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Thank you Spencer, I wish a happy new year to you, too. May the Lord accomplish all of your wishes. Blessings

Lord Jesus thank you for your grace and mercy. Forgive our many sins. Please Lord we need encouragement and strength. Please fight our battles for us, strongly protect us and grant full deliverance, healing and most importantly salvation (for those not saved). Touch us with your Holy Spirit. The enemy is attacking constantly but I stand on Proverbs 30:5. Lord what I pray for us do also for all others in need. Bring many into the fold and use us to spread the fragrance of the knowledge of you. Thank you Lord Jesus. I pray in your holy name. Amen

Lord Jesus please richly bless, protect and guide them. Please help them in accordance with your perfect will Father. Thank you and praise you. In your holy name I pray. Amen.

Lord Jesus I want to join in asking for your help in this situation and for Gigi's husband for peace and encouragement for him. Thank you for the provision through the inheritance. May you go before them and may they follow your will as you order their steps.

Giannis,

I am glad to have you back once again. No need to explain to me about your circumstances. I am just happy to hear from you!

God has blessed us with yet another day and the beginning of another year. May we all be fruitful unto the Lord in our daily lives.

Thank you for your prayers for my family members. I know that God hears all or our prayers and is more than able to answer to our requests, especially for the salvation of ones we pray to be saved.

There is a reason for God tarrying in answering some of our requests, and I trust Him in all things. There also is a reason we have been instructed to persevere in prayer for answers to come and to bring every concern to the Lord in prayer. I am keeping these things in mind and practice as much as I can.

Have a good day, Giannis. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

May we learn to love and praise the LORD. May we forget not of HIS forgiveness of our sin and the power of HIS presence in our lives. It is most unfortunate for us to only really want and desire what we had after we have lost it. Colossians 3:1

Let us stay close to the "ROCK" of our salvation, and the wisdom of our GOD through our diligent study and application of HIS word. Let us walk in the LORD and not fall to the lust of this world. Galatians 5:16

GOD bless everyone as we enter into this new year 2024!

January 1, 2024

The Lord to shine HIS face on all who love HIM; and bless us gloriously.

Happy New Year

We have all come another day closer to the return of Christ. Isaiah 51:6 and other verses in Psalms refer to the earth waxing old like a garment; but as Job said there will be a resurrection and we shall see Him in our own flesh ( Job 19:26 and surrounding verses). The suffering of the saints which is part of God's purging process in our own lives will come to an end; certainly if Paul with the immense suffering promised him in Acts 9:16 could state that sufferings now are no comparison to what is to come ( Romans 8:18) heaven is too wonderful for words.

Whatever is left will be restored during the Millennium so that people can live fulfilled long lives in a peaceful existence. The earth will produce its fruit in abundance and Satan will be restrained. Only this will bring about the end of war ( Isaiah 2:4).

I will be the first to admit; and I doubt that I'm the only one that it seems almost a cruel joke to hold on to such hope; especially in regard to the Rapture which was rather obsessed over in the 1970s and 1980s and today hardly discussed in traditional church settings. We have come to a point where it is not discussed in church; but there are numerous online sites which are pretty much obsessed with the topic and endless dreams and visions that individuals are supposed to have had on the issue. It is hard to imagine just how great it will be not to have Satan and his emissaries like a spider with tentacles removed from what is now a chokehold on almost everything in the world today. Nonetheless we have a cloud of witnesses ( Heb. 12:1) which are of every saint who has died since the time of Christ and in fact some are the "first of the firstfruits" as it were of the O.T. saints resurrected in Matthew 27:52 and 53.

To imagine society without the violence and lawlessness of today is a stretch. When Christ comes to rule with a rod of iron He will also be just (see Isaiah 11:3 and other verses). Today may He reign in our hearts.

For this new year of 2024 Please pray for my health, my finances, my family, seen and unseen danger. Pray against anything that wants to cripple my life, against the spirit of rejection, indebtness, to pay all my credit cards and other bills, to revoke all spells, curses, spirit of harassment, hostility, jealousy against my life and home, pray to overturn any death wish made against me, pray against termination of weapons of lies, false accusations, slander, malicious rumor and satanic roadblocks and for a long healthy and prosperous life and all that i failed to ask for God to grant me according to his riches in glory. Thank you and God Bless you.

Pray that my granddaughter (Kyra) become saved and will accept Jesus Christ into her heart. She was abused as a child and is now the abuser. She is married to a Christian and is abusing him. Pray that God will save their marriage and break every ungodly soul-ties. Also pray that she forgives her mother and father.

That i will keep my mind

That i will make God my number one priority know matter what may come my way.

Thanks Giannis.

Happy new year and Welcome back.

God bless.

Hi Gigi,

We had a Christmas gathering. "Out of town" It was wonderful.

I've been checking in on the site periodically.

I have been sitting still and paying attention to the things afar off and up close.

There is also a lot going on in the world today that makes me worry about the youth and young adults concerning their spiritual condition.

They need our prayers most of all!

Thanks for praying for me and I will be praying for you also.

Thanks and God bless you.

please remember my daughter Jessica and Addilyn in your prayers please remember me

Hello brothers and sisters

It has been a long time since I last commented on here. So here we are again. I wish and pray that you are all doing well.

This is the first day of the new year. I wish you a Blessed New Year. Definitely as it seems it won't be a good year for the world , but we are under the wings of our God and let us keep ourselves there as it is the safest place. The world becomes more and more violent and sinful and we start seeing all sort of weird things becoming a norm for people and it will not get any better, only worse.

But we have God on our side and we have to "play" offensive, not defensive. I believe we are in the end times. The reign of the absolute darkness that comes with the antichrist will sooner or later appear. So we have the responsibility before our Lord to attract and save as many people as possible from the destruction that is coming. Let the Lord keeps us until the very end (whenever that is) and cross the finish line victoriously and enjoy the eternal hapiness with Him in the new world that He is preparing for us, His saints, His children and His wife. I believe that as we see the darkness in this world becoming deeper and deeper, the stronger and stronger our God's power is going to be revealed, not only to us but to the whole world. So lets stay strong. (a brother here has a slogan, "We, christians are condemned to be successful". I like this very much)

GiGi: Thanks for you interest in how I am doing, I appreciate it but for some reasons of my own I didn't respond. I wish this is the year your children and their wives will come back (to our Lord's) home.

From Greece to all brothers and sisters all over the world, have a blessed year.

Hello Pnovello, I would echo the good advice given you by others here. The Scripture that immediately came to mind was 2 Corinthians 12:9, "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."

This was the Apostle Paul who received this powerful, yet comforting Word from His Lord. As Adam wrote here, Paul was a prime example of much suffering, not just in the physical realm, but also spiritual & emotional. His life was marked by daily suffering & anguish of heart & spirit, yet he persevered in the Gospel, knowing that his sufferings were but momentary compared to 'the glory which is yet to be revealed (to us &) in us'. "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." ( Romans 8:18). See also 2 Corinthians 4:16-18.

If these great men of faith, even our sinless Lord & Savior Jesus Christ, were not immune from suffering, we know that while we are in the flesh, the workings of sin & corruption within, will always manifest itself in one form or another. My wife & I have been thus far blessed not to have any debilitating illness or injury come upon us (only the minor interruptions to sound health, because of age), yet we know that we can never take this for granted & are resting in our Father's Arms each day for whatever the day might bring forth.

Psalm 27 has always been precious to us. Sure, it was King David calling upon God as his enemies troubled him from every side, but can we not also consider that it's not just the anger of men we might face, but just living in corrupt bodies in a corrupt world that continually works against our joy & perfection in Christ? Please read this Psalm of praise & trust by David & particularly v14, "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD."

Hello again, S. Spencer,

I have been thinking of you these past few weeks and have been praying for you. I hope your Christmas celebration was blessed and full of joy.

I think about those who are lonely and facing problems at this time of year. The holidays can be so difficult for some. I am thankful that our family was able to get together with my husband's family for Christmas dinner. Always a good time. Yet, I am keenly aware of how some suffer much emotional pain during this time. So, I am determined to remain prayerful and supportive in any way I can when I encounter someone who has been working through pain and loss.

As you may have read, we had a water leak in our pipes in the wall. So, we will be pretty out of sorts as we go through the whole procedure for repairs/remodel work to be taken care of by the insurance company and the company doing the work.

Tuesday they are coming to pack up things for storage so they can open the wall up, repair the ceiling, replace sheet rock, paint and, hopefully, replace the flooring. The carpet is beginning to really smell from the water damage. I am sensitive to mold and mildew and I am feeling tight in my chest from it. Please pray that my asthma is not kicked up over this. Never good for me.

Thankfully, we did not have much damage to contents. Only the bed my son has slept on got water damage.

I am thinking of Neville. He has undergone so much with the effects of cancer on his body. I will continue to pray for him and his family.

Hello, Pnovello,

I am sorry to know that you have an ailment that the Lord has not healed yet. We are to persevere under hardship and physical ailments is one of those hardships we face in this life. I truly hope that God will relieve you of this ailment soon, but I know He will in His time according to His will for you. I will certainly pray for Him to bring you healing. Job knew that God allowed him to be tested by so much affliction and kept his faith in God when he was in the deepest pain and suffering of the whole ordeal.

Yet, even with that, God still reprimanded Job when He met with him towards the end of his suffering. We can learn from Job about keeping faith in God no matter what happens because nothing happens in this world and throughout time that God does not allow for purposes that we may not know or understand this side of heaven. Also, we can learn from Job that God's holiness and power and wisdom is very far above ours and we should humbly honor and praise him no matter what we face.

I do hope that your faith will be built up in every way as you wait on Him. Let the Holy Spirit bring you comfort and peace in the midst of this trial.

When I have aches and pains from my back injury, my shoulder degeneration, foot pain, and arthritis, I will think of how those in times long before we were born had so much to bear without modern medicine and treatment. Even surgery was very risky before the art of sterilization of instruments, environment, and doctor/nurses hands and arms. They did not have treatments for cancers, heart disease, strokes, infections and other life-threatening medical matters. So, I will give thanks for having these options available in my lifetime and when I am really having pain, I pray for those who are in worse situations than I am presently facing. It is kind of like giving our pain up to God and asking Him to be merciful to others along with myself.

I do hope that you are encouraged today and I am glad you are with us here

I mean please ignore parts 5,6,7 of my latest comments. They need corrections. Thanks, God bless :)

Sorry for the inconvenience everyone but please ignore this comment. It needs correction. I posted it to soon. LOL

Dear Pnovello,

I read your comment about being sick affecting your faith. Sorry to hear that. To me this question seems like the same as why do bad things happen to Christians? Where does this expectation come from that God is a genie to serve us and make us comfortable, instead of us serving Him? That expectation isn't from the Bible from what I've read.

The goal of our short time of earth isn't to have perfect health and tons of money- greedy deceived people might say that but it doesn't make it true.

Jesus is God and was tortured and murdered. Not exactly a privileged human life. The top evangelist in the Bible who wrote the most books seemed to have nonstop problems, like being beaten, shipwrecked, chased, sickness, no food, no shelter, etc. 2 Cor 11. Abraham had problems. Moses had problems. Every person you'd consider a God-follower in the Bible has had major problems, including Jesus Himself, so who are we to assume we deserve to be treated higher than them?

Romans 5:3-5 - this says to rejoice in sufferings. Paul said he learned the secret to being content and it has nothing to do with physical things. The Bible says to store our treasures in heaven and not on earth. God bless.

Parts 1-4 coming soon

Hi Gigi.

You're welcome and thank you.

God bless.

Our healing is spiritual not physical . The body is just a shell that decays with age and ailments . I have been ill for well over thirty years , different things , some permanent some not , including stage 4 cancer ten years ago . I've had covid twice for sure but I think maybe three times , I have arthritis , sicca syndrome , fibromyalgia and a heart condition . My God has taught me many things through my ailments , lessons that I needed to learn and I'm sure I still have plenty to learn . God permitted His Son to suffer terribly for our sins , why should we think that we shouldn't suffer ? Do we think that we don't deserve to suffer ? Do we think that other people , sinners ? atheists ? idolaters ? do we think that they deserve to suffer more than we do ? We must learn than none of us are any better than anyone else , we must understand it , accept it and believe it whole heartedly . Why me ? say some . Why not me ? say I . Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth . God brings us into submission by whatever means He sees fit , only He is righteous , we are not , not ever . Accept your lot and thank God for showing you such mercy every day . If you cannot imagine that your life could be even worse , then just watch the news and see how others live and suffer . Thanks to God for His very great mercy and generosity , Thy Kingdom Come .

PART 5

This situation and others like it are not disobeying the Sabbath. But if you get a part time job helping your fiend with his moving business on The Sabbath, this is disobeying the Sabbath. If you need the extra money, pray and God will provide it to you without you having to break the Sabbath. Remember David and his feeding his men the shewbread. ( 1 Sam. 21: 1-6). It wasn't something he did all the time, it was something of need at the time. The same with Christ feeding his disciples from the cornfield on the sabbath ( Matt. 12:21) or someone pulling their ox out of a ditch on the sabbath ( Luke 14:5). So the Holy Spirit is telling us to not let others "judge" you for this kind of behavior on the Sabbath. It does not say to no longer keep this day Holy.

Corinthians 16:2, "On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.

Excuse me but how-in-the-world does this scripture indicate that the church met on Sunday? Paul is asking them at the beginning of each week to set aside an amount of money for whatever so this won't have to be bothered with when he visits them again. This is not work and he certainly doesn't say for them to switch to Sundays to have church until he comes. Please use some discernment.

Colossians 2:14 & 16 "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross." Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days." God did give Moses statues and ordinances for instructions on His 10 commandments to give to the Jews but they eventually added foolish ones of their own. Verses 14 explains this by calling these ordinances that were "against" them and which caused the Jews much confusion in following the real laws of God and Moses.

PART 6

OTHER VERSES OF IMPORTANCE:

1 Corinthians 16:" Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come." This can't be the Sabbath, Paul is asking them to do work.

Romans 14:5 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. Question? Does your church only meet on Sunday to fellowship and hear preaching and teaching? Is Sunday the only day of the week you might hear preaching from the minister? This verse just tells of believers gathering on Sunday to fellowship and listen to Paul preach because he had to leave the next day which was the Sabbath.

( Col. 2:14 & 16 God." Blotting out the handwriting of ORDINANCES (my caps) that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross; Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or the new moon or of the sabbath days: In the 10 Commandments of God there is only 1 day that God commanded us to keep hollowed out for Him for our good; the sabbath. There were other sabbath days during festivals that were not all on Saturday but were kept during the festivals that were a week or longer. These were sabbath dayS. The statues and ordinances in Moses' laws is what this verse is talking about but, not the commandment, if you don't agree with me and believe it is talking about the last day of the week, let me give you an example of this verse's meaning: A friend calls you on a Saturday and says he needs your help right away moving some things out of a garage he was storing them in because the person who owns the garage said if he doesn't do it immediately they were going to haul it all of to the dump. So you help your friend move his things. A lot of work, that took some time.

PART 7

HISTORICAL EYEWITNESS OF CONSTANTINE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CHANGING THE SABBATH TO SUNDAY.

*"The Catholic Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive resource on Catholic teaching, history, and information ever gathered in all of human history. This easy-to-search online version, was originally printed between 1907 and 1912 in fifteen hard copy volumes."

"The Bible says "remember" that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. The Catholic church says No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week. And low

the entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic church." American Sentinel, Father Enright, June 1893

"The primitive Christians did keep the Sabbath of the Jews before the Christians, for a long time together, did keep their convocations upon the Sabbath in which some portions of the law were read: and this continued TILL the time of the Laodician council." The Whole Works Of Jeremy Taylor, Vol. IX p416.

"Constantine published the Edict of Milan, granting freedom of religion in the empire and establishing Sunday as a day of worship." Collier Encyclopedia

vol 7, p. 212

"It was the holy Catholic Church that changed the day of rest from Saturday to Sunday, the 1st day of the week. And it not only compelled all to keep Sunday, but at the Council of Ladiocea, AD 364, anathematized (cursed) those who kept the Sabbath and urged all persons to labor on the 7th day under penalty of anathema (excommunication)." Catholic Priest T. Enright, CSSR, Kansas City, MO

Dear S. Spencer,

Thanks for letting us know Mr. Neville's prayer needs. I will be praying for him and his family.

The end game: Politics and Christians

Today; one of the Deacons in our church gave a thought provoking sermon which was boiled down to looking up to the Lord; and not sugar coating where things in the world were headed going into 2024.

There are general parameters that would steer a Christian toward one side of the two political parties. If any of us possess the slightest wisdom (whether worldly or above) it becomes clear to us that promises that are made and the media spin should never be taken without the preverbial "grain of salt". We also need to hold politicians accountable. It is very unclear to me why Americans aren't protesting what is becoming clearly a plan for our country to be invaded and overrun. We have become accustomed to letting government handle all of our problems whether it is financial; "birth control"; or so called national security. The big picture for everyone in a fallen world is that there are many chameleons out there; people either find a new way to do the same old sin; or they find a new sin to embed themselves with. This is clear from the abortion issue; now it is "safe and easy" according to how it is spun to terminate a human life with a pill these days which is where the majority of abortions are done today. One could; perhaps seem the same logic with the beheadings during the Tribulation; it is a quick and compared to other techniques more painless method of mass killings than other means which I suppose martyrs will be grateful for.

In general; we should continue as long as we are able to work out the command of the Great Commission until the government forceably stops us en masse through whatever means necessary; or the mobs in the streets decide to execute vengeance themselves on who they will with impunity (which sadly we are clearly approaching with current events).

IF the Lord tarries the best we can hope for with a regime change is many months; probably at least a couple years of great sacrifice.

Good afternoon.

Please pray for Brother Neville and family. "A very faithful Servant"

Nevelle was admitted to the ER and spent 13 days. He was diagnosed with Acute Kidney Injury brought on by multiple myeloma which is a blood cancer which affects his bones. He have two cracked vertebrae (upper and lower back), cracked sternum and ribs from calcium depletion brought on by the cancer. He says he's doing great physically and spiritually so no need for worries! Just keep the wife and family in the prayers.

Thanks and God bless.

I have come to the point of what George Muller cried out, "O Lord God, now, please for my good and Your honor, heaven or restoration."

Jesus healed him.

Love you sister