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    What is the best advice you have ever received?

    Everyone, There's one piece of advice that stands out to me more than all the rest I have recieved in my lifetime. It came from my late grandfather on my father's side of the family. I had joined the United States Army way back in the late 1980's having just graduated from High School. I made it...
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    What is the best advice you have ever received?

    I loved that advice. I was raised in a military family. My father was Naval UDT and a SEAL, my uncles fought in Vietnam, Both my grandfathers fought in WWII having served under General Patton. Me I serveed in the U.S. Army and got sent to Panama, Operation Just Cause as I was an Infantry...
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    What is the best advice you have ever received?

    That is some awesome advice. Not only does it show iive on your part but it also conveighs respect for those who asked you to be there and you are mindful of their time as well. Me, I am a military veteran having served in the United States Army and we soldiers had a saying. "If you aint 15...
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    What is the best advice you have ever received?

    It's a great lesson in life to learn; however, sometimes, depending on the boss you have that may very well be their way of sort of manipulating you into conceding your personal valuse as a believer. In other words, they might say things like; "Don't be disagreeable". What I mean is, there have...
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    What is the best advice you have ever received?

    I think most of us probably have friends and loved ones who offer their advice at various times in our lives. Wether you graduate from school, consider popping the question and getting engaged to making a huge investment such as purchasing your first home. We all have those people in our lives...
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    Strange Heavenly encounters.

    Here's one very unusual dream I had personally where I KNOW God was dealing with me. In the dream, I begin in the front foyer of a church building. Inside it glowed white! I don't mean it was simply the color white but the white color was strangely different. The front was double doors. Once...
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    What are UFOs to you?

    The issue of UFO's and "The little green men from Mars" or "The Greys" or whatever is actually one subject I have a peace about because in the bible I only know of certain created beings and no more. There are: Angels, Demons, God, Satan, human beings, Animals, Amphibians, fish, birds and so on...
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    Strange Heavenly encounters.

    Have you EVER had a real encounter where you knew in your very inner spirit that it was real, but was so strange you weren't sure if you could share it? In my personal walk with Christ over decades I have had several encounters, dreams, and visions that were so out of the ordinary and different...
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    Are there deep pains and hurts that no amount of physical healing will ever cover and can only be healed once in eternity?

    I love this reply because it made me remember an example I heard in a sermon while I lived up in Alaska back during the early 2000s. Here's the scenario. Jesus is coming and walking down the road. A lame blind man is seated lying on what I pictured as a part of the sidewalk. He is wearing...
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    Are there deep pains and hurts that no amount of physical healing will ever cover and can only be healed once in eternity?

    It's interesting that you say that we never forget, because, I actually heard this ministry commentary about how it is possible that say, a loved one passes away without Christ and they are forever gone. How does God in eternity make it where you either forget the person entirely or make it in...
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    Are there deep pains and hurts that no amount of physical healing will ever cover and can only be healed once in eternity?

    Revelation 21:4 eads; He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the. I love this verse so much from Revelations. It is probably one of my personal favorites. In life, we all go through struggles...
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    Do our beloved relatives who have passed away see us who are living?

    I know that God in and through us is powerful and we have power in Him, however, there ARE limits to this and speaking with the dead is WAY "Off-limits". As King Saul found out. The bible even tells us, "To be out of the body is to be present with the Lord.". OK so, that voice some might...
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    Do our beloved relatives who have passed away see us who are living?

    This also brings me to an awkward question I am sure many have probably asked a few times in their lives. That question is; "Ya know that one guy in the family that didn't truly live for God but you wondered about him? You know, the one who wasn't sober at funerals and escaped hard conversations...
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    Do our beloved relatives who have passed away see us who are living?

    You remind me in what you said that we need to be careful about this very issue because our enemy loves to play tricks on us and deceive us. We've all probably seen a movie or two about someone's dead relatives communicating with them. I think this to be very dangerous as it opens doors we...
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    Do our beloved relatives who have passed away see us who are living?

    Thank you. This was a great response. Ya know what, I see 2 sides to this. On the one hand, we have the counterfeit of this. The weird and bizarre encounters where demons get to play tricks on us posing as our deceased loved ones through "New Age" or spiritualism. Of course, we've all probably...
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    If you could speak with someone in the bible:::::

    AMEN and He is not silent either!
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    Do our beloved relatives who have passed away see us who are living?

    In the last few months for some strange reason, this topic has been coming up more and more. I am wondering if this community here could elaborate. Do you all believe that those believers in Christ who have passed away to Heaven or as we say; graduated to Heaven, do you all believe they see and...
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    If you could speak with someone in the bible:::::

    Thanks for the compliment. For me, what got me very interested in the bible was the mystery surrounding the unknown aspects of the lives of people who lived in biblical times. Oh, I heard a lot of stories and opinions and differing "takes" on how folks were. For me, I wanted to find out for...
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    If you could speak with someone in the bible:::::

    I LOVE how you responded to this because so many times we can read about people in scriptures and so totally miss their humanity. I think it is human nature to skip details that were aspects to someones life in any written account especially when we have an "agenda" of what we want to read about...
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    If you could speak with someone in the bible:::::

    Let's say God offered you the once-in-a-lifetime chance to go back in time This could be any time you wanted in the scriptures and you could speak with anyone in bible history you wanted to then who would you speak with and what would you speak with them about? I have often imagined a "what if"...