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I like the pentacostals all tho i dont believe one must speak in tougnes to be saved..
Im just a soldier for God..
But when i go to church i always go to the one i visted as a kid... the anglican catholic church........
Im just a soldier for God..
But when i go to church i always go to the one i visted as a kid... the anglican catholic church........
Took me a long time to get over that one when I was told evidence of salvation is speaking in tongues.
Messed with my head big time
Ariel82 - I had none of those thoughts in my head you spoke here, by the way. I simply gave the verse knowing it applied to the circumstance from the leading of the Holy Spirit - period. Was I moved by his behavior? Yes. But I operate on His lead, and with love.
Now some have said this is a forum to discuss Scripture, and Scripture is well and good its holy and all but if we don't apply our thought to it, its like open air, waisted space.. I say to that, "Really?" Have we, as Christians forgot that the cart before the horse makes messes running the race. That anything gathered by anything other than the spirit is useless? Scripture is our foundation otherwise what we say is useless, in addition: Scripture itself is alive and active and when given to a brother or sister in need from the Spirits discernment, and not our reasoning it never comes back void of serving God's purposes when sent by the Holy Spirit to work in the spirit of man..
We need to get reorganized if we think Scripture serves us. We serve it. In addition it can do a great deal of work on its own without us, but also with us as commissioned by the Holy Spirit only.. in real-time. But we must recognize as well - God will never call anyone of us to serve in a capacity in His name sake if a person has not the proper discernment regarding the scriptures used at the time.. God instructs us to be slow to speak, and wait upon the Lord. Aimless knowledge is useless, knowledge governed by the Holy Spirit in the spirit of man is corporal fellowship, and this is biblical. But one must have the spirit to understand spirit. If your flesh is examining spirit, it will never understand the spirit in other words, and if flesh is dispensing spirituality it will be frothed with inaccuracies.
Sometimes Satan causes believers to become narrow. He will cause believers to set a boundary for themselves and separate themselves from others. If believers do not have the concept of the church being the Body of Christ, instead making their own little group their foremost concern, it is a sign that their spirit has dwindled and become narrow. A spiritual believer considers God's business as his own business and the whole church as the object of his love. If his spirit is open, the river of life will flow everywhere. But if he becomes narrow, he will frustrate God's work and minimize his own usefulness. If our spirit is not big enough to include all of God's children, it means that our spirit has been poisoned.
Sometimes Satan causes the believers' spirit to become proud. In this way they become boastful, self-respecting, and self-esteeming. Satan causes the believers to think that they are not destitute, that they are somewhat important, and that they have some worth in God's work. This kind of spirit is also a great cause for the believers' failures. "Pride goeth before destruction,/and a haughty spirit before a fall" (Prov. 16:18).
Now some have said this is a forum to discuss Scripture, and Scripture is well and good its holy and all but if we don't apply our thought to it, its like open air, waisted space.. I say to that, "Really?" Have we, as Christians forgot that the cart before the horse makes messes running the race. That anything gathered by anything other than the spirit is useless? Scripture is our foundation otherwise what we say is useless, in addition: Scripture itself is alive and active and when given to a brother or sister in need from the Spirits discernment, and not our reasoning it never comes back void of serving God's purposes when sent by the Holy Spirit to work in the spirit of man..
We need to get reorganized if we think Scripture serves us. We serve it. In addition it can do a great deal of work on its own without us, but also with us as commissioned by the Holy Spirit only.. in real-time. But we must recognize as well - God will never call anyone of us to serve in a capacity in His name sake if a person has not the proper discernment regarding the scriptures used at the time.. God instructs us to be slow to speak, and wait upon the Lord. Aimless knowledge is useless, knowledge governed by the Holy Spirit in the spirit of man is corporal fellowship, and this is biblical. But one must have the spirit to understand spirit. If your flesh is examining spirit, it will never understand the spirit in other words, and if flesh is dispensing spirituality it will be frothed with inaccuracies.
Sometimes Satan causes believers to become narrow. He will cause believers to set a boundary for themselves and separate themselves from others. If believers do not have the concept of the church being the Body of Christ, instead making their own little group their foremost concern, it is a sign that their spirit has dwindled and become narrow. A spiritual believer considers God's business as his own business and the whole church as the object of his love. If his spirit is open, the river of life will flow everywhere. But if he becomes narrow, he will frustrate God's work and minimize his own usefulness. If our spirit is not big enough to include all of God's children, it means that our spirit has been poisoned.
Sometimes Satan causes the believers' spirit to become proud. In this way they become boastful, self-respecting, and self-esteeming. Satan causes the believers to think that they are not destitute, that they are somewhat important, and that they have some worth in God's work. This kind of spirit is also a great cause for the believers' failures. "Pride goeth before destruction,/and a haughty spirit before a fall" (Prov. 16:18).
The Lord is the judge, I am not.
I have this simple problem. For me heaven is here in the Lord, in His word, in the love
He anoints my head with. I make few judgements, but am told by some I am terrible.
I then have a problem. I love being honest with myself. I know my thoughts, and my
inspiration. So I look in my heart, I come to Jesus. But how can I be at peace and yet
so wrong. Only if the one I face is missguided.
So walk in love and acceptance and so do I, for I am called to shine.
If you walk with Jesus, Amen. This is our walk. This is the kingdom come down,
So praise the Lord.
I have this simple problem. For me heaven is here in the Lord, in His word, in the love
He anoints my head with. I make few judgements, but am told by some I am terrible.
I then have a problem. I love being honest with myself. I know my thoughts, and my
inspiration. So I look in my heart, I come to Jesus. But how can I be at peace and yet
so wrong. Only if the one I face is missguided.
So walk in love and acceptance and so do I, for I am called to shine.
If you walk with Jesus, Amen. This is our walk. This is the kingdom come down,
So praise the Lord.