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blue_ladybug

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Who knows. Hopefully one that doesn't go from my gums to my bloodstream to my brains to my heart.

I deserve it whatever it is. At the end of the day im just 200 pounds of BwordIcantUseHere. Its easy to do stuff and operate on a high level when you are healthy and have no problems whatsoever. When the pressure is on I fold. I feel like I have denied the faith almost thats how i feel. Just absolutely NO GUTS.
I stub my toe and I quit WAAAAH WAAAAH

What a wimp!! (JK, lol) I whacked my toe HARD on the metal part of my roller walker the other day, took THREE days for the pain to stop. If I can survive stubbing my toe, so can you.. and without the waah waah.. LOL
 

blue_ladybug

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FACTS are: God has a way of HUMBLING us. ATLEAST ME.

I have been running around all tough, doing everything as close to perfection as possible, staying clear, sticking to the program, running the race, spiritually, physically, mentally, talking DOWN on others like addicts who HAVE NOT MANAGED TO QUIT, I didn't say it outloud, but I was thinking it. LORD KNOWS I was thinking it, I was thinking "Yeah these guys cant quit, I quit, I got strong will power, these guys are soft, they wont stick to the program, they want a day off"

WELL SURPRISE SURPRISE, now I got an INFECTION im dealing with that is PAINFUL and the doctor appointment isnt until 2020 because PUBLIC HEALTHCARE is what it is, and this caused me to BwordIcantusehere out. I missed out on my program, I just wanna LIE DOWN and FALL ASLEEP and NEVER WAKE UP.

Goes to show you EVERY MAN will meet his maker. Is anyone tough reallly? They are until they get hit with something. Everyone has their kryptonite, to some its illness, to some its family problems, to some its a divorce, to some its relationship problems, WHATEVER it might be. I got a feeling that LIFE WILL BREAK YOU DOWN. Maybe im just being EMO for no reason right now, but thats how it feels like and i just wanna VENT

Just take me out please. I dont got time for this its all meaningless.
There is no such thing as perfection. Not in THIS life, anyway. All we can do is try to handle what comes at us, the best way that we can.. And stop talking about wanting to die. You ain't gonna die until GOD takes you, so suck it up and muddle through as best as you can..
 
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we all who love our Heavenly Father are daily required to work out our own business to be right with Him -
yes, we can whine-bitch-feel sorry for ourselves-blame others - ETC. =
PHI. 2:12.
Wherefore, My beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in My presence only, but now much more in My absence,
'work out your own salvation with fear and trembling'.

HELLO
 
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"One God in three eternal coexistent persons: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."

John 20:28
And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”

Acts 5:3-4
Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land? 4Did it not belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How could you conceive such a deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God!”

Ephesians 4:6
One God
and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
The one you are addressing must be a Russelite......!!
 
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we all who love our Heavenly Father are daily required to work out our own business to be right with Him -
yes, we can whine-bitch-feel sorry for ourselves-blame others - ETC. =
PHI. 2:12.
Wherefore, My beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in My presence only, but now much more in My absence,
'work out your own salvation with fear and trembling'.

HELLO
I was made right the day I trusted Jesus......as far as anything beyond that point...CHRIST in me as a living sacrifice and as a BRANCH, I but bear what HE produces.......p.s. Love the verbiage hahah
 

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Walk trough the valley
100% believe.....it is finished is clear enough, not only by what is implied, but also from an accounting standpoint....Paid in full!!
"Not by works lest any man should boast." = Not to think of ourselves more highly than others as it's Grace that enable us (to work) as labourers together with God, "In Faith that works by Love."= Empowered By the Holy Spirit. By rejecting your brothers and sisters who say things differently, like me: you are thinking more highly of yourself than you should and your doing this to the Lord even tho its in ignorance that your not walking in the Holy Spirit, like Saul, but you made a law of not by works as if Christians are not allowedd to do good pn the day of rest
I'm only warning you so that your blood is not on my hands. I would be surprised if your able to hear. i' m not looking for an answer: we know that "Jesus is the Saviour of all men, especially of them that follow Him." All things WORK for good to them that Love the Lord." bu rejecting them they Learn to persevere in Love, "Ofences must come but who to Him that causes offences." "You have not hindered me at all"...
 
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I was made right the day I trusted Jesus......as far as anything beyond that point...CHRIST in me as a living sacrifice and as a BRANCH, I but bear what HE produces.......p.s. Love the verbiage hahah
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hay Brother,
didn't know you knew those highly educated words, 'verbiage' = Brother, please don't love us less because of some stupid words!!!
you know where we are coming from!!! by now, we pray!!!
 
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No, just a simple Christian that reads her Bible.
If you read with understanding you would not hold to what you hold to.......here is a clue....God set the standard of the 3 in 1 in Genesis......I will tell you, but 10 to 1 you reject the truth.....

Hebrew has....

singular = 1
dual or pairs = 2
PLURAL = 3 or more

MAN is made in GOD'S IMAGE....when it states that God breathed into Adam the breath of life <--- LIFE IS PLURAL -->THREE

Intellectual life --> H. FATHER
Physical life --> Jesus
Spiritual life -->>HS

ONE MAN manifested THREE WAYS.....

This is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.........

Receive it or not....could care less!
 
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hay Brother,
didn't know you knew those highly educated words, 'verbiage' = Brother, please don't love us less because of some stupid words!!!
you know where we are coming from!!! by now, we pray!!!
Let me tell you my friend.....your words did not offend me, nor did they change my mind about you guys and or make me think less of you....ALL GOOD migo"s" keep swinging :)
 

Whispered

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If you read with understanding you would not hold to what you hold to.......here is a clue....God set the standard of the 3 in 1 in Genesis......I will tell you, but 10 to 1 you reject the truth.....

Hebrew has....

singular = 1
dual or pairs = 2
PLURAL = 3 or more

MAN is made in GOD'S IMAGE....when it states that God breathed into Adam the breath of life <--- LIFE IS PLURAL -->THREE

Intellectual life --> H. FATHER
Physical life --> Jesus
Spiritual life -->>HS

ONE MAN manifested THREE WAYS.....

This is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.........

Receive it or not....could care less!
If that were true you wouldn't have bothered.
Let me tell you a secret. When you think to instruct someone in what you believe is proper understanding of scripture without using scripture to support what you are saying, and you close with a derogatory remark, your heart is not pure, nor is your teaching of God.

Imagine Jesus ministering the sermon on the mount and closing with, this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg..........receive it or not.....could care less.

The devil can quote scripture when his nature is actually filled with spite and he speaks with the tongue of the adder.

Know what leads you, as others who behave as you do, when you think to speak to members here who are in Christ. Is what you're about to say like unto what Christ would approve? Especially recalling all those scriptures about love, including loving those you dislike, before you think to put your name, and your image, with your words.

You, and the others that behave as you do toward people here, are lending the picture to anyone who happens into this site, what the teachings of Christ lead a people to become. Especially in the company of fellow Christians.

Don't act like the devil when you think to speak and teach the meaning of God's words.

"could care less." I cared enough to take the time to tell you, that when you set out to make people feel bad through the vehicle of your keyboard, you're an example of one who isn't living in the peace of The Christ, but are being inspired by that other guy.
You don't make me feel bad in your efforts. You make me feel sorry for whatever it is that makes you think disdain is a positive attribute for a Christian.


Find peace. God loved you before you were born.
 
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The one you are addressing must be a Russelite......!!
At first glance, I thought,...DC must have meant the mineral rock.

Then I gazed at Charles "eye brows" Taze Russell, or shall I say... he gazed at me..... lol.

Isn't that the guy who said...

"The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914." :oops:

United Pentecostals and United Apostolics hold to Modalism as well, but with the response given ...
No, just a simple Christian that reads her Bible.
I think you're right.

Maybe she is a student of those who bounced from the Watch Tower Society during the first schism in 1909, or from the second in 1916, 1919.

Don't they call themselves Free Bible Students or Associated Bible Students...

Sooo confusing!

So we can just call them Jehovah witnesses then? or Russellites?...again, sooo confusing!
 
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If that were true you wouldn't have bothered.
Let me tell you a secret. When you think to instruct someone in what you believe is proper understanding of scripture without using scripture to support what you are saying, and you close with a derogatory remark, your heart is not pure, nor is your teaching of God.

Imagine Jesus ministering the sermon on the mount and closing with, this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg..........receive it or not.....could care less.

The devil can quote scripture when his nature is actually filled with spite and he speaks with the tongue of the adder.

Know what leads you, as others who behave as you do, when you think to speak to members here who are in Christ. Is what you're about to say like unto what Christ would approve? Especially recalling all those scriptures about love, including loving those you dislike, before you think to put your name, and your image, with your words.

You, and the others that behave as you do toward people here, are lending the picture to anyone who happens into this site, what the teachings of Christ lead a people to become. Especially in the company of fellow Christians.

Don't act like the devil when you think to speak and teach the meaning of God's words.

"could care less." I cared enough to take the time to tell you, that when you set out to make people feel bad through the vehicle of your keyboard, you're an example of one who isn't living in the peace of The Christ, but are being inspired by that other guy.
You don't make me feel bad in your efforts. You make me feel sorry for whatever it is that makes you think disdain is a positive attribute for a Christian.


Find peace. God loved you before you were born.
Secret.....
If that were true you wouldn't have bothered.
Let me tell you a secret. When you think to instruct someone in what you believe is proper understanding of scripture without using scripture to support what you are saying, and you close with a derogatory remark, your heart is not pure, nor is your teaching of God.

Imagine Jesus ministering the sermon on the mount and closing with, this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg..........receive it or not.....could care less.

The devil can quote scripture when his nature is actually filled with spite and he speaks with the tongue of the adder.

Know what leads you, as others who behave as you do, when you think to speak to members here who are in Christ. Is what you're about to say like unto what Christ would approve? Especially recalling all those scriptures about love, including loving those you dislike, before you think to put your name, and your image, with your words.

You, and the others that behave as you do toward people here, are lending the picture to anyone who happens into this site, what the teachings of Christ lead a people to become. Especially in the company of fellow Christians.

Don't act like the devil when you think to speak and teach the meaning of God's words.

"could care less." I cared enough to take the time to tell you, that when you set out to make people feel bad through the vehicle of your keyboard, you're an example of one who isn't living in the peace of The Christ, but are being inspired by that other guy.
You don't make me feel bad in your efforts. You make me feel sorry for whatever it is that makes you think disdain is a positive attribute for a Christian.


Find peace. God loved you before you were born.
Blah blah blah......Ok JW.....Go tell the above blather to Jesus, Paul, John, Elijah and others..........!
 
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At first glance, I thought,...DC must have meant the mineral rock.

Then I gazed at Charles "eye brows" Taze Russell, or shall I say... he gazed at me..... lol.

Isn't that the guy who said...

"The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914." :oops:

United Pentecostals and United Apostolics hold to Modalism as well, but with the response given ...

I think you're right.

Maybe she is a student of those who bounced from the Watch Tower Society during the first schism in 1909, or from the second in 1916, 1919.

Don't they call themselves Free Bible Students or Associated Bible Students...

Sooo confusing!

So we can just call them Jehovah witnesses then? or Russellites?...again, sooo confusing!
Yeah, and like most brain washed JWs......they cannot accept the truth....I predicted a rejection of the truth I gave her...and sure enough......!
 

Hevosmies

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Don't down yourself migo.....we are all that at times hah ;) GOOGLE and make some collodial silver.....WORKS WONDERS.....kills 500 known pathogens in like 5 minutes....if in the mouth....gargle a few times a day
THIS ACTUALLY WORKS. Thanks!

Im back on the program, WOOO!
 

VCO

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Yeah, and like most brain washed JWs......they cannot accept the truth....I predicted a rejection of the truth I gave her...and sure enough......!

You got the BRAINWASHED absolutely right. From the beginning it is the HEAVY DOSE of Brainwashing. They are taught that the Watchtower Society only has the TRUTH and all other Churches are peddling lies. They CONVINCE THEM of that so-called fact, by telling them that JESUS CHRIST already Returned invisibly an inhabits the Watchtower Publishing House, so that EVERYTHING the Watchtower publishes is EQUAL TO THE WORD OF GOD. I had friend confronted them at his door, and he said, "If I can convince you that what the Watchtower publishes contradicts what the KJV of the BIBLE SAYS, Which would you Believe ?" The Jehovah Witness said, "Well of course the Watchtower for sure, because I have been reading it for over 30 years and it has never lead me astray yet."

That is how strongly they believe they LIE that JESUS CHRIST indwells their PUBLISHING HOUSE, making sure what is published there is equal to the word of GOD. So where in Scripture do you find that PROPHECY?

Matthew 24:24-26 (HCSB)
24 False messiahs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
25 Take note: I have told you in advance.
26 So if they tell you, ‘Look, He’s in the wilderness!’ don’t go out; ‘Look, He’s in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it.


I think that prophecy is about the Watchtower Society SPECIFICALLY.
 

Whispered

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Secret.....

Blah blah blah......Ok JW.....Go tell the above blather to Jesus, Paul, John, Elijah and others..........!
I am not a Jehovah Witness, nor a Russelite. As I have told you before. If you continue with your slander you are a liar. God is one. Beside Him there is no Savior.
I believe God.