Romans 6:14-25

dogwhisperer · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 9:37 pm Post subject: Romans 6:14-25

just reading this one this morning!!! kinda cool eh?

sharring · Tiger Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 815 Location: Texas

Well, I had to go read it right away. The first thing I noticed was that the focus was on the inner battlefield...each Christian fighting the base impulses of sin within them for a higher cause. But nothing about fighting sin in your neighbor. I guess that is their own fight. Excuse me Whisperer-i'm still thinking about the secular music thread. scott

dogwhisperer · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject:

pray for them...yep, and in some cases rebuke, but hey, you gotta get the beam outta your own eye right? lol i used to be to quick of a judger, but the Lord has been dealing with me on that one...about his grace and all, its amazing! Its like you still have to discern where someone is coming from otherwise it becomes an everyone believes whatever they like and it's 'all right ...noone is wrong' type of thinking, but we can't judge people either...duh, confusing sometimes. lol btw the Lord is working in my situation at the moment...not like its overly changing, but he's giving me the strength to not fall under where i usually would...like last night mum and dad talked to me for like an hour...and you know, normally i would have gotten all upset, but i didn't, i was very patient with them, but i manages to keep my cool except right at the end and i got kind of frustrated and just said i had to go to bed, and would they mind not talking about me to loudly . aparently, (my sis told me she heard this) that mum was getting all upset after i went to bed and dad just said she needed to listen to my heart andpray for me etc....i didn't fall under though, even when dad was saying he was having all these dreams about me like saying to him 'i won't ' all the time and other stuff...i just know that if it goes against the word fo God, it isn't any good, no matter how many dreams someone will have...of course having a dream, well, i wouldn't ignore it, but dreams can come from the enemy as well...they have to be rightly discerned! dad actually was saying how we need to be careful about seeking God on every little thing...i said that the bible doesn't say that, and he didn't persure it when i quoted scriptures to him about it, and then he said how difficult it is when he says something and then i go and seek God for myself on it and don't agree/think God isn't saying that, and its very difficult because we can't get a famliy union. i want unity, but the right kind of unity, not where everyone blindly follows someone instead of Jesus !! but you know, i know the Lord has been telling me to sharpen my sword of the Spirit, and it's working! because last night when i was talking to them, i was able to talk straitght out of the bible and they couldn't refut ea lot of what i was asaying!! i know though, that i was being respectful, and i really feel good that the Lord gave me the courage and helped me because i normally just get really mad at them. i accidently got up about a half an hour later this morning because they kept me up so late last night and dad came down and i had already told him how God was requireing me to ge tup early, and he was like, 'you can g sleepin if you like' no dway. then last night two minutes into the conversataion he is telling me what 'God says' just like that! "Ok, this is what God is saying...you have a root of rebellion, and until you flush it out, you're only going to get into trouble...a new christian should't be dabbling in the prophetic " (i'm not duh, and i've been saved for a w like since i was 3, not that that counts, but i told him that paul wasn't like 40 yrs in the lord before he started his ministry)

Thank you all to for your help!!

sharring · Tiger Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 815 Location: Texas

I believe you are having "growth pains" my sister. From the experence you related i discern the Spirit working in you actions. Do you see how important respectfullness and humility are? "he/she who exalts themself will be humbled and he/she who humbles themself will be exalted. In this world respect and humility are on the dustpile-very out of fashion. But I believe they are fruits of the Spirit and tell those who would see who our Father is. Continue to be God's-scott

Meridian · House Cat Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 154

Ditto Scott's words.

Also, "Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity." 1 Tim 4:12

Mer

dogwhisperer · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject:

thanks!

i really do believe the Spirit is working in me, and i don't care about the growth pains, i know they mean your growing at least Wink

i had a tough attack from the enemy yesterday...i mean, it was TOUGH...like depression from the pits of Hell man!! i could hardly get my bible out, but when i did, i started in psalms, and i know it started to lift there. see, my younger bros and sis's all of a sudden started to spill out all this stuff they've been keeping inside of them that morning, and i was just thinking afterwards...MAN!! lol i just told them about learning to forgive and trusting the Father to sort everything out...i did tell them to that we all can't use the way things are to just do whatever we like, but rather to respect mum and dad, despite the way dad treats mum, to pray for each other etc...i also mentioned about not talking about it ALL the time...it only gets your depressed...there is a place for talkign about stuff, but not as a gossip topic lol

sharring · Tiger Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 815 Location: Texas

It's a DAILY walk, eh?