Soul mates or a Marriage Mate?
I rightfully do not endorse Christians
trying to make money of the gospel
or the Bibles, books, tapes listed even here
for sale too.. them asking for money or any of the adds
Jesus himself said as you have freely received
so freely give.
If anyone was to browse even the prayer
requests posted on the Internet one can quickly see that prayers for a
mate take a large part of the center stage as well as THEIR personal
concern of having more prosperity, a good, well
paid job, and one's good health.
Anyone involved in counseling knows that marriage
complaints take the center stage there as well. Why? Many people are still
personally really unhappy in life, single and married ones too. So what are
the answers...
(Psa 145:9 KJV) The LORD is good to all:
and his tender mercies are over all his works. 10 All thy works shall
praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee. 11 They shall
speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; 12 To make
known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his
kingdom. 13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion
endureth throughout all generations. 14 The LORD upholdeth all that
fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. 15 The eyes of all
wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. 16 Thou
openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. 17
The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. 18 The
LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in
truth. 19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will
hear their cry, and will save them. 20 The LORD preserveth all them that
love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. 21 My mouth shall speak
the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and
ever. 146:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. 2
While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I
have any being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man,
in whom there is no help.
These verses apply to your marriage relationships
now as well.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the
counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the
seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and
in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;
his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 4
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in
the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the
righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. (Psalm1:1
KJV)
Eph 4:15 Instead, speaking
the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head,
that is, Christ
Too many people too readily accept
professing Christians persons now as being real Christians. Many people still
do fail to realize beforehand that the person that now they are even selecting
on their own possibly for their mate may have unresolved personal issues, sins
that will next have serious an adverse effect not only on their marriage,
relationship but even on others as well. We need God's wisdom to know what
some people are now really like still too.
What would you think seriously of a medical
doctor who generally does not tell their client that they have a serious
medical sickness, they may have major heart problems, they may have cancer.
etc.. The reason this doctor does not tell his clients the truth is that he
thinks that God himself still may change the reality and miraculous cure them,
or the underlying fear that of the people hear negative news they will seek
another doctor that will tell them the positive news, diagnosis they want to
hear, so not to lose customers the doctor does not tell them the truth? You
would say to me that is a real bad Doctor then?
Now what would you think of any of the
pastors. elders who do the same thing, they do forbid any preaching, mention
of negatives like sin, sins, judgment?
God has many descriptions for sinners, even words
as hypocrites, adulterers, prostitutes, hirelings.. because most people are
still not dependable, faithful, honest before god too.
I was actually praying for a person,
thanking God they were a Christian, when God interrupted me and had said she
is not one of mine, she is a seductress seducing my people. I was praying for
another professing senior Christian person and I wanted next to meet with them
again and God replied do not bother for they are not one of
mine.
So what are PEOPLE now really
like?
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.(Mat 7:20
KJV) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
your own selves..(James 1:22 KJV)
(Ezek 33:31 KJV) And they come unto thee as
the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy
words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love,
but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
(Mat 15:8 KJV) This people draweth nigh
unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is
far from me. 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines
the commandments of men.
(Jer 8:5 KJV) Why then is this people of
Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they
refuse to return.
(Jer 9:6 KJV) Thine habitation is in the
midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the
LORD.
(Jer 9:8 KJV) Their tongue is as an arrow
shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his
mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
(Mark 7:6 KJV) He answered and said unto
them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This
people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 7
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of
men. 8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the
tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like
things ye do.
(Mat 10:17 KJV) But beware of men: for they
will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their
synagogues;
It is not enough to accept the word of even a
professing Christian, as to them even now being real, born again Christians
too, While Membership, entrance to Heaven is free.. all of the personal
requirements still have to be fully met, made even by them. Sadly that is not
always the actual case.
(Luke 3:8 KJV) Bring forth therefore fruits
worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham
to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise
up children unto Abraham. 9 And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the
trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down,
and cast into the fire.
(Luke 17:32 KJV) Remember Lot's wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and
whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
(Mat 7:21 KJV) Not every one that saith
unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth
the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that
day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast
out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will
I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work
iniquity.
(Psa 32:10 KJV) Many sorrows shall be to
the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him
about.
(2 Pet 2:4 KJV) For if God spared not the
angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains
of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;5 And spared not the old
world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing
in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an
ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered just
Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that
righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous
soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9 The Lord knoweth how
to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the
day of judgment to be punished:
Man is composed body, soul and
sprit, and having a spouse, a person who only meets one's body needs is
clearly not enough, nor in fact is it enough next to have friendship
only at the soulish level as well. Man has a spiritual vacuum that he seeks to
be filled as well. Marriage is one way some people try to fill in the void
they feel. Earthly Marriage it itself is never an adequate solution for all of
your needs firstly as well. We all need to daily be mindful of this
truth now too. The truths mentioned here are important for us all, always
too.
(1 Th 5:23 KJV) And the very God of peace
sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be
preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
While the Apostle Paul he himself had the
gift of singleness IN MARRIAGE, and chose to remain single to do God’s work,
he clearly acknowledged in his writings that not everyone was similarly
gifted, but yet still Apostle Paul clearly said we all should be like him..
and what he meant by that was that our marriage relationship should not
at all come before our relationship with God, and our marriage relationship
thus should not be at the expense of a relationship with God too. We
need to have a relationship continually with God even if we are married
persons. Many people do not, do not even know how to achieve this too, even
sadly professing Christian couples.
(Heb 13:5 KJV) Let your conversation be
without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath
said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 6 So that we may boldly
say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto
me.
(1 Cor 7:32 KJV) But I would have you
without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to
the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 33 But he that is married careth
for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman
careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in
spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she
may please her husband.
(1 Cor 7:29 KJV) But this I say, brethren,
the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though
they had none; 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they
that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they
possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for
the fashion of this world passeth away.
I was reviewing other people note's on Prayer,
and God reminded me personally that prayer is not just a separate, simple
something we do once every day, rather we are to continue our walk with
God all day, that is to continue praying all day, communicating with
him, praying fervently as well. We cannot separate our prayer life also from
our ongoing need of a continuing relationship with God now as well. Prayer is
talking to God, continually now too, and it involves determining God's will in
all areas of our life, and actively seeking only it next
too.
Also do Strive personally
also to Exhibit the Character of Christ-- (Gal 6:10 KJV) As we
have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them
who are of the household of faith. Do also Pray for an ability to love
others, and a heart to be a helper to other believers even the way God
designed you to be. The enemy is in the business of distorting the presence
and the character of Christ in us, and we need to resist his efforts to do so.
We need also to move toward being Faithful and Loving and away from
being Fearful and Loathing! Unhealthy Fear and loathing of others, even
the opposite sex sets in often as well after years of personal heartbreak and
disappointing relationships, false expectations, laziness too. Ask God to help
you again and to heal you, to give you a fresh, new heart and mind
too.
(Eph 6:23 KJV) Peace be to the
brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
(John 13:34 KJV) A new commandment I give
unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one
another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples,
if ye have love one to another.
(John 15:12 KJV) This is my commandment,
That ye love one another, as I have loved you.13 Greater love hath no
man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
(Rom 12:9 KJV) Let love be without
dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour
preferring one another;
(Rom 12:10 KJV) Be kindly affectioned one
to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
(Rom 13:8 KJV) Owe no man any thing, but to
love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the
law.
(Rom 13:9 KJV) For this, Thou shalt not
commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not
bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other
commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself.10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour:
therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
(2 Cor 6:6 KJV) By pureness, by knowledge,
by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love
unfeigned,
Learn How to Love others--
Study the Biblical definition of Love mentioned in 1Corinthians 13. Write it
out, replace the word love with your name.
(1 Cor 13:1 KJV) Though I speak with the
tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding
brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy,
and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith,
so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body
to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4 Charity
suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself,
is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her
own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in
iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth
all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Charity never
faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be
tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that
which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I
know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13 And now
abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is
charity. 14:1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts,
but rather that ye may prophesy.
I am amazed as to how many people want to lead,
to teach others, to be pastors even wrongfully when yet they have not learned
how to love others.
How can you better demonstrate Godly love in all
of your relationships? Let also down the walls of selfishness, greed,
envy, self-protection and mistrust. You have been a part of it's built
up, and only you and God can tear it down.
Avoid the errors of
others- Many many people still do make the very tragic mistake, fatal
mistake in that they build their whole life around their marriage, their
spouse, and their family , thier relatives and they have no room next for God
and anyone else.. and this is really unacceptable to God firstly
too.
(Psa 90:17 KJV) And let the beauty of
the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us;
yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
(2 Cor 11:2 KJV) For I am jealous over you
with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may
present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
(2 Cor 11:3 KJV) But I fear, lest by any
means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should
be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
(2 Cor 11:4 KJV) For if he that cometh
preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another
spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not
accepted, ye might well bear with him.
(Gen 2:18 KJV) And the LORD God
said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help
meet for him.
(Eccl 4:9 KJV) Two are better than one;
because they have a good reward for their labour.10 For if they fall,
the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth;
for he hath not another to help him up.11 Again, if two lie together,
then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? 12 And if one
prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not
quickly broken.
I am amazed as to how many people will quote the
above verses, still leaving God out of their picture..
Seeking Prayerfully God for a Godly
Mate.. first principles
(1 Cor 7:39 KJV)
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband
be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the
Lord.
Find Intercessors-- Ask your family and friends
to pray for you and your future marriage. Remember the story of Isaac and
Rebecca. The father and his servant were both praying and looking to God as
they sought a bride for Isaac.
The Bible firstly clearly says that a Christian
believer can only marry another believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, for we can
have no significant relationship with the unbelievers..
(Psa 39:11 KJV) When thou with rebukes dost
correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:
surely every man is vanity. Selah.
(Psa 49:14 KJV) Like sheep they are laid in
the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over
them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their
dwelling.
This prayer process for a godly mate can consists
of four steps:
1) Seek to know God for who He really is, a
personal God who cares to be involved in each area of your life on earth
now too.
2) Seek to obey Him in your day to day life, you determine his
will by medidating daily in his word.
3) Seek also to understand and
appreciate all men and women for whom God made them to be ( and do see
the differences between women and men), and finally,
4) Seek to embrace
also a proper man's and a proper woman’s biblical role and responsibility in a
marriage relationship. (By this I mean, respect a man’s role to lead and head
a family and accept a woman’s role to follow that leadership and help that man
in every aspect of his life.)
Ask for Wisdom and
Discernment-- Learn to walk by faith and not by sight when it comes
to finding a mate. Study how to hear the voice of God, how he leads us in
decision making. We look at the exterior of a man, God looks at the heart.
Start looking at the heart of a man or a women , not at their false
external features. The spirutal character of a man or a women is his true
value.
(Prov 6:25 KJV) Lust not after her beauty
in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
(Prov 20:29 KJV) The glory of young men is
their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.
(Prov 31:30 KJV) Favour is deceitful, and
beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be
praised.
(Prov 28:21 KJV) To have respect of persons
is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
(Isa 3:24 KJV) And it shall come to pass,
that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a
rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a
girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
(Isa 13:19 KJV) And Babylon, the glory of
kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
(Isa 28:1 KJV) Woe to the crown of pride,
to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which
are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with
wine!
(Isa 28:4 KJV) And the glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the
hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while
it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
(Ezek 16:15 KJV) But thou didst trust in
thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst
out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
(Ezek 16:25 KJV) Thou hast built thy high
place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and
hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy
whoredoms.
(Ezek 28:17 KJV) Thine heart was lifted up
because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy
brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that
they may behold thee.
Seek also Partners in
Prayer-- Pray with a like-minded Christian for your relationships,
with God and others, and your future spouse. When two or more are
gathered together, He is in their midst and hears and answers their prayers!
Ask God to deliver you from the Evil One. Ask Him to remove bondages,
hindrances, curses, and generational sins.
Become a Member of a Prayer
Team-- Surround yourself with uplifting, positive, "permission
giving" influences. Join a small group that studies the Word and Prays
together. The Word says, "Confess your sins to one another, that you may be
healed." Some healing requires confession before a group. Other healing will
come only through fasting and prayer. Some of my most important breakthroughs
came after a day of fasting.
Begin the Discipline of Scripture
Reading-- Seek to know God, to understand his character and His ways.
Pray for Him to give you wisdom, discernment. Pray for God to illumine your
path. He will do this as you read scripture. Put together an aggressive
schedule of daily Bible reading. Before you read, pray and ask God to handle
the issues and conflicts that you would normally seek human counsel for. I
read asking God to show me who He was, how to love, how to forgive, how to
heal, etc. The One True God is the only one who knows you intimately, even
better than you know yourself. Seek His counsel rather than the counsel of
man.
Start a Daily Diary--
Journal your Bible reading thought process. Writing is healing. I wrote
Letters to God, which helped me pour out the frustration, grief and joys along
my path. First thing in the morning is a good time to do this.
Set Aside Daily Regular Private
Time for Prayer and Seeking God-- and Seeking God-- Pray on your
knees daily, both morning and night. Humble yourself before the Lord. Seek his
will for your relationship life and your future husband. Bathe every current
relationship in prayer. Ask God to reveal whether or not this person is the
one He has chosen for you. Expect to hear from God! Pray through all painful,
past relationships. Turn them over to God, repent of any sin, and ask for
inner healing of all those wounds.
Count on God In Spite of Your
Circumstances-- Faith is believing in something we can’t yet see.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart. He is our Provider of all our basic
needs and desires. Certainly marriage is one of the basics. Study Genesis
account of the first marriage and what God says about it not being good for
the man to be alone, and the need for a man to have a helper.
Become a Master of
Forgiveness-- Forgive all those who have hurt you along life’s path.
Forgiveness is the key to learning how to love. Christ’s love for mankind was
principally expressed through his mercy and forgiveness. As we extend the same
to our family and friends, God is equipping us to be a Godly wife. We will be
able to love our husbands in the same way Christ loves us.
(Heb 13:4 KJV) Marriage is honourable in
all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will
judge.
Beaware- Satan hates
marriage, and comes against it with his full arsenal. But God is more powerful
and you have the authority to stop Satan’s mission against your marriage. The
Authority of the Believer!
Prepare Yourself for
Marriage-- Happily married people know something single people don’t
know. They have learned how to get married and stay married. Be a good
student. Study marriage and courtship books and biographies of happily married
Christians. I found many good books in church libraries. Let God change your
mind about men, marriage. Study Proverbs and Psalms—Psalms is the most healing
book of the Bible, Proverbs teaches the most about wisdom.
Ask God to Bring You a Good
Spouse-- Above all, ask God to arrange the marriage for you! We need
not shy away from asking for our needs to be met by a Father who loves us!
Pray for your future spouse and their family every day.
1Corinthians 7:2—Because of immoralities, let
each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own
husband.
Ephesians 5:22-33—Wives be subject to your
own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as
Christ also is head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.
But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their
husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved
the church and gave Himself up for her; that He might sanctify her having
cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to
Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such
thing; but that she should be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to
love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves
himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes it and cherishes
it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of his own
body. for this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave
to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is great; but I
am speaking with reference to Christ and his church. Nevertheless let each
individual among you also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife
see to it that she respect her husband.
1Timothy 4:1-5—But the Spirit explicitly
says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention
to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of
liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid
marriage and advocate abstaining from foods, which God has created to be
gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. For everything
created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with
gratitude; for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and
prayer.
1 Timothy 5:14—Therefore, I want younger widows
to get married, bear children, keep house, and give the enemy no occasion for
reproach; for some have already turned aside to follow Satan.
Hebrews 13:4—Let marriage be held in honor among
all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God
will judge.
There is no provision for divorce of any
Christians, God hates divorce.
(Mal 2:16 KJV) For the LORD, the God of
Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his
garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye
deal not treacherously.
Desired Qualities &
Character in a mate
Honest and Fair in His Dealings
A false
balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 11:1
A Companion of Wise Men
He who walks with wise
men will be wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. Prov.
13:20
A Good Decision Maker
The naive believes
everything, but the prudent man considers his steps. A wise man is cautious
and turns from evil, but a fool is arrogant and careless. Prov.
14:15-16
Not Argumentative
Better is a dry morsel and
quietness with it than a house full of feasting and strife. Prov
17:1
A Responsible Worker
He also who is slack in
his work is brother to him who destroys. Prov. 18:9
Honest
A false witness will not go unpunished,
and he who tells lies will perish. Prov. 19:9
Slow to Anger
A man's discretion makes him
slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook a transgression. Prov.
19:11
Charitable to the Poor
He who is gracious to a
poor man lends to the Lord, and He will repay him for his good deed. Prov.
19:17
Kind and Truthful
What is desirable in a man
is his kindness, and it is better to be a poor man than a liar. Prov.
19:22
Temperate and Sober
Wine is a mocker, strong
drink a brawler, and whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise. Prov
20:1
Known for His Good Deeds
It is by his deeds
that a lad distinguishes himself--if his conduct is pure and right. Prov.
20:11
Respectful of Authority/Honoring to Parents
He
who curses his father or his mother, his lamp will go out in time of darkness.
Prov. 20:20
Loyal, Faithful and Righteous
Loyalty and
truth preserve the king, and he upholds his throne by righteousness. Prov.
20:28
In Control of His Tongue
He who guards his
mouth and his tongue, guards his soul from troubles. -Prov 21:23
Respected by Others
A good name is to be more
desired than great riches. Prov. 22:1
(1 Tim 3:2 KJV) A bishop then must be
blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given
to hospitality, apt to teach
Desired Qualities &
Character in a female mate
(Prov 18:22 KJV) Whoso findeth a wife
findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
(Prov 31:10 KJV) Who can find a virtuous
woman? for her price is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband
doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. 12 She
will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh
wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the
merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. 15 She riseth also
while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her
maidens. 16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of
her hands she planteth a vineyard. 17 She girdeth her loins with
strength, and strengtheneth her arms. 18 She perceiveth that her
merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night. 19 She layeth
her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. 20 She
stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the
needy. 21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her
household are clothed with scarlet. 22 She maketh herself coverings of
tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. 23 Her husband is known in
the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. 24 She maketh
fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. 25
Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of
kindness. 27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth
not the bread of idleness. 28 Her children arise up, and call her
blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. 29 Many daughters have
done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.30 Favour is deceitful, and
beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her
in the gates.
Three reasons for many failed
marriages include- personal laziness, unrealistic marital goals and
expectations, secular priorities.. and note this the real garbage that
people do personally still bring with them into their marriage.. their own
poor values too.
Many preachers still today are not honest
enough to say the main reasons many people are facing continually unresolved
personal problems in their earthly life today.
(Prov 26:2 KJV) As the bird by wandering,
as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
BUT WHO ARE THE PERSONS THAT ARE THE REAL CAUSES
OF THE CURSE STILL COMING UPON US?
(Psa 35:19 KJV) Let not them that are mine
enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that
hate me without a cause.
(Psa 69:4 KJV) They that hate me without a
cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being
mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not
away.
(Psa 109:3 KJV) They compassed me about
also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
(Psa 119:78 KJV) Let the proud be ashamed;
for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy
precepts.
(Psa 119:161 KJV) Princes have
persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy
word.
(Mat 5:22 KJV) But I say unto you, That
whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the
judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of
the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell
fire.
(John 15:25 KJV) But this cometh to pass,
that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me
without a cause.
Meanwhile...
False preachers even today still often tell the
people that God will bless them even though they have clearly rejected
personally following after God and his way.
(Ezek 13:3 KJV) Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen
nothing! 4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the
house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. 6 They
have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD
hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm
the word. 7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a
lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and
seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD. 9
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine
lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be
written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into
the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 10
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there
was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with
untempered mortar: 11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered
mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O
great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. 12 Lo,
when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing
wherewith ye have daubed it? 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I
will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an
overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume
it. 14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered
mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall
be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst
thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 15 Thus will I accomplish
my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered
mortar, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed
it; 16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning
Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,
saith the Lord GOD.
Not only do we have false religious teachers
today but note this we also have false wives, wives or husbands) who
have a false concept of what marriage really is, to the false wife the
marriage is a slavery, an act of the husband's total, false submission to
fulfill all the needs, expectation of the wife... which eventually ends up in
a divorce as a direct result too.
(Ezek 13:17 KJV) Likewise, thou son of man,
set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their
own heart; and prophesy thou against them, 18 And say, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make
kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls
of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you? 19
And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces
of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive
that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies? 20
Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows,
wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from
your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them
fly. 21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of
your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall
know that I am the LORD. 22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of
the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the
wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I
will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the
LORD.
(Lam 3:46 KJV) All our enemies have opened
their mouths against us. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation
and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the
destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 Mine eye trickleth
down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, 50 Till the LORD look
down, and behold from heaven. 51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because
of all the daughters of my city. 52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a
bird, without cause. 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and
cast a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am
cut off. 55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my
cry. 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou
saidst, Fear not. 58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul;
thou hast redeemed my life. 59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge
thou my cause. 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their
imaginations against me. 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and
all their imaginations against me; 62 The lips of those that rose up
against me, and their device against me all the day. 63 Behold
their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music. 64 Render
unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. 65
Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. 66 Persecute and destroy
them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
(Isa 22:4 KJV) Therefore said I, Look away
from me: I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the
spoiling of the daughter of my people .5 For it is a day of trouble, and of
treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of
vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
(Jer 4:10 KJV) Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD!
surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall
have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.11 At that time shall it
be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the
wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will
I give sentence against them. 13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and
his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe
unto us! for we are spoiled. 14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from
wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge
within thee?...16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish
against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their
voice against the cities of Judah. 17 As keepers of a field, are they
against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith
the LORD. 18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto
thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto
thine heart.
(Jer 6:9 KJV) Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine
hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets. 10 To whom shall I speak, and
give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they
cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they
have no delight in it. 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I
am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and
upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife
shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days. 12 And their
houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for
I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one
is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one
dealeth falsely. 14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my
people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 15 Were
they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all
ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that
fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the
old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for
your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. 17 Also I set
watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said,
We will not hearken.
(Jer 3:20 KJV) Surely as a wife
treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with
me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. 21 A voice was heard upon the high
places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have
perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. 22
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we
come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.23 Truly in vain is
salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly
in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
(Jer 8:5 KJV) Why then is this people of
Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they
refuse to return. 6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no
man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned
to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 7 Yea, the stork in
the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the
swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment
of the LORD. 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is
with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have
rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them? 10
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that
shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is
given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth
falsely. 11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 12 Were they
ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all
ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that
fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes
on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things
that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14 Why do we sit
still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let
us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us
water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. 15 We
looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold
trouble!
WE ACTUALLY SEE ALSO STILL ALL OF THESE
PROPHECIES BEING FULFILLED IN ISRAEL TOO TODAY, WHERE THE PEOPLE THERE EXCEPT,
SEEK PEACE BUT NEVER FIND IT. Their false leaders do not tell
them the real reason they are still suffering, cause they have sinfully, self
centrally, wrongfully reject Jesus Christ, the God and His way, his will for
them.. God's judgments similar falls of the false, professing Christians who
have rejected God and his way.
(Jer 8:17 KJV) For, behold, I will send
serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall
bite you, saith the LORD. 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow,
my heart is faint in me. 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter
of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in
Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their
graven images, and with strange vanities? 20 The harvest is past, the
summer is ended, and we are not saved. 21 For the hurt of the daughter
of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is
not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? 9:1 Oh that my
head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and
night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the
wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and
go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not
valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and
they know not me, saith the LORD. 4 Take ye heed every one of his
neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly
supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. 5 And they will
deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have
taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse
to know me, saith the LORD. 7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts,
Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of
my people? 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit:
one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth
his wait. 9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the
LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 10 For the
mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the
wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass
through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of
the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. 11 And I will make
Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah
desolate, without an inhabitant. 12 Who is the wise man, that may
understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that
he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a
wilderness, that none passeth through? 13 And the LORD saith,
Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed
my voice, neither walked therein; 14 But have walked after the
imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught
them: 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water
of gall to drink. 16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom
neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them,
till I have consumed them. 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye,
and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning
women, that they may come: 18 And let them make haste, and take up a
wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush
out with waters. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are
we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land,
because our dwellings have cast us out.
PREACHERS TOO OFTEN STILL TELL THE PEOPLE THE
LIES THEY WANT TO HEAR AND THE PEOPLE STILL SUFFER AS A RESULT
TOO
(Lam 2:11 KJV) Mine eyes do
fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth,
for the destruction of th12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and
wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their
soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. 13 What thing shall I
take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of
Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin
daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they
have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen
for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. 15 All that pass by
clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of
Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth? 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth
against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her
up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen
it. 17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled
his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and
hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath
set up the horn of thine adversaries. 18 Their heart cried unto the
Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and
night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. 19
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine
heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for
the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every
street. e daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon
in the streets of the city.
(Lam 4:3 KJV) Even the sea monsters draw
out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people
is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
(Lam 4:10 KJV) The hands of the pitiful
women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction
of the daughter of my people. 11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he
hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath
devoured the foundations thereof. 12 The kings of the earth, and all the
inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the
enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem. 13 For the sins
of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood
of the just in the midst of her, 14 They have wandered as blind men in
the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not
touch their garments. 15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean;
depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among
the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. 16 The anger of the LORD
hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons
of the priests, they favoured not the elders. 17 As for us, our eyes as
yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation
that could not save us.
(Lam 4:19 KJV) Our persecutors are swifter
than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid
wait for us in the wilderness.
(Lam 4:20 KJV) The breath of our nostrils,
the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his
shadow we shall live among the heathen.
(Lam 4:21 KJV) Rejoice and be glad, O
daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass
through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself
naked.
Most People still too easily forget the awful
real physical consequences, punishment Jesus paid for our sins.. proof that
God does not take our unrepentant sins still lightly.
While there is no provision for divorce by God of
any believers even today, there is provision for marital separation
though
(Psa 119:9 KJV) Wherewithal shall a
young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy
word.
(Psa 109:26 KJV) Help me, O LORD my God: O
save me according to thy mercy:
(Psa 119:25 KJV) My soul cleaveth
unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
(Psa 119:28 KJV) My soul melteth for
heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
(Psa 119:41 KJV) Let thy mercies come
also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
(Psa 119:58 KJV) I entreated thy favour
with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
(Psa 119:76 KJV) Let, I pray thee, thy
merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy
servant.
(Psa 119:107 KJV) I am afflicted very much:
quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
(Psa 119:116 KJV) Uphold me according unto
thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
(Psa 119:169 KJV) Let my cry come near
before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
(Psa 119:170 KJV) Let my supplication come
before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
and what about us also obeying God's clear word
firstly to us too? even this verse now too..
(Prov 21:9 KJV) It is
better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a
wide house.
This verse applies to a brawling husband now
too.....
Does a Christian wife or a Christian Husband now
have to accept a clearly non Christian behavior of an abusive spouse, and
their abuses.. no!!! and where in the Bible does it say she
has to now as well..
How do people become brawlers, spoiled rotten
people who are used to have their own way and when they can't get it they next
still wrongfully resort to brawling to try to get it..
(James 4:1 KJV) From whence come wars and
fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your
members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and
cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon
your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a
friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the
scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud,
but giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he
will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts,
ye double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter
be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves
in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
(Prov 21:9 KJV) It is better to dwell in a
corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide
house.
(Psa 37:23 KJV) The steps of a good man are
ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
God will only help us if we do things his way,
not our way!
(Psa 18:32 KJV) It is God that girdeth me
with strength, and maketh my way perfect. 33 He maketh my feet
like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places. 34 He teacheth my
hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. 35
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath
holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. 36 Thou hast
enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. 37 I have pursued
mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were
consumed. 38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they
are fallen under my feet. 39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto
the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. 40
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them
that hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto
the LORD, but he answered them not. 42 Then did I beat them small as the
dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. 43
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me
the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall
submit themselves unto me. 45 The strangers shall fade away, and be
afraid out of their close places. 46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my
rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. 47 It is God that
avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me. 48 He delivereth me from
mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me:
thou hast delivered me from the violent man. 49 Therefore will I give
thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy
name. 50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and showeth
mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
(Psa 25:7 KJV) Remember not the sins of my
youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy
goodness' sake, O LORD.
(Psa 33:22 KJV) Let thy mercy, O LORD, be
upon us, according as we hope in thee.
(Psa 51:1 KJV) To the chief Musician, A
Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to
Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my
transgressions.
(Psa 62:12 KJV) Also unto thee, O Lord,
belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his
work.
(Psa 69:16 KJV) Hear me, O LORD; for thy
lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender
mercies.
(Psa 119:124 KJV) Deal with thy servant
according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.
(Psa 119:149 KJV) Hear my voice according
unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy
judgment.
(Psa 119:154 KJV) Plead my cause, and
deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
(Psa 119:156 KJV) Great are thy tender
mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
(Psa 150:2 KJV) Praise him for his mighty
acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
(John
13:15 KJV) For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have
done to you.
(1 Tim 4:12 KJV) Let no man despise thy
youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in
charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
(Heb 4:11 KJV) Let us labour therefore to
enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief.
(James 5:10 KJV) Take, my brethren, the
prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering
affliction, and of patience.
(1 Pet 2:21 KJV) For even hereunto were ye
called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye
should follow his steps:
(Eccl 3:11 KJV) He hath made every thing
beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no
man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the
end.
(Jude 1:7 KJV) Even as Sodom and Gomorrha,
and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to
fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example,
suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
(Mat 6:24 KJV) No man can serve two
masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will
hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and
mammon.
(Mark 3:27 KJV) No man can enter into a
strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong
man; and then he will spoil his house.
(John 6:44 KJV) No man can come to me,
except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the
last day.
(John 6:65 KJV) And he said, Therefore said
I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my
Father.
(1 Cor 12:3 KJV) Wherefore I give you to
understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed:
and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy
Ghost.
(Rev 3:8 KJV) I know thy works: behold, I
have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a
little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my
name.
Over the many years of my Christian life God has
had to often return me to simple, basic, Christian truths.. truths I often
repeat to you as well now.. even about false prayers, false teacher, false
Pastors. God personally had told me there is a demonic, human ,
religious way to serve worship, to follow after God as opposed to
the right, honest, good way too. One's attitude towards money will be
also an indication of one's relationship with God in reality.. you cannot
serve God and money.. for there is no such thing as a little bit
pregnant too.. you tell who they are by all of their fruits.. the good and the
bad fruits.. one cannot prostitute oneself even in the ministry.. it is still
inappropriate for any pastors to take large salaries as well as for them to
live high on the hog, or in expensive earthly mansions, or to beg, to ask for
more money too. Serving God is not always the same as having a real
relationship with him now as well. One still also needs to live the
gospel personally not just preach it to others. So do Beware of
men.
Nevertheless while God is patient he will not at
all acquit the unrepentant guilty persons still
(Nahum 1:3 KJV) The LORD is slow to anger,
and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his
way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his
feet.4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the
rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon
languisheth.
(Jer 12:12 KJV) 12 The spoilers are come
upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall
devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no
flesh shall have peace. 13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns:
they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be
ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
(Jer 9:7 KJV) Therefore thus saith the LORD
of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the
daughter of my people? 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh
deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart
he layeth his wait.9 Shall I not visit them for these things?
saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
(Ezek 13: KJV) 4 O Israel, thy
prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. 5 Ye have not gone up into
the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the
battle in the day of the LORD. 6 They have seen vanity and lying
divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they
have made others to hope that they would confirm the word. 7 Have ye not
seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say,
The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken? ...
10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and
there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with
untempered mortar: 11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered
mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O
great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. 12 Lo,
when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing
wherewith ye have daubed it?
I am also surprised as to how many
Christians also do now serve the devil, for the making of more money is their
main personal God, goal still too.
(Jer 17:5 KJV) Thus saith the LORD; Cursed
be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart
departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the
desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched
places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
(Jer 17:7 KJV) Blessed is the man that
trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.8 For he shall be as a
tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and
shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be
careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding
fruit.
(2 Pet 2:15 KJV) Which have forsaken the
right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor,
who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
(Mat 21:13 KJV) My house shall be
called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
(Mat 6:24 KJV) No man can serve two
masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will
hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye
shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put
on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26 Behold
the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into
barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than
they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his
stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of
the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 And
yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like
one of these. 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field,
which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more
clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31 Therefore take no thought, saying,
What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be
clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But
seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things
shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow:
for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof.
There are much too many crooks, wolves
in sheep clothing, hirelings even in Canada's evangelical churches who are
wrongfully pursing their greed, their false idols of make more money for
themselves firstly too. There are also too many prophets, false teacher's
false prophets who deny the word of God claiming one can make money and serve
the Lord Jesus as well.. AND THAT IS WHY STEALING TAX EVASIONS, SOCIAL WELFARE
FRAUD IS OFTEN CARRIED OUT EVEN IN EVANGELICAL CHURCHES BY LEADERS, MEMBERS,
ADHERENTS STILL
Christians need to remember that The world is
passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides
forever. (1 John 2:1) and do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good
and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Rom 12:2) (1 Tim 6:10
KJV) For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some
coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through
with many sorrows.(2 Cor 6:17 KJV) Wherefore come out from among them,
and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I
will receive you. (Heb 10:38 KJV) " Now the just shall live by faith:
but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. "
Yes I do rightfully have a problem and so should
we all with the so called but still very immoral Christians persons, rather
thieves who are still trying to make money from the Gospel, Bibles, tapes,
videos, Books, seminars now as well. So should we all. I am rightfully no fan
supporter of any hireling that tries to make money of the Gospel.. not of any
of them.. I rightfully have no use for Christian Ministries, Pastors,
persons who ask or beg for money too. They clearly and
wrongfully are not living by faith in God. (Psa 37:25 KJV) "I have
been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor
his seed begging bread." My personal religious experience, problems as well
with the Brethren, Baptist, Alliance, Pentecostal, Full Gospel and
Latter Day movements.. the problem is not just the lies too often
preached, the false biblical limitations in any of these groups but still the
too often too many liars, wolves in sheep clothing that I do really find
there all claiming to be preaching the word, serving Jesus Christ.. and they
are clearly not.. Do you really think there is such a thing as a little bit
pregnant, a little bit sin being allowed now especially for pastors? when you
see even their sins of abuses of others you clearly are still just
seeing the tip of the iceberg. It is an indication of idols in their own
life that they are unwilling to give up. One of the reasons is that sadly too
many even professing Christians have still even now made their the
acquisition, pursuit of money, the false love for all of the things that money
can buy, as their false idol, and one of their false goal in life, and
as a result they now personally do not really have love for God, love
for his people or love for others... and this is still really unacceptable to
God. I am also concerned that they may be misleading people that it is
easy to come to Canada. Are they telling firstly truthfully to all of their
clients, that 97 percent of all applicants to Canada as immigrants will not be
accepted firstly too? Even if they are professing Christians, I do not show
false partiality to them. I in particularly have no respect for the much too
many wolves in sheep clothing, hirelings, prostitutes, the false persons who
wrongfully mix Christianity with money making, the money changes. There is no
such things a little bit vice, corruption, people who are a little bit crooked
tend to eventually become major crooks
And I rightfully do not like the idea of
the Christians using their church contacts to sell secular services to them as
well such as cars, insurance, home salesmen or even Immigration
Consultant who jobs still is a merely another word for a dirty no good
salesman, or sales women, a criminal, a liar.. one of Canada's
biggest scams.. they often still do take your money under mostly false
pretenses, provide you mostly a false dream, expectations.. and you have just
as good chance now as winning a million dollar lottery as you have to
come to Canada as an immigrant these days especially if you are not a
doctor or a rich person. I have in the past been personally familiar
with Canada's immigration agency and even with some of their judges as
well.
(Eccl 12:1 KJV) Remember now thy Creator in
the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh,
when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
And how many of the so called
Christians apply these verses, actually live daily by faith in God to supply
all of their needs, physical ones included?
(Heb 10:38 KJV) Now the just shall live by
faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in
him.
(Heb 10:39 KJV) But we are not of them who
draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the
soul.
(Luke 18:8 KJV) Nevertheless when the Son
of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
On their own.. or by my own acts..
neither...
My version of the reasons for success now in
life..
Things in life on their own or by our own actions
generally never go the way we had planned, foreseen, expected... I
personally have learned many years ago that I have no positive influences,
none what so ever, none what so ever, no control over any of the circumstances
of life that do now in the present, in the future will surround me.
Rather in my own life have learned that God alone, note that God alone, can
positively or negatively influence them, change them, even in response
to both my personal prayers and the prayer of others, and my personally
prayers alone are generally not enough to affect these changeless now as well.
through our all of life I do also need the prayers of others. God is willing,
desires also now to make the positive changes if we humbly approach him
now as well and ask him to do them for us.
Psalm 3:1 A Psalm of David, when he fled
from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are
they that rise up against me. 2 Many there be which say of my soul,
There is no help for him in God. Selah. 3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield
for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. 4 I cried unto the
LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. 5 I
laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. 6 I will
not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me
round about. 7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten
all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the
ungodly. 8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy
people. Selah.
God still personally looks after me
even when I am most helpless, even in my sleep. and what joy to know
this.
Psalm 4:1 To the chief Musician on
Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness:
thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my
prayer. 2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame?
how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah. 3 But know
that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear
when I call unto him. 4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own
heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. 5 Offer the sacrifices of
righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. 6 There be many that say,
Who will show us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance
upon us. 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time
that their corn and their wine increased. 8 I will both lay me
down in peace, and sleep: for the, LORD, only makes me dwell in
safety.
Because Jesus is looking after me I can go back
to sleep. even peacefully and not worthy about any of it too now.I can give it
all to him to look after all of my needs. he fully able, willing, dependable
to do so now as well. Praise the Lord. The best things for me in life
have generally occurred unexpectedly now as well.
THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLETH IN YOU ?
Too often it is rather still the wrong spirit,
and Not God who is controlling, influencing you personally
Many years ago I learned that not all of the so
called Christians songs, hymns, choruses were anointed, blessed now or even
written by God, in fact generally most of them were not, they were even
carnal, wrong, fleshly attempts to make money even... I next personally had
learned that direct scripture in song is what God blessed the most when
I listened to it too..
Many people often send me human inspired, written
devotional.. most of them tend still to lead me away from God and not to God..
for they have just as many falsehoods , distractions, detours, errors in them
as they have supposedly truths too.. they have both the wheat and tares.. as a
result I truly still do prefer to receive, get the simple, unadulterated word
of God generally.
(1Co 3:16) Know ye not that ye are the
temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (1Co 3:17) If any
man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is
holy, which temple ye are. (1Co 6:19) What? know ye not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not
your own? (1Co 6:20) For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in
your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
(John 10:13 KJV) The hireling fleeth,
because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
(John 10:14 KJV) I am the good shepherd,
and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
(John 10:15 KJV) As the Father knoweth me,
even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
(1 Sam 12:23 KJV) Moreover as for me, God
forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I
will teach you the good and the right way:
(1 Sam 12:24 KJV) Only fear the LORD, and
serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he hath
done for you.
(1 Sam 12:25 KJV) But if ye shall still do
wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
(James 5:16 KJV) Confess your faults one to
another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual
fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.17 Elias was a man
subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not
rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six
months.18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the
earth brought forth her fruit. 19 Brethren, if any of you do err
from the truth, and one convert him; 20 Let him know, that he which
converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death,
and shall hide a multitude of sins.
I have often said that the true church of Jesus
Christ is believers who pray one for another. Prayer works. I do not even know
who the people are that pray for me, but I know for certainty their prayers
works. I want to thank all of you who have prayed for me at any time, I really
have appreciated it. I often may not agree with everything you do and say but
I will pray for you, pray that God will do the right thing still for you as
well and yet it seems many Christian people even try to do the
opposite.. they LISTEN TO THE ADVICE and they fellowship with
unbelievers mostly.. they reject biblical advice, even in fellowshipping only
with believers.
I HAVE BEEN SURPRISED AS TO HOW MANY CHRISTIANS
STILL MAKE FALSE IDOLS OUT OF THE PROFESSIONALS, THEY PUT THEIR TRUST MOSTLY
IN THEM TOO.
(Jer 17:5 KJV) Thus saith the LORD; Cursed
be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart
departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the
desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched
places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
(Jer 17:7 KJV) Blessed is the man that
trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.8 For he shall be as a
tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and
shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be
careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding
fruit.
(Jer 17:9 KJV) The heart is deceitful above
all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?10 I the LORD
search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his
ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
(Jer 17:11 KJV) As the partridge sitteth on
eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right,
shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a
fool.
(Luke 14:31 KJV) Or what king, going to
make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether
he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty
thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth
an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. 33 So likewise,
whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my
disciple.
(1 Cor 6:1 KJV) Dare any of you, having a
matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the
saints? 2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if
the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest
matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things
that pertain to this life? 4 If then ye have judgments of things
pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the
church. 5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man
among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the
unbelievers. 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because
ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not
rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 8 Nay, ye do wrong, and
defraud, and that your brethren. 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators,
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of
you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the
name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 12 All things are
lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for
me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
I have
rightfully no faith, no trust in lawyers, or in any professionals for
that matter, not even the doctors, nurses, accountants, police, pastors, none
of them can be really trusted to do the right thing.. none of them.. and
unless absolutely required by law I prefer not to use any of their services
still. "So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all
that he hath, he cannot be my disciple:" or do we still falsely rely firstly
on them, over God? and then also wondering why God firstly is not
hearing our prayer?
Christians do not need divorce lawyers too, for
true Christians do not get divorced.. I was being sued once by a
professing Christian too.. naturally I hired lawyer to defend myself.. and how
many people still really do know that when you want to sin the devil will
often supply you with all of the money you need and encourage you to do it? I
did not even pray about it.. it was an impulsive, natural, human thing for
me to do.. needless to say things were not going my way rather the court
proceedings were being escalated.. and what do you think the devil does
with sins? so I now prayed about it.. and God said to me "why do you
need a lawyer? am I not the only advocate you need?" embarrassed I said
yes lord, what should I do? and I had spent thousands on the lawyer.. God said
drop the lawyer.. then he said when I agreed to do it.. write a letter to the
courts, have it notarized, tell the courts in writing that you oppose the
action and you ask for a court appointed mediator.. it cost me 15 dollars to
do this. I next never paid a cent.
Only one time in my life besides myself have I
met a Christian who was being sued, next personally refused to take a lawyer,
and insisted with the suing party that the matter be settled out of court..
ironically he did the right thing, cause I had witnessed myself before that he
had done wrong to the other party, he had lied to them when he had sold their
home.
A Christian women was being sued, the sub
contractor had put a lien on her home, he was demanding payment for his
services cause his own payment were not being met by the general contractors.
The Christian women who lived in Calgary Alberta was in danger of losing her
home. As she paid about it she saw an image of my face and I was living
now thousands of miles away in other city too, Montreal Quebec , all unknown
to her. The same women had lied to me, she did not keep her agree upon promise
to me, as a Realtor and that was my very first client too, when I sold
her home for a good, miraculous price.. she promised she would use my services
to buy another home.. instead she lied and used the services of this
contractor directly and got into problem. I did not sue her for it I left it
in the Lord's hand. next miraculously God supplied me a free airplane ticket,
and free hotel accommodations for the weekend in Calgary to attend a full
gospel business man conference there.. and God told me to rent a car and to go
and see the women. I did not know why still too.. I obeyed and she was glad to
see me and told me about her problems. God there told me that if I forgave
her, she would be forgiven next by God too.. so I prayed for her, and forgave
her.
Many times I have met with people who have done
me wrong and they next asked me to forgive them.. the others they reaped what
they had sowed too. For example- A Christian person asked to be my real
estate partner, stating that we would share the profits... since he was a
Christian who asked I agreed to this. On our first sale we split the profits
from my sale. On the next sale the professing Christian refused to split the
sale of his profit claiming I had not done anything to earn it.. I put it into
God's hand.. the home buyer sued the Christian Realtor for almost
the exact amount of the commission owed to me and the Christian Realtor lost
in court, had to pay the fine. God is able to deal with our
oppressors.
(I 12:46 KJV) The lord of that servant will
come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not
aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the
unbelievers.
(Luke 12:47 KJV) And that servant, which
knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his
will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
(Luke 12:48 KJV) But he that knew not, and
did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For
unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men
have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
(Luke 12:49 KJV) I am come to send fire on
the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Reaping and sowing, of one's wages are not a
popular subject for Bible study except when it comes to material personal
prosperity.... rather the untempered with mortar subject is often distorted,
even neglected still today. Some people would lie to you and say that
Christians no longer reap anything negative for their unrepentant sins..
rebellions against God... or are unrepentant sins are not covered by the blood
of Jesus still?
(Lev 19:13 KJV) Thou shalt not defraud thy
neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide
with thee all night until the morning.
(Jer 22:13 KJV) Woe unto him that buildeth
his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his
neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his
work;
(Hag 1:6 KJV) Ye have sown much, and bring
in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled
with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages
earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
(Mal 3:5 KJV) And I will come near to you
to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against
the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the
hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the
stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of
hosts.
(John 4:36 KJV) And he that reapeth
receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that
soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
(Rom 6:23 KJV) For the wages of sin is
death;
I am struck that God does so often
repeats the basics.. too many even Christian people next do even forget even
the Christian basics.. remember how simple it was when you first loved Jesus,
Realized how real he was personally..
(1 John 4:19 KJV) We love him, because he
first loved us.
basics too often such as...
(1 John 4:20 KJV) If a man say, I love God,
and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom
he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
(1 John 4:21 KJV) And this commandment have
we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
(Rev 2:4 KJV) Nevertheless I have somewhat
against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.5 Remember therefore
from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I
will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place,
except thou repent.
Psalm 8:1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy
name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 2 Out
of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of
thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars,
which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a
little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou
hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the
beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,
and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our
Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
In fact for many back then we even loved the
simple basic hymns, we sang them with meaning as well...
If you ask most people if they are righteous,
they will almost all interpret that to mean that they personally are good
persons, that they really are not worse than any other persons and they
will reply yes. In this context they are self righteous persons, they do
wrongfully trust in themselves, in their own good works to make them in
a right standing with God. Sadly even many Christians fall back into this
trap, category. God says in reality the evidence of a righteous person
includes that they are also daily, continually in God's word? Are you then
really righteous, in a right standing with God? are you in His word today too?
for the ungodly, or the unrighteous, those persons not in right standing
before God are not in His Word daily, they do not really read, follow,
practice God's word the Bible daily, continually.
Many people are praying to fall in love,
and they do not even know what the word means, in fact I am often surpassed
when they do now call some of the romantic movies, movies about sex as
comedies, for that seems to rightfully describe their wrong versions
of pathetic love.
Let us review the meaning of ' Love
1: The word “love” in
English has so many different definitions supposedly including
- Romance
- Eros
- Storge
- Philia
- Self-love
- Desire
- Agape
- Narcissism
- Sex
- Gay
The word “love” in English has so many various
definitions as we all tend to know , for instance: I love my dog, my wife,
cherry pie, my children, my sister, myself etc.
But in the Greek there are three basic,
main words for love. Eros, Philia, Agape
Eros
One Greek word for love is
“Eros”, from which we get the word erotic. It has
self-centered interests with its main focus being on physically
receiving. 'Eros', means physical, sensual,
romantic affections and can be described as desires or erotic love.
Many people wrongfully confuse this as being a love from God.. and they
sadly do not tend to know any other levels of love.. such as
Philia or next even Agape..
Eros is the false type of
love that is most emphasized in our society today- a sensual
mostly love that is based on receiving- a passionate love depicted on TV and
novels, or manifested by Gays. One person once commented:
“My friends do not fall in love; they mostly fall into lust.”
A lot, lot of persons also today do LIVE BY THEIR
FEELINGS, not by the word of God, they are mostly led by and live by
their own demonic lusts, the Eros love.. that is what
a lot of these feelings still are.. even the feelings of high, excitements,
desires.. they are not living in God's love or on His will for them.. This
is not just the gays now, the adulterers, pornographers, but even most of
ordinary supposedly good persons too who do this now, next
too.
(John 8:44 KJV) Ye are of your father the
devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the
father of it.
(2 Pet 2:10 KJV) But chiefly them that
walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness,
(1 John 2:16 KJV) For all that is in the
world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of
life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
(1 John 2:17 KJV) And the world passeth
away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for
ever.
We need to walk by faith, walking
in faith means always applying God's word personally.. then we will walk in
the love and in the Spirit of God.. not in the lust of the flesh.
(Gal 5:16 KJV) This I say
then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the
flesh.
In the New Testament
Greek there are only two main words for
love. Philia
Agape
The New Testament is void of the
word “Eros”; it is only found in the New Testament
classical Greek.
Phileo
Another Greek word for love is
“phileo”; it represents mutual tender affection- the
sharing, warm fuzzies. It's love now focus on
both giving and receiving.
The word 'Philia means affection (as in Philadelphia
which means brotherly affection or brotherly love (delphos =
brother)).
Phileo
is an emotional, brotherly love, a love which would best be
illustrated in the Bible as that between David and Jonathan.
The relationship between
Lazarus and Jesus depicts this type of love as well:
Jn.11:3 So the
sisters sent word to Jesus, "Lord, the one you love is
sick."
Again when Jesus sees Mary crying,
we read:
Jn.11:35-36
Jesus wept. Then the Jews said, "See how he loved
him!"
Then there was also the close
disciple whom Jesus loved:
Jn.20:2 So she
came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus
loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t
know where they have put him
It is on the basis of
Phileo that we are commanded to a brotherly kiss out of
fraternal affection
Ro 16:16
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ
send greetings However when Judas greets Jesus to betray him, the Greek word
is not the word for kiss, but the word phileo- the word for love:
Mk.14:44 Now the
betrayer had arranged a signal with them: "The one I kiss (phileo) is the
man; arrest him and lead him away under guard."
It is important that the
command to love is never phileo, because it is an emotional
love that comes out of a mutual reciprocal relationship but rather
Agape
However, it must be pointed out
that for a Christian to phileo love someone definitely also
always includes the agape love as well.
God the Father Agape
loved his Son:
Jn.3:35 The
Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. But God
also phileo loved Jesus because of their relationship:
Jn.5:20 For
the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your
amazement he will show him even greater things than these.
God agape loves his
church
Jn.14:21 He who
loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show
myself to him."
But God also loves us because of
the relationship we have with his Son:
Jn.16:27 No,
the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have
believed that I came from God. The relational phileo love for Christ is in
the context of relationship, else the Bible says we will be
cursed.
1Co.16:22
If anyone does not love the Lord— a curse be on
him. Come, O Lord!
However if we are in a relationship
with the God, he will rebuke and discipline us as the need
arises:
Re.3:19 Those
whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and
repent.
Therefore phileo love comes from a
relationship which shares common interests- both giving and
receiving.
Agape
Finally there is the Greek word for
love: “agape” which represents an attitude of love that is
non selfish. It has a self-less interest with its focus on primary giving to
others. Agape can be described as unconditional
positive regard, a personal state of mind that spurs us into helpful,
needful action in personal simplicity, humility, compassion and
equanimity. Agape is the higher form, manifestation
of God's true love for all of us which we all still do need to
personally have, promote, cultivate by letting God have full control of our
lives.
The Greek word agape is
mostly foreign to classical Greek because it’s origin is from
God:
1Jn.4:7 …for love
comes from God.
The first disciples of Jesus Christ
were incapable of agape love until after Pentecost, for agape love comes
from the Holy Spirit alone:
Ro.5:5 And hope
does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our
hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
The fact that the disciples were
void of agape love prior to Pentecost becomes clear in
John 21 where Jesus uses the word agape:
Jn.21:15 When
they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do
you truly love me more than these?" "Yes, Lord," he said, "you know that I
love you." Jesus said, "Feed my lambs."
Peter’s response was “I phileo love
you.” Did Peter not understand the question? Jesus
repeats himself:
Jn.21:16 Again
Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you truly love me?" He answered, "Yes,
Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Take care of my
sheep."
Again Jesus uses the word “agape”,
yet Peter again responds with phileo, love based on a
relationship. Jesus in his third attempt asks, “Peter do
you phileo love me?”
Jn.21:17 The
third time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter was
hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" He said,
"Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my
sheep.
Peter could not experience agape
love in and of himself, its origin is of God:
1Jo 4:8 …for
God is love.
Agape is an outward manifestation
of an inward change
1Co 16:14 Do
everything in love.
Agape love is a love that is based
on the one doing the loving and not on the one receiving the love being
lovely or worthy of that love:
Ro 5:8 But God
demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us.
The love of God could not be
understood by man until Christ died on the cross:
1Jn.3:16 This
is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And
we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
Agape love is the highest love as
it is selfless, this differentiates it from all human forms of
love:
Jn.15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life
for his friends.
Agape love is not based on
feelings, therefore it can be commanded:
Jn.15:12 "This
is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved
you.
Agape love is not based on
relationship, we are now called to love more then our neighbor, our
enemy:
Lk.6:27-28 But I tell
you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
There is much confusion these days
on what love is. Phileo always tries to please the one
that is being loved. Agape always does what is best on behalf of the
person even though it might not be perceived as love at that
time:
Ro.8:28 And we
know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,
who have been called according to his purpose.
Is everything good that God allows
in our life, “no”; but because of his love for us, it will be for our
good.
He.12 :5-6 "My
son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when
he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines those he
loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son."
In the same way, if we agape
love someone, we might have to tell them how God perceives their
actions. Some people say the things others want to hear, instead we
need to say those things they need to hear:
Therefore let us enjoy the phileo
love we have for each other as we do life together, but let us also love
with the same love that God has always willing to reach out to those who do
not know the love of God.
There are many kinds of love, but
the greatest of these is agape love.
(James 1:17 KJV) Every
good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the
Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of
turning.
...and when we love one
another with agape love, even ours spouses, we do love God also.
How to have a good
marriage
Recognize that it is God's good will
generally for you
Nevertheless
(Psa 94:17 KJV) Unless
the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in
silence.
(Psa 127:1 KJV)
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except
the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
(Genesis 2:18 KJV)
(18) And the Lord God said, {It is} not good that the man should be
alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
(Genesis 2:24
KJV)
(24) Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
(Proverbs
18:22 KJV)
(22) {Whoso} findeth a wife findeth a good {thing}, and
obtaineth favour of the Lord.
(Jeremiah 29:6 KJV)
(6) Take
ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and
give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that
ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
(Hosea 2:19-20
KJV)
(19) And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will
betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in
lovingkindness, and in mercies. (20) I will even betroth thee unto me in
faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.
(1 Corinthians 7:2-4
KJV)
(2) Nevertheless, {to avoid} fornication, let every man have
his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. (3) Let the husband
render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the
husband. (4) The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and
likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the
wife.
(1 Timothy 5:14 KJV)
(14) I will therefore that the
younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to
the adversary to speak reproachfully.
(Hebrews 13:4 KJV)
(4) Marriage {is} honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but
whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
(Ephesians 5:22-33
KJV)
(22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto
the Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is
the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. (24) Therefore as
the church is subject unto Christ, so {let} the wives {be} to their own
husbands in every thing. (25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
loved the church, and gave himself for it; (26) That he might sanctify and
cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, (27) That he might present
it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such
thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. (28) So ought men to
love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth
himself. (29) For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and
cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: (30) For we are members of his
body, of his flesh, and of his bones. (31) For this cause shall a man leave
his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall
be one flesh. (32) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ
and the church. (33) Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love
his wife even as himself; and the wife {see} that she reverence {her}
husband.
(1 Peter 3:1 KJV)
(1) Likewise, ye wives, {be} in
subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also
may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
(1
Peter 3:7 KJV)
(7) Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with {them}
according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker
vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers
be not hindered.