Comments on: The Disciple From Cyprus https://parables.blog/the-disciple-from-cyprus/ Sat, 26 Sep 2020 07:03:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Unknown https://parables.blog/the-disciple-from-cyprus/#comment-1190 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:09:55 +0000 #comment-1190 Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding is freely available from the ONE who made us, but we must choose who and what we will believe and we have been given a free will to make our choices….so choose wisely…Amen!
http://ezekiel33-thewatchmen.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Marcel https://parables.blog/the-disciple-from-cyprus/#comment-1189 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:34:45 +0000 #comment-1189 O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself;It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.
Jeremiah 10:23

Back in the mid 70's while I was in the Air Force and all my Christian brothers and sisters were getting married I sought and fought the Lord on this issue of being left out of what everyone else was getting.
When His answer came I did not like,receive or accept His 'no' to me and resisted and rebelled for two and a half decades until I finally learned through much pain and suffering that He was right and I was wrong.
The Lord is patient and merciful with us and to learn early on what Jeremiah learned is where our freedom,joy and peace in this life is. His will,not ours.

]]> By: Unknown https://parables.blog/the-disciple-from-cyprus/#comment-1188 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:06:18 +0000 #comment-1188 It appears the LORD wants to take us to the next level. We must humble ourselves before He can lead us up to the next level.
David

]]> By: Unknown https://parables.blog/the-disciple-from-cyprus/#comment-1187 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:03:17 +0000 #comment-1187 Joseph,
Your post has come at the right time. My husband has been unemployed for a few months, and even though he's actively seeking employment, he's received zero offers (except offers for work without ANY salary or expenses paid and only commissions if he sells sth or gets contracts). I've been unemployed since February, because the Lord allowed strong headaches and pain in my eyes which literally stopped me going back to my translation job after a holiday.
One night, about four months ago, the Lord gave me a verbal "spanking" on a sleepless night where He basically said, What are you doing with the gift I gave you? You were born to be a WRITER. You're burying the talent and I don't like that!
Too scared to begin right away with the novel I have all plotted out in my mind, I got on Facebook and started sharing Word from the Bible as I received them. And it was surprising even to myself… I'd had a good blogging experience in 2005-6, but this was much better. More frequent entries, many of them short.
And then, the eye thing… I realized the Lord did NOT want me to go back to my job for the time being! It is crazy, because now the Lord has limited my Facebook time because of the ongoing eye problem. I'm now having to use pen and paper to write my reflections. I might need a scrivener like Paul in a not too distant future.
Now my eyes keep hurting, and I've been told by the Holy Spirit that there are areas that I need to surrender (Eliana's blog has been VERY helpful, BTW!). Our family savings have dwindled, we might have to sell our family car next month and we have next to zero income to collect. But the Lord provides comfort through many of the passages you have quoted and the basic theme of affliction and the narrow path. And I SO identify with Joseph's life!

]]> By: Michelle https://parables.blog/the-disciple-from-cyprus/#comment-1186 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:13:30 +0000 #comment-1186 The best financial advice I received so far this year:

I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. (Revelation 3:18 NASB)

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