together with a gang of thugs and became like the “Jessie James gang” However, when trouble started back home, who did the brothers look for? Yes, Yephtah! Even though he was mistreated, he didn’t let a negative attitude take control, he returned and became their commander.

Then he “vows and vow” “If you deliver the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house I will offer up to you as a burnt offering” The Israelites won the war, and when Yephtah returned home and his “only daughter came out to greet him”. There are mixed emotions and opinions over this. Some suggest that He DID offer his daughter as a burnt offering, he killed her and burned her body on the altar. BUT… would the Holy GOD of Israel accept this kind of abomination? A human sacrifice? I would say NO! (my opinion)

So, what MIGHT have happened? Some believe that he did “offer up” his daughter, but to serve as a servant in the tabernacle of YHVH, perhaps helping the Levites or something similar. Again, just an idea, but no one knows for sure, we’ll find out the truth in Heaven! Others say that in the original translation, the words were misunderstood, and the phrase, “Whatever comes out of my house to meet me when I return in peace, it shall be the LORD’s and I will offer it up as a burnt offering” was really, “it shall be the LORD’s “OR” I will offer it up as a burnt offering! This explains why Yephtah might have offered up his daughter to serve in the Tabernacle. Had an animal, like a lamb or a goat come out, THAT animal would have been offered up as a burnt offering, but again, this is just an idea.

What does this teach us? Be careful of what we “vow” we might end up “swallowing” our words, best not to promise anything, and again, not to hold a grudge against those who have mistreated us, forgive those who have mistreated us.

How do Yeshua and all of us fit into this equation? Yeshua, who was 100% God and 100% man, lived a perfect, sinless life, and in the end, offered himself up as a sacrifice for sin. He was the "Lamb of God, who took away the sin of the world." He bore the weight of our sin on HIS shoulders. He died so we could have life, life eternal.

We, on the other hand, should offer up ourselves as "living sacrifices" to serve the LORD here on this earth, using the spiritual gifts that God has endowed to us, and using them to serve HIM and serve others, winning lost souls and leading others in the understanding of God's Word.

LUKE 21:1-38

Yeshua talks about the “end times” “Watch out” he warns, that things will get worse before they get better. Many think we will look forward to better times, yet Yeshua says just the opposite! Wars, rumors of wars, earthquakes, famines, etc., the world is going downhill fast, not only physically, but morality is taking a tailspin downward.

He is returning soon, but the Bible states that no one knows the exact date, hour, or minute of his second coming. To those who are lost or spiritually dead, he will come as a thief in the night. Yet to us who are spiritually alive and study the Scriptures, we have learned that he will return at the "Final Trumpet sound" of God. Many believe that during the times of Yom Teruah (Rosh HaShannah) and Yom Kippur, there is a final Shofar blast that announces the end of this period of repentance and returning. Could this be the time of the LORD's return? Something to think about!

We need to take heed and be faithful, await the coming of Messiah Yeshua, AFTER He returns, the world will enter a thousand-year time of real SHALOM. Yeshua taught all of this in the temple in Yerushalayim and would camp out on the Mt. of Olives during the night. What an interesting life! I think it would have been great to have seen and heard Yeshua in person back then. Yet we can still hear his voice through HIS WORD.

Shalom

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Calling @RabbiJames for a thread title spell-check!

I'm pretty sure you can simply edit the OP and the thread title box will appear at the top of the edit page.

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Thank you, Toda raba

I think that when things are going well in our lives that it is easy to sing praises to God and to thank him for all his many blessings to us. Yet, when life kicks us and knocks us down; when severe trials come our way; when we are faced with great persecution and rejection from those we love, including from the family of God; when illness or heartache come our way; and/or when it seems there is no end in sight to these trials, it is then harder to give praise to God. Yet, it is most necessary and healing at those times that we do.

In fact, our Lord Jesus gives us songs of praise and joy during these times to heal our wounded hearts and to soothe our troubled minds so that we get our focus off the temporal and onto Christ Jesus, our Lord, and to what is eternal - the salvation of human lives, and our worship of God.

We Will Sing!

An Original Work / December 4, 2013
Based off The Psalms

I will praise You, Lord, among all peoples.
I will praise You for all that You have done.
I called to the Lord, and He heard my cry.
He turned weeping into a song of joy!

I will sing praise to my Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God evermore.

I will praise You, Lord, for Your mighty works,
For Your love is great, reaching to the heav’ns.
O my Strength, I sing my praise unto You,
For Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

I will sing praise to my Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God evermore.

Shout with joy to God all who’re on the earth.
Say to God, “O how awesome are Your deeds.”
The redeemed sing praise to their Savior, King,
For He saved them all in His righteousness.

We will sing praise to our Lord all our lives;
We will sing praise to our God evermore.

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Clearly, I have been misunderstood. Let me rephrase:


The duty of those secret service agents that day was to protect Donald Trump. They failed to do their duty. It doesn't matter what excuses they can come up with or what shadowy conspiracy they might have been the tools of or what they might or might not have heard from local LEOs. They failed. All by themselves without any help

The Scriptures, at least here in America, are available in many languages and/or in multiple translations and transliterations, and can be purchased at most bookstores, or wherever books are sold, or in libraries, or they can be heard read to them in videos or in audio recordings, or they can be read on the internet in multiple locations. So, at least here in America the Scriptures presently are very available to the public. And it isn’t just Christians who read them, either. Even non-Christians find them interesting to read.

And all people can understand some of what they teach, in a general sense, regarding what is obvious. But for us to really hear from the Lord, not only to understand what the Scriptures are teaching, but to know how our Lord wants us to apply them to our lives, this is where it involves the Holy Spirit, especially if the Holy Spirit is wanting to use any particular passages of Scripture to reveal to us God’s calling on our lives or to show us how those passages relate to what is presently going on in our world and nations.

The Scriptures are not to be read for intellectual knowledge, but the spiritual truths which are contained within them are to be learned by us and applied to our daily lives, by the Spirit. But the Holy Spirit may teach us a lesson from a passage of Scripture which, in context, was meant for a specific group of people at a particular time in history, and he may take that lesson and show us how that is to be applied to our lives today. But this must not go against what the New Testament teaches us.


Let me give you an example of this, the story of David and Goliath. Goliath was a giant and he was a Philistine, and the Philistines were enemies of the Israelites, and so they were preparing for battle against them. And long story short, David, who was young, volunteered to fight Goliath, but not with the king’s armor, but with a sling and a stone, in the power of God. He said, “The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”

David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel.” David “put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David.” (See 1 Samuel 17)

Now, in the New Testament we are taught to not take revenge on our enemies, but that we to love our enemies and pray for them and do good to them and to say to them what will benefit them spiritually if they will believe in Jesus. So we are not to take this that we should go hand-to-hand combat with those we regard as our enemies. But there is a spiritual lesson here about how we should deal with our enemies. We should not run away in fear and defeat, and we should not use physical weapons of warfare, either.

Instead, we are to rely upon the Holy Spirit within us to guide us in what we are to do and say, and we are to follow the teachings of the New Testament Scriptures under the New Covenant. And we are to operate in the power of God and not in our own flesh, and not according to our own reasoning, but in the wisdom and counsel of God’s Spirit living within us. And our enemy is Satan and all those who work for him and who teach lies to the people and who lead people to follow after false gospels which lead them to death.

So, in the power of the Spirit we are to fight off those lies and expose them for what they are, and we are to speak the truth of God’s word to the people, some of which are hard truths that many people do not want to hear and do not want to accept, and so many of them will fight against them. But all this is done in the power of God’s Spirit and not in our human flesh. And so those who are not of the Spirit will not receive them, but those who are of the Spirit should receive them as being of the Spirit.

Now one more thing here that the Holy Spirit just spoke to me about and that has to do with David refusing the king’s armor because it did not fit him and because God was going to fight for him, believing that God would deliver him. When we feel that we need a king to rule us to fight our battles for us against enemies that the king has determined are our enemies, but who may or may not be our enemies, and he does so with physical weapons of warfare, we are going against the teachings of the Scriptures.

And not only that, but we are putting our trust in other humans and in our military to fight what are truly spiritual battles of warfare which should be fought only in the power of the Spirit in the ways of God, and not in the ways of human flesh. We are, in essence, taking on the king’s armor instead of relying upon the Lord to fight our battles for us his way. So don’t look to other humans to be your solution to what ails our nations and this world, for they may turn out to be the enemy who are fighting against us Christians.

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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Alessa_the_jaz said:

These past few months I’ve been slacking and somewhat grew bitter about my life and my relationship with god. Ive grown bitter and have been living in unrepentant sin. I think that I’ve been actively hardening my heart again but I’m trying to stop it now.

I’ve been trying to return to god after years of being away and I recently talked to a pastor. I’ve still been debating with myself on a lot of things but I think I hold worldly sorrow/false guilt. It’s still guilt but it’s temporary I think. I’ll constantly remind myself of what exactly I’ve done and remember but I know that’s not repentance. I’ve hurt a lot of people in my life and this pastor said to trust god to restore the damage and help those who I’ve hurt and to trust that Jesus can still cover those sins even if they have hurt other people or if there’s some condemning verse about it. I do know that it’s a common belief that if you still care then you haven’t blasphemed the Holy Spirit or anything however what if I truly don’t care? I’ve been neglectful of my spiritual situation and my relationship with god for years and i ‘stopped caring’ for some time. I stopped walking in the ways of god and stopped acknowledging my sins, instead I pursued them and I didn’t care for the consequences or if they would estrange me from god. I don’t think I am sincere and I don’t think I care but I truly want to care. I think there’s a huge chance that I’ve dulled my conscience and use this ’false guilt’ to at least make me care a little, otherwise without it

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Often, the hardest person to forgive is yourself. The fact that you're here, that you're asking questions and trying to get better, shows that you do care, even if you don't feel it. God sees your effort, and He's not condemning you for it.

If you have repented of your sins, then you are forgiven. No questions asked. No matter how bad you feel, God is with you. Just because you don't feel anything doesn't mean you're not saved (I'm struggling with that right now, and its hard to keep remind8ng yourself, but it's important to know.)

I think mental health issues can also come into play at times, so maybe you're struggling with some of that, too.

Healing/ getting better takes time, but luckily, God has a timeline for your healing and sanctification. Trust Him, and make a conscious decision to love and stay in contact with Him, even if you feel nothing. What we feel doesn't determine our faith, and God doesn't condemn us for lacking strong feelings at times. Love is action, not just feeling. And sometimes, "action" is just doing your best to learn, pray, and take care of yourself and others.

I'll be praying for you

God formed me in the womb of my mother
He planned I would serve Him and no other
He spoke to me one day through a sermon
He wanted me, wanted me to hear Him

I sat on that hard bench in pavilion
At camp which is stationed in Vermillion
I left sin and Satan’s life dominion
No longer was I earth’s flesh civilian

Citizen of heaven now my station
The joy of which now to my elation
My Lord Jesus Christ now my salvation
My fellowship with Him now my haven

My age then was prob’ly six or seven
I knew I was on my way to heaven
My sins now I knew were then forgiven
My life was for God to live to please Him

Now skip nearly fifty years to future
Called of God to now use a computer
With Lord Jesus Christ as now my tutor
And Holy Spirit there me to nurture

Called of God to write down what I’m learning
From His Word in promises and warnings
And of the things His Word now instructing
And of his love and grace now informing

This is my call of God, it’s my mission
To share with the world God’s call and vision –
The life He now has for us to live in
In holiness, freedom now from our sin

So, walk with him daily in obedience
Don’t delay but let it be immediate
Leave your lives of sin, don’t be deviant
Follow Christ in all ways, be expedient

An Original Work / May 29, 2022

Unqualified said:

yes we talked about that scripture before. There must be a whole lot of Christian’s who have become on the rocky and thorn soils to not have this ‘kept’ you are speaking of. Of which you are speaking @Notme . I do see it in the the few though. Isn’t God always narrowing down His flock!? those who do not believe fall away. but those who persevere have this protection you state. The keeping and the freedom. Very good outlook.

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This being kept that scripture is speaking of is only the being kept that comes through faith by the power of God… All other being kept regardless of how outwardly successful it might seem to be, is still a work of self… For only that which comes through faith has God’s smile on it, for it being Christ’s life coming to life….

For all believers are kept to salvation, it is a matter of how much keeping one experiences in the ever present now, which can only be accessed by the believer’s faith….


To the ever present now, Not me

So, when Jesus Christ was about ready to leave the earth and to go back to the Father, prior to his death and resurrection, he told his disciples that he was going to prepare a place for them, and that one day he would come back to receive them to himself that where he is there they may be also. And so he told them, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you” (John 14:1-3,26).

Now we who believe in Jesus Christ with genuine God-gifted faith in him have the Holy Spirit living within us, serving as our teacher, counselor, guide, encourager, helper, and the one who pricks our consciences and convicts of sin and who warns us of danger and who leads us in the way of righteousness and holiness. He also gifts us with spiritual gifts which we are to use within the body of Christ to encourage our fellow Christians in their walks of faith in obedience to our Lord in holy living.

[Mk 13:11; Lu 2:26; Lu 4:18-19; Lu 10:21; Lu 12:11-12; Jn 14:26; Jn 15:26; Jn 16:13; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:17-18; Acts 11:12; Acts 13:2; Acts 20:23; Rom 8:9,14; 1 Co 2:14-16; 1 Co 6:19-20; 1 Co 12:1-31; Rom 12:1-8; Eph 4:1-16, etc.]

But God reveals to us the things of God which are not evident to human flesh and only via the Holy Spirit, and in ways which are not of the flesh and which cannot be determined by the flesh. These are things which are not seen with our human eyes nor heard with our ears audibly nor are they things that we can even possibly imagine. But God speaks to us through his Spirit in our inner beings revealing to us the things of God which we cannot know in any other way. They are not intellectually discerned.

Now there are people who deny totally the gifts of the Spirit, if the gifts are not things which can be determined and controlled by human flesh. And then on the other end of this we have people who abuse the gifts of the Spirit and who teach them erroneously and who are leading many people astray to follow after even demons who disguise themselves as angels of light and as servants of righteousness. And so we must exercise much spiritual discernment in what we believe is of the Spirit or not of the Spirit.


So, what is this saying? We are not to automatically shut out everything that we cannot see or control or discern ourselves, or even what is absolutely plain in the Scriptures, if we read them in context, unless the Scriptures clearly teach that what we are seeing or hearing or reading or perceiving is not of God. For Jesus sent us the Holy Spirit to indwell us to teach us the things of God, even things which we cannot see with our physical eyes, but which are to be spiritually discerned. But we should test everything and abstain from evil.

So, how did I know that God was calling me to this ministry 20 years ago? I can’t find it in the Scriptures, not with my name on it, anyway. No human being suggested it to me. And I did not think it up of my own accord. The Holy Spirit spoke to me through his word in Habakkuk 2:2-3 that I was to write down what he teaches me from my time spent in his word, and to write it on a tablet (my computer) and to give it to the internet (the herald) so that the herald could “Run With It,” the name then given to my blog.

And so that is what I did. I wrote what I understood and what I was learning as I was learning it to the best of my understanding of it. And little by little my understanding began to increase, and I learned so many things I did not know before, and so many things that were absolutely spiritually discerned. And I learned, too, of the things that I had learned incorrectly, and where I had been deceived or brainwashed, and where I needed to accept the truth and to reject the lies. It was the Holy Spirit revealing these things to me.

How can we know our calling that God has for us individually in the specific gifts and ministries to which he has called us if we are not listening to the Holy Spirit’s voice within us? There is no way that I would have posted over 8,000 documents on the internet in nearly 20 years or written the things the Lord has given me write or to speak or to sing, including songs, poems, memes, devotions, short books, and video talks, if I was not being led by the Spirit and gifted of the Spirit and called and equipped of God.

So, yes, read the Scriptures every day. Read them in context so that you interpret them correctly. But read them under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, allowing the Spirit to speak truth to your heart and to counsel you in the way he would have you to go. But let him speak truth to you within your spirit. Test what you hear against the Scriptures to make certain it is the Holy Spirit you are hearing, but don’t quench the Spirit because someone has told you that the Holy Spirit doesn’t speak to us that way.

There is so much evil going on in this world of ours and in the USA and among our political leaders and our church leaders, and so many people are being deceived by the voices of men because they are not testing what they hear or read against the Scriptures and in prayer, letting the Holy Spirit reveal to them the things hidden that are deceiving people’s hearts and minds. So, please, ask the Lord to reveal to you the true character of all those who are running for the office of president of the USA.

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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God bless Idaho.

tonychanyt said:

1 Cor 11:


Strong's Greek: 2168. εὐχαριστέω (eucharisteó) — 38 Occurrences

The English term *Eucharist" comes from G2168.


Are Protestants allowed to receive the Catholic Eucharist?

Catholics believe in transubstantiation. If you don't, you are not a member of the Catholic Church. Officially, you are not allowed to participate in the Catholic Eucharist. Canon Law 844 §1:

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His Body and Blood is reserved for members of His Church, and no one else. All are invited but many reject Him for the sake of their own ideas.