Frank, I will continue to keep you in my prayers. So sorry to hear this bad news.
As for me I am feeling better! My foot that I got the screw removed from is feeling better than since I had the reconstruction surgery in 2009. To say nothing of the deformed mess it was! Today I finally rode my bike around the neighbour hood. We live on a mountain, so that is quite a challenge! But my lungs didin't feel like I was ripping them out breathe by breathe. Still lots and lots of work to get in condition like I was before my meds failed in Feb. 2016. If my hands would stop being flared, I would be perfect!
But I also need prayer! Yesterday I preached again in my church. God really gave me the message and it ministered to many. I was so grateful. I came home praising God. By mid afternoon, I was under the worst attack from the devil in 36 years of being a Christian. I run a bipolar group, and there were some atheists in the group. I was very careful to never push my faith, or offer it even as a suggestion, because I knew there were two vehement atheists. They came in and just trashed me from one end to the other, and all of it about my faith, and one strange comment about how I didn't have "Christian tolerance?" I thought tolerance was a PC term for left wingers demanding that Christians have to accept everything these people want to push as acceptable?
I had to delete probably 50 posts, and they had already left. A few people in the group are Christians and they felt it was the work of the devil, using these lost people. I didn't sleep most of the night, I was so upset. Please pray for me, that this oppression like I have never known will lift. I would like people to pray for these people, but I honestly don't know if the woman's conscience is seared beyond hope. I met her in a Christian forum, and she wanted me to help her serve God more. Well, she fell a long, long way! And the man is a practicing atheist Buddhist, who completely lacks compassion. He never forgives anyone. He has been practicing Buddhism for 45 years, and it hasn't helped him even slightly. He told me that he had no compassion, and it was pretty obvious yesterday!
So many lost people out there. It breaks my heart!
As for me I am feeling better! My foot that I got the screw removed from is feeling better than since I had the reconstruction surgery in 2009. To say nothing of the deformed mess it was! Today I finally rode my bike around the neighbour hood. We live on a mountain, so that is quite a challenge! But my lungs didin't feel like I was ripping them out breathe by breathe. Still lots and lots of work to get in condition like I was before my meds failed in Feb. 2016. If my hands would stop being flared, I would be perfect!
But I also need prayer! Yesterday I preached again in my church. God really gave me the message and it ministered to many. I was so grateful. I came home praising God. By mid afternoon, I was under the worst attack from the devil in 36 years of being a Christian. I run a bipolar group, and there were some atheists in the group. I was very careful to never push my faith, or offer it even as a suggestion, because I knew there were two vehement atheists. They came in and just trashed me from one end to the other, and all of it about my faith, and one strange comment about how I didn't have "Christian tolerance?" I thought tolerance was a PC term for left wingers demanding that Christians have to accept everything these people want to push as acceptable?
I had to delete probably 50 posts, and they had already left. A few people in the group are Christians and they felt it was the work of the devil, using these lost people. I didn't sleep most of the night, I was so upset. Please pray for me, that this oppression like I have never known will lift. I would like people to pray for these people, but I honestly don't know if the woman's conscience is seared beyond hope. I met her in a Christian forum, and she wanted me to help her serve God more. Well, she fell a long, long way! And the man is a practicing atheist Buddhist, who completely lacks compassion. He never forgives anyone. He has been practicing Buddhism for 45 years, and it hasn't helped him even slightly. He told me that he had no compassion, and it was pretty obvious yesterday!
So many lost people out there. It breaks my heart!
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. [SUP]13 [/SUP]But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. [SUP]14[/SUP]If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory[SUP][a][/SUP] and of God rests upon you. [SUP]15 [/SUP]But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. [SUP]16 [/SUP]Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. [SUP]17 [/SUP]For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? [SUP]18 [/SUP]And“If the righteous is scarcely saved,
what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”[SUP][b][/SUP]
[SUP]19 [/SUP]Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
I'm rejoicing for you!