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Christianity Etc › Re: Why Are My Prayers Unanswered And Unsuccesful by vickyO(f): 10:47am On Nov 19, 2013

They are unanswered cause you pray in unbelief.
Do you know God's thoughts for us? It's for good and not evil. So God's will for your life is for you to live in peace, comfort...just name it. But the devil comes in to steal all these away from us. He is a devourer. So his will for you isn't evil, ok?
As to prayer, Jesus said watch and pray. watch- the circumstances around you, are they in line with God's word and plan for us? if they aren't pray God's will be done. And when you pray, don't see yourself as unworthy (nobody is worthy anyways). You have to go bold to the throne of grace, pray in faith (and in tongues if you can) and your prayers will be answered. you have to be patient and sensitive to the spirit of God.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Deliverance And Forgiveness by vickyO(f): 10:34am On Nov 19, 2013

What's your point?

Christianity Etc › Re: No More Pre-marital Sex. by vickyO(f): 10:33am On Nov 19, 2013

Beautiful write up. God bless you.

Christianity Etc › Nothing Is Too Difficult For God: Story Of How A Renown Athiest Experienced God by vickyO(op): 9:03am On Nov 18, 2013

She worked for the Clinton administration, became a liberal pundit for the Daily Beast and a regular Democratic contributor to Fox News. On top of that, all her friends were agnostics or atheists. So when God pursued and won her reluctant heart, she was more surprised than anyone else.

“If there was one thing in which I was completely secure, it was that I would never adhere to any religion—especially to evangelical Christianity, which I held in particular contempt,” writes Kirsten Powers, in a first-person account of her conversion published in Christianity Today.

The daughter of archeologist parents, she attended the Episcopal Church in Fairbanks, Alaska, but never really believed. Whatever shred of nominal faith she possessed was due to respect for her father, a brilliant man who taught himself to speak and read Russian.

After her father began to express his own doubts about Christianity while she was in college, she fell headlong into unbelief.

“What little faith I had couldn’t withstand this revelation,” she noted. “From my early 20s on, I would waver between atheism and agnosticism, never coming close to considering that God could be real.”

Powers worked in the Clinton administration for six years and rarely saw any open expressions of religiosity. Then she moved to New York to work in Democratic politics. “My world became aggressively secular. Everyone I knew was politically left-leaning, and my group of friends was overwhelmingly atheist,” she observes.

The first crack in her anti-faith armor emerged when she dated a Christian man. Immediately before this, she told a friend the only deal breaker in her dating world would be someone religious.

After they dated a few months, her boyfriend called to say he had something important to discuss. When he came over to her New York apartment he looked at her intently and asked, “Do you believe Jesus is your Savior?”

Her heart sank when she heard the question. She thought he might be slightly crazy. “No,” she replied.

“Do you think you could ever believe it?” he asked. Then he told Powers he wanted to get married and felt that she might be the one, but he couldn’t marry a non-believer.

“I don’t want to mislead you—I could never believe in Jesus,” Powers told him.

“Do you think you could keep an open mind about it?” he asked, hopefully.

“Of course; I’m very open-minded!” she replied, even though she knew it was not completely true in this instance. Inwardly, she found his faith “an oddity to overlook, not a point in his favor.”

A few weeks later they went to church together, and a few things surprised her. First, she didn’t realize a Presbyterian could be an evangelical. “When we arrived at the Upper East Side service of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, I was shocked and repelled by what I saw. I was used to the high-church liturgy of my youth. We were meeting in an auditorium with a band playing what I later learned was ‘praise music.’ I thought, How am I going to tell him I can never come back?” she writes in Christianity Today.

But when Pastor Tim Keller began to speak, she found herself completely engrossed in his message. “I had never heard a pastor talk about the things he did. Tim Keller’s sermon was intellectually rigorous, weaving in art and history and philosophy. I decided to come back to hear him again.”

She found herself returning for more, but one thing disappointed her about his messages – his mention of Jesus. She left each week with some frustration, wondering, Why did he have to ruin a perfectly good talk with this Jesus nonsense?

As Keller propounded the case for Christ, she began to question her atheism. “He expertly exposed the intellectual weaknesses of a purely secular worldview. I came to realize that even if Christianity wasn’t the real thing, neither was atheism.”

Soon Powers found herself reading the Bible. At the same time, her boyfriend was praying that God would reveal Himself to Powers. After eight months of listening to Keller, she concluded that the weight of evidence was on the side of Christianity.

Still, she didn’t feel any particular connection to God. “I continued to think that people who talked of hearing from God or experiencing God were either delusional or lying. In my most generous moments, I allowed that they were just imagining things that made them feel good.”

Encounter with Jesus

Then something very unusual happened to Powers on a trip to Taiwan in 2006.

“I woke up in what felt like a strange cross between a dream and reality. Jesus came to me and said, ‘Here I am.’

“It felt so real. I didn’t know what to make of it,” she recalls. She called her boyfriend the next day, but before she could tell him what happened, he said he had been praying the night before and felt they were supposed to break up.

While she was upset by the break up, she was more “traumatized” by the mystical, mysterious visitation by Jesus. “I tried to write off the experience as misfiring synapses, but I couldn’t shake it,” she notes.

Powers returned to New York a few days later, but felt lost and confused as she tried to process her growing consciousness of God’s presence. “I suddenly felt God everywhere and it was terrifying. More important, it was unwelcome. It felt like an invasion. I started to fear I was going crazy.”

She sought out the advice of a friend, author and cultural commentator Eric Metaxas, whom she knew to be a Christian. “You need to be in a Bible study,” he told her. He recommended a study taught by Pastor Tim Keller’s wife.

When she walked into the Bible study she felt desperate, unsure how she would ever tell family or friends about her emerging faith. She thought no one would understand because she didn’t really comprehend the changes unfolding in her heart. “I had a knot in my stomach. In my mind, only weirdoes and zealots went to Bible studies.”

Powers doesn’t recall what Kathy Keller taught on that day, but when she left the Bible study she knew everything had changed. “I’ll never forget standing outside that apartment on the Upper East Side and saying to myself, ‘It’s true. It’s completely true.’ The world looked entirely different, like a veil had been lifted off it. I had not an iota of doubt. I was filled with indescribable joy.”

In the next few months, a tug-of-war between faith and doubt returned at intervals. She did her best “to wrestle away from God,” but found it was futile to run from Him.

“Everywhere I turned, there He was. Slowly there was less fear and more joy. The Hound of Heaven had pursued me and caught me—whether I liked it or not.”

Christianity Etc › Re: Are Female Pastors Antichrist ? by vickyO(f): 3:16pm On Nov 11, 2013

Dantedasz: Wow! This is enlightening.
Selective Christianity at its best.
The question is was Paul inspired by God or not?

He was filled with the Holy Ghost and all doctrines he gave were for the edification of the church. Some might not have been inspired by God some might have been borne out of his personal opinion

Christianity Etc › Re: Marrying A Divorcee And Divorce Is A Sin. Why Are The Jw's Encouraging It? by vickyO(op): 3:03pm On Nov 11, 2013

JMAN05: God doesnt like divorcing. that is true and I have never said God liked it, but I am saying that God approves divorce ONLY on the ground of fornication just like i ve said above.

I want to be sure you get my position here. separation is another thing.

Paul yes advised believers to stay with their mate, but this is if the believing mate agrees to live with him. 1cor, 7:12 this is about separation o, not dicorce.

But if the unbeliever on the other hand choses to separate, let him do so. but the believer will not remarry cos it is a separation not divorce.

Udo!

Nope, you're twisting it. Believers are not to divorce but are free to separate. but if a believer marries an unbeliever, they can divorce if the unbeliever choose to go.

Christianity Etc › Re: Marrying A Divorcee And Divorce Is A Sin. Why Are The Jw's Encouraging It? by vickyO(op): 2:57pm On Nov 11, 2013

Boomark: Where did you get the bolded from? [s]The certificate is waiting for you jor, do quick and come home.[/s]

Are you saying that Mt 19:5-9 was referring to someone's girlfriend instead of a WIFE?

More like, a wife to be.

Christianity Etc › Re: Are Female Pastors Antichrist ? by vickyO(f): 2:51pm On Nov 11, 2013

Paul was only giving Timothy tips on how to lead his local church. He never said it was a must for him or anyone to follow. Note, it was a letter to Timothy not to the Church as a whole....... Some people are just annoyingly religious. whatever rocks your boat.

Christianity Etc › Re: Are Female Pastors Antichrist ? by vickyO(f): 4:40pm On Nov 10, 2013

I can't believe some male believers could be so rash with their words shocked

. See how they've degraded women cry

. Gosh, and you expect us to submit to you huh

. God of mercy.
And if y'all notice, wherever a woman pastors, love thrives. GOOGLE IT

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Christianity Etc › Re: Are Female Pastors Antichrist ? by vickyO(f): 4:34pm On Nov 10, 2013

Of course not . Look at Kathryn Kumar, Joyce Meyers. the former was one of the greatest healing ministers of her time while the later is bringing positive changes to planet earth. Paul teaches doctrines but those from God he clearly states. He doesn't make it a must to obey those he gives but the ones given by God.
There's nothing bad about it, we all are doing our father's business. If you're capable go on ahead, he's got your back. We need more laborers in the vine yard, if the women are capable, go on.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Marrying A Divorcee And Divorce Is A Sin. Why Are The Jw's Encouraging It? by vickyO(op): 3:52pm On Nov 10, 2013

Paul also said marriage between believers shouldn't lead to divorce and if it does, the two partners must remain unmarried. two shall become one, what God has joined let no one put asunder. Jesus said the above, why can't you accept it?

Christianity Etc › Re: Meditations On The Mysteries Of The Holy Rosary (joyful And Luminous) by vickyO(f): 1:23pm On Nov 07, 2013

gboru: pls who is this?

Who're you too?

Christianity Etc › Re: Meditations On The Mysteries Of The Holy Rosary (joyful And Luminous) by vickyO(f): 1:22pm On Nov 07, 2013

woky: Lol.. Who is this one And what does she even want from us abeg go stand for sun!

Who are you too? was I speaking to you? nosy human being... abeg swerve.

Christianity Etc › Re: Marrying A Divorcee And Divorce Is A Sin. Why Are The Jw's Encouraging It? by vickyO(op): 1:15pm On Nov 07, 2013

JMAN05, fornication is having sex before the real marriage ceremony takes place. read the story of Joseph and Mary. they were betrothed and ready to get married when Mary got pregnant, Joseph assumed she cheated and so decided to divorce her before the wedding but God intervened. That's the only ground one can stand on to divorce but when the rites have been thrown, blessings given, and the two couples joined in holy matrimony, you cannot divorce. it's TILL DEATH DO US PART.

Christianity Etc › Re: Meditations On The Mysteries Of The Holy Rosary (joyful And Luminous) by vickyO(f): 6:23pm On Nov 06, 2013

Boomark: Thanks vicky. I wonder what is actually wrong with them. The honest advice i gave, they could not see any reason in it and at the same time they could not contest it.

You're welcome. It's because their eyes of understanding has been beclouded by strange pagan doctrines. But We shall keep telling them the truth and it shall set them free.

Christianity Etc › Re: Jesus Was A Total Complete Utter Failure! by vickyO(f): 6:20pm On Nov 06, 2013

let's say he actually came for the Jews, some received him while some didn't. It was all part of the master plan, the message of Christ will go to the Jews first before the gentiles. but note this - before departing he gave us the great commission which is to witness to all nations both the gentiles and the Jews. @ op, I guess you failed to read that part.

Christianity Etc › Re: Meditations On The Mysteries Of The Holy Rosary (joyful And Luminous) by vickyO(f): 5:58pm On Nov 06, 2013

And their practices are full of ceremony upon ceremonies. Humans love this but it takes one who possesses the holy ghost to take heed lest he falls.

Christianity Etc › Re: Meditations On The Mysteries Of The Holy Rosary (joyful And Luminous) by vickyO(f): 5:52pm On Nov 06, 2013

@ Bookmark, Keep it up. these Catholics like feeling like their doctrines are truthful when most of their doctrines are curled from pagan practices. may God help you guys renew your minds and open your hearts of understanding.

Christianity Etc › Re: Why Do God Have To Create People GAY? Why? by vickyO(f): 5:47pm On Nov 06, 2013

I can't explain spiritual things to carnally minded people. Keep derailing the topic... GOD BLESS.

Christianity Etc › Re: Why Do God Have To Create People GAY? Why? by vickyO(f): 4:24pm On Nov 06, 2013

macof: That's because he was gay

O please, he never had any sexual relationship. his definition of marriage was for a man to leave his parent and stick to his wife. and not for a man to stick to a man.

Christianity Etc › Re: Sister Linder's Confession About Heaven And Fake Pastors True Or False? by vickyO(f): 4:21pm On Nov 06, 2013

this hell and heaven stories still amaze me. I wonder why some people buy their CDs. The Bible is enough for us and the Holy Spirit. all these people are just trying to divide the body of Christ more and turn the attention of Christians to religiosity rather than Christ. Beware of wolves in sheep clothing.

Christianity Etc › Re: Clear View About Purgatory by vickyO(f): 4:14pm On Nov 06, 2013

satellitedaisy: Which part of the bible did I write? Proverb, apocalypse or matthew. I quoted the bible for you, I neither twist nor doctrinize it.

Or babe, are u scared of proving yourself?

the scriptures you quoted doesn't relate... you failed to give a solid backing for your doctrine.

Christianity Etc › Re: Marrying A Divorcee And Divorce Is A Sin. Why Are The Jw's Encouraging It? by vickyO(op): 4:08pm On Nov 06, 2013

Alwaystrue: @OP,
May we receive the grace to live according to the will of God. Grace enables us to do what God loves.

In Malachi, God said He hates divorce and convenant breakers in line with what was written at the beginning...Let No Man put asunder what God has joined together.
There is a mystery in the joining of husband and wife. (Ephesians 5:31-32)

Some laws were given by Moses to the Israelites because of the hardness of their hearts. Hard hearts and Christianity do not go together so Jesus gave us the mind of God again on divorce in Mathew 19:5-11. Infact the disciples felt it was too hard a saying and asked if it is worth it to even marry. It takes denying self to follow Jesus.

Christianity requires real saving and enabling grace and continualy need for the Saviour, Jesus Christ.

LebanonCedars: Dear Jmans05 and iamsi,

The commandment of God is clear on marriage and it is one man, one wife for life! Anything besides that is man made! This is the reason why our Lord Jesus came to set things in other. Notwithstanding, a canal and unregenerate person cannot and will not be able to understand the thing of the Spirit because they are foolishness to him. For you to be able to obey the law of God as human, you must be born of the Spirit: this is what the scriptures refer to as being-born again 1 Peter 1:23. It is only then you receive grace to be faithful and ever loving to your spouse among other things.

You might not be able to search the scriptures others gave above, I will therefore quote them out for you: "because The Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth against whom thou hast dealt treachously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. For The Lord, the God of Isreal, saith that He hateth putting away" Malachi 2:14,16

"And the Pharisees came to Him and asked Him, is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? Tempting Him. And He answered and said unto them, what did Moses command you? And they said, Moses suffered (allowed) to write a bill of divorcement and to put her away. And Jesus answered and said unto them, for the HARDNESS OF YOUR HEART he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation God made then male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh... What therefore God hath joined together let NOT MAN PUT ASUNDER." Mark 10:2-9

"And to the married I command, yet not I but The Lord, let not the wife depart from her husband:but and if she depart, LET HER REMAIN UNMARRIED OR BE RECONCILED to her husband: and let not the husband PUT AWAY his wife." 1 Cor 7:10,11

Thank you guys for your posts. Beautiful exposition

Christianity Etc › Re: Marrying A Divorcee And Divorce Is A Sin. Why Are The Jw's Encouraging It? by vickyO(op): 4:08pm On Nov 06, 2013

Alwaystrue: @OP,
May we receive the grace to live according to the will of God. Grace enables us to do what God loves.

In Malachi, God said He hates divorce and convenant breakers in line with what was written at the beginning...Let No Man put asunder what God has joined together.
There is a mystery in the joining of husband and wife. (Ephesians 5:31-32)

Some laws were given by Moses to the Israelites because of the hardness of their hearts. Hard hearts and Christianity do not go together so Jesus gave us the mind of God again on divorce in Mathew 19:5-11. Infact the disciples felt it was too hard a saying and asked if it is worth it to even marry. It takes denying self to follow Jesus.

Christianity requires real saving and enabling grace and continualy need for the Saviour, Jesus Christ.

LebanonCedars: Dear Jmans05 and iamsi,

The commandment of God is clear on marriage and it is one man, one wife for life! Anything besides that is man made! This is the reason why our Lord Jesus came to set things in other. Notwithstanding, a canal and unregenerate person cannot and will not be able to understand the thing of the Spirit because they are foolishness to him. For you to be able to obey the law of God as human, you must be born of the Spirit: this is what the scriptures refer to as being-born again[b] 1 Peter 1:23. [/b]It is only then you receive grace to be faithful and ever loving to your spouse among other things.

You might not be able to search the scriptures others gave above, I will therefore quote them out for you: "because The Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth against whom thou hast dealt treachously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. For The Lord, the God of Isreal, saith that He hateth putting away" Malachi 2:14,16

"And the Pharisees came to Him and asked Him, is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? Tempting Him. And He answered and said unto them, what did Moses command you? And they said, Moses suffered (allowed) to write a bill of divorcement and to put her away. And Jesus answered and said unto them, for the HARDNESS OF YOUR HEART he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation God made then male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh... What therefore God hath joined together let NOT MAN PUT ASUNDER." Mark 10:2-9

[/b[b]]"And to the married I command, yet not I but The Lord, let not the wife depart from her husband:but and if she depart, LET HER REMAIN UNMARRIED OR BE RECONCILED to her husband: and let not the husband PUT AWAY his wife." 1 Cor 7:10,11

Christianity Etc › Re: Why Do God Have To Create People GAY? Why? by vickyO(f): 4:02pm On Nov 06, 2013

obadiah777: [reincarnation is real whether you choose to accept it or not. everything i have put up there is biblical. whatever was locked into your spiritual dna in past life due to your deeds and actions will express itself when you are reborn. no human was created initially as gay. they became gay somewhere along their numerous lives lived and hence are born gay. but in their first ever life on earth they were not gay

i liked all yall post so you can come back and see the error of your ways

Please, there's nothing like reincarnation...............

Christianity Etc › Re: Why Are Christians Supporting Gays/gay Marriage? by vickyO(op): 11:10am On Nov 06, 2013

souldust: what about the anglican church and her gay and lesbian bishops?

Christianity Etc › Re: Marrying A Divorcee And Divorce Is A Sin. Why Are The Jw's Encouraging It? by vickyO(op): 11:07am On Nov 06, 2013

read 1 cor 7

Christianity Etc › Re: Marrying A Divorcee And Divorce Is A Sin. Why Are The Jw's Encouraging It? by vickyO(op): 11:05am On Nov 06, 2013

read the book of mark 10:10-12

Christianity Etc › Re: Clear View About Purgatory by vickyO(f): 11:00am On Nov 06, 2013

@ op, I believe in Christ and so heaven is mine. I don't just sit in my house and claim heaven. I act according to the word and I pray for more grace to do that which is right. No purgatory, don't twist the Bible to suit your doctrine

Christianity Etc › Re: Why The Bible Isn't Really The Word Of God by vickyO(op): 10:40am On Nov 05, 2013

ajayikayod: Sure, its an account but not a guide though provide gudiance. Its an authority over all issues.

but it isn't the Word of God...... that's my point

Christianity Etc › Re: Why The Bible Isn't Really The Word Of God by vickyO(op): 10:28am On Nov 05, 2013

ajayikayod: Sis,
I appreciate ur psot above and ur stand on d fact dt Jesus is the Word. But i will point out dt d written word of God (Bible) is not a guide, though it can provide gudiance but d written word is absolute, far more than a guide.

The Bible is an account. that's what it is.......

Christianity Etc › Re: You Won’t Believe Which Actress Turns Preacher Of The Gospel by vickyO(f): 10:01am On Nov 05, 2013

Ain't that great. We want more of this. Welcome to the fold Miss.

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