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Post by fearnot on May 1, 2017 15:39:43 GMT -5
5/1/17
Psalm 81
Tho this is God talking to Israel, I think it has much value to everyone and certainly me.
First is the joy and praise of God, with voice and instruments, and some reference to what God did for Israel in Egypt.
I really like the first half of v. 6
"6 “I removed the burden from their shoulders;...."
What a relief to have God remove whatever burden from my shoulders....
and likewise for the first half of v. 7
"7 In your distress you called and I rescued you....."
I am so glad and happy that so far God has always rescued me when I am in some kind of distress ( from early childhood onward....over and over)!
But God makes it clear we are to have no other god ( some may try for some other religion, or spiritual this or that, or even make things like money, power etc. a god in their life).
I need to take care I am not doing that.
God provides....but He could do so much more if it were not for stubbornness....other people....but I need to check my own!!
The Lord may have done even so much more than all He has done, except for my stubborn head and heart.
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Post by Cindy on May 2, 2017 10:26:03 GMT -5
That was great I got the list and wrote down the next 10 to study :-)
yeah, I think you are right about Eva, she has kind of said all along ( in a way) that she wanted to study on her own pretty much.
I am sure you have already thought of this ( and in a kind of sort of way, so have I )
But it really hit me for some reason when I read this in the Christian novel I am reading.....the same one with the silly woman and God providing her a red carpet
( as a sign He 'approved')
for her sneaky project....
Further on the pastor's wife who has inoperable breast cancer is consoling a friend ( strange that she should be helping them)
Anyway, in the book she says she thinks there are 5 types of healing:
First is our immune system ( She goes into how God provided that for us)
2nd is doctors, surgery, medicine etc.
3rd is attitude ....
because even with the best surgeon, if a person does not have a healthy positive and faith in God attitude they may not get better ( I am not sure I am saying this exactly as in the novel but you get the idea)
4th is a miracle from God
But what really stuck me as actually sooooo true
is death
If all the above fail, death is actually the ultimate healing because we will be with the Lord, in our new bodies with no more sickness and not more sin!
I mean I knew that......but on some level, I never really really thought of death as the ultimate healing......I always thought it was 'death'
yes I knew I would be with the Lord and a new body and without sin
I just didn't think of death as a 'healing'
So I finished that novel and there was one more thing about death in it.....that again, I am sure you are well aware of....and maybe in a foggy sort of way I was......
But you know how Paul said he ran the good race////I think they were drawing from that.....
Because the pastor's wife in the book was absolutely dying and yet again comforting someone else who was struggling with her dying
She said to them, ( not the exact quote)
it's okay you know, because death is Victory!!!!
She went on to say 'something' like:
we are born and Jesus is drawing us closer to Himself in this life, but death is like a race and when we die we have the victory.
Again, I know Heaven will be glorious and to be with Jesus forever...well I can't imagine how great that will be
But I think I have always view death itself as a kind of 'defeat'.....not victory!!
Funny because I almost didn't finish this book, because for awhile I just could not figure out where is was going, it was a bit funny, but seemed a little aimless......but something has to be really really bad for me to not finish it......
and you know my on and off struggle with death.....and so here in this somewhat silly book were 2 helpful or more clarification on death....as the ultimate healing and victory who knew LOL
The death of this body will be the end of all pain and sickness, all sorrow, all doubt, all fear, all worry and everything else that sin produces. We will be totally healed and free of all sin forever and most of all, we'll be with our Lord!
5/1/17
Psalm 81
Tho this is God talking to Israel, I think it has much value to everyone and certainly me.
First is the joy and praise of God, with voice and instruments, and some reference to what God did for Israel in Egypt.
I really like the first half of v. 6
"6 “I removed the burden from their shoulders;...."
What a relief to have God remove whatever burden from my shoulders....
and likewise for the first half of v. 7
"7 In your distress you called and I rescued you....."
I am so glad and happy that so far God has always rescued me when I am in some kind of distress ( from early childhood onward....over and over)!
But God makes it clear we are to have no other god ( some may try for some other religion, or spiritual this or that, or even make things like money, power etc. a god in their life).
I need to take care I am not doing that.
God provides....but He could do so much more if it were not for stubbornness....other people....but I need to check my own!!
The Lord may have done even so much more than all He has done, except for my stubborn head and heart.
Your job is simply to believe. When children don’t get what they want when they want it, they have a hard time believing that their parents truly love them. But parents know about a more sophisticated love. They know that catering to their children’s wishes is not always in their children’s best interests. Sometimes it is best for them to go to bed, even though their friends are still outside playing. But just try to persuade children of your love at those times! All you can do is remind them that you love them. “My child, you will have to trust that I love you this time, because I know it doesn’t feel that way.” God is good and he is generous. He is not stingy. He commands his people not to covet because it is a form of denying his generosity. He is not trying to hold out on you until you are whipped into shape. Demons would have you believe such things. He invites us to the most lavish of banquets, and all he requires is that we are hungry and bring nothing (Isaiah 55:1–3). This is not a religious attempt to drum up some good feelings. It is harder to be surprised by the goodness and generosity of God when you feel so miserable. The goal is simply to remind you of the truth. Heart of the matter
“But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”” (Psalm 81:16)
One of God’s promises to His children recorded in Psalm 81:16 is that He will satisfy us with “honey out of the rock.” Of course, you and I know that honey is perhaps the sweetest thing that nature can produce; and a rock is one of the hardest things in nature. So, here we have sweetness coming out of hardness—“honey out of the rock.” This is one of God’s promises, and you should claim it for yourself.God is not speaking in literal terms in Psalm 81:16; you and I get honey either from the honeycomb or from a jar. The Lord is saying something much deeper: “You are going to have hard places in life; you are going to run up against the rocks. But don’t be discouraged: I’m going to give you honey out of the rock. You’re going to experience sweetness out of the hard experiences of life.”
I used to wonder why God didn’t remove the rocks from the path of life. Certainly none of us enjoys going through the hard places, and if God really loved us, He would go ahead of us and remove the rocks. Well, I’ve grown some and I’ve come to realize that God knows what He is doing. You and I don’t appreciate the rocks, but we need them just the same. I’m sure you have learned, as I have, that some of the sweetest experiences of life have come because of the rocks.
I think of young Joseph who seemed to have nothing but rocks for thirteen years. First he was hated by his own brothers. Then he was sold into Egypt as a slave. Then, because he would not stoop to commit sin, he was thrown into prison and apparently forgotten. It was just one rocky experience after another, and seemingly for no purpose! But when it was over—when God had fulfilled His purposes—Joseph discovered honey out of the rock. These hard experiences prepared him to become God’s servant and the second ruler over Egypt.
One of the tests of maturity is how a person gets his enjoyment in life. Some get their pleasures by doing what is wrong, and, of course, this is the lowest possible way to live. Others get their pleasure by avoiding responsibilities and difficulties and being sheltered and protected. That approach to life can never make a person strong and mature. The mature Christian doesn’t deliberately look for difficulties, but neither does he run away from them. Rather he accepts them in the will of God and asks the Lord to give him “honey out of the rock.”
I’ve noticed that many of the psalms have three divisions: tears, trust, and triumph. The psalm begins with tears and trouble, and the psalmist cries out to God. Then he gets his eyes off himself and his difficulties and looks to God in faith. When he does, a wonderful thing happens: his trials are replaced by triumph, and his sighing becomes singing. He has discovered “honey out of the rock.”
This is what James is trying to teach us in the very first verses of his letter, when he writes: “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.” (James 1:2–3). Trials are not working against us; they are working for us! James is saying, “Don’t run around the rocks, or stand there and expect God to remove them. Instead, look for the honey that is sure to come from the rocks!” Paul says the same thing when he writes, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Rom. 8:28). No matter how many rocks we may encounter as we go through life, we can always find “honey in the rocks” if we will turn everything over to the Lord. There is always sweetness out of hardness when you let the Lord have His way.
Everybody has to have a system for handling the hard places of life. Some people try to ignore them and pretend that they don’t exist, and, of course, this only makes the hard places harder. Other people just give up and expect their friends to see them through. It is wonderful to have friends, and we are supposed to share each other’s burdens, but we can’t expect them to do for us what we won’t do for ourselves.
Have you ever considered the difficulties that Jesus faced when He lived here on earth? He was born into a poor home and never really owned much that He could call His own. He was born into a despised and rejected race, a minority group, which at that time, was under the iron heel of a foreign power. Whenever Jesus tried to do good, somebody tried to turn it into evil. If He stopped to forgive a sinner, He was called “the friend of publicans and sinners.” If He ate a meal with a friend, He was called a “glutton and a drunkard.” He spoke the truth and was called a liar. He revealed the power of God, and the religious leaders said He was in league with the devil. No matter where He turned or what He did, He faced hard situations.
But Jesus never ran away from the hard places of life. He knew He was doing the Father’s will, so He accepted the rocks and the honey that was in them. He said to His disciples one day when they offered Him food, “My food is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.” He found the honey in the rock, and that honey satisfied Him.
Yes, Jesus faced the rocks of life, and finally men took Him outside the city and crucified Him on a rock, a hill called Calvary, a place that looked like a skull. And then His friends took His dead body and placed it in a rock— Joseph’s new tomb—where it lay for three days. But then He arose from the dead! From the hill of Calvary and from the tomb flows the sweet honey of salvation— honey out of the rock! Wiersbe, W. W. The bumps are what you climb on.
"I would satisfy you" Emphasizes God’s desire to provide us with good things that we will enjoy. The word "satisfy" in the original language means “to eat one’s fill.” This is a lot like what He's saying in the last part of verse 10: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.” (Psalm 81:10)
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Post by fearnot on May 2, 2017 15:48:12 GMT -5
the part about different ways we can or do react to 'rocks'
the one about standing there expecting God to remove them made me laugh.....because that is often my response
Of course, there is one 'rock' we don't want removed, the 'Rock of Ages' Jesus as the rock of our salvation.
Still waiting to hear from our landlord about Doug's valve replacement.
Doug really did have a nightmare childhood he was abused in many many ways.
then he was homeless in or about his 30's for about 10 years
and he and been clean and sober ( again) for going on 2 years!!
He has some 'strangeness' about him, but he always comes back to Jesus and the Bible...he has memorized huge portions of scripture and applies a lot of it to his life.
But he is very scared and leary of medicine, so it is amazing he agreed to this surgery.
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Post by fearnot on May 2, 2017 16:07:37 GMT -5
5/2/17
psalm 84
The psalmist yearns to go and be with the Lord in the Lord's dwelling place (Heaven)
Those who get their praise God forever.
And the psalmists rightly says that a day ( in Heaven with the Lord) is better than 1000 anywhere else!!!
and the psalmist also says ( as do I)
v. 10 "I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked."
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Post by Cindy on May 3, 2017 11:12:44 GMT -5
the part about different ways we can or do react to 'rocks'
the one about standing there expecting God to remove them made me laugh.....because that is often my response
Of course, there is one 'rock' we don't want removed, the 'Rock of Ages' Jesus as the rock of our salvation.
Still waiting to hear from our landlord about Doug's valve replacement.
Doug really did have a nightmare childhood he was abused in many many ways.
then he was homeless in or about his 30's for about 10 years
and he and been clean and sober ( again) for going on 2 years!!
He has some 'strangeness' about him, but he always comes back to Jesus and the Bible...he has memorized huge portions of scripture and applies a lot of it to his life.
But he is very scared and leary of medicine, so it is amazing he agreed to this surgery. 5/2/17
psalm 84
The psalmist yearns to go and be with the Lord in the Lord's dwelling place (Heaven)
Those who get their praise God forever.
And the psalmists rightly says that a day ( in Heaven with the Lord) is better than 1000 anywhere else!!!
and the psalmist also says ( as do I)
v. 10 "I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked."
“How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.” (Psalm 84:1–2) The word translated "lovely" is actually "beloved"!
“My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.” (Isaiah 26:9)
“My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, LORD, I will seek.” (Psalm 27:8)
“As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?” (Psalm 42:1–2)
“O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.” (Psalm 63:1–3)
“My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.” (Psalm 119:20)
“My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.” (Psalm 119:81)
“I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land.Selah” (Psalm 143:6)
“He has taken me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love.” (Song of Solomon 2:4)
“If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling!” (Job 23:3)
How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, & yet it's just this very thing that we're so prone to lose sight of! We know it is written the living God; but in our daily life there is scarcely anything we practically so much lose sight of as the fact that God is the Living God; that He is now whatever He was 3 or 4000 years since; that He has the same sovereign power, the same saving love toward those who love & serve Him as ever He had, & that He will do for them now what He did for others 2, 3, 4000 years ago, simply because He is the living God, the unchanging One. Oh, how therefore we should confide in Him, & in our darkest moments never lose sight of the fact that He is still & ever will be the Living God. Thoughts for the quiet hour.
“Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young— a place near your altar, O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.” (Psalm 84:3)
The sparrow and the swallow have found nests for themselves in the trees that grew within the sacred enclosure. For one wistful moment the psalmist appears to wish himself the good fortune of these birds. KJV Bible Commentary
This reminds me of Matthew 10:29. & the song, His eye is on the sparrow!
Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come, why should my heart be lonely and long for Heav’n and home, when Jesus is my portion? My constant Friend is He: His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me; His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
“Let not your heart be troubled,” His tender word I hear, and resting on His goodness, I lose my doubts and fears; tho’ by the path He leadeth but one step I may see: His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me; His eye is on the sparrow, and I know we watches me.
Whenever I am tempted, whenever clouds arise, when songs give place to sighing, when hope within me dies, I draw the closer to Him; from care He sets me free; His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me; His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
Refrain: I sing because I’m happy, I sing because I’m free, for His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
It is interesting that our Lord chose the most common of all birds, sparrows of little value, to teach a profound truth: In God’s eyes, no one is insignificant! He is vitally concerned with even the details of our lives. Amazing grace
“Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools. They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.” (Psalm 84:5–7)
This psalm may have been used by pilgrims on their way to the sanctuary to attend the annual festivals. The location of a “Valley of Baca” is unknown. The word means “weeping.” The name could have been given to a valley where balsam trees grew, for they “weep.” In this psalm the expression takes on a metaphorical meaning, perhaps describing the sorrows borne by the worshipers or the hardships along their pilgrim way to the holy city. Yahweh takes even our Baca Valleys and transforms them by His presence—the presence experienced at His temple but not limited geographically. The Apologetics Study Bible
Acts 14:22 shows us that we must go through many hardships to enter New Jerusalem. Since the previous verse spoke of pilgrimage, I think this is saying to us that we can feel joy even during the harships we go through on our way to New Jerusalem if we keep our minds centered on the Lord.
“Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.” (Psalm 84:10)
This again shows the psalmists love for God and His House and how he wants to dwell there forever. We are strangers here on earth and the most beautiful places and things cannot compare to the beauty and joy that awaits us in our true Home with our Father and Jesus. And of course all our brothers and sisters in Christ will also be there with us and we'll know them each by name and love them more than we've ever been able to love anyone here on this earth. Because in heaven, we'll be perfect and have no sin nature, so we'll love each other the way God loves us even now. We will be a true family. A family the way God intended families to be. Just think of having millions of brothers and sisters that you will know intimately and love deeply and who will love you just as deeply in return! Then, add to that, the love of our Father and our Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit for each of us. It makes me feel drunk on love! That's our home though ... our real, true home! it's where God has intended us to live since the moment He created each of us and He is preparing us throughout our life here on earth so that we will be able to enjoy our home to the fullest when we get there! O Lord, I can't wait! Even so, Come Lord Jesus!
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Post by Cindy on May 3, 2017 11:13:50 GMT -5
I hope you're remembering to add things that you think are important to your notebook so you won't forget them....
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Post by fearnot on May 3, 2017 13:55:36 GMT -5
Thank you for all the beautiful scriptures and thoughts.....
I just read awhile ago Psalm 42 but I didn't really catch where the psalmists asks:
"When can I go and meet with God?"
Sometimes that is my question also!
Especially as this world gets crazier.....or am I just seeing things wrong?
It 'seems' like many are getting more and more violent...all over the world?
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Post by fearnot on May 3, 2017 14:22:50 GMT -5
5/3/17
Psalm 86
The psalmist asks the Lord to hear his prayer and to save him....
This is a prayer that all people need to pray ( but unfortunately and horribly sad so many refuse to humble themselves and ask...their pride and foolishness keeps them from doing the only thing of importance for themselves.
The psalmist asks for mercy and the joy that will accompany it....did I write joy LOL
And v. 5 tells what God's answer will be to those who ask:
v.5 "5 You, Lord, are forgiving and good,
abounding in love to all who call to you."
The psalmist goes on to say that there are no other 'gods' for the Lord God alone is great and has done marvelous things!!!
He goes on to ask that God teaches him God's way ( as do I) and to give him an undivided heart ( as do I).
v. 15 is also such a comforting verse:
"15 But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness."
It is sooooo good to know that the Lord is compassionate and slow to anger and...abounding...in love!!!
and the last verse he says God has helped and comforted him.....as the Lord Jesus has done for me as well!!
You know I keep forgetting to write in my journal.....would you mind if I ask you to remind me every day...say for a month or so?
I think I have sort of relied on the fact that it is online in FH
but....
it may not always be so
a huge sun flare could knock out the internet
or any number of things.....
I actually never completely finished the original information you put up and I am not sure where to find it anymore.
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Post by Cindy on May 4, 2017 8:49:41 GMT -5
Thank you for all the beautiful scriptures and thoughts.....
I just read awhile ago Psalm 42 but I didn't really catch where the psalmists asks:
"When can I go and meet with God?"
Sometimes that is my question also!
Especially as this world gets crazier.....or am I just seeing things wrong?
It 'seems' like many are getting more and more violent...all over the world?
5/3/17
Psalm 86
The psalmist asks the Lord to hear his prayer and to save him....
This is a prayer that all people need to pray ( but unfortunately and horribly sad so many refuse to humble themselves and ask...their pride and foolishness keeps them from doing the only thing of importance for themselves.
The psalmist asks for mercy and the joy that will accompany it....did I write joy LOL
And v. 5 tells what God's answer will be to those who ask:
v.5 "5 You, Lord, are forgiving and good,
abounding in love to all who call to you."
The psalmist goes on to say that there are no other 'gods' for the Lord God alone is great and has done marvelous things!!!
He goes on to ask that God teaches him God's way ( as do I) and to give him an undivided heart ( as do I).
v. 15 is also such a comforting verse:
"15 But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness."
It is sooooo good to know that the Lord is compassionate and slow to anger and...abounding...in love!!!
and the last verse he says God has helped and comforted him.....as the Lord Jesus has done for me as well!!
You know I keep forgetting to write in my journal.....would you mind if I ask you to remind me every day...say for a month or so?
I think I have sort of relied on the fact that it is online in FH
but....
it may not always be so
a huge sun flare could knock out the internet
or any number of things.....
I actually never completely finished the original information you put up and I am not sure where to find it anymore.
“Bring joy to your servant, for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.” (Psalm 86:4) This could be your prayer!
“You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to you.” (Psalm 86:5)
“But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.” (Psalm 86:15) Share God’s steadfast love and faithfulness. In the Old Testament two Hebrew words are often used to describe God: chesed and emet. Chesed is translated in the Old Testament as “lovingkindness,” or “steadfast love.” It means committed kindness, a chosen generosity, a resolution to do good to another person no matter what. Emet is translated as “faithfulness” or “truth.” When we say of someone, “She was a true friend,” we’re using the word true in the sense that the Bible uses the word emet. It’s someone who’s looking out for your well-being, who is genuinely concerned for your welfare (Phil 2:20). God is full of chesed and emet—steadfast love and faithfulness—toward you. Chesed and emet are also used in the Bible to describe human relationships. Most people seek their own interests, and instinctively do things that create distance and destroy intimacy in their close relationships. But when you are committed to treat someone with kindness, when you are genuinely concerned for someone else’s welfare, you will start to be and do the kinds of things that actually build trust, intimacy, and companionship. Chesed and emet are what God is fundamentally like toward us. He is a God who keeps his promises, a God of kindness, a God who forgives. And chesed and emet are also the attributes you need to make your closest relationships deeply joyous and intimate. Heart of the matter
“For great is your love toward me; you have delivered me from the depths of the grave.” (Psalm 86:13)
When my kingdom is at stake—my reputation, my quest for being loved—there is much to lose. Out of fear I commit myself to self-protection. When the things we value are threatened, we protect them. In this case it is the same as protecting ourselves. The alternative is to lose my kingdom & be a simple servant of the Most High God. His kingdom is never threatened because he is all-powerful & he doesn’t need anything from us. He calls us to love & worship him, but he doesn’t need it in the sense that we talk about needing love & affirmation. This should sound liberating to those who are in bondage to the fear of other people. When we see ourselves as kings who need affection, we are highly vulnerable. But as children and servants, we owe a debt of love to others. We were loved by God more than we loved him; there will always be that imbalance in our relationship. The only appropriate and healthy response is to treat others the way God has treated us. The result? People’s (perceived) opinions don’t have the same power to crush us anymore. Instead, we are less concerned about how we are treated and more concerned with how we treat others. Rejection may still hurt, but it won’t control us. Heart of the matter
“But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.” (Psalm 86:15)
The expression full of compassion (Heb rachūm) is very emphatic; it signifies the tenderness parents have toward their children. KJV Bible Commentary
We've talked about your notebooks before and I re-posted the information for you in the counseling forum, remember? Here's a link to where you can find the original information:
fresh-hope.com/thread/605/barbara-eva
Sure, I'll try to remember to remind you about your notebook every day this month. It's also good to put short notes by verses in your bible so that you'll remember what's important every time you read that verse.
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Post by fearnot on May 4, 2017 12:51:20 GMT -5
I will go to the link but I already wrote down in it so far for today Psalm 86:4....well....it's a start LOL
I plan to write more today!!!
I see I was about to write ( the who am I in Christ section)
Barbara is Forgiven.......so I have a few more pages, I am thinking, and I will be done with that section and can move on to the next section.
I will have to look at the link and see exactly how much more I have before I finish all of that.
I will also start keeping notes on verses and why they are important to me.
Any verses you feel I should include, be sure to let me know also....
Thank you!!!
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Post by fearnot on May 4, 2017 15:04:41 GMT -5
5/4/17
Psalm 91
The first 2 verses are such comforting ones, the psalmist says that god is his fortress, shelter and refuse where he because he trusts God he can rest....true rest is such a sweet joy and can only come from the Lord!
But the psalmist has only begun!!
He goes on to say of all the many dangers the Lord will protect his beloveds from like
the fowler’s snare and deadly pestilence....so you can be without fear.
I know verses 11-13 refer to the Lord Jesus...but now Jesus may often do similar for us.
In fact, I suspect, the Lord has protected me waaaaay many more times than I have any idea.
As I have said before, when I was in college there were at 'least' 20 true life threatening situations that the Lord got me out of....some were down right miraculous!!! For example I had a gun to my head twice and a knife to my throat once, and a horrible man picked me up when I was hitch-hiking, and if the Lord had not intervened.....and there were many others....but those are only the ones I know about....
But even later on in life, my ob gyn told me I was 2 hours from death ( having almost bled out....again, he was going to go home and rest a few hours have been on duty for over 24 hours.....but he came by to see me and I went into immediate surgery.....again, I think the Lord intervened.
Then there were many financial miracles where God protected and provided.....so I totally relate to this psalm!
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Post by fearnot on May 4, 2017 19:03:35 GMT -5
So I finished section 8 today and will start section 9 tomorrow :-)
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Post by Cindy on May 5, 2017 12:03:41 GMT -5
I will go to the link but I already wrote down in it so far for today Psalm 86:4....well....it's a start LOL
I plan to write more today!!!
I see I was about to write ( the who am I in Christ section)
Barbara is Forgiven.......so I have a few more pages, I am thinking, and I will be done with that section and can move on to the next section.
I will have to look at the link and see exactly how much more I have before I finish all of that.
I will also start keeping notes on verses and why they are important to me.
Any verses you feel I should include, be sure to let me know also....
Thank you!!!  I've been doing that all alone lol. Don't worry about it though. The Lord will guide you.5/4/17
Psalm 91
The first 2 verses are such comforting ones, the psalmist says that god is his fortress, shelter and refuse where he because he trusts God he can rest....true rest is such a sweet joy and can only come from the Lord!
But the psalmist has only begun!!
He goes on to say of all the many dangers the Lord will protect his beloveds from like
the fowler’s snare and deadly pestilence....so you can be without fear.
I know verses 11-13 refer to the Lord Jesus...but now Jesus may often do similar for us.
In fact, I suspect, the Lord has protected me waaaaay many more times than I have any idea.
As I have said before, when I was in college there were at 'least' 20 true life threatening situations that the Lord got me out of....some were down right miraculous!!! For example I had a gun to my head twice and a knife to my throat once, and a horrible man picked me up when I was hitch-hiking, and if the Lord had not intervened.....and there were many others....but those are only the ones I know about....
But even later on in life, my ob gyn told me I was 2 hours from death ( having almost bled out....again, he was going to go home and rest a few hours have been on duty for over 24 hours.....but he came by to see me and I went into immediate surgery.....again, I think the Lord intervened.
Then there were many financial miracles where God protected and provided.....so I totally relate to this psalm!
“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.” (Psalm 91:1)
The theme is security: God preserves those who abide in Him and love Him. These promises are not for people who run to the Lord only in times of danger but for those who dwell in His presence (v. 1) and make the Most High their habitation (v. 9). With the Word
The use of “Most High” for God emphasizes that no threat can ever overpower Him. The MacArthur study Bible
“Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.” (Psalm 91:3)
Constant fellowship with the Lord Jesus, who is the secret place of the Most High, bring us most assuredly to deliverance from the snare of the fowler (cf. 124:7; Prov 6:5), i.e., the devil who, like one who traps birds, skillfully prepares a snare for God’s servants. KJV Bible Commentary.
Ancient Jewish commentators considered these verses descriptive of demonic attacks. Spirit filled life
“He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.” (Psalm 91:4)
What does God mean by “under His wings”? Some think that this has reference to the way the mother hen shelters & protects her brood. You'll remember that Jesus used a similar comparison when He said, “How oft would I have gathered you, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not.” My own conviction is that Psalm 91 is talking about another kind of wings. Where is that secret place of the Most High? To every OT Jew, there was only 1 secret place—the holy of holies in the tabernacle. You'll recall that the tabernacle was divided into 3 parts: an outer court; a holy place; & then the holy of holies where the ark of the covenant was kept. And you'll remember that over the ark of the covenant, on the mercy seat, were 2 cherubim, & their wings overshadowed the ark. This, I believe, is what the psalmist was referring to: the “secret place” is the holy of holies, & “the shadow of the Almighty” is under the wings of the cherubim at the mercy seat. In OT days, no one was permitted to enter that holy of holies, except the high priest; & he could do it only once a year. You & I are privileged to dwell in the holy of holies—to live under the shadow of His wings. We don’t simply make occasional visits into God’s presence; we live there because of Jesus! As you read Psalm 91, you discover that God makes some marvelous promises to those who will live under His wings, in the holy of holies. He promises divine protection. This doesn’t mean that we Christians never experience accidents or sickness, because we know that we do. God does not promise to protect us from trials, but to protect us in trials. The dangers of life may hurt us but they can never harm us. We can claim His promise that these things are working for us and not against us. Believers are immortal in the will of God, until their work is done. Out of the will of God there is danger, but in the will of God there is a divine protection that gives us peace in our hearts, no matter how trying life may be. “Under His wings,” abiding in Christ—this is where we are safest during the storms of life. We do not, however, run into the holy of holies to hide from life. I’m afraid too many people misinterpret the Scriptures and the hymns that talk about hiding in God and finding Him a refuge in the storm. We go in for strength and help, and then go back to life to do His will. God’s divine protection is not simply a luxury we enjoy; it is a necessity that we want to share with others. God’s protection is preparation for God’s service. We go in that we might go out. We worship that we might work; we rest that we might serve. The bumps are what you climb on.
“If you make the Most High your dwelling— even the LORD, who is my refuge— then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent.” (Psalm 91:9–10)
We go home without arrangement. We plan our visits, & then go home because they are over. Duty, want, a host of things, lead us elsewhere; but the heart takes us home. Blessed, most blessed is he whose thoughts pass up to God, not because they are driven, not because they are forced by want or fear, not because they are led by the hand of duty, but because God is in his habitation and his home. Loosed from other things, the thoughts go home for rest. In God the blessed man finds the love that welcomes. There is the sunny place. There care is loosed and toil forgotten. There is the joyous freedom, the happy calm, the rest, and renewing of our strength—at home with God. Thoughts for the quiet hour.
The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed—but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If he loved me yesterday, he loves me to-day. My unmoving mansion of rest is my blessed Lord. Let prospects be blighted; let hopes be blasted; let joy be withered; let mildews destroy everything; I have lost nothing of what I have in God. He is “my strong habitation whereunto I can continually resort.” I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation. Morning and evening
Here the Lord describes an abiding defense against “inflicted” disease, but the promise is conditioned upon making the Lord our true refuge and dwelling. In other words, we must "abide" in Christ - remain in Him, walk in Him, etc. By "inflicted" disease, it's talking about disease that the Lord would bring on someone due to their sin, like He told them He would do in Deuteronomy 28:15 etc.
“dwelling place,” comes from a root word which describes the security of “intimately dwelling together as in marriage.” These key words elaborate a principle. When we make the Lord our refuge & habitation by trusting Him—taking our cares, fears & needs to Him; by seeking His counsel, spending times of refreshing with Him; & by loving Him & walking closely with Him through every day, we enter into a sheltered place. This truth safeguards against making prayer for healing only a recourse for emergencies, though some do, in sickness or emergency, find repentance & renewed fellowship with God & discover His mercy. Spirit filled life
1. Most of the time God does keep us from calamity. Calvin says, ‘When we look back on our life from the perspective of eternity, we are going to see that the power of Satan was so great, that the weakness of our flesh was feeble, and that the hostility of the world was so strong, that every day of our lives—if God had not intervened—we would never have made it through a day.’ 2. Sometimes God allows calamities to come upon us for our good. Matthew Henry says: ‘Though trouble or affliction befall you, yet there shall be no real evil in it, for it shall come from the love of God and shall be sanctified; and it shall come, not for your hurt, but for your good; and though, for the present, it be not joyous but grievous, yet, in the end, it shall yield so well that you yourself shall own no evil befel you.’ 3. When God does allow something hurtful to come into our lives, he is there to strengthen us and to help us bear it. Opening up Psalms.
The abiding life (vv. 1–4) produces the assuring life (vv. 5–13), the life without fear, which leads to the abounding life (vv. 14–16), the life of victory and peace. The safest place in the world is under the shadow of the Almighty. With the Word
“For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.” (Psalm 91:11–12)
91:11–13 The Lord may permit things to happen in life that are troubling and painful, but nothing is ever out of His control. God dispatches His angels to ensure that His will is safeguarded. In the NT, Satan used this reassuring passage to tempt Jesus to dramatize His identity as the messianic Son of God. Jesus countered this misuse of Scripture with another that warns against putting God to the test (Mt 4:6–7; Lk 4:10–11). The Apologetics Study Bible
One of the greatest promises found in Psalm 91 has to do with the stones on the path. God doesn’t promise to remove the stones from the path, but He does promise to make them stepping-stones and not stumbling blocks. He promises to help us climb higher because of the difficulties of life. God’s invisible army is at your service, and God can see you through. The secret to climbing higher is to look away from yourself and your difficulties, and look by faith to Jesus. He knows where you are, how you feel, and what you can do. Turn it all over to Him and start walking by faith. The bumps are what you climb on
The psalmist now identifies the agent of this continual coverage we enjoy when we are in constant fellowship with the Lord Jesus, God’s secret place- His angels. Dwellers in the secret place are under the constant care of angels (Heb 1:13–14), and it is comforting to note that the word is not singular but plural, angels. Caring properly for us is more than a one angel job. KJV Bible Commentary.
This passage certainly suggests that every child of God is under the watchful eye of the angelic host. According to Scripture, one of the functions of angels is to minister to the needs of believers (cf. Heb. 1:14). Believer’s Study Bible.
This promise of angelic protection was misquoted by Satan in his temptation of the Messiah (see Mt 4:6). Satan twisted its meaning, employing a passage about trusting God to justify testing Him. The MacArthur study Bible
Count no duty too little, no round of life too small, no work too low, if it come in thy way, since God thinks so much of it as to send His angels to guard thee in it. Thoughts for the quiet hour
“You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.” (Psalm 91:13)
It was a common mark of complete victory when the vanquished foe lay prostrate on the ground & the conqueror placed his foot on the lifeless body of his enemy. From this practice came the metaphor of treading underfoot, indicating complete victory. The lion poetically represents an open & ardent foe. The adder is symbolic of a more secret & malignant foe. Regardless of the snare placed in our path by Satan, when we abide under the shadow of the Almighty, both open & secret enemies will be vanquished. The repetition for emphasis & embellishment indicates the young lion & the dragon, the lion in the strength of its youth & the most dreadful type of serpent, are no match for God’s ministering spirits. KJV Bible Commentary.
The believer triumphantly shall overcome all obstacles & dangers, whether of fierce & open violence (the lion), or of secret & insidious treachery (the serpent). The wisdom literature and Psalms.
When I see the words, lion & serpent, they both make me think of the same thing: Satan; as that's how he's described in God's Word. 1st as the serpent in the Garden- Gen 3:1; 2 Cor 11:3 & Rev 12:9 & 2nd as a lion in 1 Pet 5:8. Therefore I think this is referring to having victory over Satan & demons rather then actual snakes & lions. Other references, like "the fowlers snare" in v 3, ancient Jewish scholars considered to be talking about demonic attacks & terrifying things that happen in the darkness, which is yet again another metaphor for Satan and his demons. This shows us that if we abide (dwell) in close relationship with God, He will protect us from both physical & spirtual harm.
““Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation.”” (Psalm 91:14–16)
"for he acknowledges my name" can also be translated, "for he knows my name."
God himself speaks, solemnly confirming the psalmist’s faith. God “will protect him,” i.e., in a place of safety, those who love him and know his name, i.e., understand his character. He grants to such a one “long life” in fulfillment of the ancient promises (cf. Exod 20:12). The term “salvation” here refers to the visible manifestations of God’s providence which prove his care for his people. Each such manifestation was a harbinger of the final messianic glory which is the goal of OT hope. The wisdom literature and Psalms
To run to the Lord Jesus when we are in trouble is not to show Him the consistent love necessary to receive the promises of this psalm. But when we take up residence in the house of His fellowship, when we set our love on Him, then God makes astounding promises. KJV Bible Commentary.
Notice that this says God will be with us in troubles, not that He will remove the troubles from our lives. It's saying God will be with us and bring us through it to victory. (deliver us).
The promise of long life to the believer must not be taken for an automatic guarantee of longevity in this physical world. Wisdom literature acknowledges that, even among the righteous, life may be cut short. Still, God’s purpose is that the righteous live till their life has been “satisfied” in His sight. Ultimately He will fulfill His promise both in this life and in the life to come (1 Tm 4:8–9). The Apologetics Study Bible
We will have a long life because we will never die!
So I finished section 8 today and will start section 9 tomorrow :-)
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Post by fearnot on May 5, 2017 12:38:24 GMT -5
I think the idea of bumps being what you climb on is a really good way to turn one's defeatist mind set around....and tho I know we won't always be able to view it as a child would....
Yeah!!! stones to climb on!!!
Because sometimes the stones are so hard, and even down right evil.....
however, I still think there may be many many times when as a child see the stones as a fine challenge and a chance to 'see' better....can work a lot more than we might first think.
I remember in my adopted parents land on which our home sat, there were several big big boulders in one part ( New England seems to be covered with them, left over from one of the ice ages).
I used to climb up them ( and it was a little difficult) but once I got to the top, I could look out at the ocean and watch all the yachts, sail boats etc. a lot better than just standing at the waters edge where our boat was.
It was really worth the struggle of climbing once I got to the top!
so today I plan to start on section 9....I haven't yet looked or read what it is....so I hope I am not tooo over reaching LOL
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Post by fearnot on May 5, 2017 13:06:27 GMT -5
5/5/15
Psalm 92
In this psalm the psalmist praises God for His love and faithfulness.
Then he goes on and praises the Lord for all His deeds.
And tho I am so happy the Lord is all knowing and all powerful, infinite and eternal, etc.
I am especially glad He is loving and faithful even when I am not!!!
I also thought it was neat that v. 15 talks about 'The Rock'......because I was just so interested in the idea that bumps/rocks are what we climb on and Jesus is the ultimate Rock ( of salvation....)
when we sort of 'climb' and are with Him we see as we have never seen before!!
v.15 “The Lord is upright;
he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.”
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Post by fearnot on May 6, 2017 21:52:21 GMT -5
5/6/17
Psalm 93
Psalm 93
This psalm seems to be a good one for praising the Lord...His majesty, strength, eternal, holiness etc.
It's kind of interesting since I love the ocean that v. 3 and 4 speak of praise God in a sense.
and v.5 speaks of His Word being firm....and so it is.
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Post by fearnot on May 7, 2017 15:54:22 GMT -5
5/7/17
Psalm 94
Sometimes even tho we know we must love our enemies and forgive people, we also wonder if a person refuses to repent and becomes more and more and more evil...perhaps even past a point of no return...
will God punish them, when will He avenge and so the psalmist asks this very question.
Goe will only allow evil to exist and flourish only so long.
Because the Lord does not do it immediately, evil ones think God does not see, or care or cannot do anything, but they are wrong.
The wicked are jubilant, boastful, and become more and more wicked even murdering is not beyond them.
In some ways when I see all the mayhem, upheaval, chaos in the world but now in our country practically on a daily basis, it seems the world is waxing worse than it may ever have been.
Do people really think God does not see and will take action, perhaps a lot sooner than they may know. In fact, the very state of the world should tell them since it was prophesied.
But we who love the Lord are blessed. First of all we know what is coming and we know in whom we believe.
v. 17 says:
" Unless the Lord had given me help,
I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death."
and v. 19 brings up the joy word again
v. 19 "When anxiety was great within me,
your consolation brought me joy."
and v. 22 brings up the 'ROck' again
v. 22 "But the Lord has become my fortress,
and my God the rock in whom I take refuge."
From time to time, we ( I) might despair at the state of the world and the ever growing hatred, nevertheless, I can rest, knowing God is not taken by surprise,
and He has not left me,
no matter what happens to me,
if Jesus is with me,
I am actually safe, tho my body die or is killed.
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Post by fearnot on May 8, 2017 16:12:58 GMT -5
5/8/17
Psalm 95
v.1 made me laugh.....because it not only speaks of joyful singing, but shouting LOL
and also the Rock of our Salvation....all in one verse.
The next couple of verses praise God for all His deeds and Creation.
The last part of verse 7 and the first part of verse 8 is perfect council to the unbeliever:
v. 7 "......Today, if only you would hear his voice,
8 “Do not harden your hearts....."
and an example of even God's feelings to the Jews who harden their hearts follow.
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Post by fearnot on May 9, 2017 13:30:26 GMT -5
I have two questions....the first is when Jesus was on earth am I right in thinking He 'limited' His Godly powers? Yet since scriptures says something to the effect that Jesus holds Creation together.....so my question is was He doing that as man?
It seems like He must, but what about when He was Crucified and God the Father turned away from Him, was Jesus, still, (even without the Father),
holding the universe together, as He, at the same time, was paying for all the believer's sins?
Maybe I will wait and ask the 2nd question another day, because I know you have not been feeling well, so I don't want to load you down.
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Post by fearnot on May 9, 2017 13:57:54 GMT -5
5/9/17
Psalm 96
I sometimes think the first half of this verse may be misused:
v. 1 "Sing to the Lord a new song...."
It seems that a lot of people use this as a reason why its okay to sound and look almost like a rap concert ( it's not even necessary to say Jesus or Lord in your rap).....and this verse is used to show why it's okay....just merely singing a 'new' song.
I am not sure exactly what the 'new' song is, but somehow, I don't think the choir is to get up looking like gangstas and rap with some pretty 'colorful' words, and not even mention God....you just are to understand that what its about.
I took a quick look at some titles:
You made by da truth
Zone out
I'm Turnt
ohh Ahh
crazy Love
Nuthin
Gimme Dat
Ultra lightbeam
I'm me
Radio on Drugs
I did not listen to these but even the titles.... but well....
Whatever,
verses 2, 4, 8, & 9 says our songs are to:
v. 2 "Sing to the Lord, praise his name;
proclaim his salvation day after day."
v. 4 "For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;
he is to be feared above all gods."
v. 8 "Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name.."
v. 9 "Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness;
tremble before him, all the earth"
somehow titles like: nuthin, zone out, and gimme dat seem more toward pleasing young people that trembling and worshipping the Lord.
I am not saying that some rap songs might not in fact, be worshipful to the Lord, but I think it is possible to be too seeker friendly and have the wrong take on what a 'new song' really means, over worshipping God...for me, I will for the most part stick with the classic hymns.
I am not opposed to some new lovely worship songs...its just that it can get tricky and it seems more and more so.
I sometimes feel in church more like I am in a concert.....even when the choir sings beautifully and has lovely instruments....often we in the 'audience' seem more to be entertained,
rather than truly offering songs of worship ourselves, to Jesus.
Maybe I just have a wrong viewpoint.....it has happened before LOL
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Post by Cindy on May 10, 2017 8:28:38 GMT -5
Wow, you're doing great! I can't do much today as I really need to just let my body rest. But I wanted to let you know something about this psalm today. Obviously, it's a psalm of joy, a psalm of praise to our God. It was originally for the dedication of the tabernacle on Mt. Zion. What makes this so neat is that it anticipates all the world praising God in the Millennial Kingdom when Jesus begins His reign on earth. This IS the "new song" that we'll sing on the day our beloved Lord Jesus takes His rightful throne in Jerusalem and reigns over the whole earth! Notice verse 3: “Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.” (Psalm 96:3) See that he speaks of "the nations" not just Israel, and he clarifies it by also saying "all peoples". So he's including us gentiles as well as the Jew's and showing that there will be both Jews and Gentiles living in peace and harmony in the Lord's Kingdom. I can't write anymore about this, but if you read it thinking of it this way, I think you'll see even more in it. Especially considering what else I want to share about what this psalm teaches.
Joy takes practice. Study joy in the Psalms. Psalmists didn’t even know the details of Jesus’ love but, with their glimpses of God’s love, they had joy & gladness. If you are willing to look for joy, the psalmists can lead you to it. The goodness of God is shot through creation & the church, so joy is always possible. When you can’t see it, return to the cross and appreciate the beauty of what Jesus did. Appreciate the beauty of his sacrifice—his willingness to become like us and give up everything. Appreciate the beauty of his love. Just behold it. Admire it. God’s splendor ascends over the sorrow of life. Joy is possible. Choose to become an expert in it. After all, joy is not fleeting. What you will taste is “everlasting joy.” “And the ransomed of the Lord will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.” (Isaiah 35:10) It is here to stay, & the day is coming when those who know Jesus will be known by their joy. Believe it or not, you are becoming a joyous person. You will be a joyous person. Some say that joy is the serious business of heaven. But don’t think that this is just for the sweet by-&-by. The kingdom of heaven began with power when Jesus came, so you can get into the family business even now. Heart of the matter
This is certainly something to write in your notebook, as well as something to reflect on regularly for now since it concerns what we're studying. This isn't something that just this psalm teaches, but is something that the entire bible teaches us. We are people of joy, for the Joy of the Lord is our strength. His joy, is our joy! And because we are a family united to each other through His blood, our bond to each other is stronger than any blood bond on this earth. Therefore as we each discover this joy, and practice it, the joy of the whole body of Christ grows, and is experienced in the entire body. (of which Jesus is the head)
They speak truly when they say that joy takes practice. We tend to think that our emotions "just happen" and that we have no control over them. But the bible tells us the truth about our emotions. We are in control of them whether we realize it or not, and always have been. But because we bought into the idea that we couldn't control them, we wind up with all kinds of problems such as depression, and all the other things that we really don't want to experience. Then, again because we think we can't control them, we actually practice the negative emotions we don't want, making them a habit! (and making therapists lots of money lol) The truth is though, that we can choose to practice the emotions that we want to have. We don't have to feel down or angry or whatever. We can choose joy and practice it through a combination of taking our thoughts and emotions captive and replacing them with thoughts and the feeling of joy.
God willing, I'll be back tomorrow and will be able to continue from there ok?
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Post by fearnot on May 10, 2017 13:37:13 GMT -5
Thank you sooooo much that was great on practicing Joy and not being a captive or slave to emotions we have no control over, therefore making the psychs rich LOL
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Post by fearnot on May 10, 2017 14:24:41 GMT -5
5/10/17
Psalm 97
Lots of 'joy' in this psalm....verse one even has the earth itself and shores rejoicing.
For some reason the shores rejoicing reminds me of how most people are uplifted at the shore of the ocean, lakes, and even rivers.
v. 2 is a little mysterious to me tho because it says that Clouds and thick darkness surround him;....somehow darkness surrounding God seems a little strange....clouds I can sort of understand.
But I wonder if it has to do with the fact humans cannot really look at the face of the Father....
we will be able to see Lord Jesus one day, no longer looking (as the KJV says) thru a glass darkly?
Nevertheless it goes on then to talk about fire and lighten and also more about rejoicing.
v. 10 is an application that may seem a little harsh at first but really what else would we ( I ) do?
It says hate 'evil' not people
verse 10 "Let those who love the Lord hate evil,..."
and with v. 11& 12 the psalmist is back to joy and praise
v. 11 "Light shines on the righteous
and joy on the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the Lord, you who are righteous,
and praise his holy name."
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Post by Cindy on May 11, 2017 12:19:53 GMT -5
5/8/17
Psalm 95
v.1 made me laugh.....because it not only speaks of joyful singing, but shouting LOL
and also the Rock of our Salvation....all in one verse.
The next couple of verses praise God for all His deeds and Creation.
The last part of verse 7 and the first part of verse 8 is perfect council to the unbeliever:
v. 7 "......Today, if only you would hear his voice,
8 “Do not harden your hearts....."
and an example of even God's feelings to the Jews who harden their hearts follow. I have two questions....the first is when Jesus was on earth am I right in thinking He 'limited' His Godly powers? Yet since scriptures says something to the effect that Jesus holds Creation together.....so my question is was He doing that as man?
It seems like He must, but what about when He was Crucified and God the Father turned away from Him, was Jesus, still, (even without the Father),
holding the universe together, as He, at the same time, was paying for all the believer's sins?
Maybe I will wait and ask the 2nd question another day, because I know you have not been feeling well, so I don't want to load you down.
First, we have to remember that Jesus is God and God is not bound by time or space like we are. Yes, when Jesus took the form of a man, He restricted His powers to what humans could do unless the Father told Him differently. Here's how MacArthur explains it:
Although Jesus was fully God (John 1:1, 14), when He became a man, He voluntarily restricted the use of certain divine attributes (Php 2:6–8). He did not manifest them unless directed by the Father (John 4:34; John 5:30; John 6:38). He demonstrated His omniscience on several occasions (cf. John 2:25; John 13:3), but He voluntarily restricted that omniscience to only those things God wanted Him to know during the days of His humanity (John 15:15). Such was the case regarding the knowledge of the date and time of His return. After He was resurrected, Jesus resumed His full divine knowledge (cf. Mt 28:18; Ac 1:7). The MacArthur study Bible
As far as keeping sustaining all things, the Bible says He sustains it with His Word. He created the universe with His Word, and with His Word instigated all the laws of the universe as we know them; laws like the law of gravity, etc. which keeps things going the way they're supposed to. I really doubt that when He made the universe, that He has to remind it to keep going every day. Instead, His Word that created it and created the laws governing it, will keep it going until He says otherwise. The same is true of each of us and of all the people who were alive when Jesus was alive and the folks who had died before Jesus was born as a baby here. While He was a baby here, I'm sure that the folks in heaven were still able to talk to Him there as well. No, I have no idea how it works lol, but we're told that God is not bound by time or space, meaning He is everywhere present at all times. Just as now, He is actually dwelling within you, on the west side of our country, and at the very same time dwelling within me, here on the east side of the US, and He's dwelling in Eva over in Greece, as well as in who knows how many others all over the world. Yet even though He is dwelling within you, it doesn't diminish or take away from how He interacts with me. And we know that He dwells within each of us equally. There's not "more of Him" in you than in me or the other way around. Now I don't have a clue how He does that, and at the same time is also walking and talking with those who are saved and in Heaven already, but I know He does, because His mighty word tells us so. Therefore, the fact that He had a physical body here on earth for a time, doesn't cause me any concern over the universe, because while He was on earth in that body, He was also wherever else He needed or wanted to be.
As far as when the Father turned away from Him when He was made sin for us, that still changes nothing, mainly because of one other thing we know about our God. Our God is One. Again, we don't understand it, at least I don't, but somehow the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are One and yet at the same time are separate from each other. Somehow God used this to enable the Son to be made sin for us and enable Him to forsake the Son for a time, but at the same time they still kept us and our universe running smoothly. I can't say how, I don't think anyone can. This is among the things the bible calls "the secret things" of God that we can't know. They aren't secret because God doesn't want to tell us, but because we're simply unable to understand them with our finite minds right now. Even if He did explain them they wouldn't make sense to us. But what we can know is truly amazing: somehow Jesus became sin and died for us, and the Father turned away from Him for a time, but our God is so powerful that even though that happened, He still took care of every single person and our universe! What an amazing God we serve!Thank you sooooo much that was great on practicing Joy and not being a captive or slave to emotions we have no control over, therefore making the psychs rich LOL
I hoped you'd like it. Do you plan on doing what it suggested?5/10/17
Psalm 97
Lots of 'joy' in this psalm....verse one even has the earth itself and shores rejoicing.
For some reason the shores rejoicing reminds me of how most people are uplifted at the shore of the ocean, lakes, and even rivers.
v. 2 is a little mysterious to me tho because it says that Clouds and thick darkness surround him;....somehow darkness surrounding God seems a little strange....clouds I can sort of understand.
But I wonder if it has to do with the fact humans cannot really look at the face of the Father....
we will be able to see Lord Jesus one day, no longer looking (as the KJV says) thru a glass darkly?
Nevertheless it goes on then to talk about fire and lighten and also more about rejoicing.
v. 10 is an application that may seem a little harsh at first but really what else would we ( I ) do?
It says hate 'evil' not people
verse 10 "Let those who love the Lord hate evil,..."
and with v. 11& 12 the psalmist is back to joy and praise
v. 11 "Light shines on the righteous
and joy on the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the Lord, you who are righteous,
and praise his holy name."
“a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to come.” (Joel 2:2)
“The sun and moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine. The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the sky will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.” (Joel 3:15–16)
“The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.” (Isaiah 13:10)
“That day will be a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,” (Zephaniah 1:15)
““Immediately after the distress of those days “ ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ “At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory.” (Matthew 24:29–30)
““But in those days, following that distress, “ ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ “At that time men will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.” (Mark 13:24–26)
“The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.” (Acts 2:20)
The author is speaking of the Second Coming of our Lord, when He will judge the earth and rule the world with righteousness and justice. MacArthur says:
The imagery of the Lord’s presence may, in fact, be the basis of some NT passages’ descriptions of the second coming (cf. Mt 24; Revelation 19:11–21). Special emphasis is also placed on the Lord’s totally righteous judgments on the world in His kingdom, as well as His obliteration of false religions. The MacArthur study Bible
“Fire goes before him and consumes his foes on every side. His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles.” (Psalm 97:3–4)
I bet you don't need me to show you anymore, but I will in case someone who isn't familiar with this is reading the thread.
“So he poured out on them his burning anger, the violence of war. It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.” (Isaiah 42:25)
“for our “God is a consuming fire.”” (Hebrews 12:29)
“They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” (Revelation 20:9–10)
I just love this next one, although I'll only post a portion of it. This shows how God wants to react when one of His children is hurt, and more... it shows us how He WILL react and will take vengeance on those who hurt us on the day He comes again!
“Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it. He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet. He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind. He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him— the dark rain clouds of the sky. Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of lightning. The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded. He shot his arrows and scattered the enemies, great bolts of lightning and routed them. The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of breath from your nostrils.” (Psalm 18:8–15)
“Your hand will lay hold on all your enemies; your right hand will seize your foes. At the time of your appearing you will make them like a fiery furnace. In his wrath the LORD will swallow them up, and his fire will consume them.” (Psalm 21:8–9)
“The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live in it. Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; the rocks are shattered before him.” (Nahum 1:5–6)
“By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.” (2 Peter 3:7)
“But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.” (2 Peter 3:10–12)
“If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:15)
The lightnings of God, which precede His second coming to earth, are mentioned four times in the book of Revelation. Two things must be noted from these verses. 1st, they relate to those events that pave the way for the coming of Christ to establish His kingdom upon the earth. They will occur at the end of the great battle of Armageddon when Jesus will rule and reign from the throne of David for 1000 years. 2nd, it should be noted that with each verse there is a progressive worsening of judgment upon the world. The only hope for this world is the righteous reign of Jesus Christ upon the earth. For the Christian living today there is another hope, a blessed hope. KJV Bible Commentary.
“From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.” (Revelation 4:5)
“Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.” (Revelation 8:5)
“Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.” (Revelation 11:19)
“Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake.” (Revelation 16:18)
“The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.” (Psalm 97:5)
I'm sure man folks would like to think that verse and the others which speak about it are just symbolic in some way. Maybe thinking that helps them sleep better, poor souls. But when this day comes, they will discover to their horror, that they're quite literal.
“A voice of one calling: “In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”” (Isaiah 40:3–5)
“On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost. It will be a unique day, without daytime or nighttime—a day known to the LORD. When evening comes, there will be light.” (Zechariah 14:4–7)
“On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea and half to the western sea, in summer and in winter. The LORD will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one LORD, and his name the only name. The whole land, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. But Jerusalem will be raised up and remain in its place, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.” (Zechariah 14:8–10)
“The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live in it. Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; the rocks are shattered before him.” (Nahum 1:5–6)
“He stood, and shook the earth; he looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.” (Habakkuk 3:6)
The rest of the Psalm tells us again that the Heavens declare His righteousness and that idolators will be put to shame, never to bother those who are righteous again. We are the righteous ones, even though we don't feel righteous. Prior to this happening, the rapture will have happened and our transformation will be completed and we will truly be righteous! There will also be righteous Jew's and Gentiles that have lived through the Tribulation because this is the day that the Jews will finally be saved and given a new heart and right spirit by the God who has always been faithful to them. Notice finally the last two verses:
“Light is shed upon the righteous and joy on the upright in heart. Rejoice in the LORD, you who are righteous, and praise his holy name.” (Psalm 97:11–12) The light shed on the righteous will come from our Lord, as He is the light of the world. But the last verse which I underlined, we need to realize is a command, not a suggestion or just a description even.
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Post by fearnot on May 11, 2017 13:27:22 GMT -5
Today I started to feel a bit depressed and then thought, no, I am not a slave held captive to this feeling (several things were contributing, including a specific sin) but I realized that I had been forgiven and didn't need to continue to beat myself up for it...to do so would be to be unbelieving of what Jesus had done.
That all happened fairly quickly....so you really did help!
You wrote that we are the righteous, even tho we may not feel like it....I was certainly feeling that way, but then, I have to believe God, and not what I 'feel'.
Yes, once you pointed out about the clouds I got it LOL!
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Post by fearnot on May 11, 2017 13:47:18 GMT -5
5/11/17
Psalm 98
Aha... more about a 'new' song but with some specifics like:
the Lord has done marvelous things
has worked salvation
revealed his righteousness
and remembered his love
and his faithfulness
I am thinking these might be things to sing about whether in new or old songs.
Oh and we are to shout for joy.....which reminds me,
your example of how to people who have not seen each other for awhile ( maybe in a sea of humanity)
might shout out each others name because of affection and great love was very helpful!
Even the Creation will be joyful when Jesus comes again!!!
I am working on chapter 9 of the journal, and and reading and writing in it parts of studies you had previously posted....
just working on the 1st one,
titled Forgiving and Forgetting....
the next one will be:
an intensive study on Forgiving and Forgetting.
I was hoping to have done it all ( because for example I wanted to put in my journal what you wrote about joy.....but I didn't know which to chose...I figured I should continue trying to finish Ch. 9
therefore I have not yet put that in yet ( about joy).
But the bummer is there is no # of our posts???
I thought there were?
That way, at least, I could write the # of the post down in the journal...
and when I finally finish all of the other parts of the original notes for the journal.....
I could go and find that post ( you even said, it should go in the journal)
and write it in also......
I am going to be hard pressed to find it again to arrrggghhhh
Oh wait.....that's not toooo joyful huh? LOL
Do you have any suggestions as it may take me several ( or more)
days to finish.
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Post by Cindy on May 12, 2017 9:44:32 GMT -5
Today I started to feel a bit depressed and then thought, no, I am not a slave held captive to this feeling (several things were contributing, including a specific sin) but I realized that I had been forgiven and didn't need to continue to beat myself up for it...to do so would be to be unbelieving of what Jesus had done.
That all happened fairly quickly....so you really did help!
You wrote that we are the righteous, even tho we may not feel like it....I was certainly feeling that way, but then, I have to believe God, and not what I 'feel'.
Yes, once you pointed out about the clouds I got it LOL!
I figured you'd get it right away lol
5/11/17
Psalm 98
Aha... more about a 'new' song but with some specifics like:
the Lord has done marvelous things
has worked salvation
revealed his righteousness
and remembered his love
and his faithfulness
I am thinking these might be things to sing about whether in new or old songs.
Oh and we are to shout for joy.....which reminds me,
your example of how to people who have not seen each other for awhile ( maybe in a sea of humanity)
might shout out each others name because of affection and great love was very helpful!
Even the Creation will be joyful when Jesus comes again!!!
I am working on chapter 9 of the journal, and and reading and writing in it parts of studies you had previously posted....
just working on the 1st one,
titled Forgiving and Forgetting....
the next one will be:
an intensive study on Forgiving and Forgetting.
I was hoping to have done it all ( because for example I wanted to put in my journal what you wrote about joy.....but I didn't know which to chose...I figured I should continue trying to finish Ch. 9
therefore I have not yet put that in yet ( about joy).
But the bummer is there is no # of our posts???
I thought there were?
That way, at least, I could write the # of the post down in the journal...
and when I finally finish all of the other parts of the original notes for the journal.....
I could go and find that post ( you even said, it should go in the journal)
and write it in also......
I am going to be hard pressed to find it again to arrrggghhhh
Oh wait.....that's not toooo joyful huh? LOL
Do you have any suggestions as it may take me several ( or more)
days to finish.
No, this board doesn't show the number although it's in the coding itself, but that doesn't help us. I'd suggest that you jot down what you don't want to forget either on a separate paper and then later copy it into your notebook. Another possibility is to use your private messages to send what you want to save to yourself. I've done that a number of times. This is what you have to do: Start a new private message and in the "To" box, put your own username. Then, go to the thread and copy what you want to save and paste it into the message portion. It helps if you can have two tabs open - one tab with the thread you're copying from and the other tab with the private message you're writing. That way you can go back and forth as needed. After you've pasted it into the message portion, click to send the message to yourself. (obviously, do not delete the message lol) By keeping the message, you can then continue to add other things to the message when you come to them by simply pasting them into the reply box and then clicking send again. Basically, you're sending yourself a private message and then replying to yourself lol. I use this method too when I want to copy something from my computer that I want to save to my kindle.
By the way, “Joy to the World” is Isaac Watts’s rendering of Psalm 98. Here's what one devotional said about it:
Our hope is not simply looking back to treasure Christ’s birth or seeing what Christ accomplished on the Cross. It is not only in our experience here & now of Christ changing us as we put our faith in him. Our greatest joy is centered on our future hope of the day when Christ will return in glory to this earth. Because God fulfilled his promises to send Jesus the first time, we can sing “Joy to the World” confidently & expectantly, sure that he will come again. Let every heart prepare him room
Joy to the world! the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare him room,
& heav’n & nature sing.
Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ,
While fields & floods, rocks, hills, & plains,
Repeat the sounding joy.
No more let sins & sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make his blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.
He rules the world with truth & grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness,
& wonders of his love. The Psalms and hymns of Isaac Watts.
MacArthur said: Like the surrounding psalms, this psalm proclaims the excitement & joy of the whole earth over the rule of the Lord in the kingdom. That reminds me of what Paul taught concerning this wonderful day, (which I'm sure helped Watts write his wonderful hymn: “The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.” (Romans 8:19–23)
“In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety.” (Hosea 2:18)
“Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.” (Matthew 13:43)
“Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” (1 John 3:2)
“The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.” (Isaiah 11:6–9)
“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”” (Revelation 21:4)
“he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The LORD has spoken. In that day they will say, “Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the LORD, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”” (Isaiah 25:8–9)
There's no way we can continue to feel down or depressed when we begin to reflect on this, our blessed hope. No matter what happens, we will always have our blessed hope to hang on to and reflect on. That's what made Paul say what he did about trials and suffering here being light and momentary compared to our guaranteed future: “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:17–18)
The other day you said:
Thank you sooooo much that was great on practicing Joy and not being a captive or slave to emotions we have no control over, therefore making the psychs rich LOL
My reply to that was: "I hoped you'd like it. Do you plan on doing what it suggested?" I can tell that you decided that you were going to practice these things and look for them both in the Bible and in your daily life. That's really wonderful news, as it will definitely change how you think and how you view circumstances, and other people - what they do and say even. It can be hard at times to find the good, but God tells us that if we will look for it, we will find it.
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Post by fearnot on May 12, 2017 11:34:40 GMT -5
I think I mentioned also that although I had read several times before about God 'forgetting' ( not bringing them up to us, or to His mind again)
and that we too,
once we are forgiven past sins,
we too, are to 'forget them and press onward....
"....but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus...."
so I 'knew' that....
but never really truly applied it.....
and the results
( I only discovered a day or two ago, because of your help)
was that in not forgetting
but rather
thinking about, grieving again, being sad or depressed over, etc. etc.
that often only highlighted the sins
and in some cases would, bring them back, so to speak.
I never really really got the 'don't go back there again', forget those things ( sins) that are behind ( forgiven) and press forward towards the goal .
I don't mean that maybe sometime I won't remember, because maybe I need to ask God to forgive someone, I can no longer contact or something.....
but in 98 percent of the cases, when I start going back, I need to take those thoughts captive immediately and not dwell on them at all!!!
You know what is funny tho...so many times I still try to search for a verse....Like the one I posted but I cannot find it because I have Biblegateway set to NIV......so the only way I can find it ....is to switch to KJV find the verse, then switch it back to NIV......because I still remember it in KJV LOL
Probably is a good exercise tho!
That is a grrrrrreat Idea to send it to myself in a PM yeah!!! Thank you.
One of the reasons...now......that is taking me so long to finish the original journal chapters, is my shoulder ( right arm naturally.....the one I use to write and type and search etc.) has never yet come out of its flare up.....its been weeks now.....
So I write as much as I can, and then have to stop.
I pretty much write every single word you wrote soooooo it takes awhile about the only changes I make ( and even then not often) is instead of writing the numbers one, two, three I may hit 1, 2, 3
or
instead of writing 'and' I will hit the '& 'sign....but that about it.
Soooooooo your idea is wonderful thank you sooooooo much!!!!
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Post by fearnot on May 12, 2017 12:47:01 GMT -5
5/12/17
Psalm 99
The first couple of verses show me some reasons to praise God:
because He reigns
He is enthroned
He is great and exalted
He is Holy
He is mighty
He loves Justice
Then it speaks of Moses, Aaron and Samuel as those who called on His name and kept his statutes and the decrees.....
It would behoove anyone to be counted among them!
I surely want to be...tho obviously I am not them.
God answered and forgave them, tho He did also punish their misdeeds, as He will all of His children.
Therefore we ( I) should exalt and worship Him!
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Post by Cindy on May 13, 2017 8:13:09 GMT -5
I was worshiping God yesterday afternoon and discovered our theme song! Check it out:
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I've been doing that all alone lol. Don't worry about it though. The Lord will guide you.
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