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Hi my friends, this is Bella here, I thought how nice & lovely to have a Thread for Christians. I am not talking about Religion, GOD is Love, GOD gives free will to us all in the world. I have a relationship with GOD through HIS Word-The Bible, most of my life. I became a Pentecostal Christian many years ago. Would you like to come join me here in this Thread?

I am excited about starting it, you can just sit relax, chat about your love, for GOD & JESUS. Or post encouragement for others. Support, or be supported with Prayer. Hey, would you like to, Praise & post links to Praise & Worship music? Stories, or experiences, poetry, fun things to help us have a giggle, lovely pictures, photos, there are so many things you can post & chat about that will Bless & Build us up in The LORD! Life is about giving, loving, healing flows from a loving heart, whom purely wants to- just give!

I hope & pray, you will receive, Peace, Love, & JOY!... & healing in your heart! Amen xo <>< Bella 🙂

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@tyme you are precious to me my sweet Tymey xoxo

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@ENKELI Each time you come to mind i ask Jesus to send you some love and encouragement. It can be so hard isolated and alone in our pain. i know all about that.

Be interesting what you learn from this video, if anything. And what works for you and what does not. i really like it when he discusses being angry and then applying self love instead of dislike or more anger. i have been doing this a lot. Just spit the dummy about what i feel about all wrong, and then afterwards let Christ's love wash me clean with His blood. Works SO much better than self reproach or having to manage anger in our own ability. Which in my life meant suppressing my emotions and making things worse not better.

@tyme @heartathome @Appleblossom @Realness

My wife is back from Perth. We going to shop for a tablet or small laptop on Monday together for her birthday. For her other computer packed it.

She is writing me an email in response to her counselling so it be interesting to see. i know she dumped me because of overload but nothing much more than that. i'm sure there is lots more to it that will need to be worked on.

i just had a visit from a brother from Church. Which was awesome. We talked the love of God all the time and encouraged and shared Christ's love and goodness with one another. He does not know how come i can be so cheerful under the circumstances. To which i with confidence could reply, all my treasures are in Heaven, my wife as one of my biggest one no exception. NO one can take her from me where we are one in Christ. It is the years of damage suppressing ourselves for each other where we done the harm, even though both meant well doing that.

i know my wife loves Jesus and His truth and she knows i do, so it is in His truth we seek after ourselves lost so how can we not end up meeting again?

But like my son pointed out this afternoon, it may well take a few years for both you and mum to completely this process. He reckons it took him two years to find himself back after an unhealthy relationship, therefore he did hope we could do it quicker, for we have much more truth between us than he did with his ex. We both know that to be true.

i mourn my wife but to be honest at the moment i only dare love Jesus where her place once was. i do not dare to take my life in these hot coals back up again. She told me the same thing. Also she replaced her love for me with love for Jesus, trusting Him more thna ourselves to fix what has gone wrong.

She just now send me her email. The main issues i am already working on, i had understood them,. The others more to do with her development than my. i fear she be ready long before me. She is 100 percent committed getting back together again. i so hope Jesus will help enough to heal so this can be.

One major issue between us is my voice combined with em path ability. Not just sense moods but have vocal and often visual input on it. For years the voices with faces of loved ones saying the most horrible kind of things.

Last session me and my therapist focussed on those voices to try and understand their origin and why they can have so much power over me at certain times but not at other. For me it has been a complex story where years of heart pain i had store about myself for years, and somehow the voices had excess to hurting me in that. i had that with my children, my parents, but in particular with my wife.

It has been the same issue for us from opposite sites. My wife constantly denied her emotional reality to meet mine, yet paradoxically i did the same for her. So despite everything my illness caused me daily we could live in harmony and peace together.

Please do not get me wrong. A lot of good in this. A lot of self sacrifice. A lot of patience endurance. However even as it build me up and strengthen me, it tore my wife down and often such victories for me had meant a lot of loss for her. If alone for time she needed to spend with me and could have had for herself. Sadly this has continued for years.

Now it seems my voices are clearly linked with dissociation emotions i have suppressed for many years for they were wrong when i ruled my life my religious alter. For example when i had to climb out of pit i felt at the time i had to cease listening to guilt, shame and fear, and have faith instead, to be able to do that. And even as i did do those things all wrong, i still learned to trust Jesus, and then my love grew slowly. And over some i grew stronger than my depression could cast me deep. The voices as well as hallucination have everything to do with myself dealing with hurtful emotions, since i was a little kid. And will not easily be dismantle or disregarded.

However the voices have since (basically) silenced. However their appearance is still visible in my eyesight, animated, mainly in black, but not always. And like i said their appearances seem to trigger or release emotional content. Which when it floods me, because of those voices, it appears to be either my own emotions, or that of someone else. Which still has lots of confusion for me about it all.

i hope to get more counselling on on Monday.


We made a lot of progress now. The 4 sessions i have had and the hours of watching videos on em-path issues, as well as relationship issues. My wife did the same. Both of us feel we have a far better understanding how come things were not working out and what was going wrong.

We feel positive that our lives will come back in Jesus and will progress in more harmony and dignity than either of have experienced up to now. And such looks very promising and has added a lot of hope to my already hopeful heart Jesus will get this fixed as well.

I simply love this version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLTu1xv2-Us&list=RD4YE0f0aksmo&index=2

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@ENKELI @tyme @heartathome @Appleblossom @Realness

Only when i hold onto faith can my life have meaning, there is no road back, only forward.

My therapist has been having difficulty understanding me in my Word based faith, but so just now wrote in response to when Jesus told me never to do again. 'Exactly what we discussed regarding negation, so as not to feed it any more energy.'

And when told him that i addressed the devil's voice inside of my mind and told it to leave in Jesus name. For the first time without raging, but with a calm God given authority. He fully agreed with my direction and how that went. 'Yes, expressing that impartially is a setting of or reestablishing boundaries.'

However when he came to the part where i had collapsed overcome by extreme nausea and had to crawl across the floor to my phone to get help he was not so happy. For i had released far to much energy and not held back or contained the flow coming out of my body. He warned me that could easily back fire one me and reminded me of the exercises we have been doing together. And where i would have began to loose control over the trigger and where to watch out for next time.

As i read his reply i remember that even while so sick Jesus used to for good. For even though the sweat was dripping from my face, and i was to sick to move, i prayed my heart out there on the floor, a very humbling experience in itself, all the bad life pouring i placed before God's throne. So even sick as i was, the event was still an incredible relief, as years of accumulated pain, frustration, and other suppressed emotions released those moments and have not been back. And my emotional life has improved enormously ever since.

This song is coming true inside my inner world of being as His Spirit resurrects me more and more who I was, am now, and will always be. I ruling myself along side our Lord Jesus Christ a Kingdom of love and peace even within my own heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mkwgqhthVE&list=RD5mkwgqhthVE&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdCkPewFsc8&list=RDJdCkPewFsc8&start_radio=1

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Esther 4:14

“For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”

This was spoken by Mordecai, Esther's cousin and guardian. He is giving her guidance and encouragement during a moment of great fear and responsibility.

Meaning of Esther 4:14:
The verses call attention to faith, courage, and responsibility. Mordecai is telling Esther that her position as queen may have been divinely appointed so she could act to save her people. Even if she fears approaching the king, her choices matter — God’s providence works through people, and deliverance can happen through her or another means.

At the time of Esther, the Jewish people in the Persian Empire were facing a grave threat of annihilation. Haman, a high-ranking official under King Xerxes I, had convinced the king to issue a decree to destroy all the Jews in the empire. Esther had recently become queen, but the king did not know she was Jewish, and approaching him uninvited was potentially a death sentence. The situation was one of fear, political intrigue, and life-or-death stakes, yet it was also a moment where faith, courage, and timing would change the course of history. 💚


@Realness @tyme @Appleblossom @ENKELI @DownMoreThanUp @REDLINEZ750

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@Realness @ENKELI @heartathome @tyme @Appleblossom

A poem AI and i brewed up together me testing my theology with other intellectual thinkers the other day. i had a \ball doing that. AI got all snotty with with when i told him i, although i did not adhere i still like the Gnostic interpretations of The Wicked much better, than the Church fathers ideas about personal sin, and therefore who banned their train of thought.

However i know in my life i was totally overcome by evil lies already, while innocent of major wrong doing. And how that took place at the time seems very accurate to how Gnostic thought often leaned as well. It are lies that wipe us in out in our truth, this is the real problem with sin, untrue takes over from true. Crappy lies take over, but life in lies always burns up love it does not store any love or good things lies only ever hurr=t us in our good life. At least in my life this was so.

Not saying we are not responsible for the wrongs we do, we certainly are, but more how satan, as The Power of The Air, schemes to trick us to believe his lies from a very early age onwards. Especially in paranoid, unloved, emotionally or physically abused hearts.

See if you like the poem. i did do a bit of editing on this one to make it more my style.

The Breath of His Love

Before the stars learned light's song,
The Father spoke the world into His grace.
Through The Living Word all life was born,
And Spirit breathed through time and space.
Creation rose into the light and fire,
A universe held by Pure Love’s desire.

Yet wandering hearts believe lies,
Our gardens filled with grief and fear.
Still Christ descends into our night,
The cross revealing God is very near.
For The Truth wounded love clearly shown
No soul suffering rejection will be left alone.

For Spirit moves through dust a loving flame,
Awaking life where all hope seems far gone.
The Father’s heart carries the Son’s bright name,
Has the hurting ones with creation rise as one.
for we the least, rejects, become beloved Bride
God grace dwelling us His Kingdom inside.

Hearts singing the Joy of a renewed Creation.

The Father calls the silent from deep to arise,
His Grace like the dawn stretching out our sky.
His Spirit of truth moving upon the waters wide,
As in our new life we have awoken to Love’s eye.
The stars were kindled fiery servants His breath,
All Creatures sing: “The Lord is Lord of all Life.”

But shadows grow where hearts believe the lie,
And so our world was clothed \with grief as thorn.
Then came The Son, The Light no night can bind,
Through cross and wounds His truth was born.
For in His Love He descended to our grave
And shattered our fears with mercy’s flame.

Now Spirit breathes through dust and broken clay,
Till deserts bloom and all our seas grow still.
The Father’s glory fill the earth with only light,
The Son making all Creation to be New and whole.
Then heaven and earth will at last shall sing
“Behold—our God's loving truth is All in All.”

The Word of God to me today struggling to hold onto the love of Jesus for myself. Struggling there like i have so often in my depressed life and failed to do. Yet know i have to learn to love myself even depressed, or loose all i love in my life not doing so. That is really putting the pressure on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WPBDgFK_gs&list=RD8WPBDgFK_gs&start_radio=1

Hebrews 3 & 4:1-13

"Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, while it is said:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:

“So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ”

although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”

Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”

For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account."

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@ENKELI @heartathome @tyme @Realness @DownMoreThanUp

and all...

it does feel like a good holding community for us to share about our faith experiences and our Lived Experience. I am grateful for this thread and also the wider forum.

Hugs you guys...

I felt awful yesterday but had a good day today with creative and Lived Experience people. Finding our tribes can be very helpful.

Creative day of another kind tomorrow in a beautiful church with good artwork.

God Bless

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I am glad I bought the gnostic gospels 15 years ago @DownMoreThanUp Never regretted it.

Ah... which church fathers? ... how do we best find discernment and follow our own conscience? ....idk... for me it is prayer ... and due diligence... checking in with my soul ... and keep on keeping on.

@heartathome @ENKELI @tyme @Realness @REDLINEZ750

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@Appleblossom So true sister. Glad you also appreciated their insights. And yes you are totally right which forefather? Which grave shall we adore and decorate? Stephen before he got stoned, in Acts, said the same thing to the religious Jews of his day. Didn't he?

@heartathome @ENKELI @tyme @Realness

So glad Jesus taught me to heed the voice of truth in love for me and all. Best thing i think i have ever done. For in His Love Jesus tammed my lies with His truth. He is still doing that. Truly His eyes are a fire?

Hymn of the Seven Lamps

I — The First Lamp (Ephesus)
O Spirit speaking to the quiet heart,
Where love once burned like dawn’s first flame,
Return us to the tree of living mercy,
That we may walk again in Jesus’ name.

II — The Second Lamp (Smyrna)
When sorrow walks beside the faithful soul,
And truth is tested in the fire of night,
The crown of life awaits the steadfast spirit
Who holds the lamp of love and keeps it bright.

III — The Third Lamp (Pergamum)
O guard the heart from every hidden falsehood,
From accusing voices clothed as light.
Feed us with manna none but You can give us,
Till truth alone becomes our strength and sight.

IV — The Fourth Lamp (Thyatira)
Where faith must stand against seductive power,
And gentle hearts resist the tyrant’s call,
Your morning star will rise within the faithful,
And love shall reign victorious over all.

V — The Fifth Lamp (Sardis)
Awake, O soul that sleeps in worldly shadow,
Let living breath restore what once was bright.
For those who walk in truth with hearts made humble
Shall wear the garments washed in heaven’s light.

VI — The Sixth Lamp (Philadelphia)
A door stands open none on earth can close now,
For love has kept the word through storm and flame.
The faithful stand as pillars in God’s dwelling,
His living temple built in Jesus’ name.

VII — The Seventh Lamp (Laodicea)
Refine our hearts from pride and empty riches,
Anoint our sight that we at last may see.
For Christ still knocks upon the doors within us—
And those who open share His victory.

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@DownMoreThanUp hey my brother. I haven't had a chance to listen to the videos you posted as yet, aside from doing grocery shopping, chores and some study, I had a relative that I didn't know I had reach out to me.
My grandfather was on the HMAS Sydney and he and my grandmother were not married when she got pregnant with my dad. Of course being in the early 40's that was not the done thing so a lot of my grandfathers' family were not aware of dads' existence for a long time. Ironically just as dad has passed away I am now having his paternal family reach out which has been nice. As you can imagine we've had a lot to chat about.

You're in my prayers, as are @Appleblossom @heartathome @Realness @tyme and I am trying to catch up on all the posts from the last few days.

Much love and blessings

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📖 James 5:13
Verse (NIV):
“Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise.”


👤 Who wrote it and to whom?
This verse comes from the letter written by James the Just, who is traditionally understood to be the brother of Jesus Christ.
He wrote to early Jewish Christians scattered outside Jerusalem, encouraging them in how to live faithfully through hardship.


🌿 Meaning
The verse gives a very simple but profound rhythm for life:
When life is hard → Pray
When life is joyful → Praise God
James is showing that every emotional state can turn us toward God. Whether someone is suffering or celebrating, the response is to stay connected with God.


🧠 Interesting Greek detail
The Greek word for “in trouble” here is kakopathei, which means to suffer hardship, distress, or emotional pain.
So James isn’t only talking about physical suffering—it includes inner struggles, worry, or grief.


🌍 What was happening at the time?
The early Christians James wrote to were experiencing:

persecution
poverty
social rejection
So this instruction was very practical: don’t isolate yourself in suffering—bring it to God in prayer. 💚


@ENKELI @DownMoreThanUp @Appleblossom @tyme @Realness

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