Faith and Hope

It is important to read verses in their context,

2010-12-21T18:19:00.000-05:00

The Nicene Creed

2010-09-14T21:56:00.000-04:00

The Nicene Creed was created at the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea in AD 325. It fought against the ideas of Arianism. It was expanded at the Second Ecumenical Council at Constantinople in AD 381 to balance its coverage of the Trinity by including the Holy Spirit. It is the only creed that was promulgated by any of the seven ecumenical councils and thus it is the only creed that is truly ecumenical and universal. In the Orthodox Church, it is the only creed. It is believed that the New Testament and the Nicene Creed are entwined with each other. The wording and the concepts in the Nicene Creed come from the New Testament—in fact, one of the most important debates at the Council of Nicea concerned whether it is proper to include a word in the Nicene Creed that does not occur in the New Testament. On the other hand, at the time that the Church issued the official canon of the New Testament, it customarily compared writings to the Nicene Creed to determine if they were orthodox. So you are correct if you say that the Nicene Creed proceeds from the New Testament, and you are correct if you say that the New Testament is certified by the Nicene Creed.

The Text of the Nicene Creed

We believe in one God,
     the Father, the Almighty,
     maker of heaven and earth,
     of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
     the only Son of God,
     eternally begotten of the Father,
     God from God, Light from Light,
     true God from true God,
     begotten, not made,
     of one Being with the Father.
     Through Him all things were made.
     For us and for our salvation
          He came down from heaven:
     by the power of the Holy Spirit
          He became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
          and was made man.
     For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
     He suffered death and was buried.
     On the third day He rose again
          in accordance with the Scriptures;
     He ascended into heaven
          and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
     He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
          and His kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
     who proceeds from the Father.*
     With the Father and the Son He is worshiped and glorified.
     He has spoken through the Prophets.
     We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
     We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
     We look for the resurrection of the dead,
          and the life of the world to come. AMEN.
*Roman Catholics and Protestants add ‘and the Son’ at this point.

Christian Raves

2010-09-02T06:43:00.002-04:00

I know I am suppose to write about something else so forgive me. I will get back to it another time
I have 2 kids that love raves. Music, jumping, light shows, and high tech clothing with lights and such. I think about King David leaping and dancing before the LORD and dancing with all his might (read 2 Samuel 6 about how David ). I think a mistake is being corrected with these functions such as the fun of being young, paired with the love of God and a great teaching tool to keep the young connected to God and his awesome presents. I think it is cool. Who says everything have to be a pious sterile atmosphere. Don't get me wrong I love church and all its many complexities but why not allow them to be as they are young. I love pray nights and bible study I mean that is my thing. Love Sunday fellowships, worship and encouraging one another. I love to study the history of the texts, scripture and first Christians. I can get lost in the study of this stuff. People come to the knowledge of God in may ways and from all walks of life. They come to the knowledge of Christ our Lord and Savior. Who was “in the beginning with the Father, and is the Firstborn son.

I like this scripture because it characterize a child's actions and thought development (although is is about how we develop and come into the awareness of Gods Knowledge)
New American Standard Bible (NASB)

1 Corinthians 13:10-12

¹⁰but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
¹¹When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
¹²For now we ^(A)see in a mirror dimly, but then ^(B)face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also ^(C)have been fully known.
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My Core Beliefs

2010-08-25T17:46:00.005-04:00

Because many have emailed me about my belief here it is

I believe the original text of the Bible to be the only inspired, infallible, authoritative Word of God.
I believe there is one eternal, almighty and perfect God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
I believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
I believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
I believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. I believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost (do not except the knowlege of God) unto the resurrection of damnation.
I believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
I also acceptance the Nicean Creed of AD 325 and Chalcedon Creed of AD 451 which I will write about in my next blog entry

It is the business of Christ Who stays and Who goes

2010-05-24T17:48:00.002-04:00

We have to stop putting people out of the church building if they are not disruptive or hurting anyone. Love them

John 21:20-22

Amplified Bible²⁰But Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved, following--the one who also had leaned back on His breast at the supper and had said, Lord, who is it that is going to betray You? ²¹When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, Lord, what about this man?

²²Jesus said to him, If I want him to stay (survive, live) until I come, what is that to you? [What concern is it of yours?] You follow Me!

New American Standard Bible ²⁰Peter, turning around, saw the ^(A)disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the one who also had ^(B)leaned back on His bosom at the supper and said, "Lord, who is the one who betrays You?"
²¹So Peter seeing him said to Jesus, "Lord, and what about this man?"
²²Jesus said to him, "If I want him to remain ^(C)until I come, what is that to you? You ^(D)follow Me!"

Cross references:

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2010-05-21T10:05:00.016-04:00

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Paul's Afflection

2010-05-03T06:23:00.001-04:00

There is something I do not understand. Why do church people beat others over the head about hardship being the victims fault???? I heard someone alluding to a hardship someone was going through as their fault because they weren't living according to the will of God.

No. 1 Who are they that who know or understand the complete mind of All Mighty God?
No.2 That is what Jobs friends suggested to him.
No. 3 Would they have said that to Paul if he was here today?

People have to be careful not to attack a person in pain. I wander what pleasure they get. I believe we must encourage people to hope and trust in El Shaddai [Most English translations render El Shaddai as "God Almighty," probably because the translators of the Septuagint (i.e., the Greek translation of the Old Testament) thought Shaddai came from a root verb (shadad) that means "to overpower" or" to destroy." The Latin Vulgate likewise translated Shaddai as Omnipotens (from which we get our English word omnipotent). God is so overpowering that He is considered "Almighty".]

2 Corinthians 12 (21st Century King James Version)

It is doubtless not expedient for me to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord:

2I knew a man in Christ more than fourteen years ago (whether in the body I cannot tell, or whether out of the body I cannot tell -- God knoweth). Such a one was caught up to the third Heaven.

3And I knew such a man (whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell -- God knoweth),

4and how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

5Of such a one will I glory, yet of myself I will not glory, except in mine infirmities.

6For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool, for I will say the truth. But now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or than he heareth of me.

7And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

8For this thing, I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

9And He said unto me, "My grace is sufficent for thee, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore will I glory rather in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in privations, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

11I have become a fool in glorying. Ye have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I inferior to the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

12Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.

13For in what are ye inferior to other churches, unless it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong!

14Behold, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

16But be it so, I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

17Did I gain from you by any of those whom I sent unto you?

18I desired Titus to go, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make any gain from you? Walked we not in the same spirit? Walked we not in the same steps?

19Again, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ; but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

20For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you as ye would not, lest there be debates, envyings, wrath, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, boastings, tumults;

21and lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many who have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

I was just wondering around this site
http://www.historian.net/lp-pap2.html

My Marital Belief

2010-04-28T02:50:00.002-04:00

I do believe this as a basic beginning of what we know as marriage in the christian world.

Genesis 2:18, 21-25

¹⁸Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

²¹So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

²²The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

²³The man said,

"This is now bone of my bones,

And flesh of my flesh;

She shall be called Woman,

Because she was taken out of Man."

²⁴For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

²⁵And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

But however the condition of the world has changed. The state of our human body has changed I believe. People lived hundreds of year at one time. We have changed many conditions of the world because of misuse through the influence of the prince of this world. This world if full of chaos. There is another but.

Our knowledge base is minute compared to our Creators. We only know and understand in part.

I do not believe in counting a person out. I do not understand clearly the cause or the effect of a non-heterosexual life. When Christ came I believe he taught love and tolerance by his life.

I believe on his departure He sent his Holy Spirit to lead and guide us. If it was a sin in my mind, why is it not treated the way you treat fornication, lies, adultery, lust and such are treated. They should be treated fairly and equally, regardless of ones personal thoughts toward them.

The people I know and love who are non heterosexual told me of how they where abused sexually. So for a very long time I thought this was the cause which lead to this effect. I wanted to more because of the way these people in my life was treated and singled out when other people opening practiced fornication, lies, adultery, or other types of lust was greeted with hand shakes and hugs. Scientific research, physical evidence and observation has lead me to see things. If any thing is just mental, I believe that there is a hope of change.

But what of the physical ?

The attached article it give another point of view not my thoughts in whole.

Love I believe win folks to Christ. God is love. He visited Mathew whom was considered defile. This question of physical scientific reasoning is documented. If it is truth what should be done?

God and Gays and Me

2010-04-24T12:19:00.004-04:00

I plead Psalm 131 there are things I have no idea of whether they are right or wrong such as some question about gay people. If there is biological physical reasons why a person appears to be attracted to the same sex is it forbidden? If there is something biological causing this to occur and is innate to a person what is right for that person to do? How does that person develop a loving relationship with someone as a partner in their life and be in the will of God? Is it a behavior or is it the way a person biologically exist? How about hermaphrodites, who can they make a life with? Why does one person have a right to condemn another, when there are so many reason this situation could exists?

(King James Version)

Psalm 131

¹Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
²Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
³Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.

For this cause I like this verse.

Job 42:3 (Amplified Bible)

³[You said to me] Who is this that darkens and obscures counsel [by words] without knowledge? Therefore [I now see] I have [rashly] uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

God is Love. I believe people have to live in truth. If you feel someone to be at fault pray for them. Petition God on their behave. Do not spew meanness. The one thing I truly think to be true ~ we must be careful about how we judge , treat and accuse people ~. We are in the dressing room here on earth. No one is perfect. My desire is not to judge but to love. Mankind have many facets and aspects. I do not pretend to know the mind of God

Oprah forum http://www.oprah.com/community/thread/96668

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

2010-03-19T17:05:00.007-04:00

Ephesians 1:3

New American Standard Bible (NASB)
3(A)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in (B)the heavenly places in Christ,

Cross references:
A. Ephesians 1:3 : 2 Cor 1:3
B. Ephesians 1:3 : Eph 1:20; 2:6; 3:10; 6:12

King James Version (KJV)
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Amplified Bible (AMP)³May blessing (praise, laudation, and eulogy) be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual (given by the Holy Spirit) blessing in the heavenly realm!

2 Corinthians 1:1-5

Amplified Bible (AMP)¹PAUL, AN apostle (a special messenger) of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother, to the church (assembly) of God which is at Corinth, and to all the saints (the people of God) throughout Achaia (most of Greece):

²Grace (favor and spiritual blessing) to you and [heart] peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of sympathy (pity and mercy) and the God [Who is the Source] of every comfort (consolation and encouragement),

⁴Who comforts (consoles and encourages) us in every trouble (calamity and affliction), so that we may also be able to comfort (console and encourage) those who are in any kind of trouble or distress, with the comfort (consolation and encouragement) with which we ourselves are comforted (consoled and encouraged) by God.

⁵For just as Christ's [own] sufferings fall to our lot [as they overflow upon His disciples, and we share and experience them] abundantly, so through Christ comfort (consolation and encouragement) is also [shared and experienced] abundantly by us.

New American Standard Bible (NASB) ¹Paul, ^A)">(A)an apostle of ^B)">(B)Christ Jesus ^C)">(C)by the will of God, and ^D)">(D)Timothy our brother, To ^E)">(E)the church of God which is at ^F)">(F)Corinth with all the saints who are throughout ^G)">(G)Achaia:

²^H)">(H)Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³^I)">(I)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and ^J)">(J)God of all comfort,

⁴who ^K)">(K)comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁵For just ^L)">(L)as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.

Cross references:

King James Version (KJV) ¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

²Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

³Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

⁴Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

⁵For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

My Scriptures For The Day ~ Colossians 1:20-22

2010-02-26T03:18:00.008-05:00

I am reading Colossians 1:20-22 in the following translations to let the meaning and consciousness of it become more tangible to me.

Colossians 1:20-22 (King James Version)

20And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Colossians 1:20-22 (Amplified Bible)

20And God purposed that through (by the service, the intervention of) Him [the Son] all things should be completely reconciled back to Himself, whether on earth or in heaven, as through Him, [the Father] made peace by means of the blood of His cross.

21And although you at one time were estranged and alienated from Him and were of hostile attitude of mind in your wicked activities,

22Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father's] presence.

Colossians 1:20-22 (New International Version - UK)

20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour.

22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—

Colossians 1:20-22 (The Message)

^18-20He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.

^21-23You yourselves are a case study of what he does. At one time you all had your backs turned to God, thinking rebellious thoughts of him, giving him trouble every chance you got. But now, by giving himself completely at the Cross, actually dying for you, Christ brought you over to God's side and put your lives together, whole and holy in his presence. You don't walk away from a gift like that! You stay grounded and steady in that bond of trust, constantly tuned in to the Message, careful not to be distracted or diverted. There is no other Message—just this one. Every creature under heaven gets this same Message. I, Paul, am a messenger of this Message.

What is Marriage to Christian People? Is or faith Being Held Hostage

2009-11-24T04:45:00.005-05:00

This country was founded on christian principles and traditions. Why must we loose our heritage and freedom of religions? There is a terrible wind blowing in our country to strike at biblical principles common to most christian denominations, marriage. In the Book of Genesis The institute of marriage is considered ordained by God for the lifelong relationship between one man as husband and one woman as wife. “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate” (Mark 10:6–9).
Religious orders are formed when people in a religion disagree like Calvinist, Baptist, Presbyterian, so forth and so on. While I do not wish to see churches splitting, I do think that those who believe it okay to say that marriage spoken of in the bible is wrong should do as they wish but not at the expense of the church. It is their right and we have rights. It is wrong to do thing in a purpose mean way to prove your own theory or validate relationships. Washingtonians in DC are being shut out of a vote on the ballot by council members. Is that right? Please pray for this country. Is this how the Christians felt in the days of Christ. We are in the lion's den. If you want to support the fight in DC visit http://www.stand4marriagedc.com/takeaction/

Why spell G-d?

2009-11-02T23:35:00.015-05:00

It is a practice by many Jewish people to omit the o in G-D. I came across this fact some time ago as I started to explore my Jewish Jesus. Y'shua (Jesus) who followed the tradions of the day Luke 4:12-15

G-d's name is treated with unusual reverence and care in Jewish tradition. The divine name, YHWH (spelled with the Hebrew letters yud, hey, vav, hey) is never pronounced. Traditionally, Jews read the word "Adonai" (often translated as "the Lord") whenever reading G-d's holiest name in Torah or in prayer. However, "Adonai" is not G-d's name. It is a personal choice I think to follow this practice. It is one of the ways many have chosen to respect The Creator, The Heavenly Father and the Father of Y'shua.

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Do not fret

2009-10-27T15:22:00.005-04:00

With the latest economic crisis in the world I had to go to my bible.

Philippians 4:6

Amplified Bible (AMP) 6 Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God.
New American Standard Bible (NASB) 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

We must try not to worry. That doesn't mean to put your head in the sand but to go into your prayer telling God about it and Thanking him for his guidance and his control. We as human beings can only do what is humanly possible to solve the problem working with God which is to give him the heavy burden of possibilities. He blesses us with know how, ideas and the ability to work. He is the head of miracle outcomes. Like my grandma said "he can make a way out of no way."

Researching The Gospel of the Nazaraeans

2009-10-02T22:27:00.000-04:00

I have been researching

The Gospel of the Nazaraeans ("observers") in Hebrew is believed to have been the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew and the source for the present gospel (which was composed in Greek). There are authentic, trustworthy ones who publicly confirms that this gospel was both used and circulated among the earliest followers of Yahshua in the diaspora. Some believe it originated in Egypt, and that the latest possible date it might have been written was during the first half of the second century; however, there are other opinions that it was composed in the middle of the first century, when "Jesus" traditions were first being produced and collected. An earlier date is more likely than a later one. Jerome, Eusebius, and Hegesippus (the latter two not quoting it) make mention of it as do Origen, Clement (both Alexandrians). It is believed to have been known to Papias who died about 130 C.E. and may have quoted it in his lost "Exegesis of the Sayings of the Lord" (which is now "lost"). It is significant to note that Nicephorus, when drawing up his list of canonical and apocryphal books, stated that the Gospel of the Hebrews contained only 2200 lines, 300 fewer than Matthew. It has been suggested that these three hundred lines are the birth narratives of the first and second chapters of our canonical Matthew.

The Gospel of the Hebrews is a lost text. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem, provides a summary of the text, and a few fragments survive in the form of quotations from patristic authors..

God, Me and Gay People

2009-08-15T00:31:00.006-04:00

Why do people who say they love the Lord hurdle stones at people who also says they Love God. They happen to be labeled gay. I do not understand all that involve being gay. I believe that everyone have to go to God for themselves I kind of take Psalm 131 about that. All this belongs to God.

The Bible says a lot of thing not to do like eating cheeseburgers,or shellfish. Why aren't christian preaching from the pulpit against Burger King or McDonald or the market where there are lobster, crabs or shrimp. All of that is at our cook outs.

How about wearing cotton and polyester blend clothing. I believe you have to be careful about how to treat people. There are a lot of scriptures you can use that is considered to be
in support of this dislike people tend to use. In St John it tells you not to judge.

I am staying with Psalm 131
¹LORD, MY heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in matters too great or in things too wonderful for me.

²Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me [ceased from fretting].

³ O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forever.

No one is perfect and God is the one working out our salvation through the Resurrection of Christ. I believe in the idea of other flock.

Definition of to walk from Ephesians 4:17-19

2009-06-17T17:51:00.005-04:00

Walk in the Greek is Peripateo which means
to walk

1. to make one's way, progress; to make due use of opportunities
2. Hebrew for, to live
1. to regulate one's life
2. to conduct one's self
3. to pass one's life

Peripateo two words comes from Peri ( from perið from Peran ) and Pateo (from pateÑw from paiðw)

Pateo means
1. to tread
1. to trample, crush with the feet
2. to advance by setting foot upon, tread upon: to encounter successfully the greatest perils from the machinations and persecutions with which Satan would fain thwart the preaching of the gospel
3. to tread under foot, trample on, i.e. to treat with insult and contempt: to desecrate the holy city by devastation and outrage

and

Peri means
as a Preposition- about, concerning, on account of, because of, around, near

The moral mind

2009-06-15T18:16:00.017-04:00

My study scripture
Part I:the vanity of their mind

that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd

Ephesians 4:17-19

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁷This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

¹⁸Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

¹⁹Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

(New International Version)

¹⁷So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 9 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.

Amplified Bible (AMP)

17So this I say and solemnly testify in [the name of] the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness [in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility] of their minds.

18moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded. [They are] alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart [to the insensitiveness of their moral nature].

19 In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and reckless and have abandoned themselves [a prey] to unbridled sensuality, eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity [that their depraved desires may suggest and demand].

Modest Swimwear

2009-05-02T22:44:00.002-04:00

A place where you can find swimwear that covers you as much as you want.
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Asked forgiveness reacting in a negative way

2009-04-24T16:10:00.007-04:00

I find my self asking for forgiveness. I have all as God to forgive me. I was blind sided by a situation and I did not handle it right. I was in tears. It is so hard to admit when you are wrong even though the other person might have done something really mean. One of my daughter tried to help me not to get angry but my flesh said otherwise. An so here I am apologizing. I was so hurt and angry I could see straight. Even though I have excepted Christ as my personal savior I have a lot to work on Paul said it well. I have a little bit of it from Romans 7 verses 15 through 25

15For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled, bewildered]. I do not practice or accomplish what I wish, but I do the very thing that I loathe [[b]which my moral instinct condemns].

16Now if I do [habitually] what is contrary to my desire, [that means that] I acknowledge and agree that the Law is good (morally excellent) and that I take sides with it.

17However, it is no longer I who do the deed, but the sin [principle] which is at home in me and has possession of me.

18For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot perform it. [I have the intention and urge to do what is right, but no power to carry it out.]

19For I fail to practice the good deeds I desire to do, but the evil deeds that I do not desire to do are what I am [ever] doing.

20Now if I do what I do not desire to do, it is no longer I doing it [it is not myself that acts], but the sin [principle] which dwells within me [[c]fixed and operating in my soul].

21So I find it to be a law (rule of action of my being) that when I want to do what is right and good, evil is ever present with me and I am subject to its insistent demands.

22For I endorse and delight in the Law of God in my inmost self [with my new nature].(D)

23But I discern in my bodily members [[d]in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh] a different law (rule of action) at war against the law of my mind (my reason) and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that dwells in my bodily organs [[e]in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh].

24O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from [the shackles of] this body of death?

25O thank God! [He will!] through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One) our Lord! So then indeed I, of myself with the mind and heart, serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

I was shocked at myself and confused as to why I reacted the way I did. I didn't see me. Everyday you have to ask God to search your heart because we do not know what is in there. Today I am meditating on Psalm 51

I am studying

2009-04-21T23:45:00.011-04:00

I have been sitting here wondering why people lie out of the blue? You think everything is going well then someone you trust say something that is not true. I go to my bible when someone does that. This is one of my favorite Psalm 121

Psalm 121 (King James Version)

1I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

2My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

4Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

6The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

7The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

8The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

Peace of Mind

2009-04-08T16:22:00.010-04:00

I am a mother of five and have a husband. I seem to be always in the middle of a tug of war. Everyone is over 12 now and they are doorstep ages. Sometimes there is so much going on you have no idea of what to do first, at least that is one of my downfalls. I have been in the bible a lot to give me some guidance. I was bless this week to hear some teaching on peace:Not just any peace but God's peace. I was fortunate to hear a radio cast Living in Peace in a Troubled World by Candace Brim. It has been very helpful in reminding me of the peace God has given through our faith in Christ. I not saying that I have mastered my calm but I have found tools in the bible to help me to work towards it. This url http://www.billyebrim.org/audio/by/artist/candace_brim is where you find Candace Brim revelation. I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me. We have the mental ability to control some aspects of our thinking. We just need the tools and to practice often. I hope the following scriptures help in your search.

John 14:27

Amplified Bible (AMP)
27Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
27"(A)Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you (B)Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
King James Version (KJV)
27Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

John 14:1 : John 14:27; 16:22, 24

Romans 14:19

King James Version (KJV)
19Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

Amplified Bible (AMP)
19So let us then definitely aim for and eagerly pursue what makes for harmony and for mutual upbuilding (edification and development) of one another.

New American Standard Bible (NASB)
19So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the (B)building up of one another.

GOD IS LOVE!!!!

2009-03-18T18:43:00.000-04:00

Prayers for the Famililies of the Missing Football Player

2009-03-02T15:27:00.010-05:00

Prayers go out to the families of The four passengers of the fishing boat which was reported missing on Saturday.I am praying for the men still missing NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, and former South Florida player William Bleakley, remained missing. Nick Schuyler was found clinging to the boat. It is beyond my human understanding why thing like this happens. I hope the remaining three are still alive and that God will delivers them all.

Help Me Lord

2009-01-26T03:49:00.010-05:00

A Prayer

Heaven Father I ask that you open my heart to the teachings of Christ Jesus. Help me, to notice how you speak to me.Please give me the wisdom to understand in my heart the boundless gifts of Christ.Please forgive my sins. Transform my life according to your will.

Heaven Father I believe that Jesus is my Savior and Lord. I except him. I ask that you help me where I have doubts in his name. Amen