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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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Hi @Appleblossom ,

The posts including the Greek are enriching aren't they? But they are from @heartathome with the help of AI.

One day I would love to read the New Testament in its original Greek. I have a Greek New Testament and was very excited when I bought it. I also have started the course. I got my head around the verb, noun structures but the different alphabet is a challenge. Plus all the memorisation that is part of learning a language. If I live a long time I may get there (unlikely but a possibility).

At the moment I am working on documents with different English translations of the New Testament. I have been working on it for over a decade so I might as well finish it.

I have asked AI a few questions. Like heartathome's succinct posts including the Greek AI's excellent answers makes me wonder about the value of studying Greek for myself. I'm not really sure about AI. Technology is amazing but I find it scary. My first question for AI was "Is AI too smart for its own good?" Then, "How many jobs will be lost because of AI?" It told me that many jobs that the average person can do are at risk. There are new jobs evolving, and I hear how useful people are finding AI therapy, but I wonder about the future. But I should admit I am someone who was slow to get a computer and then slow to get a mobile phone and then slow to get a smart phone.

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@Realness "So we should let go of earthly striving."

Amen, amen. Or at least put our fleshly needs where they belong, for our flesh to be nourished, not our spirit find its existence in and for.

@Bunniekins @Appleblossom @tyme @heartathome @ENKELI

Tow awesome texts to show us how Jesus envisions us living in His Kingdom Down here both spiritually and physically.

When we seek Godd first.........There is NOTHING WRONG taking care of our fleshly needs.

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Oh sorry @Realness about the greek

I dont think I will learn any new languages. My brain is too tired, but I often do like to research and check original languages and meanings.

I am not too keen on AI. I dont find it amazing. Yes, it might be wise to be cautious. The universities are not. However, eventually the govt decided to ban phones in classrooms. I am surpirsed there is not more proactive tek regulation. I saw a lot of tek decades ago. Current AI can draw from a lot of material on the internet. Its just a sophisticated search engine. I guess we all have to find our approach to it, and walk our own path.

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@Appleblossom @Realness @Bunniekins @tyme @heartathome

My Easter Meditation today.

Old rule, old lie, old jailer I love to watch you fade away;

For Jesus lives in me and turns your night into my today.

The lies that ruled my life are dust and ash on judgement day;

Praise the Lord! I watch their smoke rise high — Heaven’s hurray!

Lies burning within is what turns Judgement Day a Festival - Resurrected His Truth true.Read Psalm 27 & 91, and behold fear burn His Sevenfold Sun!

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Thank you for sharing @DownMoreThanUp

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Hi @heartathome , @DownMoreThanUp , @Appleblossom , @ENKELI , @tyme , @MissGremlin , @REDLINEZ750 , @Shaz51 ,

I Corinthians 4 (followed by I Corinthians 5 and 6)

- Look on the apostles as servants of Christ and managers of the mysteries of God.

- Paul not concerned with human judgement, not even his own. It is the Lord who judges me.

- So don't judge anything before the Lord comes.

- No favouring one person over another.

- You have received everything that makes you different from others - everything that makes you full and rich.

- We apostles are a spectacle to the world - appear fools, weak, dishonoured, hungry, poorly clothed, homeless, labourers, reviled, persecuted, slandered - we are like the scum of the earth.

- Paul became their father in Christ Jesus through the gospel - follow my example.

- Sent Timothy to them to remind them of Paul's ways in Christ Jesus.

- The kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power (moral power and excellence of soul).

I Corinthians 5

- Paul disciplines the Corinthians to deal with a situation that needs dealing with.

- In disciplining the person that person's spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

- Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new unleavened batch - for Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.

- the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

- Those in the church are called to a different code of behaviour.

- Not the church's business to judge those outside of the church.

I Corinthians 6

- Christians should not be taking other Christians to court.

- Surely there is a wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between fellow believers?

- Legal disputes are already a defeat. Why not rather be wronged?

- The unrighteous will not inherit God's kingdom.

- Some of you used to be like this. But you have been washed in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

- Your bodies are a part of Christ's body - flee immorality.

- Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit - you are not your own.

- You were bought at a price - glorify God with your body.

(Note: I looked up I Corinthians 4 in AI before writing this.) The Corinthians are caught up in prestige of leaders. In I Corinthians 4 Paul contrasts the Corinthians' prestigious Christianity with the apostles' suffering as Christians. The Corinthians are full and rich as Christians - kings of the world! The apostles are Christ-serving scums of the world. I'm not quite sure what Paul means by following his example. Given the degree of suffering the apostles experience it is a bit scary. But I suspect that prestigious Christianity is off-track. Forgiven but off-track.

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@Realness @tyme @Appleblossom @heartathome @ENKELI

He Brings Me Through

I love You, Jesus, for You truly save,
not only from the darkness of the grave,
but through ten thousand deaths that line my way,
the fears and losses I meet from day to day.

Lord, You meet me when my own strength fails,
when sorrow deepens or when terror assails;
with body, soul, and mind pressed down and worn,
You are the Morning Star who brings my morn.

Again and again Your Word brings me through:
through fear and grief to trust and courage true,
through weakness into strength I never knew,
through shattered hours made whole again in You.

For even this poor body, frail and weak,
worn by pain, brought low, and rendered meek,
I am not abandoned to the dust alone,
nor left to perish as though I were unknown.

All I have lived in weakness here with You
has given my lowly life deep meaning too;
the flesh that suffers shall yet be raised new,
and dust shall shine in glory, praise, and truth.

Within my perishing I received Your holy flame,
the broken parts in me made whole again;
and all my lifetime carried as its loss
is transformed by the work You did upon the cross.

I know all shall be wondrously reversed:
the last, the lowly, and rejected lifted first;
the poor in me filled full with heaven’s store,
the meek in me receiving evermore.

Where I mourned, I am already joined to song;
my hunger filled, though waiting in me suffered long.
Being merciful receives goodness from above;
made pure in heart, I meet the One who spoke in love.

As a peacemaker I may shine, a child of light;
where struck down for truth, I shall awake in light.
What here I called sorrow, shame, or loss
He has transfigured in me through the cross.

Laying down my life has proven to be my gain;
what seemed but passing shall not pass in vain.
What here was small and wounded, cast aside,
shall stand in splendour at Your wounded side.

For in Your Kingdom all in me is turned to right:
my inner death swallowed up by resurrection light,
years of sorrow undone by joy that has no end,
weakness raised to power through Christ my Friend.

So You save me now, as You saved me then;
You keep me through my loss and raise me yet again.
Through ten thousand deaths You lead me on,
until my night gives way to Your endless dawn.

That is why I love You, my Lord above:
because Your saving reaches all of me in love,
sustaining my body through time and pain,
Your death has brought my life to eternal reign.

Jesus’s Truth
(Gen. 1; Isa. 53; Rev. 20–22)

He carried all humanity
(1 John 2:1–2)
out of their graves,
(Ps. 22:30)
and revealed the Father
(John 14:6–7, 9)
as Truth in and among us,
(Isa. 7:14)
His true life our truth.
(Rom. 5:1–18)

For Jesus’ heart desire
(John 17)
is His Father’s will:
(1 Tim. 2:3–6)
seeing all humanity
(John 12:32)
again as One to Be,
(John 17:21–22)
with I AM’s All in All.
(1 Cor. 15:23–28)

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@Realness You know how i feel about that? Jesus didn't tell His followers they would drink from His cup without reason. He knew very well the great tribulation meets all believers down where the lie rules reality.

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Happy Easter Sunday @ENKELI @DownMoreThanUp @Realness @Appleblossom @heartathome 🥰

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@AuntGlow @Realness @tyme @Appleblossom @ENKELI @heartathome

All in a nights work.😀

Belonging Change

Grace is more than becoming good enough,
our flesh brought under His holy rule;
it is the lost brought home to Love,
the wanderer no longer played the fool.

It is not only sin washed from our soul,
nor only our dark deeds put to flight;
it is our soul brought into His whole,
our orphaned state made child of light.

Not “do better” or “work harder” the way,
not “prove yourself and earn a place.”
But see God’s faithful covenant reveal
hearts brought home by His words of grace.

“Not My people” — made wholly Mine own.
“Not beloved” — Beloved you are to Me.
The cast-out no more forsaken, nor alone;
the far-off in His kindness now may be.

So grace does more than wash us clean
from where once the feet of ruin trod;
God’s love by orphaned spirits seen,
sealing our new name in Christ with God.

For what God changes is not to appease
the sinful works of a past rebel will,
but truth now shaping our inner peace,
His Word placing our hearts on Zion’s Hill.

Overcome by darkness is not our fate,
nor merely held from lies by night;
we are removed from under its weight
and planted anew in the Son’s pure light.

Do not let striving flesh be blessed;
rather weary labour’s works now cease.
Our Lord’s grace is not behaviour dressed,
but living the fullness of His love in peace.


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