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This article is from the book by Debi Pearle...

"Created to be his helpmeet"...

 

May you enjoy and be convicted at the same time by what you read so that yo want to follow Jesus closer than ever, and ask Him to help you change...

The Hall

There is no permanent cure for genital herpes and many other forms of STDs. Yet one in five young teens in the USA has a sexually transmitted disease. Many statistics also tell us that one in four little girls will be sexually "messed with" by the time they are four years old. One in five little boys will be victims of homosexual abuse. Our children are in grave danger in todays world, not only from emotional trauma, but also from many of these diseases.

   How many times will your little toddler wander down the hall(while you sit in a roomful of friends engrossed in a video)before some young "trustworthy" teenage boy slips silently behind him or her and maneuvers her into the bathroom for a four minute "session"? You cannot pray and expect God for supernatural intervention and protection. God has already provided that for her through you. You can and must pray for God to make you a more attentive and sober parent, that you might better protect your children.

 

You are your babies keeper. PLEASE KEEP THEM WELL.

 

 

Hmmmm...I guess that hits it on the spot...if any of you are in this predicament...cry out to YOUR LORD and ask HIM for the strength to obey..

 

 

 

thanks for reading....

 

bye for now....

TERRI

 

 

 

Next.....I want to tell about my husband going to Heaven and coming back...

PLEASE stay tuned and keep checking back...

Just a note to all who read.....

Wha is written herein, is NOT, meant to confuse anyone or hurt any who are already hurt ...I encourage you to get help for those thiings that these writings may trigger.
 Lets not share the bad things with those who think as we do, lets bear one anothers burdens, and lift each other up instead of tear down...if we dont agree with someone, lets pray, instead of spreading 'bad' about that person/those people...
 We all have things in our lives that have hurt us and still do,sometimes    PLEASE bear with  me, and let these writings do what they can for others,,,maybe not for you, but, for others,....
Thanks for reading..
LOVE to all who read....
!!!~TERRI~!!!

Blaspheming the written Word of God....

Dear Mr Pearl;
I have a question. Would it be sin to castrate myself? I am a husband and father, and I just cannot satisfy myself with my wife because she does not want to be intimate very often. The bible says, "whosever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed aadultery with her already in his heart." Would it not be better in my case to be castrated? I talked with my wife and she does not care. I am tired of sinning.
Mr Miller
This is a real letter from a real man named Mr. Miller. We were shocked! What do we tell this man who is willing to lose his manhood to avoid the lust caused by his indifferent wife? The gravity of his wifes sin is staggering. She has NO FEAR of God Almighty. She has blasphemed the word of God with her selfishness, thinking only of her own needs and not loving her husband. Never, Never, never be guilty of such a grave sin. This husband needs to know that God says. "The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband....Defraud ye not one the other...that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency"(1 Corinthians 7:4-5). God grants the marriage partner full access to his spouses body for sexual gratification. And remember, indifference is unwillingness.
Ladies, ARE YOU INDIFFERENT ? Lets fall on our faces before God and repent...we dont need this added to our other sins......Love your husbands....

More later...
Love to all who read....
Terri

DH's experience while dead.....

Hello friends in christ...

   It's been wayyyy tooooo long since I have been on this here computer....LOL!

   Tis time to start posting again...I have been trying to lassso my DH and get him to tell me His story the way he wants me to. but, that seems asaolutely unprofitable, so, I will pass it along as He told me, on day 2 after his emergency quadruple bypasss surgery.

   Our day started out like any other, said our goodbyees, hugged/kissed and he left. He usually calls me on his way to work, and tells me what he sees along the way, he did and  we said goodbye again.

    He got to work, and he called me to say he might be home early, ok. Then on the way to his next job(he checks densities for a business on dirt/concrete),He called and told me that he just wanted to tell me again, how much He loved me, and that He might be home early(this was at 2:00pm), and I went  back to canning tomatoes. At 2:25pm, the police department called me and said that my DH had been in an accident and I was to get to the Hospital stat! I was still holding the phone, when a friend of ours, who is a Police officer, opened the door and (I was still holding the receiver in my hand, stunned),I asked him what I was suppose to do, He then said to put the receiver down, get my purse and coat and we needed to get to the Hospital. I was still in shock!!!~~~@@###@!!~?>"{{}_+)*&.....................

I did, when we got to the Hospital, 7 minutes away, I went straight in, and there lay my husband, GRAY skinned, and stunned, He did not know me at fist, His boss had beat me there and he told me, he knew him, sos, he went in with me, and told DH that I was his wife, then it came back......He looked as if he died and came back, GRAY skin, glassy eyes, and cold,cold, fingers......

He then asked what happened, at this point, I didnt even know what had happened, I went to ask, and was told by the Doctor, that he had died and had a heart attack, then kept going with CPR, then brought back with defilibration...He kept saying, "Where did they find me...Honey, where am I?" He didnt remember anything......

We were there for 2 hours getting him stabilized, then off the the bigger Hospital we went, I did not see him for 3 hours, our 2 sons were here and they took off with(not in) the Ambulance, so they were there with him, although he did 'nt even know them....

   The next 2 days, were my/your worst nightmare, he underwent emergency 4 way bypass surgery, then had E-coli/Pheumonia/Staph infection in his left lung, and was VERY; VERY, sick...the Doctors kept telling me how sick He was, but, not tellimg me all this was going on....

On day, 3,.....He said one morning, Hon, I remember what happened....He told me about how he died and saw Jesus...He said, at the time he died(He only knows what happened before, because a friend was following him and saw him slump over in his pickup)...he was standing there, really in nowhere, and there was NO PAIN, NO GUUILT; NO anything, but COMPLETE PEACE,,,an overwhelming PEACE...a PEACE that he said he had never EXPERIENCED AND PROBABLY WILL again till he gets to Heaven....

He then thought "I dont want to go back", its to Peaceful"...

Every question that he thought was getting answered, soo fast, he just had to think it.....

Then He saw Jesus' arms/hands and His GLOWING robe come out of nowhere...DH says, He felt soo much Peace that he was wondering what was in his hands...

It looked like two loaves of French Bread, with the ends cut off, that Jesus was holding, and Jesus placed these on his body as He was laying there and said....................

"This is the gift of life, and with it there will be a requirement"...and was gone!

My DH then remembers, hearing from the paramedics>>"Can you hear us, Can you hear us"? He said yes, and on to the Hospital they went....

There was one thing that Jesus told my DH to <<<<<<>>>>>>>>

"I AM COMING SOON, AND TO GET TO KNOW HIM..."

Ladies...Do  you really know Him??????

Is your heart changed into His image...PLEASE read the Scripture about what will and wont enter Heaven......this is not some made up story, We are just ordinary People with troubles and sin just like you, But, DO YOU REALLY KNOW HIM?????

Dh wants me to pass on the unending PEACE he felt, where He was, and the PEACE He felt through Jesus simple words......

Fall on your face today, and don't waste another minute staying where you are in your heart....time is coming to an end, and then what?

LOVE To all who read..

TERRI



Accroding to the Power, Annie Johnson Flint, poems, poetry

Ah Ha!!! I finally figured out how to get these poems on here again,...YIIIPPPEEE!!!
Enjoy!!!
Please click on the title....

According to the Power, Annie Johnson Flint, poems, poetry

Love to all who read...

~~~*Terri*~~~

Reflecting on.....

Today we focus on "Reflecting" on what we have read for the past weeks....a few questions and thoughts..
1. Was it pleasing to the Lord for the lady who cooked her husband supper according to his likes?
2. Would it have been sin to respond with anger or hurt feelings?
3. Would you have sought to please your husband if he had shown such insensitive ingratitide?
4. Do you think her husband was just trying to be cruel?
5. When you first married, did you think of your marriage as a career of pleasing your DH?

A virtuous woman is a crown to her DH: but she that maketh ashamed is as rotteness in his bones"(Proverbs 12:4).

Make a new habit.
Most wives reading this book were trained not to honor their DH's. You were most likely trained by a mother's example to disrespect and resent your dad. You were trained by watching your mother showing displeasure at your dads bad habits, and nothing has changed in the way you relate to your DH. It seems natural to be angry rather than to seek change for the better. It is not easy to break a well-established tradition, but it will certainly be worth the effort.
Liberated to sorrow
Beginning with the womans "liberation" mocement of the 1960's, women have been taught and expected to resent men in authority. All media, magazines, movies, and popular books have promoted eradication of the distinction between male and female. the established churches are only about on e decade behind the, world, so Christian books and Ministers have followed with their own female liberation theology. Ministers and theologians have devised ways of dismissing the authority of the words of God found that speak about the nature and duty of men and women. It has gone so far that the churches are now convinced that the Bible supports this modern view.
When I was a child, no one in our large, extended family could ever remember a divorce on either side of the family, including the many aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. Neither was there a case of abuse or child abuse. In the last 50 years, all that has dramatically changed.
It is hard to believe, but the following assignment was found in a 1950's public high school home economics notebook. When I was in school, this is what the general public was being taught!!! Can yo imagine what an outcry it would cause if someone put this in a public school textbook today????

I guess we will wait till next posting to find our what it is......

Love to all who read.....
~~~*Terri*~~~

On HOLD!!!!

My computer is totaled, the keyboard that is....when I type, it might dissappear or not type at all, Or type in another word......it has taken 5 minutes just to type this.....Ill try to type every Monday, but, not guaranteeing anything... I will try....
Thanks for your reading my blog....

~~~*Terri*~~~

Computer down again.... sorry for not posting again...my computer went kaput this time, had to have all new everything installed,....hopefully next we

sorry for not posting lately....My conputer is down again...Hopefully next week, I will get it back...PLEASE read my past posts....

Compassion, much needed for these tumultous times.........

Compassion....
Who has compassion?
Who has love?
Who has generosity?
Who has a general kindness?

I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight

That to somebodys need made me blind;

But I never have yet felt a tinge of regret

For being a little too kind.

Author unknown

Love to all who read....

~~~*Terri*~~~

Kings and Kingdoms, contd'.....

Reverence is not just how you act; it is how you feel and how you respond with words and with your body language.
It is not enough to get up and serve him; your eyes and the quick, carefree swing of your body must indicate your delight to be engaged in serving your man. You cannot fool a man. He can see your heart as well or better than you can. Keep an eye on his dinner plate so you can anticipate his needs. "Deference" is a hot cup of ?, while you take his shoes off after a hard days work. It is a glad face when he returns after being gone for a short time. It is thankfulness for his attention and affection. Deference to your man is the height of true feminity. It makes a woman beautiful, gracious, and lovely to all, but most especially to him. When I respect him, He is spurned on to protect me! When I treat him with disrespect with my facial expressions, eyes, body language and all that God has given me to honor him, He is turned off....Why would he want to protect me?

Next week, "Don't mess my hair"....

Love to all who read....
Terri

Spiritual Armour....

~~~~My DH thought I should post this this morning, so here it is....
~~~~Spiritual Armour
The kingdom of the world is based on untruth. It offers pleasures and happiness, but these lead to wretchedness and poverty of soul and often also of the body.
The kingdom of God is truth. Our spirits should be girded on all sides with this integral part of Gods armour. Truth will identify the sin which has come upon all men, and truth will bring men under conviction. All are lost without the Saviours intercession. Faith leads us to repentance and to the blood of Christ for the remission of sin. "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ"(1 Cor. 3:11).
The breastplate of righteousness keeps the heart clean and pure. It protects against grace-robbing vices. It enables us to be Christian in deed and not only in name.
A departed church father taught that we are not just saved to be good, but we are saved to be good for something. Having our feet shod with the gospel of peace will radically alter how and where we walk. The doctrines of returning good deeds for evil and going to all the world with the message of salvation will be born within us. Love for the souls of men, willingness for a life of sacrifice, and grace to extend forgiveness to those who despitefully use us will be manifested in our lives.
The helmet of salvation guards the mind. Most sins are preceeded by impure thoughts and selfserving. Evil surmisings and imaginations break down confidence and foster ill will. The Bible instructs us to go alone to our brother with our concerns. This often results in a warm melting together of hearts. Too often this is neglected, and gossip and backbiting result.
Strong holds can be besetting sins of long standing or grave sins that seem to have one hopelessly ensnared. The sword of the Spirit is mighty, working miracles of deliverance when one becomes willing to use it. this sword will cut to the very core of our attitudes and motives in searching out and pulling down strongholds of sin. It enables us to become jyful, new creatures inChrist.
Bible reading, prayer, and spiritual meditation will establish the Word inour hearts. this will provide a strong defense against evil.

Love to all who read this blog....
DH and Terri

Eve has many sisters......

Well, Ladies, I wish summer was not sooooooooooo busy, it is hard for me to get my posts out daily......Here is Mondays and the rest of the week.

Eve has many sisters....
When men struggle with fleshly imaginations, we women give ourselves over to emotional imaginations and create a world of hurt for ourselves and those atound us. Satan goes after the man directly, offering him pleasure, power, or glory, just as he did with Jesus during his desert temprtation experience. But satan goes after us ladies as he went after Eve, with subtlety. the tempter asked Eve a question designed to stir her imaginations into supposing that God did not have the best of intentions for her.
"Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD GOD made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall eat of every tree of the garden?"(Genesis 3:1). satan was neading Eve to question Gods motives. He went on to imply that God was keeping something from her, "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ;ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil"(Genesis 3:5). Eve was deceived through her runaway imaginations. The root of her sin was doubting God's goodwill toward her. Even today, has many sisters. We still doubt the one in authority over us and imagine that he does not intend good for us. Like Eve, we imagine that we can disobey the authority of God's word and of our husband's word because we imagine that we have a higher purpose---to be more spiritual.
We have been tricked into believing that our husbands have committed offenses against us, all the while thinking that we are more spiritual because of the insights we have. We all agree that any man who lives in a lustful daydream is a godless man. And I say to you readers, that any woman who lives on the edge, expecting to be offended and believing ill will on every hand, that woman is living in vain imaginations and is a godless woman. It is time to get yourself under God-ordained authority. Believe God, believe the best of your husband, your neighbors, your church, your family, etc., and get on with the blessings of joy of life and marriage.
Ladies, I know, I keep saying this, but this really does work, not overnight, it takes time, believe me, pray and try, God is right there to help yu along the way.
Have you stepped out of being a broken record and stepped into playing in your mind those things that you are Thankful for. God speaks in Phillipians 4:8: "Finally, brethern, whatsoever things are true, whatsosever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; is there be any virture, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
See, even in Gods word, we are not to be broken records or drippy fawcetts...we are to make our minds think on the above things...yes, it will take time, yes, it is hard, yes, it does not happen overnight. My mom says, "ANYTHING WORTH HAVING, IS WORTH WORKING FOR."
Are you going to work for something that is more precious than gold?
Have your children gotten the "mad wife" disease? Lets get over it before our children become infected with it, our families become infected with it.....Our children honor their daddy, because mother does, same with our families. I remember, when I would spout at my mother, who is not even a believer, she would automatically start talking down about my DH....argh!!!!
Now, I lift him up, and she does to.....How do your child(ren) see their daddy?
As your child(ren), gorw up they will become adults, they will discover that their daddy has faults, then, they will forgive their daddy as their mother has done. When they are grown, and they can see the whole picture, they will see that their mother is one of the finest mothers/wifes in the whole wide world, BECAUSE, she forgave... they will rise up and call their mother blessed.
Someday their mothers husband may grow up and grow out of his foolishness, and if he does, he will too, call her blessed. This wife/mother will have earned the daddys love and devotion, because she reverenced him when there was little in him to honor. She loved because God first loved her.
When we treat others with the love and forgiveness that Scripture talks about(now, you are thinking, he/they/she does not deserve it, your probably right, but, on the cross when Jesus forgave our sins, did and do we deserve it?) The forgiveness you heap on the heads of those who don't deserve it, shows the power of God at work in your life, and believe you me, others see it. Those who are receiving the forgiveness, will get a lump in their throats, because they know they don't deserve it. Let it work, not in spite, not in anger, but, with the same love Jesus showed on you when you did not deserve it. Your DH will get a lump in his throat not only because of your forgiveness, but, because of the reverence you bestow on him. There can be no greater love, and no greater inducement to repentance.
Not one of us honestly thinks this DH deserves your reverence, or your love for that matter. He is a first class stinker and deserves to sleep alone in an alley under a cardboard box. But, God has called us to a higher plane. It is on this higher plane that we discover the wonder of life, of love, and of forgiveness. And it is the place where we will come to be cherished. Few men are able to continue being angry, lustful, and selfish, in the face of such a strong force as being reverenced.
Ladies/ Friends......
This heaping "hot coals" of love on their heads, works, not a one time thing, not immediately, but, it does work......Gods word is true, and it still works.....
Pray, and ask God to help you do just this, "Heap hot coals of LOVE on their heads"....

More next week....
Love to all who read~~~~~
Terri

Continuation on "Why do children rebel?

We are not printing this for mothers to be down on their husbands, or for them to think less of their DH's...I thought this might help someone who has children rebelling.....
Always pray about whatever it is you read, and ask the God for guidence.......

When a father sacrifices his family for a better retirement....
His children develop a temporal value system....

When a father desciplines in anger....
His children have seeds of bitterness...

When a father delegates his childrens educatiuon to others.....
His chgildren cease to respect him as a teacher....

When a father does not teach his children how to please him....
His children feel frustrated and rejected....

When a father is impatient with his children....
His children feel inferior and reject themselves....

When a father has inconsistent standards...
His children despise him....

When a father tries to warn his children only of the consequences of sin....
His children are challanged to be successful in avoiding the consequences....

When a father lets his wife assume spiritual leadership....
His children mauy regard religion as childish when they grow older....

when a father does not have personal convictions....
His children accept situational ethics and excuse in excess what their father allowed in moderation....

Love....
Terri

Tuesday; "Watchman with Conviction"......

In Biblical times, a watchman was someone appointed to stay alert and keep guard over the city. He had 2 main responsivilities: to identify and warn against any danger, and to identify and welcome any friendly traveler approaching the city. The watchman not only guarded the walls and approaches to the city: but also he patrolled the streets to see that all things were safe and secure and that all fires were safely banked or extinguished. How comforting it must have been when a brave and trusted watchman would cry, "It is midnight, and all is well!"

But watchman, what of the ocming night, when mans work will be over? Is everything safe within the city? Are the walls secured? And who is that coming from the East? Are we ready for the midnight cry? "Behold, the bridegroom cometh!" (MAtt. 25:6). Let us awaken and arise to meet Him, for all things are ready!

Love....

Terri

Tuesday; Hope of the heart.

Tuesday; Hope of the Heart.

Lesson Text; Luke 24: 1-9, 36-45 and 1 Cor. 15

Introduction....

No event in history of mankind has been more anticipated, longed for and sought after than the advent of the Redeemer, the Hope of Israel. He was first promised to Adam and Eve at the time of their fall into sin. God said that the seed of the woman should bruise the head fo the serpent, and the serpent should bruise the heel of her offspring. This was probably not so clearly understood at that time, but, as the years unfolded, God revealed through His prophets a clearer picture of the promised Messiah. Though this event was eagerly anticipated by Gods people, it was misconstrued by most. May we understand and experience Christs Kingdom in our hearts.

It is readily seen by reviewing the gospels that many who looked for the promised Messiah had a misconception of what Jesus came to do. The jews had studied the old writings long and hard only to be diillusioned. Jesus told the Pharisees, "Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me"(John 5:39). Yet they missed the prophecy that he was to be the sacrificial lamb, and they missunderstood the nature of the kingdom that He came to establish. Jesus must have felt that they should understand the concept of the new birth because He told Niccodemus, "A rt thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?"(John 3:10).

It is important to note that Jesus said that all things written about him in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the Psalms would be fulfilled(Luke 24:44). We who read Gods Word today look at Jesus' life from a historical standpoint. We have heard about His death and resurrection all our lives. We do not struggle believing the record, but maybe we should imagine ourselves in Jesus' day for a moment. Jesus' birth, ministry, death, and resurrection all contained elements that were difficult for the himan mind to comprehend. To understand them, one needed a revelation from God. Jesus told Peter that flesh and blood had not revealed the truth of Christ's identity to him but that God had. The apostle Paul received a revelation of who Christ was on the Damascus road. For each of us that has received the revelation of the new Birth, it is real, for without which we could not be born again.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus revealed the nature of His kingdom. He taught us to love and forgive in a measure beyond the capability of unregenerate man. He dealt with the very inner core of man, the core of mans heart.

Many professing Christians may also miss this truth of Jesus' kingdom..as it is now and in our hearts. Many are looking to some future time in which the Old Testament prophicies will be fulfilled. Jesus said,"The kingdom of God cometh not with observation....for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you"(Luke 17:20 & 21) We also read that "the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost"(Rom. 14:17).

There is no greater power to affect mans life than the power of the resurrection. Paul speaks of "the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead"(Eph.1:19-20)."Now unto him that is able to de exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Jesus Christ throughout all ages, world without end. Amen"(Eph. 3:20-21). This power is made available to us as we experience the fellowship of His sufferings and are made conformable to Hidsdeath(Phil. 3:10). May it be our blessing to walk and live in the fullness that God has for us.

Thought for today; "How will the resurrection of a living God manifest itself in my life today and for the days to come?

Love to all....

Terri

Our name in the Book of LIfe?

Good Morning to all who read....

Is your name written in the Book of Life? Do I allow the "cares of this life" to weigh me down?

The martyrs followed and their names were in the Book Of Life, and knew death was imminent when professing Christianity. Do I follow because of ?....Is it pressure or a willingness on my own?

Is my christianity a ressilient one, or do I get discouraged when persecuted?

How do others see me as a Christian? The thought of "As long as my heart is right, does anything else matter..is a big thought in our world today....What is in our hearts eventually comes out....Then does the outward matter? Of course, because what is inour hearts comes out(ward)!

So what is in our hearts is what we wear on the outside...not? What we wear on the outside is for all to see, and it tells all what is in our hearts.

If we really are not right in our hearts, and it shows on the outside, will we hear the trump when it is blown? Does my liufe line up with the Scripture?

what exactly does the outside of me say about the inside of me?

Notes from our service...

Love to all....

Terri

Intentions?

I was just thinking about our intentions....

What truly are our intentions?

To be happy, obedient or to do our own thing?

Lets just think about it?

Love to you..

Terri