Amen

When I was a young man and thought myself invincible, I investigated nearly everything I saw. Now that I am old I understand (I think) that there are many things out there that are intended to fill the mind with trash. With the intent to drag you down to the devil's level and steal your soul. Now I firmly believe that God covers us with the blood of Christ and that all can be forgiven when we ask, but I also think it's possible to step out from under that covering by free will and suffer the consequences. (Not affecting salvation) Knowing this also that ALL things work together for the good of those who are 'the called according to His purpose.

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8; To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven

A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to get and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away;

A time and a time to sew; a time to keep silence and a time to speak;

A time to love and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace.

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Oh Lord, give me discernment and wisdom to know the appropriate time for all things and the courage to follow that leading.

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing. Our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing. For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe - his craft and power are great, and armed with cruel hate, on earth is not his equal. Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing. Were not the right Man on our side, the Man of Gods own choosing. Dost ask who that may be?Christ Jesus, it is He. Lord Sabaoth His name. From age to age the same, and He must win the battle. Martin Luther

hen peace like a river attendeth my way. When sorrows like sea billows roll. Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul. Written by Horatio Spafford after a series of horrendous calamities in his life. (look up his story on Wikipedia)

That first word should be When

Please remember, fear and anxiety are the opposite of faith. These are exactly the emotions the enemy wants to instill in Gods people. Take a deep breath, ask God for wisdom and discernment and know that He has you and all you love in His hand.

He leadeth me, O blessed thought. O words with heavenly comfort fraught! Whate"er I do where"er I be, still tis Gods hand that leadeth me. He leadeth me, He leadeth me. By His own hand He leadeth me. His faithful follower I would be, for by his hand he leadeth me.

Sometimes mid scenes of deepest gloom. Sometimes where Edens bowers bloom. By waters still, o'er troubled sea, still tis His hand that leadeth me.

Prayers for Captain Liberty, He is not feeling well.

2 Timothy 1: 12 I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I've committed unto Him against that day

Some advice I just gave my daughter. When you rise up in the morning, thank God for bringing you through the night. Ask Him to guide you through the day and then leave it in His hands. Through the day pay attention to the still small voice of the Holy Spirit. Give thanks again when you retire for the night and ask forgiveness for any place you might have missed His guidance through the day and the sin that so easily besets us. If you do these things I believe that weight that hangs over your head will slip away and be replaced by joy unspeakable.

Strangely enough I just tried to post a scripture in the chapel text but it didn't post. I got a bot message that I shouldn't post the same thing over and over again. This was not something I had posted before.

Ugh, I'm a slow typist.

I'll try again later

Galatians 6: 1-3 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing, he decieveth himself.

2 Timothy4: 2-4 Preach the Word, be instant in season, out of season,reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

God is able. Prayers for the little one and prayers for the family.

Interesting - Does that bot come in KJV?

@RebelRobMAGA Yes, I suffered 17 years before a diagnosis. It was God who showed me what to do. He has the answers. Just waiting for you to ask. Prayers for you and your wife.

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the way of death. Choose life. Choose Jesus. Listen to the Holy Spirit. He will guide you into ALL truth.

@imig I must say I have never heard of the book of Tobit. It must be apocryphal.

@listen Excellent passage. Just as a balance, however, I believe that there will always be a small minority that IS listening. Jesus said "Straight is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life eternal and but few there be that find it " (from memory so might be slightly different). There are always those few.

Unintended consequences? It looks like the BibleBot is taking over Chapel Text.

I am weak but Thou art strong. Jesus keep me from all wrong. I'll be satisfied as long as I walk, let me walk, close to Thee.

Just a closer walk with Thee. Grant it Jesus is my plea. Daily walking close to Thee. Let it be Dear Lord, let it be.

In this world of toils and snares, if I falter Lord, who cares. None but Thee Dear Lord, non but Thee.

Chorus

And when my feeble life is o'er, time for me will be no more. Guide me gently, safely, o'er, to Thy kingdom shore, to Thy shore.

Chorus

@CptKirk prayers for your friend

Jesus told a parable about the rich man in hell, who, lifting up his eyes, saw Lazarus being comforted in the bosom of Abraham. It brings to mind a part of a song from the 70s. "What ya gonna do when the world's on fire? Don't ya want God's bosom to be your pillow?"

David, a man after God's own heart, decided one day that he could do God a service and bring the Ark of God back to Israel. It turned out to be the cause of a lot of heartache. It was not in God's timing or in His prescribed way. Not saying to never try to do God's will. Just be sure it is God's will. He opens doors but doesn't tell us to bust them down. Pray always before action. Allow Him to lead you.

Pray without ceasing. In my opinion this means to remain in an attitude of prayer, always listening for that still, small voice.

The right mental attitude will bring any promise of God to pass.

John 1; 5 KJV And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness COMPREHENDED it not. ................that means the darkness didn't understand the light. NRSV bad translation.

well there you go. I will bow to the Greek.

I suppose, however, that since the darkness didn't understand the light it couldn't overcome it.

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@Deb65 I have to tell you that those spirits are always around, waiting in the shadows to attack. The good news is that because our Lord has already won the war, the only power those spirits have is what we grant them. Hold to God's unchanging hand. He will walk with you and carry you through the darkest of timrs.

@bdk1184 Prayer is always warranted. Do you know if she survived?

The word rereward means rear guard. Don't fear to go forward. God has your back.

Isaiah 58: 3-7 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and Thou seest not? Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and Thou takest no knowledge? Behold in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labors. Behold ye fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickedness; Ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? Wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord? Is not THIS the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Take the whole council of God. Not just the parts that make you feel good.

@Sweet Dreams With as much as lies within me (which I believe is the Spirit of God), I stand with you against that virus in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

@patriotlady5 You raise an issue that is thorny indeed. For any two people to live together for any length of time in this world that is bent on tearing them apart is a monumental task. I say this as a man who is a two time loser in that regard. I now know that I have been the sort of fellow of whom you speak. Insensitive, unresponsive, always looking after my own vision of how the world should be. What is the answer to this dilemma? I'm not sure. I do know that Jesus tells us to love one another better than we love ourselves. How can we do that? Only with His help. Perhaps our expectations of others are unrealistic. Perhaps we need to give that person into God's hands, quit trying to change him or her into what we think they ought to be and instead be thankful for the chance to share with them their joys and sorrows, knowing that our happiness is found in living for God and His righteousness.

Pray for Thumpers dog Connie.

she is having siesures

@imig Mathew 13: 20 is not complete without 13: 21 Yet hath he not root in himself but dureth (endures) for a while, for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the Word, by and by he is offended.

Isaiah 6: 1 In the year that King Uzziah died saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.

Should we butter up the satanist heathen who are trying to bring us all down to their level? Ephesians 5; 11-13 says different. "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things that are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light." And again in 2 Timothy 4: 2-4 "Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears."

What is sound doctrine? Is it not taking the whole council of God? Both the pleasant and the uncomfortable?

There is a chance your grandparents knew my grandparents and great-grandparents. My great=grandfather was the first mayor of the combined cities of Sedro and Woolley, now known as Sedro-woolley.

Prayers for your family

There is an old saying (a little silly perhaps) that goes like this; "I'm sure you thought you understood what you thought you heard me say, but I'm not sure you realize that what I said was not what I meant." Another way of saying something very similar is from Shakespeare; "There's may a slip between the cup and the lip." The idea I'm trying to put forth here is embodied in the scripture, "Lean not to your own understanding." Proverbs 3: 5. God will give you discernment if you ask. Things and people are not always what they seem at face value. Seek the Holy Spirit. He was sent to lead you into all truth.

@QuikWit Basically it means sharing a meal together. Loaves of bread were broken rather than cut. This is still done in many parts of the world. Unleavened bread is easy to break apart. It also has a spiritual component. Jesus body (the Bread of Life) was broken for us.

@QuikWit There is some interesting play of light and shadow but the resolution is so poor it's hard to tell what's what.

The world is full of surprising sights. I'm sure God has many messages for those with eyes to see. Just be sure it measures up to His Word.

@seniorontherun I wonder how much of that story is real. The pictures being used are from California etc.

God uses people with the gift of prophesy to reveal the meaning of dreams. These people should be a proven commodity. The bible says that a prophet must be 100% right, 100% of the time or they should be put to death. Howbeit, He did promise that in the last days He would pour out His Spirit on all flesh. "Your sons and daughters will prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And on my servants and on my handmaids I will pour out of My Spirit in those days and they shall prophesy." There are prophets and there are gifts of prophesy.

@Will Gab.ai/DrCheckmate (USA) My heart goes out to you. All I can do is pray, but pray I will and am.

Judges 7:12- 15

Gideon is a good example for us today. It doesn't matter how many Midianites or Amalekites are arrayed against us. God is able to use just a few to defeat a great multitude.

Amen

Let's talk about the Sabbath. Is it a day of the week? In the book of Hebrews (presumably written by Paul) this subject is dealt with pretty comprehensively in chapters three and four. He is speaking of Gods rest (or Sabbath). In chapter four verses 9-12 the scripture gives us a look at the true Saba

bath. "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works,as God did from His.

Let us labor, therefore,to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

For the Word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and is a discernerof the thoughts and intents of the heart.

I contend that the Sabbath is a person. The Lord Jesus Christ himself. When you have entered into Christ, you have entered into His rest. Without that you can keep any day you like and it won't make a bit of difference.

Galatians 5: 1 and 13-16 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage 13-16 For brethren ye have been called unto liberty, only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself". But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, "Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh".

@2ncourage Have you heard the song composed from those verses in Galatians?

Me and links don't compute. My online skills are severely lacking. Just an old man trying to share analogue in the digital age. I can sing it. DM me and I'll give out my phone number if you like.

@imig yes that's the one. One of my favorites, but there are a ton of great songs I've always enjoyed scripture songs. As to practice I've become a slow learner as I've gotten older and somewhat disabled.

I do believe that God leads me and gives me the knowledge I need. I will walk in His light and do that which he leads me to. His joy is my strength.

Thank you for your prayers.

Not by might, nor by power, but by power saith the Lord.

By my Spirit saith the Lord

How deep and wide and high does the war we are presently engaged in go? How deep and wide and high is Gods love? How committed are you to the fight? How great is Gods love for you? What does it take to be an over-comer? Do you trust the plan; Gods plan?

@Patriot64 I got the wrong emoji the first time. In any case, wherever your pain is or what is causing it, I know that God is greater than your pain. As a fellow sufferer I know how hard your battle is. God bless you.

MY OPINION based on what I know of scripture. Jesus paid the ultimate price for our sins and sent back His Holy Spirit to lead us because, WE COULD NOT DO IT ON OUR OWN. We are the creation. He is the creator. Yes, He allowed sin to enter the world through lust. I believe it was because He was not finished with the creation of us, His creation. Without the introduction of sin we couldn't learn it's devastating effects or how to be over-comers of it by giving our lives back into the hands that created it. The fact that we have free will is the proof of it because we then have the choice to give that free will back into His keeping and instead be led by His Holy Spirit

1 John 4: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it inthe world.

2 John: 7For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

The antichrist is, first and foremost, an evil spirit. A spirit can infect anyone who is not sealed into Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit of God. It is known by it's fruit just as those who are sealed into Christ are known by their fruit. Whoi s it

that comes to kill steal and destroy?

Good night all. May God impart unto you the gifts of the Spirit and may you manifest the fruit of the Spirit.

One would hope he is looking in the right direction for that help. There are many causes for depression. Sometimes it is oppression. I pray he finds the right kind of help. Most of all I pray God is gracious to lead him to that everlasting fountain of healing.

@listen lease expand on your thought

@listen Last post malfunctioned, Please expand on your thought. I know you think you understand what you thought you heard me say but I'm not sure you realize that what I said might not represent what I meant.

Memes are alright but sometimes the meaning isn't clear.

Q Anon Nope , flesh and blood. Are you?

Check with Thumper to see if I'm real