Why are Christians such phonies?

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If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time people don't notice it,” Benito Mussolini
 

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I have found it hard to find a good church too. The last church I went to was for a period of about three or so years. About two years of attending the pastor one day was asking me why I had moved from the country up to the city. I briefly explained to him why and got quite emotional in the middle of it as I moved due to family circumstances that were not pleasant at the time. He just dismissed my upset and started talking to other people nearby as though nothing happened. He was actually laughing and joking with them in the middle of my upset. I felt so angry.

After that as well as seven or so other incidences with the pastor I just left and never went back. Now I just get my teaching from certain people of YouTube.
That is so sad how he treated you.
 

SoulWeaver

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I know what you say.

You assume I have not been through hell.

My world came to an end in 1999 when my little 14 yr old girl ran away from home to be with satanists.
I was like job
Completely destroyed.

I would go into the woods and cry out to God "Jesus help me,please please help me. Cant you help just a little bit?"
On and on,over and over, day and night.
I had a thread of faith and God. But mostly fear and anger at God.

About 4 or 5 days of crying out to God in faithless fear.

Then one day Jesus showed up. I was in my shop and was walking over to the electric box to turn on the lights,and whispering my cry for help.

God said "STOP IT! DON'T DO THAT ANYMORE!. NOW CRY OUT MY NAME IN FAITH"

I began to immediately do that. "JESUS! JESUS! JESUS! JESUS! JESUS! "over and over.

Then it happened.
The power came from heaven.
I was so filled with virtue and power and anointing of the Holy Spirit!!!
I Could barely contain myself.
What an awesome God!

With that impartation came some real steadfastness. I could see in the spirit that if I stand in faith and declare what heaven has I will come through any trial.

No matter what the trial is ....we win.
We DO NOT have victory because things went right.

WE HAVE VICTORY NO MATTER what goes wrong.
No matter what....WE HAVE VICTORY.
BIG GOD....LITTLE DEVIL
BIG GOD....trials come...so what!!!!

The man of faith is not centered on trials or as you put it "bad things happening to others"
You have inadvertantly consigned to see tragedy and demon attacks/evil people as bigger than God.

I say rise up and be counted in the realm of faith.
God is way bigger than ANYTHING that has happened to you or to others that you think God winked at.

I am seasoned and tied in fire.
I am not abstract here say.
I have walked in your shoes.
I know what the realm of faith is. It is the supernatural.
Humans walk with their eyes.
The man of faith looks at God with his eyes and calls human eyesight a lie.

I REFUSE TO WALK AS A MERE MAN.(the realm of defeat.)
Thank you for standing in a hard place, bro.

People every so often come up with this cliché: "how is God so horrible to allow such evils to happen, I suddenly woke up to the fact the world is laden with evil, I can't be a Christian anymore, now after such and so forth happened to me"...?

And I always ask myself this, we live in a world that saw holocausts. Why did it take something happening to you and yours, for you to go, "oh, wow, the world is so messed up"? Why should that be a decisive factor? I thought it was equally horrible previously, when it happened to others? So why change your mind now?
 

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I know the verses yet when you cry out to the Lord for relief He should help. Many Scriptures tell of His help when we cry and yet it doesn't come. Why? It's the discrepancies that I can't understand with God.
If it is not the will of God to take away the trouble from a person then He will give them the strengh to perservere through the trouble..

saintrose can you tell me how a person comes to be saved?
 

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Meanwhile, this coming Tuesday we will see the landslide of all landslides, and we know landslides take a lot of debris with them, there is going to be continual changes as He prepares His world for the return of our Lord and the separating of His sheep from the goats.
I hope He returns soon.
 

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God cuts people off every day, though He gives mankind time to repent before,

The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy. Pro.29:1

When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong. Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him. Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow. Ecc.8:11-13

It's good to know the ways of the Lord
Have you personally seen this? Or do your experiences mirror mine: the wicked continue on in their wickedness.
 
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Thank you for standing in a hard place, bro.

People every so often come up with this cliché: "how is God so horrible to allow such evils to happen, I suddenly woke up to the fact the world is laden with evil, I can't be a Christian anymore, now after such and so forth happened to me"...?

And I always ask myself this, we live in a world that saw holocausts. Why did it take something happening to you and yours, for you to go, "oh, wow, the world is so messed up"? Why should that be a decisive factor? I thought it was equally horrible previously, when it happened to others? So why change your mind now?
It is like going to a funeral of an acquaintance vs someone you bonded with and loved.

Once very bad things are in my lap it is a game changer.

One component of our walk is the personal cross.
I was suppose to die to this world at conversion,and enforce that death daily.

Anything but Gods perspective is to be dealt with.
That includes being EMOTIONALLY CENTERED.
Emotionally centered people have a difficult walk and even a difficult secular life.

Hurt,anger,frustration,bitterness, grudges,unforgiveness, are all tools to shipwreck believers.

Cancer of the soul.

That should be this thread.
"How do I get this cancer off of me"

Not
"They hurt me but I am not for remedies"

This hour is too late to be clinging to the past.

Let this world be damned but I will not take this abuse from satan.
Our backs are smoother streets where he has walked on us over and over.

It is time for a wake up.

Here is the first step for the op.

"Wait a minute,I don't have to put up with this"

Once the first step is taken then the mature saints can guide her.

Just my .02
 

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No
Trump is a Godsend.

He is definitely helping the USA.
Dear God did you not read the above? YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF MASSIVE GROUP BRAINWASHING. These people are occultists and use black magick to cast delusions on the masses. THERE IS REAL POWER THERE. These are people studied in black arts that have been passed down from generation to generation. Don't you remember when Moses cast the staff down and it became a snake by God's power. The priests practicing dark arts also cast a staff down and it turned into a snake. There is REAL POWER OPERATING THERE.

There is a place called Tavistock Institute which is a think-tank where they figure out, using mass hypnosis and sophisticated psychology to brainwash people.

I can't believe that I told you all of the above and you did NOT research it but parrot what the apostate pastors around Trump say. Trump is a FREEMASON. The FREEMASONS are an ancient cult.

You have much to learn.

Please do research. You are harming all of your fellow Christians by believing a LIE. They have terrible things planned for you and your family: FEMA CAMPS.

My spouse ran multimillion dollar government jobs. He and his men watched the towers fall on 9-11. He remarked to me at the time that he and his men thought the towers collapsed by controlled demolition. I dismissed it at the time and bought into the narrative that the presstitutes put out.

Then I was in line at the drugstore and got to talking with a cop who told me our own government did 9-11. I thought he was crazy. Then I was injured and all I had to do every day was lay in bed with my laptop. I learned the truth. America is scheduled for disaster: they're breaking us down to 3rd world status. Look around you: we've been de-industrialized. Most jobs pay low while the cost of living goes up and up. One of my family members works in a pharmacy and said the old people come in and can't afford their critical diabetes medicine and go away crying. Yet immigrants get every prescription paid for. There is a conspiracy to break Christian America down and destroy the middle class.

Look up the next time you drive: surveillance everywhere. It's an Orwellian nightmare. If you follow certain news online and not the mainstream news you learn what's really going on. They're going to go for the guns next just like in Nazi Germany.

Please listen to me. I studied this for 5 years and talked with people all over the world and it's the truth. Mass delusion has been played on the American people. No one is installed as President unless this shadow government approves. As Brandon Smith of Alt-market said: "Trump was put in place to keep Christians pacified while Trump continues the collapse of America.

Ask yourself this:

1. Did Trump tell the truth? Did he defund Planned Parenthood???
2. Why has Trump pushed for decriminalization of homosexuality in other nations? Is that what God approves of?
3. Why has Trump exploded the national debt?
4. Why is Trump pushing a vaccine that he claims the military will deliver as a sly way to infer that Americans have no choice? I guarantee there is something nefarious in that vaccine. I studied that for 5 years also. Why doesn't Gates get his children vaccinated? Did you ever see Gates' wife? She wears an UPSIDE DOWN CROSS.
5. Why is Trump dropping bombs on innocent people? He's MURDERING THEM AND HE'S MURDERING BABIES. MURDER. IT'S A SACRIFICE TO HASATAN.
6. Why was Trump accused of raping a young girl in the modeling agency he founded?
7. Trump was bankrupted and who came to his aid? Rockefeller's etc. Look them up to learn what they're about.
8. Why does Trump constantly throw the triple six and the devil's triangle? I strongly encourage you to learn about what is pushed right into your face.
9. Why did Trump just sign legislation allowing corporations to dump toxic waste into our water supply that causes damage to babies?
10. Why is Trump now saying that he'll take the guns. Look back in history! The first thing tyrannical regimes do is TAKE ALL WEAPONS AWAY FROM THE POPULACE SO THEY CAN'T FIGHT BACK.
10. Why did Trump say at a police rally to "knock them around" to the delight of the officers there who cheered him. What more do they need than license to go out and beat the hell out of people. My friend's neighbor's son was just beaten to a pulp by police so bad that he had to be hospitalized. Is THIS REALLY THE TYPE OF LAW AND ORDER THAT YOU WANT??? I encourage you to research "police abusing people" online. You'll be surprised at what you find, such as the cops who tased a 17 year-olds scrotum until he died, and cops who shamelessly forced a young mother to pull her pants down while a gloved female officer plunged her fingers into the young woman's most private areas tearing her hemorrhoids out so that she began bleeding profusely. There are good cops, I've met them and we had one in our family, but today's cops have something going on that's wrong. The illuminati has formed a police state rivaling Nazi Germany.

You may poo poo this and blurt out the platitude: "If you don't do anything wrong you have nothing to worry about." That's a LIE. Tell that to the parents of the young boy shot to death by a police officer because he was holding a joystick. Tell that to the parents of all the children murdered by police just for moving the wrong way. It's all available online if you research it. If you refuse to contact your legislators and demand change then it will be you and yours who will suffer this at some point.

Trump is selling a bill of goods that is meant to enslave you NOT make you safe.

Christ said "By their FRUITS ye shall know them NOT by their talk!" Trump talks a good game but he DOES the opposite. He just throws Christians a few bones so they think he's their champion. I promise you that you will see the truth someday and I hope it is sooner rather than later.

Unless you study The New World Order in depth you will remain blinded to what is going on. It's just like trying to talk about Scripture to an unregenerate person: the veil is on their mind.

I'm unsure how exactly the shadow government/ illuminati are able to place that veil over the minds of some Christians but they do. I've found from speaking with other believers that you must have a reasonable amount of intelligence to see through it all and most people are not that smart. The masses have been deliberately dumbed down (read Charlotte Iserbyt) I know they use mass psychology and black magick I read.

Scripture says "If possible the very elect would be deceived." I am overwhelmed that even pastors can't see through it all. They believe the official narrative and trust the mainstream media which is nothing more than a propaganda outlet.

I was told I have the gift of discernment. I'm unsure if it's true but I'm seeing all this while many are not.

PLEASE STOP LISTENING TO THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. GET YOUR NEWS FROM: SONS OF LIBERTY MEDIA.

RESEARCH ALL THE ABOVE AND I WILL PRAY THAT GOD WILL REMOVE THE VEIL FROM YOUR MIND SO THAT YOU CAN SEE WHAT I SEE.

Patrick Henry of Virginia:


“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.”
 

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""....BECAUSE HE BUCKED THE ELITE""
That is why the swamp hates trump,because he is not part of the establishment.

""MUCH EVIL IS COMING THAT MOST DON'T KNOW ABOUT.""

Only if trump loses.
No Trump did NOT buck the elite HE IS ELITE! He was a pal of Jeffrey Epstein. "How can two walk together unless they be agreed?"

If YOU RESEARCH -----> IN DEPTH <----- the things I told you to research then you will know the TRUTH. If you go on as you are you will be harming unborn children, countless people in Iran who are bombed by Trump, and the babies who get brain tumors from the toxic waste Trump signed legislation allowing it.

You are badly misinformed my friend.

Please listen as I do not mean to insult you and I hope that you take this the right way: You either lack the intelligence to understand complex problems, or you lack DISCERNMENT.

The American people have been DELIBERATELY DUMBED DOWN.

I have prayed that God would open your eyes.

http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DDDoA.pdf

http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/dd...5/charlotte-iserbyt-americas-road-to-ruin.pdf
 
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Dear God did you not read the above? YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF MASSIVE GROUP BRAINWASHING. These people are occultists and use black magick to cast delusions on the masses. THERE IS REAL POWER THERE. These are people studied in black arts that have been passed down from generation to generation. Don't you remember when Moses cast the staff down and it became a snake by God's power. The priests practicing dark arts also cast a staff down and it turned into a snake. There is REAL POWER OPERATING THERE.

There is a place called Tavistock Institute which is a think-tank where they figure out, using mass hypnosis and sophisticated psychology to brainwash people.

I can't believe that I told you all of the above and you did NOT research it but parrot what the apostate pastors around Trump say. Trump is a FREEMASON. The FREEMASONS are an ancient cult.

You have much to learn.

Please do research. You are harming all of your fellow Christians by believing a LIE. They have terrible things planned for you and your family: FEMA CAMPS.

My spouse ran multimillion dollar government jobs. He and his men watched the towers fall on 9-11. He remarked to me at the time that he and his men thought the towers collapsed by controlled demolition. I dismissed it at the time and bought into the narrative that the presstitutes put out.

Then I was in line at the drugstore and got to talking with a cop who told me our own government did 9-11. I thought he was crazy. Then I was injured and all I had to do every day was lay in bed with my laptop. I learned the truth. America is scheduled for disaster: they're breaking us down to 3rd world status. Look around you: we've been de-industrialized. Most jobs pay low while the cost of living goes up and up. One of my family members works in a pharmacy and said the old people come in and can't afford their critical diabetes medicine and go away crying. Yet immigrants get every prescription paid for. There is a conspiracy to break Christian America down and destroy the middle class.

Look up the next time you drive: surveillance everywhere. It's an Orwellian nightmare. If you follow certain news online and not the mainstream news you learn what's really going on. They're going to go for the guns next just like in Nazi Germany.

Please listen to me. I studied this for 5 years and talked with people all over the world and it's the truth. Mass delusion has been played on the American people. No one is installed as President unless this shadow government approves. As Brandon Smith of Alt-market said: "Trump was put in place to keep Christians pacified while Trump continues the collapse of America.

Ask yourself this:

1. Did Trump tell the truth? Did he defund Planned Parenthood???
2. Why has Trump pushed for decriminalization of homosexuality in other nations? Is that what God approves of?
3. Why has Trump exploded the national debt?
4. Why is Trump pushing a vaccine that he claims the military will deliver as a sly way to infer that Americans have no choice? I guarantee there is something nefarious in that vaccine. I studied that for 5 years also. Why doesn't Gates get his children vaccinated? Did you ever see Gates' wife? She wears an UPSIDE DOWN CROSS.
5. Why is Trump dropping bombs on innocent people? He's MURDERING THEM AND HE'S MURDERING BABIES. MURDER. IT'S A SACRIFICE TO HASATAN.
6. Why was Trump accused of raping a young girl in the modeling agency he founded?
7. Trump was bankrupted and who came to his aid? Rockefeller's etc. Look them up to learn what they're about.
8. Why does Trump constantly throw the triple six and the devil's triangle? I strongly encourage you to learn about what is pushed right into your face.
9. Why did Trump just sign legislation allowing corporations to dump toxic waste into our water supply that causes damage to babies?
10. Why is Trump now saying that he'll take the guns. Look back in history! The first thing tyrannical regimes do is TAKE ALL WEAPONS AWAY FROM THE POPULACE SO THEY CAN'T FIGHT BACK.
10. Why did Trump say at a police rally to "knock them around" to the delight of the officers there who cheered him. What more do they need than license to go out and beat the hell out of people. My friend's neighbor's son was just beaten to a pulp by police so bad that he had to be hospitalized. Is THIS REALLY THE TYPE OF LAW AND ORDER THAT YOU WANT??? I encourage you to research "police abusing people" online. You'll be surprised at what you find, such as the cops who tased a 17 year-olds scrotum until he died, and cops who shamelessly forced a young mother to pull her pants down while a gloved female officer plunged her fingers into the young woman's most private areas tearing her hemorrhoids out so that she began bleeding profusely. There are good cops, I've met them and we had one in our family, but today's cops have something going on that's wrong. The illuminati has formed a police state rivaling Nazi Germany.

You may poo poo this and blurt out the platitude: "If you don't do anything wrong you have nothing to worry about." That's a LIE. Tell that to the parents of the young boy shot to death by a police officer because he was holding a joystick. Tell that to the parents of all the children murdered by police just for moving the wrong way. It's all available online if you research it. If you refuse to contact your legislators and demand change then it will be you and yours who will suffer this at some point.

Trump is selling a bill of goods that is meant to enslave you NOT make you safe.

Christ said "By their FRUITS ye shall know them NOT by their talk!" Trump talks a good game but he DOES the opposite. He just throws Christians a few bones so they think he's their champion. I promise you that you will see the truth someday and I hope it is sooner rather than later.

Unless you study The New World Order in depth you will remain blinded to what is going on. It's just like trying to talk about Scripture to an unregenerate person: the veil is on their mind.

I'm unsure how exactly the shadow government/ illuminati are able to place that veil over the minds of some Christians but they do. I've found from speaking with other believers that you must have a reasonable amount of intelligence to see through it all and most people are not that smart. The masses have been deliberately dumbed down (read Charlotte Iserbyt) I know they use mass psychology and black magick I read.

Scripture says "If possible the very elect would be deceived." I am overwhelmed that even pastors can't see through it all. They believe the official narrative and trust the mainstream media which is nothing more than a propaganda outlet.

I was told I have the gift of discernment. I'm unsure if it's true but I'm seeing all this while many are not.

PLEASE STOP LISTENING TO THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. GET YOUR NEWS FROM: SONS OF LIBERTY MEDIA.

RESEARCH ALL THE ABOVE AND I WILL PRAY THAT GOD WILL REMOVE THE VEIL FROM YOUR MIND SO THAT YOU CAN SEE WHAT I SEE.

Patrick Henry of Virginia:


“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.”
Yes the gov Did 911.
No brainer. We all should know that.

I do my own research and am able to see everything trump has done is good and outside the swamp.pick one thing he did and tell me how it is bad.

Even if there is one thing or 5 things out of 3000 things he has done,I did not vote for a pastor. I voted for a man that could oppose the swamp,the media,the Republican rinos, the FBI corruption,and even go against his own cabinet if needed.
Trump has done all that.

Btw the gov has been into brainwashing the public for 50 plus years.
The bilderbergs rothchilds,skull and bones and others have been there before trump was born.

The entire fed is operated by bankers.
Trump should win and we will see more good things
 
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""You are badly misinformed my friend""

I do not watch the news.
I test everything
No...not badly informed at all.

I am free to see the good that trump has done and not in some box that prevents that observation.

Like I said show me the things he has done that are bad.
 
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""No Trump did NOT buck the elite HE IS ELITE! He was a pal of Jeffrey Epstein. "How can two walk together unless they be agreed?"""

Let me ask you a question
Are you a biden supporter?

If not,do you think some perfect born again pastor is going to run and get elected?
 

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Have you personally seen this? Or do your experiences mirror mine: the wicked continue on in their wickedness.
I see (with my linited sight) people dying in their sins everyday. Don't you?

But it's not for us to decide who is or isn't saved.

We shouldn't hope people will die unsaved. I'm thankful I didn't die before turning to Jesus.
 
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""You may poo poo this and blurt out the platitude: "If you don't do anything wrong you have nothing to worry about." That's a LIE. Tell that to the parents of the young boy shot to death by a police officer because he was holding a joystick. Tell that to the parents of all the children murdered by police just for moving the wrong way. It's all available online if you research it. If you refuse to contact your legislators and demand change then it will be you and yours who will suffer this at some point.""

Those injustices are extremely rare and pale in comparison to the atrocities like we see in Chicago where er s are filled every night with black on black shootings.

I just learned yesterday that the female mistakenly killed in her apt had a boyfriend that opened up on the cops first.

I dont know if that was included by the news or not but what you are getting for info sounds like you are listening to propaganda where these rare events are being magnified.
 
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"" Why is Trump now saying that he'll take the guns. Look back in history! The first thing tyrannical regimes do is TAKE ALL WEAPONS AWAY FROM THE POPULACE SO THEY CAN'T FIGHT BACK. ""
Show me his statement.
I do not think that is true.

And where I'd you learn this?
 

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It is like going to a funeral of an acquaintance vs someone you bonded with and loved.

Once very bad things are in my lap it is a game changer.

One component of our walk is the personal cross.
I was suppose to die to this world at conversion,and enforce that death daily.

Anything but Gods perspective is to be dealt with.
That includes being EMOTIONALLY CENTERED.
Emotionally centered people have a difficult walk and even a difficult secular life.

Hurt,anger,frustration,bitterness, grudges,unforgiveness, are all tools to shipwreck believers.

Cancer of the soul.

That should be this thread.
"How do I get this cancer off of me"

Not
"They hurt me but I am not for remedies"

This hour is too late to be clinging to the past.

Let this world be damned but I will not take this abuse from satan.
Our backs are smoother streets where he has walked on us over and over.

It is time for a wake up.

Here is the first step for the op.

"Wait a minute, I don't have to put up with this"

Once the first step is taken then the mature saints can guide her.

Just my .02
You are aiming straight into the center here, of course. I was just pointing at the huge hypocrisy in this kind of complaint.
So, it's okay and I can be Christian when atrocities happen to others, then the world is tolerable for me, but when they start happening to me and mine, then I am Christian no more, and I'm now going to be soapboxing to other Christians how bad and incongruous they are for keeping their faith. Excuse me? Where were you earlier while it was happening to others?

And it's a question mark whether these Christians actually surrendered their life to Jesus to begin with. I knew when I was saved, life was not my own any more to pursue happiness, if it happens it happens but I decided to follow Jesus. That's where happy go lucky evangelical interpretations - be a Christian and you will be "blessed" - snare people. And, people not knowing what "blessed" means, too. They read, you are blessed when people persecute you, then go "that means I will be happy and rescued in persecution when I pray". But that's not what Jesus said. Ego death is the goal. The truth was told us in the seed design mechanism.
 

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as I said on prayer thread. Job Job Job

@saintrose its not all about YOU. I know it hurts, but Jesus suffered on the cross too and it bloody hurt. Why didnt God prevent that? Well he did ask why! It so He could save others.

when you get to that point, then you can take action, but until then, ok you will complain and we'll just listen. Might take a few pages though.
 

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I am so sorry that some Christians have let you down. It is sad, but thank God, we all have Jesus to help us when humans let us down.

Church should be a place we go to worship Him and to bless others, all for His glory. We all are being established but the only way any of us are going to be presented blameless is because of Him, through Him. He gets all the glory.

I know that when you find a church that doesn't as a whole honor God, be thankful that it was made clear so that you can pray more, and perhaps seek another church home

In my opinion, the more we see darkness, the more our focus needs be Him and His light. He is a God who sees and He is working.

Please don't allow bad experiences limit your potential to find a church home.

God Bless you.