Here I go off on another tirade
Thinking of you makes me want to rage
I can fill a books every page
I just pray it is with sage
You are so on my mind steeling my time
I know all your reasons and the rhyme
I see the clear picture and it makes me whine
Frustration hollows no improvement with time.
The expectation put on you was to develop and grow
Not be stagnate and become archaic and low
You settled in and did the opposite going slow
It kills you that I understand you so well and know
Your thought process became quite antiquated
Your self involvement grew to portions of epic
You sit there in denial which makes it more tragic
Longing for that one person to appear like magic
You will never admit you are responsible for your own happiness
It’s easier to point the finger and wallow in sadness
Let others think what they like even if you are viewed as worthless
To destroy that perception you’d have to progress and become selfless
Oh hell that’s too much like work forget about that
That’s too much pressure for you when it’s ambition you lack
In stead you wait on a miracle maker to cover your track
Better they pick up any an all slack
You know better…that notion is whack
You need a wake up call or perhaps a smack
Your connections to those in your life are non existent
Being stone walled for so long they are no longer persistent
Now several relationships are on the verge of extinction
One would think you would have seen you dads correlation
Sorry to say there is a parallel
You know it is true you are not an imbecile
First step is facing facts and acknowledging the trouble
Try opening up yourself and letting in another
It takes a lot of work to make a relationship thrive
It takes two making an effort to keep it alive
Learning to listen and maybe counting to five
It isn’t good keeping your feelings in a hive
The key to it all is good communication
Being open, honest, understanding developing the vocation
It is going to be hard with your current location
However it can be done with a bit of innovation
The key to being loved is loving yourself first
How can you love someone else if you don’t love yourself first
Your self loathing and dislike of self is the worst
No, your distrust of others and that wall you have up is the worst
You have to give up on the notion you are fringed
That people who love you are seriously unhinged
I hear the things you say and they make me cringe
Circumstance, status and supposed curses clouds like a grey tinge
Your lack of self belief has you so trodden
You are so blind to yourself it is disheartening
Stop telling yourself that you are rotten
Oh babe, that belief needs to be forgotten
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How I Wonder What You Are
What have you gained from holding so tightly the reins
Why are you so mean almost sadistic, deriving joy from another’s pains
You used sex as a weapon … teaching a lesson
Funny, I always thought that was a woman’s vocation
However there you were, messing with my head and abandoning our bed
Not that that affected you…no, when ever you wanted it…you got head
Yes, there were lotions and potions and my silly notions I so do not understand my devotion
My mouth was your haven be it down my throat, ice, pop rocks, or motion lotion
There I was all revved up my motor running waiting my turn…always left to burn
Oh how it makes my heart ache and churn.
You would fan the flame ‘til I was a glow with desire
Writhing in frustration and still you wouldn’t quench my fire
I was left to cry myself to sleep drowning in thirst
You obtained your pleasure first and to douse my fire would have been a curse or perhaps something much worse!
I would be in agony the itch so hot…and you would do naught
You’d turn your back on me, so I was out of sight and forgot
I felt so alone and unloved…as if to you I was not worth aught
All those years…it is so painful to remember, like walking barefoot in snows of December
Where was a husband’s warm loving care, you vowed to love, honor, cherish, and protect… remember
I can’t remember you ever being tender
Instead you with held your love, were mean, malicious and callous
Holding on to me as punishment for ruining your palace
Oh yes you were the king of our castle
Now you look back and see I really wasn’t all that much of a hassle
I would lay a wager you now wish you sipped more of my wine
That you had heeded my warning and spent that time
You truly lost all interest in my body…you lost all interest in me
I believe it would have killed you to take to your knee
You didn’t care about my needs or scratching my itch
I believe you derived great satisfaction in letting me twitch…
It was your favorite game turning me into a witch
You’d rather not touch me and just listen to me bitch
You use to mean the world to me
Now I feel relieved that I am free, to a degree
Why won’t you divorce me
You certainly don’t like me let alone love me
Unless you put away all those tired notions of curses
Step up to the plate and be the man I know you can purchase
Not with money, but with positive actions and perhaps churches
Now you are rolling on the floor laughing as your heart lurches
I can’t see you ever changing while I am ever changing
I know you don’t believe me, but I am rearranging
I am and always will be me I haven’t really changed, but I know I am not the same, I have been arranged
I know you are still the same and haven’t reinvented or rearranged
I have our son you have raised and I see him you tried to arrange
Instead he is melancholy, socially inept and a bit deranged
What a disservice you have done to our boy I you are worse than mange
I am still trying to fathom what you did to our son
You will say, “I didn’t do anything to our son”
I can see that, you are YOU a small minded selfish person
You always put yourself first even over your own son.
Yes I do believe you…you didn’t do a damn thing to or for our boy
You have given me a sad little boy whom seems to have no joy.
You didn’t teach him how to survive in this world or how not to be coy
Can he manage money, pay bills, and balance a check book…oy!
Now that his money is gone you have no further use of him
Much like what your father and grandmother did to Kim
I take responsibility for that fateful day in 88, that is my sin
I blame you for his mental anguish, heavy heart and the sad state he’s in
What a great provider you are…oh so true
Not one to put yourself out unless there is something in it for you
It never dawned on you that Corey is an extension and reflection of you
Did it not occurred to you to educate, help set goals and actually work and show him what to do
Children learn what they live…that saying is oh so true.
I now understand why you finally allowed him to come home to me
I only have his best interest at heart and want him to be all he can be
You got what you could and instead of counseling him wisely you let him piss it all way, gee
Aren’t you happy with yourself and pleased
Instead of a capable young man well rounded and skilled
You return a young man whom spirits you have killed
Penniless, homeless, socially and culturally challenged, dependent on a guild.
Yeah, I can be a wordsmith and am quite hand with pen and paper it’s where Corey gets his skill!
How could you have been so blind and uncaring
It took me some time, however Michael is on track and has his bearing
All it took was love, patience, a bit of conversation and understanding
He is like you in a lot of ways, however he lives up to his potential and is upstanding
As for Cordan…You blame me and I blame you
We each have a part in that, I take responsibility…do you
You would like me to make up for my allowing the event
You feel it is my fault for the accident
I say it was just that, an accident a misfortune a true calamity
The portion I blame on you is the manner of which you groomed him, that is a travesty!
I blame you for not making him well rounded
Sorry now that I didn’t push, you should have been hounded
You should have been made accountable to make sure your methods were tried and sounded
Monitored and when found lacking pounded
Cordan doesn’t want to be like your father and you
Having no friends being all alone lonely and blue
Lonesome, abandoned old men thinking everyone owes you
Not understanding why those you love betray you
He doesn’t want that for himself
He wants a social life and to give of himself
To be wanted, needed, loved and adored not forgotten and set on a shelf
He accepts that people believe in him and he believes in himself
You so did him a disadvantage
Now with the money gone he offers no advantage
You have crushed him and caused further damaged
As his father you should have better managed
The pain you cause is never ending in your selfishness
Shame on you and your self-centeredness
Have you ever put anyone first in your life
Certainly not your children and definitely not me your wife
I am sick of this so called family curse
You bought into and made yourself worse
If it were true you’d have already taken that ride in a hearse
Get the hell over yourself! You only get one life and you can’t rehearse
If you do not give up those foolish notions, you will never be content
You will die alone and lonely knowing your life was misspent
You will shoulder the burden all by yourself in contempt
The American dream dead and stuck paying rent
Why? Does your pride keep you warn at night
Are you happier being alone as long as you are right
Don’t you miss having a companion to kiss and hold tight
A warm body to merge and be one with in the night
Are you right? Does it matter, truly, if you are not
Would you really die and rot right on the spot
My baby is sad and blue and feels like a ghost
I blame you for him feeling so lost
If you had more self confidence and faith in yourself he would have had an advantage
Your lack of self esteem and not allowing me to build you up was your disadvantage
If you could have admitted that he has brain damage
If you could have left him in ARC for him to learn how to managed
He wouldn’t be sad and lonely feeling like people look through him
He’d have friends, a job, a purpose in life and might even be thin
What have you gained from holding the reins
Will you ever look at yourself or would that just be too much pain
You have to care or at least be more self aware
Try actually opening up and giving of yourself, that’s a dare
Life is too short to worry about what others think, that is not your care
You are afraid to let someone in and be caught in a snare
To be enslaved to another human being as significant
Where nothing else or no one else, including yourself, was more important
That persons needs, wants, desires and happiness is your existence
Have you ever felt a love like that, has your heart ever been that extensive
Have you ever looked at yourself, I mean really looked within you
Do you like what you find, are you content living with just you
Do you know who you are and why you are just as you are
Do you like who you are just as you are
There is much about you that is handsome
Then again there is much about you that is loathsome.
You are a brilliant, intelligent man who can do anything he puts his mind too.
Unfortunately you rather not put too much effort into anything, now do you
The world owes you, yet in the same breath you say you don’t owe anyone anything you owe no dues
You don’t owe your wife for all the times she pleased you and went down on you, which was her choice…true
She loved pleasing you and making sure you were hers, it was so easy giving you head
The thought of ever having to return all those favors must fill you with dread
Her stupid fault for wanting too in the first place
Yeah she never used sex as a weapon that was my case
Ever think. ‘What goes around comes around.’
That the reason she spent so much time on her knees was that she want you to come around and take a turn down
Yeah, you knew…just didn’t care
I was aware... I did care… I made you aware and you still didn’t care
Now you are there and I am here
I look around and I see I have a full life with my loved ones with me
Tell me, Rick, what have you? Look around and within, tell me… what do you see
Do you see in your minds eye the true you or the ruse
You don’t see the man who is hard and cold and is a master of abuse
Can you step back and honestly give yourself a peruse
Do you see the view from the eyes of which I look through
These eyes see an empty shell of a man who let the poison of disappointment ferment
Instead of rising above it you wallowed and learned to lament
Instead of cherishing and holding dear what we had you built a wall as hard as cement
Instead of working at building strong and happy relationships, you prepared to prevent
It was like you gave up and starting to get ready for the event
You knew we weren’t going to make it, and pitched a tent
You hardened your heart and stopped sharing yourself with me
Closing yourself off to our children well, that surprised me
I turned a blind eye to the cruelty
Even after you slapped Shannon’s face I chose not to see
I believe in my heart if you were more attentive in the bedroom, we would have made it.
If you truly loved me…ME the person, as I loved and accepted you as is, we would have made it.
If you were more attentive, perhaps I wouldn’t have needed my bible.
If you had talked to me when I tried to talk to you about our sex life we still may have abided.
It became a pissing contest, a power struggle and I had the power. I always had the power.
The only thing you could control was how much and when you would give me sex that was your power. Your only power.
Feeling like you won? Feeling the might? Was I wrong? Were you right? Are you pleased with how things are? Be honest, share yourself step up to the bar, be a shining star. Oh how I wonder what you are.
Why are you so mean almost sadistic, deriving joy from another’s pains
You used sex as a weapon … teaching a lesson
Funny, I always thought that was a woman’s vocation
However there you were, messing with my head and abandoning our bed
Not that that affected you…no, when ever you wanted it…you got head
Yes, there were lotions and potions and my silly notions I so do not understand my devotion
My mouth was your haven be it down my throat, ice, pop rocks, or motion lotion
There I was all revved up my motor running waiting my turn…always left to burn
Oh how it makes my heart ache and churn.
You would fan the flame ‘til I was a glow with desire
Writhing in frustration and still you wouldn’t quench my fire
I was left to cry myself to sleep drowning in thirst
You obtained your pleasure first and to douse my fire would have been a curse or perhaps something much worse!
I would be in agony the itch so hot…and you would do naught
You’d turn your back on me, so I was out of sight and forgot
I felt so alone and unloved…as if to you I was not worth aught
All those years…it is so painful to remember, like walking barefoot in snows of December
Where was a husband’s warm loving care, you vowed to love, honor, cherish, and protect… remember
I can’t remember you ever being tender
Instead you with held your love, were mean, malicious and callous
Holding on to me as punishment for ruining your palace
Oh yes you were the king of our castle
Now you look back and see I really wasn’t all that much of a hassle
I would lay a wager you now wish you sipped more of my wine
That you had heeded my warning and spent that time
You truly lost all interest in my body…you lost all interest in me
I believe it would have killed you to take to your knee
You didn’t care about my needs or scratching my itch
I believe you derived great satisfaction in letting me twitch…
It was your favorite game turning me into a witch
You’d rather not touch me and just listen to me bitch
You use to mean the world to me
Now I feel relieved that I am free, to a degree
Why won’t you divorce me
You certainly don’t like me let alone love me
Unless you put away all those tired notions of curses
Step up to the plate and be the man I know you can purchase
Not with money, but with positive actions and perhaps churches
Now you are rolling on the floor laughing as your heart lurches
I can’t see you ever changing while I am ever changing
I know you don’t believe me, but I am rearranging
I am and always will be me I haven’t really changed, but I know I am not the same, I have been arranged
I know you are still the same and haven’t reinvented or rearranged
I have our son you have raised and I see him you tried to arrange
Instead he is melancholy, socially inept and a bit deranged
What a disservice you have done to our boy I you are worse than mange
I am still trying to fathom what you did to our son
You will say, “I didn’t do anything to our son”
I can see that, you are YOU a small minded selfish person
You always put yourself first even over your own son.
Yes I do believe you…you didn’t do a damn thing to or for our boy
You have given me a sad little boy whom seems to have no joy.
You didn’t teach him how to survive in this world or how not to be coy
Can he manage money, pay bills, and balance a check book…oy!
Now that his money is gone you have no further use of him
Much like what your father and grandmother did to Kim
I take responsibility for that fateful day in 88, that is my sin
I blame you for his mental anguish, heavy heart and the sad state he’s in
What a great provider you are…oh so true
Not one to put yourself out unless there is something in it for you
It never dawned on you that Corey is an extension and reflection of you
Did it not occurred to you to educate, help set goals and actually work and show him what to do
Children learn what they live…that saying is oh so true.
I now understand why you finally allowed him to come home to me
I only have his best interest at heart and want him to be all he can be
You got what you could and instead of counseling him wisely you let him piss it all way, gee
Aren’t you happy with yourself and pleased
Instead of a capable young man well rounded and skilled
You return a young man whom spirits you have killed
Penniless, homeless, socially and culturally challenged, dependent on a guild.
Yeah, I can be a wordsmith and am quite hand with pen and paper it’s where Corey gets his skill!
How could you have been so blind and uncaring
It took me some time, however Michael is on track and has his bearing
All it took was love, patience, a bit of conversation and understanding
He is like you in a lot of ways, however he lives up to his potential and is upstanding
As for Cordan…You blame me and I blame you
We each have a part in that, I take responsibility…do you
You would like me to make up for my allowing the event
You feel it is my fault for the accident
I say it was just that, an accident a misfortune a true calamity
The portion I blame on you is the manner of which you groomed him, that is a travesty!
I blame you for not making him well rounded
Sorry now that I didn’t push, you should have been hounded
You should have been made accountable to make sure your methods were tried and sounded
Monitored and when found lacking pounded
Cordan doesn’t want to be like your father and you
Having no friends being all alone lonely and blue
Lonesome, abandoned old men thinking everyone owes you
Not understanding why those you love betray you
He doesn’t want that for himself
He wants a social life and to give of himself
To be wanted, needed, loved and adored not forgotten and set on a shelf
He accepts that people believe in him and he believes in himself
You so did him a disadvantage
Now with the money gone he offers no advantage
You have crushed him and caused further damaged
As his father you should have better managed
The pain you cause is never ending in your selfishness
Shame on you and your self-centeredness
Have you ever put anyone first in your life
Certainly not your children and definitely not me your wife
I am sick of this so called family curse
You bought into and made yourself worse
If it were true you’d have already taken that ride in a hearse
Get the hell over yourself! You only get one life and you can’t rehearse
If you do not give up those foolish notions, you will never be content
You will die alone and lonely knowing your life was misspent
You will shoulder the burden all by yourself in contempt
The American dream dead and stuck paying rent
Why? Does your pride keep you warn at night
Are you happier being alone as long as you are right
Don’t you miss having a companion to kiss and hold tight
A warm body to merge and be one with in the night
Are you right? Does it matter, truly, if you are not
Would you really die and rot right on the spot
My baby is sad and blue and feels like a ghost
I blame you for him feeling so lost
If you had more self confidence and faith in yourself he would have had an advantage
Your lack of self esteem and not allowing me to build you up was your disadvantage
If you could have admitted that he has brain damage
If you could have left him in ARC for him to learn how to managed
He wouldn’t be sad and lonely feeling like people look through him
He’d have friends, a job, a purpose in life and might even be thin
What have you gained from holding the reins
Will you ever look at yourself or would that just be too much pain
You have to care or at least be more self aware
Try actually opening up and giving of yourself, that’s a dare
Life is too short to worry about what others think, that is not your care
You are afraid to let someone in and be caught in a snare
To be enslaved to another human being as significant
Where nothing else or no one else, including yourself, was more important
That persons needs, wants, desires and happiness is your existence
Have you ever felt a love like that, has your heart ever been that extensive
Have you ever looked at yourself, I mean really looked within you
Do you like what you find, are you content living with just you
Do you know who you are and why you are just as you are
Do you like who you are just as you are
There is much about you that is handsome
Then again there is much about you that is loathsome.
You are a brilliant, intelligent man who can do anything he puts his mind too.
Unfortunately you rather not put too much effort into anything, now do you
The world owes you, yet in the same breath you say you don’t owe anyone anything you owe no dues
You don’t owe your wife for all the times she pleased you and went down on you, which was her choice…true
She loved pleasing you and making sure you were hers, it was so easy giving you head
The thought of ever having to return all those favors must fill you with dread
Her stupid fault for wanting too in the first place
Yeah she never used sex as a weapon that was my case
Ever think. ‘What goes around comes around.’
That the reason she spent so much time on her knees was that she want you to come around and take a turn down
Yeah, you knew…just didn’t care
I was aware... I did care… I made you aware and you still didn’t care
Now you are there and I am here
I look around and I see I have a full life with my loved ones with me
Tell me, Rick, what have you? Look around and within, tell me… what do you see
Do you see in your minds eye the true you or the ruse
You don’t see the man who is hard and cold and is a master of abuse
Can you step back and honestly give yourself a peruse
Do you see the view from the eyes of which I look through
These eyes see an empty shell of a man who let the poison of disappointment ferment
Instead of rising above it you wallowed and learned to lament
Instead of cherishing and holding dear what we had you built a wall as hard as cement
Instead of working at building strong and happy relationships, you prepared to prevent
It was like you gave up and starting to get ready for the event
You knew we weren’t going to make it, and pitched a tent
You hardened your heart and stopped sharing yourself with me
Closing yourself off to our children well, that surprised me
I turned a blind eye to the cruelty
Even after you slapped Shannon’s face I chose not to see
I believe in my heart if you were more attentive in the bedroom, we would have made it.
If you truly loved me…ME the person, as I loved and accepted you as is, we would have made it.
If you were more attentive, perhaps I wouldn’t have needed my bible.
If you had talked to me when I tried to talk to you about our sex life we still may have abided.
It became a pissing contest, a power struggle and I had the power. I always had the power.
The only thing you could control was how much and when you would give me sex that was your power. Your only power.
Feeling like you won? Feeling the might? Was I wrong? Were you right? Are you pleased with how things are? Be honest, share yourself step up to the bar, be a shining star. Oh how I wonder what you are.
Denmark Traditions really are barbaric...damn Vikings!
Petition to get Denmark to End Whale & Dolphin Slaughter's Dolphin hunting in Denmark The Cove
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Go check it out it is heart breaking, but you need to be aware of this practice!
I am having a hard time forgetting those dreadful pictures of those beautiful creatures that are annually massacred, literally, into extinction. I don’t get this ritual. The islanders of Faroe do not eat the whale meat and per the article these dolphins/whales are left to rot on the beach! “As of the end of November 2008, the chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption because of the levels of toxins in the whales.” This practice is a tradition for young boys to transition into manhood? Where is the challenge in that? Whales are playful, gentle creatures. Not one of those boys looked terrified to be in the water with them. I say they should hunt sharks…stand in the water with sharks and pull those stunts with them and let the whales be! At least that would be sporting and fair! What a bunch of wimps! Shame on them. Too bad we can’t load up all our trash on several hundred barges and send it as a gift to the Faroese as a statement we think their philosophies are garbage. Looking for a place to dump waste…drop it on their island…yeah I know…two wrongs don’t make a right. I am just so fired up about this I want to do something…and all I can do is educate all my Face Book friends and those in my life. What good is it knowing that these beautiful beings are being killed? We sign the petition and what is that going to do exactly? That is going to make activist groups, what? Boycott Faroese? What do they offer the world? Looks like their main source of income is fishing…explains why they would want to kill the dolphins/whales. They cut into their livelihood. I know they say ignorance is bliss, but it is also a sin! I hate this world! I can not wait until Yahweh's timer goes off!
www.youtube.com
Go check it out it is heart breaking, but you need to be aware of this practice!
I am having a hard time forgetting those dreadful pictures of those beautiful creatures that are annually massacred, literally, into extinction. I don’t get this ritual. The islanders of Faroe do not eat the whale meat and per the article these dolphins/whales are left to rot on the beach! “As of the end of November 2008, the chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption because of the levels of toxins in the whales.” This practice is a tradition for young boys to transition into manhood? Where is the challenge in that? Whales are playful, gentle creatures. Not one of those boys looked terrified to be in the water with them. I say they should hunt sharks…stand in the water with sharks and pull those stunts with them and let the whales be! At least that would be sporting and fair! What a bunch of wimps! Shame on them. Too bad we can’t load up all our trash on several hundred barges and send it as a gift to the Faroese as a statement we think their philosophies are garbage. Looking for a place to dump waste…drop it on their island…yeah I know…two wrongs don’t make a right. I am just so fired up about this I want to do something…and all I can do is educate all my Face Book friends and those in my life. What good is it knowing that these beautiful beings are being killed? We sign the petition and what is that going to do exactly? That is going to make activist groups, what? Boycott Faroese? What do they offer the world? Looks like their main source of income is fishing…explains why they would want to kill the dolphins/whales. They cut into their livelihood. I know they say ignorance is bliss, but it is also a sin! I hate this world! I can not wait until Yahweh's timer goes off!
Tattoos
Today’s topic: TATTOOS and my take on them and the bible’s point of view.
I am asked why as a Christian I continue to get tattoos. Well, because I like them and I do not think that they are law breakers. Sure if they were for the dead or if I was using them as some sort of worship, then yes; I would be in violation of God’s law.
“You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.” Leviticus 19:28 — New American Standard
I know quite a few people will say, “Yeah, what are the verses before and after? Are you taking them out of context?” No, I am not:
26 ‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying. 27 You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard. 28 ‘You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD. 29 ‘Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness. 30 ‘You shall keep My sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the LORD. 31 ‘Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 19:26–31 — New American Standard
None of my tats are in memory of the dead. I believe that the issue is more heathen practices of old when a loved one died. The bereave would gash their face or arms as payment to the gods of death and the grave. Now as we are to have no other Gods, you can see why this practice was forbidden. I promise my tats are not for the dead.
19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 King James
15Peter said, "Explain the parable to us." 16"Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them. 17"Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? 18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.' 19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. 20These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.' " - Matthew 15:16-20 King James
16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. - 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 King James
My understanding of these passages are that we may eat what ever we want, it is going to pass through our stomachs and then out of them. Of course we don’t want to hurt our bodies by eating too much “unhealthy” food! We shouldn’t be doing drugs either. This includes alcohol in excess and tobacco smoking. Christians who want to quit drinking and smoking have our Savior on their side: 13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. - Philippians 4:13 King James
None of us are perfect. That is why Yahshua (Jesus) came. He walked this earth for 30 years before He started witnessing and preaching. He lived so He was knowledgeable of the world. He knew and experienced first hand what human beings are faced with. He was the perfect lamb. So, we may not get it right and we may stumble and even fall. We just have to get back up and admit we were wrong. Claim the covering of The Lamb, be washed in His blood. As long as we are truly sorry and we repent in our hearts with no intentions of committing that sin again, we are washed clean and are forgiven. That is the whole point of being washed in the blood of Yahshua (Jesus).
I am asked why as a Christian I continue to get tattoos. Well, because I like them and I do not think that they are law breakers. Sure if they were for the dead or if I was using them as some sort of worship, then yes; I would be in violation of God’s law.
“You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.” Leviticus 19:28 — New American Standard
I know quite a few people will say, “Yeah, what are the verses before and after? Are you taking them out of context?” No, I am not:
26 ‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying. 27 You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard. 28 ‘You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD. 29 ‘Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness. 30 ‘You shall keep My sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the LORD. 31 ‘Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 19:26–31 — New American Standard
None of my tats are in memory of the dead. I believe that the issue is more heathen practices of old when a loved one died. The bereave would gash their face or arms as payment to the gods of death and the grave. Now as we are to have no other Gods, you can see why this practice was forbidden. I promise my tats are not for the dead.
19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 King James
15Peter said, "Explain the parable to us." 16"Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them. 17"Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? 18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.' 19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. 20These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.' " - Matthew 15:16-20 King James
16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. - 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 King James
My understanding of these passages are that we may eat what ever we want, it is going to pass through our stomachs and then out of them. Of course we don’t want to hurt our bodies by eating too much “unhealthy” food! We shouldn’t be doing drugs either. This includes alcohol in excess and tobacco smoking. Christians who want to quit drinking and smoking have our Savior on their side: 13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. - Philippians 4:13 King James
None of us are perfect. That is why Yahshua (Jesus) came. He walked this earth for 30 years before He started witnessing and preaching. He lived so He was knowledgeable of the world. He knew and experienced first hand what human beings are faced with. He was the perfect lamb. So, we may not get it right and we may stumble and even fall. We just have to get back up and admit we were wrong. Claim the covering of The Lamb, be washed in His blood. As long as we are truly sorry and we repent in our hearts with no intentions of committing that sin again, we are washed clean and are forgiven. That is the whole point of being washed in the blood of Yahshua (Jesus).
What I believe...
I believe in love.
I believe in Yahweh, Yahushua and the Holy Ghost.
I believe in the existence of angels, demons and Lucifer.
I believe I am saved.
I believe all things are possible through Christ.
I believe Sabbath is Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.
I believe in the Golden Rule and what goes around comes around seven fold.
I believe everything happens for a reason.
I believe you have to be called by God.
I believe very few answer God's call.
I believe in babies.
I believe in music
2010 New Year Resolution
It is time for my true New Year Resolution 1 John 5: 14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him. I am asking in Yahshua’s name, based on my resolve, my marriage to one Rickey Edward Stough, shall be dissolved and we will be divorced, prayerfully before my 47th birthday, definitely by the end of 2010, God willing. Amen
I believe Jesus or Yahshua is the son of God. I love God, Father Yahweh, and I love His son Yahshua. He is the true God and eternal life. I have been stating for years that this system of things, this world, is Lucifer’s the slanderer / Devil. I am reborn in Jesus and therefore I have the ability to overcome the world. The whole world is under the control of the evil one. I have strength in Christ to stand firm in my beliefs, on my own, with just His support and His spirit living in me…through me.
Sometimes I feel all alone, even though I live with five other people. I have my belief system, and the others in this house have their own personal relationships with their Higher Power. I do not judge nor do I know their hearts. Only God has that knowledge. I do know that gambling, anger, and abusive words fly almost every night in the lower quarters of the house. Meanwhile upstairs is horrific pain and a search for a pain killer be it in the form of alcohol, marijuana, or pills. They just bring to mind the scripture:
1 Corinthians 6
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
In my quarters it is just me, myself, I, my angels and a constant conversation with Father Yahweh through Yahshua. Two of my children live in this house as well, however they are young adults who work and have social lives and are hardly ever home. I truly don’t know who is washed and sanctified in this house. I can only speak for myself…otherwise I very well may be serving the father of lies!
When I am feeling along it is usually because I am craving a human connection in the form of a mate. Someone who understands my belief system and believes as I do. A man who gets me and all that I am about and accepts me as is. Not often though, as I truly am never alone. I have the Holy Spirit with me 24-7. I am human though, and miss the intimacies of a human relationship. I can honestly say that I have not been decently kissed in over 20 years. I sacrifice that condition and am here to tell you that sex, although as wondrous and so feel good as it is, it is not a necessity of life! Yeah, yeah, yeah those of you, who know me, truly know me, know that when I am in a relationship I turn in to an insatiable lover. My sex drive doesn’t park or slip into neutral it gets stuck in drive. Well, I am not in a relationship, and I have vowed to my God and my Lord and Savior that I will not enter into another relationship until I am divorced from my unbelieving husband who abandoned our marriage bed years and years ago. Then and only then will I look to start a relationship with another man with the intention of serious dating which leads to marriage. I will not lie with another man unless he is my husband.
The only reason to be married is if you can not abstain. 1 Corinthians 7 9But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. Now I can abstain, but I don’t want to, I am freaking burning here!! Yeah, yeah, yeah Christians are not to divorce. Did I mention I am married to an unbeliever and he deserted our marriage bed? He moved out of state to Florida. He doesn’t love me or want me; he just has his own reasons for not wanting to divorce me, a divorce, by the way, I am biblically entitled to! 1 Corinthians 7 15But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace. I would love to be in peace with my sexual nature!
Perhaps he thinks he is punishing me, that is more his style. Well, I have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to play hard-ball. I am going to have to see about having him investigated for mismanagement of our son’s, Cordan, trust fund. Actually more like misappropriation of funds! Our son was hit by a car when he was 35 months old and there was money from the incident for our son’s future. Rickey used it for his future and pissed it away; crude terminology, but ever so true! Eh, I will hirer a divorce lawyer and try it the court system way instead of on my own like I did the last two times. If that doesn’t work, then I will play hard-ball. I will have to check with my son first and see what he says, he is so blindly loyal to his dad. That is one of the after effects of the car accident. A survivor of major head trauma Cordan / Corey is very easily manipulated. I am not a manipulator…guess who is!
Corey is talented, creative, sensitive, loving, strong, and dedicated. He is an amazing man with a code of honor that makes him stand by his dad. He stated to me once that he was afraid that if he left his dad, his dad would have no-one and end up committing suicide. He vividly saw this as if it were a premonition. I have been separated from my husband for a long time now. I have no idea who he is now. When I was with him, I could positively unequivocally tell you that wouldn’t be a thought in the man’s head. He has said that if he ever had a condition that was life threatening or if he was going to be less than he was, he would just walk out into the woods and never come back. He didn’t say if he would take a gun or a knife with him, just that he would not die in the house. I do know that if he were to be a vegetable he would not want to be on life support running up hospital bills. He doesn’t want to be resuscitated if there is a chance he’s be paralyzed or if he had a brain injury that would make him less than who he is. If there is a possibility he may have brain damage or need to wear a “diaper”…any of these scenarios, then just let him die. I would be surprised if he has changed his mind about any of that. Suicide? He is too intelligent for that. His personality may have changed, however the man is still brilliant, talented and creative that can’t change, it is his foundation the nature of his condition.
Just so you all know: I would never ever consider suicide, it is a sure fire one way ticket to Hell. So, I will not even contemplate IF and HOW I would do myself in! I have made it clear to every one and anyone who will listen to me over and over again through out my life. If ever you find me dead and it looks like suicide, its murder! It would have to be murder I am not going to Hell.
Father, I come before You in Yahshua’s name, pleading my case. You know my heart. I prayed for years that You would call Rickey and that he would answer. Now we are apart, and he is not willing to live with me to the standards I require. Please Father, I need a covering, You know what I need better than I do. Please, I am storing up my treasures for the New Earth and the New Heaven. I long to hear” 'Well done, good and faithful servant! …” I do not want to be accounted with those whom You will be gnashing Your teeth over. Those You will cut off from You at the end of days. Hebrews 11: 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them. I pray You do not cringe when I say You are my God. I give You leave, and invite You into my day, every day. Every day I say may Your will be done. I sing along with Family Force 5, “Replace Me” Crush me, tear me, break me, mold me Make me what You want me to be I am Your's for You to use Oh, Take and Replace me with You. I pray it is Your will for me to be free of Rick in Satan’s system of things. I need You to interfere and over ride Satan’s hold on my legal worldly issue of marriage and put through my divorce…I am begging You. Amen
There is something that has been laid on my heart. Me. The way I am. My likes and dislikes and the way I think and do things. Since totally devoting myself to servitude of You I have gotten several tattoos, developed a passion for Vampire Folklore, and have cleaned up my life. You know all this. I know we are not to have graven images to bow down and worship, I am not worshipping my tattoos. I worship You and Yahshua. You know my heart and my craziness. I have a touch of OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) nothing major, hopefully an endearing idiosyncrasy. I still stand my ground and say that You are my creator and You made me this way. Sure the tattoos were my choice, but I believe this body is a vessel for my soul and there is no harm in decorating it. It’s not coming with me to the New Earth and New Heaven. Ashes to ashes dust to dust. 2 Corinthians 5 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. I want to be cremated anyway, 1 Corinthians 13:3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Yes I know the body is the temple, but we are to be concerned with the inside of our bodies. 1 Corinthians 6 12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. Now this is why I abstain and yet have tattoos! God knows my heart and He hasn’t laid on my heart yet to have them removed, so…until He does…I will have tattoos and may get a few more! I am fleeing from sexual immorality. Doing my best to keep the 10 Commandments and believe in His word, especially John 3: 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Amen!
1 John 5
Faith in the Son of God
1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7For there are three that testify: 8the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9We accept man's testimony, but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 10Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Concluding Remarks
13I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
16If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that he should pray about that. 17All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
18We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him. 19We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true—even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Matthew25: 21"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' … Matthew25: 23"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!'
1 Corinthians 6
Lawsuits Among Believers
1If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints? 2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 4Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint as judges even men of little account in the church! 5I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? 6But instead, one brother goes to law against another—and this in front of unbelievers!
7The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers.
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Sexual Immorality
12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
I believe Jesus or Yahshua is the son of God. I love God, Father Yahweh, and I love His son Yahshua. He is the true God and eternal life. I have been stating for years that this system of things, this world, is Lucifer’s the slanderer / Devil. I am reborn in Jesus and therefore I have the ability to overcome the world. The whole world is under the control of the evil one. I have strength in Christ to stand firm in my beliefs, on my own, with just His support and His spirit living in me…through me.
Sometimes I feel all alone, even though I live with five other people. I have my belief system, and the others in this house have their own personal relationships with their Higher Power. I do not judge nor do I know their hearts. Only God has that knowledge. I do know that gambling, anger, and abusive words fly almost every night in the lower quarters of the house. Meanwhile upstairs is horrific pain and a search for a pain killer be it in the form of alcohol, marijuana, or pills. They just bring to mind the scripture:
1 Corinthians 6
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
In my quarters it is just me, myself, I, my angels and a constant conversation with Father Yahweh through Yahshua. Two of my children live in this house as well, however they are young adults who work and have social lives and are hardly ever home. I truly don’t know who is washed and sanctified in this house. I can only speak for myself…otherwise I very well may be serving the father of lies!
When I am feeling along it is usually because I am craving a human connection in the form of a mate. Someone who understands my belief system and believes as I do. A man who gets me and all that I am about and accepts me as is. Not often though, as I truly am never alone. I have the Holy Spirit with me 24-7. I am human though, and miss the intimacies of a human relationship. I can honestly say that I have not been decently kissed in over 20 years. I sacrifice that condition and am here to tell you that sex, although as wondrous and so feel good as it is, it is not a necessity of life! Yeah, yeah, yeah those of you, who know me, truly know me, know that when I am in a relationship I turn in to an insatiable lover. My sex drive doesn’t park or slip into neutral it gets stuck in drive. Well, I am not in a relationship, and I have vowed to my God and my Lord and Savior that I will not enter into another relationship until I am divorced from my unbelieving husband who abandoned our marriage bed years and years ago. Then and only then will I look to start a relationship with another man with the intention of serious dating which leads to marriage. I will not lie with another man unless he is my husband.
The only reason to be married is if you can not abstain. 1 Corinthians 7 9But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. Now I can abstain, but I don’t want to, I am freaking burning here!! Yeah, yeah, yeah Christians are not to divorce. Did I mention I am married to an unbeliever and he deserted our marriage bed? He moved out of state to Florida. He doesn’t love me or want me; he just has his own reasons for not wanting to divorce me, a divorce, by the way, I am biblically entitled to! 1 Corinthians 7 15But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace. I would love to be in peace with my sexual nature!
Perhaps he thinks he is punishing me, that is more his style. Well, I have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to play hard-ball. I am going to have to see about having him investigated for mismanagement of our son’s, Cordan, trust fund. Actually more like misappropriation of funds! Our son was hit by a car when he was 35 months old and there was money from the incident for our son’s future. Rickey used it for his future and pissed it away; crude terminology, but ever so true! Eh, I will hirer a divorce lawyer and try it the court system way instead of on my own like I did the last two times. If that doesn’t work, then I will play hard-ball. I will have to check with my son first and see what he says, he is so blindly loyal to his dad. That is one of the after effects of the car accident. A survivor of major head trauma Cordan / Corey is very easily manipulated. I am not a manipulator…guess who is!
Corey is talented, creative, sensitive, loving, strong, and dedicated. He is an amazing man with a code of honor that makes him stand by his dad. He stated to me once that he was afraid that if he left his dad, his dad would have no-one and end up committing suicide. He vividly saw this as if it were a premonition. I have been separated from my husband for a long time now. I have no idea who he is now. When I was with him, I could positively unequivocally tell you that wouldn’t be a thought in the man’s head. He has said that if he ever had a condition that was life threatening or if he was going to be less than he was, he would just walk out into the woods and never come back. He didn’t say if he would take a gun or a knife with him, just that he would not die in the house. I do know that if he were to be a vegetable he would not want to be on life support running up hospital bills. He doesn’t want to be resuscitated if there is a chance he’s be paralyzed or if he had a brain injury that would make him less than who he is. If there is a possibility he may have brain damage or need to wear a “diaper”…any of these scenarios, then just let him die. I would be surprised if he has changed his mind about any of that. Suicide? He is too intelligent for that. His personality may have changed, however the man is still brilliant, talented and creative that can’t change, it is his foundation the nature of his condition.
Just so you all know: I would never ever consider suicide, it is a sure fire one way ticket to Hell. So, I will not even contemplate IF and HOW I would do myself in! I have made it clear to every one and anyone who will listen to me over and over again through out my life. If ever you find me dead and it looks like suicide, its murder! It would have to be murder I am not going to Hell.
Father, I come before You in Yahshua’s name, pleading my case. You know my heart. I prayed for years that You would call Rickey and that he would answer. Now we are apart, and he is not willing to live with me to the standards I require. Please Father, I need a covering, You know what I need better than I do. Please, I am storing up my treasures for the New Earth and the New Heaven. I long to hear” 'Well done, good and faithful servant! …” I do not want to be accounted with those whom You will be gnashing Your teeth over. Those You will cut off from You at the end of days. Hebrews 11: 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them. I pray You do not cringe when I say You are my God. I give You leave, and invite You into my day, every day. Every day I say may Your will be done. I sing along with Family Force 5, “Replace Me” Crush me, tear me, break me, mold me Make me what You want me to be I am Your's for You to use Oh, Take and Replace me with You. I pray it is Your will for me to be free of Rick in Satan’s system of things. I need You to interfere and over ride Satan’s hold on my legal worldly issue of marriage and put through my divorce…I am begging You. Amen
There is something that has been laid on my heart. Me. The way I am. My likes and dislikes and the way I think and do things. Since totally devoting myself to servitude of You I have gotten several tattoos, developed a passion for Vampire Folklore, and have cleaned up my life. You know all this. I know we are not to have graven images to bow down and worship, I am not worshipping my tattoos. I worship You and Yahshua. You know my heart and my craziness. I have a touch of OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) nothing major, hopefully an endearing idiosyncrasy. I still stand my ground and say that You are my creator and You made me this way. Sure the tattoos were my choice, but I believe this body is a vessel for my soul and there is no harm in decorating it. It’s not coming with me to the New Earth and New Heaven. Ashes to ashes dust to dust. 2 Corinthians 5 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. I want to be cremated anyway, 1 Corinthians 13:3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Yes I know the body is the temple, but we are to be concerned with the inside of our bodies. 1 Corinthians 6 12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. Now this is why I abstain and yet have tattoos! God knows my heart and He hasn’t laid on my heart yet to have them removed, so…until He does…I will have tattoos and may get a few more! I am fleeing from sexual immorality. Doing my best to keep the 10 Commandments and believe in His word, especially John 3: 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Amen!
1 John 5
Faith in the Son of God
1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7For there are three that testify: 8the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9We accept man's testimony, but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 10Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Concluding Remarks
13I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
16If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that he should pray about that. 17All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
18We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him. 19We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true—even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Matthew25: 21"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' … Matthew25: 23"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!'
1 Corinthians 6
Lawsuits Among Believers
1If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints? 2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 4Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint as judges even men of little account in the church! 5I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? 6But instead, one brother goes to law against another—and this in front of unbelievers!
7The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers.
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Sexual Immorality
12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
2010 New Year Resolution
It is time for my true New Year Resolution 1 John 5: 14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him. I am asking in Yahshua’s name, based on my resolve, my marriage to one Rickey Edward Stough, shall be dissolved and we will be divorced, prayerfully before my 47th birthday, definitely by the end of 2010, God willing. Amen
I believe Jesus or Yahshua is the son of God. I love God, Father Yahweh, and I love His son Yahshua. He is the true God and eternal life. I have been stating for years that this system of things, this world, is Lucifer’s the slanderer / Devil. I am reborn in Jesus and therefore I have the ability to overcome the world. The whole world is under the control of the evil one. I have strength in Christ to stand firm in my beliefs, on my own, with just His support and His spirit living in me…through me.
Sometimes I feel all alone, even though I live with five other people. I have my belief system, and the others in this house have their own personal relationships with their Higher Power. I do not judge nor do I know their hearts. Only God has that knowledge. I do know that gambling, anger, and abusive words fly almost every night in the lower quarters of the house. Meanwhile upstairs is horrific pain and a search for a pain killer be it in the form of alcohol, marijuana, or pills. They just bring to mind the scripture:
1 Corinthians 6
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
In my quarters it is just me, myself, I, my angels and a constant conversation with Father Yahweh through Yahshua. Two of my children live in this house as well, however they are young adults who work and have social lives and are hardly ever home. I truly don’t know who is washed and sanctified in this house. I can only speak for myself…otherwise I very well may be serving the father of lies!
When I am feeling along it is usually because I am craving a human connection in the form of a mate. Someone who understands my belief system and believes as I do. A man who gets me and all that I am about and accepts me as is. Not often though, as I truly am never alone. I have the Holy Spirit with me 24-7. I am human though, and miss the intimacies of a human relationship. I can honestly say that I have not been decently kissed in over 20 years. I sacrifice that condition and am here to tell you that sex, although as wondrous and so feel good as it is, it is not a necessity of life! Yeah, yeah, yeah those of you, who know me, truly know me, know that when I am in a relationship I turn in to an insatiable lover. My sex drive doesn’t park or slip into neutral it gets stuck in drive. Well, I am not in a relationship, and I have vowed to my God and my Lord and Savior that I will not enter into another relationship until I am divorced from my unbelieving husband who abandoned our marriage bed years and years ago. Then and only then will I look to start a relationship with another man with the intention of serious dating which leads to marriage. I will not lie with another man unless he is my husband.
The only reason to be married is if you can not abstain. 1 Corinthians 7 9But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. Now I can abstain, but I don’t want to, I am freaking burning here!! Yeah, yeah, yeah Christians are not to divorce. Did I mention I am married to an unbeliever and he deserted our marriage bed? He moved out of state to Florida. He doesn’t love me or want me; he just has his own reasons for not wanting to divorce me, a divorce, by the way, I am biblically entitled to! 1 Corinthians 7 15But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace. I would love to be in peace with my sexual nature!
Perhaps he thinks he is punishing me, that is more his style. Well, I have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to play hard-ball. I am going to have to see about having him investigated for mismanagement of our son’s, Cordan, trust fund. Actually more like misappropriation of funds! Our son was hit by a car when he was 35 months old and there was money from the incident for our son’s future. Rickey used it for his future and pissed it away; crude terminology, but ever so true! Eh, I will hirer a divorce lawyer and try it the court system way instead of on my own like I did the last two times. If that doesn’t work, then I will play hard-ball. I will have to check with my son first and see what he says, he is so blindly loyal to his dad. That is one of the after effects of the car accident. A survivor of major head trauma Cordan / Corey is very easily manipulated. I am not a manipulator…guess who is!
Corey is talented, creative, sensitive, loving, strong, and dedicated. He is an amazing man with a code of honor that makes him stand by his dad. He stated to me once that he was afraid that if he left his dad, his dad would have no-one and end up committing suicide. He vividly saw this as if it were a premonition. I have been separated from my husband for a long time now. I have no idea who he is now. When I was with him, I could positively unequivocally tell you that wouldn’t be a thought in the man’s head. He has said that if he ever had a condition that was life threatening or if he was going to be less than he was, he would just walk out into the woods and never come back. He didn’t say if he would take a gun or a knife with him, just that he would not die in the house. I do know that if he were to be a vegetable he would not want to be on life support running up hospital bills. He doesn’t want to be resuscitated if there is a chance he’s be paralyzed or if he had a brain injury that would make him less than who he is. If there is a possibility he may have brain damage or need to wear a “diaper”…any of these scenarios, then just let him die. I would be surprised if he has changed his mind about any of that. Suicide? He is too intelligent for that. His personality may have changed, however the man is still brilliant, talented and creative that can’t change, it is his foundation the nature of his condition.
Just so you all know: I would never ever consider suicide, it is a sure fire one way ticket to Hell. So, I will not even contemplate IF and HOW I would do myself in! I have made it clear to every one and anyone who will listen to me over and over again through out my life. If ever you find me dead and it looks like suicide, its murder! It would have to be murder I am not going to Hell.
Father, I come before You in Yahshua’s name, pleading my case. You know my heart. I prayed for years that You would call Rickey and that he would answer. Now we are apart, and he is not willing to live with me to the standards I require. Please Father, I need a covering, You know what I need better than I do. Please, I am storing up my treasures for the New Earth and the New Heaven. I long to hear” 'Well done, good and faithful servant! …” I do not want to be accounted with those whom You will be gnashing Your teeth over. Those You will cut off from You at the end of days. Hebrews 11: 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them. I pray You do not cringe when I say You are my God. I give You leave, and invite You into my day, every day. Every day I say may Your will be done. I sing along with Family Force 5, “Replace Me” Crush me, tear me, break me, mold me Make me what You want me to be I am Your's for You to use Oh, Take and Replace me with You. I pray it is Your will for me to be free of Rick in Satan’s system of things. I need You to interfere and over ride Satan’s hold on my legal worldly issue of marriage and put through my divorce…I am begging You. Amen
There is something that has been laid on my heart. Me. The way I am. My likes and dislikes and the way I think and do things. Since totally devoting myself to servitude of You I have gotten several tattoos, developed a passion for Vampire Folklore, and have cleaned up my life. You know all this. I know we are not to have graven images to bow down and worship, I am not worshipping my tattoos. I worship You and Yahshua. You know my heart and my craziness. I have a touch of OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) nothing major, hopefully an endearing idiosyncrasy. I still stand my ground and say that You are my creator and You made me this way. Sure the tattoos were my choice, but I believe this body is a vessel for my soul and there is no harm in decorating it. It’s not coming with me to the New Earth and New Heaven. Ashes to ashes dust to dust. 2 Corinthians 5 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. I want to be cremated anyway, 1 Corinthians 13:3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Yes I know the body is the temple, but we are to be concerned with the inside of our bodies. 1 Corinthians 6 12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. Now this is why I abstain and yet have tattoos! God knows my heart and He hasn’t laid on my heart yet to have them removed, so…until He does…I will have tattoos and may get a few more! I am fleeing from sexual immorality. Doing my best to keep the 10 Commandments and believe in His word, especially John 3: 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Amen!
1 John 5
Faith in the Son of God
1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7For there are three that testify: 8the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9We accept man's testimony, but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 10Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Concluding Remarks
13I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
16If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that he should pray about that. 17All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
18We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him. 19We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true—even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Matthew25: 21"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' … Matthew25: 23"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!'
1 Corinthians 6
Lawsuits Among Believers
1If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints? 2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 4Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint as judges even men of little account in the church! 5I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? 6But instead, one brother goes to law against another—and this in front of unbelievers!
7The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers.
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Sexual Immorality
12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
I believe Jesus or Yahshua is the son of God. I love God, Father Yahweh, and I love His son Yahshua. He is the true God and eternal life. I have been stating for years that this system of things, this world, is Lucifer’s the slanderer / Devil. I am reborn in Jesus and therefore I have the ability to overcome the world. The whole world is under the control of the evil one. I have strength in Christ to stand firm in my beliefs, on my own, with just His support and His spirit living in me…through me.
Sometimes I feel all alone, even though I live with five other people. I have my belief system, and the others in this house have their own personal relationships with their Higher Power. I do not judge nor do I know their hearts. Only God has that knowledge. I do know that gambling, anger, and abusive words fly almost every night in the lower quarters of the house. Meanwhile upstairs is horrific pain and a search for a pain killer be it in the form of alcohol, marijuana, or pills. They just bring to mind the scripture:
1 Corinthians 6
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
In my quarters it is just me, myself, I, my angels and a constant conversation with Father Yahweh through Yahshua. Two of my children live in this house as well, however they are young adults who work and have social lives and are hardly ever home. I truly don’t know who is washed and sanctified in this house. I can only speak for myself…otherwise I very well may be serving the father of lies!
When I am feeling along it is usually because I am craving a human connection in the form of a mate. Someone who understands my belief system and believes as I do. A man who gets me and all that I am about and accepts me as is. Not often though, as I truly am never alone. I have the Holy Spirit with me 24-7. I am human though, and miss the intimacies of a human relationship. I can honestly say that I have not been decently kissed in over 20 years. I sacrifice that condition and am here to tell you that sex, although as wondrous and so feel good as it is, it is not a necessity of life! Yeah, yeah, yeah those of you, who know me, truly know me, know that when I am in a relationship I turn in to an insatiable lover. My sex drive doesn’t park or slip into neutral it gets stuck in drive. Well, I am not in a relationship, and I have vowed to my God and my Lord and Savior that I will not enter into another relationship until I am divorced from my unbelieving husband who abandoned our marriage bed years and years ago. Then and only then will I look to start a relationship with another man with the intention of serious dating which leads to marriage. I will not lie with another man unless he is my husband.
The only reason to be married is if you can not abstain. 1 Corinthians 7 9But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. Now I can abstain, but I don’t want to, I am freaking burning here!! Yeah, yeah, yeah Christians are not to divorce. Did I mention I am married to an unbeliever and he deserted our marriage bed? He moved out of state to Florida. He doesn’t love me or want me; he just has his own reasons for not wanting to divorce me, a divorce, by the way, I am biblically entitled to! 1 Corinthians 7 15But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace. I would love to be in peace with my sexual nature!
Perhaps he thinks he is punishing me, that is more his style. Well, I have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to play hard-ball. I am going to have to see about having him investigated for mismanagement of our son’s, Cordan, trust fund. Actually more like misappropriation of funds! Our son was hit by a car when he was 35 months old and there was money from the incident for our son’s future. Rickey used it for his future and pissed it away; crude terminology, but ever so true! Eh, I will hirer a divorce lawyer and try it the court system way instead of on my own like I did the last two times. If that doesn’t work, then I will play hard-ball. I will have to check with my son first and see what he says, he is so blindly loyal to his dad. That is one of the after effects of the car accident. A survivor of major head trauma Cordan / Corey is very easily manipulated. I am not a manipulator…guess who is!
Corey is talented, creative, sensitive, loving, strong, and dedicated. He is an amazing man with a code of honor that makes him stand by his dad. He stated to me once that he was afraid that if he left his dad, his dad would have no-one and end up committing suicide. He vividly saw this as if it were a premonition. I have been separated from my husband for a long time now. I have no idea who he is now. When I was with him, I could positively unequivocally tell you that wouldn’t be a thought in the man’s head. He has said that if he ever had a condition that was life threatening or if he was going to be less than he was, he would just walk out into the woods and never come back. He didn’t say if he would take a gun or a knife with him, just that he would not die in the house. I do know that if he were to be a vegetable he would not want to be on life support running up hospital bills. He doesn’t want to be resuscitated if there is a chance he’s be paralyzed or if he had a brain injury that would make him less than who he is. If there is a possibility he may have brain damage or need to wear a “diaper”…any of these scenarios, then just let him die. I would be surprised if he has changed his mind about any of that. Suicide? He is too intelligent for that. His personality may have changed, however the man is still brilliant, talented and creative that can’t change, it is his foundation the nature of his condition.
Just so you all know: I would never ever consider suicide, it is a sure fire one way ticket to Hell. So, I will not even contemplate IF and HOW I would do myself in! I have made it clear to every one and anyone who will listen to me over and over again through out my life. If ever you find me dead and it looks like suicide, its murder! It would have to be murder I am not going to Hell.
Father, I come before You in Yahshua’s name, pleading my case. You know my heart. I prayed for years that You would call Rickey and that he would answer. Now we are apart, and he is not willing to live with me to the standards I require. Please Father, I need a covering, You know what I need better than I do. Please, I am storing up my treasures for the New Earth and the New Heaven. I long to hear” 'Well done, good and faithful servant! …” I do not want to be accounted with those whom You will be gnashing Your teeth over. Those You will cut off from You at the end of days. Hebrews 11: 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them. I pray You do not cringe when I say You are my God. I give You leave, and invite You into my day, every day. Every day I say may Your will be done. I sing along with Family Force 5, “Replace Me” Crush me, tear me, break me, mold me Make me what You want me to be I am Your's for You to use Oh, Take and Replace me with You. I pray it is Your will for me to be free of Rick in Satan’s system of things. I need You to interfere and over ride Satan’s hold on my legal worldly issue of marriage and put through my divorce…I am begging You. Amen
There is something that has been laid on my heart. Me. The way I am. My likes and dislikes and the way I think and do things. Since totally devoting myself to servitude of You I have gotten several tattoos, developed a passion for Vampire Folklore, and have cleaned up my life. You know all this. I know we are not to have graven images to bow down and worship, I am not worshipping my tattoos. I worship You and Yahshua. You know my heart and my craziness. I have a touch of OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) nothing major, hopefully an endearing idiosyncrasy. I still stand my ground and say that You are my creator and You made me this way. Sure the tattoos were my choice, but I believe this body is a vessel for my soul and there is no harm in decorating it. It’s not coming with me to the New Earth and New Heaven. Ashes to ashes dust to dust. 2 Corinthians 5 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. I want to be cremated anyway, 1 Corinthians 13:3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Yes I know the body is the temple, but we are to be concerned with the inside of our bodies. 1 Corinthians 6 12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. Now this is why I abstain and yet have tattoos! God knows my heart and He hasn’t laid on my heart yet to have them removed, so…until He does…I will have tattoos and may get a few more! I am fleeing from sexual immorality. Doing my best to keep the 10 Commandments and believe in His word, especially John 3: 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Amen!
1 John 5
Faith in the Son of God
1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7For there are three that testify: 8the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9We accept man's testimony, but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 10Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Concluding Remarks
13I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
16If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that he should pray about that. 17All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
18We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him. 19We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true—even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Matthew25: 21"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' … Matthew25: 23"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!'
1 Corinthians 6
Lawsuits Among Believers
1If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints? 2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 4Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint as judges even men of little account in the church! 5I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? 6But instead, one brother goes to law against another—and this in front of unbelievers!
7The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers.
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Sexual Immorality
12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
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