prayer warriors (following Jesus Christ, everyone welcome)

[chickengr]

I have just applied for the second paper and gave them some documents they needed for the first one. hopefully will get them by the end of the next week. I wonder if that girl provided me other papers that only her office can do. just spoke to the real estate agent and asked her to take care of it.

 

[Isadora]

My dad is out of surgery and is doing very well.

 

[Nyhillbillies]

But I thought the reason he ran was because he knew God would forgive them and have mercy on them and he didn't think they deserved that... so he chose not to go.


Thank you for the definitions...I hadn't thought bout it from that standpoint! I will definitely dig deeper into these as I pray n study!

Sorry for the delay in responding. Life & chickens happens!

Yonah ( the Hebrew spelling & pronunciation) was afraid- not only for his life - but for this reason:
If the people of Nineveh repented, it was an implied condemnation of the people of Israel who had defied the warnings and exhortations of the prophets.

Afterwards, when the Ninevites gained God’s Mercy, he prayed he wouldn’t life to see Israel’s destruction.

That are the Jewish-centered thoughts on Yonah.

 

[Nyhillbillies]

Oh that is a great point and observation i did not see til now - thank you!

I guess after all I have seen God do in and through my life inspite of me I want to understand WHY, HOW could I be seeing things like this surface after so many years of obedience and surrender to Him?!
2021 God told me to remain. and through prayer and study by May i had come to the conclusion that I was to strive no more so i said here you go God do whatever You want and I went about my merry way doing whatever I wanted after a lifetime of devotion and what I considered striving.
I saw the hours I would spend each day studying His Word as striving. So i stopped.
i believe this has been a time of testing and I failed to  remain. I am slowly getting back into His Word and we found a church we have been going to in person rather than online since covid...but involvement isn't what we once had years ago, sad to say.
I believe this has been a faith challenge

Solomon’s words come to mind. Eccl 12.12- end.

 

[kikiruru]

Thank you Jesus

 

[Nyhillbillies]

I concur with this, to a point. It was pride that led to Jonah's disobedience. He said, "I know You, Lord, You are a God of mercy. And when I preach to them, they will repent and you will have mercy on them and not destroy them. Then I will look like a fool, because I will have said You would destroy them, and You won't do it, and I'll look like a false prophet!" I don't think it's so much that Jonah thought they didn't deserve mercy, I don't get the impression he cared one way or the other. He only cared about his own reputation. His attitude seemed to be, "I'm a prophet, and if I say Ninevah is going to be destroyed, then it better be destroyed!"

God called him out on this. He said "Look, there's 120,000 people in the city that don't even know their right hand from their left, and also many cattle, shouldn't I have compassion on them?" To me this means that number of people were under the age of about four, so there were a lot more people than that in the city. (I could be wrong.)

But Jonah was not a compassionate man, as we see again when his vine shade withered away. He only thinks of himself and his own misery. The book of Job ends with God speaking of His own compassion; we don't know if Jonah ever got any.

Blue, what’s your source for this info about this paraphrasing of the story of Jonah? It’s really far beyond the text.

 

[Nyhillbillies]

Pride was the "original sin," the sin that caused war in heaven. Satan wanted to be "like the Most High," but in all the wrong ways. See Isa. 14:12-14.

The casting out (I wouldn’t call it a ‘war’ as it was a ‘no contest’) of the angel was indeed because he wanted to ‘sit on God’s Throne’, as it were. He was cast out , along with others like him.

 

[Nyhillbillies]

I am back and tired.

I still need prayers for my documents. I need to get them as soon as possible and civil servants in this country are ............ (better not to comment).

on my trip I found an abandoned kitten. I brought her home.

THIS is the reason for the trip! To save a life!
The Almighty is SO much grander than our minds can perceive.
Everything happens for a reason.
God is trying to get your attention.

 

[Nyhillbillies]

Thank you Jesus

If your thanks are directed at the Almighty, to whom Jesus said to pray to, Blessings will commence.

 

[Nyhillbillies]

I also had a very full heart this morning. Looking out at answered prayers for moisture. Our landscape has been magically turned into a winter wonderland, which means our mountains are holding precious water for our drought ridden state. We have more coming next week! Yesterday was another answer to prayer...mine as a mother. I have a daughter that is getting married this month. Extra special because she's expecting next month, has lived with this..very good man, for almost 2 years..not married. It saddened me deeply. The Lord hears our prayers of asking and our prayers of gratitude. He most certainly deserves prayers of gratitude as He's given us so so much to be grateful for. Also .. found our that my son and daughter in law are having a girl. Did the gender reveal. They have a 4 year old boy. I had had a spiritual moment a few weeks ago, seeing my daughter walk across the room with a little girl in her arms. I won't go into full detail.. I knew she was having a girl. I actually bought a dress for her the day before the gender reveal. I had told them I knew what this baby was, told them what had happened. I brought out the dress after the revealing. I'm so happy for them! God is good. Isn't He?!

Congratulations to the expectant parents and grandparents! Why does it sadden you?
Are they committing adultery? If not, they are Biblically married as of the first time they had intercourse.

There’s no formal marriage ceremony, in the Bible. The only man-made formality was the showing the bloodied Bridal sheet ( proof of virginity) to the man’s parents. And that was part of a contract between his parents and hers only.