~ THE INNER ROOM ~ A Place to Withdraw To - WELCOME! (please read the OP) (2)

[Moriah_Conquering_Wind]

eating sucks.
hugs for blankgirl

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

oh yeah, evangelica, can u please tell us when and how we hurt u? please clarify so that we can explain ourselves.. before jumping to each other's conclusions its good that we talk things out.. please do tell..

eating sucks.
hugs for blankgirl

whaddya mean eating sucks? If they wanted to talk things out they wouldn't hit and run like they do.

 

[Moriah_Conquering_Wind]

just what i said, eating sucks. quod me nutrit me destruit or however the latin phrase goes. i don't like the way it makes me feel--polluted inside.

i feel so predatory right now.

i'm angry and upset about something but you know you are not allowed to discuss those things here.

nowhere to go TO discuss them. someone said something really BAD and it really hit me WRONG

it wasn't here though. elsewhere.

 

[blankgirl]

If they wanted to talk things out they wouldn't hit and run like they do.

hit and run? what do u mean by that? hee, sounds like a road accident.. but from what i see, people here do apologise... anyway, im sorry if i hurt u. from what i know, and i ve been here for a long time in the inner room since its very beginnings, people here DO care and DO listen... but im not belittling how u feel.. its ok to tell us how ure hurt though.. can u explain a bit more?

 

[blankgirl]

hugs for blankgirl

aww hugs for u too! eating sucks? in waht way? u got a problem with eating too? i hope not!

 

[Moriah_Conquering_Wind]

yeah i got a problem with eating: it sucks!
i can't believe i actually ate three bloody times this weekend. moo moo OINK
i HATE when my body makes me do that.

and i HATE how food feels when its inside of you. it's like being polluted.
i am a Temple. i don't like being polluted.

 

[laterunner]

[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]Adopted[/FONT]

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[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]Like any ex-pat working in China, I get to hear of people, inevitably from western countries, who are either in the process of adopting a Chinese baby or who have already successfully adopted one.[/FONT]


[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]You have to admire these people. The adoption process is not easy. Both in China and in the adopting parents’ own country, you have to deal with several official departments which all tend to work only very slowly and carefully. Hopes to adopt have to be held lightly, so as not to be disappointed should you at any stage be unsuccessful. While the physical pain of regular childbirth is avoided, adopting can bring much if not more hassle & worry, and the emotional roller coaster ride tends to be just as intense and even more prolonged. The process is financially costly, too.[/FONT]


[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]Adopting parents are amazingly willing to jump through seemingly endless hoops, some of which are set on fire just before they jump. Should they successfully jump through the final hoop, they then face the unique challenge of parenting a child who will most likely be somewhat traumatized having been rejected and left for some time in an institution. [/FONT]


[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]A young couple in Siberia underlined this unique parenting challenge to me in an e-mail they sent me a few weeks ago. A few months previously they had adopted a Russian boy named Seryozha. In their e-mail they asked for prayer, saying: ‘We see that life without parents, in a children’s home, affected this small boy a lot. Often we don’t know how to react when his past appears. Please pray that God would take away all the unclean things from his heart from his past life.” [/FONT]


[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]When I read this I was struck by the realization that while most of us have probably had a better beginning than children like Seryozha, we didn’t by any means have a perfect start ourselves. From the beginning our hearts had within them the pre-existing condition of sin. They were further tainted by the fallen aspects of the early influences on us, including our parenting. And then, as we grew older, we dirtied our hearts further by the sins we committed. Like Seryozha, we all have ‘unclean things in our hearts from our past life’ and our past still appears all too frequently.[/FONT]

[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]And like Seryozha, we too have been adopted – by our Heavenly Father. Our past appears, bare and naked, before Him in such mundane places as our kitchens. Yet He does not regret adopting us. Neither does he plan to throw us out of His home and send us back to where we were before. Think for a minute of some of the ways in which your past appears and you will be freshly amazed at how He still lovingly persists with you. [/FONT]


[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]He seeks to perfect us and mature us through His love. He is rightly confident in how he brings us up as his parenting of us is faultless, for He is faultless. He wants the best for us. The challenge for us is that we have to learn to discern & accept His love if it is to have good effect. May your adoptive heavenly Father show you progressively more of His heart towards you, His adopted child, even as your past appears before Him. And do pray for Seryozha and his adoptive parents.[/FONT]


“[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]He predestined us to be adopted as his sons (and daughters) through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will.” Ephesians 1.5[/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]#2[/FONT]

[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]Adopted[/FONT]

​

[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]Like any ex-pat working in China, I get to hear of people, inevitably from western countries, who are either in the process of adopting a Chinese baby or who have already successfully adopted one.[/FONT]


[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]You have to admire these people. The adoption process is not easy. Both in China and in the adopting parents’ own country, you have to deal with several official departments which all tend to work only very slowly and carefully. Hopes to adopt have to be held lightly, so as not to be disappointed should you at any stage be unsuccessful. While the physical pain of regular childbirth is avoided, adopting can bring much if not more hassle & worry, and the emotional roller coaster ride tends to be just as intense and even more prolonged. The process is financially costly, too.[/FONT]


[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]Adopting parents are amazingly willing to jump through seemingly endless hoops, some of which are set on fire just before they jump. Should they successfully jump through the final hoop, they then face the unique challenge of parenting a child who will most likely be somewhat traumatized having been rejected and left for some time in an institution. [/FONT]


[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]A young couple in Siberia underlined this unique parenting challenge to me in an e-mail they sent me a few weeks ago. A few months previously they had adopted a Russian boy named Seryozha. In their e-mail they asked for prayer, saying: ‘We see that life without parents, in a children’s home, affected this small boy a lot. Often we don’t know how to react when his past appears. Please pray that God would take away all the unclean things from his heart from his past life.” [/FONT]


[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]When I read this I was struck by the realization that while most of us have probably had a better beginning than children like Seryozha, we didn’t by any means have a perfect start ourselves. From the beginning our hearts had within them the pre-existing condition of sin. They were further tainted by the fallen aspects of the early influences on us, including our parenting. And then, as we grew older, we dirtied our hearts further by the sins we committed. Like Seryozha, we all have ‘unclean things in our hearts from our past life’ and our past still appears all too frequently.[/FONT]

[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]And like Seryozha, we too have been adopted – by our Heavenly Father. Our past appears, bare and naked, before Him in such mundane places as our kitchens. Yet He does not regret adopting us. Neither does he plan to throw us out of His home and send us back to where we were before. Think for a minute of some of the ways in which your past appears and you will be freshly amazed at how He still lovingly persists with you. [/FONT]


[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]He seeks to perfect us and mature us through His love. He is rightly confident in how he brings us up as his parenting of us is faultless, for He is faultless. He wants the best for us. The challenge for us is that we have to learn to discern & accept His love if it is to have good effect. May your adoptive heavenly Father show you progressively more of His heart towards you, His adopted child, even as your past appears before Him. And do pray for Seryozha and his adoptive parents.[/FONT]


“[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]He predestined us to be adopted as his sons (and daughters) through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will.” Ephesians 1.5[/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]#2[/FONT]

( From my Faithfilled son)

 

[Sabbie]

Good Morning! I am so blessed to be alive today!

Father of all creation, thank you for this day! Allow me and all here to be Your servants today! We praise You and thank You for all who come here! May each talent given be returned in service! Amen!

 

[Sabbie]

Beautiful post laterunner!!!

 

[HadessahRose]

Morning Sabbie! How are you my friend? We are going to be busy all day, won't be around. Just wanted to pop in and say hi and all!

 

[ladyt28]

I just want to say Good morning to all. Was too busy yesterday to even log onto the Internet at all so I've been catching up reading the posts. May God's blessings flow over all of us today!
Theresa

 

[Joy]

please note
Respect One Another
Rule 1.7 Flamimg of other persons is not allowed. Flaming is defined as insulting other persons with personal attacks. Comments should be directed at posts and not at people. This rule does not go in contradiction with fighting crimes which are against the US laws.

Bondman has laid out the purpose of this thread so any posts not belonging here and seeking to disrail this thread will be moved into a new thread.

Thank you

 

[Maharg]

Jus wanted to say hello, as it's the first time i've read this thread. The links in the OP are fantastic. Really straightfrward, well-explained stuff. Thank you, Bondman.

 

[foreveramanda]

Jus wanted to say hello, as it's the first time i've read this thread. The links in the OP are fantastic. Really straightfrward, well-explained stuff. Thank you, Bondman.

Hi! Welcome to the IR!

 

[Bondman]

Yes, WELCOME to our Online Family, Maharg. It's really great to have you!

With love in the Lord Jesus!

- Bondman and his Lady

 

[Bondman]

NOTICE


Thankyou very much to the Moderator for that Notification (in post #732 above). I now finally feel that it's my SAD duty to write what follows. Comments of any kind are welcome from our Online Family here!

FIRSTLY TO:

Evangelica (aka)Citizen of the Kingdom/MaidinHisimage/Hawlak, and other names

I don't hate you, never have, and never will. Rather have I ALWAYS treated you with love and respect, same as for everyone here. I don't hate anyone, thanks solely to the Lord's love. I didn't write anything addressing you in particular 'behind the scenes'. I don't do that. If that is needed then I do it directly, as here. I was not on the thread when you and Moriah were talking, and didn't read any of it till later.

You are welcome here on this thread as one of God's people - provided you write and act reasonably and responsibly according to thread 'rules', plus what I'll clearly set down below from the Holy Scriptures. Do that and we will love you, listen to you, and care about you!

But that's NOT how you've been writing, with resultant disruption to an important thread which God started through me, and which till recently had done a lot of very wonderful work. Repeating, you are welcome here, if you do so with peace and love. We are not 'excluding' you. There are many other places to post if you don't or can't 'fit' on this thread.








As a Christian you and me and all of us are under New Testament commands by Almighty God Himself. He wrote them to PREVENT the very things that have disrupted this thread, to its considerable detriment, in recent time. The following are written for me and everyone here:

Philippians
14 Do all things without complaining and disputing, 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault...
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Here God is saying there are to be no dissentions and disharmony, and no disputations amongst His people. We've been obeying these commands.

Ephesians
29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you.
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First, God says that what comes out of our mouth is to be for edification (of one another). That's what we've been doing here. We obey what God says. Second, He says no bitterness, no anger, no malice! These we do NOT have in this thread. Third, God commands us to rather be kind, tenderhearted and kind to one another. Again we do this in this thread.

Ephesians
1 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, 3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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God through Paul commands us to live our Christian life with lowliness and gentleness and longsuffering, working hard to keep a unity of peace, by and of the Holy Spirit. Again we do this here, and have done it remarkably well - to HIS praise and glory!

NOW TO:

All members of The Inner Room, our very special Online Family of all those who have loved and fellowshiped here either for a long or short period or just recently - for us all I am currently preparing a 'haven of peace' where we may go so that the above commands of the Lord may be kept among us, and where we may learn and grow and support and care for each other, and where there will be no disruptions to take away our peace and harmony in Christ.

I hope this will not have to take the place of this thread on CF, but rather be an extra, and addition to it - because I see that we should stay and fight for unity and peace here. However it seems to me that we DO need a safe and secure sanctuary - and so it will be there for whatever the Lord chooses. Please hang in with us while I get this done. Bless you!

I am now going to go and speed up preparation, to have it available within the week, and hopefully sooner. So if I'm not here at times, that's what I'll be doing. Is this what I want? - of course not! I started this thread and desperatey want to see it keep going, but things don't always go easy in the Christian walk, and sometimes what has to be done just has to be done...


We both send all of our love to you, praying God's peace in your heart and life!

- Bondman and his Lady (ministering the Good News of the Gospel)

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The Inner Room - INDEX of Bondman Messages! ​

 

[psalmody]

One thing that I have noticed, and it is purely a part of the technology of this forum...is that, while you are writing a post, you cant see what others are writing, or saying. And sometimes, there are several posts done before you can get yours out. And the conversation seems to take a turn when you least expect it.
And this makes it seem like you are being ignored. I know many times I have felt like I have been ignored. And I had to learn that it wasnt deliberate, that I am still ok, that I have to swallow my pride and keep going. That's why I had to take some time off from ALL discussion forums. The Lord had me take time off and get myself back in line with Him.
If there is anyone that feels like I have ignored them, or pushed them to the side, I apologize. It was not deliberate.
I especially want to address Evangelica, because it seems that is a large part of what went wrong. My apologies. I did not intend to ignore you. I wasnt even trying to ignore you. I hope that we can lay this aside and be friends.
Psalmody

 

[Greenthumb]

Good morning everyone!

laterunner...thank you for sharing that...it spoke to me today.

Maharg...welcome!

Bondman...thank you for continuing on here. God bless you and your lady.

 

[Greenthumb]

I think it should also be added that just because one does not reply to a specific post or poster is not indicitative of one being ignored. I read every post in this thread, but I don't always feel the need to respond or feel that the Lord is giving me anything to contribute. And often times I read only, without posting at all.

Hmm...goofy CF...this was to be quoting Psalmody post #737! Gotta love CF bugs...or not.

 

[psalmody]

Hello, Greenthumb!
Thank you, for your reply. It added to what I was trying to express and helped alot!