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You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,. But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep.

And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.

I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,. On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, in front of the king's quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace.

And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter. What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom. For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union?

And what was the one God seeking? So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.

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For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable.

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.

And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.

For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you, you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.

You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again. None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers, Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.

The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. Your story reminds me of the time my parents and a church group visited an inner-city mission. It was the sort of place where someone who is down and out can get a hot meal and a clean bed for the night. We were given a tour and told about the work of the mission, and then we ate with the street people who were there that night.

After a bit of talk and singing, anyone who felt moved to say something was invited to do so. To our surprise, one of the most respected members of the church, a solid family man who had a Ph. He told everyone about his own wasted youth, his days as an alcoholic, and how it ruined his life until God, as he felt, turned him around.

It was the most moving testimony I had ever heard, and I hoped it did as much for the street people as it did for me. Yours is the story of a different but equally destructive addiction, which sent you to the very bottom. One never knows which moments of despair also contain latent hope, an offer of grace.

As for your girlfriend, you do need to be careful. The feeling that God is promising to do for us the very thing we most desperately want can just be the echo effect of our own earnest desires. I hope that, if it is right for you and right for her, your dreams will come true. And, if it is not right, may God bless you in His own way.

Letitia July 2, Reply. I would like your input on my situation. Rabbi asked me to make an appointment to speak with him about my experience in attending services. What I felt and what my thoughts were. He wanted to know my thoughts and feelings knowing I am coming from the Catholic Faith into Judaism; where I always felt I belonged since I was around 8 years old. When I first began to attend he told me to continue my services at the Catholic Church while I feel my way at Shabbat Services.

I did set up my appointment with Rabbi. We spoke, he saw some changes in me. He asked what bothered me the most about services. I told him getting the Hebrew pronunciation correct and keeping up during services in Hebrew. He gave me a book to take home to study. He told me to now set up an appointment with the priest at the church to discuss my possible conversion.

I never did believe in going on Sunday man-made law. I spoke to the priest that I had forgotten to call him last week to set up an appointment. He stared at me as if he saw the devil because I was wearing the Star of David. I spoke to him after services. He was rather rude and nasty to me and told me I needed to make up my mind.

Will just happen so much quicker and easier. I told HIM I was at a crossroads in my life. I asked for guidance in what direction for me to go. I started attending Torah study two weeks ago. I am planning a trip to Israel with the Congregation in February. I hope there is still room left for me to go at such a late notice.

That is if things work out that I can make it.

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Jerry L Martin July 8, Reply. The decision facing you is not uncommon, Letitia. God calls some people to stay in the tradition in which they were raised; He calls others to a different place. The rabbi was wise in asking you to speak to your priest. Sometimes people change faiths for light and transient reasons — the minister was boring, or they took offense at something.

The question is not about particulars you like or dislike. It is about your relationship with God. It is about where God is most available to you or wants you to be. As far as I can tell, you are going out this decision exactly this spirit. Thank you for sharing this with us. Jenny May 29, Reply. Your latest chapter, 65, has filled me with wonder and recognition. This has been the crux of His message to me for the past two years. In these past two years, He has drawn me closer and closer to Himself.

At first, I had the sense of His presence as something like the Shekinah cloud of presence- I had been accustomed to experiencing Him in this way from early mystic experiences and from a year or so in a Pentecostal church. Then His presence became almost palpable- as if He was with me in person, but not visible. At this time, I began to do research on the Christian mystic tradition and discovered that Teresa of Avila claimed that Jesus was with her for three years, but invisibly. In fact, the mystics, especially in the Catholic traditions had, it seemed to me, extremely bizarre interactions with God and yet they believed them fully.

I realized that God does not always make human sense. Also, later, I began to realize that God bends down to us where we are, and that their interactions with Him were as much a product of who He was as who they were and their own era, their own religion. It was as though their own selves were the lens through which God suffered Himself to be seen, so there was some natural distortion of Himself. He has told me that the way I understand Him is through the lens of who I am and how we speak and how we understand Him now, in this era.

He said that I am a mirror- and because I am human, the mirror of my spirit is not perfect, but it does not have to be. I began to know Jesus on a very personal level. I began to know Him as someone full of patience, delight in the details, delighting simply in being together, full of good humor, generous, interested, gentle, perceptive, self-sacrificing.

However, I could not understand why He spent so much time with me without making me some powerhouse of religious performance- it seemed as if He was getting very poor value back for His significant investment in my life. I continued to be the same person- eventually with less anxiety, less guilt and less religious bondage and with more joy, peace and tenderness- but still, basically the same person. And I had to laugh and put my head down on the desk in a combination of humorous wonder and frustration.

I was walking with Him once, thinking about this verse that talks about the steps of a Godly person are ordained by God and that God delights in all the details of their life. After a year, my ego began to trip me up, thinking that I was somehow earning these experiences of God and then I did trip up physically and while healing, I let go of the entire idea of earning God. Then I let the experience go, for half a year. It was as if my spirit were a plot of ground that had produced a large harvest and God was letting it lie fallow for a season, to recharge and regroup.

That is when I was learning that phrase: Then He returned, but deeper than before. A great deal of both my anxiety and my pride were gone, leaving me open, present to Him and receptive. My experiences with Him began to become more visual. I was in the habit of resting in and talking to and worshiping Him at night, before I fell asleep. As I was doing this, I began to find myself in that room. This was disconcerting, at first, but by then, I had much more perspective on the mystery of the presence of God, so I was able to simply accept the experience.

At first, the room was closed off, but as I became more confident and comfortable, the walls came down and it became more of a front porch.

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Almost every night I am with Him in those rooms, talking, or just being together, or caught up in mutual love- that is, I worship and adore Him and He loves me. He has a degree of vulnerability that is breath taking. He is filled with emotion- emotion flows naturally through Him. He frequently is caught up in pain and grief over the pain and grief of this life.

But I increasing believe that He is waiting for completion- for the brokenness of this life to be healed, to wipe the tears from every eye. He seems to be hanging between now and that time, though of course, He dwells also outside of time and so He is in all times at once. But I know that this grief and pain sometimes moves through Him and He lets me comfort Him- though what comfort I can be to Him, I do not know. But He seems to long for this recognition of His emotional vulnerability and then He seems to delight in being responded to authentically.

For me, the idea of the Trinity helps explain or put into context His way of giving and receiving. It seems that the very nature of God is to be in relationship to Himself- He is caught up in recognizing, adoring, having perfect faith in, yielding to and receiving Himself as one and as separate persons.

But I never completely lose the sense of myself as an individual life. Sometimes I actually want to- the pleasure is so great that I feel as if I wish to be completely enveloped into God. This seemed to delight Him very much; He did not want me to forget it. It seems to me that the things that prevent people from moving toward this kind of intimate, personal giving and receiving with God, or even realizing this is possible, is their wrong image of Him- exactly what He has told you.

People seem to be largely caught up in their religious fear of a God that is too huge, too unknowable, too far beyond reach and also in their personal feelings of guilt, shame. Or if they are like most mystics or spiritual seekers, they are seeking an impersonal oneness- the Life force, as it were.

They wish to be absorbed into this; to lose consciousness of themselves. In any case, I think I am rambling now. I just wanted you to know that God seems to be taking us on very similar spiritual journeys- and many other people are also being caught up in this- through the emerging understanding of the Trinity, for example, and teachers like Richard Rohr. As always, I eagerly await each new chapter as you present it on your book and I am grateful for your continued obedience to the guidance of God in your life, even when He takes you way outside the comfort zone in such a public way.

That is not easy. Jerry L Martin June 1, Reply. Jenny, judging from my own experience, what you write reaches to the heart of life with God, and of His life with us. Shelly April 27, Reply. Hello, I really hope I can put this in words the correct way. When I was single with two little girls. I was at the end, the father was taking me to court over and over. I had run out of money. I had nowhere to turn, I went to a little church that I went to as a child. The girls had never seen them.

I went home that night and everyone was in their bed sleeping—the house was peaceful. I took a last look at my girls sleeping.: I went to bed myself. That night as I was sleeping a voice came to me. This was a voice in my ear not in my head…It said nothing but I hear you It was the sound of rushing waters in a voice. I never understood until I read the Bible about the voice of rushing waters. When I did read this it made me smile.

The girls do not have to see Him, the girls are happy. God took care of this. But later in my life, I came to God again in times of troubled hardship. I had just gotten out of a bad relationship. I want to hear you. That night while I was sleeping a sweet smell— such a sweet smell came in my room.

The next day I found myself looking for this smell.. Later I got married to a wonderful man that loves the Lord. I started to hear God even more and I kept praying for more understanding guidance. I would get this feeling from within and I would pray about things that needed to be prayed about and things to come. Never did this make me feel bad.

I learned to pray when I would learn to pray when I would learn to pray when I would get these feelings. I guess the cares of the world got me. I started not to hear God. I wanted to be back where I was at with our Lord. Later my Mother got sick with mersa. I prayed, I read the bible, believing God would heal. I miss my mother also. Jerry L Martin April 27, Reply. Dear Shelly, you did not fail.

I know we sometimes imagine that, if we just pray hard enough, God will surely come through. People are born, and people die. That is the way of things. The cherished assurance you received that night was not for one moment or one day or one week; it was for you to remember for the rest of your life and sing thanks. Shelly May 2, Reply. Bucky Whaley April 23, Reply. I can see His back. He keeps it turned to me. Just pray anyway, and tell God exactly how you feel. You can even shout and stamp! Remember also that sometimes, when people think that God is unavailable, they are the ones who are blocking the connection.

Or it is there, but they are missing signals that may be faint and difficult to recognize. May God respond to your distress! Patricia Wright March 11, Reply. One day I was driving my car and was at a stop sign. The highway was in front of me. A truck hauling rock not a pickup had its signal on to turn on the road I was on. Right then a car went past the truck that was turning on the highway in front of me. I had never seen the car before. I was so shaken I called my husband and told him God saved my life. Jerry L Martin March 16, Reply.

Patricia, what a wonderful story! Instead, you let it guide you. When something unusual happens to me, I ask myself, is God trying to tell me something? Is there a message in this? That would be a good question for you to ask. Tamara Turner March 9, Reply. Tamara, thanks for acting on that feeling. What has prompted your sense that you need to get in touch with me? Just tell me your story. I will be very interested in hearing it. Patricia Wright February 26, Reply.

I believe in God. I went to church for years and when I got sick no-one came to check on me. I had a brain enuryism and was in icu for 21 days. It took a long time to recover and remember things like cooking. Never did 1 person call or show up. That was 3 years ago. Jerry L Martin February 28, Reply. Patricia, thanks for sharing that experience. Those must have been bleak, scary days for you and your husband! I hope you are now healthy and flourishing! That leads some people turn against God, but these are failings of human beings, not of the divine.

At some churches, love is more than a word. I hope you can find one in your area. I love him more than I did before. I am better,thank God. I did lose faith in the Church people. They pray and preach about helping people but not one person did. My husband had to do all the cooking, cleaning and taking care of our 32 year-old autistic son.

It was hard on him trying to do the shopping and take care of me and everything. Hopefully one day I will find a church. Patricia, it is a terrible thing when the church you counted on lets you down. You are right not to let that turn you against God. Faith in God is different from faith in a particular church. Many people cannot make the distinction. When they reject a church, they reject God.

You did not make that mistake. Each congregation is different, and there are many that are loving, supportive communities. One of them is waiting for you! Renata van Gelderen January 24, Reply. Your story is very interesting, Jerry. As it was in my case I will receive baptism during the Easter Vigil at the end of April, Deo volente. According to the New Testament God is Love, so in that sense this should not come as a surprise! In my case, it was the dedication and surrender that I saw in the way Mass was celebrated by Cardinal Dominik Duka on television!

More and more I seem to realise what this actually means and although I experience an underlying happiness most of the time and there are many moments of great joy, it is also proving to be a bumpy road. Only recently I had an experience, probably best described as horror vacui.

As I sat in my armchair listening to violin pieces I seemed to calm down a bit, but suddenly I was overcome by great fear. Not fear of something, just fear and it was very intense. It was ludicrous to look for safety there and I knew it. I then folded my hands in prayer and asked God: From that moment onwards the fear became less intense, slowly a calmness came over me and finally I was able to say: Lord, I love You, I follow You.

During all this time the violin was still playing on my stereo and it became very clear to me, that this sound could only be here through the grace of God. But it did exist! Renata, your story is rich with meaning and insight. You trusted, you opened yourself, though it happened more to you than through you.

That is what theologians call grace. Your life took a degree turn, from the autonomous ego leaning on the physical world, to divine surrender, to living through God. And then the stark moment of fear, fear that your grip on the world was powerless against, fear that, against all expectations, drew you closer to God. An amazing and wonderful story! Thanks for sharing it. Rick Lomax January 12, Reply. How lucky you are to hear him, I have cried out to him in the night from the depth of my pain, and cannot. I continue to search as I always have, a pilgrim forever, and I know I am at a decision making point.

I pray that guidance will be found in my attempts to overcome my inner and outer struggles. Jerry L Martin January 17, Reply. One thing we all have to keep in mind is that God does not solve all our problems. Financial problems have to be addressed financially, marital problems may call for counseling, personal problems may benefit from therapy, health problems from a doctor or better living, and so on.

But God is with us in these struggles. He is by our side; He is ON our side.

And He does provide guidance, usually not a voice as I have which was needed since He wanted me to write this book , but subliminal hints that are hard to detect. There are three excellent books that can help you: Moretti July 8, Reply. Jesus Christ spoke to me through the Holy Spirit on December 17, after I begged him for mercy he showed up and we had a conversation for one night. I am so blessed because this does not happen all too often from what I understand?

This is what it took for Jesus to win me over to him, I did not have this awesome experience because I am better than anyone else. Wayne Rumsby January 12, Reply. Some would say that it was what we were supposed to believe, or even that it was all there was to believe. By the time I was thirty my imagination made incompatible. I tried walking away. That only lasted a few years, and then I had my first God encounter. The short version is that after swearing never to go back to church, the need for daycare services found me standing in the lobby of a church feeling like I was in His hands.

I knew that God was guiding me. I was also pissed because he was calling me back into the church, the broken whore of a bride Gomer. A few years later I had another turning point, calling moment. I was on the verge of bankruptcy, our business was sinking, I had to go get a job. It felt like utter failure. At the same time God called me to move my family downtown inner city.

I tested that request, challenging God to get me a job downtown. He did, and a house. With in a couple of years God called me out of full-time employment into full-time, faith supported, inner city mission work. That mission work quickly took shape around a thesis that work is a vital human need, not merely to pay the bills, but to discover who we are. The poor are robbed of this experience through minimum wage slavery.

I raised funds and put together a woodworking shop so that folks from the street could come and experience the healing effect of crafting furniture. On one occasion one of the participants finished a beautiful hope chest made of cherry. Before long the money that flowed from the evangelical community began to dry up.

There were many questions about the effectiveness of such a strategy. They are all being saved. I understood the financial pressure that drove this statement, but I also understood the complete failure of the church to understand the very basic human need for work. I still found it strange because our social programs secular provide supportive work opportunities for people with intellectual limitations. I toured one once and met the workers who expressed how much they loved their work. God then showed me a door that took me out west to work in Alberta.

In fact the program was up and running and just needed someone to take the helm. I won the position and went to work, only to find out that they too had a very narrow view of work. In fact their view of poverty was simply materialistic. That program was folded, and I was offered a different position, but by then I was beginning to understand that the evangelical perspective views those poor people with such contempt that they mission was really to make them just like us.

Marky, my beloved special needs son, lived on by the thinnest of margins. Needless to say I knew my Alberta days were done. The next couple of months were hell, but even in the midst of it we could hear God calling us away. We sold our home in the city and wandered out to the country and bought a 7 acre piece of bush, with a river running through it.

We knew without a moments hesitation that God wanted us to buy the place and establish a spiritual retreat for the poor. Today a year later we are barely hanging on to that vision. These days I wake up in depression and doubt, and I fight my way into the light, using only my imagination. I imagine building a woodworking studio where together with our guest we will learn to transfer the beauty within us, into the wood that we fashion into useful, functional and wonderful art. I imagine, writers coming to write, musicians coming to push back the ugly and children and dogs dancing in the woods.

I imagine the fellowship at the table, and the art of cooking, and the fire side chats, sharing stories that have been ignored for too long. One of the effects of burden of adversity is that it forces you to examine your payload. If I am to carry this vision what things will I have to let go of in order to pull it off.

The examination process has quickly revealed that the burden, and often the barrier, is the religious constructs of our culture. It has been a ruthless process and lonely to boot. When you are hanging onto your dream in one hand and a bunch of stuff that you were just told was really important in the other—what then? I wonder though, does not believing in God render him unreal? Does what I think really have any impact on what is?

So now I find myself hanging on by a fingernail. It is dispensationalism that has America sending billions meddling in the Middle East in order to expedite the end of time. Today I am at the very edge of my faith, having set down all but the notion that the Designer knows and loves me my last fingernail on the cliff and still he calls me to that dream of helping people discover who he designed them to be.

Jerry L Martin January 16, Reply. Wayne, your spiritual journey is fascinating — and harrowing. You are coping with two issues that face us all, discernment and action. Discernment is difficult because divine prompts are always in the midst of a cloud of motives, and it is not easy to sort them out. You have had to face that challenge at every step of the way.

Then there are all the practical problems. Life is lived on the ground.

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God will be our partner, but we have to do the heavy lifting. We cannot jump off cliffs and expect God to save us. Even Jesus, when challenged by Satan, refused such a test. All the best to you, my friend. Hayden December 30, Reply. Just wanted to say that this is a great site. As for my experience with God, I have never heard His voice, felt his presence, or anything like that.

That being said, by speaking with others and hearing about things quite clearly supernatural, I am more or less convinced that He is there. There are always those annoying, nagging doubts, though, telling me that I am wrong and that none of it is true. I am a philosophy student myself, and naturally look to arguments for His existence to confirm my beliefs. I guess my comment can be tied up in a simple, sincere question: Is this for real?

Jerry L Martin January 1, Reply. Hayden, this is a really good, solid, right-to-the-heart-of-the-matter comment: Well, yes, it is.

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The forbidden fruit is never specifically identified, but is instead referred to by only the phrase "forbidden fruit. In the proving process, we accept and receive that which is timely and deals with the past or present in an accurate way. This is the central theme. Human beings are fallible. Faith is a choice. I knew that God was guiding me. Holy Spirit teaches us how to pray.

Which is not to say that it is obvious that it is the real deal, or comes wrapped in a cloak of infallibility or anything like that. It is more like believing what you see with your own eyes, when there is no compelling reason not to believe it. After all, there could be a God, and God could communicate these things to a guy like me.

Why would anybody deny that? Only if they are dead set against believing in God. Then they tilt the scale with a heavy thumb, always putting the burden of proof on the believer — as if eyewitnesses had to demonstrate deductively that they saw what they saw.

Why should I and thousands or millions like me discount our experiences of divine presence? Or maybe neither side has the burden of proof. As William James puts it, you have two options, both reasonable, one of which is open to faith, the other closed. As I see it, if you are open, you might find something; if you are closed, you never will, even if it is there.

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Joseph David Thomas December 13, Reply. Blessing enough will have to do for now. Nothing has happened since our last correspondence. Thank you for your kind words. I still feel fear on my side. Thankfully, firm has not morphed into force. It seems primitive and pre-verbal. Maybe something to do with unresolved issues from a childhood growing up under the abusive excesses of an alcoholic father. Oh well, I will just let it go for now. If He has the interest to call me by name, He has the ability to reach me without further violation to my sensitivities.

How this happens noetically, I humbly leave up to God. Jerry L Martin December 17, Reply. Joe, thanks for sharing your current situation with me. You cannot wave a wand and make your fear go away. It looks as if you will have to just live with that a while. God is already there for you. About all you can do is to remain open to grace. Joe, you are in my heart and in my prayers. Jenny December 10, Reply. Martin, I am continually drawn back to your book. Skip to main content. The Christian Broadcasting Network CBN is a global ministry committed to preparing the nations of the world for the coming of Jesus Christ through mass media.

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