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Bible Questions and Spiritual Discussion
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What is the purpose (or what should one do) when someone is pre-warned (as in inner sense) of a negative event that is going to happen and can't change it? For example, before 9/11, some people already sense it, why do God allow them to know if it is going to occur anyway?
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P S 03/09/2011 19:38 |
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TRWord
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03/10/2011 03:42 |
PS
God is love. He is always pre-warning us of impending doom. The problem is some of us can hear His voice while others cannot. Even worst many of us still know God as vengeance and retribution and believe that He is punishing us and not the truth that we are reaping what we sowed. Jesus taught that God is an omniscient (all-knowing) spirit that dwell within us.
“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:” of the Lord’s prayer is meant to bring us to the awareness of Our Father as our protector and guide.
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Ted C
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03/10/2011 10:19 |
P S,
I've found that my "inner alarm" system is about 1 in 10 for predicting actual calamity. Sometimes something happens to a someone and another person knows at the same time and after the fact that something has happened. I don't understand the actual nuts and bolts of how that works though.
TRWord,
Do you believe that "deliver us from evil" means that the believer needs to turn away from believing that good and evil exist? Do you believe we are inherently divine and create our own reality with our thoughts? I'd love some details.
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P S
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03/10/2011 11:47 |
What I'm trying to say is about warning about someone close to you, is there something that God wants us to do?
thanks
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TRWord
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03/10/2011 13:54 |
Ted C
“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:” is a part of the Lord’s Prayer.
Here Jesus is teaching us to develop the awareness of Our Father as our guide and protector.
In our daily walk we are to look to Him to lead us away from situations and circumstances that would cause us to err and to protect us from the consequence of the belief in good and evil.
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Ted C
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03/10/2011 14:59 |
TR, fascinating comment. I started a thread on the main list about the existence of evil; please feel free to jump in with your thoughts if you want to.
P S,
If the person is doing something that leads directly to destruction (sleeping around, doing meth, etc.) I'd try to confront them alone in love and tell them it's my care for them that's making me speak up. If not, I would pray for them and if you sense something wrong may occur then there's nothing wrong with encouraging a friend to be careful driving to work or walking across town, etc. I find that most times I feel like something bad is going to happen, it doesn't. I also find that in the rare and unexpected times when something bad does happen to someone, it usually blindsides me.
I'm also a firm believer that God is Good, and that plans He has for us is to prosper and not for us to be harmed. Bad things do happen, but a healthy soul sustains us in times of sickness and trouble.
I do know that God doesn't want you to be under bondage and oppression in fear of something bad that hasn't happened yet.
Matthew 6:34
"So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
1 John 4:18,19
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. We love, because He first loved us."
1 Corinthians 15:54-58
"But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, 'DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory. O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?' The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord."
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Davidwayne Lackey
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03/10/2011 18:23 |
PS, Do you have A track record of 100% accuracy with this feeling? If so you should tell the person what you perceived. If not ask The Lord for clarity first.
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