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lil_christian

lil_christian

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PopClick said:
Okay, true story. The night before last, I was woken up by a decent-sized spider crawling on me. I slapped it to death and dropped it in my fish tank.

Spiders are evil.
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I hope your fishies om nom nommed it to death.
 
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kenthomas27

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PopClick said:
Okay, true story. The night before last, I was woken up by a decent-sized spider crawling on me. I slapped it to death and dropped it in my fish tank.

Spiders are evil.
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The little feller thought he smelled smoke, Lydia.
 
rachelsedge

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The next time I go to South Dakota, which may be a visit within the next year, I am going to a store and getting the wood flute they sell. I should have got it when I saw it the first time 2 years ago. I will teach myself to play it.

Speaking of going to South Dakota, I want to, but there only a few people I'd want to go with and they can't. Not sure if it'd be a good idea to go by myself. Though part of me thinks that sounds amazing.
 
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kenthomas27

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rachelsedge said:
The next time I go to South Dakota, which may be a visit within the next year, I am going to a store and getting the wood flute they sell. I should have got it when I saw it the first time 2 years ago. I will teach myself to play it.

Speaking of going to South Dakota, I want to, but there only a few people I'd want to go with and they can't. Not sure if it'd be a good idea to go by myself. Though part of me thinks that sounds amazing.
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well, the good news is that if you are by yourself in South Dakota and sitting out somewhere playing a flute, most people are going to leave you alone.
 
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blueorchidjd

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sigh
I have to work at five am tomorrow.
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IloveyouGod said:
Ohhhhh, they must be using the same bakery then!! :p

P.S. how come I saw you online in the morning and now, were you up 24 hours? :eek:
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Na, I just occasionally leave the cpu on when I leave. lol, just happened to have a CC tab open
 
homwardbound

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zeroturbulence said:
Don't know if you'll see this, but I'd like to share what just happened to me in regards to praying for harm to come to an enemy.. I was so upset by someone the other day that I actually asked God to please avenge me and then yesterday something bad and unexpected happened to that person (nothing too serious) and I saw them crying and I immediately felt bad for them and wanted to help them feel better. I know it might just be pure coincidence, but in any case I made it a point to ask God to forgive them and I told God that I forgive them and that no matter how badly they treated me I don't ever want to be the cause of their pain. Praying that made me feel like the room brightened and a weight had been lifted off my spirit. I now know that imagining the other person in pain will help me forgive. I don't ever want to feel like someone cried because of something I wished or prayed even if its just coincidence. God bless.
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Absolutely Amen seeing how God uses the bad for the good
So forgive and love the same as one is forgiven and loved, the deeper one sees this from God to them the deeper one loves and forgives all, in as a response to God and maybe we might start to see what Psalms 100:4 means in depth
 
homwardbound

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zeroturbulence said:
...oh and I also asked God to forgive me and to have mercy on me too although I ask for God's forgiveness just about everyday..
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Look far back to the cross, ask God what God wants you to see in truth.
Now ask yourself are you forgiven there?
How many sins did God take away at the cross for you?
Is there any more forgiveness to be executed to anyone on God's part after Christ?

Not easy to Fathom, but by God from God we are past tense forgiven. Ask is there anymore sacrifice, is there any more shedding of blood?
How has forgiveness always been executed, by what payment? Blood right?
So if I am to ask God for more forgiveness, when I sin if I sin, will God shed anymore blood, do anymore sacrifices?

Just something to ponder on between God and you
And I am not saying go and take God's forgiveness for granted, because one is 100% forgiven. I am saying Appreciate deeply in thanksgiving and praise to Father through Christ his Son, and thus so busy in this there is no time to sin, fro you are not thinking in the terms of if I sin or not.
[h=3]1 John 2[/h]New International Version (NIV)

2 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. [SUP]2 [/SUP]He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

One who tries to stop sin is trapped in sin to one extent or the other. Ever noticed when you accomplish how proud that makes you and when you fail how guilty that makes you. So we ask for more forgiveness from God, who has already past tense forgiven you, and try to do better, ever notice that? And we just as Humans continue to go on with our bad selves, If do not succeed the first time buck up move on ask for more forgiveness and feel better.

Is it possible that this way of thinking is a major error to truth? For as a man thinks so is he?

[h=3]Galatians 6:8[/h]Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

[SUP]8 [/SUP]For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

See that verse above about flesh, and just even thinking about it does, keeps one captive in trying to be righteous and can't be, if you have something that you keep asking forgiveness for over and over again
praying this might help you in answering your prayer
 
homwardbound

homwardbound

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lil_christian said:
Man, I can act like such a kid sometimes in the way that I push the envelope. It's a terrible habit that I've gotten. I'll put things off, especially if I don't want to do it. Whether it be doing dishes, or logging out of CC (seriously, I love you all. While all good things must come to an end, I really don't want them to. haha).

I know I can't change this on my own...but I WILL change this with God's help.
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Just a thought to you, maybe if I get out of the way, and trust God to take the reins as Christ did, and thus Father doing the works, Christ nothing more than Father's vessel used by Father for Father's purpose
All God and n one of me, what do you think? Could this be Father's will?
 
homwardbound

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IloveyouGod said:
@ rachelsedge and MH818:

Please read 1 Corinthians 10:13 as I'll go straight to explaining it here. The verse is clearly saying that we will not be tempted beyond our abilities. Our limitations are NOT defined by us, but rather by God. Meaning, we might think we can handle a tribulation up to a certain limit, but God knows that we can actually go farther than that, it's just that WE don't know that we can. And the fact that we will have a hard time going through the tribulation, this hard time makes us scared and unwilling to go through this specific tribulation thinking it is already bigger than us. When we go through a tribulation that is allowed by God to be for us, IF we come out of this tribulation with a new lesson or message that made us grow in life n' learned something bigger, then this tribulation was NOT bigger than us. We have to realize that in order to grow, we will pay the price. N' the bigger the lesson is, the bigger its price. God will never allow us to go through a tribulation to destroy us, but rather for us to grow. YES, we will go through a HUGE hardship till we come out of our tribulation, BUT we will come out as new people. Those tribulations you've mentioned that YOU think it's bigger than you, ask yourself this simple question: Did we grow n' progressed after the tribulation Yes or No? IF Yes, then the tribulation was NOT bigger than you. However, if you are still in the tribulation, then know that you will come out of it by the grace of God as new people. We run to God to help us going through the hardship we face during our tribulations because we cannot deal with this hardship when we are forced to deal with it. God helps us to deal with this hardship as per His promise because He wants us to grow. If you go through a tribulation and you get destroyed after it, then know it is NOT from God because God does not test us to destroy us, but rather to grow or restore us.
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Therefore count it all joy when one enters divers temptations, and learn contentment in all things good or bad that happen here in this world. and stand in Faith (belief) that God has got our back and ultimately is caring for us as we go through tribulations here on earth it is somehow for our good and up to us to seek that out. for God told us the we all will have:
[h=3]John 16:33[/h]Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

[SUP]33 [/SUP]These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

God has overcome this world for us those that beleive, so by trust we are free even in the midst of adversity are we not?
 
homwardbound

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just_monicat said:
yeah, simply put, i've always believed that the biblical interpretation of that phrase is:

God will never give you more than you can handle with Him.

when we leave off that little prepositional phrase we are only kidding ourselves.
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Or maybe God allows you to see that you can't; you are weak so that you will need him and trust him through all things good or bad
While Christ walked the earth did he not show to us all that no way under Law can we be perfect, that we in flesh are weak?
So what do I need; to get stronger, or accept I am weak, my Spirit willing but my flesh weak, as Christ said to the disciples in the garden, spirit willing flesh weak. So in the flesh led by flesh is the Spirit dead?

After the cross in the resurrected Christ the Spirit is alive for us to receive by Faith to walk in Spirit now not flesh anymore, seeing the purpose of God who just loves us all
 
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