Well brothers & sisters, I'm doing it again!!! I had made up my mind, I thought, to....

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

quit posting so much and keep my posts short, but God seems to have different plans! Everytime I think I will not post often or write shorter posts, He, through the Holy Spirit, urges me to post and oh they are long, most of them anyway! I guess I'm a writer at heart and impossible it seems for me to write less! I don't think many are read though by more than one or two persons, so it seems to me a waste of time, as I've been on this Computer since early morning! It is slow posting but Praise God I am posting and reaching out to those who need prayers, encouragement, love and peace from our Lord, Jesus Christ!

I don't mean to preach (as my children say I do) and yet, if I don't tell about God and witness for Jesus how will the sinners know they have lost and undone souls! How can there be a change in their hearts and the world unless they know and understand God's truth, for Jesus is the truth , as He is the Living Word! No one comes to the Father but by Him, all other ways is like a thief entering without an invitation to the door of the Good Shepherd's Sheepfold! A liar and a thief will never enter God's Kingdom!

But blessed are they who seek and find Jesus, Who is the open door to all that is good on earth and in heaven! The knob to His door is on your side and only you can open it and let him in...Your heart's door!!! :angel"

God Bless & forgive this ole lady for rambling on, on and on!

Betty

 

[steve in so la]

know who will read your postings. Lots of people read and never answer but sometimes you have to be touching someone's heart.
I taught HS for 27 years ,and except for a few kids, I never knew if I was influencing anyone. But the Lord knows and that's all that counts. Steve in so az

 

[Jim West Pa]

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[Paul (AR)]

You have the gift of words. I have not. What you write is from the heart, it is often the way I feel but am unable to put into words.

 

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

pardoned by Jesus when he said, "Lord, remember me", and having died also, he had no time to commit any more sins! He was forgiven when Jesus said that he would be with Him! So what are you talking about? He may have been a thief and a sinner before asking Jesus but he sure wasn't afterwards!

Jesus also said to the adulterous woman, Go and sin no more...if it couldn't be done than Jesus wouldn't have said it! We cannot keep sinning willfully nor should we even want to to hurt our Lord and Savior, Jesus, (like our old sinful man) once we ask Him to be the Lord of our life! But if we do slip and sin because of being in this world but not of it then we can go to our Savior and ask for forgiveness and He will forgive and forget! BUT NO ONE WILL BE IN HEAVEN SHOULD THEY STILL BE THEIR OLD SINFUL SELF WHEN THEY DIE! Read the Book of Revelation, Chapter 21: verses 7 & 8!

So, Jim, what is your problem? Jesus loves you, I love you and when accepting Him into our hearts than all is well with our souls for His precious, shed blood washes us clean!

God Bless!
Betty

 

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

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[MI$$OURI BETTY]

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[Jim West Pa]

i find things in them that reminds me to be more humble. But i can assure you this. As long as each and everyone of us breath the earthly air that our LORD has provided us untill, through his forgiveness, we sit at HIS side. WE are ALL liars thieves and sinners.

 

[Paul(NWO)]

a lot of my posts are long and I hope that some read them. You're a mainstay here and your prayers are coveted.
Thanks for being there for us all.

 

[Paul(NWO)]

being young and not established in life, I didn't know how to express what their influence had been. The one was a Jr. High science teacher, imagine that. I ate up everthing that he said. He didn't use just facts, he made it understandable, enjoyable and a pleasure to be in school. I tried with my own kids and the ones at church to anything that I was trying to teach so they could understand. The other teacher was an American Government teacher and a die hard liberal. He got it through to me not to accept everthing that was presented to me but to check the facts. I saw him maybe 10 yrs after graduation. I told him that I didn't know if that was what he was trying to get through to me but that was what I got. Tears welled up in his and he could barely talk. Steve when we stand before the LORD, I think you will see who you had an influence upon.
May God bless you in what your doing and wwhat you did to teach young people.

 

[Joe G]

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[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

I like it when you post, and I always try to read and reply! God bless you!

 

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

how busy a person can be and not be able to read or answer all the posts and, yes, mine tend to be very long but I write what God's Holy Spirit tells me....the same as with my poems (which tend to be much longer than when I first started writing them Jan 1, 1987!

Don't worry about not posting....just hope you can read them now and then! I don't do much any more as far as cleaning, detecting and etc and spend a lot of my time on the Computer! It is so slow for me that I have to it seems like...but I don't mind, as I am by myself a lot and don't go out very often!

God Bless!
Betty

 

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

I was referring to is that sometimes I write a lot and the posts aren't opened and read very much from the numbers shown. It doesn't matter too much if answering them isn't there, I just want to know someone reads them so I don't waste my time, for I could be cleaning my house! YUCK!! I've been doing that since I was wee gal at home on the farm!

God Bless!
Betty

 

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

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[MI$$OURI BETTY]

it is your choice to believe what you want to believe! But it is no longer me that liveth but Christ Who liveth in me. I am His and He is mine, for if I'm still a sinner then the only wages I will receive by still having sin's condemnation is the second death in an eternal lake of burning fire being punished and tormented forever!

Romans 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

(6) For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

(7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

"8" So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

(9) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.

(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

(13) For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (KJV)

I am no longer a willful sinner serving satan...I have been saved in Christ with a blood washed soul being sanctified by His Word and purified in His righteousness....so to sin against God now is definitely not my desire, as I love Jesus too much, but yes I can still sin if I want to, but this I no longer want to do! I try my best to be an obedient child of God obeying His will and His ways! Praise God and Thank You, Jesus!

When I, in my weakness, do something I shouldn't, I quickly say I'm sorry and I don't just keep on doing it again and again! My Father in heaven forgives and forgets what I've confessed with a sincere heart! But if I keep doing what is not right over and over then I am not forgiven and He hasn't forgotten and He considers me a disobedient child, and if I choose to leave Him and turn away from serving my dear Savior, then He will let me go and will not know me when my mortal life has ended!

You believe what you will and I'll believe what I will through the leading of God's Holy Spirit! Being saved and baptised in the Holy Ghost, I have the power to endure and overcome all things through Christ Jesus! Bless His Holy Name!

God Bless!
Betty

 

[Joe G]

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[Digdoug]

...they are sure to be blessed. I know I am. I may not reply to all the posts because I can't type but I try to read every one. Keep on posting and preaching because you certainly are a blessing to me.

God bless you,

 

[Anonymous]

post or visit this forum and may it be a blessing to all.It sure is to Freda and I...

 

[Jim West Pa]

" I am no longer a willful sinner serving satan...I have been saved in Christ with a blood washed soul being sanctified by His Word and purified in His righteousness....so to sin against God now is definitely not my desire, as I love Jesus too much, but yes I can still sin if I want to, but this I no longer want to do! I try my best to be an obedient child of God obeying His will and His ways! Praise God and Thank You, Jesus!

When I, in my weakness, do something I shouldn't, I quickly say I'm sorry and I don't just keep on doing it again and again! My Father in heaven forgives and forgets what I've confessed with a sincere heart! But if I keep doing what is not right over and over then I am not forgiven and He hasn't forgotten and He considers me a disobedient child, and if I choose to leave Him and turn away from serving my dear Savior, then He will let me go and will not know me when my mortal life has ended! " ...........is EXACTLY what i am saying. And,

As you yourself say........" I am no longer a willful sinner serving satan..."......BUT........" When I, in my weakness, do something I shouldn't, I quickly say I'm sorry " ......... *something* == sin ???