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When I was about 4, I got lost in the huge orange grove we lived next to. My parents had half the community out there looking for me and I don't remember anything about it but, obviously I was found and it must have been a traumatic experience for my parents.? So, my Dad built a fence around the back yard and as he was finishing up, my Mother says, I told him "I can still get out".

So I'm at another point in my life, where I'm tempted to ask God "Why?". I heard the other day someone mention that asking God "Why?" is not the right thing to do. We should instead ask "What?" Here's an example.... https://embracing.life/article/when-you-find-yourself-asking-god-why So I would like to know where this admonishment is found in the Bible? Because even Jesus asked the Father "Why?"

It looks like they're Catholic so; what else would we expect but false teaching?

I was watching a video, the other night, in which a man, his wife, and child were attacked by a bear while on a camping trip. I thought it odd that all the guy could talk about was protecting his child; never once mentioned his wife. Then I'm reminded of my wife telling me when she learned about how her older parents, after the kids had all left home, got along great while alone, but got into conflict whenever the kids came for a visit. I wonder why? Then I've heard many times, spouses saying that "my kids come first". That sounds good, on the surface, but is it? Here is an article, by a psychologist, which sheds some light on this very crucial subject. (I hope it's Ok to post the link) https://www.theknot.com/content/choosing-between-child-and-spouse Here is a short excerpt... But, this gem of wisdom is not new. Notice "hubby" is listed first? Why would the Bible say that young women, who typically say "I put my kids first", need to be taught to love their children? I don't know for sure, But, from what I have seen, if spouses do not put each other first, there will be conflict in the home the children will not get the love they need and it's the kids who end up losing in the end.

Deuteronomy 17:15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. 16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. Yes, I'm sure we could all agree that David, Solomon were right with the Lord at the time they contributed to the Word of God. But nowhere, even in the OT, does God condone multiple wives. Even Abraham was out of the will of God when he took Hagar. And Solomon was disobedient to the command of God when he took multiple wives. Adam had one wife too. Genesis2: 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. God's will has always been one man for one woman. He never condoned what Abraham, Jacob, Solomon did, nor any other instance of polygamy.

King David committed adultery, then murdered the woman's husband. I'd say that was pretty evil. Yet he was the writer of most of the Psalms. King Solomon was basically a "legal" adulterer by having 1000 wives and concubines and accommodating them in their idolatry. Looks like a pretty sordid life to me, yet Solomon was the writer of the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. I guess that's what some say to be "using crooked sticks to draw straight lines".

Please read the following verse And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. Genesis 18:22 It plainly says that Abraham was standing "before the Lord" too, but I do believe it was on this earth, not Heaven. Again, neither of the two Job narratives say that the "sons of God" or Satan were "in Heaven" as well.

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I remember a song or video the kids used to watch, vege-tales or something where the character sings "I can't wait to have patience, cuz patience is a wonderful thing". Remember those? Yeah, adults walking around all day with such in their heads....terrible. Anyway, the jest of the song was that "patience" is being able to endure the anticipation of something. I suppose it could include that, but that's not the root meaning of the word......I think the word means to be able to calmly withstand/endure adversity. I am going through some bad stuff, family stuff, and I would appreciate any prayers anyone could offer up for us. Thank you. James 1:3-4 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. and Romans 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Haven't smoked in over 40 years. Funny you should ask. My DIL asked me that very question last night, right after asking what I thought about drinking wine. From the tone of the conversation, I suspected she wanted something to pounce on So, I told Her I WOULD Not answer the question. She tried to tempt me to answer like 2 or 3 more times but I still refused So she came from another angle and asked had I ever smoked or drank beer. To that I answered "yes". I then turned to my son and asked, have you ever seen your daddy drink or smoke? He answered, "no". Over 40 years on drinking too. I wasn't going to lie about my past, but both she and my son know where I stand on drinking. She only wanted something to argue about. But she said no more about it. Let me say, in conclusion: neither smoking, nor drinking is going to send a Christian to Hell *if he's already truly saved*. But they'll damage your testimony, invoke the chastening from the Lord, and likely send you to Heaven early.

Proverbs says: " It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter." Even after 6000 years I don't believe mankind has discovered all of God's "concealed things" nor nailed down every truth, else all true Christians could agree on on everything. For instance, experience tells me that you will likely disagree with me on the meaning of the following verse...... "For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, And he shall be to me a Son?" .....because the way it reads to me is, that no angel has ever been a "son of God.

The planet, earth, is a spherical ball of molten rock and metal covered by a relatively thin crust. There is no physical "cornerstone" in a ball of magma. Maybe the "cornerstone" could be the Sinai Peninsula" since it's kind of triangle shaped? I leave that for another discussion. Job 38:1-7 is using builder's terms and they are metaphorical. But nothing in the passage gives a time for the occurrence of mention. I could ask my 8 year old and 11 yo grand daughters or 14yo grandson where they were when God created the earth. One or all of them would likely say "papa, that's easy....I wasn't born yet." Does that answer require the wisdom and understanding that God asked of Job for the answer? Do you see anywhere that Job gave an answer to that question? Know why? Because Job did not have the necessary wisdom nor the understanding to answer it because Job did not have the complete Word of God like we do. "All" of the "sons of God" were (will be) there, after the rapture, in the city of Zion. (they already were from God's perspective) Had Job possessed the wisdom and the understanding to answer God's question "where wast thou", he would have answered "I was there" And nobody "sold me a bill of goods" I came up with all that heresy by myself.

Unfortunately, that doesn't surprise me at all. An old preacher used to say something like "rat poison is mostly good wholesome corn"; it's that tiny percentage of poison that kills the rat.

Yes, Pre Columbian people used dugout canoes down here in my neck of the woods. African slaves invented the banjo, and I love playing mine. Indigenous Amercians also cultivated corn, beans, and squash long before Europeans came here. But I enjoy growing and eating them all.

that's it Mighty fine picking too... ?

An elderly evangelist and his wife, The Sheltons, used to visit our little church sometimes. They both played guitars and harmonized together. It was beautiful. This is one of the songs they would sing. This may not be what was meant by the song but, I personally believe that Job 38:7 refers to the truth that we, from God's perspective, are already there. We know this to be fact because God is already in the past, the present, and the future, at the same time. What say ye? ALLREADY OVER ON THE OTHER SIDE. Well I`m already over on the other side waiting for my brand new body, Sitting up there in the Heavenly fair, on the right hand side of the Father, with my citizenship up in Heaven, I`m living in Christ you see, yes I`m already over on the other side waiting for my body to be. I took a look in the old black book, and it thrilled me through and through, if you`v been saved, and born again it`s bound to thrill you to, well I`v was reading along, about going home, and found to my surprise, why I`m already there in Jesus living on the other side. let the heathen rage, come what may, none can bother me, to this world I`m crucified in Christ on Calvary, in 3 whole days, there in the grave, with him I`v been baptized, so being then made dead to sin, living on the other side. Yes well I`m already over on the other side waiting for my brand new body, Sitting up there in the Heavenly fair, on the right hand side of the Father, with my citizenship up in Heaven, I`m living in Christ you see, yes I`m already over on the other side waiting for my body to be. Now if you a fretting and thing of quitting, or fainting along the way, and you already past from death to life, you`l just mightas well stay, the battles fought, the victory's won, it is finished was our Lords cry, hes made us more than conquerors, where living on the other side. Yes well I`m already over on the other side waiting for my brand new body, Sitting up there in the Heavenly fair, on the right hand side of the Father, with my steamship up in Heaven, I`m living in Christ you see, yes I`m already over on the other side waiting for my body to be.

One of my favorites

Down By the Riverside (Lyrics) I'm gonna lay down heavy load, down by the riverside, down by the riverside, down by the riverside I'm gonna lay down heavy load, down by the riverside and I ain't a gonna study war no more I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield, down by the riverside Down by the riverside, down by the riverside I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield, down by the riverside And I ain't gonna study war no more I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more I'm gonna put on my traveling shoes, down by the riverside Down by the riverside, down by the riverside I'm gonna put on my traveling shoes, down by the riverside And I ain't gonna study war no more I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more I'm gonna put on my long white robe, down by the riverside Down by the riverside, down by the riverside I'm gonna put on my long white robe, down by the riverside And I ain't gonna study war no more I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more I’m gonna put on my starry crown, down by the riverside Down by the riverside, down by the riverside I’m gonna put on my starry crown, down by the riverside And I ain’t gonna study war no more I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more, I ain't gonna study war no more

First, a disclaimer: I don't know who the narrator is and I don't agree with the Bible versions he is using. I also don't know anything about Steven Furtik either. But what caught my interest was everything after the 3:40 mark. https://fb.watch/gZYqXC14cW/ A few things I've discovered in my own studies: Jephthah most likely treated his daughter in line with the provision of the "singular vow" given in Leviticus 27. Barak, in the Book of Judges, was not some wimpy coward who needed a woman to protect him, but instead wanted Deborah to go along because he wanted the presence of God in the battle, didn't care that he would receive no glory for the battle, and was therefore eventually named among the "heroes of faith" in Hebrews chapter 11. I was taught, in a Baptist church, that "angels cohabited with women" in Genesis 6, to which I discovered otherwise. i was also taught that 'angels" presented themselves before God's throne in Heaven in Job 1:7 and 2:1 . However I found that no throne, no Heaven, and no angels are mentioned anywhere in either passage, and discovered that Abraham, Moses, and David also did things "before the Lord". My pastor also taught that Black people were forever destined to be slaves because of Noah's curse, but a little Bible study found that is simply not true either. Also, I have some Biblical evidence to believe that Job chapter 38 verses 1-7 refer to a future event and, to me this has mind blowing implications. Imagine if you had been raised in a Pentecostal church, read your Bible and discovered that today's "tongues" are fake or that Salvation is secure? Or what if you came up in a Calvinist church where you were taught that God saves some and dooms others before they were even born simply at his own whim, and you "discovered" that was hogwash? As the narrator above says, the Bible is true, but our understanding is flawed. There are many "new" things we'll never know until we get in there and dig for the "gold" ourselves. As to what Steven Furtik said here: Yes that is what Mark 6:5 says. Remember when Jesus said that He didn't even know when the rapture would be?(paraphrased) well. if he said he could "do no mighty works" maybe it was probably because God has limited Himself even in some ways. He can't sin, for instance. The Bible is such a vast book of knowledge with many "new things" and secrets left to be uncovered; look at all that wisdom in the Book of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes etc.. But of course our "discoveries" should always agree with the rest of scripture. Again, I know practically nothing about Steven Furtik and have no idea where he was going with the scripture reference, he may indeed be a raving heretic for all I know. Just thought what the narrator said was interesting. Anyway, rambling rant over. ?

I've had this song concept kicking around in my head for a long time. Just been too busy with other things. This is a rough draft which I will most likely tweak some more but, I hope to get time to work out the melody and chords. Probably will be in D Major with sus chords Heartstrings ©2022 Wayne Webb A harmony is in your holy words Sweetest poetry I've ever heard As I realize what they are saying This is when you come to me Suddenly you’re playing Chorus On my heartstrings A lovely tune Lord, I don’t need anything When I can’t get enough of you And when I feel this way All I want to do Is make the sweetest melody And play it on my heartstrings For you 2 When I’m sad and think about you, Jesus Knowing you’re, not far from any of us That you’ll never take your Spirit from me This is when you comfort me Once again you’re strumming Chorus

I can promise you, this Christian voter will not be voting for anyone in the party which supports gun control, communism, sodomite marriage, sex changes, recreational drugs, or murdering babies; and we all know which party that is.

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open your lips wide, grab it with your teeth....it'll be alright.

That would be my second choice. ?

No.....Oh Henry's are better. ???