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  1. LifelongLearner

    How Did Your Spiritual Journey Begin?

    That is so gorgeous Magenta, your designs are so lovely and i love this one for me, big hugs to you and loads of love. :love: Sorry i've been around so little, was poorly for a few days then had some issues come up. It never rains but it pours:eek: A question you might be able to help me with...
  2. LifelongLearner

    How Did Your Spiritual Journey Begin?

    Bless you J55, my youngest son is autistic and he was bullied a lot too, i even had to take him out of school for 8 months to teach him to read. It clearly was the school environment causing his underachievement, he was assessed as having a reading age of 13 on his return when he was 8 years...
  3. LifelongLearner

    How Did Your Spiritual Journey Begin?

    Your comments are beautiful and uplifting often Bingo, same back at you :)
  4. LifelongLearner

    How Did Your Spiritual Journey Begin?

    That is some story to share daisyseesthesun, you must have been terrified but the LORD heard you. Blessings and hugs to you and all who drop in to this post, i'm in England and will say goodnight now but will look in here early tomorrow :)
  5. LifelongLearner

    How Did Your Spiritual Journey Begin?

    Gorgeous comment Bingo, you've garnered a lot of spiritual wisdom in the last 25 years. You also say some truly beautiful things which bring happy tears to my eyes, pretty sure you've encouraged at least a few to build a relationship with the LORD. Cheers for that lovely quotes text too friend...
  6. LifelongLearner

    How Did Your Spiritual Journey Begin?

    Real cheers for that, it's lovely coming from someone who suffers/suffered the problem too and yep! I too have strong depressive tendencies and among those i know who experience the problem, being prone to depression is very common. They both are strongly linked to chemical imbalance in the...
  7. LifelongLearner

    How Did Your Spiritual Journey Begin?

    So beautiful and true again Bingo, brought tears to my eyes. Hope all's well with you and yours, always lovely seeing you. God's blessings and keep seeing the joy and wonder friend.
  8. LifelongLearner

    How Did Your Spiritual Journey Begin?

    Cheers for moving my post to Testimonies, definitely the right place, surprised i missed it.
  9. LifelongLearner

    How Did Your Spiritual Journey Begin?

    Unsure if this is the right forum to discuss this, seems the best choice to me currently. Think it was late March of this year my journey began, i was a chain smoker and a binge drinker, which is far more immediately dangerous than alcoholism. Binge drinkers very rarely are addicted to alcohol...
  10. LifelongLearner

    Give me your top 10 Christian worship anthems

    Can't do a top ten at the moment but definitely a current top three. Like Hillsong Worship music a lot and had a lovely discussion with my non-believing daughter a couple of Fridays ago, because of this first song. As she said, Christian music or not, it's a truly beautiful song and this is the...
  11. LifelongLearner

    Gods will vs mans free will

    Hadn't heard of The Natural Man term sweet friend, think this looks a decent article about it: https://devotion.knowing-jesus.com/the-natural-man Cheers Magenta, going offline soon to rest, hugs and Blessings for now :love:
  12. LifelongLearner

    Gods will vs mans free will

    Burst out laughing at that sweet friend, just so true! Feeling a lot better today, nosing around CChat a little but will have an early night. Blessings and hugs for now :)
  13. LifelongLearner

    Gods will vs mans free will

    "That He allows for human and angelic agency doesn't keep His will from coming to pass." Totally agree with that Cameron, i too think we have some agency but not free will. Genuine free will would mean having the ability to make an unfettered choice, which we don't have even in our current...
  14. LifelongLearner

    Gods will vs mans free will

    You've certainly kept your fire too Magenta, definitely didn't think you were 70 and glory! You've been through the wars me darling but looks like the big guy upstairs is watching out for you. Don't think the Lord minds us using affectionate terms for him, least i hope not :eek: Thanks for the...
  15. LifelongLearner

    Gods will vs mans free will

    Yep, must be across the pond from you Magenta, posted the last comment 11.23 pm my time. Been a bit under the weather but perking up today and it's lovely to chat with you again, we seem to have a lot in common. Semi-retired? Thought you might be 40ish but sounds like you might be closer to my...
  16. LifelongLearner

    Gods will vs mans free will

    "But you will see me opposing the idea that man has a will that is free, for that goes directly against what Scripture says on the matter." So agree with that Magenta, most people seem to believe they do but if you think about it, what on earth do we truly have free will in right now? I hear so...
  17. LifelongLearner

    Gods will vs mans free will

    Definitely agree with that Magenta but now think that God really would love all to repent and be saved. To me it seems depriving Satan and his cohorts of our company in hell would be to his glory. Currently thinking there are two tiers to Salvation, i heavily leaned to Calvinism as a brand new...
  18. LifelongLearner

    Gods will vs mans free will

    Not enough room on it, i was a skinny little thing but we were told how at school and church.
  19. LifelongLearner

    Gods will vs mans free will

    "The irrefutable fact remains that non-Reformed people do NOT tell unbelievers that Christ's atonement actually saves them -- even though they do simultaneously speak out of the other side of their mouth and tell the lost world that "Christ died for them". Really disagree with that Rufus, i...
  20. LifelongLearner

    Very Low Today

    Bless you Shoshie and seriously doubt anyone thinks you're being negative, that's a lot to have on your plate. My heart goes out to you, so hope things get easier for you soon. God's blessings to you, all that's good for now.