Cast Your Cares on Jesus

Cast ye all your cares on HIM.
Don’t let your faith ever dim.
Don’t let Satan “get your goat.”
You can grab him by the throat.

Don’t let his lies take you out.
Don’t let him cause you to doubt.
Trust in God, His every Word,
Truth believe, which you have heard.

Trust in man we should not do.
Faith in God we should renew.
Words of man may not be true.
Test them always, through and through.

Much deception, lies do tell.
Spin their webs and cast their spells.
Teach the Scriptures, not in truth,
For their mission is uncouth.

Satan wants us to rebel,
Let him cast on us his spell,
For the truth he does not tell,
Wants all people in his hell.

Test what you hear, in God’s Word,
CONTEXT, CONTEXT, you have heard,
That is truth we need to know
So in truth our lives will grow.

Satan mixes truth with lies,
Twisting Scriptures is his prize,
Hopes that we’ll not realize,
That he travels in disguise.

So be students of The Word,
Do not listen to absurd.
Read the Scriptures, read them well,
In their context, your hearts dwell.

An Original Work / February 23, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Liturgist said:

I agree. I hope you and I can develop a Christian friendship of love. I have met many dearly beloved friends on this site, including many friendships it didn’t occur to me I would make.

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My experience is different.

rambot said:

This is where you could provide one.

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Are you the hall monitor?

Do you have anything to add to the topic of the thread?

Vambram said:

Ahorrifying viral video shows male body-slamming a woman headfirst on a Massachusetts road last week after a fender bender.

The incident occurred at the intersection of Route 1 and Route 1A just before 9 a.m. in Attleboro after the victim hit the male's vehicle from behind, WBZ-TV reported. Attleboro is just shy of an hour southwest of Boston and near the Rhode Island border.
“He kept slamming on his brakes, and then when we got to the intersection, we hit a light, and he was in front of me," Hailea Soares told WHDH-TV. "As soon as we went through, we didn’t even make it across, and he slammed on his brakes, so I hit him."
A witness told police the male — identified as 26-year-old Gladior Kwesiah of Pawtucket, Rhode Island — banged on the roof of Soares' car and pulled her out of her vehicle, WBZ said.

That account appears to conflict with WHDH's report, which notes that Soares said she exited her car to take video of the damage, but Kwesiah took her phone. However, WCVB-TV reported that Soares recorded the moment her attacker came for her in her car.

The witness from WBZ's report said Kwesiah and Soares were arguing, and when she told him to leave her alone, Kwesiah allegedly picked up Soares and body-slammed her to the ground. A witness recorded video of the incident, WBZ added.

A video report from WJAR-TV shows the body slam; viewer discretion is advised.

Horrifying viral video shows male body-slamming woman headfirst on road after fender bender; suspect released on $2,500 bail | Blaze Media

The victim is mother of two who stands five feet tall and weighs 110 pounds.

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There should be no bail for the guy until he got a psych evaluation.

It's sad, that a career, that is based on a lie. Is be going to kill him. He's basically cheating. And not taking care of his heart/body. I'm guessing mental issues.

soldier of light said:

What is the kingdom of Jesus?
What is our role in it?
How do we carry out that role?

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It was Jesus' ONLY Gospel. The Kingdom is both God's rulership (His kingdom) and a place (the Kingdom) where the Adversary and adversarial man is not allowed.

This beta life is a filter. Our role is to live according to it's ways, both here and hopefully afterlife, there.

To act not only in servitude to each other but to God both here and beyond. It is a way of life, not a religion. As the Lord's Prayer says: "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven".

ozso said:

An 18 year old genius is likely to be a lot smarter than most 50 year olds.

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Geniuses tend to be more intelligent than most anyone.

I have mental illness and people seem to shun me because of it and because of my beliefs. I dont believe in being part of this world with its political fears, complaints, worries and strife. Jesus said not to do that.

I don't agree with divisions of any kind. I seek peace and the kingdom of Jesus. But yes I feel shunned because I shun evil. But I'm not lost. Jesus is with me and Jesus is with you too.

I pray that God would protect you and guide you as to how to withstand this spiritual attack. I also pray that God would restore you to complete health. In Jesus' name, amen.

God rarely picks a specific person for a spouse. Why? Because he does not force someones will on this. Hagin teaches that you should have faith for a wife, but you can't have faith in a specific person because even God will not override their will. Also, if God picked the spouse, if things fall apart as some marriages do, then would God have blame because after all that person was His choice too?
God gives us guidelines from the word and each mate has to choose. Remaining single too is a choice that is not sinful, though better to marry than to burn with passion. Exceptions have occurred though like when God specifically told Hosea to marry a prostitute.
This does not mean that God does not present some great choices in a spouse. Many Christians take the deal. Others may wait and find another choice later. Praying and teaming up with God is always best but if the leading candidate moves on keep your trust in God, there are others that can step in.

Love Fountain said:

Hello Everyone,

Recently we were talking about Law and Grace, which of the following statements would you think is most correct and why?

A.) Grace is the opposite of Law
B.) Grace is the same as Law
C.) Grace is built upon Law

What do you think, A, B, or C?

Please share any verses that support what you think?

God Bless,
Love Fountain

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Jesus brought grace when he came in the flesh, but example of grace was in the days of Noah. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (Genesis 6:8), And Noah and his family was saved. Not save from eternal life, but saved from the flood. This is why Jesus had to come. Paul says in Hebrews 9: 26 for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

So grace is nothing more than a free gift. And that free gift is our access back to the tree of life (Jesus) which Adam caused us to lose by disobeying God. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Romans 5: 12) But to maintain your grace you must keep the law also come under the blood of Jesus. The books say in (1John 3:4) Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. Now we have just read the biblical definition of sin, the transgression (breaking) of the law (commandments.) It doesn’t matter what you or I think sin is, it’s what God says sin is that counts.

America first, after Israel. Like always.

No, I use Logos.

(i.e., Oct.7, 2023; Al-Aqsa “Flood” fullfilment, or first aspect of fullfilment; the Hamas-led attack; “the people” of Saladin, i.e., the ottoman kingdom, i.e., Islamic jihad).(Seen on stellarium, on Oct.7th, astroid named "child" comes out of Virgo, possible partial, or full fulfillment of Rev.12.1-13; cp. Isa.26.17-21).

ozso said:

"They're going to go about it the completely wrong way and just make matters worse".

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I'm picking option C.

THE WAR ON DRUGS HAS FAILED

ECONOMIC INCENTIVE
I can’t believe that the so-called ‘economic rationalist right’ in the USA has forgotten the basics of supply and demand! By calling drug use a crime and threatening to incarcerate users and suppliers, the drugs become scarce - which some would say is the whole point! But stop and THINK for a moment.
When you limit supply, you drive up the price. The price has been so high for decades it creates an IRRESISTABLE incentive for drug cartels to grow. They now rival huge corporations like Walmart. They have their own engineering corps building submarines and tunnels across the border!

COST TO AMERICA
The USA has 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s inmates. Are Americans really 5 times more criminal than the rest of the world? No - they are suffering bad drugs policies that much of the world are steering away from. (If Elon’s “DOGE” wants to cut costs - they should investigate the war on drugs as creating 5 times as many jails! Imagine the sheer COST of running all this!?) Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries - Wikipedia

IF WE CANNOT BAN IT - THEN WHAT?
Convert the ‘War on Drugs’ into a mental health model. Decriminalise drug use. This is not about encouraging commercial sale of heroin over the counter - but rather a medical model where health clinics provide safe injecting rooms. There they supply cleaner, safer drugs with standardised concentrations. (This would reduce how many troubled youth are killed by overdose.)

EFFECTS
Drug users then have a safe environment and feel cared for by the government - rather than terrified of police. They can just go to the clinic rather than break into people’s homes or carry guns to the corner store to hold up some terrified grocer for the user’s next hit. It reduces crime. Instead, social workers offer counselling and encouragement and monitor other health conditions the users might have. Are they carrying an infectious disease? Do they want counselling? How are they? Do they need welfare accommodation? Data from overseas shows that it massively reduces the burden on the police force, jails, and broader society. Many drug users work with the counsellor on their underlying issues - end up clean and back in the workforce.
Or you could just continue the punitive war on drugs - which drives up the profit motive for cartels, and increases the cost of a weaponised militarised police force, racist policing of certain ethnic neighbourhoods, burden on the court system, and a jail system 5 times the size of the average OECD nation!
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But hey - why listen to overseas data? Trumpist’s are too busy “Making America Great Again!” They want a strong man at the helm - with simplistic answers to complex questions. LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE!

The thing about sowing seeds is that they grow according to the elements and it is not up to the human sowers to have them grow in the sower's image, but that they seek God on their own terms and in their own time. This is how God determines the heart of each of us, free of the interference of others. Not everyone's watering can is beneficial. We sow the seed and the rest is up to the plant and God. The plant seeks the nutrients it needs, not the other way around.

Akita Suggagaki said:

It will come down to economics. And we have seen that actual data does not matter.

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Yes - as America's economic growth was going well under Biden. People just don't like inflation - and won't even read something as basic as the global energy crisis wiki to understand just what an enormous confluence of world events it was. Blame Biden? That's just ignorant.

Akita Suggagaki said:

Rather, it is the experience of each of us at the grocery store and gas station. It does not matter how popular he now is or what official power he has.

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It does matter if they so stack the other branches that they create some false flag pretext, abolish elections, declare martial law, and install JD Vance rather after Trump dies.

Democracy is a fragile thing.

Those of us watching from the outside world seems more concerned than American citizens.

Landon Caeli said:

Just because you say it, doesn't make it so.

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I wish you were correct, but I don't believe you are. I'm going to sit back and watch what happens and think of this conversation the next time a terrorist act is committed..

Le 1:

1 The Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock.

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Herd is usually applied to larger animals.

3 “If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord. 4 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 5 Then he shall kill the bull before the Lord, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall bring the blood and throw the blood against the sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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Bulls, like oxen, were more expensive.

10 “If his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, he shall bring a male without blemish.

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Sheep and goats were less expensive. They were smaller animals from the flock.

14 “If his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or pigeons.

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Birds were the least expensive.

The law for burn offerings provided options for different economic levels of society to participate.

chevyontheriver said:

Here pope Francis basically said Trump is not a Christian.

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I think the pope might actually "dislike" wealthy people like Trump. But I don't think Jesus disliked anyone, AFAIK.

...So I don't feel right about the denegration.

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“Just Be In Awe”
Ecclesiastes 5:1-2 NIV
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong. Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.

A few weeks ago this passage came up in church and it really spoke to me. As I read these words, I thought to myself, “How long has it been since I just sat in silence before God and was in awe of Him?”

I’m not at all against us bringing our concerns and requests to God. He invites us to lay our burdens at the Cross. However, we so often fill our time with prayers doing all the talking and rarely just sitting in silence quieting ourselves before Him. How long has it been since you sat before God and just took in the silence? Why don’t we do this more often? Why?? Because it’s UNCOMFORTABLE!!! We live in a “GO, GO, GO, GO, GO, GO” world and it’s very difficult to feel productive when we are just doing nothing but taking in quiet time before Him. Plus, we have become accustomed to bringing our laundry list of requests before God without considering time to just sit and be still to listen.

A couple of years ago I read the book “The Ruthless Elimination Of Hurry” by John Mark Comer and one of the things he mentioned that I’ll never forget was when you are sitting somewhere waiting for an appointment or something else, instead of pulling your phone out to occupy the time, just sit there doing nothing. It’s hard! Who wants to just sit in silence and do nothing?? No one!

I want to encourage all of us to find time and be very intentional in the coming days and weeks to find time where we just sit and do nothing before God. Be in awe of Him. Ask Him to speak to you and fill you with His presence and just be present before Him. We definitely need to practice this more.

Find some time soon and just be in awe. Sometimes, our words need to be very few and we need to stand in awe of God. He loves us bringing our worries, concerns and cares before Him, but He also loves when we are in total silence just taking in His presence.

Just……Be……..In……….Awe

boughtwithaprice said:

He is recognized by both Catholics and Orthodox

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Technically, by the Eastern Orthodox, and also by Anglicans. He is not well known among the Oriental Orthodox but has the potential to be venerated like St. Isaac the Syrian or St. John of Damasus. Likewise I can’t see the Assyrians having a problem with him.

He was a favorite of Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, who I think read St. Maximos with the same intense love I have of St. Athanasius.

I think he should have it, or at least a Navy Cross.

Peace in Christ.

While we have the light (within our very own hearts), we are to believe in the light.

That light within our very own hearts is the witness of God of His Son whom we are to hear. It is the "sign of the Son of man" within our hearts. We who believe in what we hear Him saying are then to become children of light towards the people of the outside world.

Joh 12:36 KJV
(36) While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

We are then to be the light of the world. We are the “city” set upon a hill which cannot be hid. The outside world who are in deep darkness will see His light shining in us and will come to His light.

Mat 5:14 KJV
(14) Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

It is also described as a “pure river of water of life”….clear…that is, RADIANT…as crystal. The water of life that SHINES clear as crystal…as it proceeds out of the throne of God and of the Lamb both of whom resides in us ...His believing people.

Rev 22:1 KJV
(1) And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

When we shall believe on Him who interprets the Scriptures via the Spirit of Truth, OUT of our belly shall flow rivers of living water.

The Spirit shall flow out of us (who are like fountains/wells bubbling up and overflowing with His Spirit) and will go towards the “desert”….the outside people of this world who are parched and are living in deep darkness.

Joh 7:37-39 KJV
(37) In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
(38) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
(39) (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

We are the “temple of His body” that the Spirit shall “issue out” of and will go into the “desert” and into the “sea”…the outside people of this world who are sitting in deep darkness.

Wherever the living waters shall flow to that lives and moves (swarms to us) shall be healed. They will rejoice in our presence where God resides/tabernacles as His river shall flow from out of us to them and they (who are saved among them) shall rejoice. They will "move" or swarm to us with rejoicing in their hearts as the river of God will flow from out of us and into them. This happens to them by merely being in our presence.

Eze 47:8-9 KJV
(8) Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

There will be a very great multitude of fish….the people on the outside…that shall be healed. It will be a great harvest of fish.

(9) And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.

But those who the Spirit does not “move” shall not be healed….they shall be given to “salt”…that is, powder.

Eze 47:11 KJV
(11) But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

They shall be utterly wasted as they will not serve us (as God resides in us).

Isa 60:12 KJV
(12) For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

He shall rule them (the nations that will not serve us) with a rod of iron and they shall broken to shivers as vessels of a potter.

Rev 2:26-27 KJV
(26) And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
(27) And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

But those among the outside world who will receive the living water that will flow out of us to their "desert" hearts will rejoice and will serve us with joy and praise of our God who tabernacles within us. They will live.

Isa 60:5-6 KJV
(5) Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
(6) The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.

God pours out His Spirit upon all FLESH.

Act 2:16-18 KJV
(16) But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;

First He pours out His Spirit upon us His people....OUR sons and our daughters...our young men...our old men.

(17) And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

And He also pours out His Spirit upon the “servants and handmaidens” who are the people of the outside world. They will come to our light (the flowing river of God) and will take of it. They will serve Him/us.

(18) And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

The “strangers” shall be joined with us. They…the believers of the people of the outside world (the nations)…shall cleave to us.

Isa 14:1-2 KJV
(1) For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

They shall be then “servants and handmaids” to His people.

(2) And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.


Isa 44:3 KJV
(3) For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: