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I think i may be in the process of being given something of a spiritual gift????

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Would you give the scriptures that state that?

I am glad that you asked this because I had assumed that Artaxerxes was her son... sorry!

Nehemiah 2
"And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence."



Esther | Encyclopedia.com

Esther reigned as the queen of Persia for a period of about 13 years. With King Ahasuerus, she had one son, named Darius II, who would later rebuild the holy Temple in Jersusalem. It is believed that her life extended into the reign of her stepson, Artaxerxes.
 
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I am glad that you asked this because I had assumed that Artaxerxes was her son... sorry!

Nehemiah 2
"And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence."

Esther | Encyclopedia.com
That is a lot of interesting information about Esther. But nothing was attributed to her in helping with the building of the Temple.

So, to give an equivalent example.. I'd have to give my parents who gave birth to me, some sort of mention because I graduated highschool. Even though they never actually helped me in my studies.
 
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That is a lot of interesting information about Esther. But nothing was attributed to her in helping with the building of the Temple.

So, to give an equivalent example.. I'd have to give my parents who gave birth to me, some sort of mention because I graduated highschool. Even though they never actually helped me in my studies.

True... . Queen Esther was not directly involved in the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Second Temple but it is interesting that her son was. Obviously her son wanted to see that his grandfather's decree would come to pass which is an aspect of honesty that his mom obviously played a role in teaching him.
 
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True... . Queen Esther was not directly involved in the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Second Temple but it is interesting that her son was. Obviously her son wanted to see that his grandfather's decree would come to pass which is an aspect of honesty that his mom obviously played a role in teaching him.
What a blessing to have been born unto God fearing parents and be taught what is right in God's sight.
 
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One thing that I have noticed since I became a Christian back in the 1970's is that when a Christian gets to the place where they are sure that they are allowed to accuse and accuse and accuse and accuse even Christian leaders.........
that Christian lacks a real wise fear of these statements in scripture:
Isn't it rather obvious that both Dr. Kevin Zadai and Jesse Duplantis both ask for the Holy Spirit and for the gifts of the Holy Spirit?
THe gifts while abiding in Jesus are real and true and properly used are good as the Father Says.
Those you have posted about are outside of Jesus in their teachings that you posted.
 
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but I say into you, that Elijah is come already, and they knew him not, but did unto him whatsoever they would.

What part of that are you having trouble understanding?
 
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Mat 21:22

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.


Jhn 16:24

Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God."

Philippians 4:11-13 - Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

Hebrews 13:5 - Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

1 Timothy 6:6-8 - But godliness with contentment is great gain.

There is nowhere in the scriptures that says we are to get wealth through prayers to God. We are to be content with what we have, nay even to count our sufferings - even poverty - as joy.

James 1:2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.…

Any preacher who says that you will be granted earthly riches through prayers to God is a charlatan. It's a lie. There was never any such promise. The "word of faith" preachers are counseling a form of witchcraft which is an abomination to God. I have seen Copeland claim that you can make God do things by just praying the right words, that he has no option but to give you wealth because it's not possible for him to refuse if you string together the correct words. He's even gone so far to say, and I witnessed him saying this, that one does not have to be a Christian for this witchcraft to work. God HAS to obey those promises.

The problem with this, apart from the fact that he's saying you can order God around, is that those sorts of prayers are not seeking God's kingdom first.

If that sort of teaching does not chill you to your very bones, then you must not have even a little bit of understanding regarding God's kingdom. You have no discernment. You are influenced by men who have no love for God and no love for you. Their love is for money and their own sordid personal desires.
 
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"Seek ye first the kingdom of God."

Philippians 4:11-13 - Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

Hebrews 13:5 - Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

1 Timothy 6:6-8 - But godliness with contentment is great gain.

There is nowhere in the scriptures that says we are to get wealth through prayers to God. We are to be content with what we have, nay even to count our sufferings - even poverty - as joy.

James 1:2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.…

Any preacher who says that you will be granted earthly riches through prayers to God is a charlatan. It's a lie. There was never any such promise. The "word of faith" preachers are counseling a form of witchcraft which is an abomination to God. I have seen Copeland claim that you can make God do things by just praying the right words, that he has no option but to give you wealth because it's not possible for him to refuse if you string together the correct words. He's even gone so far to say, and I witnessed him saying this, that one does not have to be a Christian for this witchcraft to work. God HAS to obey those promises.

The problem with this, apart from the fact that he's saying you can order God around, is that those sorts of prayers are not seeking God's kingdom first.

If that sort of teaching does not chill you to your very bones, then you must not have even a little bit of understanding regarding God's kingdom. You have no discernment. You are influenced by men who have no love for God and no love for you. Their love is for money and their own sordid personal desires.

But being blessed by our Creator with wealth one month..... and being content in a situation of relative lack in the following month are not ideas that are mutually exclusive.

I am thinking of a variation on the challenge that I think might well be worthy of Mr. DuPlantis..... "Unified Field Theory of Modern World Problems" combined with a "Great Wealth Transfer.".... founded on an Alternative Theory on Stabilization of the Climate by New Mexico Biologist and coach Carl Cantrell....... put to the citizens of four nations, the USA, Canada, Israel and Australia.

Australia has lots of desert but so does California and Israel.

Israel has amazing technology and Carl Cantrell has a theory based partly on Isaiah 35
that ties all of this together.

Global Warming II by Carl Cantrell

“So how is our problem of continental drying causing global warming? It all has to do with vegetation and sunlight. When sun light hits a plant, it causes a process which we call photosynthesis where the energy from the sun light creates oxygen for us to breath, water for us to drink, and is stored as sugar for plants and animals to use. When the same sun light hits the soil, all of its energy turns into heat and is radiated back into the atmosphere, carried away by running surface water such as rain fall, is carried away to other areas by our winds, and diffuses down into the soil towards the earth's crust. All of this warms our planet increasing its average temperature.”

“Therefore, the less vegetation you have on the planet, the more sunlight is being turned into heat and the warmer the planet becomes. This is very critical because warmer and dryer winds dry out other land areas faster decreasing the vegetation on those land areas. Less humidity in the air also reflects less sun light back out into space so that more sun light strikes the earth and more heat is generated….”

“The truth is that you can do more to decrease global warming by just reducing the average temperature for the Sahara Desert by one or two degrees than if we humans completely quit using fossil fuels and returned to the cave….”

“So, how would you start working to resolve this problem? Easy, cool the deserts and get some vegetation growing on them as soon as possible. But the method is much more complex than that. You have to use the prevailing trade winds in relation to the deserts to get the best results as quickly as possible and it will be extremely expensive….”

“Then we build desalination plants along the coast near these water sheds and pipe water to the tops or ridges of the water sheds…”

“This will do a number of things. First, it will increase the moisture in the desert soil so that it will develop water tables and water will begin to run in the streams. This water will increase the amount of vegetation in the area and decrease the amount of heat being generated by sun light cooling the watered area and all areas down wind of the watered area. As more available water evaporates, it will cool the air and reflect more sun light back out into space cooling the area even more. Cooler and more humid air will have less of a heating effect on areas down wind and will reflect more sun light back into space in those areas cooling areas we won't be watering yet. Cooler and more humid air will also have less of a warming effect on our seas and oceans.”

“Rain water running off of cooler soil will decrease the heating effect on our oceans and our planet crusts which will decrease catastrophic storm activities for other areas and seismic activity for the entire planet. Also, returning more ocean water to the surface and aquifers of our continents will lower the sea levels providing more usable land for us to farm and build on.”

“With cooler desert areas and increasing vegetation, less water will evaporate from our deserts increasing the amount of surface water even more and increasing the amount of vegetation and animal life by huge amounts because deserts currently take up more than 20% of our land surface. Populations will be able to spread out and there will be less competition for existing land areas.”

“This strategy has to be done in steps with the first step being to begin slowing the rate at which our global warming is increasing. We need to focus on that until we have brought it to a point to where the temperature is not increasing any more and is reasonably stable. While we are doing this, we need to come to a global consensus of just how cool we want to cool our planet down to. If we cool it down too much, we will begin to have devastatingly harsh winters in large populated areas and even cause an ice age to set in.”

“Then we begin cooling the planet down to a point which will be most beneficial for all countries or the planet as a whole. We need to gradually bring the temperature down because there may be a lag effect in which the planet will continue cooling after we stop increasing our efforts to cool it off more. We may even want to stop cooling the planet once or twice before we reach our targeted temperatures to see if there is a lag effect…”


“We need to start working on this as soon as possible because, if the planet reaches a point to where it is warming faster than our technology can possibly stop or reverse this warming trend, then our planet is lost and all life will cease to exist on this planet within a relatively short period of time. We will need to start with the largest and hottest deserts because cooling them will have the greatest benefit in the least time (Global Warming II by biologist Carl Cantrell).”

Cheap Water from the World’s Largest Modern Seawater Desalination Plant
 
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I hope you guys can sit down and seriously study divorce and remarriage, Dennis. God bless you.

Unless and until my wife wants to divorce me......
I am not motivated at all to worry too much about the question!

Being married to a Pentecostal exorcist is pretty awesome!
 
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THe gifts while abiding in Jesus are real and true and properly used are good as the Father Says.
Those you have posted about are outside of Jesus in their teachings that you posted.


I think that both Dr. Kevin Zadai and Jesse Duplantis are guided at a more powerful level than I am guided at.......

I am incapable of knowing if they are guided more powerfully than you are because frankly..... your questions and comments are often ones that I have wondered about myself at some point in time and you also certainly liven up discussions.
 
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What a blessing to have been born unto God fearing parents and be taught what is right in God's sight.


My grandmother sang hymns and prayed continually........
my first church after I got out of Atheism (The Worldwide Church of God) eventually over several decades came to teach that only they had the Holy Spirit and knowing what I knew about my grandmother and her friends from church..... I simply could not believe a teaching that dogmatic or simplistic.

During the 1960's they taught that there was a remnant in all churches who were probably led by the Holy Spirit but by the late 1980's they were moving away from that idea.
 
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Not my place. I hope you can do a study on this topic, friend, of how divorced Christians should live, and continue on in Christ. Seriously and humbly. God bless you, Dennis.

One thing that I try to do each day is worry first and foremost about what I think is most important to God at this time under these circumstances.

Some Christians who are blessed with lots of money such as President Trump or Jesse DuPlantis may be being prepared to deal with issues along this line:

Here is something that I wrote up a few months ago that you might find kind of interesting:


Would a Basic Minimum Income dramatically reduce abortions?


I am advocating the usage of the Bank of Canada that is owned by all Canadians to finance giving five hundred dollars per month to all thirty seven million Canadians.

It will of course mean much more to poorer Canadians than to millionaires........
but it could be surprising how many stay at home wives with cheap and stingy millionaire husbands who control the purse strings of the home may find this extra five hundred very helpful indeed.

I suspect that well over eighty percent of of Canadians will spend this money reasonably well and:
1. enrol their kids in more after school programs.....
2. begin to purchase a higher percentage of organic produce vs the cheap GMO stuff
3. purchase a newer car, SUV or half ton truck
4. do renovations to their homes
5. hire landscapers to do certain projects on their properties
6. pay down their debt loads, especially the higher interest ones
7. buy a new home rather than renting
8. buy a cottage outside the city so that they can get away for weekends
9. many will choose to move to rural Canada in order to escape relatively hectic city life
10. eat at nice restaurants more often

11. I also believe that a significant percentage of Canadian women who would have chosen to have an abortion under the present economic situation will CHOOSE to keep their babies as opposed to having an abortion!

I suspect that less than ten percent of Canadians will attempt to live off this five hundred dollars / month and simply use it to drink or smoke more.
To whatever degree this happens the worst cases where these Canadians put themselves and others in danger this can be dealt with by issuing food stamps vs a monthly check.

This blog helps to clarify a possible way to finance this:
BETTY'S EARLY EDITION: HOW PIERRE TRUDEAU TURNED US INTO DEBT SLAVES


 
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I simply could not believe a teaching that dogmatic or simplistic.
The Truth is simple. (I don't know about dogmatic). In the Ekklesia, there are no exorcists. (that is a term and practice/ associated with/ of outsiders not in union with the Ekklesia) ....
 
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The Truth is simple. (I don't know about dogmatic). In the Ekklesia, there are no exorcists. (that is a term and practice/ associated with/ of outsiders not in union with the Ekklesia) ....

No matter what it is called.... exorcism or deliverance or whatever... it was obviously practiced by Messiah Yeshua - Jesus and his disciples and I believe it still works in 2019.

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No matter what it is called.... exorcism or deliverance or whatever... it was obviously practiced by Messiah Yeshua - Jesus and his disciples and I believe it still works in 2019.
Yeshua and the permanent disciples simply threw the demons out.
Outsiders not in the Name of Christ practiced throwing demons out also, and some succeeded (apparently OR obviously).
The permanent disciples in Scripture never called it exorcism, which itself has other connotations almost always.
i.e. deliverance from hasatan and from demons is not the same as exorcism in the world, ever.
 
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But being blessed by our Creator with wealth one month..... and being content in a situation of relative lack in the following month are not ideas that are mutually exclusive.

Praying for wealth is itself a mutually exclusive idea to Christ's doctrine. Can you find anyone in the entire Bible praying for physical riches from God? Jesus told his disciples not to be concerned about their food and clothing. Don't pray to the Father for those sorts of things he says because he already knows that you need the basic necessities. "Daily bread" is the extent of any prayer for earthly needs that he told his disciples to pray.
 
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