tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post4183929531274133433..comments2024-03-28T12:57:03.861-04:00Comments on PROPHECY UPDATE: Iran: Pushing The World Into WarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-33157785134484897572012-01-15T11:18:10.662-05:002012-01-15T11:18:10.662-05:00I always enjoy hearing other people's testimon...I always enjoy hearing other people's testimonies. Thanks Kathleen and Diane, Stephen for your profession of faith, and DDU I already thanked above. Wonderful all.bandungborn-hollynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-18719099468324310142012-01-14T14:19:30.444-05:002012-01-14T14:19:30.444-05:00Love your testimonies , all !!!
I grew up in a no...Love your testimonies , all !!!<br /><br />I grew up in a nominally Christian home, with a Godly heritage. We attended church most of the time.<br /><br />It was not until I attended a week of VBS at a Baptist Church at age 12, that I finally began to understand what it meant to become a Chistian. And I did receive Christ as Saviour and I was baptized that very summer.<br /><br />Throughout junior high and high school I followed Christ and felt called to become a foreign missionary (now called "church planter"). <br /><br />However, in college I "fell away" and made some foolish choices. But God was still with me, protected me, and kept me from even more foolish mistakes.<br /><br />Soon after graduating college, He called me back to Himself thru the movie of the musical, "Godspell". <br /><br />I became involved with some sincere "Jesus people" (aka "Jesus hippies")of the early to mid 1970's. God even provided older Godly women to help me. It was there and then that I met and married my husband. <br /><br />I have had many trials thru the years . There were many times when I thought God had deserted me and that He just kept sending me difficulties. We think that God owes us certain things. But really He owes us nothing. It is because of His mercies, that He gives us so much. Salvation and Eternal Life is the greatest Gift of all, and unearned. <br /><br />Now, as I enter my senior years , I see that He was there the whole time. <br /><br />My life is like the poem <br />"Footprints in the sand" <br />One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord.<br />Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.<br />In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.<br />Sometimes there were two sets of footprints,<br />other times there were one set of footprints.<br /><br />This bothered me because I noticed<br />that during the low periods of my life,<br />when I was suffering from<br />anguish, sorrow or defeat,<br />I could see only one set of footprints.<br /><br />So I said to the Lord,<br />“You promised me Lord,<br />that if I followed you,<br />you would walk with me always.<br />But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life<br />there have only been one set of footprints in the sand.<br />Why, when I needed you most, you have not been there for me?”<br /><br />The Lord replied,<br />“The times when you have seen only one set of footprints in the sand,<br />is when I carried you.”<br /><br />That is certainly true for me. DianeDianenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-48471772013679227502012-01-14T08:54:49.599-05:002012-01-14T08:54:49.599-05:00LOVED your testimony, bandungborn! You, too, Dave...LOVED your testimony, bandungborn! You, too, DaveDU and Kathleen. Thank you all for sharing!Alicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440990812353695096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-20004123716449153112012-01-13T16:47:50.012-05:002012-01-13T16:47:50.012-05:00I'm a quiet one, a perimeter person, who has b...I'm a quiet one, a perimeter person, who has been reading this blog for several years but haven't commented much. I'll share my testimony and then step back to the perimeter again :) Probably no one will see this since but sharing will be good practice for me.<br /><br />I became a believer when I was four. My parents were missionaries (to Indonesia - hence the "bandungborn") so they were always evangelizing. One day my dad was witnessing to a man, but I ended up being the one to confess my sins and accept God's free gift of salvation.<br /><br />Fast forward to the age of 27. By that time I was married to a wonderful man and had two children. Life was good but something was lacking. I kept thinking there had to be more to the Christian life than what I was experiencing. <br /><br />One day I was reading a Christmas gift, an old classic "The Christian's Secret Of A Happy Life" by Hannah Whitall Smith and as a result I realized what I needed was a personal relationship with Jesus. I began that Nov 2, 1988. Even though I was already a believer and saved, that day I became a follower. What a difference He has made!<br /><br />I've been a prophecy watcher for a long time and really enjoy watching with all of you. It's so exciting! Jesus is coming soon!bandungbornnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-43355818542635315492012-01-10T23:06:40.658-05:002012-01-10T23:06:40.658-05:00G'day Diane
Well it took me quite a few reads ...G'day Diane<br />Well it took me quite a few reads but having decifered what his point was from all the wording I can stay I stand convicted. I'm going through stuff in relation to my daughter and that is the first of many installments ( im sure ) from God about my attitude.<br />Thanks.<br /><br />......I can't believe they used to preach like that!!!!<br /><br />DaveDave DUnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-27080400803993351442012-01-10T20:17:52.384-05:002012-01-10T20:17:52.384-05:00Hello, all , here is a CS Lewis quote for the time...Hello, all , here is a CS Lewis quote for the times in which we now live:<br /><br />"The real test is this. Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one’s first feeling, ‘Thank God, even they aren’t quite so bad as that,’ or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleas...ure of thinking your enemies as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is the beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally, we shall insist on seeing everything –God and our friends and ourselves included—as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred." - CS Lewis<br /><br />What do ya'll think ? <br /><br />By the way, loving the testimonies. As either Mrs C or Sue said (in different words ): eternal security is not based on OUR abilities, but on GOD's abilities to hold us .(and he is able :)<br /><br />DianeDianenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-4425407884719129252012-01-10T19:42:59.205-05:002012-01-10T19:42:59.205-05:00Scott, I'm sure many, many people were saved t...Scott, I'm sure many, many people were saved through reading the books. <br /><br />Dave DU, thanks. To brag on God a little, to see what He went through to bring me back is amazing when I looked back on it. I was at Sams Club (not sure if you know what that is...a warehouse store) with my fiance at the time. We were looking at books and my fiance had one in his hand titled This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti. A man walked up to us and said "that's a good book". Then when we were in line checking out to pay for the book, my fiance asked me to hold the book and wait in line while he checked on the price of something. As I stood in line holding the book, the man in front of me turned around, looked at the book and said "that's a good book", if you want to read another good book, it is called 'Left Behind". It was the same man we saw earlier at the book aisle. So, I filed that book title away in my mind for future reference, then later bought it, and the rest is history. Just thinking of how the Lord put everything into play in order for me to learn of the book is just amazing to me. <br /><br />Interestingly, I asked my sister to read the Left Behind book, thinking it would have the same effect on her, but it didn't. To her it was just a good novel. <br /><br />It is true He never really left me and as He says in John 10:28-29, no one is able to snatch me out of His or the Father's hand. :-)<br /><br /><br />Blessings,<br />KathleenKathleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-18475790279322879922012-01-10T19:07:22.908-05:002012-01-10T19:07:22.908-05:00My pleasure bandungborn.
Loved your testimony to,...My pleasure bandungborn.<br /><br />Loved your testimony to, Kathleen. I love the persistence of God in your life. He never really left you it seems.<br /><br />DaveDave DUnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-28116581374591264012012-01-10T19:06:51.718-05:002012-01-10T19:06:51.718-05:00Kathleen
Funny you'd say that about the 'L...Kathleen<br />Funny you'd say that about the 'Left Behind" series. I was reading it during a time that I was traveling a lot. I can't even count the number of times, in an airport, that someone would approach me (after seeing me reading one of the books) and tell me how they were saved as a result of reading the series. It was rare that I would complete a trip without at least one person telling me such a story. ANd it was really nice each and every time - you could see the pure joy in these new believer's hearts.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00403649419538752058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-34138992496234240732012-01-10T18:22:48.451-05:002012-01-10T18:22:48.451-05:00Dave DU,
Great testimony! I will give mine in the ...Dave DU,<br />Great testimony! I will give mine in the hopes that someone who needs to, will hear it. I grew up in the church. Went three times a week. Got saved (I think)at age 8. I didn't notice any change. In my young adult life I got away from the church because of the hypocrisy I saw in Christians, particularly my mom. I went my own way and got into new age because I was searching for *something*. Everytime I would get into something, a little voice in the back of my mind said *what's if it's not true?* Thank God for the Holy Spirit!! In 98, the Lord set me up to hear about the Left Behind novel. I read it, thinking it would be a good novel but it scared the hell out of me (literally). I still remember being so cold, shivering from the Holy Spirit on/in me. I was definitely changed from that moment on. <br /><br />In Bible college we did a teaching testimony and I thought I was like the prodigal son, but the Holy Spirit pointed out Luke 15:4. I was the one sheep Jesus left the 99 others to find! and I am eternally grateful to Him!! Plus, I know people were praying for me.Kathleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-49990081382154006292012-01-10T18:09:28.684-05:002012-01-10T18:09:28.684-05:00LOVED hearing your testimony Dave DU and I echo yo...LOVED hearing your testimony Dave DU and I echo you in saying it would be of great interest to hear the circumstances around which other people got saved. Thank you for sharing.bandungbornnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-65813235451991591792012-01-10T14:15:08.231-05:002012-01-10T14:15:08.231-05:00I still have mine Scott. She's in her 80s. She...I still have mine Scott. She's in her 80s. She's sicilian and has the fiery temper to back it up. When she heard one of my brothers left the Pentecostal church to join the Seventhday Adventist Church she threatened "horse heads in bed" so to speak, I can tell you.<br /><br />I'm the same Scott about hearing how people got saved. It would be nice if the forum members gave a testamony each. <br /><br />Brilliant<br /><br />DaveDave DUnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-5971605880980699832012-01-10T08:11:47.402-05:002012-01-10T08:11:47.402-05:00Dave
Thats an awesome story. I LOVE to hear about ...Dave<br />Thats an awesome story. I LOVE to hear about people's salvation "story" - thanks for sharing that. I think about my grandmother all the time - one of the most devout believers I have ever known - I can't wait to see her again in New Jerusalem!Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00403649419538752058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-64122047457944720942012-01-10T05:46:56.843-05:002012-01-10T05:46:56.843-05:00I'm pretty sure it was May 92 Stephen.I'm pretty sure it was May 92 Stephen.Dave DUnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-22993171771892790312012-01-10T04:36:38.960-05:002012-01-10T04:36:38.960-05:00Dave, do you remember the exact date ??
Mine was...Dave, do you remember the exact date ??<br /><br />Mine was 30 OCT 1977<br /><br />please tell me<br /><br />Stephen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-82065220774110915142012-01-10T02:15:22.165-05:002012-01-10T02:15:22.165-05:00BTW, that poem UP there is not mine, I got it off ...BTW, that poem UP there is not mine, I got it off Real Jock . com<br />that GAY site I was telling you about where I was posting rapture warnings.....<br /><br />Stephen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-56160160480059074422012-01-10T02:09:14.387-05:002012-01-10T02:09:14.387-05:00This story's fairly quiet so I'd thought I...This story's fairly quiet so I'd thought I'd share for a few minutes of how I got saved for all our curious unsaved readers. <br /><br />Basically I was in my mid to late 20s and I was going no where in life. I was feeling pretty down and out and rejected by the world and society in general. I had no women by my side and in my mind I could see a grey cloud coming over the horizon.. I new this cloud was death because I was seriously contemplating ending it all. <br />In the mean time my grandma had been praying for me for years to become born again and everytime time I would visit her she would sit me down and preach to me sometimes for hours. As usual I would Finnish the visit and come back again months later. <br />I remember the day I got saved, it was just another planned normal visit and once again grandma sat me down and preached. "Four hours later" I'm still there, "patient as" mind you, and then she mentioned Barry Smith an end times evangelist and how he had been preaching the end of the world; "bang" the understanding of my mind opened. I could feel a voice saying "give Jesus a go", repeating over and over. Then I felt a presence slip down into me, filling up my arms, fingers, body, legs, everything, my entire being.<br />I now know that was the Holy Spirit coming to live in me and give me understanding of the God head.<br />I can't say I haven't looked back but I don't want to live without Jesus ever again.<br /> I went back to work and gave my life to Christ a week later. As I said I dont want to go back.<br />It hasn't been easy becoming a Christian, but the end result is well worth the growing pains.<br />God has given me a new heart with new and right desires and in particular a revealing of what abortion really is. But I'll discuss that some other time later olif Scott doesn't mind.<br /><br />By the way any grandmothers out there who are preaching to your kids or grand kids, don't give up, keep at them because God will fall on your hearers and save them.<br /><br />That's my salvation in a nut shell and I would seriously advise any person out there who feels an urge to turn to God, to do it.<br /><br />DaveDave DUnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-35385951608218599772012-01-10T02:07:22.409-05:002012-01-10T02:07:22.409-05:00I am starting to get concerned
about something. li...I am starting to get concerned<br />about something. like I stated<br />earlier, there would be possibly<br />another POP up and then the top.<br /><br />We have that tonite.<br /><br />Sure enough, Dow futures JUST went to a new high in the Y wave a little while ago....soon ending a <br />(2) UP >>>>>>><br /><br />But here's my point.<br /><br />Number 3 downs are very destructive...and I was reading 24 <br />Matthew and 17/21 LUKE and 1 THESS 5 and it would SEEM that this rapture really WILL just come out of the blue....<br /><br />When people are saying "peace and safety" as Paul states. I cannot<br />DENY his words. of course not.<br /><br />and think about it, with 17/19 Isaiah close and 38 Ezekiel right<br />after that, one has to wonder,<br />with all that WAR LIKE stuff going<br />on, where is the peace and safety<br />jazz ????<br /><br />That is what scares me....<br /><br />Scott, you might be right, its possible, based on Paul's words<br />in 1 THESS 5, that rapture could<br />be VERY CLOSE.<br /><br />Why ??<br /><br />Cause I just cannot see this market<br />continuing back to 12,900 and on.<br />And Prechter does NOT believe that<br />either, they are VERY BEARISH right now.<br /><br />We are still above 12,000 as I write this....<br /><br />I could be wrong BUT scripture<br />DOES give clues and i have just<br />stated all that.<br /><br />we will see >>>>><br /><br />Up until NOW i was against admitting this but the EWI model<br />is making me LOOK AT the evidence<br />in context again.<br /><br />Stephen >>>>>>>>>>>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-29150171685441671452012-01-09T21:37:45.444-05:002012-01-09T21:37:45.444-05:00Why does this not surprise me?
The photo of thos...Why does this not surprise me? <br /><br />The photo of those 2 dictators reminds me of photos of Hitler and Mussolini. <br /><br />This is all in God's Plan and He is not surprised by any of it. I am so glad that we can trust in the One who holds the future. <br /><br />"We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain "(Hebrews 6:19) <br /><br />Or as the song goes :Jesus is our "anchor beyond the veil". <br /><br />Blessings, DianeDianenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-88795393021885794332012-01-09T21:22:32.831-05:002012-01-09T21:22:32.831-05:00Put that to "rap music" Stephen. It migh...Put that to "rap music" Stephen. It might just work.<br /><br />Well done.Dave DUnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-77508611227857465862012-01-09T20:38:37.589-05:002012-01-09T20:38:37.589-05:00CAN u believe this ???
please go here >>>...CAN u believe this ???<br /><br />please go here >>>>><br /><br />http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=252899<br /><br />SPOOKY !!!!<br /><br />Stephen >>>>>>>>>>>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-44133952892148915482012-01-09T20:23:37.522-05:002012-01-09T20:23:37.522-05:00Beautiful, Stephen, thanks for sharing.
DianeBeautiful, Stephen, thanks for sharing. <br /><br />DianeDianenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-8092110884408097292012-01-09T20:15:17.307-05:002012-01-09T20:15:17.307-05:00GOD IN A WHIRLWIND
Oct 23, 2011 12:08 PM
God a...GOD IN A WHIRLWIND<br /><br /><br /> <br />Oct 23, 2011 12:08 PM<br />God approached the mortal<br />To speak to him<br />About the children and livestock that had perished<br /><br />Normally, one brings a condolences card for these things<br />A bouquet of flowers<br />A sympathy note<br />Dressed in sorrow and comfort<br />Instead<br />God appeared with the descending of a whirlwind<br />A graphic reminder of the forces<br />Of nature that had started the problem<br />Job must have realized that all of his terrifying accusations must have been true<br />God was indeed the source of the troubles<br />If not He, then who?<br />There He was, right there<br />In a whirlwind<br />To inflict the final punishment<br />For the sin<br />That Job had vehemently denied<br />What had He done?<br />Why him?<br />Why him?<br />Why Him?<br />God against man: he was no match for Him.<br />Can a lion attack an ant?<br />Where is the fairness and justice in such a fight?<br />But God<br />God<br />God<br />Spoke to Job out of a whirlwind<br />Seemingly cruelly indifferent<br />To<br />To his many hurts and fears<br />God spoke<br />And far from explaining Himself<br />God pulled the rug from under Job<br />Reminding him of which one of them owned the capital H -- not he, but He.<br />(The Being, not a being.)<br /><br />In all of this<br />Job failed to see one small, important thing<br />Out of countless created beings, he, a mere he, had received a live visit from Him<br />He came<br />He came<br />He came<br />(Though He spoke out of a whirlwind and not a harmless sunrise)<br />You see, that's the crux of the matter, isn't it?<br />It's always the crux<br />Literally<br />God comes to speak<br />The Son --not risen yet,<br />Appears, untamed and unpredictable<br />Over the mountain<br />Carrying the Crux<br />The Cross<br />The symbol of punishment<br />For the sin we'd forgotten<br />But knew in our hearts we should be punished for<br />The cross<br />Our death<br />We do not know what He intends to do with that cross<br />That He is carrying over the mountain<br />We fear that He intends to give us what we deserve<br />Forgetting that far worse is His apathy than His wrath<br />And that if His intention had truly been to destroy us, then He would have done the worst thing imaginable: not coming at all<br />So maybe<br />He's not carrying that cross to punish us for our sins<br />Had condemnation been His purpose<br />He would have never come at all<br />But there is one simple problem with that observation when held up to the fact of His appearance, a problem that convinces me more of divine love than divine wrath<br />And that maybe we, in our fear and hurt, have accused God of being the<br />Bad Guy when indeed, scandalously, He may be the Lamb that<br />Takes away the sin of the world<br /><br />It is that He came. <br /><br />OK, so remember I say good things too, ok ??<br /><br />So respect my EWI,<br /><br />Stephen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432851080052468710.post-33153629206584491732012-01-09T20:02:34.574-05:002012-01-09T20:02:34.574-05:00Ok, here it is >>>>>>>
there...Ok, here it is >>>>>>><br /><br />there may still BE one more pop to <br />the upside.....not sure yet.<br /><br />DOW UP 32 pts, with the 3rd smallest range of the last year !!<br /><br />VERY QUIET for some reason.<br /><br />but devious.<br /><br />EWI counts still suggest a (3)<br />down dead ahead. IT IS POSSIBLE<br />the rapture could hit before the<br />wars, ie, "they shall be proclaiming peace and safety, disaster will hit, they WILL NOT escape it"<br /><br />NO way to know of course.<br /><br />ALL I CAN tell you guys is that<br />number 3 downs are very powerful<br />and i am not sure what will happen<br />to cause it BUT it will NOT be<br />good for this world. NOT AT ALL !!<br /><br />This (2) UP is already past three months and is REALLY LONG in the<br />tooth so to say, walking on eggs !!<br /><br />There is a CRISIS shock coming,<br />I can see it like a BLACK WAVE<br />over the ocean, I just cannot tell<br />you WHAT it is.....<br /><br />we will see....<br /><br />Stephen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com