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To: boatbums; stfassisi

Do you believe your tag line? Is that tag line true for every Christian? If so, then why isn’t mm healed? YOU said “FULL RESPONSIBILITY.” Is mm a failed protestant?


1,118 posted on 08/26/2011 9:53:12 PM PDT by Judith Anne ( Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.)
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To: Judith Anne; metmom
Do you believe your tag line? Is that tag line true for every Christian? If so, then why isn’t mm healed? YOU said “FULL RESPONSIBILITY.” Is mm a failed protestant?

Don't worry, I pinged Metmom to this reply.

I absolutely DO believe my tagline. I also understand that the "full responsibility" God takes for my or anyone else's life when we have yielded wholly and completely to him is not a guarantee that our lives will be all sunshine and roses. God is NOT Santa Claus, the Good Fairy and the Easter Bunny all rolled into one.

I'm surprised that you would have to ask this, seeing as how your religion teaches we must "take up our crosses" and suffer for Christ in order to even be saved. Just as the Apostle Paul had an affliction that he asked God in prayer to remove three times, he understood when he was NOT healed, that God is able to use our suffering in more ways than one. He definitely does NOT want us to suffer for our sins to be saved - else why did Jesus suffer and die for us? God's "strength" is made complete/perfect in our weakness, when we are weak, HE is strong.

Sometimes, God does use healing and other miracles to bring others to Christ and also as faith "strengtheners" for us. But he is still working in our lives THROUGH sickness and health. Think about this, if God gave everyone a promise of automatic healing for whatever ailed them, how many would give their lives to Christ for the right reasons, and how many would "say" they were for the benefits? Like I said, God is not Santa. Our faith grows when we see how God works ALL things to our good and that means bad things as well as good things - they work TOGETHER for our good and to fulfill his purposes.

Finally, by believing what my tagline says, I am totally surrendering to God and completely believing and trusting in him to provide my needs - both physical and spiritual. The hard part for us is being "wholly yielded". That means no holding back from him whatever he calls for us to do, to give, to say, to be. I trust him THAT much. Do you?

1,129 posted on 08/27/2011 12:12:16 AM PDT by boatbums ( God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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