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With much hype, controversy and media anticipation Lady Gaga’s video for the song “Judas” finally debuted to millions of views. The mega pop star sought to shock the world with her song “Judas” an ode to the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ and for thirty pieces of silver agreed to help have Jesus arrested and unlawfully executed. In the video Lady Gaga plays Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus Christ in the Bible. However in the video, Mary Magdalene is in a romantic relationship with Jesus and is caught in a love triangle between Jesus and Judas and ultimately chooses Judas. Both the relationship between Mary Magdalene and Jesus, along with the elevation of Judas are hallmarks of Gnosticism, a mystical spin-off of Christianity that takes all of the Biblical concepts and turns them upside down.
In Gnosticism Lucifer or Satan is actually a liberator who was sent from the unknowable, remote, God to bring “light” and wake up humanity who is trapped in the prison of the material world. Thus in contrast to the Bible, the serpent’s offer to Eve in the Garden of Eden, which helped bring sin and death into the world, was really the offer of the secret knowledge or Gnosis. This Gnosis allows man to raise his consciousness and become god. Additionally, in the Gnostic texts, Judas, the villain of the Bible, was a hero who worked together with Jesus. All of these ideas go completely against the basic truths of the Christian faith and the video’s imagery puts them on display.
Gaga’s Love for Judas
The video for Judas opens up with a biker gang driving on a highway. From the biker jackets we quickly note that this is supposed to be a depiction of “Jesus and the Twelve Disciples.” Gaga is riding with “Jesus” but soon, Judas shoots ahead of the pack and captures her attention. It is clear from the shot that Gaga is captivated by Judas who gives her a glance as he pulls off. So the video confirms the lyrics and the Gnostic understanding: the choosing of giving one’s love to Judas over Jesus. At the same time the symbols of Jesus as a part of a biker gang distort His true image as God and creator of the universe and makes Him much more like a regular human.

With much hype, controversy and media anticipation Lady Gaga’s video for the song “Judas” finally debuted to millions of views ( it can be viewed here ). The mega pop star sought to shock the world with her song “Judas” an ode to the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ and for thirty pieces of silver agreed to help have Jesus arrested and unlawfully executed. In the video Lady Gaga plays Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus Christ in the Bible. However in the video, Mary Magdalene is in a romantic relationship with Jesus and is caught in a love triangle between Jesus and Judas and ultimately chooses Judas. Both the relationship between Mary Magdalene and Jesus, along with the elevation of Judas are hallmarks of Gnosticism, a mystical spin-off of Christianity that takes all of the Biblical concepts and turns them upside down.
In Gnosticism Lucifer or Satan is actually a liberator who was sent from the unknowable, remote, God to bring “light” and wake up humanity who is trapped in the prison of the material world. Thus in contrast to the Bible, the serpent’s offer to Eve in the Garden of Eden, which helped bring sin and death into the world, was really the offer of the secret knowledge or Gnosis. This Gnosis allows man to raise his consciousness and become god. Additionally, in the Gnostic texts, Judas, the villain of the Bible, was a hero who worked together with Jesus. All of these ideas go completely against the basic truths of the Christian faith and the video’s imagery puts them on display.
Gaga’s Love for Judas
The video for Judas opens up with a biker gang driving on a highway. From the biker jackets we quickly note that this is supposed to be a depiction of “Jesus and the Twelve Disciples.” Gaga is riding with “Jesus” but soon, Judas shoots ahead of the pack and captures her attention. It is clear from the shot that Gaga is captivated by Judas who gives her a glance as he pulls off. So the video confirms the lyrics and the Gnostic understanding: the choosing of giving one’s love to Judas over Jesus. At the same time the symbols of Jesus as a part of a biker gang distort His true image as God and creator of the universe and makes Him much more like a regular human.

MANGAM:
I created this thread sometimes ago to seek suggestions from NL and I decided to put all I got from this forum into practice. My present tomatoe farm is a sight to behold. Harvest will commence by next wk.

The first thread-https://www.nairaland.com/3090635/photos-tuta-absoluta-tomatoe-ebola

Photos from my present farm.

please send me your no, would like to speak with u extensively on farming business

I think the op has deactivated his account, for what reasons if I may ask

rubbish,what happened to the former threat by niger delta avengers, bunch of dreamers and funny actors

ivyy:
Hehehe

hey you can mail me on collins4reall@gmail.Com

donodion:
Oh Yeaah...im loving this ripple effect.

We need not seek for loan from outside.
All that fund needed to run this government and country lies in the hands of few......you can run but you cant hide....Mr Magu of EFCC..Ride on.

The glorious days of EFCC is back...and at the right time !

exactly, thanking you.the debts we need to pay as a country is in hands of some few thieving elites

SeverusSnape:
Good. Since dullardeen (mumu ibn hari) has decided to be vindictive, He'll continue to be frustrated by the National Assembly headed by Saraki. We already know that 'mumu the son of Hari' is a failure, By always trying to bully the leadership of the senate, His failure will be not only monumental but gargantuan.

guy are you this jobless or does your family have a personal problem with buhari.. I have been watching your posts on nl and almost all have been biased unwarranted insults to office of president .you better be careful young man,, he buhari has to correct many wrongs of past and should be given a conducive environment to do that

servicefxng:
Good evening bro.
As regards your request to add you up. We have a watzapp group but we have suspended acceptance of new participants,by the reason that we have created a new one,that will accommodate more participants, using our new and improved trading system .
The new whatapp group number will be displayed here and willl also be uploaded on our website this week,pls be on the lookout.


Regarding the B part of your comment above,I have some question to ask you:
1. Are you tra
ding a standard,mini or micro account?
2. Are you following the pending order levels as stated ?
3.And are you applying a good money management skill (MM) as per the lot sizes you are using?
I believe,if you look into these areas highlighted, your trades will improve.
And one beauty of our strategy is that ,you can decide which level of the trades you want to take,especially if you don't have a good startup capital.
In a case of a small startup capital,I suggest you always choose to set only levels 2 or 3,and also not risking much from your investment.

Thank you.

msg me the website u post on and why no trades today .. add me so I can trade immediately

ever811:
did u hear that? Harvard university graduate,and one useless secondary school drop out is there looking for whit collar job..

as in ehn. thank u very much for that I contribution

vic3ee:
Yea dats true bt d guy didnt tell us d whole truth aat d beginin he paid for trade signals till he got to master d game...or mayb he stiill does bt wont wanna tell his secret trade signal expert so he culd sell his success story and make more money so what dis guy did is for real i can confirm to u ...i knw lots of expert stock trade signal companies online and dey make huge money dey post dier daily earnings and details to confirm it bt stocks isnt for broke guys u nid minimum $20,000 to start off and earn well from scratch den u nid to pay for professional trade signals den ud be screaming money money money.....and the gud thingis that u can hit gud bucks in one hour...i totally bilieve this guy cus iv been studyin a company that does same and post dair daily earnings and dey deliver signals too...jst to kip my mind buzy....lol

please bro, what are these
expert stock trade signal companies that are online? what's their name and site

you have a whatsapp group please do add me on 09096090732 .. seems the looses are higher than the win

codedwura:
Very well said, but i know of a man with a whatsapp group that shares his strat for free tho, with real binary.com account screen shot of over $2000 as proof that he makes money with it. No selling of stuff whatsoever since i have known him.

My point is this, if you know your strat works well, if at all you want to sell to people, you can show your real account balance with name and trades history.

please can u add me to this whatssapp group.my no Is 09096090732

faites:
I have used insecticide treated nets for many years now without issues. I relocated to lagos recently and the first thing I noticed was the mosquitoes, they are not like any I've seen before. They are as huge as those small termites.

Long story short. I bought this so called insecticide treated net from a road side vendor. He told me to air it overnight before I use it (which is the usual thing). I opened the net and spread it out in a room in d house for about eight days before I hung it up 2 days ago.

On the first night, I noticed a slight burning sensation on my lips and nose, but I attributed it to the fact that the net was new. This night also, I noticed the same burning sensation, but it kept increasing. Right now, I feel like my whole face is on fire.

I've taken down the net and have thrown it into the washing machine. I've also washed my face but the burning has refused to subside.

Please, I have a 6 month old baby sleeping with me. Would this burning have any adverse effects? What do I use to bring down the pain? Can I still use d net after I have washed it considering the baby?

Oh, the baby is sleeping fine so I'm not sure he feels what I am feeling (I sincerely hope so).

I really need ur help.

hello dear, I really do like your pic .. u can do well to contact me on collins4reall@gmail.com.. u look sweet

a terrible country with callous people.. if these politician could display these kind of out of tutuola character... I wonder what hope we have or can give to the upcoming generations of turning around this mess we were given birth to in this country. sometimes, I have always wondered whether we wouldn't have fared more evil than demons in our behavior and actions in this land

pics soon cc;lalastica

as am typing, there was serious protest at UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA ,ENUGU CAMPUS last night in which buses and cars at lecturers quarters were vandalized.. there was a public outcry and anger among students due to light shortage and poor amenities for students in the campus ..there was breakage of glasses and vented anger amongst.. there was an almost crippling of the school generator which could not supply more than 2 hrs light a day. school has ordered a immediate closure of school and student are still agitating

NigeriaKitchen:
Very thought-provoking articles....the problem is, Christian teachings and doctrines preaches peace a lot, even in death, and this owe tribute to the ways and teachings of Jesus Christ which Christians strive to emulate in their daily life and dealings with people.

If not for the way Christianity changes Christians' mentality and mindset to always preach peace and embrace love, I can guarantee you that no religion or people can challenge the Christians because Christian countries and regions are the power house and technology pivot of the whole world.

But then, what happened to Armenians, Asyrians and ancient Christians can't happen now...Muslims can't dare it in this modern age because ISIS that tried something similar in their own country and territories couldn't stand the heat...right now, they (ISIS) are now using children and women to shield themselves as Syrian soldiers backed by USA, UK, Russia and other Christian countries are about to annihilate them.

So don't worry, they can't even think of such again to talk of doing it, never again!

not really as u think

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In rejecting the national honour of the Officer of the Federal Republic (OFR) recently conferred on him by President Yaradua in 2008 ,Chief Gani Fawehinmi SAN stated inter alia:
“The directionlessness of the Federal Government has been characterized by the following, amongst others: collapsed infrastructure, total paralysis of the health sector at all levels, constant nationwide power failure and the attendant negative effects on all sectors of the economy; pervasive unemployment, thereby generating increased armed robbery cutting across all ages of our people, debilitating homelessness; retrogressive educational programmes and policies, which have made no Nigerian university to be ranked within the first 500 universities in the world, and no effort is being made by the regime to improve on the humiliating situation”.

what about alcohol

phayvoursky:
...AND JESUS SAID...

BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS FOR THEY SHALL BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD.


NOBODY CAN LAY A FINGER ON GEJ FOR HE IS A PEACEMAKER.

a peacemaker who brought confusion between definition of stealing and corruption

dhardline:
Unbelieveable .If only CCTV's in Abj are fully functional, national id card fully activated ,DNA data base commenced on all offenders then criminals wont get away so easily anymore but the money is rather spent on SUV's for senators.

exactly

CharlyG1:
Hello Tjayjosh,

Sorry about your brother and some of your loved ones.. In spite of the misfortune, God is still with you and by His grace no one in your family will die young ever again.
I love your stance in Christ. It's really inspiring and it shows a sign of spiritual maturity.


You have been marked for greatness and the mercy of God overshadows you.


The revelation you saw is an eye opener for you to realize that God intends for us to be holy.


Holiness in God's eyes is simply Pleasing Him by accepting His Son Jesus Christ and abiding in Him (doing His will).... Living a life that reflects the character of God.


Though we are not perfect but God counts it for us as righteousness when we do good deeds that please Him.

Remember Abraham pleased God by trusting in Him and God credited it to him as righteousness (holiness).. Genesis 15 vs 6.


I once had a revelation where I was a spectator in heaven. I was taken to heaven and I saw Abraham, God and one other person(I didn't recognize this person).
The person was questioning God asking that why did God say Abraham was the father of faith even when Abraham doubted Him at certain points in his life.. God simply replied that He looked past Abraham's doubts and credited his faith as righteousness.


God is merciful and gracious. Holiness (righteousness) is derived from His mercies and grace, not by our works or efforts but by His love, kindness, grace and mercy. That if we believe in Him, in His Son Jesus Christ, doing His will and abiding in Him, even when we are weak, He is there to carry us for He is the source of our strength.



Like you said, let us preach God's word.. But more importantly, let us live our lives reflecting the character of Jesus Christ and doing His will.


God bless you..

does Bible support one can see God even when on earth here

fischer77:
Bro ccollins, we haven't heard from you in a while. I hope you're sound and doing well. The Lord is your strength.

Please brethren let's endeavour to check on one another. Besides we are our brother's keeper.

God bless.

THANK YOU ALOT..HAPPY EASTER.. haven't been so firm..atimes,due to financial challenges.. i could get discouraged down in my service to GOD especially when personal good needs arises..also happened to me 3 years ago at scoan

sexibabes:
If you follow this steps,you will get pregnant only when you want to.
1.from the first day you see the blood of your period.
2.pick up a calendar and count 15days including the first day of the blood stain.
3.Mark the 15th day with a pen
4.Mark 3 days before the 15th day
5.Mark 3 days after the 15th day
6.you will notice you have 7 days marked.these 7 days are your ovulation/fertile days also known as unsafe period.meaning if you have sex on any of these days then you have 98% chances of being pregnant.
7.Do these every month and try and abide by these rules



EVERYOTHER DAY IS YOUR SAFE PERIOD

is this perfectly works

2-19-16 LEARNING HOW TO HEAR GOD'S VOICE -- PART 9 Hindrances to Hearing God's Voice I know this will not be pleasant or exciting reading, but if you are really serious about developing a close personal relationship with God, you must push on. There are a number of things that will hinder us from clearly hearing God's voice. The most common one is active sin and past sins in our lives that have not been cleansed. "Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him." John 9:31 You will NOT hear from the Lord if you are engaged in active sin. Also, if you have never cleansed your life, you will have great difficulty hearing from the Lord even if you do not have active sin in your life currently. It is of utmost importance that you take the time and make the effort to thoroughly cleanse your life from sin. I have written a little booklet titled, Why Do I Need A Savior, A Guide to Cleansing Your Life From Sin. I urge you to get it through our web site bookstore, and DO exactly what it tells you to do. If you will cleanse your life from sin, you will be amazed at what a difference it will make! The Holy Spirit will then be free to move in your life and speak to you much more clearly. If the Lord is not speaking to you or if you are having difficulty hearing from Him, the first thing you should do is examine your life for sin, and ask the Holy Spirit to convict you if there is any sin in your life that you have not dealt with. "Husbands, like wise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered." 1 Peter 3:7 Husbands and wives beware, if your relationship with one another is not right, if you are angry with your spouse, or bitter toward him or her, or have unforgiveness in your heart toward your spouse, your prayers will be hindered, and God most likely will not speak to you except to convict you of your sin toward your spouse. The next most common thing to hinder us from hearing the Lord is our emotions. When we are in a crisis our emotions are all stirred up, and it becomes nearly impossible to hear from the Lord. There is no sin involved in this, it is simply a fact that the more our flesh is stirred up, the more difficult it becomes to hear from the Lord. In such situations, it is more likely that we will tend to accept our own thoughts as being from the Lord, especially when it is something we want very badly, such as the healing of a loved one. Most prophecies or words you receive from someone else in such difficult situations will affect others in the same way. Most prophecies or words you receive from someone else in such difficult situations will be from the flesh of the giver rather than the Lord. This has been demonstrated over and over again by the many times someone will be given a supposed word from the Lord or a prophecy that God is going to heal their loved one and raise him or her up, when in the end the person dies instead. It is very difficult for anyone to receive a word from the Lord that it is His plan to take someone home instead of healing the person. Daniel and I recently experienced this with a dear friend. Her husband had a several year battle with cancer. Two times as our friend prayed earnestly for her husband's healing, the Lord spoke to her and told her that He would heal him. The Lord did so both times in a very miraculous way. However, the third time, when the cancer came back, in spite of the fact that she received a number of prophecies and words from different people that her husband would be healed, the Lord took him home. This upset her very much. She and her husband had been married many years and had a wonderful marriage. They had faithfully served the Lord together all the years of their marriage. During his last illness, even her husband thought the Lord had spoken to him telling him that He would be healed. As a result, his death came as a terrible shock to her. She was immediately thrust into an incredible struggle. She was very angry and stated that she would NEVER accept a personal prophecy again. Not only was she angry with those who had given the erroneous words to her, she also struggled with anger toward God, feeling that He had betrayed her. How much additional suffering could our friend have been spared if all the people giving her prophecies of healing and recognized their own difficulties in hearing accurately from the Lord in such a circumstance, and had refused to jump in and give a prophecy that came from their flesh instead of from the Lord. Each on of them loved our friend's husband, and clearly did not want him to die. NONE of us has the wisdom to decide who should live and who should die. We should ALL be slow to give any prophecy or word supposedly from the Lord in such difficult situations, recognizing our own difficulties in hearing accurately from the Lord when our emotions are so involved. The solution to this sort of situation is to be in covenant relationship with the Lord so that you are prepared for the crisis in advance. God wants to prepare His people in advance for the difficult problems that are going to come into their life. He does this through covenants. I have written extensively about this important weapon of warfare in my book Standing On The Rock. I urge you to read it. You can obtain it only through our web site bookstore. If you find yourself in such a difficult situation where you have no idea what God's will is, be aware of the fact that both you and others will have a most difficult time hearing from the Lord. In such situations, I always question anything I think I am hearing the Lord say to me about it. I always pray and make clear that above all, I want God's perfect will to be done, and wait to see what the Lord will do. I KNOW that God is powerful enough to break through my emotions to speak to me clearly if He so chooses, but most frequently He does not choose to do so. Waiting is difficult. I continue to pray according to what I think God's will is, and simply trust that God the Father has a reason good enough for whatever He allows to happen. I hang on to the promise in Romans 8:27-28 that God will work all things together for good, and rest in the fact that I KNOW that my life and the lives of my loved ones are safely in the palm of God's hand. I may never know why God allows what He had allowed to come into my life as long as I am here on earth, I simply trust in Him. Lastly, as I have already written, we will always have times of difficulty hearing from the Lord accurately because while we are here on earth, we inhabit a sinful physical body, and our souls are the seat of our sin nature. Sin will always be a hindrance to the working of the Holy Spirit in our life. However, take comfort in this. God promises that if you will diligently seek Him, He WILL be found by you. God delights to reveal Himself to you. As you continue to earnestly ask Him to teach you to hear His voice, He will do so. The more you practice, the more skillful you will become in hearing from the Lord, in being able to recognize the thoughts that are from Him. The more time we spend in God's word, meditating on the Lord and heavenly things, the more time we spend in prayer, the more we memorize scripture, and the more we take our thoughts captive to make them obedient to Jesus Christ, the more God will speak to us. We can have no greater treasure than a personal relationship with and experience of God! Rebecca

2-16-16 LEARNING HOW TO HEAR GOD'S VOICE -- PART 8 God frequently will communicate with us through His word. This is why it is so important to spend time every day reading and studying God's word. As you sit down to have a quiet time, always start by asking the Lord to speak to you through His word. Many times as you read, a particular verse will just jump out at you. Suddenly you will just KNOW that God is speaking to you through that verse. You don't have to jump around in the Bible for this to happen. I do not do that. I always read straight through a book, or through the New Testament or Old Testament. I frequently read through some of the New Testament and the Old Testament during each quiet time. I don't jump around, I read straight through. God is able to use His word to speak to you no matter where you are reading in the Bible. Sometimes, suddenly you will understand a particular passage of scripture that you had not understood before. This will be the Holy Spirit teaching you directly. I love it when the Lord communicates with me in this way. I almost always read from the Psalms in addition to whatever else I am reading. The Psalms are an incredibly rich source of "prayer scriptures." Often the Lord will quicken a verse or section of a Psalm to me and direct me to pray it back to Him about a particular situation in my life. Sometimes the Lord will communicate to us through an experience in the spiritual realm. We Christians call these experiences visions or dreams. A vision is an episode when we suddenly receive clear vision into the spirit realm, but occasionally we may confuse such an experience with a dream. Experiences in the spirit realm are real, and must be dealt with as such. Any threat from the demonic realm, for instance, must be immediately dealt with through Jesus Christ. We must not just ignore it and assume it was a dream. Experiences in the spirit realm are outside of time, because time does not exist in the spirit realm as it does in the physical realm. In the spirit realm we may be taken back to the past or forward into the future as the apostle John was when he received the experience he wrote down in the book of Revelation. We will be aware of the fact that what we are seeing and hearing is not from the physical realm. Visions may occur while we are awake as well as when we are asleep. When they occur during our sleep they will come to us as a memory after we wake up. Many time experiences in the spirit realm come to us as a memory and we don't know exactly when they happened and were not consciously aware of these experiences at the time they happened whether we were awake or asleep. Not ALL dreams are from the Lord, or have some deep meaning. Don't get lead astray by thinking that you must find some significant meaning to all your dreams. Most dreams are just that, crazy and mixed up. They don't mean anything. Tormenting nightmares come from demons. (If you are being tormented by nightmares, you need to anoint and cleanse and seal your living quarters. I have written how to do this in the booklet titled Protecting Your Fortress. Sometimes you will need to take your case into God's court room to get the nightmares to stop. I have written about this in the book Standing On The Rock. Both books are available through our web site bookstore.) Experiences in the spirit realm during our sleep are different from dreams in that they are vividly clear and logical. We usually have a clear memory of an experience in the spirit realm. We often do not have a clear memory of a dream, and dreams rarely make much sense. Dreams from the Lord are much more clear and logical than normal dreams. Sometimes we are clearly conscious and aware that we are in the midst of an experience in the spirit realm, but more often it will come to us as a memory. We do NOT have experiences in the spirit realm whenever we want, we do NOT control what happens during these experiences, except in the case where we must rebuke a demon in the name of Jesus, and we are usually not aware of the passage of time in the physical realm during the experience. Dreams from the Lord sometimes need interpretation, but experiences in the spirit realm are usually clearly understood at the time. We do NOT have experiences in the spirit realm or dreams from the Lord regularly, or when we want them. Usually they are infrequent; some people have such experiences or dreams much more frequently than others. BUT THE KEY IS, THEY ARE ALL ALWAYS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. Some people have visions and dreams much more frequently than others. If you do, be careful. The more you have experiences in the spirit realm, the more Satan will petition the Lord for time to deceive you through such experiences. Always be sure that you experience lines up with God's word before you accept it as being from the Lord. Next time I will write about the things that hinder us from hearing from the Lord. Rebecca.

2-14-16 Good morning everyone, and happy Valentine's day to you all. I received a beautiful card from my husband. I thank God for giving me the privilege of having the love of a godly man like Daniel. My thanks to everyone that wrote in their favorite prayer scripture. I benefited by reading through them, and I hope the rest of you did too. LEARNING TO HEAR GOD'S VOICE - PART 7 Although God most frequently speaks to us by putting thoughts into our minds, He communicates with us in many different ways. "God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds." Hebrews 1:1-2 Scripture makes it clear that God speaks to us in many different ways. The most clear, of course, was directly through Jesus Christ, God Himself. Today, one of the ways the Lord may speak to us is through someone else. We often call this a word of prophecy, or a word of knowledge. The other person may be aware that God wishes to speak to you through them, or they may not. Often, after I have finished teaching, several people will come up to me and say, "You were speaking directly to me." I wasn't aware of it, but God used what I said to speak directly to a need someone was having. BEWARE! Do NOT become dependent on receiving a word form the Lord through someone else! If you do not learn to hear from the Lord directly, you will be very open to receiving a FALSE word through someone else. Jesus told us that a mark of the last days in which we are living would be false prophets. There are MANY false prophets functioning in the body of Christ today, and many more who are prophesying through their own flesh rather than from the Lord. GOD DOES NOT CHOOSE TO SPEAK TO YOU REGULARLY OR FREQUENTLY THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE. HE WANTS YOU TO DO THE WORK OF STRUGGLING TO HEAR FROM HIM YOURSELF. If the Lord does choose to speak through someone else to give you a word, it will usually be a rare occurrence, and usually will be a confirmation of something He has already been saying to you. If the so called word, or prophecy is something new, I strongly urge you to not accept it as being from the Lord until the Lord brings some sort of independent confirmation to you. Remember, God is not a fortune teller, and neither are His prophets. His true prophets, that is. False prophets will frequently try to tell the future. A true word from the Lord will NEVER be contrary to anything in scripture. I urge you to read an excellent book on this subject by John Bevere, titled Thus Saith The Lord. It will help you discern if someone is speaking from their flesh or by a demon spirit. The most common request that I get is from people asking me to pray and ask the Lord to give me a word for them. God RARELY chooses to do so, and I rarely ask Him. People find that it is so much easier to hear from God through someone else, that they prefer it rather than struggling to learn to hear God's voice themselves. Also, many times God wants to build our faith, so He chooses to withhold an answer from us for a period of time. Learn to wait patiently on the Lord instead of running around to other people asking them to try to get an answer from God for you. Far too often, if they do, it will be the wrong word. You most certainly can ask someone close to you to pray and seek the Lord for confirmation on something, but be fully aware that God may or may not choose to give such confirmation. Often Daniel and I will each pray for guidance on a specific issue. Almost always the Lord gives both of us the same answer independently at separate times. Sometimes, He will choose to speak about the matter to only one of us. Be careful about who you have pray for you. The scripture in James chapter 5 instructs us to have the elders pray for us. an elder is someone in the body where you fellowship who you know personally. You KNOW he or she is living a godly and cleansed life. The laying on of hands in prayer is a valid scriptural ministry. But we are instructed to have the elders of our local body pray for us in such a way. It is not nearly so glamorous or exciting to have someone in your local church pray for you as it is to have someone famous in a big ministry pray for you. Be careful! You do not really know someone famous. You have no way of knowing if he or she is living a cleansed life. When you allow someone to lay hands on you and pray for you, you submit to them and are willing to receive an impartation from them. If they do not have a cleansed life, they may very well impart an evil spirit to you. This is a source of great trouble in the lives of God's people. To be continued in Part 8. Rebecca.