Most people never think about their tongue beyond taste. It’s just there, doing its job in the background. But the more you look at it, the more you realize it’s one of the most advanced and versatile parts of the human body.
“I had to learn that pornography is not just what the internet says is pornography. Pornography is looking upon things lustfully. And so, for me, that includes social media and looking at the women being provocative on social media. That includes me looking lustfully at women when I’m at the grocery store. That includes all of it.
And so, the root of what drives me to look at pornography, it’s gotten me down to this point. It’s got me down to where I know I can’t look at anything—any lustful images. I’m not to look at, because what I’m doing when I do that is I’m giving the enemy room to operate. [giving evil spirits a place, a right to drive lust from within – ed.]
What I’ve experienced is by not looking at pornography, I don’t have all of this lustful, chaotic energy inside of me. I’m actually a normal human being. Up until that point in my life, I thought it was normal for me as a man to always have lustful, perverse thoughts in my mind and to always have lustful and perverse intentions with women. It wasn’t until I got that pornography out of my life that I realized, no, that’s not natural. I don’t walk around thinking about sex all the time.”
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“The Lord has revealed to me other areas to work on, to where lust is not the major issue in my life that it was before. But if I ever give an inch—if I ever decide, ‘Yeah, I can kind of look at pornography or look at semi-pornographic stuff’—it’s going to trap me back in. And I have no guarantee that the Holy Spirit’s going to save me next time.
But I know that I’ve made progress because the Holy Spirit has revealed to me other things to focus on now that I didn’t realize were problems. And just, you know, for example, forgiving people. I had worked on forgiving people who had personally done things to me, but the Holy Spirit revealed to me I had not forgiven a lot of different aspects of society for what they had done to my people as African-Americans, the wrong things that have been done, and a lot of the hurtful ways that other cultures have rejected us. I have to forgive everybody. And so I’ve been working on that, and I’ve been making great progress, in my opinion, because I’ve learned that all evil treatment and all evil behavior originates with the devil—with the enemy.
People are almost like sock puppets. God created people to be great, loving, caring, and helpful people. That’s how He created us to be. And anybody who’s not behaving in that way is being led by the enemy. So according to what Jesus commanded us—to love others as we love ourselves.We are not allowed to hate other people, no matter how evil their behavior has been. We can hate the enemy. I hate the devil. I hate the kingdom of darkness. But I look at my brothers and sisters as people who are just weak vessels being led by the enemy. Instead of having hard feelings toward them, I just pray that the Lord brings them closer to Jesus and that He helps them to become the people that He created them to be.”
“..Jesus himself was baptized. As he was praying, the heavens opened, and the Holy Spirit, in bodily form, descended on him like a dove. And a voice from heaven said, ‘You are my dearly loved Son, and you bring me great joy.'” – Luke 3:21-22
There’s a reason why the Bible says pride comes before fall. …
Empires have fallen. Countries have been destroyed because of this arrogance. And if we think that can’t ever happen to us, we’re not paying attention.” – Lt Col Daniel Davis
“There are people, particularly Christian ministers, I have noticed, who are preaching a political message and pretending that it’s the gospel.”
“I’m sorry for the extent to which I participated in it. Forgive me because killing people who committed no crime is immoral. It will always be immoral. And people who do it will be punished for it. And nations that endorse it will be punished for it.”
“To see Christian pastors make excuses for that….”
Us living through Jesus, being led by the Holy Spirit will unite and empower us in Anchorage, Alaska, which will help bring in the GREATEST SPIRITUAL AWAKENING the world has ever seen — Jesus’ prayer in John 17 answered, “that the world will know!”
NOTE: This is my first article put together from AI compilations, which I’m notating, and will always notate when doing so in the future.
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Someone recently said the early Christians didn’t sing songs during church services, which not one Bible verse says. This is my response.
My Testimony:
As a senior in Lutheran high school in 1974, I realized I didn’t have the ability to love people. So I decided I’d search every religion until I found the source of being able to love others. Thankfully, I started by digging deeper into Christianity, reading what the New Testament really says. It turned out that Acts was a GREAT place to start — probably is for others too.
I found what I was looking for when I read Paul and Silas’ account of worshiping God in song while in chains in prison after being stripped and severely beaten for simply preaching the gospel. Acts 16:
22 The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods.23 After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully.24 When he received these orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.26 Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open….
34 The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole household.
Christian men need to worship in Spirit and in truth!
“Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.” – James 4:8
“The joy of the Lord is your strength!” – Neh. 8:10
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From Google Gemini
Both biblical and extra-biblical evidence strongly indicate that early Christians sang songs to God during their services. This practice was deeply rooted in their Jewish heritage and evolved with their new faith.
“For The TIME WILL COME when THEY WILL NOT LISTEN to the SOUND DOCTRINE, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves TEACHERS AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS; and will TURN AWAY THEIR EARS FROM THE TRUTH, and turn aside to *FABLES*” (2 Tim. 4:3-4)
“IF GOD GIVES YOU A FEW MORE YEARS, REMEMBER, IT IS NOT YOURS. YOUR TIME MUST HONOR GOD, YOUR HOME MUST HONOR GOD, YOUR ACTIVITY MUST HONOR GOD, AND EVERYTHING YOU DO MUST HONOR GOD.” – A. W. Tozer
“Enter in by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in by it. How narrow is the gate and the way is restricted that leads to life! There are few who find it. …
Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. …
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
IF YOU’RE GOING TO PREACH ABOUT GOD’S LOVE, PREACH ABOUT WHAT GOD HATES.
IF YOU PREACH ABOUT GOD’S MERCY, PREACH ABOUT GOD’S WRATH.
IF YOU MENTION HEAVEN, DON’T FORGET HELL.
PREACH THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD..(ACTS 20:27)
[“I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.”]
“A HALF TRUTH, EQUALS A WHOLE LIE.”
– J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)
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PAUL: “CONSIDER therefore the KINDNESS AND SEVERITY of God.”
“So DO NOT BE ARROGANT, but BE AFRAID. For if God did not spare the natural branches, PERHAPS HE WILL NOT SPARE YOU either. CONSIDER therefore the KINDNESS AND SEVERITY of God: to those who have fallen, severity; but to yoʋ, kindness, IF YOU CONTINUE in his kindness; OTHERWISE yoʋ too will be CUT OFF.”
Sheltering each homeless person in this hotel will cost Anchorage taxpayers $125/day! Whereas, spiritual revival (Dick Strutz’s dream) would cost nothing — except humbling ourselves, becoming right before God and men, like Paul always made sure he practiced. So his conscience was clear when he saw Jesus face to Face (Acts 24:16), having faith to enter — unlike the majority of born-again Christians (including church leaders) who die these days!
We need to walk in love, led and enabled by the Holy Spirit, having the fruit of the Spirit to have no condemnation now and when we see Jesus face to Face — resting in Him.
“You may have been born in church, baptized in church, served in church, could have married in church, died in church and still end up in hell, because you were only in the church and not in Christ.
It is necessary to be born again, take up our cross and follow Jesus. Many have religion, but have no relation with the living God!”
I’m still offering $6,000 to anyone who can refute what the Bible actually says:
THANKS for sharing this short testimony, Bill! It seems that hardly any born-again Christians are being led by the Holy Spirit these days, including pastors. Almost all seem lust addicted, which is demon driven, so they think they can never be free. Many are clinging to the false doctrines of OSAS (once saved always saved) and “only believe,” because like Martin Luther, they think that’s the only way they’ll go to heaven. In the meantime, America is falling like a rock, since hardly any “Christians” are salt and light.
We need to get real Christianity going before this is all over, Jesus’ prayer in John 17 and the way Christianity should be explained in Ephesians 4:11-16.
“History fails to record a single precedent in which NATIONS SUBJECT TO MORAL DECAY have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a SPIRITUAL AWAKENING to overcome the moral lapse, OR a PROGRESSIVE DETERIORATION leading to ultimate national disaster.” – Douglas MacArthur
NOTE: I Posted this in early January (2010) as a theory, simply titled: My Theory On Divorce, which is radically different to what is taught and practiced by many ‘Christians,’ today, but this is something I’ve believed for many years.
Also, I wrote these two articles to clarify further:
1:08:00 “… That simply is not acceptable before God. He is not going to take a bride for Christ that is unfaithful to what Christ has taught.” – David Berkot
A century ago, it was extremely rare for a non-Christian—let alone a Christian—to obtain a divorce. Today, so-called Bible-believing Christians divorce one another just as frequently as does the world. The reason is that the Church has abandoned Christ’s teaching on divorce and remarriage.
In this message, Bercot looks at the New Testament teachings on divorce and explains how those passages were applied by the early Christians.
18:30 “And sadly enough, many of these Palestinians are crypto-Jews from descendants of the true Jews of the Roman occupation back in 70 A.D., when the temple was destroyed.” – Steven Ben-Nun