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The only stable relationship she needs is with her Creator. This life is meaningless without Christ

The fall of first man(Adam) made his spirit dead to God - no longer able to live according to God's inspiration and therefore couldn't accomplish God's purpose for him on earth. All men afterwards inherited the fallen (Adamic) nature of sin and became farther separated from God since then. Since the spirit of man is dead, he could only be inspired by his corporal environment - his soul life(mind, emotion and will) became animated by the physical things and his body.

God therefore initiated a plan for his redemption through His Son Jesus Christ, so that anyone who believes in Him shouldn't continue in that state spiritual death, but will have his spirit regenerated by the Holy Spirit and then be given the uncreated and unending life of God which Adam never had because it was in the tree of life in the garden of Eden (John 3:16).

Anyone who has thus been regenerated should henceforth be controlled by the resident Holy Spirit in his re-born spirit and no more by the flesh (physical environment). Only then can he fulfill God's purpose for his life both here and eternity.

Live your life as if you'll be no more in the next 6 minutes

elgramz:
The bible said nothing about whether suicide is a sin or not. I challenge anyone to show me where God said anything about suicide in the bible

So because the Bible didn't make mention of it, then it isn't evil?

I implore you let the Holy Spirit write the Word on your heart Himself so you can know Him more intimately.

Stop deceiving people, a true Christian can NEVER commit suicide because it's equivalent to taking another person's life.

The life we're living isn't ours but God's gift to us and no one has the right to take it except the Giver.

Anyone who commits suicide can't be of God and is headed to eternal damnation.

What made the Canaanites particularly ripe for God's judgment was their occult practices, practices the people of God (Israelite and now Christians)are strictly forbidden to imitate.

Even though the Canaanites were sex-worshippers (in their service of the goddess Ashtaroth); and they were also money and success worshippers (in their service of the god Baal). But other people were also given over to sex and greed but weren't judged as severely as the Canaanites.

God hates occult practices passionately because it amounts to consorting with the power of darknes and rejection of the Light (Truth) of God.

The help you need can only come from the Comforter - the Holy Spirit. If you're born-again, then He lives in you, ONLY BELIEVE!

You only have to give yourself completely to His leading through your spirit(wherein He resides). Your spirit has 3 functions - intuition, fellowship(communion) with God, and conscience.

When you keep these 3 functions in proper perspective, the way God wants it and the only way the Holy Spirit can work with and in you, then your spiritual life will experience a wonderful growth.

You only need to grow spiritually as a Christian, you don't need any pastor or prophet. Most Christians nowadays have become biblically illiterate and spiritually weak because they've chosen the ‘see-a-prophet-or-pastor’ style of Christian living rather than studying God’s Word. Read and study the Word and allow the Holy Spirit write the Word in your heart. Read inspirational books (you can download many online free). Stop allowing the flesh(SIN) dominate your life and stop worshipping God according to SELF - the only acceptable worship is the one you do in SPIRIT and TRUTH (through the help of the Holy Spirit).

In summary; Seek first the Kingdom of God (give yourself totally to the dominion of the Holy Spirit) and everything you need will be yours.

Only God knows His true disciples - the real Church.

Those worship centers and their occupants are not the real church of God but those who truly worship Him in SPIRIT & TRUTH.

Originakalokalo:
The big and serious question is,

Which God are you sticking with?

Jesus said that NO ONE comes to THE FATHER (YAHWEH) EXCEPT THROUGH HIM.

note the words in uppercase.

It means no one worships the God of Israel without passing through Jesus.

I ask you again,

Which God are you sticking to?

You can take a camel to the river but you can't force it to drink.

You can't force the Truth into someone bent on rejecting it. The Holy Spirit reveals Himself to those who are humble enough to accept Him no matter their level of knowledge.

Their are 3 types of people in this world,
1. Those who are truly seeking to know and live the Truth
2. Those who are seeking to know the Truth only to boost their ego
3. Those who don't care about the Truth (both to know and to live)

The first category of people may include the worst of humans in the world such as mass murderers but if they are truly seeking to know and live the Truth, then the Spirit of Truth will reveal Himself to them despite the level they've gone in their sinful nature.

The second category of people may include pastors or professors in theology, but they can never comprehend the Truth no matter how you explain it to them except if they are willing to humble themselves and allow the Spirit of God work Himself in them.

Jesus Christ has fulfilled the law for all who believe in Him, therefore the curses is Deuteronomy were upon Jesus on the cross. Anyone who comes to Christ has no more curses, it's automatic deliverance if he believes.

Toks2008:
Your soul houses your spirit and these two lives on so inadvertently it is your soul that connects.

After the fall, man's spirit lost its primary function towards God; for it became dead to God. It thus appear that it has become an accessory to the soul (mind, emotions and will). Man's spirit then became controlled and influenced completely by his soul with the result that it manifests the works of the soul. As the soul (mind, emotion and volition) grow stronger, the functions of the spirit (conscience, communion with God and intuition) became so eclipsed as to render them almost unknown. Thus is why there must be the work of dividing between soul and spirit after a believer is regenerated (born again). The dividing is necessary because spirit and soul have become one. Everything is done according to the dictates of intellect or feeling. The spirit has lost its power and sensation, as though dead asleep. What instinct it has in knowing and serving God is entirely paralyzed. It remains in a coma as if nonexistent. This is what is meant in Jude 19 by “natural, not having spirit” (literal).

The "soul" part of man always seeks it's own way, and does not want to yield nor submit to anyone, much less the ways of God. The soul is the seat of pride and arrogance, it's the place where "feelings" desire to rule, which can cause us to make decisions that are not always healthy for our spiritual growth. The soul of man must be brought under subjection and submission to the Lord if we are ever going to realize the true blessings of God in our lives. The deeper the Word of God penetrates the deeper works the cross and the further the Holy Spirit completes the union of the life of our spirit with the Lord Jesus. Cross-bearing is continuous. The cross which condemned sin to death is an accomplished fact: all which remains for us to do is to acknowledge and receive it.

The same reason Yorubas call Him Jesu

Toks2008:
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What GOD cares about is Your soul and whilst we cry on earth when anyone dies, to GOD it is home coming cos this earth is just a temporary place for your soul.

[b]Your soul–that invisible and eternal part of you–is the part that connects you with God. It’s what makes you different than all other life forms on the planet: every human has a soul. Your soul is the real you and that is what GOD really cares about and not your earthly body. That’s why Jesus asked, “Is anything worth more than your soul?”(Mark 8:37)

True God cares about the soul of man but soul isn't the part that connects man to God but the spirit.

The soul (mind, emotion and will) is meant to be subject to the spirit of man.

The spirit (intuition, conscience and communion) is the part that coonects to the Spirit of God in order to live a God centered life on earth.

It's not Biblical. It's men's tradition

Read and study your Bible, then pray for the Holy Spirit's illumination. God made heaven for Himself and His angels NOT for humans. He made the earth for humans to live.

Right from the beginning, God's plan has always been to rule the earth from His heavenly throne using humans as His regents. That plan was disrupted but not aborted by the devil. In the end, the plan will come into fulfillment when Satan, death and evil has been finally defeated after the millenial reign and great white throne judgment.

Lukuluku69:
It will interest you to know that Jesus also, drew that same sword against the The Jews. Read Luke 22:36 KJV
[36] Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it , and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

Unfortunately for Jesus, when the real trouble came, and he neede them most :Mark 14:50 KJV
[50] And they all forsook him, and fled.

Believe me, I admire your knowledge of the Bible. But I still maintain that you lack understanding of the Word judging from your interpretations of the Bible.

No matter how much you know of the Bible, without God's revelation through His Holy Spirit, you'll still remain blind to the Truth which the Bibles portrays.

The kind of people leading Nigeria, no wonder the country continues to move backwards

FAITH is the antidote for Fear

For your information, I do not attend any congregation. I read and study the Bible but the Holy Spirit inscribes the Word in my heart. My mind can only comprehend what the Spirit interpretes through my own spirit. I believe everything that comes from the Spirit by Faith and they always become reality.

Only God knows those that are truly His. Indeed there are so many falsehoods using the name of Christ. So for those "church" Pastors/G.O you mentioned, the Spirit of God within me testifies about the ones that are truly His and I thank God for that. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, so I hope you'll give Him the chance to work in you.

Feminity -- The sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood.

The world has replaced feminity with femininism. The devil is always at work in the mind of humanity to throw the whole world into chaos and constant rebellion to God.

Our generation is the most hit of all time. Young women nowadays are continuously being deceived that they can attain fulfillment by ruling over men. But the men have not faired better, they have replaced leadership with dominance

There are too many carnal and unspiritual Christians in Nigeria, hence the hullabaloo about islamization.

Christians should instead be worried about the reign of the powers of darkness from spiritual realms controlling the affairs of Nigeria (Ephesians 6:12).

Lukuluku69:
The Hindus belief in a Triune/Triad Godhead comprising Vishnu, Brahama and Shiva. The Christians belief in a Trinity. Do you honestly believe the the Hindus can critique that? Or that the Christians brought something new from what their ancestors handed down?

I sincerely hope you know the Bible isn't a text book nor a scientific research book. It isn't even a religious book to be observed by religious groups. The Word of God. The Holy Bible is a spiritual Book from a spiritual Source, written by men inspired by God Himself.

So any mind who must understand what is written in the Bible must be spiritually renewed. Everything you've written here just confirmed to me that you have no spiritual illumination from the Holy Spirit of God, so you have no understanding of the Bible despite your knowledge of it.

Any knowledge of God and His Word without His illumination remains veiled to the Truth.

Lukuluku69:
Go find the true interpretation of the Chapter below! And after that pick a Book on the Life of Prophet of Islam and read slowly.

Isaiah 42:1-25 KJV
[1] Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
[2] He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
[3] A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
[4] He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
[5] Thus saith God the Lord , he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
[6] I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
[7] To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
[8] I am the Lord : that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
[9] Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
[10] Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
[11] Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice , the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. [
12] Let them give glory unto the Lord , and declare his praise in the islands.
[13] The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
[14] I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
[15] I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
[16] And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. [
17] They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. [18] Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
[19] Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant? [20] Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not. [
21] The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
[22] But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
[23] Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
[24] Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord , he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
[25] Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

So what is your point exactly from the passage?

Anyone inspired by the Holy Spirit will know for sure that Islam is a religion from the pit of hell. A satanic religion meant for the sole purpose of tainting the Christian Truth (that Jesus Christ is the Lord). But God is sovereign, His Truth can never be suppressed.

The devil packaged some truths and hid the most terrible lie in it to dissuade humanity away from the Truth - the way he's been doing from the beginning.

Thank God some Muslims who are truly seeking the Truth are being converted.

Knowledge and Illumination has always been the bait the devil uses to draw man away from Life. Satan has always deceived humanity from the beginning and he's still doing so.

Any illumination without God's Light is deceit into death.

Horiolah:
Even if it doesn't make any sense?? Dude, what if you're wrong?

It can never make any sense to the natural mind no matter how enlightened it is because the message is from a spiritual Source and any mind that must comprehend it must be spiritually renewed.

I can never be wrong because I believe whole heartedly in my spirit, not just my mind, that I serve a living God - He lives in me.

Chenzee:
You don't memorize without meditating...When you meditate day and night, it then becomes part of you....It then stays in your heart.

Meditation yields no fruit without the Holy Spirit's inscription of the Word in your heart

Onyi22:
Afonjas and ugliness r 5 and 6

Can't u just 4 once pretend to be matured

God created man in His image; to become like Himself, capable of holding fellowship with Him in His glory. Man was to be a temple for God to dwell in ; he was to become the home in which God could rest, this was what the Holy One longed for, and looked forward to. In Paradise two ways were set before man for attaining to this likeness of God. These were typified by the two trees: that of LIFE and that of KNOWLEDGE. God's way was the former, through life would come the knowledge and likeness of God; in abiding in God's will, and partaking of God's life, man would be perfected. In recommending the other and deceiving him, Satan assured man that knowledge was the one thing to be desired to make us like God. And when man chose the light of knowledge above the life in obedience, he entered upon the terrible path that leads to death. The desire to know became his greatest temptation; his whole nature was corrupted, and knowledge was to him more than obedience and more than life. Under the power of this deceit, that promises happiness in knowledge, the human race is still led astray. And nowhere does it show its power more terribly than in connection with the true religion and God's own revelation of Himself. Even where the word of God is accepted, the wisdom of the world and of the flesh ever enters in; even spiritual Truth is robbed of its power when held, not in the life of the Spirit, but in the wisdom of man. Where Truth enters into the inward parts of the spirit (intuition, conscience and communion), as God desires, there it becomes the life of the Spirit. But it may also only reach the outer parts of the soul (the intellect and reasoning) and while it occupies and pleases there and satisfies us with the imagination that it will thence exercise its influence, its power is nothing more than that of human argument and wisdom, that never reaches to the true life of the spirit. For there is a truth of the understanding and feelings, which is only natural, the human image or form, the shadow of Divine Truth. There is a Truth which is substance and reality, communicating to him who holds it the actual possession, the life of the things of which others only think and speak. The truth in shadow, in form, in thought,was all the law could give; and in that the religion of the Jews consisted. But the truth of substance, the Truth as a Divine life, was what Jesus brought as the Only-begotten, full of grace and truth. He is Himself THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, no man has access to God except through Him. Indeed all knowledge of Divine Reality without Christ’s Revelation remains veiled to the Truth.


Andrew Murray  (Excerpt from The Spirit of Christ)

It's better to have the Word written in your heart than on your mind.

When the Word is written in your heart, the Holy Spirit becomes your life Principles

advocate666:
see epistle.

Your gay Lord is dead.

1 Corinthians 1 : 18 - For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

You can't comprehend this spiritual reality with your natural mind, it's beyond your highest apprehensive capacity as a fallible human.

If you really want to understand and live this reality, ask your Creator in all humility and He'll reveal Himself to you.

Horiolah:
Dude said God can't DIE. He then said, "God took on human flesh to suffer and DIE".

1 Corinthians 1 : 18 - For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.