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  1. Christsfreeservant

    Oh, Lord, Save Your People

    A Cry for Help Psalms 28:1-3 ESV “To you, O Lord, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit. Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy...
  2. Christsfreeservant

    Whoever Follows Jesus Christ

    The Light of Life John 8:12 ESV “Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life’.” Jesus is the light of the world. The light is righteousness and truth, and it is the gospel of our salvation. It is...
  3. Christsfreeservant

    Darling, Where are You?

    Many of us have loved ones we care about who are professing faith in Jesus Christ but who are not living what they profess. We are concerned for them for we can see the damage they are doing to their lives, and we know that there is a better life for them if they will repent of their sins and...
  4. A

    Prayers For Deliverance

    I have a background where I was involved in witchcraft and the occult. I was also involved in a lot of new age practices. During that time, I was involved in a lot of tarot card reading. A lot of these readings involved me trying to understand or find out what other people people were in my life...
  5. D

    Vows #4

    I've posted a few threads about my vow issues. I'm now better at understanding the patterns that I fall into. Here's a description of it: Obsession: I would get thoughts like "what if I vowed to do ...?", typically something quite significant, so vowing it away is quite stressful for me...
  6. Christsfreeservant

    He Alone is My Salvation

    Psalms 62:1-2 ESV “For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.” Jesus Christ, God the Son, died on a cross nearly 2,000 years ago in order that we who believe in him might die...
  7. Ohorseman

    Make Straight His Paths - pencil drawings of John the Baptist, Thunder in the Desert

    This art is about John the Baptist. In Hebrew, he is known as Yochanan ha-matbil. In Arabic he is called Yahya. He was from the same bloodline as Jesus Christ. John was the forerunner, or herald, of the Messiah. John echoed the words of the Prophet Elijah, written in the Book of Isaiah. He was...
  8. mindlight

    Democrat threat to freedom of speech?

    Large technology firms have been shutting down conservative sites across internet like Parler. Twitter banned Trump. Is this the end of freedom of speech and the beginning of a new totalitarianism of woke thought police? Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany and de facto leader of the free...
  9. Christsfreeservant

    God Answers Prayers

    Acts 10:1-5 ESV “At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an...
  10. Christsfreeservant

    Yet He Shall be Saved

    Jeremiah 30:5-9 ESV “Thus says the Lord: We have heard a cry of panic, of terror, and no peace. Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale? Alas! That day is so great...
  11. Christsfreeservant

    Our Sufficiency is From God

    Paul and Timothy were suffering affliction for their faith and for their testimonies for Jesus Christ and for his gospel of salvation. They were sharing abundantly in Christ’s sufferings. Their affliction was great, and at one point they were so severely burdened beyond their own strength that...
  12. Christsfreeservant

    The Sin Cycle

    1 John 5:1-3 ESV “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep...
  13. ZNP

    Galatians 5: Resist The Devil

    5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. “Death is the last station on the road to freedom” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer). Christ has made us free by His death. To stand fast in “that liberty” is to stand fast in His...
  14. ZNP

    Galatians 2 -- What Does The Lord Require Of You?

    Galatians 2: What does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8) In Galatians chapter 2 Paul shares his experiences with the church as it was first being formed and God’s people were being rescued from this evil age. There are...
  15. ZNP

    Galatians 1 -- Rescued From This Evil Age

    1 Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— To say that Paul was an apostle means that he was sent with a message to us. He was sent by Jesus Christ and he was sent by God the Father. Jesus Christ was the one that was...
  16. ll_retro.duck_ll

    Missing Something for Sexual Freedom?

    Hello, been struggling with an addiction to porn ever since middle-school and even after I became a Christian (20+ yrs). I grew in knowledge of the Word of God and Christian service over the years. What became an everyday act became limited to about 1-2 times every week 2 weeks. The longest I...
  17. Christsfreeservant

    Dead And Alive

    Romans 6:1-4 ESV “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism...
  18. GraceBro

    That Time When God Was A Slave

    "Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being." Philippians 2:6-7 There are many people who judge God and reject the salvation offered through...
  19. Christsfreeservant

    Slave or Free?

    “Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?” Galatians 4:21 ESV What “law” is being referred to here? Context is everything when interpreting what is meant by “the law.” For, the context reveals that this is speaking about the Old Covenant ceremonial and...
  20. mindlight

    Freedom and sin

    Many of the prophetic actions of the Christian church in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries had to do with challenging the social injustices of poverty, oppression, gender discrimination, racial discrimination etc. They mirrored the call for social justice of the prophet Amos. Liberalism...