How strong is your faith?

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seemspeculiar

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Have you ever had a situation where you were going to faint? Hope make you sick? How far have you studied the bible? To the point where your mind breaks? How much has your love waxed cold?
 

Blain

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Have you ever had a situation where you were going to faint? Hope make you sick? How far have you studied the bible? To the point where your mind breaks? How much has your love waxed cold?
There were plenty of times when I was in such a situation and I still go through them at times. I dont understand why I go through what i go through at times and honestly hope and faith dont even seem to be able to help, but I just keep trudging on even if i am just crawling and then soon enough I am strengthened again.

These times are harsh, they make you seriously doubt God and they make it seem there is no hope so you want to give up. But these times are always temporary and eventually fade. I dont know how strong my faith is, but I know I dont know how to give up.
 

Jimbone

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It can bench 350, with each arm.
 

breno785au

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I tend to find things arnt quite right when I start boasting about my own 'strength'
I fail all too often and easy I find.
 
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psychomom

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my faith is as strong as the One Who gave it to me. :)
 

Jimbone

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I tend to find things arnt quite right when I start boasting about my own 'strength'
I fail all too often and easy I find.
You're right, and I want to come clean. It can only bench 120.

Seriously though I do agree, that's a truth all of us can relate to I think.
 

Joidevivre

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"but I just keep trudging on even if i am just crawling and then soon enough I am strengthened again. "

Blain said it all: That is strong faith even though it doesn't seem strong at the time. Strong faith is not always about what you feel; it is about not giving up.

I have studied and studied the bible - probably at least 100 times over - but my mind hasn't broke. It has only been cleansed of lies and encouraged. And brought me to a strong faith. If anything, it has broken my desire to "control" and given me a heart to surrender.
 

breno785au

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You're right, and I want to come clean. It can only bench 120.

Seriously though I do agree, that's a truth all of us can relate to I think.
Lol 120, that's still pretty good... For the record that post wasn't direct at you, just in general. I'd say I'm speaking out of a place where I'm at at the moment.
 
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oldthennew

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"but I just keep trudging on even if i am just crawling and then soon enough I am strengthened again. "

Blain said it all: That is strong faith even though it doesn't seem strong at the time. Strong faith is not always about what you feel; it is about not giving up.

I have studied and studied the bible - probably at least 100 times over - but my mind hasn't broke. It has only been cleansed of lies and encouraged. And brought me to a strong faith. If anything, it has broken my desire to "control" and given me a heart to surrender.[/QUOTE
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joi, sometimes the things you say bring such joy!
tanks!:)
 

crossnote

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You're right, and I want to come clean. It can only bench 120.

Seriously though I do agree, that's a truth all of us can relate to I think.
I bench 195...everytime I sit down. :p
 
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psychomom

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Have you ever had a situation where you were going to faint? Hope make you sick? How far have you studied the bible? To the point where your mind breaks? How much has your love waxed cold?
i think it's important for us to remember that
Jesus never fainted (or faints).
Jesus never lost hope.
Jesus knows His Word.
Jesus' love never fails.

been reading John 17...we needn't worry...He's fixing us, and the things that concern us. ♥
 
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Strong enough to reject the "number of the beast"... the Social Security Number."Is your faith strong enough to lose your life... in order to save it, by rejecting the number?
 
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RickyZ

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Strong enough to reject the "number of the beast"... the Social Security Number."Is your faith strong enough to lose your life... in order to save it, by rejecting the number?
Now that's an interesting tangent. So when the world's governments collapse (including that of the US), the beast will retain the American Social Security system and impose it on the entire world? Interesting - not very likely but interesting.
 
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Kerry

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Well, it is said that 20% of America are devout Christians. So that what, 500 million Americans so 100 million are devout Christians, then before the rapture there is a great revival, so maybe 200 million. What happens to the economy when a large percentage of it's people are gone. Debts owed, farmers gone, doctors ,lawyers, factory workers, pilots, bus drivers, Maids, butlers, milk men, construction workers and so on Gone. No one to pay their mortgages or car payments or taxes. America is not mentioned in biblical prophecy because it's gone. Banks crumble, big business has no workers. China and Russia will rule just as the bible says and March against Israel.
 

posthuman

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Strong enough to reject the "number of the beast"... the Social Security Number."Is your faith strong enough to lose your life... in order to save it, by rejecting the number?
good to hear that every non-American, and every American prior to 1936 is safe from the mark of the beast!!