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Please know that God loves you! He sent His begotten son to die just for you. Even if noone ever lived on the earth but you, God still would have sent Jesus to die just for you. All you have to do to have a relationship with Jesus is ask Him into your heart and believe that He died on the cross and rose the 3rd day. Thats it! FAITH + nothing= SAVED! JESUS loves YOU fiercely. He wants a relationship with you soo badly. The bible says that NOTHING can separate us from the Love of God, not heaven, not even HELL, nothing in between. Jesus just wants a relationship with you. He wants to be your best friend. You dont need to fancy language or religion or song and dance. Just talk to Him, sing to Him from your heart, cry to Him. Jesus said, Cast your cares upon me, I will give you rest. My yoke is easy. The devil is a liar! I come against his lies! He is lying to you saying that you arent worthy. That is a lie! Friend, you ARE WORTHY, you are loved! Jesus bought us with His own blood. We are His as long as we ask. Its a free gift. If that isnt love, i dont know what is. Do not listen to the devil's lie. The bible says the devil seeks to kill and destroy. But Jesus came to give us life. I speak life into you in the mighty name of Jesus! Receive Him. Call out His name! Call out Jesus. He is in your midst. He is in your corner. He is ready to take you in His warm embrace. Do not harm yourself. God Has to be the one to decide when your time is up, not you. I urge you to get a King James Bible and read it every day. Your mind will renew and your spirit will refresh. We are told to renew our minds daily. That way the devil loses his strong hold. Jesus wants to free you from bondage. Receive Him. All you have to do is ask. "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." You are loved.

Acts 14:22

[22]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."

Dear sweet Flossy,

I know EXACTLY how you feel. My life was similar to yours. I have been abused, used, rejected, by family and men that supposedly " loved" me. I was a teen mom with no support from my family. I also tried committing suicide, only to have my ex mother in law walk in on me. I lived a hopeless life for 40 years!!!! And then Jesus stepped into my life. Let me tell you about my life now after receiving Jesus in 2006! He revived a dream in me that I thought would never happen, and that was to go to college. In 2007 he showed me in a dream that I would go to school. That happened in 2014!! Yes, seven years after he gave me my dream! In those seven years, my husband was diagnosed with MS and lost his job, my teenage daughter was rebelling and moved in with my parents, my mother in law was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis of the lungs and I became a caregiver to her and my husband, while still working! I lost my job in 2013 a week before Thanksgiving!! Yes... all this could have made me give up the dream of going to school, but instead it fueled my need for Jesus EVERYDAY!!! I attended school at the age of 40 years old for 6 years and I have three degrees! I finished my Master's this past May and I did it debt free because it is true! Where he guides, he provides! I tell you this because I understand the hard days, the abusive days, the hopeless days, but if you hold fast to Jesus and his words and promises... HE WILL GIVE YOU THE LIFE HE CREATED YOU FOR!!! HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW!!! If I would have successfully committed suicide when I was 19, I would have never known how great my life is turning out to be!!!! Please DO NOT GIVE UP!!!! YOU ARE HERE FOR A REASON AND HAVE A PURPOSE IN THIS LIFE TO ACTUALLY LIVE AND NOT JUST SURVIVE!!!!! I hope my post encourages you that if God can do this for me, than know that HE CAN FO IT FOR YOU!!!!!

You know that Christian saying, " Jesus takes your mess and makes it your message"? Well... here's mine

you are being attacked because your trying to do the Lords work. You pressing on no matter what anyone says. It is through those trials that Jesus makes us stronger. Have faith in God not man. Read the word of God and through that word you will find your strength. Ask God to speak to you through his words and not your own. Every time you read ask God to use that word to reach others through you for we are his hands and feet here on earth. Think not of what ye shall speak in that time and hour for it us i who shall speak through you. Its God's word, look for it. It may not be worded ( what i write) like it is in the Bible but it has always spoken to me and i stand on that word because I know many a time I have been talking to someone and God words just come flowing out. Tell God to make you an instrument of his glory. Dont faint, but look to God whom is your strength. Not man!

Read Job. the more you fear the more you allow Satan to play. do not be anxious. satan has no power against our God, he will protect you, but if you give in to fear, you are giving satan permission to enter your life.

Help us pray for financial breakthrough to pay for our financial debts. Thank you LORD

Satan has lied to you for 20 years, He is a thief and Gods word says that Satan only comes to lie and kill and destroy! I have prayed that God reveal his love to you now, Rebuke the devourer and he will flee now in the name of Jesus! Jesus is the truth and he loves you! And I love you!

Stay positive, the devil is a liar, kick him to the curb in the name of Jesus

Flossy, what you have just said is very serious! You do not want to take your own life! I can fully understand how you feel because I have felt the same way before and it is depression. God has answered my prayers before so I know very well he does! I know you do not know me but I am just a old Tennessee boy 70 years old now but please listen to me when I say do not do this, do not take your own life! I can fully understand how you could feel that no one cares but that is not true because I do! I care about you and want the best for you and I have never met you in my life but I do care about you because you are human being just like me! Flossy, I have had God answer one of my prayers one time when he and only him could have known I even had a problem and I prayed to him and in 5 min. he fixed it! no one but Him could have know about the problem I had right then. I am telling you the Gods honest truth! He is real! Believe me he is real! I hope this helps a little anyway and I so feel your pain because I have been there myself more than once! Pleas for me do not kill yourself! Please answer me!

Dear Flossy,

Even though you feel trapped and don't see anyway out, please don't give up. There's more to it. Situations change, perspectives change.

How do I know this? Because at one point I wanted to end things too and planned to do so. Even though emotions and pain seem at 100/100 level I'm so glad I waited, because things DID change. Very quickly too. Just give it another day, another week. If I hadn't waited it would have been such a waste, because shortly after new positive things happened in my life. But I didn't know that at the time, I too, thought I was stuck, trapped, with no way out, blamed others, blamed God. But part of the problem was my own thinking. I let satan deceive me. I believed a lie that I was trapped, but I was only trapped by my own thinking and false assumptions. Seeking help through pastors, mentors, counselors helped expose my false assumptions and helped me set more healthy expectations. I sought to read the scripture with a fresh set of eyes and understanding. I found out that God does love me, forgives me, and is there for me. God loves you, forgives you, and is there for you too, even though you don't currently believe it.

Thank you for sharing your heavy heart. Please know that people do care and we will be praying for you and would like to support you here on this forum if you allow them to. Can you at least call the hotline and let someone hear to your story and let them support you? 888-864-6884. It's a Christian minister you can call/text. Other numbers as a backup: 1-800-273-8255, 1-800-827-7571.

Please don't rush to anything, because myself and so many others have been in a similar place of extreme hurt in life, but waited, and positive things DID happen just right around the corner. Some of our testimonies are available on this site for you to read: Link

Can you please respond when you get this? Awaiting your reply...

Emma - I say you should do as Jesus said and buy a sword (modern day firearm) and protect yourself if need be from the violent animals that roam the streets of today.

Genesis 3 the serpent in the garden that tempted Eve.

Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that OLD SERPENT old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Is the serpent a mere figure of speech?

Was Eve speaking with a beautiful angel as mentioned in Ezekiel?

Ezekiel Chapter 28:15 Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. (Created, not born)

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with VIOLENCE violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

(war in heaven Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,)

17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy BEAUTY beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy BRIGHTNESS brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of LIGHT light.

I do not lean towards the talking snake thing personally.

Chris thought you might find this interesting.

When will or When did the last 3 Years of Daniel Chapter 9 get Fulfilled?

Choice One:

7th Day Adventists take the 'Stephen principle' dying 3 1/2 years after Jesus was crucified thus fulfilling all 70 weeks of Daniel chapter nine's 490 year timeline or what is called the 70 prophetic weeks with each week equaling 7 years. The problem I have with this view although it could be true is that it cannot be proven Biblically or historically when the evangelist Stephen was stoned to death. It really stems from their prophetess Ellen G. Whites supposed vision. I am not going to put my faith in something that cannot be proven with the Bible and Ellen had some false prophecies.

Choice Two:

I hold to the 3 1/2 year war that ended in 70 AD with Jesus giving the unsaved Jews an extra 40 years to repent and believe upon Him as their Messiah. I do so because it, what was known as The Great Revolt, lasted 3 1/2 years, so it is historical, and it also fulfills part of the Daniel 9:24-27 prophecy as the prophecy not only talks about Messiah coming and dying for sins but also that the 2nd temple would be destroyed which obviously means that Messiah had to come before the 2nd temple was destroyed. There is no getting around that. This prophecy also matches nicely with all the parables, and warnings Jesus gave the Jews in Matthew chapters 20, 21, 22, and 23.

CHOICE 3:

The Book of Revelation talks about a 3 year period. Whether this is an entirely different 3 years than the 490 years of Daniel chapter nine's 70 weeks prophecy or not I feel cannot be proven either way. A 'full preterist' would say this portion of Revelation was already fulfilled in 70 AD also. I have some problems with that. I tend to hold to Revelation's 3 years as different than the Daniel 9 490 years because it seems to be dealing with a different group of people and Messiah had already come and died for sins. I think choice two is the most logical.

All the protesting and tearing down Stautes is this the beginning of the end

Ephesians 2:8 says it is by grace we are saved through faith. it is not by faith alone, but by the grace of god and faith in his son that we receive the gift of salvation. by grace, we cannot earn grace. grace is given to us by a loving merciful god. it is freely given, we must only have faith in his word and in his son jesus christ. remember it is by grace through faith. not of works lest any man should boast. but he is telling us that if you truly believe you will also have works.

Thank you!!!

The son of man will rapture his church in 2026.Dan.12:11-13.Refer the setting up of Al-aqsa/Dome of rock in 691 AD +1335years=2026.

iam a woman who lives alone iam 82 yrs old In this time of great uncertainty i hear many shootings at night I came across this word from Jesus that a time would come to sell my garment to buy a sword I feel for being alone i should buy protection for defending myself now if my home is invaded Can you elaborate on what Jesus said?

Thank you for your blessing LORD you have sheltered me thank you heavenly father,

God won't give us more than we can handle. Thats a lie. I can't handle what I have been living with for 20 years now. People have been nothing but cruel to me. I have been praying to God for 20 years now and have gotten no answer. I have never felt God's unconditional love. I have been let down so many times I am afraid to hope. I have to kill myself. I really don't want to but I have to. I'm not important enough to be saved. God has made that crystal clear to me. God doesn't love me. He never did. I have been there with my heart wide open for God to just ignore me and turn away. I'm killing myself because God never loved me. He ignores me and rejects me. This will never get better. I wish He didn't make me nice but He did. I hope He's happy now that I'm taking my life tonight. God is finally going to get what He wanted.

Dear Kay,

May God bless you. Hang in there.

Let God's truth give you hope. Put on the armor of God, resist satan, and think of the positive things.

Ephesians 6:10 - 6:18

James 4:7

Philippians 4:8

Many things are spiritual warfare, but I don't believe all things are. For example, job problems or worry about a virus. In some states the virus is less severe than a normal flu season. Around 7,500 die in the US every day and 10,000 are born, so when the media ignores the top risks and only talks about the lower risks and stirs everyone into a panic it does everyone a disservice, so I would not trust them. Trust God.

God bless!

I am a child of the one and only King who knew me in my mother's womb. Amen and Amen.

1 Thessalonians 4:17

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them (the dead in Christ) IN THE CLOUDS, to meet the Lord IN THE AIR: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Revelation 12:5

And she brought forth a man child (JESUS), who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child (The Son of Man) was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

(Sitting at the right hand of God; where he ever lives to make intercession for the saints) Our Advocate with the Father.

Awaiting the signal that the Church AGE is concluded.

Comment:

Jesus is not going to set foot on the earth during the Caught Up. We meet Him in the clouds. In the blink of an eye: that's fast!

Only the Father knows how much longer we have to survive what's happening on earth.

Mishael

Sometimes it seems the things that God commands of us are impossible (like loving your enemy), but He wants us to trust Him (without faith it is impossible to please God) to do the impossible. We shouldn't avoid malicious, evil people; we should count it all joy that we have an opportunity to do what God has called us to do. We understand that God is in control and He will fight our battles; vengeance is mine says the Lord! We must do what He tells us to do and then we will get HIS reward. When we act according to the flesh them we will get OUR reward according to the flesh.

Chris,

That is a great quote from a great man. It paints a picture of so many things in my mind. Our focus should not be on the horizontal, but the vertical. I am going to print this quote out and put it up in my office. Thank you so much for sharing this!

Upon reading this, and reading some of the comments, how is it concluded that this chapter is talking about a future event or events that have not occurred yet? Show me in this chapter (precepts) or the one before or after if must, that when we get to this chapter, it references future events?

I re-read the whole chapter of Luke 8 and noticed that it is very rich with great things that our Lord did. The Lunatick man at the graves/tombs is a point to also focus on.

How his condition bothered the Lord and moved Him just to go for him in Gedarenes in Galelee. Such that many many evil spirits in this man shouted in unison; and asked;"What have I to do with thee Jesus thou Son of God, Most High?"

Jesus came from Galelee too as the man. He could have known about this man all along, yet waited for the right time to set him free.

At the right time Jesus went for him. Just to go and deliver him. Those demons bowed down before Jesus and begged Him not to sent them to torment before time

After several decades of Bible study, I have discovered two areas where it becomes all but plausible. The rash vow of Jephthah and the scenario of the troubled waters in the NT. The scriptures do not condemn Jephthah but rather exonerate him in Hebrews. Most theologians fail to fully explain the two passages and so I have posed the question to see what you may do with these strange passages. I have some idea but would welcome a second opinion. The blessing of our Lord be on you and yours. Dr. Peter H. Burgess

Few think about that one. There has to be a reason for a premillennial view and a literal reign of Christ on earth. I hold to a premillennial reign of Christ. There are too many time-specific things to think it was meant to be symbolic and I surely don't see any children leading a lion around in our zoos, do you so full preterism has a problem with that.

There has to be those who are going to rule and reign with Christ on earth and Paul tells us that it will be the Christians who were faithful and living for the Lord and there has to be those whom they will rule and reign over. Without abortion , war, and murder going on for 1,000 years, we may see a population that reaches a trillion people. Plus all the women will be healthy with no miscarriages and probably having several babies each instead of one or two.

But I also think that us Christians have been warning people like a pre-tribber would warn to get right so you can get out of here and not have to take the mark and the post-tribber would say you need to get right with God and begin getting oil in your lamp for the hard times coming.

So all these people being warned know not to take the mark of the beast so some will survive the time of tribulation without taking the mark. This could be another group. I'm just trying to figure out if there could be other possibilities. I can't prove it but I kind of take the one int he filed that is taken is the wicked person who took the mark adn the other one is either a jewish person that was exempt from taking the mark or someone who survived that didn't receive Jesus but also didn't take the mark.

Thoughts?