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Post by e v e on Nov 27, 2022 12:08:30 GMT -8
you call torture and blood “being” ?
please research tiamat (= eden)
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Post by Aeliana on Apr 5, 2023 10:09:00 GMT -8
I'm Trading My sorrows for the joy of the Lord!
She was ninety-two years old, petite and poised, sporting perfect makeup and cute outfits every day of the week. Her husband of seventy years had recently passed away, and she now had no other choice but to move out of the home she’d always known and into a nursing home. On the day of the move, after patiently waiting in the lobby of the nursing home for quite some time, a smile washed across her face when a staff member told her that her room was finally ready. As the elderly woman carefully maneuvered her walker to the elevator and shuffled her feet behind it, the nurse explained to the woman what her room looked like. She described the dainty eyelet curtains on the window, the fresh white sheets on the bed, and the flower vase on her nightstand with yellow sunflowers in it.
She started to say more, but the woman interrupted her and enthusiastically exclaimed, “Oh, I love it!” The nurse chuckled and reminded her she hadn’t even seen the room yet. To which the woman quickly responded with a profound statement that took the nurse by surprise.
The elderly woman leaned in close and said, “I don’t have to see it, honey, because happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on what it looks like, what the window view is, how it smells, or if I like the curtains. You see, I have already decided to love it and be happy in it. No matter what.”
The nurse stood there, mouth gaping.
The old woman continued, “Happiness is a decision I make each morning when I wake up. I have a choice. I can spend the day in bed thinking about how my body doesn’t work anymore like it used to, or I can be thankful I’m still alive. I can focus on the difficult times I’ve been through, and the loss of those I loved, or I can choose to be happy for what today will bring and find joy in God and the people who surround me. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I can choose to focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve tucked into my heart, just for this specific time in my life.”
Versions of this sweet story have been circulating the Internet for years, and regardless if it is factual, the point it makes is certainly true. This woman had discovered that in order for her to be positive and optimistic and have a happy outlook on life, she had to choose not to let seeds of negativity and bitterness plant themselves into her thoughts. She had to focus on the good things God had placed in her life, even in the littlest of blessings, instead of the not-so-good things. She purposely made a daily, conscious choice to be positive, no matter what.
In her ninety-two years of living, she’d discovered happiness and peace were within her control and did not hinge on the circumstances around her. She practiced and mastered the skill of choosing mind over emotions. As a result, she was able to feel joyful even when life got difficult. That is what we all have the power to do if we so choose, and that choice changes our destiny.
When we allow life’s circumstances or other people to hold the key to our joy, we will always risk losing it. Instead of living acutely aware of the blessings God bestows on us each day, we may instead go through life feeling unhappy, sad, disappointed, or dissatisfied with how life has turned out.
Tracie Miles, Unsinkable Faith: God-Filled Strategies to Transform the Way You Think, Feel, and Live (Colorado Springs, CO: David C Cook, 2017).
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Post by Aeliana on Apr 5, 2023 10:13:57 GMT -8
Trading My Sorrows, Worship music by Daryl Evans I'm trading my sorrows And I'm trading my shame And I'm laying it down For the joy of the Lord And I'm trading my sickness And I'm trading my pain I'm laying it, laying it, laying it down For the joy of the Lord
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Post by Theophilus on Apr 21, 2023 13:00:18 GMT -8
Daryl Evans I love Daryl Evans He's my favorite. I talked to him in person one time. I told him in heaven I'm coming to his venue. I have all the CDs. his CD entitled "Freedom" Is the one I like the best. Actually "Trading My Sorrows" is the first cut on the CD but the one I like is the second cut "So good to me". Here's the lyrics.
So Good to Me
Darrell Evans
Oh God, You've been so good to me
You came and found this orphan
And You brought me right into Your family
Oh God, You've been so good to me
You threw away my past
And You never count my sins against me
You got me dancing
And now I'm shouting
You got me leaping
And now I'm spinning HalleluYAH
You're so good to me (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
You're so good to me (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
You're so good to me
Oh God,You've been so good to me
And every day I wake up
I breath another breath of Your mercy
Oh God, You've been so good to me
And my delight is in
You 'cause I know that
Your hand is upon me
You got me dancing
And now I'm shouting
You got me leaping
And now I'm spinning HalleluYAH
You're so good to me (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
You're so good to me (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
You're so good to me
Jesus, You're the one Who saved myself from me
So I will be the one
To praise You in the streets
You're so good to me (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
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Darrell Evans
Oh God, You've been so good to me
You came and found this orphan
And You brought me right into Your family
Oh God, You've been so good to me
You threw away my past
And You never count my sins against me
You got me dancing
And now I'm shouting
You got me leaping
And now I'm spinning HalleluYAH
You're so good to me (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
You're so good to me (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
You're so good to me
Oh God,You've been so good to me
And every day I wake up
I breath another breath of Your mercy
Oh God, You've been so good to me
And my delight is in
You 'cause I know that
Your hand is upon me
You got me dancing
And now I'm shouting
You got me leaping
And now I'm spinning HalleluYAH
You're so good to me (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
You're so good to me (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
You're so good to me
Jesus, You're the one Who saved myself from me
So I will be the one
To praise You in the streets
You're so good to me (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
You're so good to me (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
You're so good to me (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
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You're so good to me (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
You're so good to me
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Post by Theophilus on May 2, 2023 7:31:06 GMT -8
Jesus is telling us to renounce or give up everything when we become His disciples. Our money and families are not ours. Everything we own and possess we give to Him. In our hearts we say “goodbye” to everything and give it to Jesus. We consciously recognize that all we have belongs to Him and He now has first place in our lives.
Luke 14:25–35
25Now huge crowds were going along with [Jesus], and He turned and said to them, 26If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his [own] father and mother [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God] and [likewise] his wife and children and brothers and sisters—[yes] and even his own life also—he cannot be My disciple. 27Whoever does not persevere and carry his own cross and come after (follow) Me cannot be My disciple. 28For which of you, wishing to build a farm building, does not first sit down and calculate the cost [to see] whether he has sufficient means to finish it?
29Otherwise, when he has laid the foundation and is unable to complete [the building], all who see it will begin to mock and jeer at him, 30Saying, This man began to build and was not able (worth enough) to finish. 31Or what king, going out to engage in conflict with another king, will not first sit down and consider and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand [men] to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32And if he cannot [do so], when the other king is still a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks the terms of peace. 33So then, any of you who does not forsake (renounce, surrender claim to, give up, say good-bye to) all that he has cannot be My disciple. 34Salt is good [an excellent thing], but if salt has lost its strength and has become saltless (insipid, flat), how shall its saltness be restored? 35It is fit neither for the land nor for the manure heap; men throw it away. He who has ears to hear, let him listen and consider and comprehend by hearing!
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