| Author | Message | ||
| Lynne Registered user Username: Lynne Post Number: 419 Registered: 10-2005 |
Anybody have anything good to say today? Lynne  Philippians 4 4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthyómeditate on these things. | ||
| Riverfonz Registered user Username: Riverfonz Post Number: 1718 Registered: 3-2005 |
Lynne, Thanks for posting those verses. One of the most difficult commands there is "be anxious for nothing" would probably be almost impossible for most of us to obey. In fact that whole passage is better advice than any psychologist could give. If a person meditated on these verses and asked the Holy Spirit to apply them, then how much better our lives would be. Stan | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 4080 Registered: 12-2003  |
Yes, LynneóI'd like to say I'm thankful that God gives us the opportunity to pray for each other. I just never understood prayer for one another as I am coming to see it now. I have a friend who is a recent "former" who was telling me recently how overwhelmed she was when the women in her small group Bible study at her new church prayed for her on her last night before summer break. In Adventism, there was little transparency, because revealing personal difficulites or worries would be dangerous. The information could become the subject of gossip, of social judgment, of blackmail...just about anything was possible. Further, most women's groups were more about competition and intellectual sparring and stroking than about submitting to God's word. At any rate, I am seeing that the continual admonitions to pray for one antoher, to pray always for all the saints...are the core of our life in the body of Christ. I consider it a great privilege to be able to pray and to be prayed for. This is a whole new level of reality that seemed hard to understand as an Adventist. While I still don't understand it, I'm finding that when I'm in Christ, the vulnerability of asking for prayer and of praying for others opens up a deeper level of honesty and healing than I ever understood was available. Praise God! Colleen | ||
| Bobj Registered user Username: Bobj Post Number: 19 Registered: 1-2006 |
Just a word of encouragement from Acts 13:38-39 (This is the gospel Paul presented to the lost) "Let it be known to you, bretheren, that through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses." Thank God for the freedom we have in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are complete in Him!! Thank you, Lynne, for sharing those verses from Philippians. Bob |
