I am in need of some advice

[zane2]

I have never done this before but I am in need of some advice. I have been on my knees in prayer over this situation and would just like to hear what some Godly women would have to share. This may sound really silly or even petty but I need someone's thoughts other than my own. I have 2 sisters, one is saved, the other claims she is saved but is in bondage to a lot of things. Anyway that is not this particular issue. The sister who has issues has asked me to take her son's senior pictures, I said yes and we set up the time. No one showed up, no one called. We set up another time to take them, no one showed, no one called. Here is the thing, my other sister, who is older than me and I look up to her and do admire her walk with the Lord, shares with me after I told her the whole situation and my frustrations of not wanting to do the pictures at all tells me to do it anyway because it is the right thing to do. I feel as if I'm being taking advantage of. I have set my time aside, changed plans to do this and she doesn't even inform me that she can't make it. Because I am a Christian, should I just let her do this to me over and over again? Forgiveness isn't the issue; I would forgive my sisters' both of anything. Should I just keep setting up dates only for her not to show or call? My older sister's response is what bothers me the most because although she is a great Christian - she is such the enabler. So anyway, Sisters out there - I am seeking Godly advice on this. If I am being petty, tell me (gently) but shouldn't we, as Christians, draw the line somewhere on people taking advantage of us?
Seeking God's Will,

[R-R-R]

Re: I am in need of some advice

I have never done this before but I am in need of some advice. I have been on my knees in prayer over this situation and would just like to hear what some Godly women would have to share. This may sound really silly or even petty but I need someone's thoughts other than my own. I have 2 sisters, one is saved, the other claims she is saved but is in bondage to a lot of things. Anyway that is not this particular issue. The sister who has issues has asked me to take her son's senior pictures, I said yes and we set up the time. No one showed up, no one called. We set up another time to take them, no one showed, no one called. Here is the thing, my other sister, who is older than me and I look up to her and do admire her walk with the Lord, shares with me after I told her the whole situation and my frustrations of not wanting to do the pictures at all tells me to do it anyway because it is the right thing to do. I feel as if I'm being taking advantage of. I have set my time aside, changed plans to do this and she doesn't even inform me that she can't make it. Because I am a Christian, should I just let her do this to me over and over again? Forgiveness isn't the issue; I would forgive my sisters' both of anything. Should I just keep setting up dates only for her not to show or call? My older sister's response is what bothers me the most because although she is a great Christian - she is such the enabler. So anyway, Sisters out there - I am seeking Godly advice on this. If I am being petty, tell me (gently) but shouldn't we, as Christians, draw the line somewhere on people taking advantage of us?
Seeking God's Will,

Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

Isaiah 50:7
For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

Endure it; eventually God will judge righteously. If your sister intentionally does these things to harm you, she will fry for it. If she has good reasons, God will know. Just wait and see. Literally...

[Star Finder]

Re: I am in need of some advice

I am in need of some advice

here is some advice you blow-hard

LEARN HOW TO USE PARAGRAPHS!

[OnYourKnees]

Re: I am in need of some advice

This may sound really silly or even petty but I need someone's thoughts other than my own.

Well, you're quite right on that. It does sound really silly and petty, and you do need some good thoughts injected into your head.

I have 2 sisters, one is saved, the other claims she is saved but is in bondage to a lot of things. Anyway that is not this particular issue.

Without knowing the details of the sort of bondage in which your sister is engaged, how are we to help?

<bunch of whining about taking pictures>

So anyway, Sisters out there - I am seeking Godly advice on this. If I am being petty, tell me (gently) but shouldn't we, as Christians, draw the line somewhere on people taking advantage of us?
Seeking God's Will,

Your sister sounds mighty lukewarm to me. Do you know what God does with the tepid?

Revelation 3:16
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

Indeed. Spit her out!

Now, perhaps you'd like to toddle over to the General Church Fellowship section, under which you can find the Introduction Forum, and post a thread there to introduce yourself!

While waiting for Mother Glynndie to join us and give her thoughts, why not take this handy quiz on the New Testament? Here you can learn all about Jesus' teachings . . . many False Christians have difficulty remembering what He really said, and distinguishing it from the happy lies their Pastors Feelgood tell them.

(If you happen to get a question wrong, there's a "back" button at the lower left so you can go back, hit the right answer, and get the Scriptural education Pastor Feelgood may have skipped!)

[Brother V]

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blah blah blah....

I am seeking Godly advice on this. If I am being petty, tell me (gently) but shouldn't we, as Christians, draw the line somewhere on people taking advantage of us?
Seeking God's Will,

Ultimately, it boils down to how many times you have to forgive your sisters for their transgressions.

490 times.


Matthew 18: 21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?

22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.



The little brat gets to stand you up 490 times before you can hold a grudge against him/her for skipping the photo shoot.

Now YOU may be forced to forgive a whole lotta times, but you know what? God doesn't have to, and he choses not to.

Do you know how many times God forgives before he realizes that you aren't going to change your behaviour?

FOUR TIMES



Amos 2: 1 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

That's right, for 4 sins the Lord will forgive, but anything past that, He's gonna smite you!

Read the book of Amos for the really cool things the Lord is gonna do to the tribes.

PRAISE JESUS!!!

YIC
V

[kikirnw]

Re: I am in need of some advice

I have never done this before but I am in need of some advice. I have been on my knees in prayer over this situation and would just like to hear what some Godly women would have to share. This may sound really silly or even petty but I need someone's thoughts other than my own. I have 2 sisters, one is saved, the other claims she is saved but is in bondage to a lot of things. Anyway that is not this particular issue. The sister who has issues has asked me to take her son's senior pictures, I said yes and we set up the time. No one showed up, no one called. We set up another time to take them, no one showed, no one called. Here is the thing, my other sister, who is older than me and I look up to her and do admire her walk with the Lord, shares with me after I told her the whole situation and my frustrations of not wanting to do the pictures at all tells me to do it anyway because it is the right thing to do. I feel as if I'm being taking advantage of. I have set my time aside, changed plans to do this and she doesn't even inform me that she can't make it. Because I am a Christian, should I just let her do this to me over and over again? Forgiveness isn't the issue; I would forgive my sisters' both of anything. Should I just keep setting up dates only for her not to show or call? My older sister's response is what bothers me the most because although she is a great Christian - she is such the enabler. So anyway, Sisters out there - I am seeking Godly advice on this. If I am being petty, tell me (gently) but shouldn't we, as Christians, draw the line somewhere on people taking advantage of us?
Seeking God's Will,

Tell your sister that you would still be happy to take the picture but this time she'll have to work around your schedule.

[Rachael Van Helsing]

Re: I am in need of some advice

here is some advice you blow-hard

LEARN HOW TO USE PARAGRAPHS!

What SF said.

[Daisy Mae Johnson]

Re: I am in need of some advice

here is some advice you blow-hard

LEARN HOW TO USE PARAGRAPHS!

Well said Heathen!

I was going to suggest paragraphs. Proper puncuation and Walmart photography.

Paragraphs are your friend

Helpful, Sister Thumper

[Pastor Rune Enoe]

Re: I am in need of some advice

Ultimately, it boils down to how many times you have to forgive your sisters for their transgressions.

490 times.


Matthew 18: 21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?

22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

I beg to differ, Brother. Jesus doesn't say "seventy times seven times" - in fact He points out, "I say not unto thee, Until seven times". What He says is "Until seventy times seven."

The seventy times seven is a direct reference to the seventy week-years in the Book of Daniel:

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

It will take 490 years for Jesus to finish the transgression (kill all sinners), and to make an end of sins (kill all sinners). When will that happen? "of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only" (Matthew 24:36)

Until Jesus' second coming, we must suffer all sinners and forgive the cretins. Maybe Jesus will return in an hour, and we'll only have to forgive a few sinners - maybe it will take Jesus 10 or 20 years more, and we'll have to suffer far more than 490 idiots.

Once Jesus has finished the transgression and brought in everlasting righteousness, the glove is off and we'll stand arm in arm with Jesus, laughingly watching the sinners roast for an eternity

Vengeance is a dish best served hot, burning hot.

Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.

[OnYourKnees]

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Vengeance is a dish best served hot, burning hot.

Pastor Prune, you seem very . . . vengeful today.

Could you perhaps have caught one of the demons that was seen escaping Lord Needsanewname's colon earlier today?

I only ask because the vengeosity is so out of character for you. And the use of that little demon smileyface has me worried!

Surely a Pastor can't be possessed . . . no, that couldn't happen . . .

[Pastor Rune Enoe]

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Pastor Prune, you seem very . . . vengeful today.

Could you perhaps have caught one of the demons that was seen escaping Lord Needsanewname's colon earlier today?

I only ask because the vengeosity is so out of character for you. And the use of that little demon smileyface has me worried!

Surely a Pastor can't be possessed . . . no, that couldn't happen . . .

Brother Knees, I hardly have to remind you that we True Christians™ are an honest-to-God persecuted minority, who have to suffer the countless lies and blasphemies of Mary Hailers, ragheads, secularists and the Zionists in Hollywood.

This is a cross we must carry just as Jesus carried His. Like a lamb dumb before his shearer, we must suffer these inequities, until Jesus returns in flaming fire, having vengeance upon those who have rejected God. The Bible tells us that it will be a frightful time of dread. God’s vengeance is fierce and His judgments are executed with awesome power.

Don't forget who it was that created Hell and the Devil - and why He did it:

Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS.