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Re: God`s Gift of Love
7/22/2009 6:03:15 PM
Forgiveness Brenda Terrell When a hurtful word is spoken Or an unkind deed is done I always must remember I am not the only one Who has ever been mistreated Stepped upon or pushed aside By thoughtless harmful actions Or selfish hateful pride. The world is full of people Who purposely abuse Who lie and cheat and slander And manipulate and use Anyone and everyone Who might get in their way Of success or fame or power; No price too big to pay. God's word is clear and simple About what I must do When I have been offended By friend or foe's misuse: "Forgive...and be forgiven" I dare not keep a score-- Seventy times seven Times seven hundred more. When I am unforgiving, The battle I'll not win; For I need my Father's mercy To blot out all my sin. Forgiving is not easy Yet I know it can be done: I look to Christ my Savior, The Holy, Sinless One. When Jesus died upon the cross His words rang clear and true, "Father, please forgive them, For they know not what they do." As the Precious Lamb of God Christ wants me to see: Forgiving is the power That sets my spirit free! Forgiveness is God's wondrous gift That sets my spirit free!
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Re: God`s Gift of Love
7/28/2009 4:26:51 PM
This weeks Bible word is healing: (in Thomas`s Forum) Healing Foods of the Bible The Scripture and your diet Apples Song of Solomon 2:5 Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love. Barley Deuteronomy 8:7-9 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land--a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills; 8) a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9) a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills. Beans Ezekiel 4:9 "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side." 2 Samuel 17:28-29 brought bedding and bowls and articles of pottery. They also brought wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans and lentils, 29) honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows' milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, "The people have become hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert." Bread Ezekiel 4:9 "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. Dairy Isaiah 7:15, 22 He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right. 22) And because of the abundance of the milk they give, he will have curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey. Proverbs 27:27 You will have plenty of goats' milk to feed you and your family and to nourish your servant girls. Figs 1 Samuel 30:11-12 They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat-- 12) part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights. Fish Leviticus 11:9-12 "`Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams, you may eat any that have fins and scales. 10) But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales--whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water--you are to detest. 11) And since you are to detest them, you must not eat their meat and you must detest their carcasses. 12) Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is to be detestable to you. Deuteronomy 14:9 Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. Luke 24:42-43 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43) and he took it and ate it in their presence. Fruit Ezekiel 47:12 Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing." Deuteronomy 8:7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land--a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills; 8) a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9) a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills. Song of Solomon 2:5 Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love. Garlic Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. Grains Ezekiel 4:9 "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. Grapes Numbers 13:23 When they reached the Valley of Eshcol,[1] they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs. Genesis 9:20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. 1 Timothy 5:23 Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses. 1 Kings 21:2 Ahab said to Naboth, "Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth." Herbs Numbers 11:7 -9 The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin. 8) The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a handmill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into cakes. And it tasted like something made with olive oil. 9) When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down. Psalm 51:7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. John 19:29-30 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus' lips. 30) When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Honey 1 Samuel 14:27 But Jonathan had not heard that his father had bound the people with the oath, so he reached out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it into the honeycomb. He raised his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened. 2 Samuel 17:29 honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows' milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, "The people have become hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert." Genesis 43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift--a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds. Meat Genesis 9:3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. Leviticus 72:227 The LORD said to Moses, 23) "Say to the Israelites: `Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats. 24) The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it. 25) Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which an offering by fire may be[1] made to the LORD must be cut off from his people. 26) And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. 27) If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.'" Leviticus 317 "`This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.'" Melon Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. Isaiah 1:8 The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a city under siege. Milk Exodus 3:8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey--the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. Isaiah 7:22 And because of the abundance of the milk they give, he will have curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey. 2 Samuel 17:29 honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows' milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, "The people have become hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert." Nuts Genesis 43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift--a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds. Olives James 5:14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 2 Kings 18:32 until I come and take you to a land like your own, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death! "Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, `The LORD will deliver us.' Onions Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. Pomegranates Deuteronomy 8:8 a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; Spices Matthew 23:23 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. Luke 11:42 "Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone. Vegetables Daniel 1:12-17 "Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13) Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see." 14 ) So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days. 15) At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. 16) So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead. 17) To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds. Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. Ezekiel 4:9 "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. Genesis 1:11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. Genesis 1:29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. Wheat Jeremiah 41:8 But ten of them said to Ishmael, "Don't kill us! We have wheat and barley, oil and honey, hidden in a field." So he let them alone and did not kill them with the others. Ezekiel 4:9 "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. Yogurt (curds) 2 Samuel 17:28-29 brought bedding and bowls and articles of pottery. They also brought wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans and lentils, 29) honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows' milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, "The people have become hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert." Healing Scripture.com
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Re: God`s Gift of Love
8/12/2009 9:21:37 PM
HELLO NIMI,
Sorry I don't get here more often ! This is good information on foods and Scriptures ! I really appreciate it. Hope to see you soon !
Carla :)
Glad to make your acquaintance! Carla Carey
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Re: God`s Gift of Love
8/15/2009 8:25:42 PM
Hello Carla, Thank you very much for stopping by........ Ah....you are doing your part in the community with your prayer forum.......and keep it up! May God Bless You for your deligence! with Love nimi
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Re: God`s Gift of Love
8/17/2009 4:53:00 PM
Bible Friendship “Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.” Proverbs 27:10 Introduction: 1. A godly friend in the sense of this text is one of the greatest blessings God gives His children on earth. 2. We are saying farewell to a brother and sister (and three dear children), who have been great friends. 3. I call this congregation to duty before God not to forsake their dear friend and my friend in the future. I. THE TEXT A. The text may simply be summarized by the last clause of another proverb – Prov 18:24. 1. Family ties should be a close bond, but they often lose to selfishness and envy. 2. Tried and true friends of character and principle (godliness) excel mere brothers, for the bond of blood is quite meaningless compared to the bond of godliness. 3. Joseph found far greater kindness from foreign captors than his own brothers. 4. David found far greater love and loyalty from Jonathan than his own brothers. 5. David found far greater loyalty, affection, and service from vagabonds than he did from his own envious brothers (I Samuel 22:2; II Samuel 23:14-17). 6. Jesus found far greater sympathy, esteem, and loyalty from His disciples than from His brothers (John 7:1-5; Luke 22:15). He knew His true friends – and family – were those who heard the word of God and kept it (Matthew 12:46-50). 7. Such friends are more valuable than brothers, so we cultivate and preserve them. 8. In trouble, a friend of godly character is far more help than a blood brother. B. True friends are superior to blood brothers, for the relationship is on a better foundation. 1. Christian friends are on a better foundation – consider it wisely – regenerated hearts, the precious blood of Christ, the absolute truth of God’s Word, godly hatred of compromise, a life pursuit of holiness, and the hope of eternal life. 2. Scripture recognizes friends as dear as one’s own soul, even distinguishing them from the wife of thy bosom (Deuteronomy 13:6; I Samuel 18:1,3; 20:17). C. The very context, unusual in Proverbs, gives valuable traits of godly friends (27:4-5,9). D. Examples of following this rule of wisdom are very enlightening and very encouraging. 1. Jonathan was a friend far superior to David’s envious brothers (I Samuel 17:28). a. When he appeared before Saul, his brothers should have been with him. b. God appointed David ruler over His people for his purity (I Sam 16:13). c. We never read of David’s brothers again, for they were envious children, who revealed the wickedness of their hearts by accusing his pure heart. d. Jonathan, who stood to loose much, loved him dearly (I Samuel 18:1-4). e. Jonathan, who loved righteousness more than family sentimentality and career ambitions, chose David over his father easily (I Samuel 19:1-7). f. Their covenant was against the blood ties of Jonathan (I Sam 20:1-17). g. Jonathan, heir to Saul’s throne, chose to serve David (I Sam 23:14-18). h. And this covenant between them included their children (I Sam 23:42). i. David valued Jonathan’s love better than that of women (II Sam 1:26). j. By the covenant, David preserved Jonathan’s son (II Samuel 9:1; 21:7). 2. Solomon was friendly with Hiram, King of Tyre, David’s friend – thus practicing the wisdom of the very text we are considering (I Kings 5:1-12). 3. Paul had a sister, but his closest friend was likeminded Timothy (Phil 2:19-22). E. Examples of profaning this rule of wisdom are very enlightening and very frightening. 1. Rehoboam rejected his father’s friends and lost the kingdom (I Kings 12:1-20). 2. Joash killed the son of the man who protected and trained him (II Chr 24:20-25). II. TRUE FRIENDS A. True friends love at all times, regardless of favorable seasons or events (Prov 17:17). B. The friendship must be based on the fear of God, truth, and righteousness (Ps 119:63). C. The blood of Jesus Christ provides an instantaneous bond greater than human blood, when two lovers of Jesus Christ are allowed to meet by the grace of God’s providence. D. There is no selfishness, self-protection, fear, doubts, agenda, or intents in such friends. E. Jonathan’s armourbearer trusted him with loyalty that is very rare (I Samuel 14:6-7). F. When he found him, Jonathan strengthened David’s hand in God (I Samuel 23:14-18). G. Jehu and Jehonadab had an agreement in spiritual zeal without trying (II Kgs 10:15-16). III. FALSE FRIENDS A. Fair weather friends are there while it is easy and goodies abound (Prov 14:20; 19:4). B. Carnal friends are those whose friendship is based on the foundation of this world. C. Weak friends are those you must constantly be helping due to their lack of character. D. Loners don’t have any true friends, for they are too selfish to give or be exposed. E. Rebels don’t have any true friends, for their rebellion is evidence of an unruly spirit. F. Compromisers don’t have any true friends, for they will cheat truth again when needed. G. Strange children lie with lips and handshakes, for they know not God (Psalm 144:11). H. They go out from us, because they were never truly of us (I John 2:19; I Cor 11:19). I. Unruly spirits were too much for David, even from faithful nephews (II Samuel 3:39). IV. THE APPLICATION A. True friends are precisely limited by the character traits of righteousness in Scripture. 1. David carefully defined the friends he would have (Psalm 101:4-8; 119:63). 2. Family love is a curse when it approaches love of godliness and truth, for compromise is imminent; Jesus came to bring a sword in family relationships (Matt 10:34-39); and if we fail here we cannot be His disciples (Luke 14:25-26). 3. No man has forsaken such family ties without reward (Luk 18:28-30; Ps 34:22). B. Friendships can be sought, promoted, and protected; but it requires wisdom and grace. 1. The point of our text is to not forsake these valuable friendship (Prov 27:10). 2. It takes communication of hearts (John 15:15; Amos 3:3; Exodus 33:11). 3. It takes friendliness and the giving of true friendship (Proverbs 18:24). 4. The greater zeal a man has for Christ the greater he will be loved by such men. 5. Godliness and virtue attract godly and virtuous men; and godliness and virtue disappoint carnal and unprincipled men. Holy living will bring you holy friends. C. Brothers and sisters in Christ are brought together by God’s grace and providence, and the resulting relationships should be the strongest and most pleasant of human friends. 1. There is a strong basis and duty of love, regardless of compatibility (I John 5:1). 2. The members in a church were hand picked by God Himself (I Cor 12:18). 3. Marriage is leading about a sister, which is to marry such a friend (I Cor 9:5). Conclusion: 1. In order to have friends, even great godly friends, a man must show himself friendly (Proverbs 18:24). 2. Some can be thankful they have double brothers and sisters, as they are united by blood and BLOOD. 3. Brother and Sister, you are true friends in the Lord Jesus Christ and a dear brother and sister in Him. Taken from Letgodbetrue.com
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