| Jun 14, 2006 @ 5:31 PM |
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kattsmeow
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What is your favorite Bible story?
I remember hearing about David and Goliath first.
Noah's Ark too.
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| Jun 14, 2006 @ 8:22 PM |
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Jankia
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I would say my favorite is the story of the prodigal son.
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| Jun 14, 2006 @ 8:26 PM |
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MICHIGANGIRL11
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Kat, I would have to say Noah's Ark would be my favorite. A man who builds a boat w/out any written instructions, collected the animals, was ridiculed by his peers. And now in the present day, people are still looking for the Ark. I find this fascinating.
Take Care...........
Migirl11
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| Jun 14, 2006 @ 8:59 PM |
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irish20835
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Mine would have to be the story of elijah ....the man who proved to the people that there was a God ...then killed them .
He never died ...God just sent down a flaming chariort to bring him home
Job is another favroite of mine as well as the stories of Joshua
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| Jun 14, 2006 @ 9:02 PM |
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Angel54214
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It's hard to pick! I favor Job also, a man that lost everything and still remained loving God, then received more than what he began with.
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| Jun 15, 2006 @ 4:10 PM |
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kattsmeow
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Noah's Ark was fasinating as a child. I would giggle when my mom would tell me about the tall giraffes poking their heads out of the boat. Hey, what can I say? My mom was a good story teller. 
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| Jun 16, 2006 @ 8:33 AM |
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doc65270
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i loved to hear about all the healings that jesus did. but one that sticks to my mind is job. and there is a great lesson there that none of us should ever forget.
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| Jun 22, 2006 @ 12:24 AM |
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Angel54214
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I just was reading Exodus 16, the story about the Manna. God had them store up Manna for the generations to come. Can you believe it didn't spoil or rot? They ate Manna for 40 years!
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| Jun 22, 2006 @ 5:35 PM |
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kattsmeow
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And in the New testament, he tells them NOT to store Manna, ( Revelations) I think...
They/we are to put our trust in God to provide for us every day. I am going to look and see is I can find anything more about this ok?
Please bear with me on this,,,it might be something I was told and not something actually in the Bible.
Yep, this has happened in my life.... 
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| Jun 22, 2006 @ 6:01 PM |
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Classy_Blonde
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Wow! That is tough! If you had asked for my favorite scripture, I wouldn't have hesitated to respond.
Ugh! I love so many of the stories. I can't answer this one.
Angel,
They weren't able to store the manna (it was the 'daily bread'). Remember? "Give us this day, our daily bread...". If they tried to save it, by morning it had spoiled.
Exodus 16:19-21
19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
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| Jun 22, 2006 @ 6:05 PM |
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kattsmeow
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 Thank you Classy,,here I was in the wrong place looking!!!! 
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| Jun 22, 2006 @ 9:05 PM |
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Angel54214
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Yes Classy, I read those verses too, but here are the verses that God said about storing the Manna. I don't know how it kept for generations though...
31 The people of Israel called the bread manna. [d] It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. 32 Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the desert when I brought you out of Egypt.' "
33 So Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar and put an omer of manna in it. Then place it before the LORD to be kept for the generations to come."
34 As the LORD commanded Moses, Aaron put the manna in front of the Testimony, that it might be kept. 35 The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
It's a good thing God didn't make sticky buns huh? 
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 11:51 AM |
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Classy_Blonde
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Sticky buns??? You are too cute, Angel. 
I had completely forgotten about this and the significance behind it. Now I have something else to delve into. 
Might you be reading about the Sabbath observation and the laws?  
I wanted to share a favorite story, and I'm thinking I will do so here. I'm copying it from the AmazingFacts.org website.
Bowing to Babylon
King Nebuchadnezzar gave the signal, and as the music from a thousand instruments began to swell, the curtain fell, exposing a dazzling, 90-foot image of gold glimmering in the sunlight. Then, according to King's command, all the officials who had gathered on the plain of Dura fell prostrate to the ground in devout worship. All bowed down except three young Hebrew men, who were servants of a greater King.
Nebuchadnezzar was beaming with pride and satisfaction--until it was reported that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego had refused to bow and worship his image. Astonished that anyone would dare to disobey, Nebuchadnezzar assumed these young advisers must have misunderstood his decree. So he offered them one more chance to bow down--but they refused! Now the king's expression turned to rage. He ordered his soldiers to heat the nearby furnace seven times hotter than normal. As fuel was piled onto the fire, the three men were firmly tied with ropes. The resulting heat was so intense that it killed the soldiers who threw them into the blazing inferno.
As the king peered into the roaring furnace, his mouth suddenly fell open. With a trembling voice he asked, "Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?" His counselors agreed that they had. Then the king said, "I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God." Daniel 3:25.
God delivered those brave young men in the fiery furnace because they stood up for His truth. In the last days, God's people will have to face a similar test.
http://www.amazingfacts.org/items/storacle_lessons.asp
Most of us are aware of the significance behind this story. It is an assurance that God's remnant will walk through the fire unscathed.
It is also extremely important to understand the representation of the statue. Another thread?
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 12:13 PM |
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kattsmeow
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Oh yes, you gave me goosebumps with that one Classy!!!!
I have 2 friends back in Michigan, that together our pastor called us these three men.
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| Jun 24, 2006 @ 2:48 PM |
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Angel54214
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I enjoy the story of "Hannah", she was the Mother of Samuel. God made her barron and she ached to have a man child. You can read this story in 1Samuel, chapters 1 & 2. I don't want to ruin it by telling it ahead of time.
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| Jun 24, 2006 @ 4:15 PM |
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kattsmeow
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I have a bbok called "Hannah' want to borrow it?
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| Aug 7, 2006 @ 11:06 PM |
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Angel54214
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Oh wow a forgotten good thread! I going to buy my Hanna book Katt some time soon, Thank you from my heart!
I have a Bible story to share; This is about the "Paralytic" in Mark 2. It might get a little lengthy cause I adding comentary as well.
And again He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house. Immediately many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the word to them. Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.
Again He entered Capernaum: Jesus spent a busy day in Capernaum, and then went on a preaching tour all around the cities of Galilee. Now he returns to the fishing town right on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where Peter and his family lived.
There was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door: Mark 1:28 says that after a dramatic rescue of a demon possessed man, immediately His fame spread throughout all the region around Galilee. At this point in His ministry, Jesus attracted crowds wherever He went.
And He preached the word to them: Mark doesn't tell us what Jesus preached, yet he still emphasizes the preaching ministry of Jesus as he did in Mark 1:28 and Mark 1:38-39.
It seems clear that Jesus was avoiding the streets because they had been turned into a healing campaign. Everywhere he went people besieged him with requests for healing and the casting out of demons, so that he was unable to do what he had come to do primarily, which was to preach the Word.
When they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was: Because of the crowded room, the friends of the paralyzed man had to lower him down through the roof - certainly, an unusual interruption to a sermon!
A Light Intermission:
Not too long ago, a pastor performed a wedding in New York and was interrupted when the church doors flew open, and a man hurried up the aisle, dragging an obviously pregnant woman. The man shouted, “Stop the wedding! You can’t let this go on - look at what Manuel did to my sister!” The bride looked horrified, but the pastor calmly said, “There’s no Manuel here.” The man looked confused, and said “Oh no! Wrong wedding!” and left the church.
Uncovered the roof: The roof was usually accessible by means of an outside stairway, and was made of thatch, dirt or tile laid over beams. It could be taken apart, and the friends of the paralyzed man could lower their friend down to Jesus.
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| Aug 7, 2006 @ 11:17 PM |
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Angel54214
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So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying: This proved the determination and faith of friends of the paralytic. They counted on Jesus healing their friend, because it sure would be a lot harder to bring him back up through the roof than lowering him down. They counted on him walking out of there!
The friends of the paralytic loved him, and it is demonstrated because they brought him to Jesus.
When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
When Jesus saw their faith: Jesus looked up at the four men struggling with crude ropes tied to each corner of the stretcher with a paralytic on it. He looked at them and saw their faith.
Their faith could be seen. Their bold, determined action to bring their friend to Jesus proved they had real faith. Can it be said of us, that others can see our faith? There is something lacking in our faith if we keep it “all bottled up” and it can never be seen.
In this account, the emphasis is on the faith of the friends of the paralyzed man. We need to have faith for more than our own needs, but also have faith that Jesus can and will meet the needs of others whom we bring to Him.
Son, your sins are forgiven you: We can imagine how the friends on the roof felt. They went to a lot of trouble to see their friend healed of his paralysis, and now the teacher only wants to forgive his sins! We might imagine them shouting, “No, he’s paralyzed! We wanted him to walk, not to be forgiven!”
Yet, Jesus knew what the man’s real need was, and what his greatest need was. What good was it if the man had two whole legs, and walked right into hell with them?
Whenever there is a problem, almost always, sin is the real problem. Jesus got right to the problem.
Jesus did not mean that the paralyzed man was especially sinful, or that his paralysis was directly caused by sin. Instead, He addressed the man’s greatest need, and the common root of all pain and suffering; man’s sinful condition.
“Forgiveness is the greatest miracle that Jesus ever performs. It meets the greatest need; it costs the greatest price; and it brings the greatest blessing and the most lasting results.”
Who can forgive sins but God alone? The scribes use the right kind of logic. They correctly believe that only God can forgive sins, and they are even correct for examining this new teacher. Their error is in refusing to see who Jesus is: God the Son, who has the authority to forgive sins.
Again and again during the life of Christ the same dilemma was to re-appear. If he were not divine, then he was indeed a blasphemer; there could be no third way out.
Jesus will not disagree with the principle that God alone can forgive sins. This is an important principle for all who struggle with the concept of self-forgiveness, in the sense of “I know God forgives me, but I just can’t forgive myself.” This principle teaches us that we were never intended to forgive ourselves, and we don’t have the authority to do so. The real issue is believing and accepting the forgiveness of God, and allowing the reality of His great forgiveness to overwhelm our feelings about ourselves.
(8-12) Jesus demonstrates His authority to forgive sins and His power to heal disease.
But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”; He said to the paralytic, I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus: In a stunning moment, these scribes knew Jesus could read their evil hearts. This should have helped persuade them that Jesus really was sent by God, having power to forgive sins.
Which is easier: For men, both real forgiveness and the power to heal are impossible but for God, both are easy. It is a logical assumption that if Jesus has the power to heal the man’s disease, He also has the authority to forgive his sins.
In a way, it was “harder” to heal the man than to forgive his sins, because forgiveness is invisible - no one could verify at that moment the man was forgiven before God. Yet it could be instantly verified whether or not the man could walk. Jesus is willing to put Himself to the test!
Jesus also met the scribes on their own scholarly ground. “The Rabbis had a saying, ‘There is no sick man healed of his sickness until all his sins have been forgiven him’ to the Jews a sick man was a man with whom God was angry.
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| Aug 7, 2006 @ 11:19 PM |
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Angel54214
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Jesus used this title often because in His day, it was a Messianic title free from political and nationalistic sentiment. Jesus could have more commonly referred to Himself as “King” or “Christ” but those titles, in the ears of His audience, sounded like “the One Who Will Defeat the Romans.”
Immediately he arose: Imagine the tension in this scene. The scribes are tense, because Jesus challenged them, and said He would demonstrate He was the Son of God. The paralyzed man was tense because he wondered if Jesus really would heal him. The crowd was tense because they sensed the tension of everyone else. The owner of the house is tense, because he wonders how much it will cost to repair his roof. And the four friends are tense, because they are getting tired by now. The only one not tense was Jesus, because He had perfect peace when He said, “arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” What happened? Immediately he arose. Jesus’ power to heal and authority to forgive sins was immediately vindicated.
Imagine if Jesus had failed. His ministry would be shattered. The crowd slowly makes their way out of the house. The scribes smile and say, “He can’t heal or forgive.” The four men struggle to pull up the paralyzed man who looks more dejected and embarrassed than ever. The homeowner looks at his roof and thinks it was all for nothing.
But Jesus did not, and could not fail, because all He needed to heal this man was His word. There is wonderful healing power in the word of Jesus, in the promises of Jesus, for those who come to Him in faith. This man came to Jesus in faith, even if it was the “borrowed” faith of his friends.
Took up his bed: Why did the man go to the trouble of carrying his bed out of there? He had four friends who would gladly carry it, and it might have been easier to pull it back up out of the roof than carry it through the crowded room. But Jesus told him, take up your bed and go to your house, and that is exactly what the man did.
All were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!” Jesus carried the day, and the people were amazed to see the power of God in action.
The experts in the law were hoist with their own petard. On their own stated beliefs the man could not be cured, unless he was forgiven. He was cured, therefore he was forgiven. Therefore Jesus claims to forgive sin must be true.
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| Aug 8, 2006 @ 7:08 AM |
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Mark111054
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angel writes:
I just was reading Exodus 16, the story about the Manna. God had them store up Manna for the generations to come. Can you believe it didn't spoil or rot? They ate Manna for 40 years!
It rotted if it was kept til morning.
Ex16:19 And Moses said unto them, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
Ex 16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was wroth with them.
Manna was not stored it fell fresh everyday.
Ex 16:21 And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
Nu 11:9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
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