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Cindy
Posted on Sunday, January 21, 2001 - 9:36 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Valerie, Morning! :-)

I will contiue my prayers for ALL of them. I pray your brother will get the help he needs and that he will be open to the Holy Spirit in his life.

I especially pray that his wife has a faith in God. God will be her Comfort in this time, more than ever!

Even though my situation has been different, I have had other despairing problems to deal with. Reading the Psalms has been my "lifeline" many days and nights! I've also always loved the passage in Isaiah 54 where God likens Himself to a FAITHFUL husband!

"Fear not, for you will not be put to shame.
Neither feel humiliated,
For you will not be disgraced;
But you will forget the shame of your youth...
FOR YOUR HUSBAND IS YOUR MAKER,
WHOSE NAME IS THE LORD OF HOSTS.
For the LORD has called you--
Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit...."

Friends to talk things out with are INVALUABLE, too. I have been so fortunate in that regard.

I know you will be a great support to them, Valerie, with your strong faith; and so much grace and common sense that shows through in your writings!

No matter what, it is still a struggle to maintain an attitude of trusting God for this PRESENT day alone!... and not living in despair and regrets over the PAST; or being in a panic over the FUTURE!

I've found that that you need to express how horrible you feel, not denying and pushing the feelings inside; but admitting them and then letting them go... Continually, daily,--even moment by moment sometimes--giving them to GOD; who Alone is sufficient to deal with them and work all things out for your good, because you are His! :-))

Grace always,
Cindy
Chyna
Posted on Monday, January 29, 2001 - 1:38 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

days when your heart just aches.

please help me pray for all of those that I love that are still in Adventism, please remember to pray as you read this msg about the ones you love also.

Chyna
Chyna
Posted on Monday, January 29, 2001 - 1:40 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

days when your heart just aches.

please help me pray for all of those that I love that are still in Adventism, please remember to pray as you read this msg about the ones you love also.

Chyna
Valm
Posted on Monday, January 29, 2001 - 5:30 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Chyna, Your first line to this message says it all. I like you feel that same heartache. Your loved ones on in my prayers along with mine and everyone elses. Valerie
Chyna
Posted on Monday, February 05, 2001 - 2:35 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

hi everyone,

please pray that I'll get a job soon! :).

Chyna
Jtree
Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2001 - 5:51 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

We have a "Prayer request" area and a "prayer answered area" Question is where is the "PRAYER" area? :-)

This "little flock".

Lord, I thank you for another blessed day I can Sabbath in you, not just one day, by I get seven, I pray that this is not GREED! I want to share it with others.

Thank you for this PLACE. Why was it so special? Because the people here are Your little flock.

They "continued daily." Not hit and miss, but there they are here with their Bibles open and are as the Bereans in Acts 17:11 - "they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily whether these things were so."

They won't be deceived.
Thank you for these sheep.

"With one accord." This is very obvious. They are living testimonies to I John 2:10, "He that loveth his brother abideth in the light."

So Lord, if this is considered "in the temple", That is, where Your people meet?

I'm sure Lord, that they would be the character of "Breaking bread from house to house." Person to person, family to family, they probably would opened their homes.

Lord, "Gladness and singleness of heart." You can tell that those here at FAF are glad and rejoice in their salvation, for You have set them free ? The veneer of hypocrisy are not on them. They have one heart.

I praise you Father, for "Praising God." They believe the only God worthy of praise, and as this "little flock" heard of the majestic Sovereign they truly praised You. With a God of eternal purpose, why fear?

So, I say thank you, Lord, for the children of God whom He brought together in this place. It is truly a special time for many here. Be with them.

I thank our sovereign Savior, who has given you such a witness to His saving glory. May He continue to bless you greatly. "Fear not little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." AMEN!

Joshua of the Rock! (ON VACATION STARTING NOW).
Max
Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2001 - 7:28 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Whoa! Everybody watch out! J of the R is on
vacation!
Shereen
Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 4:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I don't usually ask ppl to pray and I can't give the particulars, but would you all please pray for my boss Susan. One prayer is that her pregnancy is alright and the other is for this meeting tomorrow.

Thank you. This means alot to me and so does Susan.

Shereen
Valm
Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 4:39 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dear Shereen, Prayer has been sent for the both of you!!! God Bless, Valerie
Therese
Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 11:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Please pray for a confused SDA friend. She has no assurance of salvation to the point of it literally making her crazy. She is taking psych medications for depression and obsesive thoughts. She feels she can not get good enough to make it through the IJ, stand without a mediator time, time of trouble, etc. She reads EGW all the time and feels she just doesn't measure up. This is a very sick religion to do this to people. Thanks.
Denisegilmore
Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 2:35 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dear Shereen and Therese,

Know that here too, your prayer requests have been heard and I'll send prayers up as well.

Please remember to trust Jesus Christ,,He really does care. Don't let the circumstances, no matter the outcome, deter you from continuing in the Faith.

This too, I shall pray for.

Grace and Peace to you both in our Lord Jesus Christ,
DtB, your sister in Christ
Chyna
Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 3:03 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dear Therese & Shereen you are in my prayers

Chyna
Cindy
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 7:04 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dear Friends, I hesitate to ask you all to pray, for I sometimes doubt what good it will do. .. I am ashamed when I doubt, for normally I have a strong faith in God--often that's all I cling to--for I know He is Enough for me.

I would like you to remember my husband in prayer. I pray he will be (as Billtwisse wrote in a post recently) kept

"insulated from the devil's power to destroy as are the holy angels surrounding God's throne."

I know so much that the Satan's intent is to destroy! I hate him and the power he seem to have at times.

I KNOW God is more powerful and His Sovereignity rules in all circumstances; and yet, there are times when the visible facts of my circumstances seem to go all against a God who is loving and in control...

I like what Oswald Chambers writes:


"Every time you venture out in the life of faith, you will find something in your common-sense circumstances that flatly contradicts your faith...

Can you trust Jesus Christ where your commonsense cannot trust Him? Can you venture heroically on Jesus Christ's statements when the facts of your common-sense life shout--'It's a lie?'

On the mount it is easy to say--'Oh, yes, I believe God can do it'-- but you have to come down into the demon-possessed valley and meet with facts that laugh ironically at the whole of your mount-of-transfiguration belief...

Every time my program of belief is clear to my own mind, I come across something that contradicts it.
Let my say I believe God will supply all my need, and then let me run dry, with no outlook, and see whether I will go through the trial of faith, or whether I will sink back to something lower.

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict...

The final thing is CONFIDENCE IN JESUS. Believe steadfastly in HIM and all you come up against will develop your faith...Faith is unutterable trust in GOD, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us."


I pray for that type of unwavering trust in God...And I still know that He holds me in His Arms no matter how I feel (doubting or confident!).

Thank-you in advance for your prayers.

Grace always,
Cindy
Valm
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 7:17 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Cindy,

Thank you for coming to us. You both are in my thoughts and prayers.

Valerie
Jtree
Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 9:13 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dear FAF, Jtree here, on vacation, in Hong Kong!
:-) I stopped by an Inet Cafe for some Java. Can't
stay long they charge by the time used. See you
after Mar 4, 01.

Joshua of the Ro
Denisegilmore
Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 10:40 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hey there my brother Joshua!

So glad that you took time out to say hello and I'm hoping that you are having a wonderful time there too!

Enjoy your java and the rest of your vacation.

See you March 4, 01......I hope. :)

Blessings to you Joshua of the Rock,

DtB, your sister in Jesus Christ
Denisegilmore
Posted on Friday, February 23, 2001 - 8:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dear anyone reading this post:

Please pray for my friend Arleta tonight. Her blood pressure is dangerously high. If her meds don't work by 9pm, off to the hospital we go.

Please pray.

Thank you and God Bless all,

DtB
Shereen
Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2001 - 11:44 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hi,

I need prayers and guidance. My best friend is getting to me lately and actually starting to make sense to me. I will never ever follow EGW but Joyce has told me to come back to church and just be with God. She says that I am getting caught up in things that are happening to bring earths history to a close. I am feeling a bit frightened especially about the Sabbath. This is one issue I don't seem to be able to come to terms with. It is so hard to know anymore what is the bible and what is EGW. She says that in her church, the SDA West church here in Edmonton is more bible oriented and not EGW focused at all. I need to know what to do and need prayers. I feel so confused anymore. I love the Lord and don't want to make mistakes anymore.
Lori
Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2001 - 2:28 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dear Shereen,

The Sabbath message is one that runs DEEP inside anyone who was part of the Adventist church.

I'll share with you the texts that were a comfort to me when the old guilt driven fears of Sabbath observance haunted me.

Colossians 2:16 "Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. --the word for Sabbath is SABBATON, which means a weekly Sabbath--the next verse says, "These (the weekly Sabbath observance, food requirements) are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ." Christ has come!!Our reality is found in Him.


Romans 14:5 "One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind." ---If the Sabbath was a salvation issue would God leave it up to our preference as to whether we observed it. NO, he would not!!

Shereen, these are promises for us. Claim them. And remember that guilt and confusion do not come from God.

Galatians 4:22 "For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise. These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written: "Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have no labor pains; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband." Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. But what does the Scripture say? "Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman's son." Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."

These verses free us from the bondage of the Old Covenant-the 10 commandments. There are verses that identify the 10 commandments as the Old Covenant, if you'd like to know where they are I will post them for you.

I hope this will help you Shereen, for almost a year after I had come to terms with the Sabbath and knew that it wasn't Biblical I would still have times of worry and I was plaqued for quite a while every time I took a shower with that song "Don't forget the Sabbath the day the Lord has blessed, of all the days the brightest............" It's sort of funny now but at the time I thought I was going to lose my mind. No matter what I thought about it seemed that song would pop into my head.

I just kept claiming Col. 2:16 every time I had those thoughts. You know when we still cling to the Sabbath as "our part" in salvation we are saying "Christ is not enough to save me"!

It's Biblical to place all your confidence in Christ for salvation!!! Don't let others make you feel guilty about it.

Stand firm,

Lori
Valm
Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2001 - 6:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Shereen, You are in my thoughts and prayers every day. I understand the dilema you feel. God be with you.

Valerie

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