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| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 242 Registered: 9-2006  |
Either the forum is slow, I ran everyone off with my last post or you are all out spending your money on Christmas, I would spend mine but everybody elseís money is stacked on top of mine and I canít get to it. So I am stuck at home with a good case of the sniffles and my node id topped up. So I will whack on my key-bored. Now just as you thought that the days of bringing sacrifice God were over I am going to try to burst your bubble. Fortunately we donít have to go out to go out and kill a goat but God still does require a sacrifice. (Heb 13:14 NIV) For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come. (Heb 13:15 NIV) Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise--the fruit of lips that confess his name. (Heb 13:16 NIV) And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. (Jer 33:11 KJV) The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD. I can guarantee you this Sunday there will be people at church that looks like they just ate a lemon, but the Bible says to praise him, it does not say that if you donít feel like it you are exempt either. Continually donít mean every once in a blue moon. So there you have it. By the way I just got my mail, a rag called signs of the times and other stuff but not too worry, my garbage can holds a lot and I went out and swatted my mail box for being uncouth. River | ||
| Mwh Registered user Username: Mwh Post Number: 411 Registered: 4-2006  |
Amen, amen, amen, Hallelujah, praise the Lord for he is Good! Thanks God I wish I could grab out and give you a big hug. I love you Jesus! I am getting used to singing and worshiping Jesus while walking in the streets, its really great, it just feels so good to worship Him, my spirit is rejoicing and jumping in me when I sing out loud. Jesus you are God almighty, you are the Saviour the Creator the Lord of lords, King of kings, amen. | ||
| Cforrester Registered user Username: Cforrester Post Number: 60 Registered: 7-2004 |
River, You're delightfully disturbed: "node id topped up" - that made me laugh, once I got it. (The software engineer in me was trying to figure out which Node ID was having problems...  ) But you put a smile back into my heart with your verses and thought. I really needed it. I just got done fighting traffic coming back from Emory's theological library. (Atlanta traffic, yuck!) This has been a wierd year for me, so I need to see those types of verses. Keep 'em coming. | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 243 Registered: 9-2006 |
Always glad to help my friend, Jesus said that if they didn't praise him even the rocks would cry out so don't be surprised if some of the lumps sitting in your congregation you thought were rocks begin to make a noises. Glad I woke somebody up, this code I got is torture. But praise be to God I got Kleenex. Big storm heading our way tonight so all youins will be relieved to know there is a good chance of power outage and I won't be able to post, in such case I can play my geetar and blow snott. River | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 3162 Registered: 3-2004  |
River, I am so glad I do not have to hit my mail box with a bat. I get no Signs or any other SDA material, so my mail box does not get blamed. You have a delightful sense of humor. Keep it up. You bring cheer into my life. Of course I am told that I bring a peace to work that others feel. It is not me. It is God and for that I am thankful. Drink lots of water and get rid of the cold. Diana | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 5099 Registered: 12-2003  |
River, thank you for starting this thread. So while I'm at it, I guess I'll praise God, too, even though my node id also topped up! Don't you hate colds?? I am so thankful that Christmas means something entirely new to me nowóas does Easter. The whole Santa side of Christmasówhile funóis slowly becoming less and less the central focus because Jesus is just so much more important. I am grateful to Him. And I hope your cold is better soon, River! I sympathize with you. Colleen | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 244 Registered: 9-2006 |
The power just came back up for however long and I got an array of Kleenex, bottled water, vitamin C, tylonal, tea and extra batteries and a good warm bed, I am truly blessed and I don't care who nose it. Plus I had a hot bowl of sheepherder soup. Bless the Lord oh my soul and forget not all his benefits. Bless his Holy name. River | ||
| Alnadean Registered user Username: Alnadean Post Number: 31 Registered: 8-2005 |
My,my,my- I must say River, that cracked me right up. I love a good laugh, and I enjoy it as often as I can. I'm just happy I can get it here too- and you're right cforrester- he is 'delightfully disturbed' or is it 'disturbed delightfully'? Pardon me for speaking about you as if you aren't in the room. Okay my remedy for the cold- is really try not to get one; but if someone coughs in your hearing, sneezes or blows their nose in your presence you should immediately take 3000 mg of Vitamin c, and take it every 4 hours - those first 12 hours should set you straight- then you will feel relatively safe if you have to be around those sniffling, coughing people- whatever you do - don't hold a baby with a virus upside down in any position over your face, because if they dribble and it gets IN your nose- then you will not only need vitamin C, but lots of prayer. Colleen: I so agree with you about the focus of christmas- even when I listen to the songs, I think about the great sacrifice. I was thinking- only today that I will now celebrate easter- and to those adventists you say it is pagan...well Paul said 'hold fast to that which is good' Jesus was resurrected and that's something to celebrate Happy Holidays Al-Nadean | ||
| Agapetos Registered user Username: Agapetos Post Number: 646 Registered: 10-2002  |
Yes! Thank you River, and thank You, God! I've been battling a cough that blossomed into a cold for over a week now, and I have to begin moving tomorrow. I took off two extra days of work so that I could do most of the moving myself, but I pray I won't be stuck in bed instead of moving! Lord, You gave us the new place, and I know the enemy is trying to give us a hard time. Be my strength within me and in my life as I move in spite of no matter what coming my way! And grant my wife rest as I do this, because she can't help much since she's pregnant... but she needs as little stress as possible. God, in spite of all the stuff, I praise You because You are so awesome. And here at the end of the year I'm overwhelmed with all You've done in my life and all the things You're saying and bringing to fulfillment. Most of all, Lord, thank You for the pure flame of Your passion for us. Thank You for Your awesome, eternal love, the eternal flame of Yahweh that cannot be put out by any waters, rivers, nor by death and the grave. Cast my eyes ever upon that bright flame of Your love, Lord, and let me look longingly there forever until I am blinded to all else but Your love. Thank You so, so much, Lord! | ||
| Raven Registered user Username: Raven Post Number: 674 Registered: 7-2004  |
For all you cold sufferers out there, take Cold-Eeze "clinically proven to reduce the duration of the common cold." The earlier in the cold you take it, the better and it does a pretty good job of minimizing symptoms. Works for me most of the time. | ||
| Insearchof Registered user Username: Insearchof Post Number: 107 Registered: 8-2005 |
Agapetos, You wrote: "Most of all, Lord, thank You for the pure flame of Your passion for us. Thank You for Your awesome, eternal love, the eternal flame of Yahweh that cannot be put out by any waters, rivers, nor by death and the grave. Cast my eyes ever upon that bright flame of Your love, Lord, and let me look longingly there forever until I am blinded to all else but Your love." Thank you for that. Sometimes the enormity of God's love for us is hidden behind the cares of this world. Thanks for bringing it back to the front of my mind. ISO | ||
| Bobj Registered user Username: Bobj Post Number: 73 Registered: 1-2006  |
River Thanks for the great reminders from Hebrews and Jeremiah! What a lift to read this thread. So thankful for the Lord, praising Him forever! Bob | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 246 Registered: 9-2006 |
It is easy to give praise when the going is good, the finances are good,but when one feels like stink, and you can hardly lift another foot due to heaviness brought on by whatever and things begin to be hard to bear up under and hard to understand, life seems a burden, then the sacrifice of praise can come forth, that sacrifice I believe can propel us into that secret place. I will never forget when my Dad lay dieing on a hospital bed, with cancer having ravaged his lungs and one had collapsed he lay there with sweat beading his face under the effort to breath, the oxygen not doing much good, his words were "Lord I praise you" over and over that evening, I think he had found that place with the almighty. myself, I am not an outward person, I don't sing, I don't shout or dance or clap, I know I cannot be somebody else but all at the same time my spirit does all these things, by all outward signs I am a deadhead but I know different and the Lord knows different. Ramone, I sympathize with you, much the same here, started with cough and graduated to colds. River P.S Eat sheep herder soup it'll cure ya or kill ya. | ||
| Freeatlast Registered user Username: Freeatlast Post Number: 487 Registered: 5-2002 |
Kentucky Cold Remedy: 1. Go out and buy a bottle of bourbon. 2. Go home and hang your hat on the bedpost. 3. Drink bourbon until two hats appear. 4. Go to bed. When you wake up, the tode id your doze will be gone. A respectable physican once told me that if you take something for your cold, it will last exactly one week. However, if you don't take anything for your cold, it will last exactly seven days. | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 247 Registered: 9-2006 |
My old grandpappy's remedies. For Bad colds and cough: 1 tablespoon quinine and 1 table spoon Kerosene. For bloody nose: hang a chunk of lead around the kids neck. For spider bite: Spit snuff on the wound. For good luck: Hang a horseshoe over the door. For bad luck: Cut a lightning struck tree up for "farwood". More bad luck: A black cat crosses the road in the direction you were going. River |
