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*smile* this is the inner room thread =)ok...I think I'm on the right thread...I hope!
Have fun looking around =) this thread has been a huge blessing for meThanks for the welcome! I think I accidently got on the old IR thread. Think I'll poke around and read some posts! Glad to be here!
Yay I am glad to see your original thread back up and running. I am posting, cause I had a pm from a friend asking for support, so I am here for her. funny how I can fight the battle for someone else, but can't seem to pick up the sword and fight for myself. I am too tired.
Thank you so much...such sweet words that mean alot!Great to see you, dear one!
I know what you mean about fighting for another, but not for yourself. My Beloved is like that to some extent. She's tired most of the time cos of her ill-health but she'll look after someone else even if it's to her own detriment. I've had to become quite 'strict' with her that she is not 'allowed' *grin* to do that with me when I'm struggling with my ill-health!
So yeah, I do know what you mean. Try and be at rest, in His peace, and let His love just surround and envelop and calm and settle you! Mmm... wonderful!!! And don't struggle, but rather let God by His Spirit Who is in you do the work. It took me YEARS to learn this, but now it's really quite astonishing what 'I' can do - cos it's the Holy Spirit Who's doing most of it!!
Bless you heaps!
~ Bondman and his Lady
EDIT. Waves to Amanda!!![]()
WOW!!! I have been reading the Bondman's writings! Whoa! SO much to take in and so much to embrace! Thank you sir for your insight.
I want to read it all really fast and yet take it apart word for word. So many truths...so little time. hehehe
Got your email.Thank you so much...such sweet words that mean alot!
Sabbie, yep right thread! I haven't been here long, but it is a great thread. I dropped you an email..I am headed out to do a few things. I will be back later....
BTW HR...if you would like for others to pray with you in your desire to help someone then just say the word. I will be lifting you up!
Oh, it is ALL Him, isn't it, that gets us through. What wonderful news it is that He loves us so much, and is able to complete us, it's really ALL about Him.. . . but rather let God by His Spirit Who is in you do the work. It took me YEARS to learn this, but now it's really quite astonishing what 'I' can do - cos it's the Holy Spirit Who's doing most of it!!
Bless you heaps!
~ Bondman and his Lady
Thanks Doll. I am home. Got to learn to express myself and let things out..just don't know how. Ha, when one is put in the ground enough times to shut them up..makes that difficult!Got your email.
A million Hugs!!!!
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What a kind thing to say. Thank you.Did Moriah_Conquering_Wind come over with us? I looked back on a few pages and havent seen her. I really liked her post on the other thread about the reality of the Mind of Christ. Very well put! She has such great insight into the workings of the human mind!
*waves back to BM*Great to see you, dear one!
I know what you mean about fighting for another, but not for yourself. My Beloved is like that to some extent. She's tired most of the time cos of her ill-health but she'll look after someone else even if it's to her own detriment. I've had to become quite 'strict' with her that she is not 'allowed' *grin* to do that with me when I'm struggling with my ill-health!
So yeah, I do know what you mean. Try and be at rest, in His peace, and let His love just surround and envelop and calm and settle you! Mmm... wonderful!!! And don't struggle, but rather let God by His Spirit Who is in you do the work. It took me YEARS to learn this, but now it's really quite astonishing what 'I' can do - cos it's the Holy Spirit Who's doing most of it!!
Bless you heaps!
~ Bondman and his Lady
EDIT. Waves to Amanda!!![]()
Obedience..
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Cindy did a great post a little while ago, HERE, and I'm sure she won't mind me quoting a few things from it.
For example, I SO loved this:"He alone satisfies. He alone meets every need. He alone repairs the brokenness of our lives."Wow, wow, wow! But I can't help wondering if there are some here who don't experience this yet? Well, you can. And it's not Rocket Science either! Cindy clearly said how to: "We are to walk in obedience to what we know." Okay, what would you say is the most important word there? "Walk"? No. Well then surely it must be what we "know". Nope.
Yep, it's obedience. We're NOT very obedient we Western christians; in fact we're mostly very disobedient! - so we shouldn't really wonder why our Christian life isn't working as we expect. So... do you read the Word as your daily bread, and in doing so are always on the look out for what He wants you to, well... OBEY! Changed me life, I tell ya, soon as I started doing this. Okay, here's an example - I just grabbed the first one I came to:
Romans
12:18
If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.
Is there an instruction here? Definitely. Many would call it an admonition of the Lord, and that's okay, cos 'admonition' means a bidding, a dictate, and also what I call it (because it's helped me SO much!) a command! Cos it IS!!
God is saying to me, "Bondman, my son, as much as you can possibly manage, live in peace with everyone." I simply say, "Yes, Lord!" then ensure that I add, "and You know I need the help of the Holy Spirit so I can do this." And I start putting it into action! Told you it isn't Rocket Science!!
Do you get the idea? These gems are there in the hundreds throughout the New Testament. And may I say that all of His commands are loving and kind - even when they may not feel so. Because they're always via Jesus' yoke. As Cindy quoted from Matthew 11:30 "For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden is light."
So you're not gonna be hurt by looking for His commands, to do them! Just the opposite, they will help you to become truly His, learning to OBEY Him cos you love Him, and really can't help yourself doing so!
I'll end, again with what Cindy wrote: We are to walk in OBEDIENCE! Trust me, my lovely friends here, this is the only way to go!!!
- Bondman and his Beloved (ministering the Good News of the Gospel)
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