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Our table or place is set when we leave this earthly world and bodies and take on our true form (spirit). God's grace is the ultimate love. It is God's unmerited favor, we need to do nothing to receive it!! We truly have spiritual and physical authority because God says so. We only have to believe it and then act upon it and it shall be! It should affect us greatly because we have the one who created it all telling us we have the power through him, given by him all we have to do is act on it! This pleases God greatly!!

God's love for us describes his motivation to do what he did for us: sending His only begotten son to take on the burden of all of our sins!! This also describes his character!! God IS love! The word "be" says it all! we are (to Be) in Him: this encompasses all in all----everything God created is our inheritance and we have authority over Amen!

To participate in wrong, or to follow Satan as you put it comes for me when I am down, or feeling depressed. Of course these feelings are straight from Satan. Even though these feelings are not sin so to speak they open the door for temptation to come into your life. We are responsible for our rebellion whether it is intentional or unintentional. For me personally, I have never (to my knowledge) intentionally sinned, so I dont know what that would be like. Usually if you are walking with God, and sin creeps into your life it is because you have let your guard down. We must always remained equipped to resist temptation and that is done by staying in the word and using the word of God against satan!

When one is dead nothing workds! No feeling no sense of belonging: stagnant. Those of my friends who do not have a personal relationship with God, I subtly invite them to get to know Christ as their personal friend, confidant, love of their life: a life line. I certainly do not want anyone even my enemies to be dead in Christ and be judged accordingly. I want them to be fulfilled in His joy! There is nothing out in the world that can compare to that!!!!!!

God's purpose for our lives is to be vessels of praise unto Him that we live our lives in a way that is pleasing to him I know for my self I want to make God proud of me I want him to see me and say job well done i am pleased I strive to be a woman after God's own heart just as david was in the bible. Matthew 4:13-16 so relates because it is saying the same thing We are to let our light shine before or in front of others so that they can see our goodnes our compassion our love toward them and our circumstance. This draws themm into wanting to know that goodness and this glorifys God

The significance is that God is creator of all things. Not just the beleiver is brought under his authority but those who do not believe will find out just how and who created this universe and all that are contained in it and will be judged accordingly. It is so incredible I can scarcely take it all in but the word states that Christ has all authority which has been given to him by his Father God and in the end days Christ will have dominion and authority to destroy all that has not fallen in line with the Father. After he has put every thing into order (God is a God of order) then God will take over the reigns and be our all in all!!!

I have been redeemed by Christ's willingness to put himself on the cross and die for all of my sins!!!! I was once a slave to bondage unable to set my own self free from my lying fornication and all else but God gave me a way out and his name is Wonderful Counselor Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ my saviour!!!! I would have been a total mess up unable to get my self right without Gods loving concern for my life and what it would be like without him in my life To be born and then die in utter hell is what my life would have been and would be without Christ redeeming grace in my life!!

It is beautiful because although we were created perfect our sins took us away from God and God being a just and compassionate God gave us his only beloved son to bring us back to him. We now have the same rights and inheritance as our brother Christ Jesus and I just find that amazing that someone could love me that much!!

Holy means cleansed of all unrighteousness things that make us unclean or keep us away from Gods grace Thank God that he loved us enough to want to bring us back unto himself by providing a way of escape through our Lord and savior Jesus! Without him we would totally be lost and unable to return to God because of our mistakes and wrongdoings But Through believing in Jesus we are given a second chance to walk in the way the God created us to be without blemish perfect in the eyes of our father God!!!! Thank you Lord

For me there is nothing scary about predestination I receive it and the plan that God has for my life. It is comforting for me to know that God thought enough about me to want only the good things in my life and when I am in tune with Him I receive only the very best that he has to offer in my life! Prsising God is what brings him satisfaction He is pleased to know that we acknowledge that he is leading us and we are grateful for it.

I believe to reconcile the two together. We dont know if he lost his freedom or gained it! We surely know he gained his freedom thru Christ Jesus! Although it is a possibility that Philemon may have very well have physically kept him as a slave we certainly know his spirit was free indeed! The necessity arises from both men, Onesimus and Paul relying on the everlasting love of Christ and knowing love conquers all!!

Maybe he needed encouragement, or a fire lit under him again. Many times we are ignited by God's words and call on our lives and then the pressures and responsibilites of life get in the way. We need to be relit so to speak, to recharge our batteries so that we can move forward with what it is the Lord has called us to do. "being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Amen

We are to be persistent and thankful and alert. I agree that when we thank God for all that He has done it does put our faith into action. It confirms that God is listening to us and has nothing but our concerns and needs in mind. Knowing this makes us stronger in our faith and allows us to fully commit to serving our Heavenly Father. When we do not recognize God's love for us or allow the enemy to intercede our thoughts we become depressed and troubled keeping us from the good things God has to offer us and wants to give us.

Obedience shows that you have love and admiration for the person who is admonishing you. A child loves their parents and want to please them parents have the resposibility of guiding a child so that they are raised to know how to love and show that love to others this above all pleases God. A child who is shown this grows up knowing who God is and wanting to follow his practices and maintain the very virtue that their parents instilled in them. A father and mother should guide their children and admonish without breaking their spirit instill in them a sense of selfworth that will remain with them a lifetime

Love forgiveness, forberance, humility, compassions these are all so important and relative in our lives because it is what sustain us in this sinful world! And as a sinner now redeemed by the blood I know all too well that these gifts (and they are gifts because we surly could not conjure these emotions on our own!) bring us closer to our Heavenly Father. They keep us in His love when others hurt us or say unkind things to make us feel unworthy.... We as followers of Christ are to edify other followers of Christ so that we may remain lifted in our day to day lives and when this happens its like a ripple effect it causes others to respond in a kinder and compassionate manner! I have tried it and it truly works! Sometimes in our day to day lives we are so busy we forget that even a kind smile to a stranger can make all the difference! Try it. I do When I am at a store for instance I will go out of my way to try and bring a smile to someone I meet on the steet by just smiling, and they are so taken aback that someone they dont know even took the time to say hello let alone smile they cant help but to return the kindness! And to top it off it feels so good! It is a shame that people are so caught up in life that they dont even have time to say hello or smile but I promise you next time you're somewhere try it you will find it works! After all God made us and deep down we all just want to be loved and be shown love and we as followers of Christ are the ones to get the ball rolling for His glory!!

JanMary My heart goes out to you! I have had similar experiences....do not focus on the why as this will keep you in a mode of unforgiveness..sometimes even when we say we forgive, we can not help but to remember the damage of what others have done or said to us....for me when I have been hurt by someone I love, I ask God to forgive them but I then ask God for the strength to renew my thoughts and by faith give me the ability to lay down my resentment and hurt toward that person and find healing. God Bless you my sister and know that you are worthy of all of God's precious gifts and I can tell by your words on this page that you are a loving and righteous woman! Thank you for sharing you have touched me today when I needed to be lifted up!

beause we get laxidazical when talking to others and they use this type of language. We sometimes do not correlate our speech in relationship to God we tend to seperate it. The tongue is to edify and not condemn when we use the latter it damages our spirit and thought process and keeps us always tied up in knots. But when we use the tongue to edify it brings forth a great peace and contement in our selves and draws us closer to our heavenly father! Breaking free of the sins of the tongue is something we must work out daily and once we begin to make the conscious effort we will become victorious!

Like any desire or urge that gets in the way of our relationship with Christ we must pray and meditate on the love of God. Paul reminds us that we must work out our salvation through prayer and supplication on a daily basis. When the urges occur seek out God and he will make a way out for us!