GOD has certainly revealed hIS LOVE for the world through hIS only begotten son JESUS CHRIST !!! [[Summary Page 33]]

Jesus: What can we say about a man who had a historical death and ressurection and then appeared to many to show that "death" is not the end but only a new beginning???

Jesus: The only name by which true miracles continue to happen even to this very day. In his life he healed the sick and performed various other miracles to prove that he, indeed, is the only begotten Son of God. To this day there is no other name by which blind eyes are opened, cripple people walk, and the deaf are made to hear. While modern medicine can correct some of these problems, Jesus continues to perform these miracles without any possible scientific or medical explanation.

Jesus: The Son of God prophesied to return to earth as the King of Kings. With trumpet blast and angelic escort He will claim his throne in Jerusalem from where he left. "Why are you standing here looking into the sky" the angel said, "This same Jesus will return..." And, yet, to those who love Him He will return as a Servant King, One who will lavish wonderful gifts upon those who love Him.

Jesus: The man many have met through their out of body experiences or "near death experiences." Common human experience reveals that for those who were pronounced dead but then came back to life have one of two experiences. Either they go to a horrible place like a living nightmare or they go to a beautiful, peaceful place they regret leaving. Some have even met Jesus in the afterlife and returned to write books to tell their story. Even modern psychology admits that "death" is not the end of our jouney in this life.

Jesus: The focal point of human history. Indeed, time itself is divided according to his life. Now, over 2 thousand years since his birth. "Jesus", the only Name on the lips of all, Saints and sinners alike.

Jesus: A friend to all of the oppressed and broken hearted. It is not by accident that the "poor in spirit" are the ones who call out to Him. The amazing truth is that - to this very day - he answers with signs and wonders just as he did when he walked with his friends in Israel long ago. There are so many stories in the Scriptures where someone called out to Jesus and he responded with loving kindness. Won't YOU call out to Jesus in love today?



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And you will hear of wars and threats of wars, but don't panic. Yes, these things must take place, but the end won't follow immediately.

Mar 13:8 Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in many parts of the world, as well as famines. But this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come.

Mar 13:9 "When these things begin to happen, watch out! You will be handed over to the local councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand trial before governors and kings because you are my followers. But this will be your opportunity to tell them about me.

Mar 13:10 For the Good News must first be preached to all nations.


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Yes, the "Good News" of God's Kingdom must be preached to every nation on Earth. That is what Love wants us to do. However, many choose to reject Jesus and His Kingdom. They lust for the power and the wealth they believe this life can bring. Anyone who does not confess Jesus as the Christ is AN anti-Christ. The church is now wondering who THE Anti-Christ is. One of the most recent was hitler. His crimes against humanity and God clearly revealed the hatred in this man's heart. God created him for eternal life but he freely chose not to participate in His grace. The Scriptures clearly state that no murderer will inherit everlasting life. Thus, although no human is capable of a final judgement on anyone, it appears this evil man chose not to follow Jesus Christ into eternal life. Therefore, he is an anti-Christ. As horrible as hitler's life was, there is still a man to appear who will be even worse than hitler. Hitler killed millions. The final anti-Christ may kill billions before his reign is ended. The church is now watching and waiting for this final anti-Christ to appear. Many people are now speculating about who the anti-Christ will be. We will soon see what countries will march against Israel in the Last Days. Russia will definately be one of those countries. The current ruler there is Vladamir Putin. His so called "democracy" is a sham. He has killed many people to consolidate his power. If he unleashed any kind of nuclear conflict in the middle east he may be THE anti-Christ Scripture has foretold. Putin has a military aliance with the President of Iran who is also trying to develop nuclear weapons. This president too hates Israel and wants to "drive them into the sea." He is definately worth watching and may reveal himself as THE anti-Christ. If you were to google "anti-christ" additional popular opinions are the princes of England, William or Harry. Someday soon either or both could have their finger on the nuclear trigger and cause much havoc in the world. And, finally, some speculate that an American President could betray Israel and cause the kinds of catasrophes only the final anti-Christ could cause. Whoever it turns out to be we need to heed the warning of Jesus Christ when he said, "Watch and wait for you know neither the day or the hour." May God give you His peace. There is nothing we can do about this situations. The Scripures will be fulfilled. We need only be ready for the advent of the Kingdom of God. As Jesus said, "Watch and Pray!" While man continues to reek havoc in the world, His Love teaches us to watch, pray, and perserver to the very end.

Then he can tell me to my face..like a NORMAL person would who wanted to inform someone else of their love.

I will NOT accept words.

Or doctrines.

Until he stands in front of me and says "I LOVE you"...then its all so much CRAP..so many words..and words are CHEAP!

Actually He has. God is Spirit. Think about it!

HE tells you everyday of your life that HE loves you....

by giving you the air that you breath.....

by giving you another day to live....

by giving you food and water to sustain you....

by giving you loved ones to cherish and nurture....

by giving you beauty through a marvelous creation of nature.... colors, trees, forests, oceans....ect.

by giving you eyes to see....

ears to hear....

and by giving you life itself!!!

HE made you. You are HIS creation, whether you want to accept it not.

HE doesn't have to answer to your demands. Who are you but dust??

HE gave you life....and HE can snuff it out.

If I were you, I'd re-think your position.

Until God..sprit or not..stands in front of me and tells me TO MY FACE that he LOVES me..as far as I am concerned..He could not give a rats backside about me...cause he has NOT taken the time and trouble to TELL me PERSONALLY he loves me.

If you were in love with a woman..would a text message to her saying "I love you" win any points with her??

NO..and what if you sent the same old text every day..but never EVER took her out..held her close..or even sent a picture of yourself to her..

HOW LONG do you think this woman would FEEL LOVED by you?

NOT long at all..in fact..NOT AT ALL..

But God..Jesus..EXPECTS us to swallow the SAME CRAP that no woman on earth would put up with for one second?

I AM NOT BUYING IT..until I geta personal visit with REAL LOVE..no more TEXT MESSAGES!

You're right Grace. God's plan of salvation is clear to the pure in heart. The pure in heart will see God and see His Kingdom already. If a person is condemned it is because they love darkness more than The Light.

Jesus ruined my life.

I HATE darkness..I hate evil..I HATE it all with a passion.

Yet I am NOT LOVED!

You are alive and have the opportunity to be a part of the Kingdom of God forever. If you seek Him you will find Him. The responsibility is your now. Why would you say you are not loved?

Cause I am alone and unknown to anyone.

I have about as much LOVE in my life as your average maggot does..NONE.

NO one gives a rats rear end about me..and if I died tomorrow NO one would give a shit.

All I have known all my life is BULLSHIT..and more BULLSHIT..backstabbed by friends..let down by a GOD who SAYS he loves me but does not do a damn thing to make it real.

Its all words..all I have ever had from anyone is words...its the actions I look for..the REAL love..not the mamby pamby "Jesus loves you" rubbish that is just more words.

I could tell YOU that I love YOU..but it would be meaningless because you are there..I am here..we would never meet..so my words mean NOTHING.

Its the same with God..HE is there..SURROUNDED by people and angels that LOVE HIM..its all well and good for him..he has it made..he is surrounded by friends and by love..

But for me..here..now in this pathetic shithole lonley life..I have NO one....so tell me..how are more WORDS going to make me beleive if all I have ever had is WORDS that have as yet failed to make me beleive?

How are you possibly going to find Love with that kind of attitude? I don't know what is 'blocking' you from finding God. Perhaps you need to forgive someone or even yourself. But, i can tell you this, God manifests Himself to the MEEK and the POOR IN SPIRIT. I'm not hearing either one of those from you. Humble yourself before God and He will lift you up. Placing demands on Him won't do it!

I am not DEMANDING anything..just asking for what is a natural huamn thing..to be LOVED..and to KNOW I am loved..not just told from some parrot..or book.

Is LOVE too much to ask for?

I used to be so soft..so gentle...so poor in spirit like you said..

But years have passed..all I DID have in my life that HAD any love vanished one by one...

IT HURTS..especially for a soft hearted person like me..

So am I to be CONDEMNED because I HURT??...cause I just want to be LOVED??

Time keeps ticking..soon will tick the final seconds of what has turned out for ME to be a complte waste of a life..

WHY?

I started out so well..so full of hope and joy and..well..its all gone...nothing left now but death..and an empty shell of what ONCE was a vibrant hope filled very much alive man..

What happenned to me??..where did my heart go?

Where did life go?

What was it all about anyway?

I don't believe your pity party. If you were meek and sought God wholeheartedly you would find Him. End of story.

Watch this video [link to www.youtube.com]

God isn't mentioned here but maybe you will get something out of this man's video series on ATTITUDE.

Gee AC from down under I really hope you watch the video as there are some things you need to learn about a positive attitude.

Wholeheartedly??

How can you search for God wholeheartedly when you dont have a WHOLE HEART?

What does it mean anyway??

Ive heard it so often..ive tried to do it..I spent years searching..looking...wondering...and ive come to the conclusion that I must have missed something along the way..IF there was something to be found then by now I SHOULD have found it.


How does one look for God wholeheartedly as YOU describe it?

I might have been taught wrong..I MUST have been taught wrong..because after over 40 years of journey..I have not found yet.

Seen glimpses..a few false hopes..mirages in the desert...but still no closer to when I set out to find.

Have I been going in circles then?

..following WORDS..that only lead to more emptyness?

Thats why at this stage of my life ive had enough...I have looked long and far...and found nothing but more words..more books..more doctrines..more CRAP..all meaningless.

I have looked up all my life asking WHERE..WHY?..HOW?

But silence reigns..

People talk about a PERSONAL encounter...thats all well and good if you have actually HAD one.

The last time I felt anything was over 30 years ago....and I was young and impressionable and blinly beleived whatever bullshit I was told..and blindly felt whatever THEy wanted me to feel.

So how does one find the answer among so many confusing and contradictory paths?

Seek and you shall find...

But ehere was no time limit on that...do I have to search another 30 years..not that I have that long..to finally FIND what it is I am looking for?

LOVE?..thats all..just love...

But all I find is more...emptiness.

That's a bunch of BS right there. So, you experienced the Love of Jesus Christ but chose the desert instead. I've heard that story before. Your life now is a result of rejecting His Call back in the day. I'll pray for you. I'm guessing it is not too late for you but the road will not be easy.

I didnt CHOOSE the desert...I was LED into it..BY the very ones who were supposed to lead me AWAY from it.

You dont know what happenned..so how can you judge me or assume?

I was devastated..its a long story but I was utterly confused and confounded.

I KNEW..I saw..I FELT..I touched..I WAS THERE..and I was TRICKED OUT of it..and now I cand find my way home.
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Again, I don't believe this pity party.

You created your own circumstances. You now live what you

created for yourself. But, like i said, i will pray for

you.

Jesus created starving misery in Africa.

Maybe my reactions were my own.

But what sparked those reactions was not MY doing.

But I was a child..how in the world was I supposed to KNOW?

I do have a lot to regret and things that cannot be undone.

I also know about reaping what was sown. I live it every day.


If I could just go back to where it all started and tell those bastards to piss off..then I would not have been confused and led up the garden path.

I was only a child then..how was I to know the difference?

I was an ex JW child too..throw THAT into the mix..all the fear and death and doom..

You going to keep judging me?

Ive had a lifetime of doctrine..confusion..misleadings..fear..


But I KNOW..I know..I saw..I felt..

Then it was taken from me...

I didnt know how to find it again.

Lose your keys in a vast feild..how long do you think it will take you to find them again?

Pity party you call it?

Well..perhaps some of it is.

But if you had been through what I had been through..I am sure you would be feeling a bit miffed as well.

I am getting so jaded now..I KNOW what that means..and yet..I cant seem to stop..and I am getting desperate..and yet..I almost dont care anymore..and yet I DO care cause If I didnt I would not be telling you all this.

I still seek..I cant help it..

I found the pearl..the treasure..in that feild..and for the life of me..I cant seem to find where it was buried again.

ALL I know for sure is that its there...

But I forgot what steps I took to find it in the first place..it was so long ago.

That is why prayer is so important. You know the children of israel had to walk in the desert 40 years before God brought them back to the starting point once again. You must believe that God is Good or, like some did, you risk falling away. I pray God gives you strength and that you keep believing in His Goodness. It is the only hope you have. You are not the first one to feel desperate nor are you the first one to cry for help. This bitter road will have a Glorious Reward if you do not quit or give up hope.

SHADDAPPPP!

Nope. But thanks for the bump!

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I have asked God to visit you......and hope with all my heart that he does.


David

Thats just it..whatever was planted in me way back then refuses to LET me quit.

Ive even TRIED to quit..being so tired and worn out..but something keeps me going..and going..and going.

I cant ever give up...

I am like a man halfway up a cliff..

I cant go back down..to do so is death..I am too tired to keep climbing..but I MUST..to stay still is also death...

I am just running out of handholds...the closer you get to the top the steeper it becomes..and the less options of where to grasp next you have.

I cant let go...as in..I CANT let go..He wont allow it..he refuses to lose me..even though sometimes I wish he would just so I can REST!

But he also wont give me what I ask...which is to know LOVE again. Maybe I have to complete the climb to find what I saw from the bottom of this mountain.

Yes..I sinned..we all do. Ive done some terrible things in my time..who has not eh?

The past is the past. I only have so much time left.

Perhaps its meant to be this way..the closer you get to the top..the more religious crap falls away..you break through the cloud layer to see that all along you were wrong..THEY were wrong..and God is not the angry bastard they make him out to be.

Well..time will tell wont it?

Im almost out of options..I AM out of options..up is the only way..cant even go sideways from where I sit..its up or death....

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I know in my own case......I was at the low point of my life.....essentially in the mud......when Christ paid me a visit.....and knocked on the door of my heart.

I have also heard from many other people.....that have had similar experiences.


I think that it might have something to do with human pride.......and that this pride can come between us and God. But when we are brought low in this life.....that pride vanishes.


This is probably why the Scriptures say that the meek shall inherit the earth......that God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble......and that it is so difficult for a rich person to find God.

It is a pride thing....a love for riches/idols, etc. But when the circumstances of life take this away.....a person finally looks up.

Cry out to Christ to save you....and give you a new life. He will see your tears. Ask to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

May God have mercy upon all of us.


Best Wishes for the future.

David

Yes, i believe that is it. You must complete the test... Like Job, like Moses, like David, like so many others before you. It is one of the patterns to holiness and closeness to God. Some people experiences barenness, emptiness.... as you say, it cuts through all of the false teachings and traditions of men. Like i said, may God give you strength in Jesus Name.