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401 | Danial's afe lion's den? | Daniel | Norrie | 50047 | ||
Teaching and ministering are not the same as leading an army or something like that! Were people stronger in those days? | ||||||
402 | tender of sycamore tree | Amos 7:14 | Norrie | 10479 | ||
We just finished studying Amos in Sunday School. In Amos 7:1-9 Amos witnessed 3 visions of judgment against Israel-locusts, fire and plumb line. He cried out for intercession and twice the Lord Spared the people. By the third vision, Amos learned that the people would not change and therefore would be judged by God. There is a conflict between Amaziah who is a priest at Bethel in Amos 7:10-17. Amaziah accused Amos of conspiracy against the king but did not address the problem of the spiritual corruption. The priest was more loyal to the king than God, in fact, he was an appointed priest, not even a Levite. What was going on was that Jeroboam was the Northern King but God said to worship in Jerusalem and gave them the instructions on how to worship properly. Uzziah was the king in Jerusalem so nat Jeroboam didn't want his people going there so they set up worship places in Bethel and other places that more or less worshipped God the way the pagans worshipped, even had temple prostitutes, they were def. not worshipping God as He commanded. Anyway, they didn't like what Amos was saying and ordered him to go. They didn't care what God wanted, only what they wanted. But they thought that Amos was a professional prophet, they seem to have had them at the time, seems there was even a prophet school or a prophetic order, nat these guys would only prophesy what was popular, maybe kinda like the psychics today, anyway, Amos didn't want to be associated with them. The only reason Amos was prophesying was God said to and it made him very unpopular, otherwise, he was just a poor farmer, scratching a living. That's what Amos meant when he said he was not a prophet or a prophet's son, but he was a herdsman and a gather of sycamore fruit. Amos was basically a poor intenerant farmer who followed the sycamore harvest, tended sheep, he was just basically a nobody that God used. Amas did not let them intimidate him, he kept on preaching what God said to preach. |
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403 | Prophecy for the automobile? | Nah 2:4 | Norrie | 15652 | ||
Nolan, I wanted to ask earlier if you were taking over for Steve an question asking, but didn't have a scripture to back it up. :) | ||||||
404 | Prophecy for the automobile? | Nah 2:4 | Norrie | 15661 | ||
Hey, if we can't give our friends a bad time occassionally, what fun is there left in life-right! :) | ||||||
405 | How did Satan get back in God presence? | Hab 1:13 | Norrie | 50597 | ||
If God is holy and therefore cannot stand to be in the presense of sin which is why we need to be reborn, how come God still talked to Satan as in Job? | ||||||
406 | Does God hate divorce? | Mal 2:16 | Norrie | 11908 | ||
God may hate divorce but He hates other things more, like abuse or adultery, He also hates murder, sexual sin, etc. He hates sin period but we still do it. :( | ||||||
407 | I'm still un-clear... | Mal 2:16 | Norrie | 31081 | ||
If she decides to leave, then you'd be in the clear, but until then... | ||||||
408 | Can an offering be money? | Mal 3:8 | Norrie | 10842 | ||
You are right, an offering is anything over and above a tithe. Now we just about have to do money offerings. Back in Biblical days, they all tilled the land and such, we mostly live in cities and money is the fruits of our labor. :) | ||||||
409 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Norrie | 13609 | ||
I want to lodge a complaint here. I wrote this long response here, took a lot of time and effort, then I get this note: You have exceeded the maximum length of a note or question. The maximum length is 5000. Please shorten by at least 33 character(s). Please click back and try again... I clicked back and the whole thing is gone!!! I can't believe this! |
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410 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Norrie | 13622 | ||
I'm sure this would have got a response too. :) Maybe tomorrow I'll try to remember everything I put there. Maybe I'll make an email of it, then copy and paste. I know I have a good testimony about this subject because I've been involved in it for years but w/having school kid and going to bed early now, it will have to wait. | ||||||
411 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Norrie | 13669 | ||
What you had was a 10 fold increase. :) You sound exactly like a sounded a few years back, I would have wrote practically the same thing you did, almost word for word, but something changed in my life. I had been following Copeland since 1980 and thought he was an excellent preacher, I bought all his tapes, went to several Believers Conventions, bought tapes of all his buddies too and I could practically preach a sermon from listening to them so much. I have experienced healing and financial miracles, my daughter is a direct result of a prayers during the Anaheim Believer's Convention in '91. Then on NY Eve '98 I broke my arm rollerblading. Right before Christman, I had a job out of town for a week so I recorded all the preachers while I was gone. It just so happened I had a room w/a vcr, that is the only room w/vcr I had and I had a lot of hosp. rooms thru this. My first stay was 12 days and I had 5 surgeries, I had a dozen surgeries altogether, rest were one at a stay tho. :) Anyway, I got that tape and I played it practically continually. It had all kinds of messages related to my current need including Gloria's Healing School. I had Joyce Meyer and Creflo Dollar on there and everything was good! I absorbed myself in the Word, it would be playing when I'd go to sleep and when I'd wake up (which in the hosp is pretty regular), I'd restart if it was over. I confessed healing to everyone I came in contact with and being in hosp, there was planty of contact. :) I heard that Copeland and Oral Roberts were going to be in Creflo's church the next month, I made plans to be there. Plus I was involved w/all these ministries, I was on more mailing lists, I was getting them all to agree with me that I'd receive my healing. I could see it in my mind's eye, I could see myself giving testimony at my church, teaching them all about the great Jesus Christ Insurance Agency, By His stripes we are healed and here's proof!!! But guess what? I went and didn't get healed. In fact, I had a doc appt that we went to before we went home and my stitches had burst and had to be restitched. I couldn't figure out what happened. I had faith and I was in agreement with all the great ministries, what was wrong? Then after that is when I got online and started joining forums. I'd be still preaching just like you too even tho I didn't get my healing and someone said that Copeland was in apostasy. I didn't believe that, I had been listening to him for years, I was thinking about moving to Ft Worth so I'd be at their church! I'd been partner with them for close to 18 yrs then, I never heard him say anything wrong. I even had some of his partner letters and would share with anyone who would listen about why I broke my arm, it was because I had what I said, I spoke a negative confession for months (when my daughter got skates, I asked Mama why'd she give them to her, who's going skating with her, me? her? that is a one way ticket to the hospital and sure enough...). Then I started being bombarded w/Copeland's apostasy (and other faith ministers too but he's like the leader). I'd hear it on the forums, I'd be given material from people at church, I'd check out these different sites, what they said he said was def. apostasy. I was confused and quit listening to all TV preachers and before, I'd almost listen all day if I could, I'd tape them too to listen again and again. I bought the cassettes and would listen to them in my car, my husband thought I was a nut!!! I started getting turned out when I'd see some of them clips about future meeting, I remember that one about that Leroy something where the people would be going "money to me!" Seems like they were more interested in getting money than worshipping God, seems like God started being on the back burner on most of these ministries and what He could do FOR you was first place. |
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412 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Norrie | 13671 | ||
We got a new pastor at our church about a year ago (we were 3.5 yrs w/interim). I worked w/children's choir which was during the Wed night svc so I'd get tapes of the services to listen to. I remember this one where he mentioned at end of message about how he was listening to this faith preacher on TV one day and obviously the guy hadn't preread the letters, the message he was giving was God gives you the desires of your heart. Pastor didn't say who the preacher was tho, just that this happened, he didn't want to slander anybody. So he reads the first letter and it's about being delivered from alcoholism and he says if you want to be delivered from alcoholism, then God wants you delivered from alcoholism. Pastor said nothing wrong there, being delivered from alcoholism is a good thing. Second letter is to do w/healing so he says if you want to be healed, God wants you healed too. Pastor said nothing wrong with healing. But the third letter was the one the guy obviously hadn't read, the request was for a Harley, the guy looked kinda baffled for an instance then says if you desire a Harley, then God desires for you to have a Harley. Pastor said that was where he had real problems, when you reduce God to a motorcycle! Seems like all people want from God is what can You do for me??? If You don't deliver, I'll find another God. This is wrong! We should be asking what can we do for God, not what He can do for us! That seems to be the basis of too many TV ministers. God is not a magic formula where you do this, you confess this and this will happen. Believe me, I bought into that line and tried it, you do get some victories but not like they promise you will get-oh, but you didn't have enough faith, you didn't give enough, you didn't confess enough-there's always some excuse! Then my huband would raise hell at me for sending them money too. It was my tithe, I'd just break it up and send part to this one and that one, etc. But I'd hear how they're just taking your money, you're just giving it to them so they can have bigger houses and fancy cars and designer clothes. I'd say it costs money to be on all those stations and send out all that meterial. Maybe my husband was right. After all, how much "blessing" can one person receive? Where you going to draw the line of what's being blessed and what's living off the excess? You have to admit, why do 2 people need to move into a bigger, fancier house? Exactly how many cars does 1 person really need? I know that when you give the money w/a right heart, God credits it to your acct and the person who is scamming has to answer, but eventually I quit it all and now the only one I give to is my church. Anyway, I didn't get my healing, but that's not to say that God hasn't been working miracles in my life, it's just in another direction than I thought it would be. I'm disabled as a result of that, but I met a bunch of wonder people, had my finances taken care of on most of the hosp. bills, I witnessed to many people and didn't get bitter and presented a good attitude in spite of everything which many people have commented on, saying how that helped them get thru what they were going thru. Now I'm on disability and a stay at home mom instead of traveling around the country letting my mom raise my daughter, plus I get on forums and meet wonderful people here, have a chance to give my testimony-God is Good!!! Who's to say I'm not better off now than what I would be if this had not have happened? I know for a fact that God turns things that seem bad into good and that's worth a whole lot! I thank Him for everything He has done for me!!! But be careful of those TV preachers, they can lead you astray-been there, done that! Gee, I guess the people who've read some of my different testimonies of what I've been thru, first w/Cath, now w/TV preachers say this is some gullible person! Oh well, at least I learned and lived to tell about it. :) |
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413 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Norrie | 13721 | ||
Ed, obviously you don't understand a hundredfold. A "fold" is 100 percent, thus a return on 10 that's 100 is tenfold, to be a hundredfold, it would be 1000. If we recieved that returned, we'd be giving all the time. :) I know I'd be rich by now! | ||||||
414 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Norrie | 14660 | ||
Kimberly, I understand what you're getting at. I studied that for 18 yrs too. But don't get too caught up in waiting for a harvest. Expect it but don't act like it's the main objective. I guess that's where the faith ministers lose it. What you're saying is true, but then people start focusing on the harvest instead of Jesus, you know what I'm trying to say? Stay focused on Him. :) | ||||||
415 | What was Jesus doing in the earth 3 days | Matthew | Norrie | 93249 | ||
Did you get this from Copeland? | ||||||
416 | The Three Wise Men | Matt 2:1 | Norrie | 27414 | ||
Another fallacy is that they came to the stable. They were living in a house when the Magi came, evidentally M and J decided to stay in Bethlehem. | ||||||
417 | Explain eye for eye/turn cheek? | Matt 5:1 | Norrie | 60577 | ||
Seems someone always bring up the Bible contradiction of an eye or an eye in OT and Jesus saying turn the other cheeck in NT. Any explanations? | ||||||
418 | What can you call someone? | Matt 5:22 | Norrie | 101350 | ||
Matt 5:22 But whoever says "you fool" will be in danger of hell. Why? Jesus called the Pharisees snakes and vipers, washed tombs, hypocrites, etc. If someone really is what they are being called, is it OK then? | ||||||
419 | married men | Matt 5:32 | Norrie | 12002 | ||
His wife left him for another man and the divorce isn't final yet? Something sounds funny here unless you're in a state w/waiting periods. I'd say wait for divorce to be final, then there is no qualms then. He is justified in getting a divorce if she committed adultery but wait for the divorce!!! | ||||||
420 | married men | Matt 5:32 | Norrie | 12176 | ||
I think as long as you are praying over the situation and doing what you think God wants you to do, then I wouldn't worry about it. Maybe God is giving to you each other for healing, who knows. Just pray and do what the Spirit tells you to do. | ||||||
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