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Grace001:my problem was why was she or her boyfriend recording their sex acts? ![]() |
Hummmm..... Did he know who Collin Powell was? ![]() |
Telling It Like It Is Tue, 19 Oct 2021 ‘Speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ.’ Ephesians 4:15 Jon Walker says, ‘It’s hard to… confront… it’s easier to stay superficial… to demonise one another when we don’t agree.. .and to cut and run at the first sign of trouble… But the Bible says, “An honest answer is like a kiss of friendship,” (Proverbs 24:26 NLT); it deepens relationships… and keeps our fellowship open and authentic, freeing us to speak the truth in love… No more lies or pretence. Tell your brother the truth. Remember… when you lie to others, you end up lying to yourself.’ Author Annette Smith observes, ‘Touchy topics are difficult for even close friends. Yet relationships involve flawed people who make mistakes and get into messes. Friends need to be able to count on each other, not just for fun and affirmation, but for instruction and correction. Committing ourselves to a friendship means because we care on a deep intimate level, we have the courage to speak up when a friend needs to hear tough words… True friendship comes with joy and responsibility... To avoid talking truthfully about a situation that’s hurtful, dangerous, or out of God’s will, is to dishonour the friendship and the friend. When we’ve been trusted with the blessing of friends, we must love them enough to be willing to experience hurt, rejection, even anger. In the end, truth heals. Before addressing a difficult situation, if there’s any self-righteousness or the tiniest desire to get even, we should keep silent. Honesty… when it comes to touchy subjects must be accompanied by pure, loving motives.’ The Bible says, ‘Speak the truth in love… growing…more like Christ.’ If your words aren’t bathed in love, they’ll hurt rather than heal. |
Whao! ......one of the few people that I respected in the world. RIP sir. |
Rey33:can't retrieve your mail. On Facebook, look out for sibbenterprises Good luck. |
How’s Your Spiritual Appetite? (3) Mon, 18 Oct 2021 ‘As pressure and stress bear down on me, I find joy in Your commands.’ Psalm 119:143 Thank God for skilled doctors who know how to diagnose illnesses and prescribe medications that bring health and healing. But here’s something for you to think about: what if many of our stress-related illnesses could be helped with meditation as well as medication? The psalmist wrote: ‘As pressure and stress bear down on me, I find joy in Your commands. Your laws are always right; help me to understand them so I may live… Those who love Your instructions have great peace.’ (Psalm 119:143–144, 165 NLT) When there’s a chemical imbalance in your body it may need to be treated with medication, an altered diet, and daily exercise. But when your soul is starved to the point of dysfunction, it needs to be treated with God’s Word. We’re not talking about skimming through a few verses and rushing out into your day. Butterflies cover a lot of ground, but only bees gather honey! Sometimes you have to stay with a particular Scripture until you extract the honey; to ‘live with’ and ‘meditate’ on it till it takes root and starts to grow within you (see Psalm 119:48). It takes time to change ingrained character traits. God may work on one area of your life for several weeks, or months. New habits and ways of thinking need time to be established. You must recognise this and allow God to reveal and reinforce new truth in your life. Don’t fool yourself into thinking because you read a certain Scriptural truth it will produce instant change. It must be applied daily, and that takes time and meditation. |
tollyboy5:let them be displaying their folly. |
Solsix:you meant God save us, right? ![]() |
PlayMaker14:says who? |
Leaforever:the guy with the glasses? Naa him be say naa WizKid brother him be......lol |
......why is WizKid backing them....eeyah! more he is not happy about the re-union? ![]() |
Why did you cut the head now?...... Lala will not be happy with you ooo ![]() |
Antell95:and light will surely come soon IJN. Just believe. Hold HIM to Psalms 86:17.......and you will be surprised. Shalom |
For the gift of life & good health. I will always be. My experience with the picture below is not funny.
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How’s Your Spiritual Appetite? (2) Sun, 17 Oct 2021 ‘They sought God eagerly, and He was found by them. So the Lord gave them rest on every side.’ 2 Chronicles 15:15 Prolonged starvation can have a profound effect on your health. You lose your ability to think clearly. Your vision gets blurry. Your strength wanes, and you stop being productive. Guess what? It’s the same with your spiritual life. Jesus said, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ (Matthew 4:4 NIV) So knowing that, how come we don’t spend time reading the Bible? We know it’s essential to our spiritual, mental and emotional health. Yet we fail to do it or do it inconsistently. Why? (1) Because we’re not motivated. We haven’t experienced the joy that comes from personally discovering great truths from God’s Word. We grow complacent and settle for having our spiritual food handed to us by other people. But when you get serious about studying the Bible for yourself, you’ll never again be satisfied with second-hand knowledge. (2) Because we don’t know how. We hear a great sermon and think, ‘Why didn’t I see that?’ Because many church leaders spend hours studying the Scriptures—we don’t! (3) Because we get lazy. Bible study requires self-discipline. It takes time, effort, concentration and persistence. Most great truths don’t lie on the surface; you have to dig for them. In the Old Testament when Israel ‘sought God eagerly… He was found by them. So the Lord gave them rest on every side.’ And God will do that for you too! |
Get well soon Mr. Clinton |
......and how do we know he had not been programed? ![]() |
doctokwus:the Lord will destroy all their enterprises IJN. ![]() |
How’s Your Spiritual Appetite? (1) Sat, 16 Oct 2021 ‘He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.’ Psalm 107:9 When you’re sick, one of the first questions a doctor asks in order to diagnose your problem is, ‘How’s your appetite?’ That’s because when you lose your desire for food, something’s wrong in your body. And the same principle applies to your spiritual health. One of the characteristics of the great men and women in Scripture is that they hungered for God in prayer and disciplined themselves to study and understand His Word. What made evangelist George Müller so successful? During his lifetime he read through the Bible some two hundred times—and more than half of those were on his knees, praying over Scripture while studying it. When you know God that well, you’ll pray specifically and get specific answers. The truth is that you were born with a God-shaped blank inside you, and nobody but God can fill it. Greater success won’t. More money won’t. Another relationship won’t. Living in a palace and being a king won’t. That’s why the psalmist wrote: ‘Lord; teach me Your decrees. With my lips I recount all the laws that come from Your mouth. I rejoice in following Your statutes as one rejoices in great riches. I meditate on Your precepts and consider Your ways. I delight in Your decrees; I will not neglect Your Word… Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your law… My soul is consumed with longing for Your laws at all times… Your statutes are my delight; they are my counsellors.’ (Psalm 119:12–24 NIV) The Word of God is ‘soul food’, so if you’ve been feeding your body and neglecting your soul— rearrange your priorities today. |
Liutay:don't mind him. Let him continue his poetry. ![]() |
.......have enough money, they will come and date you by themselves. ![]() |
Rey33:yeah |
Recognising God’s Voice Fri, 15 Oct 2021 ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears.’ 1 Samuel 3:9 As a boy working in the temple, Samuel didn’t recognise God’s voice when He spoke to him. But later as a prophet, his ear was the portal through which God spoke to an entire nation. Learning to recognise God’s voice isn’t a skill that’s acquired overnight because He speaks to us at different times, in different ways, and in different settings. Recognising God’s voice: (1) Calls for spiritual maturity. Jesus said, ‘The sheep follow Him, for they know His voice.’ (John 10:4 NKJV) Note, he said His sheep, not His lambs, know His voice. Baby sheep follow adult sheep until their senses are trained. That means there’s grace for the immature. So, if your spiritual ears aren’t developed yet, God will work with you till they are. (2) Means not being limited by your previous experiences. When God spoke to Moses, a mountain shook, whereas He spoke to Elijah in a still, small voice. Don’t limit God, and don’t try to figure Him out. He can speak to you through your Bible, through those qualified to teach His Word, through a song, through a painful situation, and through your thoughts and desires when you’re submitted to Him. The key is to stay close to God and keep your receiver tuned. (4) Means being obedient. David said, ‘I take joy in doing Your will.’ (Psalm 40:8 NLT) When it comes to recognising God’s voice, is your response, ‘When I get around to it’? ‘If I can fit you in’? ‘I’ll think about it’? Read this: ‘If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.’ (Job 36:11 NKJV) |
Today, Practise Humility Thu, 14 Oct 2021 ‘Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.’ Matthew 23:12 Paul had a prominent and far-reaching ministry, yet he said of himself, ‘Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.’ (1 Timothy 1:15 KJV) When people told Paul how great he was, he stayed humble by remembering what he used to be. If you believe God has called you, your response should be to bow down in humility before Him. When the Angel of the Lord told an ageing Zacharias he would father a son named John the Baptist, Zacharias was struck dumb and froze in place, to the point where people wondered why he was taking so long. Ezekiel had a book in the Bible named after him. That’s heady stuff! Yet when God called him, he collapsed on the floor and God had to tell him to get up, saying, ‘Son of man, stand up on your feet and I will speak to you.’ (Ezekiel 2:1 NIV) When John the Revelator saw Jesus standing in the midst of the seven churches, he wrote, ‘When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead.’ (Revelation 1:17 KJV) Can you see a pattern emerging here? Paul writes, ‘Walk… with all humility and gentleness.’ (Ephesians 4:1–2 NASB) Think about the phrase ‘walking with God’. Whose company are you in? God’s! Can you think of a higher calling? And the higher your calling, the lower you must become in your own estimation. Humility doesn’t mean thinking less of yourself; it means thinking of yourself less. Jesus summed it up like this: ‘Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.’ Today, practise humility. |
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Be An Exhorter (3) Wed, 13 Oct 2021 ‘Your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will lead the people into the land. Encourage him.’ Deuteronomy 1:38 When it comes to being an exhorter, observe two things: (1) Exhortation is a neglected gift. No ministry is more needed in the church today, as that of encouragement. It’s so easy to find discouragement and so difficult to find encouragement. Even in the church. Most churches have what’s called a ‘cold water committee’. They’re always ready to tell you why something won’t work and point out how some programme went wrong. They seem to talk louder and longer than the encouragers, which leads to the next point. (2) Exhortation is a needed gift. No matter how well things may be going, or how well someone looks on the outside, every one of us can use some encouragement. In fact, encouragement is so important that the whole church is to be involved in it. ‘Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.’ (Hebrews 10:24–25 NKJV) Church is a place where people should be picked up, not knocked down. We need to encourage people when they don’t need it, instead of waiting until they do. If you wait too long your encouragement may be too late. Don’t wait until something good happens to speak an encouraging word; make it a regular practice. ‘But I don’t know what to say,’ you protest. Ask God for wisdom and you’ll get it. ‘The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary.’ (Isaiah 50:4 NIV) |
Be An Exhorter (2) Tue, 12 Oct 2021 ‘Strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith.’ Acts 14:22 An exhorter has the ability to do three things: (1) Confirm. ‘When they had preached the Gospel to that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the Kingdom of God.”’ (Acts 14:21–22 NKJV) An exhorter is a pillar of strength in difficult times. They know how to motivate the tough to get going, when the going gets tough. They throw a lifejacket of faith to the believer drowning in a sea of doubt. (2) Console. ‘So they went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.’ (Acts 16:40 NKJV) Here the gift of exhortation is demonstrated in its finest form. Paul and Silas had been falsely accused, beaten with rods and thrown into a dungeon with their hands and feet locked in stocks. When word of it reached the church, the believers were really depressed. Remarkably, after they were supernaturally released from prison, instead of looking for consolation and comfort, Paul and Silas went to church and offered it to others. (3) Confront. ‘I implore Euodia and I implore Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord… these women who laboured with me in the Gospel.’ (Philippians 4:2–3 NKJV) These two prominent women in the church couldn’t get along with one another, so Paul took on the role of a peacemaker and confronted them. He was friendly, he was fair, but he was firm. And you must be the same. |
Pingpongball:how do we know since we don't have any idea how your foot look like or your sandals? ![]() |
Be An Exhorter (1) Mon, 11 Oct 2021 ‘Exhort one another daily.’ Hebrews 3:13 The Greek word for ‘exhort’ is parakaleo. It comes from two words, one meaning ‘alongside of’ and the other meaning ‘to call’. This is the root of the Greek word paraclete, which is the name Jesus gave the Holy Spirit. The real ministry of the Holy Spirit is to exhort and encourage us in our walk with God. So you are never more like the Holy Spirit and never more in tune with His ministry, than when you are exhorting and encouraging others. An exhorter can turn a loser into a winner, a shirker into a worker, and a pessimist into an optimist. They inspire others with renewed courage, spirit, and hope. They have a ministry of affirmation and appreciation. It’s important to remember the distinction between appreciation and affirmation. We appreciate what a person does, but we affirm who a person is. Now appreciation comes and goes because it’s usually related to someone’s accomplishments, but affirmation goes right to the heart of a person because it is directed at that person’s individual worth. An exhorter has the ability to make you feel good about yourself. They uplift, inspire, motivate, and make you feel better just by being around you. The Bible says that Barnabas was an exhorter. ‘Then news of these things came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch. When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord.’ (Acts 11:22–23 NKJV) So the word for today is: be an exhorter. |
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