Do you obey all of Pauls writings? - Page 4

Praxeas · #31 03-31-2007, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Felicity

I don't drink wine for my tummy's sake.

Yeah but some Apostolics drink Nyquil when they get sick

Falla39 · #32 03-31-2007, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by COOPER

I need a friend and mentor.

I am not smart and I am not that spiritual

Bro. Cooper,

Son, God knows just what you need! He really does

care about you! He sees you inside and out. He made

you. He knows your needs! Tell your FATHER all about it

and I believe He will direct you where you need to be.

Trust in the LORD with ALL thine heart;and lean not on

thine own understanding. In ALL thy ways acknowledge

Him and He shall direct thy paths.

You can talk to your Father (Spirit) but there are times

we need Mother's (The church) love and touch! We need

as it were, someone with skin on (to minister to the need for

physical touch! Someone who can literally wrap their arms

around you. Mother (the church), mothers in Zion are

good at this because many times they are widows and need

just a touch of warmth from someone who needs a touch

themselves), Both are benefited. In the church I attend we

have a precious sister who is 87 yrs. old. She has lost her

husband, two adult children, and still has such a love for the

church that she wants to touch each small child and love on

them because she is like Jesus, bring the little ones to me. Not

only the babies and toddlers but the young marrieds, men and

women. I think we need more "Mothers in Zion" to hold and cry

with the FATHER's children while He is building up ZION, the

church!!!! There is something for everyone to do!! Young mothers

have their hands so full. My brother and his wife (seniors) have

taken a young couple who have three little boys, born real close

together. They hold the baby and he is becoming so attached to

them. Their only granddaughter is in Egypt with their great grand-

children (2 little great-granddaughters) but meanwhile while they

wait until God brings their own home, they will give their love to

help a young couple who need some help from someone who has

love to spare, or share!

May our Loving Father guide you to where you can find that for

which your soul is longing (that which is lacking in your life). God

knows for He puts those desires in us for that which is lacking!

Blessings,

Falla39

Digging4Truth · #33 03-31-2007, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by COOPER

The dreams are not like they were, but when I was at a UPC church, I knew the gift of a word was burning in me, but I waited until after church and told the Preacher.

He said I was dead on target and wished I had of said something.

When I was at another church, I had a vision of a mans blood condition {that he did have} and we all prayed for his healing.

Sometimes when I am at a Church I feel preaching get all over me so strong I just want to take the mike a Preach up a storm.

Sometimes I feel the gifts move at other places like work or the store.

Coop... reading your post I submit this thought I had some while back.

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During a service the other night I began to think about Samson.

Samson was a judge.
Samson was annointed by God with much strength.

Some picture Samson as some huge muscular individual because of the tales of his great strength. I don't think that was the case. Samson didn't have this strength until the Lord came upon him. When Delilah deceived him and his hair was cut he rose up and began to fight not realizing that the Lord had not come on him as before. He was easily overtaken.

If Samson had possessed rippling bulging muscles there wouldn't have been much question as to where his strength came from.

But the thoughts I had about Samson were less about his beginnings and more about his end.

Samson had taken a bad path and it led him to a bad place. It led him to a place where he found himself slave to those he had conquered so many times. Those who had been the conquered he now found to be his conquerors. Grinding at the mill with blinded eyes he appeard to be a broken remnant of the man he used to be.

As if forcing him to push a grinding mill around and around all day wasn't humiliation enough they brought him into the temple for their big festival to show off the great Samson who they had defeated.

There is a reason the temple came down on the day of Samsons death. When they brought Samson in they "set him between the pillars". If they had remembered who Samson was they would not have set him between the pillars. They had forgotten who this man was that they scoffed at and gave praise to their god over his downfall.

Samson was a judge.
Samson was annointed by God with much strength.

And on top of their forgetting who Samson was there was another crucial element to the temple coming down that day. God did not forget who Samson was. Oh yes, Samson had fallen. Samson had taken wrong paths that led him to a bad place. But God never forgot 2 things.

Samson was a judge.
Samson was annointed by God with much strength.

That day, in spite of all of Samsons wrongs and all of his human weaknesses, God remembered who Samson was and God gave Samson more victory in his death than Samson had experienced in all of his life.

That day...

Samson was a judge.
Samson was annointed by God with much strength.

The last thing written in the story of Samsons life recorded in the book of Judges is this...

Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought [him] up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

Samson was still counted a Judge even during his time of imprisonment by the Phillistines.

The gifts and callings of God are without repentance.

Some you know may have fallen. Some you know of may have failed. Some you have seen may have taken bad paths that have led them to a bad place.

Don't ever forget who God called them to be because God doesn't.

Ron · #34 03-31-2007, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by COOPER

I need a friend and mentor.

I am not smart and I am not that spiritual

Your first quote is in direct contast with your second.
I do not know your past, nor do I need to know.
We all need friends and mentor(s), we also need a Pastor.

I believe you kinow what you need, I pray for the Grace to do what you need to do so that God can bless you and your family in greater ways than he already has, and in turn for you to be a blessing to others.

Praying.