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Post by Ɖσмιиιc on Apr 8, 2022 16:17:33 GMT -7
God please help us today, thank you for our family in Christ. Please help those who are also hurting like our wives, and also the suffering ones in the wars throughout our nations. In Jesus' name. Amen. Hello brothers.
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Post by savedbygrace on Apr 11, 2022 5:24:25 GMT -7
One of our, or at least my, greatest motivators to walk with Jesus faithfully one day at a time, is one I hardly every think about... He clearly told us that he would return at an hour when we do not expect him, and that we need to be found doing his will for us for that particular day.
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect." -Matthew 24:36-44 ESV
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Post by Ɖσмιиιc on Apr 11, 2022 17:10:54 GMT -7
Yes, these are good thoughts and promises from our Lord brother. Thank you Jesus. Please help us Lord to be ready. Please help our family also to be ready too Lord Jesus. In Jesus' name. Amen.
When I was a child, I always had scary thoughts of the rapture happening and me being left behind. When I did drugs in high school, I remember being stoned out of my mind, thinking the Lord definitely will leave me and I had panic while I was high. It seems God does use these very real and sobering realities and yes scary promises to wake us up. It's like a crocodile who is trying to eat a person and someone yells at the crocodile STOP!!!. It's an act of love and the same tone that Jesus is using too, not 'hell-fire' not 'hate-speak' not 'narrow-minded' but it's the only way, only truth, and only life. Jesus said.
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Post by savedbygrace on Apr 12, 2022 12:54:56 GMT -7
I must realize that if the Lord doesn't allow our faith to stretched, we won't grow. I need to learn to be thankful for trial and difficulties.
An old favorite promise never loses its power....Hebrews 4:15-16
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
We really need mercy, because our minds shouldn't be drawn in the wrong direction in the first place.
Boldly: I can just walk right in! I'm part of the family.
And lest I forget, I can come IN TIME OF NEED. Thank you Jesus.
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Post by Ɖσмιиιc on Apr 12, 2022 17:02:04 GMT -7
Amen brother. I"m thinking of Jesus right now, "yet without sins" < He did it, so if we are filled with His Holy Spirit, with God all things are possible. Amen. I want that. Jesus, please help us today Lord. Amen.
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Post by savedbygrace on Apr 20, 2022 11:31:06 GMT -7
Keeping with the things and responsibilities God has given me to do is a huge help. Even though I'm retired, this is still true!
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Post by savedbygrace on Apr 26, 2022 15:36:42 GMT -7
Covenant Eyes is no guarantee of success, but definitely a help. I want temptation as far away from me as I can get it!
Also, they are offering me a 40 day course by email. Maybe I will learn something!
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Post by Ɖσмιиιc on Apr 27, 2022 2:24:12 GMT -7
Covenant Eyes is no guarantee of success, but definitely a help. I want temptation as far away from me as I can get it!
I agree. I have tried to help someone once on Covenant Eyes but I guess it didn't work out. Also, I knew how to disable it and reformat my PC to get past it. When I depened on it, I felt sort of safe but I really said "Let me see if I can...." then bam, falling off so many horses and into grave sins.
If you can manage it, good. I can't.
But I still do this.
Ad blockers, On Firefox, they have add-ons/extentions, where you can block ads. This helps me when I read the news. I hate hate HATE Ads. Fox news, CNNS, ABC, anything has it, it's almost a 'porn' to be because they ALWAYS some skins of people, too much skin in my opinion. Shame on them. Shame.
I usually do this daily now
1. check email 2. check Blazing Grace forums 3. check YouTube news 4. check Twitter for news on Ukraine
that's all I do.
I also have a site to play on like put up content, I practice some stuff and upload to Youtube but nothing serious, just things and hobbies to keep me busy. I don't really browse the internet as much, but it changes. About a few months ago, I tried to search for video games and the Ads, I can't stand it, so it's dangerous.
Something the Coventant Eyes will not catch, that I have noticed are
1. people profile pictures on some site (could be any site, even clean ones) 2. google searches, enough said, don't try to test the limits of the software because it will only be a fall, that is how I was trapped and took God's miracles to recovery from that cycle. I'm dead serious.
One time, I tried to ask my wife to put a password on the PC, but she used a password that I figured out, I was shocked, but I again went back to porn, this was in 2010? but, nothing helps me anymore, but to just get a heart change, a mind change, have healthy habits, stay in the Word daily and the rest sort of figures itself out.
Another recent trigger that happened to me was at work, actual people, so covenant eyes is not helping me here , I had to cut off conversations, cut out wrong thoughts, and ask God's forgiveness and help. I still battle that one. I'm not trying to put anyone down for using software blockers, I still use Ad blockers, but I know God has to do something in me, and if God didn't or doesn't, then it's me that is really blocking God, from the work, and if God works, in me, then the relying on other stuff, I think will be less and less. I still have a lot of boundaries around me, please don't get me wrong. Just my two cents on my falls with the software.
I also am aware that anything on the internet could be very very bad, youtube, twitter, anything.
Dear God please help us. Please give us good ways out of these many temptations, please Lord, we want to submit to You, in Jesus' name and please bless our brothers and sisters where. Please let the programs catch and keep us accountable. Thank you for the many tools that things you have given us, in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Post by savedbygrace on May 2, 2022 15:03:34 GMT -7
This AM was a battle for me. But I turned away from the computer and opened my Our Daily Bread booklet. This is what I found. God spoke it to my heart. odb.org/US/2022/05/02/father-of-lies-2Thank you Jesus!!!!!!!!
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Post by savedbygrace on May 5, 2022 10:24:45 GMT -7
"Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright." -Psalm 20:7-8 ESV
Thank you Jesus!
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Post by savedbygrace on May 9, 2022 8:54:48 GMT -7
It's no fun to be back at a new start again, but here I am. OK, I made it past 30 days. Big whoopie.
But God knows my heart. And I am learning what ideas and attitudes I have to correct.
And contrary to what I previously wrote, I must not practice self stimulation AT ALL. I must live totally free of it.
Covenant Eyes offers me a 40 day course by email. I need to look at these lessons with an open mind and ask God to teach me.
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Post by savedbygrace on May 10, 2022 15:56:28 GMT -7
It has been a crazy yet a good day. God loves me. He reminds me that He is on my side. He speaks His Word to my heart.
Praying for us all!!!
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Post by javajake on May 11, 2022 6:09:59 GMT -7
God is good! Praying it is a good victorious day for all of us.
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Post by savedbygrace on May 13, 2022 14:58:12 GMT -7
"Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." -Isaiah 43:19 ESV
So God is asking me, "Do you not perceive it?" It's there! I must look and find it, and believe God has it there for me. He is doing a new thing in my life!
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Post by Ɖσмιиιc on May 13, 2022 18:00:02 GMT -7
"Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." -Isaiah 43:19 ESV So God is asking me, "Do you not perceive it?" It's there! I must look and find it, and believe God has it there for me. He is doing a new thing in my life! that's right brother. We must seek after the Lord for His wisdom like a buried treasure. God works all the time, in giving us good things, good thoughts, good desires, just all good, God is so good.
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