Sandra v villamero's Posts - All About GOD2024-03-28T18:43:41Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamerohttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/61786770?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.allaboutgod.net/profiles/blog/feed?user=0e1i8lu8bjt8e&xn_auth=noBreaking Down the Faith Barriertag:www.allaboutgod.net,2017-07-17:1383940:BlogPost:17374522017-07-17T06:29:32.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_20704"><span class="font-size-5" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_20703" style="color: #ff9900;">Breaking Down the Faith Barrier…</span></p>
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_20691"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff9900;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.crosswalkmail.com/npwryjqprwrnqkpznthmcngcqjnkfhhkwdqcyyzptyfrkyf_bbjglppgqbqb.html" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_20695" name="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_20695"><span style="color: #ff9900;">Exodus 4:1-13</span></a></span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_20679"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff9900;">A faith barrier is made up of attitudes that short-circuit our trust and prevent us from obeying the Lord's will. A negative self-image can hinder us in this way, as can ignorance of God's character and promises. Three other attitudes can also trip us up: doubt, feelings of inadequacy, and fear of failure.</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_20710"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff9900;">Moses doubted that the Israelites would believe he had been chosen by the Lord to lead them. But God graciously provided reassurance--in the form of evidence that He could accomplish everything He'd promised (Ex. 4:1-5). When doubt invades our minds, it can be overcome with diligent study of Scripture and persistent prayer, which will dislodge uncertainty and replace it with biblical truth.</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_20711"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff9900;">Moses wasn't eloquent, and a perceived lack of skill left him feeling inadequate for the job--he was afraid trying to speak would make him stumble. God patiently reassured him of divine help in that task. The Lord often chooses unlikely people to carry out His plan because He looks at the heart, not human qualifications (1 Sam. 16:7). He can overcome all our inadequacies.</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_20823"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff9900;">Sadly, Moses did not embrace what God promised but instead asked to be relieved of the assignment. A fear of failure can prevent us from saying yes to the Lord.</span></p>
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_20822"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff9900;">Carrying out God's will requires a heart that trusts Him, a soul that steps out in obedience, and a mind that leaves success or failure to Him. As we break down the faith barrier, we will be able to see the evidence of God's presence and power--and experience the joy of obedience.</span></p>
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_15412"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #000000;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.crosswalkmail.com/qpfpwhmfpnptmdfbtvqrjtyjmhtdsqqdngmjwwbfvsnndvf_rwkgrccgvwvw.html" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_15411" name="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_15411"><span style="color: #000000;">2 Corinthians 11:23-30</span></a></span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_15413"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #000000;">It doesn't seem fair, does it? Paul spent his life serving Christ, and yet he experienced continual suffering. Why would God let one of His most faithful servants go through so much pain? This isn't just a question about Paul; it's an issue we face today. In our minds, the Lord should protect His loyal followers from hardships, but He doesn't necessarily do so.</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_15421"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #000000;">Maybe our reasoning is backwards. We think faithful Christians don't deserve to suffer, but from God's perspective, suffering is what produces faithful Christians. If we all had lives of ease without opposition, trials, or pain, we'd never really know God, because we'd never need Him. Like it or not, adversity teaches us more about the Lord than simply reading the Bible ever will.</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_15454"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #000000;">I'm not saying we don't need to know Scripture; that's our foundation for faith. But if what we believe is never tested by adversity, it remains head knowledge. How will we ever know the Lord can be trusted in the midst of trouble if we've never been challenged by hardship? God gives us opportunities to apply scriptural truths to the difficulties facing us, and in the process, we find Him faithful. For example, how would Paul ever have known the strength of Christ if he had never been weakened by pain, persecution, and adversity?</span></p>
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_15453"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #000000;">Depending on your response, trials can be God's greatest means of building faith or an avenue to discouragement and self-pity. If you'll believe what Scripture says and apply its principles to your situation, your trust in God will grow, and your faith will be strengthened through adversity.</span></p>ARE WE LISTENING ?tag:www.allaboutgod.net,2017-07-17:1383940:BlogPost:17374462017-07-17T06:00:50.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8171"><span class="font-size-3"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8170"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8169"><a href="http://www.cgg.org/r/?s=hr0vBFx" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8168" name="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8168" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8167">Acts 9:5…</span></a></span></b></span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8171"><span class="font-size-3"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8170"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8169"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cgg.org/r/?s=hr0vBFx" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8168" name="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8168"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8167">Acts 9:5</span></a></span></b></span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8187"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8186" class="font-size-3">(<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8185">5) And he said, "Who are You, Lord?"</b></span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8190"><span class="font-size-3"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8189"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8188">Then the Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It <i>is</i> hard for you to kick against the goads."</span></b></span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8191"><span class="font-size-3"><b> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cgg.org/r/?s=2IrotAq">Acts 26:14</a></b></span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8194"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8193" class="font-size-3">(<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8192">14) And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?</b></span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8195"><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>It is</i></b><b> <i>hard for you to kick against the goads</i></b><i>." <br/><br/></i></span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8197"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8196" class="font-size-3">Before conversion, the apostle Paul was certainly well-schooled in the Scriptures, as far as the Jews could teach him.</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8198"><span class="font-size-3">The Bible says he studied at the feet of Gamaliel (<a rel="nofollow" name="2770827708"></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cgg.org/r/?s=qRK2GPV" title="verse">Acts 22:3</a>).</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal"><span class="font-size-3">He was very intelligent and incisive of mind, a man of conviction and determination.</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal"><span class="font-size-3">Yet, this same man <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/CGGBOOKLETS/k/421/God-Is-What.htm" title="library">God</a> had to physically blind and thoroughly humble before he could see Him.</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal"><span class="font-size-3">Even though Paul had a command of the Scriptures that few people have ever had at their calling, he could not <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Audio.details/ID/138/Do-You-See-God.htm" title="library">see God</a> working in the infant Christian church.</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal"><span class="font-size-3"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cgg.org/r/?s=DYWbMEl">Christ</a>, in a mild rebuke, says to Paul on the way to Damascus, <b>"It is hard for you to kick against the goads."</b></span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal"><span class="font-size-3">We should take this reproach to heart as well because it teaches us that the carnal mind will reject the evidence that God gives, even though it is suffering and in pain.</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8215"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8214" class="font-size-3">Thus, God's calling and His predisposing us to see spiritually and to identify with His Son are of no avail unless His Word becomes integrated within us.</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8213"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8212" class="font-size-3">How are we hearing God's Word?</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8210"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8211" class="font-size-3">Disinterestedly?</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8209"><span class="font-size-3">Sceptically?</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8207"><span class="font-size-3">Cynically?</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8208"><span class="font-size-3">Critically?</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal"><span class="font-size-3">Indifferently?</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal"><span class="font-size-3">Eagerly?</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal"><span class="font-size-3">Remember, <b>"<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/RA/k/974/Faith-What-Is-It.htm" title="library">faith</a> comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (<a rel="nofollow" name="2820628206"></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cgg.org/r/?s=XfTDKJZ" title="verse">Romans 10:17</a>).</b></span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal"><span class="font-size-3">Hearing starts the processing of the revelation of God, and we must consciously work at it.</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal"><span class="font-size-3">It includes what we are "hearing" this moment, as well as what we have heard over the last six months, the past year, the past decade, and the whole time of our conversion! How are we listening?</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal"><span class="font-size-3">Do we follow through on the things that we hear?</span></p>
<p class="yiv7944188223MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8205"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_8204" class="font-size-3">Unless we do, we are not hearing - and we will not truly see God!</span></p>CRYING OUT LOUD TO GODtag:www.allaboutgod.net,2017-07-17:1383940:BlogPost:17374022017-07-17T05:57:31.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_7638"><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_7639" style="color: #003366;">July 15/16</span></p>
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_7609"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #003366;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.crosswalkmail.com/bgzclbpqcdcypzqtyjkmsyvspbyzfkkzdgpslltqjflpzzp_hmscqvvcwmwm.html" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_7634" name="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_7634"><span style="color: #003366;">Matthew 14:29-30</span></a></span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_7647"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #003366;">The phone rings, and you answer. A sullen voice informs you of a tragedy. Your heart is so heavy that you feel as though you could die. What do you do?</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_7648"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #003366;">Bad news, danger, and pain all cause us to look for help. As believers, we dwell with the almighty God, who is able to aid us. At those moments when we are sideswiped by life’s circumstances, we should cry out to Him.</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_7649"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #003366;">In the Bible, <em>crying out </em>refers to speaking audibly with great emotion concerning an urgent need. God invites us to use this form of prayer to communicate that we desperately need His mercy.</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_7684"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #003366;">It takes both faith and humility to share our heart’s concern aloud. Crying out, then, is a way for God’s children to express trust in the Lord’s ability and willingness to help. By calling upon Him with such urgency, wealso lay down our pride and any attitude of self-sufficiency.</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_7683"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #003366;">The Word of God assures us that our Father hears our cries and responds. In Psalm 3:4, for example, David wrote, “I was crying to the Lord with my voice, and He answered from His holy mountain.” When we call aloud for help in Jesus’ name, we invite His power into the situation. Remember that there is strength in just speaking His name.</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500356585027_7654"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #003366;">When we cry out to God, He may remove the problem immediately, yet we often have to wait for His perfect timing. Harsh circumstances might even be allowed to remain for His good purposes. But we can always count on His comfort and presence, which enable us to live with joy and hope.</span></p>BE PARTICULAR IN ALL YOU DO, DESIRE GOODNESS ALONE.tag:www.allaboutgod.net,2015-08-24:1383940:BlogPost:16524772015-08-24T02:39:54.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
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<p>What you think about determines the quality and direction of your life. Naturally, people who think positive, uplifting thoughts have happier, healthier, longer lives. They are less stressed, more vibrant and enjoy better sleep. That’s why the scripture enc<span class="text_exposed_show">ourages us to think on good things — things that are true, noble and lovely. Some translations say to “fix your mind” on them. When you fix your mind on noble things, you close the door to the negative voices and open your heart to allow God to work in your life.</span></p>
<div class="text_exposed_show"><p>Choose today to fix your mind on good things. Do whatever you need to in order to keep those good thoughts before you. Write them on note cards and put them in a place where you can see them. Confess God’s promises over your life and declare His blessing on a daily basis. As you fix your mind on the goodness of God, you will rise higher in every area of your life. You will be filled with His peace and victory, and you’ll see every dream and desire in your heart come to pass.</p>
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<p>Father in heaven, I choose to fix my mind on noble things. I choose thoughts of peace and victory. Fill my heart with Your goodness that I may glorify You in everything I do in Jesus’ name. Amen.</p>
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<p> <span style="color: #333399;"><em><span class="font-size-4">Make your requests known to your Maker. Never is one repulsed who comes to Him with a contrite heart. Not one sincere prayer is lost, amid the anthems of the celestial choir, God hears the cries of the weakest human being. We pour out our heart's desire in our closets, we breathe a prayer as we walk by the way, and our words reach the throne of our Monarch of the universe, they maybe inaudible to any human ear, but they can not die away into silence, nor can they be lost through the activities of business that are going on. Nothing can drown the soul's desire. It rises above the den of the street, above the conclusion of the multitude, to the heavenly courts. It is God to whom we are speaking, and our prayer is heard. You who feel the most unworthy, fear not to commit your case to God.</span></em></span></p>ASK IN FAITH THEN RECEIVE.tag:www.allaboutgod.net,2015-08-11:1383940:BlogPost:16502792015-08-11T12:18:57.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
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<p> <em><span style="color: #ff9900;" class="font-size-6"> There is strength to be obtained of God. He can help. He can give grace and heavenly wisdom. If you ask in faith, you will receive; but you must watch unto prayer. watch, pray, work, should be your watchword.</span></em></p>
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<p> <em><span style="color: #ff9900;" class="font-size-6"> There is strength to be obtained of God. He can help. He can give grace and heavenly wisdom. If you ask in faith, you will receive; but you must watch unto prayer. watch, pray, work, should be your watchword.</span></em></p>
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<p><em><span class="font-size-6" style="color: #33cccc;"> We must have on the whole armor of God and be ready at any moment for a conflict with the powers of darkness. when temptations and trials rush in upon us, let us go to God and agonize with Him in prayer,. He will not turn as away empty, but will give us grace and strength to overcome, and to break the power of the enemy.</span></em></p>
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<p><em><span class="font-size-6" style="color: #33cccc;"> We must have on the whole armor of God and be ready at any moment for a conflict with the powers of darkness. when temptations and trials rush in upon us, let us go to God and agonize with Him in prayer,. He will not turn as away empty, but will give us grace and strength to overcome, and to break the power of the enemy.</span></em></p>Secret Prayer the soul of Religion.tag:www.allaboutgod.net,2015-08-10:1383940:BlogPost:16502112015-08-10T12:23:56.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
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<p> <em><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #00ccff;"> Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion. With earnest , fervent prayer plead for purity of soul. Plead as earnestly, as eagerly, as you would for your normal life, were it at stake. Remain before God until unutterable longings are begotten within you for salvation, and the sweet…</span></em></p>
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<p> <em><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #00ccff;"> Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion. With earnest , fervent prayer plead for purity of soul. Plead as earnestly, as eagerly, as you would for your normal life, were it at stake. Remain before God until unutterable longings are begotten within you for salvation, and the sweet <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/71779099?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/71779099?profile=original" width="456" class="align-center"/></a>evidence is obtained of pardoned sin.</span></em></p>LOVEtag:www.allaboutgod.net,2015-08-06:1383940:BlogPost:16497192015-08-06T00:39:54.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
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<p class="yiv7402469381MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11967"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11966"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11965">My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends (John 15:12-13).</span></b></p>
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11979"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11980">This section begins and ends with the command of Jesus: I command you to love one another. The fact that this is put in the imperative mode means it is not an option in our life. It is not something we do if we feel like it. It is to be a deliberate response to another person whom we know to be in the family of God, regardless of how we feel toward that person.</span></p>
<p><span>Many people struggle at this point. They say, How can you command love? Love is a feeling, and if you don't love somebody, you can't help it. Love is our master; we do not master it. Those who say these things reveal that they have a very serious misconception of love. Unfortunately, we are victims of Hollywood in this respect. We think of love as a feeling we have of affection toward another.</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11893"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11892">But love, as Jesus speaks of it here, is far different. We can be sure of one thing: He would never command us to do what is impossible for us to do. The secret, of course, is that we are to love, He says, as I have loved you. This kind of love is to arise out of the same kind of relationship that He has with the Father that made it possible for Him to love us. In this same manner, and from the same source, we are to love one another with the same quality of love. He loved us because God is love, and He was indwelt by the Father. He was in the Father, and the Father in Him. As He yielded to that relationship, love flowed out. It could not help it--God is love. Since God is love, as we yield to that relationship to the Son, love flows from us. And it will have the qualities that His love has. He goes on to define for us the aspects of love that mark the quality of His love for us, which we also are to show to one another.</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11960"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11961">The first is given in the words, Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. Love lays down its life for another. We all know how fully Jesus Himself exemplified this. His is the greatest love that anyone can demonstrate toward friends. Obviously this means more than simply dying physically for them. If it meant only that, there would be very few of is who could or would ever fulfill this, largely because we would lack the opportunity to do so. And, of course, one could do so only once! But our Lord is commanding us to do this repeatedly. So He means by this that we are to give ourselves up for one another. When you go out of your way to meet a friend's need, when you are willing to spend time with someone who is a Christian just because that one is a Christian--not necessarily because you are drawn to that person--and you are willing to go out of your way and to give yourself up for him or her, you are laying down your life, a part of it at least, for that person. This is what Jesus had in mind.</span></p>
<p class="yiv7402469381MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11895"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11894">Lord, You have loved me with this kind of love. Now I pray that this same love would flow through me to others in the body of Christ</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11900">.</span></p>
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Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord, and called it Jehovah-shalom.” Judges 6:24
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11108"><em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11109">Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord, and called it Jehovah-shalom.” <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://e.dayspring.com/52ab45441ccdf376da2fe77b2w5e9.53u/VbtxacPosNaJdTA-A691f" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11110" name="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11110">Judges 6:24</a></em></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11111">Mandy, Marina, and I would like to close our times of posting on Meet Me in the Meadow by extending to you the blessing of Shalom.</p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11091">“Shalom” is much more than a casual social greeting— it is a prayer, a blessing, a deep desire, and a benediction. It is a word that is packed with the full blessing of God. In Hebrew the word has many significant meanings throughout the Scriptures. The following blessing is a compilation of those meanings.</p>
<p>Envision us standing by you with hands extended, speaking these words of blessing over your life…</p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_10914"><em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_10913">May you be whole in body, soul, and spirit as a result of being in harmony with God’s will and purpose for your life.<br/></em><br/><em><span>May His peace be your covering, may your heart know His fullness,<br/></span><span>and by His mighty power may you know victory over every enemy.</span></em></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11092"><em>May He bring to pass the deepest desires of your heart.</em></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11148"><em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11147"><span>May you know the healing power of His presence,<br/></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11146">and the restoration of every broken relationship.</span></em></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11142"><em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11145"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11144">Through His sufficiency, may every need you face<br/></span><span>be met by His limitless resources.</span></em></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11095"><em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11094">May His covenant promises be fulfilled in your life and in your family.</em></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11098"><em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11097"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11096">May He bring you the greatest measure of contentment,<br/></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_11099">and the deepest satisfaction that your heart can possibly know through Jesus Christ.</span></em></p>
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_10077"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.crosswalkmail.com/gtclynctlwldcmthdkqpjdsjcndmgqqmwrcjyyhkncmygrg_tjbvzllvcjcj.html" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_10078" name="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_10078">1 Peter 1:6-7</a></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438906197985_10031"><span style="color: #ff6600;" class="font-size-3">God is always at work in our lives. Even during seasons of adversity, He wants to accomplish something powerful and good. How should this knowledge affect our response? Today's passage teaches us to choose to rejoice during difficult times. This doesn't mean we have to be happy about the hardship itself. Instead, joy comes from drawing close to the Lord and believing steadfastly that through His redemptive power, He is growing and preparing us. If your usual response to trials is anxiety, anger, or depression, the idea of having joy in the midst of a negative situation might not seem logical. However, if you look beneath the surface, you will discover that this biblical directive makes sense for several reasons.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;" class="font-size-3">Often, our natural reaction to pain is to run in the opposite direction, and as fast as possible. However, God wants to teach us endurance--much like a long-distance runner builds up strength in training--so that we can fully benefit from what He is doing in our hearts. He uses trials as a refining fire to purify us like gold and bring us to greater spiritual maturity. As we realize that we are actually being made more complete through our adversities, we'll begin to face challenging times with confidence that He always has our best interest in mind.</span></p>
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18619"><em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18618">God has highly exalted Him and has freely bestowed on Him the name that is above every name. </em><em><span> <a href="http://e.dayspring.com/52ab45441ccdf376da2fe77b2v7go.53u/VLUzBcPoUWhcsDerA70b5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Philippians 2:9 (AMP)</a></span></em></p>
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18619"><em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18618">God has highly exalted Him and has freely bestowed on Him the name that is above every name. </em><em><span> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://e.dayspring.com/52ab45441ccdf376da2fe77b2v7go.53u/VLUzBcPoUWhcsDerA70b5">Philippians 2:9 (AMP)</a></span></em></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18615"><em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18616">He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://e.dayspring.com/52ab45441ccdf376da2fe77b2v7go.53u/VbI248Ponnh6gq7uA1cf8" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18631" name="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18631">Ephesians 4:10 (NKJV)</a></em></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18579"><em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18614">He also is the Head of [His] body, the church; seeing He is the Beginning, the Firstborn from among the dead, so that He alone in everything and in every respect might occupy the chief place [stand first and be preeminent]. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://e.dayspring.com/52ab45441ccdf376da2fe77b2v7go.53u/VbI248Ponnh6gq7vA15cd">Colossians 1:18 (AMP)</a></em></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18580">Jesus is above everything that is—His name is above all, His life is above all, His work is above all, His power is above all, His majesty is above all, His honor is above all, His reign is above all, His glory is above all.</p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18634">No question can stump Him;<br/><span>No intellect can out-think Him;<br/></span><span>No challenge can intimidate Him;<br/></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18635">No strategy can confuse Him;<br/></span><span>No plot can overthrow Him;<br/></span><span>No power can dethrone Him;<br/></span><span>No scheme can trick Him;<br/></span><span>No weapon can defeat Him;<br/></span><span>No problem can frustrate Him;<br/></span><span>No need can deplete Him.</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18632"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_18633">He has the wisest plan, the highest purpose, the truest riches, and the greatest good for everyone who puts all trust in Him.</span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/71779137?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/71779137?profile=original" width="640" class="align-center"/></a></p>DISCERNMENTtag:www.allaboutgod.net,2015-07-28:1383940:BlogPost:16481512015-07-28T00:30:14.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_17436"><br></br><span>July 25/26</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_17435"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_17434">The Basis for Discernment</span></p>
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_17369">Since spiritual discernment is the ability to see life from…</p>
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_17433"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.crosswalkmail.com/adstksmptbtnmlpwnyzgvnrvmsnldzzlbhmvkkwysbkbpys_vmkhvffhgmgm.html">Hebrews 4:12-13</a></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_17369">Since spiritual discernment is the ability to see life from God's perspective, it requires that we know how He thinks and acts. The Bible is His unchanging, infallible revelation of Himself. However, the Lord doesn't simply give us a list of facts about His character and ways. All throughout the pages of Scripture, He illustrates who He is and how He operates.</p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_17370">Although the Bible is ancient, it's not a dead book. It's alive and as fresh as if He were speaking directly to you. The stories may have taken place centuries ago, but the principles and applications are current and relevant. It's our instruction book about how to live. Guidance for decisions and discernment about situations are found from Genesis to Revelation.</p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_17465">God's Word is active and piercing. The words don't simply sit on the page. They penetrate our hearts and judge our thoughts and motives. This convicting quality is why some people don't like to read the Bible. But self-discernment is essential if we don't want to keep making the same mistakes over and over again. Some Christians live on a surface level, never understanding why they react to situations the way they do. But if we'll approach the Word of God with an open spirit, it will bring to light our hidden motives and reveal unrecognized sins.</p>
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<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438127334243_17373">Spiritual discernment involves seeing not just our circumstances but also ourselves from God's perspective. Have you learned to embrace the piercing sword of Scripture, or have you avoided doing so because it makes you uncomfortable? Remember, God's Word cuts only so that it can heal.</p>HE HEARStag:www.allaboutgod.net,2015-03-29:1383940:BlogPost:16222002015-03-29T10:18:44.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
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Three Hairs<br />
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There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. "Well," she said, "I think I'll braid my hair today." So she did and she had a wonderful day.<br />
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The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that she had only two hairs on her head. "H-M-M, " she said, "I think I'll part my hair down the middle today." So she did and she had a grand day.<br />
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Three Hairs<br />
Author Unknown<br />
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There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. "Well," she said, "I think I'll braid my hair today." So she did and she had a wonderful day.<br />
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The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that she had only two hairs on her head. "H-M-M, " she said, "I think I'll part my hair down the middle today." So she did and she had a grand day.<br />
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The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that she had only one hair on her head. "Well," she said, "Today I'm going to wear my hair in a pony tail." So she did and she had a fun, fun day.<br />
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The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that there wasn't a single hair on her head....<br />
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"YEAH!" she exclaimed, "I don't have to fix my hair today!"<br />
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Reflection Questions<br />
List three things in your life that are currently troubling you, then pick one of them. What are 2 ways in which there might be able to positively view the situation you chose?<br />
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Obviously this story is trying to show us how we can maintain a positive perspective when bad things happen. If you've already answered reflection question #1, you've found how this is true in your own life as well. What is at least one other important message in this story?<br />
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From question #1, take one of the two remaining situations that are troubling you. What are some humorous ways that somebody might be able to look at those situations to help ease a bit of the tension?<br />
I hope you've enjoyed this story! Have a delightful day :)THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF AMBITION.tag:www.allaboutgod.net,2015-01-26:1383940:BlogPost:16088802015-01-26T03:37:15.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
<p><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span>Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, <q>If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all</q> (Mark 9:35).</span></font></b></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span>Our Lord evidently knew what these disciples had been talking about. So when they get into the house at Capernaum , He asks them, <q>What were you discussing on the way?…</q></span></font></p>
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<p><b><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, <q>If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all</q> (Mark 9:35).</span></font></b></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>Our Lord evidently knew what these disciples had been talking about. So when they get into the house at Capernaum , He asks them, <q>What were you discussing on the way?</q></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>A simple, normal question--but He is met by embarrassed silence because they had been discussing who was the greatest among them.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>Somehow that did not sound right in the presence of Jesus. It would be wonderful if we always had this awareness that what we say and think is being done in His presence.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>It would make us feel differently about many things.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>We are not told how this argument came about. I suspect that it was occasioned by the events of the transfiguration.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>James, Peter, and John had been chosen to go up on the mountain with the Lord and to observe this marvelous sight. Jesus had strictly charged them to tell no one what they had seen.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span> I believe they kept this charge. But it is quite possible to keep a secret in such a way as to make everybody agog to find out more. When they came back, the others probably asked,<q>What happened up there?</q></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>And they said, <q>Oh, we're not permitted to say. One of these days perhaps we might be able to tell you, but you ordinary disciples are excluded from this for now.</q></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>And then, of course, the argument readily arose as to who was the greatest.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>To answer this, Jesus gave them a marvelously revealing statement. He told them the truth about ambition. Notice He did not rebuke them for wanting to be greatest.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>Never does He take them to task because of their desire. God has somehow built into every human heart the desire to succeed at whatever we do.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>He did not rebuke them, for this is part of our humanity--to want to succeed. What He did do was to tell them the true way to greatness. </span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>It is not by seeking to be first, He said. <q>It is by a willingness to be last. It is not by getting people to serve you; it is by becoming a servant of all.</q></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>There are two kinds of ambition. There is the ambition to be approved and applauded by people, and the ambition to be approved and applauded by God.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>There are those who want to gain fame and attention and influence and power. The measurement of the ambition to be great before people is always <q>How many serve me?</q></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span> How much power do I exercise over others? How wide is the extent of my influence? Who of us has not suffered many times from this desire to be known, to be admired, to be considered great?</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>But Jesus points out that true greatness is never found there. The measure of true greatness is<q>How many do I serve? How many can I help?</q> T</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>his is the mark of greatness in the eyes of God. Christianity is a radical faith! It is exactly the opposite of the natural instincts of the heart.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>Our natural inclinations will get us deeper and deeper into trouble.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>Though we may achieve a form of greatness in the eyes of people, it will turn into cobwebs and ashes in our hands.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span>Teach me the meaning of these words in the depths of my heart. Help me to strive for that greatness that will shine throughout eternity.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial">FROM BROTHER ANDREW....</font></p>NO SECOND CHANCEtag:www.allaboutgod.net,2015-01-26:1383940:BlogPost:16087722015-01-26T03:00:00.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
<p><span class="font-size-2" style="color: #008080;"><em>Hell is not a place like jail, where you get to serve a sentence for a while, and then after you have served your time, you can leave. NO, hell is a place where you are eternally sentenced and eternally you will be there. . . never to stop the anguish, the burning, or the screaming. There is no second chance, because judgement will have been set.</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #008080;" class="font-size-2"><em>Hell is not a place like jail, where you get to serve a sentence for a while, and then after you have served your time, you can leave. NO, hell is a place where you are eternally sentenced and eternally you will be there. . . never to stop the anguish, the burning, or the screaming. There is no second chance, because judgement will have been set.</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #008080;" class="font-size-2"><em>Notice that the rich man in LUKE 16 said, " Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazaruz, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame." (v24)</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #008080;" class="font-size-2"><em>I want you to notice that he said "flame". Hell is fire; it's real fire. Well, what if you were burning for a week? month or year? Or what about burning constantly and yet not consumed? You just continued to burn, You'd had the pain, but you never had the destruction. </em></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #008080;" class="font-size-2"><em>That's what hell is. . . . constant burning in a fire that never consumes. And if you have never been born again, if you've never accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior, you are playing with fire. . . hell fire.</em></span></p>Surround yourself with that which produces faith.tag:www.allaboutgod.net,2012-11-26:1383940:BlogPost:13822122012-11-26T14:41:51.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
ROM 12:3 not "a" measure but "the" measure. what you do with your measure of faith is up to you - but what you do determines whether or not you grow in faith.<br />
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You can not stay spiritually alive in a negative atmosphere where people do not believe in the supernatural power of God, do not teach the word, don't believe in healing etc.<br />
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Rom 14:23, Heb 10;38 Doubt is evil and we must learn to hate what god hates.<br />
Psa 101:3 (it shall not fasten it's grip on me) Amos 5:14-15 Psa 34;14, Psa 97:10,<br />
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ROM 12:3 not "a" measure but "the" measure. what you do with your measure of faith is up to you - but what you do determines whether or not you grow in faith.<br />
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You can not stay spiritually alive in a negative atmosphere where people do not believe in the supernatural power of God, do not teach the word, don't believe in healing etc.<br />
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Rom 14:23, Heb 10;38 Doubt is evil and we must learn to hate what god hates.<br />
Psa 101:3 (it shall not fasten it's grip on me) Amos 5:14-15 Psa 34;14, Psa 97:10,<br />
Rom 12:9, Prov 6:19 (Pride, Lying, Murder, Plotting evil, Eagerness to do wrong, flase witness that makes up things, strife (held unto disagreement))<br />
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Heb 11:6 Feed your mind and spirit on material thet will build faith not destroy it. A steady diet of secular reading and TV doesn't feed your faith. surround yourself with the things of God, the things of faith.<br />
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Acts 4:13 the disciples didn't start their ministry with impressive faith - they were astonished at what Jesus did. Mark 4:41 Those who knew them as unlearned, ignorant and weak men now realize, they had been with JESUS. same atmosphere that surrounded JESUS now surrounds them.PART II : KEYS TO BUILDING STRONG FAITHtag:www.allaboutgod.net,2012-06-04:1383940:BlogPost:13197632012-06-04T04:54:56.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;">CONTINUATION:</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;">#2. Build on the WORD not on experience.…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-3">#2. Build on the WORD not on experience.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-3"> Isa 55:8-13 You can not go by experiences or feelings because God doesn't always move in the same way all the time. ( Don't make people recieve it the way you have ) You can not lock God and the Holy Spirit in a box.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-3"> Rom 10:17, Heb 11:1 Appropriating faith cannot go beyond one's knowledge the revealed will of God. Until we know what God's will is, there is nothing to base our faith on . Our minds must be brought into harmony with the mind of God as revealed in the WORD. THE renewing of the mind Rom 12:2 makes steadfast faith possible.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-3"> Mark 4:14 The WORD is the seed, the seed of Divine life. 1 Peter 1:23 Until the person seeking the promise is sure from God's word that it is God's will to heal them they are trying to reap a harvest where there is no seed planted. John8:32</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-3"> GOD does nothing without His Word. Psa 107:20 "He sent His word and it healed them." All God's work is done in faithfulness to His Promises.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-3"> To know is God's will to heal in the seed that is planted in your mind and heart, and it is not planted until it is known, receieved and trusted. The seed must remain planted and be kept watered before it can produce a harvest.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-3"> 1 John 5:14-15 " If it be thy will " is not planting the seed it is destroying it. he prayer of faith follows the planting of the seed (the Word ) upon which alone faith is based.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-3"> Rom 1:16 Power of God unto salvation in all it's phases, physical and spiritual.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-3"> Seed is poweless until it is planted. Instead of sayin " pray for me " should be saying. Teach me God's word so I can cooperate with it. "</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-3"> We must know the benifit of Calvary before we can appropriate them by faith. Psa 103: 2-3 Our attitude toward sickness etc. should be the same as that toward sin, and the fact that we are forgiven.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-3"> Mark 11:24, Heb 10:35-36 By observing these we can always bring to pass the fulfillment of any divine Promise.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-3"> Heb 6:11-12 Practice this Heb 10:35 Don't quit before the manifestation Heb 6:18-19</span></p>
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<p> </p>KEYS TO BUILDING STRONG FAITHtag:www.allaboutgod.net,2012-05-31:1383940:BlogPost:13185592012-05-31T16:10:59.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
<p><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;">ACTS 14:7-10 Compare MATT 8:5-10 23-26</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;">The BLESSINSG we received from GOD come through faith. Healing and Prosperity do not automatically come because we're born again.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;">Faith is not just an act of…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;" class="font-size-2">ACTS 14:7-10 Compare MATT 8:5-10 23-26</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;" class="font-size-2">The BLESSINSG we received from GOD come through faith. Healing and Prosperity do not automatically come because we're born again.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;" class="font-size-2">Faith is not just an act of the will of man. FAITH is acting on god's Word!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;" class="font-size-2">THERE ARE THINGS WE CAN DO TO INCREASE UP OUR FAITH :</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;" class="font-size-2">#1. Surround yourself with that which produces faith.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;" class="font-size-2"> Rom 12:13 not "A" measure but "the" measure. what you do with your measure of Faith is up to you - but what you do determines whether or not you grow in faith.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;" class="font-size-2"> You can not say spiritually alive in a negative atmosphere where people do not believe in the supernatural power of god, do not teach the word, don't believe in healing etc.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;" class="font-size-2"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;" class="font-size-2">Rom 14:23, Heb 10:38, doubt is evil and we must learn to hate what God hates.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;" class="font-size-2"> Psa 101:3 ( It shall not fasten it's grip on me ) Amos 5:14-15, Psa 34-14, Psa 97:10</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;" class="font-size-2"> Rom 12:9 Pro 6:16-19 ( Pride, Lying, Murder, Plotting evil, Eagerness to do wrong, False witness that makes up things, strife ( held unto agreement )</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;" class="font-size-2"> Heb 11:6 Feed your mind and spirit on material that will build faith not destroy it. A steady diet of secular reading and TV does'nt feed your faith, surround yourself with the things of God, the things of faith.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; color: #008000;" class="font-size-2"> Acts 4:13 The disciples did'nt start their ministry with impressive faith- they were astonished what Jesus did. Mark 4;41, those who knew them as unlearned, ignorant and weak men now realize. They had been with Jesus. same atmosphere that surrounded Jesus now surrounded them.</span></p>
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<p> </p>Proverbs 4:20-22 LET THEM (MY WORD) NOT DEPART FROM THINE EYES.tag:www.allaboutgod.net,2012-05-29:1383940:BlogPost:13174582012-05-29T10:28:31.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
<div class="heading passage-class-0"><h3><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #800080;">Proverbs 4:20-22</span></h3>
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<p class="line"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #800080;" class="font-size-3">Many fail because they see themselves fail.</span></p>
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<p class="line"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #800080;" class="font-size-3">If the WORD does not depart from your eyes, you are bound to see yourself without sickness, disease, poverty, lack or failure of any kind.</span></p>
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<p class="line"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #800080;" class="font-size-3">GOD is not obligated to do something for you if you don't do what the word says.</span></p>
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<p class="line"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #800080;" class="font-size-3">For the medicine to work it must be taken according to directions and one of those directions is that it is not to depart from before your eyes. If you look at the wrong thing it will cause you to walk in unbelief and that will destroy the effects of your prayers. Get your mind on the answer and affirm it even in the face of contradictory evidences.</span></p>
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<p class="line"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #800080;" class="font-size-3">James 3, 2 cor 4:13, Job 22:28, Mark 11:22-24, Prov 6:2, 12:14, 13:2, 14:3. 15:2, 18:20, Heb 13:6</span></p>
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<p class="line"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #800080;" class="font-size-3">Wrong thinking, wrong believing and wrong talking is what defeats people. The devil can't defeat you because JESUS has already defeated the devil for you. Satan does'nt defeat you, you defeat yourself, or if he does, you permit him to do so. It is a consent of ignorance.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-2" style="color: #993300;">HOPE does'nt have any substance. But FAITH gives substance to it. HOPE says, I'll have it sometimes. FAITH says, I have it now.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2" style="color: #993300;">Rom. 10:10</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2" style="color: #993300;"> Agreeing with your mind (mental assent) is a substitute for believing with your heart. (faith)</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2">HOPE does'nt have any substance. But FAITH gives substance to it. HOPE says, I'll have it sometimes. FAITH says, I have it now.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2">Rom. 10:10</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2"> Agreeing with your mind (mental assent) is a substitute for believing with your heart. (faith)</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2">Mark 11: 23</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2"> Mental assent says, I know God's word is true. I know HE promises to heal me, etc., but for some reason, I can't get it and I can't understand it.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2"> Faith says, If GOD's WORD says it's so, then it's so. It's mine. I have it now.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2"> But if I can't see it, it hasn't come to pass yet, right?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2"> If you already had it with you wouldn't have to believe it, you would know it, You have to take the first step of believing before you can come to the place of knowing.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2">Mar 11:24</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2"> Notice that the having comes after the believing.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2"> Too many are like thomas. John 20:24-29...Thomas believed because he saw him with his physical eyes.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2"> " Well, I believe in divine healing because I saw so and so healed...." NO ! believe it because the WORD of GOD says it.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2">ABRAHAM, Rom 4:17-21</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2"> Note the difference between Abraham's faith and Thomas's faith, Thomas was a natural human faith, Abraham believed God 's Word. If HE didn't consider his own body, he didn't consider physical sight or physical feelings.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2"> what does he consider then ? THE WOR OF GOD.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2"> We get out attentiobns on the wrong thing to many times. We are considering the symptoms when it comes to healing etc., and that's what were thinking about and looking at. and the more we look at it the worse we get.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2"> We need to understand what it means to <strong>walk by faith and not by sight</strong>. 2 Cor 5:7, 1 cor 3:3</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #993300;" class="font-size-2"> We don't deny that the circumstances are real but we don't consider them, we consider <strong>JESUS</strong>, we get our attention and minds centered on what <strong>HE</strong> has done for us and what <strong>HE</strong> is now doing for us. Heb.4: 14</span></p>
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<p> </p>HOW DOES FAITH FOR HEALING COMES ?tag:www.allaboutgod.net,2012-05-08:1383940:BlogPost:13061132012-05-08T05:30:00.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2" style="color: #800000;"><em>ACTS 14:7-10</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2" style="color: #800000;"><em> The man was not healed because PAUL was an apostle, he was not healed by Paul's faith, The man had FAITH,</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2" style="color: #800000;"><em> …</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em>ACTS 14:7-10</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> The man was not healed because PAUL was an apostle, he was not healed by Paul's faith, The man had FAITH,</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> </em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> Paul did three things:</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> 1. Preached the WORD.</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> 2. Percieved the man had faith to be healed,</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> 3. Told the man to rise up and walk.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> Man dis three things:</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> 1. Heard Paul speak.</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> 2. He had faith to be healed.</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> 3. He leaped and walked</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> He was not healed by some power Paul had. He had FAITH to be healed.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> How did he get FAITH to be healed,? v9. What did Paul speak? v7.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> ACTS 8: 4-8</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> It all came about preaching Christ.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> mARK 5:25-34</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> Where did this woman get FAITH to receive healing ? When she has heard.......</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> Hearing the WORD causes FAITH to come.</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> Actong on the word (faith) causes the answer to come.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> Hebrew 11: 1</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> Moffats : Now FAITH means that we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> ........ FAITH is giving substance to things hoped for.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> There are different kinda of FATIH.</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> * Natural human faith</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> * Bible faith</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> There is difference between believing with your heart and just believing what your physical senses tell you,</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> FAITH is grasping the unrealities of hope and bringing them into the realm of reality. FAITH grows out of the WORD of GOD,</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-2"><em> FAITH wil say about itself everything that the WORD says. FAITH in GOD is FAITH in the WORD.</em></span></p>
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<p> </p>PRINCIPLES OF FAITHtag:www.allaboutgod.net,2012-04-26:1383940:BlogPost:13007442012-04-26T05:34:11.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
<p><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">HEB. 11:1-6</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">FAITH is not a doctrine of man. Faith is on earth for a reason, it has a job and purpose to fulfill. faith is God's only entrance into this natural realm</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">MATT 8:10 He was impressed by…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">HEB. 11:1-6</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">FAITH is not a doctrine of man. Faith is on earth for a reason, it has a job and purpose to fulfill. faith is God's only entrance into this natural realm</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">MATT 8:10 He was impressed by people who had great faith.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">MATT 8:26 He constantly rebiked his disciples for having little faith.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">MARK 2:5 He would look at sick people, but he would see the ones who had faith.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">HE never stopped to consider the level of motivation, enthusiasm or wealth people had - He only looked at their faith.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">MATT 9:23,29 MATT 15:28, MARK 10:52, LUKE 7:50, LUJE 17:19, LUKE 8;25</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">Everything God has ever done on earth has been through someone's faith. Without fatih God will not move.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">FAITH is God's only pleasure, doubt is His only pain.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">This end time move Of is going to be so vast and so awesome that He will actually need all the faith that is on the earth working together.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">HEB.11:6</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">If God demands that I have faith when it is impossible for me to have faith then I have the right to challenge His justice. However if he places within my hands the means to produce faith, then the responsibility rests with me.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">If we don't have faith....god is not to blame.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">EPH. 2:8, 1 PET 1:5, 2 COR. 9:8</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">How are you going to get faith to get saved?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">ROM 10:8-18, 13-14,17 ACTS 11:14</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2">Men are saved by hearing words, the reason is because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god. You can't believe without hearing, Too many are trying to believe a lot of things without hearing.</span></p>
<p> </p>SELF DECLARATIONtag:www.allaboutgod.net,2012-04-21:1383940:BlogPost:12984852012-04-21T13:54:05.000Zsandra v villamerohttp://www.allaboutgod.net/profile/sandravvillamero
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font-size: 13pt;" id="yui_3_2_0_4_1334809617343659">This was written by a woman born in Egypt as a Muslim.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">This is not hearsay, and it will scare the life out of you. <br/>Make sure you read the paragraph (in red) towards the end.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font id="yui_3_2_0_4_1334809617343443" color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;" id="yui_3_2_0_4_1334809617343442">Joys of Muslim Women<br/>By <span id="lw_1334809690_0" class="yshortcuts cs4-visible">Nonie Darwish</span><br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and have sexual intimacy with this child.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Consummating the marriage by 9.<br/>The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave)</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as a toy.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font id="yui_3_2_0_4_1334809617343663" color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;" id="yui_3_2_0_4_1334809617343662">Even though a woman is abused she can not obtain a divorce.<br/>To prove rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses.<br/>Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font id="yui_3_2_0_4_1334809617343666" color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;" id="yui_3_2_0_4_1334809617343665">The family has the right to execute her (an honour killing) to restore the honour of the family.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Husbands can beat their wives 'at will' and he does not have to say why he has beaten her.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">The husband is permitted to have (4 wives) and a temporary wife for an hour (prostitute) at his discretion.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">In the West World ( America and Europe & Britain )</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the wife can not obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American Universities and British Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">By passing this on, enlightened American European and British women may avoid becoming a slave under Shariah Law.<br/>Ripping the West in Two.<br/>Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world,</span></font> <font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">ripping Western law and liberty in two.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">She recently authored the book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza before immigrating to America in 1978,</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">when she was eight years old. Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel .</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">He was a high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza ....<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">When he died, he was considered a "shahid," a martyr for jihad.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">His posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in Muslim society.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">But Darwish developed a sceptical eye at an early age. She questioned her own Muslim culture and upbringing..</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">She converted to Christianity after hearing a Christian preacher on television.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping sharia law - what it is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on the world.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the dignity of each individual.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Peace and prosperity for one's children is not as important as assuring that Islamic law rules</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in the world.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the golden rule,</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Sharia teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and another for non-Muslims.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Building on tribal practices of the seventh century,</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Sharia encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate others.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a personal understanding of and relationship with God,</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Sharia advocates executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted as criticism.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">It's hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree that those who criticize Islam or</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">choose to stop being Muslim should be executed.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation is common and even assumed by many in the West,</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">such murmurings in the Middle East are silenced through intimidation.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance over time,</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an extremely intolerant form</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">of political Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere.<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><b><font color="#FF1212" size="4"><span style="color: #ff1212; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: bold;">(In <i><span style="font-style: italic;"><u>twenty years</u></span></i> there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. Europe and Britain , - to elect the President by themselves!</span></font></b><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><b><font color="#FF1212" size="4"><span style="color: #ff1212; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: bold;">Rest assured they will do so...</span></font></b><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><b><font color="#FF1212" size="4"><span style="color: #ff1212; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: bold;">You can look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA .. Dearborn Mich. Is one...</span></font></b><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><b><font color="#FF1212" size="4"><span style="color: #ff1212; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: bold;">And there are others...) ( Britain has several cities now totally controlled by Muslims) <br/></span></font></b><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">I think everyone in</span></font> <font color="#1F497D" size="4"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13pt;">Australia</span></font><font color="#1F497D" size="4"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13pt;">,</span></font> <font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">U.S. , Europe and Great Britain</span></font> <font color="#1F497D" size="4"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13pt;">s</span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">hould be required to read this,</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!<br/></span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity to accept Muslims as peaceful..</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">Some may be but they have an army that is willing to shed blood in the name of Islam..</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">The peaceful support the warriors with their finances and own kind of patriotism to their religion.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">While America and Britain is getting rid of Christianity from all public sites and erasing God from the lives</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><br/></span></font><font color="#0A1980" size="4"><span style="color: #0a1980; font-size: 13pt;">of children the Muslims are planning a great jihad on America .. 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<div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1334569096609219" class="msg-body inner undoreset"><div id="yiv1378309942"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1334569096609218"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1334569096609217" class="yiv1378309942Section1"><p id="yui_3_2_0_1_1334569096609216" class="yiv1378309942MsoNormal"><font id="yui_3_2_0_1_1334569096609215" color="#333333" size="4" face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1334569096609214" lang="EN-AU" xml:lang="EN-AU">Like most of the Old Testament prophets, Amos was chosen by God to deliver a message of repentance and judgement; "<b id="yui_3_2_0_1_1334569096609213"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1334569096609212">Seek the Lord and live, or He will sweep through the house of Joseph like a fire" (Amos 5:6</span></b>). God was calling His people to return, but they had wandered far from His presence and showed no interest in a life of worship. The economy of their day was thriving and the people had few needs which went unfulfilled; they were content and saw little need for God.<br/><br/>Through Amos, God sent a strong warning. Although He promises to answer all who respond to His call, "Everyone <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved" (Joel 2:32)</span></b>, and He promises to be VERY patient, "<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9)</span></b>, God also warns that the opportunity to hear His Word may not always be available.<br/><br/><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Amos 8:11-12<br/>"'The days are coming,' declares the Sovereign Lord, 'when I will send a famine through the land - not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. Men will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.'"</span></b><br/><br/>When we hear the Word of God, the door is open and we are in the middle of a God-directed opportunity. At that moment we have the opportunity to respond to the truth and draw closer to our Heavenly Father. But when we reject His Word, we begin to close the door and harden our heart - the opportunity begins to fade: "<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">So, as the Holy Spirit says: 'Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your heart'" (Hebrews 3:7-8).</span></b><br/><br/>We have been blessed to live during this time in history. Yes, we face the unrelenting pressures of an over-indulgent, self-consumed society; but we have also been blessed with a wonderful abundance of the Word of God. In most parts of the world we have the freedom to worship with other believers and full access to truth-filled teaching. In fact, God's Word has become so readily available that many of us take it for granted.<br/><br/>In the midst of our overflowing blessings, we are becoming complacent and no longer treasure His precious gift. But what would happen if His Word was taken away? What would the world be like if no one was allowed to speak or hear the Word of God? What if we searched for His Word and it could not be found?<br/><br/>Our Heavenly Father loves us dearly. He <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">"wants ALL men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth" (1 Timothy 2:4)</span></b>; and He wants those who believe to be "<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">conformed to the likeness of His Son"</span></b> (<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Romans 8:29</span></b>). Our Father continues to call us to know Him with a greater and more intimate love. Let's make the most of this awesome opportunity by receiving the Word of God, in all its forms, with a hungry anticipation, and then by obediently responding to His call. Let's shake off ALL forms of complacency and rejoice that we do not yet live during a famine of hearing.</span></font></p>
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<p><span style="color: #800080;">PSALM 55:17 NLT : Morning, noon and night I plead aloud in my distress and the Lord hears my voice.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">2 CHRONICLES 7:14 NIV : If my people, who are calle by my name, will humble themselves and have pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">JEREMIAH 29: 13-14 NIV : "You will seek me…</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">PSALM 55:17 NLT : Morning, noon and night I plead aloud in my distress and the Lord hears my voice.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">2 CHRONICLES 7:14 NIV : If my people, who are calle by my name, will humble themselves and have pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">JEREMIAH 29: 13-14 NIV : "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">JEREMIAH 29:12 NRSV : You will call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">ISAIAH 65:24 NIV : Before they call I will answer, while they are still speaking I will hear.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">PSALM 34:17 NIV : When his people pray for help, he listens and rescues them from their troubles.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">MATTHEW 7:7 NIV : Ask, and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">1 JOHN 3:22 CEV : He will give us whateer we ask, because we obey him and do what pleases him.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">ROMAN 8:26-27 NLT : And the Holy spirit helps us in our distress. for we don't even know what we should pray for nor how we should pray. But the Holy spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the father who knows all hearts knows what the spirit is saying, for the spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">1 JOHN 5:14-15 NIV : this is the assurance we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And If we know that he hears us...whatever we ask..we know that we have asked of him.</span></p>
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