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Do You Believe In God Or Not?

by minimus in

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if you've been associated with the witnesses, believing in god was a necessity.

do you still feel that god exists?

if you believe in god, do you feel that he cares about you?

AwakenedAndFree

Dear Minimus,

I believe in the God of the Bible, Jehovah God.

PSALMS: 115: 2:" Why should the nations say:" Where, now, is their God?"

PSALMS: 112: 1:" Praise Jah, YOU people! Happy is the man in fear of Jehovah. In whose commandments he has taken very much delight.

PSALMS 99:5:" Exalt Jehovah our God and bow down yourselves at his footstool; He is holy.

PSALMS 100:3: " Know that Jehovah is God. It is he that has made us, and not we ourselves. [we are] his people and the sheep of his pasturage.

PSALMS: 139:13,14,(13):" For you yourself produced my kidneys; You kept me screened off in the belly of my mother.(14): I shall loud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful.

PSALMS 139: 16: " Your eyes saw even the embryo of me, And in your book all its parts were down in writtting, As regards the days when they were formed And there was not yet one among them.

Christian Love,

AwakenedAndFree

80

SHE LEFT ME!

by Yerusalyim in

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my wife, liza, came home from work this morning (she was doing the 3rd shift thing) and said she was leaving me.

this afternoon at 1 pm i took her to the bus station.

at 4:20 pm she was off to nyc.

AwakenedAndFree

Dear Yerusalym,

I'am so sorry for what happened to you. What a difficult situation to be in!

You are in my thoughts and prayers.

Christian Love,

AwakenedAndFree

26

Back in / out of the hospital

by Amazing in

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a week ago thursday, i realized i was developing an upper respatory problem, likely bhronchitis, or maybe pneumoina.

i have suffered with this and asthma all my life since i was 2 years old.

however, after my heart attack in may, i dreaded this happening, as the reduced oxygen can mess up an already weak heart.

AwakenedAndFree

Dear Jim,

It's nice to know you are feeling better now.

Best wishes to you.

Regards,

AwakenedAndFree

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For Those Who Pray. My dad is very sick

by DJ in

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my dad is in very bad shape.

he has cns lymphoma.

he is sliding backwards rapidly.

AwakenedAndFree

Dear DJ,

I'am sorry to hear about your dad's condition.

I was looking at old threads today that I missed when I was sick; and I came across yours about your father.

I hope he his feeling better now. How is he doing?

Christian Love,

AwakenedAndFree

Edited by - AwakenedAndFree on 30 October 2002 23:8:0

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I'M BAAAAACK!

by Mary in

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well i had the surgery 3 weeks ago and it looks very good.

the doctor said the cancer hasn't spread any further (thank god!

) but they still want me to have radiation.

AwakenedAndFree

Dear Mary,

Welcome back!

It's nice to know you are recovering quickly from your surgery.

Take it easy.

AwakenedAndFree

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5-Year Survival Achieved

by Francois in

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this week, i have passed the five years marking the removal of a malignant melanoma from my chest.

lesion 1.15 millimeters.

axiallia node dissections clear, wide local excisions clear.

AwakenedAndFree

Dear Francois,

Congratulations and the best to you.

AwakenedAndFree

40

what would jesus say if he inspected this place?

by comforter in

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woe, woe, woe!

AwakenedAndFree

Dear Comforter:

I would like to share with you these comforting scriptures for your benefit:

2 Timothy 2:23,24,25,26: (23): " Further, turn down foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing they produce fights. (24): But a slave of the Lord does not need to fight, but needs to be gentle toward all, qualified to teach, keeping himself restrained under evil. (25): "instructing with mildness those not favorably disposed; as perhaps God may give them repentance leading to an accurate knowledge of truth," (26): "and they may come back to their proper senses out from the snare of the Devil, seeing that they have been caugth alive by him for the will of that one."

Christian Love,

AwakenedAndFree

32

Loyalty to the truth

by happy man in

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at bokstudy yesterday , we talk of the diffrent things gb say, and who we must stand to this.. i tell that they are only peopel and have make some misstaks, as we can se , fore exampel in the proclaimers book, well the study leader say, we must shoe loyality to the gb, even iif it later show upp to bee wrong, it is very importat that we follow what they say.. this is a ver difficult area, ofcourse in our religion we can not have 6 million diffretn wuies, but if we follow evry word very carefull, are we then not follow man?.

what about if they say something who take your life, and later change this, who is responsibel, or even worse our kidds, who are resposibel if they die on such polyci, like the transplantaision prohibition, we have fore some time, are we fore exampel personaly responsibel fore our akts, when the day is here, or can we say, we only follow what the gb say.. this is a very tricky qestion who i think about a lot

AwakenedAndFree

Dear Happy Man:

It is to Our Heavenly Father that we should exult:

ISAIAH:61:(10):" Without fail I shall exult in Jehovah. My soul will be joyful in my God. For he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; with the sleeveless coat of righteousness he has enwrapped me, like the bridegroom who, in a priestly way, puts on a headdress, and like the bride who decks herself with her ornamental things." (11): For as the earth itself brings forth its sprout, and as the garden itself makes the things that are sown in it sprout, in like manner the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will cause the sprouting of righteousness and of praise in front of all the nations."

ISAIAH:" 26:13:" O Jehovah our God, other masters besides you have acted as owners of us. By you only shall we make mention of your name."

JEREMIAH:7:4:" Do not put YOUR trust in fallacious words saying,: The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah they are."

JEREMIAH 17:5:" This is what Jehovah has said: " Cursed is the able-bodied man who puts his trust in earthling man and actually makes flesh his arms, and whose heart turns away from Jehovah himself".

JAMES 1:17,18: (17): " Every good gift and every perfect present is from above for it comes down from the Father of celestial lights and with him there is not a variation of the turning of a shadow. (18): "Because he willed it, he brought us forth by the word of truth, for us to be certain firstfruits of his creatures."

ISAIAH: 26:20: " Go, my people, enter into your interior rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for but a moment until the denunciation passes over.

ISAIAH:65,13:"Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: " Look my own servants will eat, but you yourselves will go hungry. Look! My own servants will drink, but you yourselves will go thirsty. Look! My own servants will rejoice,but you yourselves will suffer shame.

Christian Love,

AwakenedAndFree

Edited by - AwakenedAndFree on 18 October 2002 15:56:37

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At long last...Freedom!

by NancyJeanne in

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hi everyone!

AwakenedAndFree

Dear Nancy Jeanne,

"At long last ...Freedom!"

WELCOME!

I hope you have found the same freedom that I have found - Christian freedom!

1 CORINTHIANS: 7:23: " You were bought with a price; stop becoming slaves of men."

Christian Love,

AwakenedAndFree

38

Will YOU Make Room For It? RoadTripII

by Know_You in

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it is with a mixture of joy and sadness that mrs know_you and i depart john and eunice's sanctum of sanity.

truly their home is an enclave of peace in this mad, doomed, sybaritic world.

what a contrast to the spiritual lunatic asylum inhabited by the apostates with their shrill cacophony, their puny fists, like the men of babylon, raised in anger to their creator!

AwakenedAndFree

Dear Know_You,

Thank you so much for your reprove. I have fixed my misspelled word. English is my second language.

Christian Love,

AwakenedAndFree

Edited by - AwakenedAndFree on 16 October 2002 20:6:45