[open]Bill Booth's Blood and Fire Drop-in (6)

[Evangelina]

Sorry Andy, good arvo!

Clint - it's bad to see people in pain and NOT be upset, y'know?

 

[Andy Broadley]

Morning All

 

[Andy Broadley]

Hi everyone.

Hope you are all having a really great weekend and not finding all tht shopping too stressful

God Bless you all

 

[mac8]

It's too much, I really need to put Christmas off a couple of weeks.....

:0)

Blessings
Eleanor

 

[GodsoldierClintus]

If all you lovely people could do a favour for me.

http://christianforums.com/t5515190-clint-soldier-in-gods-army.html

Please read my last entry and pray for me...Today has been really tough. I hung out with my friend tonight and we both noticed how I'm in a really bad way at the moment.

Clint

 

[mac8]

Clint, get some rest and spend time alone with God. It puts everything in perspective. My novice guardian swore by one proper day off a week and gardening. :0)

Blessings
E.

 

[mac8]

Is there any point in trying to start some new threads on the main list? I don't know how much traffic the site gets?

Suggestions?

Warmest blessings
Eleanor
Sister under private vows

 

[Andy Broadley]

Hi everyone

 

[Evangelina]

Please read my last entry and pray for me...Today has been really tough. I hung out with my friend tonight and we both noticed how I'm in a really bad way at the moment.

*huggggggggggggggggggggggggggg* <=== Man, I think you really need that!

I know it might sound wrong, but I think you're on the right path. Does it help to know that every christian has to go thru this - often regularly - to be any use to God? The bright side is that the benefits are always better than what we give up. Always. It's like... there are two realities, intertwined... except the physical world? It's just illusion. It fades, it goes away, it can't be relied on. Underneath it, invisible but a lot more real, is the spiritual world, where things are fair and rewards LAST forever.

Don't be rough on yourself, OK? You're not instantly perfect and superhuman, and that's OK. God uses the weak, pathetic and dumb (not implying you're all those things )

Ummm.... I'm not sure if advice is useful, but... try to listen, OK? To God, however he chooses to speak to you. Might be through a friend or secular tv show. his ways are weird!

 

[GodsoldierClintus]

Feeling better today (after feeling worst). I just have to sit through this one...friend made me realised that, and I mightn't be in a treadmill, just feels like it. I'm like the most impatient person ever...so this should be interesting

Wasn't the TV show, I don't watch TV. Was the friend tho. My Christian friend who doesn't go to church. She's still the strongest Christian friend my age that I know. And she didn't say much...but it was the fact that it was her. I don't have to feel right...I'm sure she doesn't a lot of the time. But I know who I am...that's enough.

 

[Andy Broadley]

Evening All

 

[Andy Broadley]

Dear Children,


It has come to my attention that many of you are upset that folks are taking My name out of the season. Maybe you've forgotten that I wasn't actually born during this time of the year and that it was some of your predecessors who decided to celebrate My birthday on what was actually a time of pagan festival. Although I do appreciate being remembered anytime.

How I personally feel about this celebration can probably be most easily understood by those of you who have been blessed with children of your own. I don't care what you call the day. If you want to celebrate My birth, just GET ALONG AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER.


Now, having said that let Me go on. If it bothers you that the town in which you live doesn't allow a scene depicting My birth, then just get rid of a couple of Santas and snowmen and put in a small Nativity scene on your own front lawn. If all My followers did that there wouldn't be any need for such a scene on the town square because there would be many of them all around town.


Stop worrying about the fact that people are calling the tree a holiday tree, instead of a Christmas tree. It was I who made all trees. You can remember Me anytime you see any tree. Decorate a grape vine if you wish: I actually spoke of that one in a teaching, explaining who I am in relation to you and what each of our tasks were. If you have forgotten that one, look up John 15: 1 - 8.


If you want to give Me a present in remembrance of My birth here is my wish list. Choose something from it:


1. Instead of writing protest letters objecting to the way My birthday is being celebrated, write letters of love and hope to soldiers away from home. They are terribly afraid and lonely this time of year. I know, they tell Me all the time.

2. Visit someone in a nursing home. You don't have to know them personally. They just need to know that someone cares about them.

3. Instead of writing George complaining about the wording on the cards his staff sent out this year, why don't you write and tell him that you'll be praying for him and his family this year. Then follow up. It will be nice hearing from you again.

4. Instead of giving your children a lot of gifts you can't afford and they don't need, spend time with them. Tell them the story of My birth, and why I came to live with you down here. Hold them in your arms and remind them that I love them.

5. Pick someone that has hurt you in the past and forgive him or her.

6. Did you know that someone in your town will attempt to take their own life this season because they feel so alone and hopeless? Since you don't know who that person is, try giving everyone you meet a warm smile; it could make the difference.

7. Instead of nit picking about what the retailer in your town calls the holiday, be patient with the people who work there. Give them a warm smile and a kind word. Even if they aren't allowed to wish you a "Merry Christmas" that doesn't keep you from wishing them one. Then stop shopping there on Sunday. If the store didn't make so much money on that day they'd close and let their employees spend the day at home with their families

8. If you really want to make a difference, support a missionary-- especially one who takes My love and Good News to those who have never heard My name.

9. Here's a good one. There are individuals and whole families in your town who not only will have no "Christmas" tree, but neither will they have any presents to give or receive. If you don't know them, buy some food and a few gifts and give them to the Salvation Army or some other charity which believes in Me and they will make the delivery for you.

10. Finally, if you want to make a statement about your belief in and loyalty to Me, then behave like a Christian. Don't do things in secret that you wouldn't do in My presence. Let people know by your actions that you are one of mine.

Don't forget; I am God and can take care of Myself. Just love Me and do what I have told you to do. I'll take care of all the rest. Check out the list above and get to work; time is short. I'll help you, but the ball is now in your court. And do have a most blessed Christmas with all those whom you love and remember

-- I LOVE YOU .


JESUS

 

[Andy Broadley]

Evening All

Just settling in for fourth and final night shift

Hope you are all having a great day

God Bless

 

[Evangelina]

Hi Andy

I went to work's christmas dinner last night and something didn't agree with my insides.... everything's gone RIGHT THRU and my tummy is not happy with the whole situation!

 

[Andy Broadley]

Hi Andy

I went to work's christmas dinner last night and something didn't agree with my insides.... everything's gone RIGHT THRU and my tummy is not happy with the whole situation!

Hope you feel better soon

Bad enough when the bottom fall outa your world, but when it's the other way round.....

 

[mac8]

Hi all,

Hope you feel better Evangelina, sending a prayer and a hug.

Prayers appreciated here as the two children are not well. Blessings
Eleanor

 

[BoazB]

Sorry to hear this E. I think thats what the Americans call Montezuma's Revenge.

 

[Andy Broadley]

Sorry to hear this E. I think thats what the Americans call Montezuma's Revenge.

Or for the curry eaters


Dheli Belly

 

[Evangelina]

Andy - LOL

I'm fine now, thankfully! Except a little tired, still... *yawwwwwn*

 

[Andy Broadley]

Andy - LOL

I'm fine now, thankfully! Except a little tired, still... *yawwwwwn*

Glad to hear you all ok now

God Bless and Happy Christmas