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Post by miche on Jan 14, 2009 18:10:20 GMT -5
Thank you very much for addressing my questions on the show, Pastor John. (You remind me of a benevolent father type or pastor anyway!) And thank you especially for the encouragement and blessing!
Thank you Manderson for your input too!
God bless you both.
P.S. I do want to clarify that I didn't ever see God as unjust! I am fully assured that everything He does and commands is good and just.
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Post by miche on Jan 10, 2009 18:00:25 GMT -5
I was just wondering where you had went and was planning on trying to email you. I know we haven't chatted on here, but I've read some of your posts and was worried that I hadn't seen you around lately especially since you seemed to be troubled right before you left. I am sad that you fell, sister, but I'm very relieved to hear that you were still able to repent(forsaking this sin completely right?) and turn back to God receiving forgiveness! Keep yourself in the light, walking the straight path with Jesus. If you will listen and submit to the Lords direction, he will keep your feet from stumbling! But if you give into the cravings of your flesh you will surely fall. Do not give occasion to it! Do what it takes not to sin in thought word or deed. Fight temptation( Use God's Word and pray to Him), Flee from temptation(avoid it), and if you still fear you will give in, cut yourself off from anything that would give you the opportunity to sin. (see Mark 9:43)
Some council from the Lord:
Proverbs 4:20-27 20 My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; 22 For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. 24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth, And put perverse lips far from you. 25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you. 26 Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established. 27 Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil.
Proverbs 7:1-5 1 My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you. 2 Keep my commands and live, And my law as the apple of your eye. 3 Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," And call understanding your nearest kin, 5 That they may keep you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words.
I will be praying that your faith will not fail FS...God bless you. If you ever need someone to talk you out of doing anything rash or just someone to talk to and pray with, please email me or call me. I'll send you my info.(that goes for anybody else who is sincere--just message me on here) Your Sister in Christ, Michelle
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Post by miche on Jan 10, 2009 3:43:56 GMT -5
Thank you, Lord! Will continue praying for their baby boy. Please let me know how he is when you get another update. I love to hear what God is doing! ~Michelle
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Post by miche on Jan 10, 2009 3:37:58 GMT -5
I'm close to being convinced that the doctrine of Original Sin is false, but I have a few verses that I'm having trouble reconciling that I haven't heard brought up yet. They've always troubled me, but now they seem especially pertinent to address considering this doctrine of...what would you call it...Original Innocence ? Well here are two verses that come to mind at the moment. 1Sa 15:2-3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and behind. 1Cr 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. Forgive me if this has been something you guys have addressed already. I'm a little late catching on.
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Post by miche on Jan 6, 2009 0:39:14 GMT -5
I will be praying for them and their baby boy during his surgery tomorrow! Please let us know how it went as soon as you find out.
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Post by miche on Dec 31, 2008 0:58:54 GMT -5
It was through youtube that I first came across Jesse and Kerrigan. (Rob Bell is a heretic I think the video was called) I was so thrilled to find them. (I'd never seen any non-calvinist open air preaching before!!!) I pray that Jesse's videos will be brought back up on youtube.
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Post by miche on Dec 31, 2008 0:48:19 GMT -5
I don't know if this will do any good or not, but it might be worth asking them to restore the JesseMorrell account. I just said that it had some of the finest videos of open-air bible based preaching to college students available on that account and I would be very disappointed if I could no longer access those good videos. I asked them to please restore that account. Maybe you could do so as well. www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/request.py?page=&contact_type=suggestion&master=suggestion&Action.Search=Continueclick the last box that says, 'I have another idea' and then type your request for the JesseMorrell account. And then pray they'll change their mind!
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Post by miche on Dec 31, 2008 0:08:40 GMT -5
That's wrong what Youtube did to you!I just looked at their policy and it says: The standard of behavior we expect of YouTube users is set out in our Community Guidelines. If a user posts a video or otherwise behaves on the site contrary to these Guidelines, we will generally remove the offending material, and apply a Community Guidelines warning strike against the account of the poster. These strikes stick with the accounts belonging to that user for six months from the date they are received. If a user receives such a strike they will be notified when they next log-in to their YouTube account. For reference, copies of the notice are also sent to the user's email address and YouTube private message inbox.
The first strike on an account is considered a warning. If an account receives two strikes within a six month period, the ability to post new content to YouTube from that account will be temporarily disabled. If there are no further issues, full privileges will be restored automatically after a period. If an account receives a third Community Guidelines strike within six months (before the first strike has expired) the account will be terminated.
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Post by miche on Dec 25, 2008 5:16:50 GMT -5
BenJoseph, that was an excellent reply and very helpful, indeed! Great advice and I appreciate that you always put so much thought behind your replies! Thank you very much.
The Lord has graciously heard my prayers for understanding about this issue and has given me peace about it! I don't have any plans of being a public orator preaching to crowds full of men and purposefully targeting them to rebuke. But even so, in certain circumstances(where there is no Christian man available) and **as the Holy Spirit directs**, I feel assured now that I would not be sinning by declaring the gospel or even rebuking a man. Whew, that uncertainty was a heavy burden I'm glad to have off! Thanks again for your excellent reply and advice. God bless you, BenJoseph!
Oh, I want to add a bit more (for whoever might be interested) about one of the confirmations that I believe the Lord gave me. When I was in prayer about all this and had come to a fairly sure opinion, right away the Lord gave me an experience that helped cement it for me. Unexpectedly a teenage young man and some other people I'd never met before happened to come to my parents house (an old friend of my sister's came with her kids to visit because my sister was getting married-but they didn't make it in time. The young man is a nephew of hers that she has taken him in to live with her and so he came along with her other teenage children) I didn't know any of them, but they came up to visit with me in my apartment. I was just telling them a little about what the Lord had done for me and that young man just started going off about how God wasn't real. I was absolutely sure that I was supposed to respond to him, so I declared and explained the gospel and I confidently countered every argument he had like I never have before! There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that I was empowered by the Holy Spirit doing that. There wasn't any other Christian there to do it and that kid needed desperately to hear it. (He had a very warped view of what Christians believe and the poor child was terribly disturbed emotionally and spiritually) He was openly manifesting, and yet I could see that there was a definite struggle going on inside him that seemed to want to believe.
We talked for probably an hour and a half. He admitted to being involved in occult activities which was pretty obvious. There was a creepy moment when he soberly agreed and began to tremble himself as he acknowledged that the demons definitely do believe in Jesus and tremble--and that was right after he had been emphatically declaring that God didn't exist! (I could tell he wasn't acting) I should have done it sooner, but after that, though it was near the end of our conversation, I finally got up the nerve and commanded those demons that were tormenting him to leave him alone so that he could have some freedom to listen to the gospel and consider it. I shouldn't be surprised, but I was when I saw that tortured look on his face and his uptight posture totally relax and a calmness and rationalness come over him! Praise the Lord! He even said completely on his own without any prompting, that he felt different. I could tell he was sincere too. It wasn't like he was messing with me.
God is so good! I wish I could say that he converted, but he did seem very thoughtful about it and said he needed to think about it some more. And then they had to leave to make the 750 mile drive back home. His aunt (who had been listening in, along with the other kids, on much of our conversation) seemed very appreciative and receptive, so I decided to give her the New Testament on CD I had originally got for somebody else recently, but they didn't want it. She, however seemed very happy to receive it and said she would definitely play through it on their way home....
So that was just one of the confirmations I believe the Lord gave me about that! Isn't that just great that God worked all that out, not just for me but for them too? God's hand was totally in that. I praise his name!
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Post by miche on Dec 15, 2008 1:41:26 GMT -5
BenJoseph: Thank you for calling my attention to Tamar's rebuke. Here are some answers to your questions: I do not have a husband (I have not married or had children yet) my father and mother, who I cannot consider Christian at this point, provide for me. (I live in an apartment off of their house and help take care of my grandma, she's 91)
Am I usually with a faithful brother? No. that's just not really available here. The small, fairly isolated town I live in has very few folks that show they have any real relationship with the Lord to begin with, but even among them, only a few(I can count them on one hand) that I could really see confronting someone, say, involved in fornication(believer or unbeliever). Sad huh? And of those few, they say they don't have time for anything much past work, family, and their current church duties. I'd love for someone to partner with me, but I haven't met anybody so far that would work out with.
***Whether it is at home or with a stranger, I guess what I'm really wondering is can or can't a woman preach the gospel to a man if there isn't another man available/willing and qualified to do so? ***
I know what my pastor would tell me, but then the denomination our church is of(Church of the Nazarene) will ordain a woman as a pastor(though it rarely happens at this point I guess).
Thanks Micah for the encouragement and for making the point about women prophesying.
Can I get some more biblically supported opinions from Christians, please?
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Post by miche on Dec 15, 2008 0:25:38 GMT -5
Rebecca-- thank you very much! It looks like a good site. I'll definitely check it out. There isn't a lot of guidance about that kind of thing around here so I appreciate the link.
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Post by miche on Dec 8, 2008 0:10:05 GMT -5
SIMON INTERRUPTS KERRIGAN SAYING: You're flip flopping between two opinions. Wou...*BZZZ* HOST SAYS: " 'ello? Is he gone? Simon's gone! Kerrigan are you still with us? KERRIGAN REPLIES: Well maybe that was God, I don't know... Kerrigan then went on without missing a beat with what he was saying earlier until the host stopped laughing and said, "I think if that was God that he cheated a bit". To which K replied, "hey, God has the authority to do something like that". Yes he does! I thought that disconnection was very good timing(even though bewildered Simon got back on) being that it preceded Kerrigan's exhortation to repent and turn to God! The other funny part was the way the host kept saying "EVILution"! Hey Kerrigan, I heard you mention earlier on Refining Fire Radio today that you will be formally debating someone on the topic of original sin? Who will that be with? ~Michelle
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Post by miche on Dec 6, 2008 2:34:00 GMT -5
His daughters prophesied. But if they followed protocol they were not permitted to teach men in spiritual matters or have any kind of authority over a man. So does Paul's direction not apply when unbeliever's are involved? Or do you think his direction is only culturally relevant? I'm hoping to hear more on this issue from other mature Christians like messengermicah.
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Post by miche on Dec 3, 2008 15:47:07 GMT -5
Should a Christian woman ever rebuke unbelieving men(when a rebuke is appropriate), or is that outside of God's order? God has been good to me to open my eyes to see that much of what the world says women should be like isn't his way. Praise the Lord, I've unlearned a lot and am thriving in His truth ! However, there are still some issues, like this one that I'm not totally sure about yet. I need to interpret the bible correctly on this because if I don't interpret it correctly, I will either disobey God by usurping his order, or by not speaking His truth! I would appreciate your opinions, and even more so your prayers that God would grant me understanding. God bless you. Michelle
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