Christian Fellowship Community Group
A safe place for Christians who Love Jesus Christ to meet and ask for prayer and share scriptures from the bible. We value the posting of Christian music, poems, stories and also personal testimonies. Please let us know your needs, concerns and have some fun getting to know each other. We treat each other with respect.
TRUE LOVE: Does it exist?
I am kind of a hermit who is waiting for the return of the
Lord Jesus Christ. My faith is nondenominational and is
aptly summed up in the hymn: Blessed assurance, Jesus is
mine, oh what a foretaste of glory divine, heir of
salvation, purchase of God, born of the Spirit, washed in
His blood. Perfect submission, all is at rest, I, in my
saviour, am happy and blessed, watching and waiting, looking
above, filled with His goodness, lost in His love.. I have
been walking with the Lord for 43 years now and after many
ups and downs of my faith being tested, the blessings in
this song have become more than empty words for me, but a
daily, living reality. The Gospel of Christ has proven to be
the transforming power of God for salvation in my life. I
have discovered that our natural, mere human love is just a
dim shadow of God's love, which is everlasting. While our
love is always self-centred, His love is always totally
selfless. Jeremiah 17 says: The heart is deceitful above all
things and beyond cure. Therefore God wants to give us a new
heart as Ezekiel 36 promises: I will give you a new heart
and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your
heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh... and I will
make you a people that follow my laws...Most Christians
don't believe in the possibility of becoming perfect on
earth, as the father in heaven is perfect, and thereby
dilute the Gospel and rob it of its transforming power. Even
if it is impossible with men, it is possible with God. God's
answer to the world celebrating the glory of human love is
Isaiah 40: All men are like grass and all their glory like
the flowers in the field... the grass withers, the flowers
fall, but the Word of the Lord stands forever. True love
that satisfies our innermost being is only found in God
Himself who loved us so much that He did not spare His only
Son on the cross, but gave us, with His resurrection,
eternal life and the power to lead a holy life.
O
I am kind of a hermit who is waiting for the return of the
Lord Jesus Christ. My faith is nondenominational and is
aptly summed up in the hymn: Blessed assurance, Jesus is
mine, oh what a foretaste of glory divine, heir of
salvation, purchase of God, born of the Spirit, washed in
His blood. Perfect submission, all is at rest, I, in my
saviour, am happy and blessed, watching and waiting, looking
above, filled with His goodness, lost in His love.. I have
been walking with the Lord for 43 years now and after many
ups and downs of my faith being tested, the blessings in
this song have become more than empty words for me, but a
daily, living reality. The Gospel of Christ has proven to be
the transforming power of God for salvation in my life. I
have discovered that our natural, mere human love is just a
dim shadow of God's love, which is everlasting. While our
love is always self-centred, His love is always totally
selfless. Jeremiah 17 says: The heart is deceitful above all
things and beyond cure. Therefore God wants to give us a new
heart as Ezekiel 36 promises: I will give you a new heart
and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your
heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh... and I will
make you a people that follow my laws...Most Christians
don't believe in the possibility of becoming perfect on
earth, as the father in heaven is perfect, and thereby
dilute the Gospel and rob it of its transforming power. Even
if it is impossible with men, it is possible with God. God's
answer to the world celebrating the glory of human love is
Isaiah 40: All men are like grass and all their glory like
the flowers in the field... the grass withers, the flowers
fall, but the Word of the Lord stands forever. True love
that satisfies our innermost being is only found in God
Himself who loved us so much that He did not spare His only
Son on the cross, but gave us, with His resurrection,
eternal life and the power to lead a holy life.
O
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
The road to sanctification is a life long one in my opinion. When we see Him we will be like Him.
Until then we have The Holy Spirit as our deposit of better things.
Ephesians 1
3And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
Yes, sometimes trials are given to us by God to make us more like Jesus. That is the goal..to be more Christlike. I totally agree that God can give us a new heart. I am a living testimony of that. I know other people who have changed dramatically by accepting Christ. A lady in another church I attended was a former drug dealer and not a very nice person. Many people were scared of her and she had thugs at her beck and call to beat people us. When she tells her testimony, it's hard to believe because she is nothing like that today. I love her so much!
God bless you Walter