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  1. BenFTW

    When asking God for forgiveness...

    Psalm 51:17 King James Version 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Godly sorrow leads to repentance. God sees our contrition, He sees the state of our heart. When it comes to sin confession and repentance, the confession...
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    Seeking Advice

    No, you should not tell him you have been lusting after him, nor do you require his forgiveness. If you thought to steal a candy from a store, do you owe the store restitution? No, for nothing was truly stolen. It is illegal desire, and for that you sin against yourself and God. Lusting is...
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    How High Should One's Sexual Wanting Be as a Motivator to Get Married?

    Also consider the perspective Seoulsearch has is hers, and not necessarily indicative of all women and therefore you are still dateable. For instance women, and men, ultimately are competing with each other when you consider dating. So whether someone wishes to compete with other people (or...
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    How High Should One's Sexual Wanting Be as a Motivator to Get Married?

    @seoulsearch This thread led to me researching this topic, lol. There is so much out there. I read one article that actually emphatically stated that “cutting off sexual intimacy in marriage is sin.” But I guess you are more so focusing on the motivation in getting married and how much of that...
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    How High Should One's Sexual Wanting Be as a Motivator to Get Married?

    What did I just read? 🤔 The result of a spouse not being faithful in the marriage bed can be unfaithfulness (it’s a risk, scripture itself says so). Part of marriage is intimacy, and if the man isn’t getting it from his wife (that’s an ugly way to put it, forgive me), what can he do? Practice...
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    How High Should One's Sexual Wanting Be as a Motivator to Get Married?

    That’s like going into a marriage because you want a personal chef. 😆 There is so much more to marriage, and if it’s all about you and what you can get out of it, instead of what you two can build together, you should reevaluate your desire for marriage. You are both bringing things to the...
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    How High Should One's Sexual Wanting Be as a Motivator to Get Married?

    1 Corinthians 7:5 New International Version 5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. Can I just leave this here and...
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    The teaching of works

    If works saved that would be a slap in the face of Jesus. Jesus: I died for all sins. Father: Yes my Son, but “now they work.” Jesus: Wait, wait. You mean to tell me that my death and resurrection doesn’t give them eternal life and instead they must save themselves through their own effort so...
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    A question for the men...

    People do judge a book by its cover as much as we profess that we shouldn’t and a person looking “well kept” effects other areas of life (finances, encounters, expertise, position etc). This may sound like I am speaking only of appearance but character too effects these things.
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    A question for the men...

    Entitlement. This goes into what I was going to answer on this thread. My answer is their heart. You can see the inner beauty of a person permeating their outer beauty. A physically attractive woman (by societies standards of beauty) who is ugly on the inside is repulsive. There is just a…...
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    A question for the men...

    When she opens her mouth. LOL 😂 I am kidding, don’t kill me. I can hear all the “wows” echoing throughout the forum now. 😝❤️
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    Homosexual Brother In Law

    Do you think doing it later is wise? She will for months be thinking she is going to the wedding and already have it planned out, fitted into her schedule, and then you drop this on her last minute? It may be a matter of the earlier the discussion happens the better. This way if her initial...
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    Homosexual Brother In Law

    Scripture says for a woman to submit to her husband but that word submit means “to be gently persuaded.” Emphasis on persuaded. Make your case but keep in mind that your words should be filled with grace. How you say something is equally important as what you’re saying because it determines how...
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    New to this

    Hey! 😄 Shall I finish your username? “Who can be against me!?” lol Welcome to ChristianChat. Hopefully you find yourself engaging in thought provoking discussions.
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    Homosexual Brother In Law

    Yeah, just making observations. Have you discussed this with her?
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    Christian folks; how do you handle rejection ?

    Thank you. Maybe it is because of the way I was raised but even for moving to different states did my parents wait on God to move and the Lord would confirm it. He gave my father a vision of him driving cross country when we were deciding to move from the east coast to the west coast of the...
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    Homosexual Brother In Law

    If I may say, your wife’s actions (and/or lack thereof) concern me. The Bible says that a person leaves their mother and father to be one with their spouse. Their obligation now is to their immediate family, formed with that person, and not their relatives. She feels the need to “be there for...
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    Christian folks; how do you handle rejection ?

    Why do I compare this to playing arcade games? Lol You know like the coin ones, where every coin you put in gets you closer to dropping the jackpot of coins? 😄
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    Christian folks; how do you handle rejection ?

    Yes, eventually you have to move. In the context of this discussion, God isn’t going to propose for you. I laugh because I imagine now God speaking to “the one” and being like “He wants to marry you.” God is like “I’m not gonna do what!?” 🤣 But you are correct that we “move in faith” but there...
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    Christian folks; how do you handle rejection ?

    Of course it’s better. Were you just trying to find something to be offended by? In my interactions with you, that always seems to be the case unfortunately. 😕 And as for your wager, it’s happened before. My sister said the same exact thing as you and she repented and apologized to me. “God...