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owned-by-GOD

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.. it had been months since God gave me a chance to be with my co-youths in church but God sent me here at manila so i've been away from them for almost 3 months now.. before i went here.. it was a struggle in bringing us back together and building a strong responsibility and commitment in our hearts in serving God.. i had been praying for this issue and had been doing my best in encouraging them to go to church and build a strong commitment and bringing back our wonderful relationship..i just want to seek for advice about this? i know it's kind of a problem to have a gap in the a church,. regardless to that idea.. it just hurts me whenever i think of them doing things and completely ignoring the things that God taught us together and how about our testimonies? don't we have a responsibility to ask for God's power to preserve it? and even God said that if we are a friend of this world, we are against Him.. and He also said that faith without work is dead.. i am thinking that if knowing them that they're not going to church anymore hurts me.. what more to God?and i know how wonderful and blessed our group can be.. i know that they have this hidden God-given talents within them and if they won't gonna use it for God, He will snatch it from them.. i don't want that to happen.. I know God has a wonderful plan for us but how will that plan become a reality if we are scattered? well, it is written in Acts 8:4 but we are scattered in a different way.. what am i gonna do about it? i have been praying for it and i wrote here to ask anyone who might read my message,, pls.. i need your prayers.. compare to the grace of our Lord, distance is never a hindrance and i know that prayer is the best weapon against anything.. whatever it is.. God has plans for us but submitting to that plan is still our choice.. A Christian will always be a Christian wherever He may go.. ^^ God bless you and thank you for reading this.. I'll be very thankful for your prayer and even now im very grateful for your time and willingness to this read simple situation of my afc family.. :D
 
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Lucy68

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Wow, I wish I was as smart as you are when I was 17 :)

It is so wonderful that you care about your friends so much.

It will just take awhile to rebuild those relationships. If I understand your post correctly, you all used to attend a youth group in church together but now everyone has stopped attending.

Can you contact them and encourage them to return?

Or just try to get them together in an activity outside the church and maybe eventually they will start coming to youth group again.

Praying for you and your friends...that the Holy Spirit will speak to each of you of His love and His plans for your lives :)
 
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I am going to add you to my prayers. May the Lord bless you:).
 
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AerialCarlisle

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Heeeeeeeey !
 
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owned-by-GOD

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thank you so much for that.. what do you mean when you said that you wished to be as smart as i am when you were 17? hehe.. thank you so much for the prayers.. i was texting them and encouraging them to go to church but they still keep on telling me no.. well.. i can't judge them.. it's their choice and all i have to do is to fulfill my part-to remind them and be an example to them (1 Timothy 4:12) you can share your problems as well.. i'll be glad to be a blessing.. ^^ God bless always..
 
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ilavjesus

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praying for you..
 
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owned-by-GOD

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THANK YOU !!!! :D yea.. Romans 8:28. i love that verse. God bless you!!
 
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bukky

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know ye not that they wish run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?So run, that ye may obtain(1Cor 9vs24). take heed unto doctrine; for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.(1Tim vs16). I am proud of U, for standing different and caring about your friends. but keep on putting them in prayer, and continue to talk to then about God. as in 1Tim 4 vs12 continue to live a life of a good example. and continue to work in love. and remember don't only love your brethren but everyone around u even your enemies. That ye may be the children of your father which is in heaven: for He maketh the sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust. For if ye love them which love ye, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?(Matt 6vs45-46).
keep the Faith!! GBU.
LOVE U :D
 
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