Dr Caroline Leaf 'Cleaning up Your Mental Mess' (It's a book)
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sweet girl!
i have no clue what this thread is supposed to be about, but i'm taking it off-piste a bit with apologies to the OP.
i've only read this last post; the one you wrote. do you have children? ours are grown but even now, and especially when they were little ones, if they became ill it broke my heart. there wasn't anything (short of sin) i wouldn't have done to ease their pain and make them better. me, sinful woman that i am, as a mom i would happily have taken their illnesses to myself, and i know my husband felt the same way.
dear child, do you think the Lord is less compassionate toward you? do you not know how compassionate He is toward His sin-sick children? how the Lord of Glory took on human flesh and frailty in order to take our spiritual illnesses to Himself to make us better?
if your only hope in life and in death is the Lord Jesus, i assure you you aren't under judgement; you have passed from death to life. and you are loved! loved so completely you can't imagine.
will you do me a favor? there's a book called The Bruised Reed, written a long time ago by a countryman of yours called Richard Sibbes. it's in the public domain, so you can read it online without payment. if i weren't so old and stupid i would give you a link.
let me know if you have trouble finding it, and i'll PM you (with your permission, of course) with instructions to find a copy online.
i know how hard it is to believe what God says, and i know how very important it is that we believe Him.
i will be praying for you. ♥♥♥
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On the contrary, when God sees us He sees us through the perfect lens of His Son. He sees you as the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. He sees you as one of the redeemed. He sees you as a child He loves. Quit beating up on yourself! God LOVES you! It does not matter if no human loves you - GOD loves you as one of His own daughters.
Just remember the many verses in proverbs that we are what we say. NEVER, I say NEVER say bad things about yourself. If you know, if you speak, it will be something bad about you, then don't say it! There are many "in Him" scriptures. The more you meditate on what God says about you, the better you will feel about yourself.
By the way, if you love Jesus, and can talk to Him, you are not backslidden. I have left churches that are always talking about tithing as if it were a law today. It is NOT a law for us. We are not under the law. Today we SOW and if we can sow 1% cheerfully, I can assure you, God will receive it cheerfully! I will guarantee this: God has a place just for you. It will fit you for all eternity! Finally, be happy. Find JOY in the fact that you are forgiven and a child of the Most High God.
Just remember the many verses in proverbs that we are what we say. NEVER, I say NEVER say bad things about yourself. If you know, if you speak, it will be something bad about you, then don't say it! There are many "in Him" scriptures. The more you meditate on what God says about you, the better you will feel about yourself.
By the way, if you love Jesus, and can talk to Him, you are not backslidden. I have left churches that are always talking about tithing as if it were a law today. It is NOT a law for us. We are not under the law. Today we SOW and if we can sow 1% cheerfully, I can assure you, God will receive it cheerfully! I will guarantee this: God has a place just for you. It will fit you for all eternity! Finally, be happy. Find JOY in the fact that you are forgiven and a child of the Most High God.
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sweet girl!
i have no clue what this thread is supposed to be about, but i'm taking it off-piste a bit with apologies to the OP.
i've only read this last post; the one you wrote. do you have children? ours are grown but even now, and especially when they were little ones, if they became ill it broke my heart. there wasn't anything (short of sin) i wouldn't have done to ease their pain and make them better. me, sinful woman that i am, as a mom i would happily have taken their illnesses to myself, and i know my husband felt the same way.
dear child, do you think the Lord is less compassionate toward you? do you not know how compassionate He is toward His sin-sick children? how the Lord of Glory took on human flesh and frailty in order to take our spiritual illnesses to Himself to make us better?
if your only hope in life and in death is the Lord Jesus, i assure you you aren't under judgement; you have passed from death to life. and you are loved! loved so completely you can't imagine.
will you do me a favor? there's a book called The Bruised Reed, written a long time ago by a countryman of yours called Richard Sibbes. it's in the public domain, so you can read it online without payment. if i weren't so old and stupid i would give you a link.
let me know if you have trouble finding it, and i'll PM you (with your permission, of course) with instructions to find a copy online.
i know how hard it is to believe what God says, and i know how very important it is that we believe Him.
i will be praying for you. ♥♥♥
i have no clue what this thread is supposed to be about, but i'm taking it off-piste a bit with apologies to the OP.
i've only read this last post; the one you wrote. do you have children? ours are grown but even now, and especially when they were little ones, if they became ill it broke my heart. there wasn't anything (short of sin) i wouldn't have done to ease their pain and make them better. me, sinful woman that i am, as a mom i would happily have taken their illnesses to myself, and i know my husband felt the same way.
dear child, do you think the Lord is less compassionate toward you? do you not know how compassionate He is toward His sin-sick children? how the Lord of Glory took on human flesh and frailty in order to take our spiritual illnesses to Himself to make us better?
if your only hope in life and in death is the Lord Jesus, i assure you you aren't under judgement; you have passed from death to life. and you are loved! loved so completely you can't imagine.
will you do me a favor? there's a book called The Bruised Reed, written a long time ago by a countryman of yours called Richard Sibbes. it's in the public domain, so you can read it online without payment. if i weren't so old and stupid i would give you a link.
let me know if you have trouble finding it, and i'll PM you (with your permission, of course) with instructions to find a copy online.
i know how hard it is to believe what God says, and i know how very important it is that we believe Him.
i will be praying for you. ♥♥♥
Silly! Paul was STONED TO DEATH! Is that an "illness?" Don't try it to find out! Can you imagine what Paul looked like when he returned to the very city that stoned him? He must have looked a site. I can't imagine those that threw the stones - what they were thinking - when they saw him alive and walking.
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That has nothing to do with my question. You didn't answer it because the fact is, they didn't manifest money or BMW's or food. If there was a sudden influx of money and wealthy possessions in a country infamous for its poverty it would have gained world wide coverage. All those millions of people that were taught they simply had to speak their millions into existence never got it. Because it isn't true. And that's a Reality and a Fact you can't scripture twist your way out of.
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We don't or shouldn't form all our doctrine from isolated verses, but rather from ALL scriptures. I looked up every scripture I could find in the bible about healing, and health.
Isaiah 53 talks about how Jesus carried our sins but it also tells us He carried our sicknesses. Then Matthew 8:17 proves Isaiah was talking about physical healing.
Isaiah 53 talks about how Jesus carried our sins but it also tells us He carried our sicknesses. Then Matthew 8:17 proves Isaiah was talking about physical healing.
