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Useless Thoughts

stephen

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The most important thing I can tell you is that God loves you and wants you to know Him in a personal way and listen to His Word. The psalmist said, "As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is flawless" (Psalm 18:30). These words are just as true today as when the psalmist wrote them almost 3,000 years ago.

But how does God communicate with us? He doesn't do it in a vacuum—by waiting for us to empty our minds, and then implanting some new thought or feeling into our minds. After all, if you did somehow empty your mind of all its stray thoughts, how would you know that your next thought was from God? The truth is, you wouldn't. It might be just another stray thought bubbling up from your unconscious, or even something from the devil.

Instead, God has already spoken to us in words we can understand—and those words are in the Bible. Do you want to know what God is like, and if you can know Him personally? Turn to the Bible, and ask God to show you Himself through its pages.

I suggest you begin in one of the Gospels (such as John), because it tells you about Jesus, who (the Bible says) was God in human flesh—the Living Word. He came down from heaven to take away our sins, and by receiving Him into our hearts we become God's children forever. Turn to Jesus, for only He can satisfy the hunger you have in your heart for God.

BGEA: Spiritual Help: My Answer
 
What it GOD says someting like this, to you? ;

1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:
3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

7 The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

8 The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

9 The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in his ways. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you. 11 The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.

12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

Curses for Disobedience
15 However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

20 The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. [a] 21 The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. 22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. 23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. 24 The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. 26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 28 The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 29 At midday you will grope about like a blind man in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.

30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and ravish her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. 34 The sights you see will drive you mad. 35 The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

36 The LORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your fathers. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. 37 You will become a thing of horror and an object of scorn and ridicule to all the nations where the LORD will drive you.

38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. 41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. 42 Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

43 The alien who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. 44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail.

45 All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. 46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. 47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, 48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the LORD sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. 52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.

53 Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you. 54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. 56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter 57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For she intends to eat them secretly during the siege and in the distress that your enemy will inflict on you in your cities.

58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God- 59 the LORD will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. 60 He will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The LORD will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. 62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God. 63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.

Deuteronomy 28:1-65
(New International Version)
 
I Fear The Almighty GOD!

I Fear The Almighty GOD!

So I hope in HIS Son Christ Jesus, that I will be saved!

I long to be one of HIS righteous Angels that dwell with THEM in Heaven.

And if I can not be that, then I long to be just like The Almighty GOD'S Prophets or like The Apostle & Disciples of Christ Jesus.

I do fear My GOD, The ONE & Only Almighty GOD & worship HIM too.

With all my heart soul & mind. Every day they are both on my mind.

The Almighty GOD & Christ Jesus.

Every Day, every time I sin or sin not.

What I can't get through my head is, why can't I be Holy as HE is Holy? {1 Peter 1:15}

Why can't I better myself?

Why do I still have foolish habits, that equal out to be unrighteous in The Eyes of GOD, when I know down deep in my heart I want to be perfect for HIM?
 
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Hello Jonah, I can really relate to your cry about not doing what we should be doing to please our Lord.

I comfort myself that the important thing is to keep trying to show in our lives the fruits of the spirit and to keep examining ourselves and repenting that we do not measure up to the high standard set by our Lord. Galatians 5:22 ''But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Gal 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Gal 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

I also take comfort that even the Apostle Paul struggled to follow our Lord's commandments: Romans 7:14 ''For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Rom 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.''

He goes on to say: Romans 7:24 ''O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.''

I try to remind myself always that our sinful nature does not allow us to be free from sin, which is why only belief in the Lord Jesus Christ can save us from eternal death. This makes us humble because we see how utterly feeble our efforts are and how far short of the ideal we fall. That makes us realise that we are in desperate need of salvation and that salvation can only come through our Lord Jesus.

I, too, cry like you. But I also rejoice that in our Lord Jesus we have a wonderful hope of living with Him for ever if we hold fast to our faith until the end.

Woz'Umoya
 
Thank you :)

Originally Posted by Woz'umoya

I also take comfort that even the Apostle Paul struggled to follow our Lord's commandments: Romans 7:14 ''For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Rom 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.''

He goes on to say: Romans 7:24 ''O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.''

I try to remind myself always that our sinful nature does not allow us to be free from sin, which is why only belief in the Lord Jesus Christ can save us from eternal death. This makes us humble because we see how utterly feeble our efforts are and how far short of the ideal we fall. That makes us realise that we are in desperate need of salvation and that salvation can only come through our Lord Jesus.

I, too, cry like you. But I also rejoice that in our Lord Jesus we have a wonderful hope of living with Him for ever if we hold fast to our faith until the end.

Woz'Umoya

Thank you for your comforting words.

It's almost like Paul took the words right out from my mouth.

My heart still aches though. It just doesn't make seance to me.

I know how I should act, but push me hard enough, and I fall.

It hurts & I fear that when Jesus comes, He may say to me: "I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!" {Matthew 7:23}

But I do take some comfort in what you have said, & the thought of what & why Jesus died for us, also gives me some comfort as well. I take this to heart & it does give me hope.

As also too, the fact that The Almighty GOD knows me & my heart more than I know myself.
 
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[F]I Fear The Almighty GOD!

So I hope in HIS Son Christ Jesus, that I may be saved!

I long to be one of HIS righteous Angels that dwell with THEM in Heaven.

And if I can not be that, then I long to be just like The Almighty GOD'S Prophets or like The Apostle & Disciples of Christ Jesus.

I do fear My GOD, The ONE & Only Almighty GOD & worship HIM too.

With all my heart soul & mind. Every day they are both on my mind.

The Almighty GOD & Christ Jesus.

Every Day, every time I sin or sin not.

What can't get through my head is why can't I be Holy as HE is Holy?

Why can't I better myself?

Why do I still have foolish habits, that equal out to be unrighteous in The Eyes of GOD, when I know down deep in my heart T want to be perfect for HIM?
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Hello sister

Seems to me that you are downgrading yourself. And why?

You have a heart for Jesus. Reading your post I feel you crying out to Jesus? Amen. As you draw near to God.....He has said He will draw close to us'

And He hears your the cry of your heart. You know He loves you! He loves you with an everlasting love. The word in there is 'everlasting' He will never leave you, neither will He ever forsake you. You are special to Jesus. PLease remember that.

None of us are perfect, we try to be, we try to please Jesus, but if we fail.

'If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just....to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness'

Please keep in touch. P.M. me if you want.....I want to be of help if I can.

God Bless You
 
Your post is encouraging, thank you stephen :)

The most important thing I can tell you is that God loves you and wants you to know Him in a personal way and listen to His Word. The psalmist said, "As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is flawless" (Psalm 18:30). These words are just as true today as when the psalmist wrote them almost 3,000 years ago.

Thank you stephen.
I was feeling a bit discouraged & your post seem to be the place to let it all out.

Especially, since it's titled; "Useless Thoughts"

Thank you for the encouragement.
*genesis:wilted_ro
 
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rev·er·ence

1. A feeling of profound awe and respect and often love; veneration.
See Synonyms at honor.

2. An act showing respect, especially a bow or curtsy.

3. The state of being revered.

4. Reverence Used as a form of address for certain members of the
Christian clergy: Your Reverence.
 
Thank you stephen.
I was feeling a bit discouraged & your post seem to be the place to let it all out.

Especially, since it's titled; "Useless Thoughts"

Thank you for the encouragement.
*genesis:wilted_ro


Appreciate your kind words too sister.

Regarding my saying that 'fear' = 'reverence' I should have said that the word 'fear' in scripture, means reverence. And not the understanding we have of fear in our natural sense.

Thanks for giving us the meaning of reverence too
 
We battle each and every day !
Our flesh desires to do evil!
Our Spirit hates evil

Everyday , we must put the flesh down and walk as much as we can in our spirit!

Reading GODS living Word , feeds our spirit!

When we do evil?
Our spirit hates it and we feel unworthy of HIS LOVE!

Now, once we ask HIM to forgive us? It is gone forever in HIS mind!

but, satan will remind us , hoping we will be disgusted and sin more!


But , our Father never brings it up ever, He has forgotten it and does not know what your talking about.


Psa 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

We cannot let the past , guide our lives!
the past is gone , forgiven.

:love:
 
I give thanks to GOD for you, Stephen :)

Appreciate your kind words too sister.

Regarding my saying that 'fear' = 'reverence' I should have said that the word 'fear' in scripture, means reverence. And not the understanding we have of fear in our natural sense.

Thanks for giving us the meaning of reverence too


I give thanks to GOD, that you brought the word up Stephen.

Because, before now, I didn't exactly know, what it trully ment, to have the fear of GOD.

And now I do.

It has now given me, amore stronger & better out look on this whole subject.
 
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I give thanks to GOD, that you brought the word up Stephen.

Because, before now exactly, what it trully ment to have the fear of GOD.

And now I do.

It has now given me, amore stronger & better out look on this whole subject.


Glad you said that Jonah2005bt It helps me be aware and remember that clarity is important when I post. Most times I tend to think that all understand........when there could be some a half century behind me, in reading scripture.

Please feel free to ask or P.M. me if you have a question.....

God Bless You
 
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