Jesus absolutely needs to be #1 in our lives. Nobody is disputing that.
Oh come now Sister. Can you tell me in what scenario that self love would be a righteous love? Because I can't think of one. ??
Lol. It is a good thing when two that disgree (maybe), that they are able to have a friendly conversation about it. There's the Lord at work again! It's almost like people are waking up to loving everyone in spirit and in truth. This brings unification in the body.
My hat's off to you Sister!
You already owe her an apology for calling her a heretic, even if you did it without understanding the word you should still apologize.
I didn't call her a heretic! She asked if it was heresy and I said yes. I thought heresy meant it is a wrong thing and goes against scripture? Evenso, I was merely answering her question as I see it. I wasn't intending to be offensive to her, but if I am to love all people then should not I love them by speaking the truth at least? So it was more along the lines of being a warning to her. She's prolly one of the Lord's favorite daughters! I wouldn't insult any of God's children on purpose!
You should also apologize for jumping to conclusions and telling her what she is thinking.
I thought she might give response? She hasn't. I wish I could talk to her like I talk to you! Then we might make progress and help this Sister. I have kept writing thinking she might be a busy lady, or maybe she is uncomfortable speaking of her thoughts and desires because of some of the responses. But at the very least, she comes and reads thru the thread to see what was said. I bet you she does! But she's not getting responses that she expected so don't know what to say? So she may have messed up (or maybe not) but even if she did, it's nothing that we all haven't done ourselves at some point. I'm no better than she is. But perhaps I have had a longer walk with the Lord, and may be able to help? Scripture says we should confess our faults to each other, and Sister, I am the poster child for that, it's what I do. It's what I can do.
I wish she would come talk to us. From what I can tell, everyone is going through something lately, spiritually speaking and some might not even recognize it is so. I *think* the Lord has begun shaking all things, and we all feel it! Hmm, I wonder what March holds?
As a side note, I enjoyed your water heater story! I'll be buying one myself soon, good to know the Rheem info. Just curious, you mentioned how important it is to seek God in all matters.... did you also pray about the purchases you made the morning before the leak was discovered? I'm just curious about your methods, no judgement either way
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Say, you are a perceptive one, aren't you? (Is that what I do? Lol) You are correct, I didn't pray about what to spend the money on, I decided that. A mistake for sure, but
since then I have learned many of these things! That is His money. He gave me a house, paid off, no mortage. It's not my house, it is the Lord's house. I steward the house, but it belongs to Him.
Hey, I remember a good one! right when I was about to fully retire and start receiving checks, I did one of my last side jobs for someone who had my number. His furnace didn't work. I went out and it was a bad gas control and I did not have the right one on the truck, so I had to go get it.
So I picked it up and was on my way back to the house. I really wanted to give the guy a smoking deal on the job, plus make a few bucks for myself. That shouldn't be hard at company prices all around town! I was thinking on the way back to his house how much should I charge him? It was kind of a referral in the Christian cirle that I had in town, so I wanted to give him a super good deal so He may have something to talk about! And self consciousness kicked in and greed or self love or whatever you want to call it, but I was troubled in spirit about it for an unknown reason (Lol).
So I began praying about it, Lord How much should I charge this guy? And He answered me instantly. He said, don't charge him anything.
And I admit, I wasn't fond of His answer. I felt like I deserved a few bucks out of it. I guess the Lord read my mind because He said, Didn't you give your life to me? I said Yes Lord. Then He said, then it's my business and I said don't charge him anything!
Now I was not about to argue with the Boss of Bosses!
Side note, I di pray that the Lord wouldn't let me write anything wrong today, will He give me what to say? SO I am learning! What the Lord said to me, sure did change my perceptions! He has taken care of me my entire life, even when I wasn't walking with Him. It's always been Him.
So it was a good question! Didn't I give my life to the Lord? Yes I did. All of it? Now I have. With what the Lord said to me, (Then it's mine now and my business.) made me take stock of my heart and life to look for areas that I have not fully surrendered to Him yet. I'm working on that, and how she phrased her question/1st post, troubled me in spirit so I suspect that she still has areas that she does not want to surrender? After all, who knows how deep her desire for self love and what exactly she means by that term, may indicate that she needs to hear the truth of the matter. In my mind she has already proven (4 Threads!) that the Holy Spirit is working with her on something. Tryna help.
Angelica, please talk to us. You can't be going through more than you can bear or you wouldn't be asking questions.
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Perhaps what she actually has in mind is unhealthy, perhaps it isn't. But adding your words to what she said, telling her what she thinks while asking ZERO clarifying questions is DEFINITELY unhealthy, and not the way a true teacher of the Word would be behaving.
), And THEN you told her that she wants to put herself first before Jesus (which she never said or really even indicated, you added that part in 