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I have little to say
By: guest71 Date: May 28, 2023, 3:22 am
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[center][center]Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain;
God is his own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.[/center][/center]
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Re: I have little to say
By: Helen Date: May 28, 2023, 12:51 pm
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[quote author=Olive Branch link=topic=1069.msg16566#msg16566
date=1685262122]
[center][center]Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain;
God is his own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.[/center][/center]
[/quote]
And a loud Amen to that one Mike…
You may say - that you have little to say …but that “little”,
is in fact huge!
x
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Re: I have little to say
By: guest71 Date: May 28, 2023, 11:14 pm
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Couple it with the song "You say it best when you say nothing at
all" (Quaker's motto).
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Re: I have little to say
By: James Date: May 28, 2023, 11:54 pm
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[color=blue] Maybe this is saying to much, sorry if off topic.
We live, it doth appear, in a triexistential universe.
While we are called to meet the daily round of oppressive rules
and regulation imposed upon the world by Faccism, a term used by
Rob DeSantis to describe the rise of the controlling world
government. At the same time we are aware of a world where
knowledge is flowing freely and those who do have ears that can
hear are able to source a whole world of alternative narrative
to Faccism . The third world is the world of the spirit where
our very existence is shaped by a light that when given access
by the surrender of our will to its intense scrutiny will not
only sift what we hear but how we act and our deepest motives
for choosing what we say we believe.
What we say we believe and how by our actions we confirm what
we say are in my experience polls apart, for while we confess to
the power of an endless life, self preservation is still strong
in our flesh. Only when we have completely accepted that there
is life in absolute and complete submission to a real and living
God will we absorb the temporal worlds into our progress in the
spirit and know without faltering everlasting peace and joy in
the now we walk through each day./color]
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Re: I have little to say
By: guest71 Date: May 30, 2023, 2:24 am
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[quote author=James link=topic=1069.msg16570#msg16570
date=1685336089]
[color=blue] Only when we have completely accepted that there is
life in absolute and complete submission to a real and living
God will we absorb the temporal worlds into our progress in the
spirit and know without faltering everlasting peace and joy in
the now we walk through each day./color]
[/quote]
I have posted before about what I called "Constantly abiding",
which I thought I was experiencing some 70 odd years ago, whilst
doing the two year compulsory National Service. But that was a
time when conscripts were trained to not think for themselves
but to do as they were told in the field of military conflict.
But as soon as I was demobbed I found myself so preoccupied with
having to earn a living, feed and care for myself, and all the
other responsibilities of life, I found I had insufficient
'Free" time to reflect, and "Constantly abiding" became a lost
haven, and has since been elusively unrecoverable.
Have you achieved it, James?
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Re: I have little to say
By: James Date: May 30, 2023, 10:03 am
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No!
I hope my post did not in any way make you think I was, ‘blowing
my own trumpet’ , and professing that I had achieved the shores
of the golden city. The bible does hold us to account, it shows
what the Lord requires of us and equally reveals the means to
acquire the high calling.
The question is do we find the cost to high?
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Re: I have little to say
By: guest71 Date: May 30, 2023, 7:21 pm
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[quote author=James link=topic=1069.msg16572#msg16572
date=1685459020]
No!
I hope my post did not in any way make you think I was, ‘blowing
my own trumpet’ ,
[/quote]
Not in any way. I just wondered if you had previously (or
currently) experienced anything like the joy of what I had long
ago experienced and termed 'Constantly Abiding'.
I should have asked the question of any reader (not just of
yourself).
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Re: I have little to say
By: James Date: May 30, 2023, 11:59 pm
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Joy, yes!
At the time that I was baptised by the spirit of God the
immediate effect was an after glow of the spirit that caused me
to love everyone, I experienced great joy in being alive and
inter acting with the world around me. This continued for some
months and I was aware of the ‘ feeling’ slipping away, draining
out of me little each day. I guess after the feeling there was a
need to cause me to take a step up to faith.
I felt gutted not to feel such that my fellow man could not
squash me down whatever he said or did. How Paul coped with his
experience of coming back to earth from heaven I have not the
faintest. My heaven experience was grand, his must have been……….
Thanks Mike for reminding me of that time, the little you say
Mike is most effective, God bless you and your house.
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Re: I have little to say
By: guest71 Date: June 1, 2023, 12:02 am
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[quote author=James link=topic=1069.msg16575#msg16575
date=1685509197]
Joy, yes!
At the time that I was baptised by the spirit of God the
immediate effect was an after glow of the spirit that caused me
to love everyone, I experienced great joy in being alive and
inter acting with the world around me. This continued for some
months and I was aware of the ‘ feeling’ slipping away, draining
out of me little each day. I guess after the feeling there was a
need to cause me to take a step up to faith.
[/quote]
I wish that it had not been brought back to mind but, despite
openly offering myself to what friends called 'Baptism in the
Spirit' by their laying on of hands and prayer, nothing
happened, and ever since I have found my solace by subscribing
to the 'Brethren' denominational view that the 'supernatural
gifts' ceased at the end of the apostolic era.
If that conviction were not my 'safety valve' I would doubt my
salvation (indeed many Penticostalists believe 'Baptist in the
Spirit', accompanied by glossolalia, to be essential to
salvation).
Woe is me!
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Re: I have little to say
By: guest71 Date: June 3, 2023, 2:58 am
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[quote author=Olive Branch link=topic=1069.msg16578#msg16578
date=1685595772]
I wish that it had not been brought back to mind but, despite
openly offering myself to what friends called 'Baptism in the
Spirit' by their laying on of hands and prayer, nothing
happened, and ever since I have found my solace by subscribing
to the 'Brethren' denominational view that the 'supernatural
gifts' ceased at the end of the apostolic era.
If that conviction were not my 'safety valve' I would doubt my
salvation (indeed many Penticostalists believe 'Baptist in the
Spirit', accompanied by glossolalia, to be essential to
salvation).
Woe is me!
[/quote]
I am surprised at how little members have to say about my post
:'(
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