Does anyone know what that phrase means? I have an idea but it is kinda vague. Here it is....only by God's hand can someone or something be affected in the harshest way...\n\nEX:someone going from being the richest in the world to the poorest of the poor or someone with very little and the little they have is taken away. \n\n0All i just said just managed to confuse me even more. HELP????!!!!
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Just thank God for who you are and what you are.  Don't wish to be someone else or wish to walk in someone else's shoes.  Be careful what you wish for.
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I've never heard it put that way, but I know about pure light.  It means that lightness always shines in darkness and overcomes all adversity.  No matter how negative or evil any circumstance may seem, with truth, love and holiness, there shines a Light which is greater than any trouble or weakness and is victorious ultimately.  What do I think about the sentence? IT IS PHENOMENAL!!
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One of my favorite verses, and actually one of the two verses that I try to live my life by.  The other being "seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all things will then be given to you".\n\nThe verse "he that seeks to keep his life shall lose it, but he that loses his life for my sake, shall find it" means to me....that the more I give up my "rights" in life, the less I go after what I think I want for myself, the more I give up pursuing the things of the "world" and the more I give up my life for Jesus to do with as He pleases...the more "myself" I truly become.\n\nI never have felt more at peace, more my true self, then when I have given up my own will and choices and asked Jesus to guide my every step, thought, word.  Funny, isn't it?  You think by serving yourself you'd get what you want in life.  I've found by serving Him first (which means, putting others first), that's when I've found true happiness and fulfillment.
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I understand exactly where you are coming from! I mean, its sounds kind of silly that people claim "its the will of God" when they are making decisions. How would they know?? It's not like God told them! Yet, being a christian myself, what "doing the will of God" means in my life is simply following the principles laid down in the bible, and following the way Jesus himself lived. When you do these things, the decisions of everyday life become trivial, because you are so "in tune" with the bible and the way God wants you to be living. Prayer is also a huge part of knowing how to make decisions. Unfortunately, not many christians live this way, and no matter how hard we try, its impossible to live perfectly, but we can only try our best. Hope this helps! God bless you. :)
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are we not doing that already?anyway,we can move away from anybody else but please not to God.he is the savior.please don't be a fault finder it will not help you and to your fellow.be the first one to make the move to get closer to God.remember if our country or we people of God will move away from God,He will lose nothing but when God or we, move away from our country what a pity.i'll for pray for  this, anyway.
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First, in order to understand this issue, you have to consider it context.  This can be a very long explanation, but I'll try to keep it short and sweet.  Basically, this is referring to the second coming of Christ.  This concerns His judgment at that second coming.
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I'm not the greatest expert on the bible, but I try so here goes\nJesus spent most of his time with the poor and oppressed. He belived they needed more help than anyone else. He wasn't afraid to touch, or heal, or stay in a poor person's house. He believe that all of us need to go to places that may make us uncomfotable and try to help others. There is a quote which I'm trying to think of off the top of my head...\nIt isn't the healthy which need help, but the sick.  In other words we in our own lives try to help those who may not seem like the type of people you want to be around. The poor, homeless, and nonbelievers were the type HE had most contact with, therefore we should do the same.
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THAT'S GOOD...\n  you don't ask GOD for money, you have to work for it....\n\n  GOD don't give what your wants, but HE provide your needs!!!!
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God gives and takes anything from us - yes even money.  The rich are consistantly being tested by God to see how much they share.  The poor are tested by god to see whether they lose any faith in him.  Test are not only with wealth but also ( across the board - rich or poor ) with health.  How much faith does one have in God when sick.  How much have you fogotton God when you were cured from sickness.
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Proof that our "friend" is a hypocrite and a mental case, see above.\n\nI ask myself every time I read the Bible, what does this mean FOR me.
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God's money anyway, when a person gives they give with the best intentions and the money is no longer theirs anymore...The person who takes advantage will have his just desserts one day
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A few years ago, I thought everything was going great.  I had just gotten married, and we had recently moved into a new house.  I thought I was right where God wanted me.\n\nThen it happened.  The company that my father and I were working on building together lost its largest client and, with that client, went 40% of its revenue.  Obviously that was a major blow, and it threw our life into a major upheavel.  In order to help supplement our income, my wife stopped working for me and went to work for our church full time, and I started working there part time a few months later.\n\nI began to feel like God was telling me something, but I didn't want to pick up my life, go back to school, and start a new career when I finish school at 36.  Then at a Christmas Eve service, the pastor preached a sermon about how the wise men were late, but it was never too late to do what God is calling you to do.\n\nSo, I prayed and told God that I needed to know for sure that he was calling me to do this, and within a few weeks, I was hit with even more financial difficulty.  The lesson here is:  be careful what you pray for; you just might get it.\n\nSo, I decided that I would do what I felt God calling me to do and started looking at schools.  I ended up at The Divinity School at Wake Forest University, which was not my first or even second choice.\n\nI won't say that everything has been perfect, but everything has worked out to get me where I am now.  The house we bought had appreciated enough in value for us to be able to pay cash for the small condo we live in now, etc.\n\nIn the end it came down to this.  I KNEW that God was calling me into the ministry, I had no doubt about it.  I think the majority of people are sure.  They may argue with God about it, like Moses who basically responded "Here am I, send Aaron."\n\nIf I could sum it up, I guess I would say if you have significant doubts that you are being called into ministry, you probably aren't.
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He gave a huge clue: LOVE.\n\nThis means, fortunate societies need to help less fortunate ones. This means the rich needs to sacrifice some of their time for the poors. This means the advantaged need to care for disadvantaged.
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Actually that should read "God helps those who help themselves to everything they can," got it yet. Not a bible quote or a very deep philosophical point. It is more Machiavellian than Christian.
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God comes in many ways. That homeless person that is asking you for a few dollars could be an angel in disguise. God does things and put people in front of you as a test to see where your faith is. I remember a story in the bible where god was dressed as a homeless person and one had helped him while the other just turned their backs on him. And there were a few more tests he had did. And in the long run he put the ones who turned away from him to shame saying that when he needed food they did not feed him etc. So you never know.
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That verse describes how difficult it is for rich men to turn AWAY from the worship of money - you cannot have two masters, you cannot have God and money as your masters. You can only have one master:\n\nMatthew 6:24 - "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."\n\nThe thing is, back then, the reason men got rich is because they store up treasures on earth for themselves instead of storing up treasures in Heaven for themselves. If you put the money into use in order to expand the kingdom of God, then you are accumulating treasures in Heaven for yourself. If you deliberately keep back the money so to use it for your own luxury, your own comfort, then you show who you worship.\n\nYou can be rich from a high rate of income, but you should not be rich from hoarding treasures for yourself on earth.
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ohhh, how judgemental is everyone here?...think i'll keep my own comments to myself before i start shooting off my mouth and sounding ignorant...as for u all, maybe u should ask a poor, under priviliged minority who just lost all of his home, money, job, several family members, and all of his material possesions why he / she is having trouble starting completely over from nothing after being unwillingly relocated to places where they are viewed w/ predjudice and the limited opportunities that are there are that much harder to take advantage of....But then again, how often in history have those who are more fortunate been able to relate to the plights of those who don't enjoy the same benefits as they do?