UNDERGROUND CHURCH. FAITH LESSON
The 1611 Fellowship talks a bit about the underground church, then John Doerr continues his lesson on faith, with a brief recap of the previous week. I'll be away for a couple of weeks, so there will be no new postings for a few weeks. Please bear with me, as my wife and I are taking a short vacation. Pray for us, and particularly pray for my health as there is no dialysis where we are going, and the propensity to build up toxins and fluid is a possibility. Pray God intervenes and none of that happens. God Bless. See you when we get back. At that point, we'll continue with John's lesson on faith.
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I feel like I’ve been trying to make a lot work in my life, and between my faults as a result of my dreadfully fallen nature and between mistakes and some hard luck, I just often struggle with the feeling that I am just not good enough or that I’m a “f-up.” I was sending around my CV and cover letter to get jobs around home, and someone reached out to me and invited me to a company Bible study to get to know their company. I was getting ready for it and doing a bit of Bible study of my own I preparation, especially thinking of the 1611, and when I though it was time to go, I looked at the map on Google for directions to my destination-meeting-place. I see that the restaurant where we were gonna meet was closed. Then I look again at the text message from the guy who was considering hiring me, and it turns out that I overlooked the fact that he said six thirty a.m. rather than p.m. I feel like I have blown my opportunity and I fear not being able to save the money I need to build and family and such. I also feel like I blew my opportunity to reach out to others about the true words of God and so forth. I just feel like I’ve been dealing with a lot and not being able to show much for it. But I try to keep the grace of God in mind and see the fact that my basic needs are taken care of, even if I don’t get what I think I need at the time. Sometimes I feel like I’m being subjected to consequences of my sins or faults. I should pray more. God takes care of the sparrows and Nineveh, after all.
Hi Thomas. Your experiences are an iteration of mine. I feel an overwhelming sense of not being good enough and being a complete disaster. That is why I preach to myself "Take my yoke vpon you, and learne of me" We can never be good enough and will always fail. It's just sometimes we feel like a failure all the time. Where I am there are zero churches at all that are not Roman.
today our doorbell went flat, and nobody knew, but there was 1 ring left in it, so i could recieve the necessary grocery delivery,before a doctors appointment lateron. my spine is also very good today, which is highly unusual in the morning - so even though had to bring stuff in, i was able to. God made sure didnt miss food. both an answer to prayers,i know its stupid but sometimes it is the little things
in the queue in the NHS pharmacy afterward, it was so strange. there was a delay with my regular medications that had come to pick up - so a long time to wait, even though they had been informed beforehand by several weeks (give plenty of time for them, as i dont travel often). i said to myself, what is going on? it was not an ID or security issue, but regular. so i went aside, and listened and waited. they said they will hand over the stuff soon. so i humdedum watching the floor or whatnot. but unlike before, as the other queue of people were attended to, worker-people at desks and at counters were casually sayin the names, addresses, medications, potential cross-med factors, symptoms of all the people due for their prescription pickups - all of it was chatted about PUBLICLY. entire life and med histories, even. i was shocked! and nobody debated it. and i thought, maybe that's why i was there, to pray for these poor people. after, i turned to the person i was with as i left the building with prescriptions, and even that person noticed, that the NHS did not used to breach privacy/data like that before, or talk about people like that before, in the open. so here i see God working. (also UK is turning into 1984, it's totally true).
No surprise about Charles. He has close ties to occult practices going back decades. But the fact they made a point of it in the media is interesting.
I get no sense from Charles that he is a Christian, except in name. It's long been rumored that the Royals and other global elites are part of a very dark cabal. I can't prove it, but it wouldn't surprise me.
can someone send me the PDF also
I will ask Rachel to resend.
Be careful what you pray for indeed . . . . . . ........................................... ................................In Isaiah 38-39, Isaiah came to Hezekiah with a word from God to prepare himself for death. Hezekiah prayed for 15 years more life, and God granted it to him. He lived long enough to see his Kingdom destroyed, his sons made into eunuchs, and his people and treasure taken off to Babylon . . . . . . . . . . . . We are not to love the World (see James 4:4), and praying for longer life comes close to preferring the World over eternal life with Our Lord (see, eg., Isaiah 57 where its explains the reason for the death of righteous men.) When I pray, I try to ask God that he help me do HIS will. Or I pray for things if they are HIS will. ............................................................................................................................................................Matthew 6:33 "But seeke ye first the kingdome of God, and his righteousnesse, and all these things shalbe added vnto you."
Hezekiah is indeed an excellent example. Thank-you for bringing that to everyone's attention.
Great lesson (I was looking forward to this as I reviewed the pages of the PDF that I printed off)! Very edifying and sweet like-minded fellowship.