Micah

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NASB	Micah 7:5 Do not trust in a neighbor; Do not have confidence in a friend. From her who lies in your bosom Guard your lips.
AMPLIFIED 2015	Micah 7:5 Do not trust in a neighbor [because of the moral corruption in the land]; Do not have confidence in a friend. Guard the doors of your mouth From her who lies in your bosom. [Luke 12:51-53]

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Subject: past prophecy or future or both?

Bible Note: I will tell you I was bred, born and raised Baptist in Georgia. I never had a clue what it meant to have a personal relationship with Jesus. Funnily enough it was my first husband, an Italian Catholic, who first brought me back to the Lord, and that because he had an even more anti-church bias than I did. It was okay for me to have a distance from church, but I loved God and he wanted to deny him completely. I decided to study Catholic doctrine to see what had pushed him to that extreme. I discovered it wasn't Catholic doctrine, but the treatment of it by his particular parish priest when he was a child. It took me 14 years to get him to accept that. And in case you're wondering about the ex-husband, the problem was adultery, but if I had been saved at the time I would not have divorced him because he did want to be forgiven. That was almost 8 years ago.

Actually thinking about it, it was a Catholic priest who provided my next nudge (shove?) back to God. Andrew Greeley actually. I don't know how the Church views him, and I don't share his She for God, but his fiction work did make me understand that God loved me, even through trials.

I guess that is why I have always had a fondness for the Catholic Church. But you don't have alot of them out here in my little neck of the woods. Actually I don't know of a Catholic church within 40 miles. But I was privileged to pray once at one of the side altars in Notre Dame in Paris.

In any event I would have to say that it was Word of Faith ministers (as I've discovered they are just this night on this forum) who convinced me I'd better get my heart right with Jesus and put Him in control of my life.

I am Baptist again, and Baptized this time, not because of any particular doctrinal beliefs, but because the church is right down the street and filled with about 90 (now) people who truly love God and each other.

I am also sitting here laughing, because I have just realized that the soothing sounds on the TV that I have been listening to is EWTN's Our Lady of the Angels Daily Mass. I think he was singing Psalm 145, and now the priest is reading on John1:45-51. I do like to listen to mass. When I am agitated the way the Scriptures are sung while I am praying is like a balm to my spirit.

Well, I went off on a tangent there. Sorry about that. I want to listen to the mass, so I will close. But would it be permissible for a Catholic to advise a non-Catholic on a Bible study -- course of reading? And be available for questions as I read?

Thanks for thinking about it,
Melanie