Love your neighbour as you love yourself and love the Lord thy God with all your heart, mind, body and soul. I attended a most amazing church recently where everybody with a sin, not just some sins, were welcome. If they were a cheating husband or a cheating wife, they could attend. If they were a struggling addict of some kind, they could attend as well. You could also attend if you were a homosexual or heterosexual.
The point is that the Pastor also made it semi mandatory for everyone to participate in a ten minute bible study on deliverance from hurts, unforgiveness and habitual sins that were predicated on some issue in the person's life such as recollections of having their trust betrayed at an early age and then also having an issue with gratefulness when God gave them a husband or a man to love and with whom they already had children in New York or otherwise. In one scenario, by the time the child's father was inflamed with bitterness at the mother's rejection of his efforts to be a presence in her life, the mother was already semi-involved with someone at her job, at her church and at the local grocery store. She could attend the deliverance ministry as well because the issue was that her dreams were driven by ungratefulness. But, she was big chested and never read "Kiss the Girls and Made them Cry" by M. Scott Peck or Lisa Bevere but someone prayed she would heal one day and sent her the book by Lisa Bevere which she apparently misplaced. Lipstick on a Corvette bumper can cover a multitude of self-deceit and the cyclical patterns of unforgiveness but eventually, we will know the truth and the truth will wipe the bumper clean and open up our understanding. The Father of that woman's child was always a preacher. He is preaching now and so are you but you are single but not so credible only with your Masters of Attention-seeking or Greatness-seeking but you are single and your husband, not the child's father, knows you are single as well. Your husband is the drummer you have been eyeing for years but you struggle with physical intimacy running concurrently with emotional closeness. Hence, the male presence in your life is a Navy Officer studying to be an accountant and who speaks to you every day by calling card from his ship's posting in Guam. You are so happy with him and life itself when you rendezvous in Four Corners Virginia near his family's farm but when you meet in your home town of DoinaNewwork, he is broken down into constituent parts in the fragmented state of the infantile emotions you carry and nothing is ever good enough. How do you fix that? It may not be your eyesight or your eyes or your glasses or your emotions but the way in which sunlight or moonlight reflects upon everything in that city but you.
The movie of the week is Reign over Me.
After watching this, remember that Isaiah 61 says Jesus came to heal the broken hearted, to bind up their (emotional) wounds and to set the captives free. If you want to preach and teach, that's fine but know the Lord saw you and the other million like you a long time ago. He had 72 disciples initially but finally only twelve remained. It says go out into the world and preach the gospel so go but don't do any damage to the message by lying to your husband or punching your daughter in the quiet of your home. Most daughters do not expect that of their mothers. Lastly, Even Joyce Meyer ( author of Battle Field of the Mind), stayed in a church for 19 years supporting a pastor and ministering under him or her, being discipled before starting a new ministry in submission to the Lord's calling. Here, read this from 1st Timothy.
http://bible.cc/1_timothy/3-6.htm.
Peter who saw Christ's ressurection was also told that he would be tested and but that after Satan sifts him, he shall turn back and strengthen the others. Here, http://bible.cc/luke/22-31.htm.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2022:31-38&version=KJV
The truth is that, childhood unanswered questions can continue to compound upon your adult mind and seemingly well-contructed behaviour. No matter what, your behaviour is constructed but is it well in its construction? You have some education and you could have more; for free. There are one or two free colleges in the U.S. and your only concern would be the travel costs, books and food. In spite of this free education that only requires an application to obtain the free tuition slip, you say God will provide. Now, you want to see God's grace in your life but you are like a Burger King client where the King, in light of your recalcitrance and stubborness at his wisdom, says have it your way. It could be that you are seeking an approval and provision that seems to have been absent early on in your education. You are looking for that good looking Grade 3 teacher to comeback and make you feel love again but she or he went somewhere else and you feel abandoned. Why did he leave; you say? Everyone else in your life is tested to the point of leaving you because essentially, you are asking in your behaviour "..will you leave?" The new teacher feels pretty good and seems to have had his own set of abusive issues but the issue is not his abuse. You are still wanting to know why the first teacher left and as God provides you opportunity to enter rest with your talents, you want to stay on the treadmill where you keep on saying God will provide but maybe his grace is that you will take something (a course for free) that will help your talents grow and multiply and you will be able to really provide for others as well; over and over again. This is not unlike a girl born or planted by the seed of a northern Mongol man in the Himalayas but the mother lives in the Hakka region of China. The mother's neighbors have a house and after delivery of the child she asks the mother in the neighbor's house to raise the child in assistance. The child had freckles and brownish hair. The neighbor's obliged and had faith. Read Psalms 27.10. The girl with the brownish hair never met her mother's inseminator but she can see God is her real father. When presented with grace, she finds away to stay in a certain type of dependency(Egypt) instead of walking in true dependence on God to a Godly interdependence where God can trust her with great resources. If God gives you a million souls in ministry, he is counting on you to manage those resources well. You got the gift to drive but you won't take the keys to a free vehicle or is it because everybody can do it and you don't have the unique feeling of a special miracle all for you. The miracle is the wisdom and the knowledge (Proverbs 3:5-6) you have now at this crossway in time in this door of opportunity; the red sea has opened so here; step in walk faithfully innit and get to the otherside.
It is the continuing policy of Londinium TV Channel to discuss everything in a light hearted manner and to let everyone know that homosexuals are human beings. It is also to share the gospel. They should be as well respected in public as any bible believing Christian. Hatred is not tolerated against homosexuals and nor should anyone tolerate anyone, including homosexuals, perpetrating crimes of anger, passions and violence.
Warren Lyon, Editor.
Londinium TV Channel.
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