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deltadom
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 Unexpected Pictures on the Internet , do you hate advertising?

I hate getting polluted on the internet with content I only tend to go onto christian sites and places like amazon or even my email.
Is there any where do get away from it , it is all around us from peoples clothes.
Jesus please purify my mind and make me clean. It is almost bad as the bad advert or thing that lurks around the corner or the unexpected advert which takes you of guard.
Jesse Moriel has a saying that the world has the biggest youth group. I would so love to pull the darkest most miserable person from the throne of satan and let them experience the presence of god.
David turned the most messed up people in society and I feel like that at the moment. I need Jesus to wash me in his blood. I want to let my life Glorify God as Jesse Moreil says and not just say it but do. I am a mess and I need Jesus
I just want to be pure in a dark world !!!
I always wanted to go into the darkest places but I think it is fear that blocks me from doing anything and want to confess my sins and have a clean concius and be right before god.
I have recently ordered some bibles !!

I also had to answer a question
What good is it converting christians if they have not got a local church to go to or a good christian bookshop? In england the christian bookshops are closing down. SPCK it has a good old book section. Jesus Help
Jesus Help. Do you ever feel a failiure I feel a failure when I break a fast like I have done today . I so want to be like John Knox. I have been trying to create a cd Libary so that my church can hear the messages because if they dont hear noone else will and get a job so I can witness.
I am such a wimp when it comes to witnessing but I so want to.
Perfect Loves casts out all fear. I have wanted to know everything there is to know about Jesus from creation to the simple butterfly.
I want to have such a vision of hell that I can stop people from going there.
I do not want anyone even my dearest friends to go to hell and especially me. I so want a new desire to pray for souls and a hunger for Jesus I want iron knees so that I can pray all night and be like an angel because god never slumbers or sleep and know the bible back to front in all languages so that I can witness to everyone from all diffent backgrounds. I not only want that I want my friend s to know and come into what I know so that they can and be like Jesus turn that illiturate person to a missionary
I so want to see souls saved and I so want to be faithful to god and to be clean in his sight.
I am a mess and I need Jesus
Dom


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Dominic Shiells

 2006/6/3 15:28Profile
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 Re: Unexpected Pictures on the Internet , do you hate advertising?

Dom,

So you are a mess??!! Well, join the crowd! Really!

But you do not have to stay there! All you have to do is say 'yes' to Jesus, that you are willing to go all the way with him wherever he may lead you; forske ALL sin and do not rationalize because some great 'Christian' over yonder says it is not sin.

You can only share the gospel as much as you are filled with it.

I would suggest you get on your knees and tell Jesus all about your wretchedness, your failures, your desires and stay there until you get the peace you long for. At the moment forget about your failures to witness, just concentrate on staying close to the Saviour by prayer and studying his Word.

So you broke a fast...did you vow to anyone you would fast or was this just your own idea? If it was the latter, perhaps you are too hard on yourself?

I pray regularly that God wold teach me to recognize the voice of the Spirit. Lately He has impressed on my mind to help me discern when something is a temptation because I do not want to sin, I want to be holy before God. Brother, one cannot witness effectively unless he/she is holy before God. I suggest you concentrate on being close to Him and then see what happens to your witnessing.

Presently I am very busy helping my DH in our greenhouses and the opportunities to witness are limited. But I do pray the LORD would give me the opportunities and he does. It may not be profound, but he allows me to speak for him, allows others to know how God impacts my everyday life. This is so important. You can have a person who is skilled in witnessing/preaching but lives like the devil and what good does that do? You do not want to be like that.

Now about the pop-ups that occur when surfing the web - I suggest you get an ISP which will offer a filter that will block pop-ups. Do you have any ISPs in UK that offer that? I use American Family Online based in Tupelo, MS. I do not know whether anything like this is available in your country.

God bless you, brother. Your struggles are common - you are not the first one to have experienced this and neither will you be the last one.

Hope this helps....

ginnyrose


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Sandra Miller

 2006/6/3 18:39Profile
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 Re: Unexpected Pictures on the Internet , do you hate advertising?

Dom,

Not sure how computer savvy you are but one free software tool that I have found very helpful is something called [url=http://www.proxomitron.info/index.html]Proxomitron[/url].

This little application is a web-filtering proxy that is very powerful and puts the control of the HTML content you view back into your hands. There is a bit of a learning curve in getting the most out of it but it is well worth it in my experience.

This software proxy sits between the web and your browser and can eliminate all that garbage advertising and plenty of other possibly harmful content. It is highly flexible, allowing you to bypass some or all of the filtering on sites you trust while maintaining tight rules on everything else. A little knowledge of how HTML works is helpful but not completely necessary.

Give it a try and take back control of your web browser.

In Christ,

Ron


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Ron Halverson

 2006/6/3 18:40Profile
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God will bless your honest heart, brother!

 2006/6/3 18:53Profile
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 Re: Unexpected Pictures on the Internet , do you hate advertising?

Brother Dom
You suffer from an "I" problem. In your post you capitalized "I" but not God. There you used a small g. There in lies the rub. You are facing the wrong direction and are not crucified with Christ. A crucified man is always facing only one direction. All the "mess" would clear if you stop trying to face the world and Christ at the same time

 2006/6/4 0:01Profile
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I just found the most incredible web content filter for free that i've seen in my life. I've tested it and it works very well so far. It's extremely easy to install and setup (click, click, go!) and best of all it's free!

Yeah, I know this sounds like a commercial. But I am thrilled about this. Every other content filter i've found cost $$$ or doesn't work.

[url=http://www.k9webprotection.com/]http://www.k9webprotection.com/[/url]

Thank you God for this internet filter! Amen.
Adam :-) :-) :-) :-)


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 School of Christ

Dom,

Wyatt is correct if you can bear it...
[i]I want[/i]. Brother, have you asked the question, "Lord, what do You want?"

Dom, it is an observation from previous post's similar to this that you are experiencing growing pains. A great deal of the things you desire will take a disciple on your part, a discipline to shut yourself up to God alone, a discipline to be unmoved towards comparing yourself to other saints, it may be well to glean from them but you are uniquely God's own and not anyone but the Lord can draw up designs for what He has in store for you. Another discipline, to pray without doing all the talking, the Lord knows your anxious heart and the thought's running ripshod through your mind, it is difficult at first but it can be accomplished, by surrender, the same that you must relenquish of your personal "I want's". The Lord will certainly give you the desires of your heart, let Him decide what those are ... you may be surprised to find that many an item is being stirred up by a sense of expediency that is coming from yourself and not from the Lord.

Give this a listen brother,
[url=https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=1510] David - Failure and Effectiveness[/url] [i]By Devern Fromke[/i]

A couple of verse's;

Joh 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself ...

Joh 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing:

Joh 15:5 ... for without me ye can do nothing.


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 Re: Surrender

Dom, I believe this will be encouraging message for you and for all of us:

"And now, I desire by God’s grace to give to you this message — that your God in Heaven answers the prayers which you have offered for blessing on yourselves and for blessing on those around you by this one demand: Are you willing to surrender yourselves absolutely into His hands? What is our answer to be? God knows there are hundreds of hearts who have said it, and there are hundreds more who long to say it but hardly dare to do so. And there are hearts who have said it, but who have yet miserably failed, and who feel themselves condemned because they did not find the secret of the power to live that life. May God have a word for all!

Let me say, first of all, that God claims it from us.

[b]God Expects Your Surrender[/b]

Yes, it has its foundation in the very nature of God God cannot do otherwise. Who is God? He is the Fountain of life, the only Source of existence and power and goodness, and throughout the universe there is nothing good but what God works, God has created the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the flowers, and the trees, and the grass; and are they not all absolutely surrendered to God? Do they not allow God to work in them just what He pleases? When God clothes the lily with its beauty, is it not yielded up, surrendered, given over to God as He works in it its beauty? And God’s redeemed children, oh, can you think that God can work His work if there is only half or a part of them surrendered? God cannot do it. God is life, and love, and blessing, and power, and infinite beauty, and God delights to communicate Himself to every child who is prepared to receive Him; but ah! this one lack of absolute surrender is just the thing that hinders God. And now He comes, and as God, He claims it.

You know in daily life what absolute surrender is. You know that everything has to be given up to its special, definite object and service. I have a pen in my pocket, and that pen is absolutely surrendered to the one work of writing, and that pen must be absolutely surrendered to my hand if I am to write properly with it. If another holds it partly, I cannot write properly. This coat is absolutely given up to me to, cover my body. This building is entirely given up to religious services. And now, do you expect that in your immortal being, in the divine nature that you have received by regeneration, God can work His work, every day and every hour, unless you are entirely given up to Him? God cannot. The Temple of Solomon was absolutely surrendered to God when it was dedicated to Him. And every one of us is a temple of God, in which God will dwell and work mightily on one condition — absolute surrender to Him. God claims it, God is worthy of it, and without it God cannot work His blessed work in us..

God not only claims it, but God will work it Himself.


[b]God Accomplishes Your Surrender[/b]

I am sure there is many a heart that says: "Ah, but that absolute surrender implies so much!" Someone says: "Oh, I have passed through so much trial and suffering, and there is so much of the self-life still remaining, and I dare not face the entire giving of it up, because I know it will cause so much trouble and agony."

Alas! alas! that God’s children have such thoughts of Him, such cruel thoughts. Oh, I come to you with a message, fearful and anxious one. God does not ask you to give the perfect surrender in your strength, or by the power of your will; God is willing to work it in you. Do we not read: "It is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do of his good pleasure"? And that is what we should seek for — to go on our faces before God, until our hearts learn to believe that the everlasting God Himself will come in to turn out what is wrong, to conquer what is evil, and to work what is well-pleasing in His blessed sight. God Himself will work it in you.

Look at the men in the Old Testament, like Abraham. Do you think it was by accident that God found that man, the father of the faithful and the Friend of God, and that it was Abraham himself, apart from God, who had such faith and such obedience and such devotion? You know it is not so. God raised him up and prepared him as an instrument for His glory.

Did not God say to Pharaoh: "For this cause have I raised thee up, for to show in thee my power"?

And if God said that of him, will not God say it far more of every child of His?

Oh, I want to encourage you, and I want you to cast away every fear. Come with that feeble desire; and if there is the fear which says: "Oh, my desire is not strong enough, I am not willing for everything that may come, I do not feel bold enough to say I can conquer everything" — I pray you, learn to know and trust your God now. Say: "My God, I am willing that Thou shouldst make me willing." If there is anything holding you back, or any sacrifice you are afraid of making, come to God now, and prove how gracious your God is, and be not afraid that He will command from you what He will not bestow.

God comes and offers to work this absolute surrender in you. All these searchings and hungerings and longings that are in your heart, I tell you they are the drawings of the divine magnet, Christ Jesus. He lived a life of absolute surrender, He has possession of you; He is living in your heart by His Holy Spirit. You have hindered and hindered Him terribly, but He desires to help you to get hold of Him entirely. And He comes and draws you now by His message and words. Will you not come and trust God to work in you that absolute surrender to Himself? Yes, blessed be God, He can do it, and He will do it.

God not only claims it and works it, but God accepts it when we bring it to Him.

[b]God Accepts Your Surrender[/b]

God works it in the secret of our heart, God urges us by the hidden power of His Holy Spirit to come and speak it out, and we have to bring and to yield to Him that absolute surrender. But remember, when you come and bring God that absolute surrender, it may, as far as your feelings or your consciousness go, be a thing of great imperfection, and you may doubt and hesitate and say:

"Is it absolute?"

But, oh, remember there was once a man to whom Christ had said:

"If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth."

And his heart was afraid, and he cried out:

"Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief."

That was a faith that triumphed over the Devil, and the evil spirit was cast out. And if you come and say: "Lord, I yield myself in absolute surrender to my God," even though it be with a trembling heart and with the consciousness: "I do not feel the power, I do not feel the determination, I do not feel the assurance," it will succeed. Be not afraid, but come just as you are, and even in the midst of your trembling the power of the Holy Ghost will work.

Have you never yet learned the lesson that the Holy Ghost works with mighty power, while on the human side everything appears feeble? Look at the Lord Jesus Christ in Gethsemane. We read that He, "through the eternal Spirit," offered Himself a sacrifice unto God. The Almighty Spirit of God was enabling Him to do it. And yet what agony and fear and exceeding sorrow came over Him, and how He prayed! Externally, you can see no sign of the mighty power of the Spirit, but the Spirit of God was there. And even so, while you are feeble and fighting and trembling, in faith in the hidden work of God’s Spirit do not fear, but yield yourself.

And when you do yield yourself in absolute surrender, let it be in the faith that God does now accept of it. That is the great point, and that is what we so often miss — that believers should be thus occupied with God in this matter of surrender. I pray you, be occupied with God. We want to get help, every one of us, so that in our daily life God shall be clearer to us, God shall have the right place, and be "all in all." And if we are to have that through life, let us begin now and look away from ourselves, and look up to God. Let each believe — while I, a poor worm on earth and a trembling child of God, full of failure and sin and fear, bow here, and no one knows what passes through my heart, and while I in simplicity say, O God, I accept Thy terms; I have pleaded for blessing on myself and others, I have accepted Thy terms of absolute surrender — while your heart says that in deep silence, remember there is a God present that takes note of it, and writes it down in His book, and there is a God present who at that very moment takes possession of you. You may not feel it, you may not realize it, but God takes possession if you will trust Him..

God not only claims it, and works it, and accepts it when I bring it, but God maintains it.

[b]God Maintains Your Surrender[/b]

That is the great difficulty with many. People say: "I have often been stirred at a meeting, or at a convention, and I have consecrated myself to God, but it has passed away. I know it may last for a week or for a month, but away it fades, and after a time it is all gone."

But listen! It is because you do not believe what I am now going to tell you and remind you of. When God has begun the work of absolute surrender in you, and when God has accepted your surrender, then God holds Himself bound to care for it and to keep it. Will you believe that?

In this matter of surrender there are two: God and I — I a worm, God the everlasting and omnipotent Jehovah. Worm, will you be afraid to trust yourself to this mighty God now? God is willing. Do you not believe that He can keep you continually, day by day, and moment by moment?



Moment by moment I’m kept in His love;

Moment by moment I’ve life from above.



If God allows the sun to shine upon you moment by moment, without intermission, will not God let His life shine upon you every moment? And why have you not experienced it? Because you have not trusted God for it, and you do not surrender yourself absolutely to God in that trust.

A life of absolute surrender has its difficulties. I do not deny that. Yes, it has something far more than difficulties: it is a life that with men is absolutely impossible. But by the grace of God, by the power of God, by the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, it is a life to which we are destined, and a life that is possible for us, praise God! Let us believe that God will maintain it.

Some of you have read the words of that aged saint who, on his ninetieth birthday, told of all God’s goodness to him — I mean George Muller. What did he say he believed to be the secret of his happiness, and of all the blessing which God had given him? He said he believed there were two reasons. The one was that he had been enabled by grace to maintain a good conscience before God day by day; the other was, that he was a lover of God’s Word. Ah, yes, a good conscience is complete obedience to God day by day, and fellowship with God every day in His Word, and prayer — that is a life of absolute surrender..

Such a life has two sides — on the one side, absolute surrender to work what God wants you to do; on the other side, to let God work what He wants to do.

First, to do what God wants you to do.

Give up yourselves absolutely to the will of God. You know something of that will; not enough, far from all. But say absolutely to the Lord God: "By Thy grace I desire to do Thy will in everything, every moment of every day." Say: "Lord God, not a word upon my tongue but for Thy glory, not a movement of my temper but for Thy glory, not an affection of love or hate in my heart but for Thy glory, and according to Thy blessed will."

Someone says: "Do you think that possible?"

I ask, What has God promised you, and what can God do to fill a vessel absolutely surrendered to Him? Oh, God wants to bless you in a way beyond what you expect. From the beginning, ear hath not heard, neither hath the eye seen, what God hath prepared for them that wait for Him. God has prepared unheard-of-things, blessings much more wonderful than you can imagine, more mighty than you can conceive. They are divine blessings. Oh, say now:

"I give myself absolutely to God, to His will, to do only what God wants."

It is God who will enable you to carry out the surrender.

And, on the other side, come and say: "I give myself absolutely to God, to let Him work in me to will and to do of His good pleasure, as He has promised to do."

Yes, the living God wants to work in His children in a way that we cannot understand, but that God’s Word has revealed, and He wants to work in us every moment of the day. God is willing to maintain our life. Only let our absolute surrender be one of simple, childlike, and unbounded trust.

[b]God Blesses When You Surrender[/b]

This absolute surrender to God will wonderfully bless.

What Ahab said to his enemy, King Ben-hadad — "My lord, O king, according to thy word I am thine, and all that I have" — shall we not say to our God and loving Father? If we do say it, God’s blessing will come upon us. God wants us to be separate from the world; we are called to come out from the world that hates God. Come out for God, and say: "Lord, anything for Thee." If you say that with prayer, and speak that into God’s ear, He will accept it, and He will teach you what it means.s.

I say again, God will bless you. You have been praying for blessing. But do remember, there must be absolute surrender. At every tea-table you see it. Why is tea poured into that cup? Because it is empty, and given up for the tea. But put ink, or vinegar, or wine into it, and will they pour the tea into the vessel? And can God fill you, can God bless you if you are not absolutely surrendered to Him? He cannot. Let us believe God has wonderful blessings for us, if we will but stand up for God, and say, be it with a trembling will, yet with a believing heart:

"O God, I accept Thy demands. I am thine and all that I have. Absolute surrender is what my soul yields to Thee by divine grace."

You may not have such strong and clear feelings of deliverances as you would desire to have, but humble yourselves in His sight, and acknowledge that you have grieved the Holy Spirit by your self-will, self-confidence, and self-effort. Bow humbly before him in the confession of that, and ask him to break the heart and to bring you into the dust before Him. Then, as you bow before Him, just accept God’s teaching that in your flesh "there dwelleth no good thing," and that nothing will help you except another life which must come in. You must deny self once for all. Denying self must every moment be the power of your life, and then Christ will come in and take possession of you.

When was Peter delivered? When was the change accomplished? The change began with Peter weeping, and the Holy Ghost came down and filled his heart.

God the Father loves to give us the power of the Spirit. We have the Spirit of God dwelling within us. We come to God confessing that, and praising God for it, and yet confessing how we have grieved the Spirit. And then we bow our knees to the Father to ask that He would strengthen us with all might by the Spirit in the inner man, and that He would fill us with His mighty power. And as the Spirit reveals Christ to us, Christ comes to live in our hearts forever, and the self-life is cast out.

Let us bow before God in humility, and in that humility confess before Him the state of the whole Church. No words can tell the sad state of the Church of Christ on earth. I wish I had words to speak what I sometimes feel about it. just think of the Christians around you. I do not speak of nominal Christians, or of professing Christians, but I speak of hundreds and thousands of honest, earnest Christians who are not living a life in the power of God or to His glory. So little power, so little devotion or consecration to God, so little perception of the truth that a Christian is a man utterly surrendered to God’s will! Oh, we want to confess the sins of God’s people around us, and to humble ourselves. We are members of that sickly body, and the sickliness of the body will hinder us, and break us down, unless we come to God, and in confession separate ourselves from partnership with worldliness, with coldness toward each other, unless we give up ourselves to be entirely and wholly for God.

How much Christian work is being done in the spirit of the flesh and in the power of self! How much work, day by day, in which human energy — our will and our thoughts about the work — is continually manifested, and in which there is but little of waiting upon God, and upon the power of the Holy Ghost! Let us make confession. But as we confess the state of the Church and the feebleness and sinfulness of work for God among us, let us come back to ourselves. Who is there who truly longs to be delivered from the power of the self-life, who truly acknowledges that it is the power of self and the flesh, and who is willing to cast all at the feet of Christ? There is deliverance.

I heard of one who had been an earnest Christian, and who spoke about the "cruel" thought of separation and death. But you do not think that, do you? What are we to think of separation and death? This: death was the path to glory for Christ. For the joy set before Him He endured the cross. The cross was the birthplace of His everlasting glory. Do you love Christ? Do you long to be in Christ, and not like Him? Let death be to you the most desirable thing on earth — death to self, and fellowship with Christ. Separation — do you think it a hard thing to be called to be entirely free from the world, and by that separation to be united to God and His love, by separation to become prepared for living and walking with God every day? Surely one ought to say:y:
"Anything to bring me to separation, to death, for a life of full fellowship with God and Christ."
Come and cast this self-life and flesh-life at the feet of Jesus. Then trust Him. Do not worry yourselves with trying to understand all about it, but come in the living faith that Christ will come into you with the power of His death and the power of His life; and then the Holy Spirit will bring the whole Christ — Christ crucified and risen and living in glory — into your heart.

*First Chapter of Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray

 2006/6/4 9:45Profile
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 Re: Unexpected Pictures on the Internet , do you hate advertising?

Brother Dom,

You sound a lot like me. I have not experienced much of victorious Christian living either. Too often I give in to temptation. My witnessing is feeble or nonexistant.

I believe WyattEarp is correct by saying it is because we are not crucified with Christ. That is why Paul said "I die daily." I also think Crsschk imparted to us the most important thing, which is by ourselves we can do nothing.

The reason our witness is not that great is because I don't believe God wants to use us when we are still entangled in sin. C.H. Spurgeon said if things are not right at home you should go twenty miles away to preach, stand up, and say nothing.

In Timothy it says if you would cleanse yourself you would be useful to the Master.(paraphrase)

Thank God he is still convicting us.

Murray


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 Re: I was on myspace

I shouldnt go on myspace but I got polluted but can people pray for me for any images and that I get I have a pure imagination

Dominic Shiells


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