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Tigress
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Posted 9/30/2003 5:49 AM (GMT -6)

Hi All,
I could really use some prayer right now. I've been pretty sad lately. Thanks.

Tigress

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DLW
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Posted 9/30/2003 5:58 AM (GMT -6)

sure.
dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

Triskal
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Posted 9/30/2003 8:49 PM (GMT -6)

I will most certainly keep you in prayer. Satan must really be on the offense lately because I have also been feeling very sad. No particular reason, I just feel very emotionally weak.

Also, would you guys mind praying for a friend of mine? He is having some serious personal struggles with his work and also with his marriage. I believe his wife has forced him to leave the house for a while. Keep him in your prayers if you would. He is not a Christian, but he definately has an interest in spirituality. I am going to try to invite him to woodland hills this weekend. Be praying that he would respond to God tugging at his heart.

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Tigress
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Posted 10/1/2003 5:28 AM (GMT -6)

Thanks DLW and Triskal. Sure I'll pray for your friend.

You know, the other night I was talking with God and I was crying and my cat was sitting in front of me. She kept looking up towards the ceiling or the upper part of the wall next to/behind me. I looked and there was nothing visible like a bug flying around or anything. I wonder if God sent an angel to comfort me...or maybe Jesus Himself was there. Animals are known to be able to see spirits. I've been reading about people's personal experiences with ghosts and demons, etc. and oftentimes they say that among other strange phenomena, their pets (and young children) often follow around something invisible with their eyes. Well, either way, I know Jesus is always with me. I did start feeling better after that experience, though. Smile

Tigress

"Name a shrub after me. Preferably one that's prickly and difficult to eradicate."

-Captain Jack Aubrey
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"

Triskal
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Posted 10/1/2003 8:02 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress

Animals are known to be able to see spirits. I've been reading about people's personal experiences with ghosts and demons, etc. and oftentimes they say that among other strange phenomena, their pets (and young children) often follow around something invisible with their eyes.

I really have wondered that myself sometimes. Some time ago I had a very strange experience where my dog really freaked me out. It was around 2:30am and I was sound asleep when suddenly my dog started barking and whining downstairs. Naturally it scared the heck out of me because I thought someone may have broken into the house. I went downstairs with a flashlight and saw my dog staring at the wall, totally frozen and whimpering like she was scared to death. I thought she was just hallucinating or something and was too tired to really care. However, I really started to get freaked out when she came up to my room, jumped on the bed, and just stared at the doorway for like 10 minutes straight. I would snap my fingers and call her name--which she normally responds to--but she refused to look away from the door. She just stood there whimpering and barking at the empty doorway.

Anyways... I don't really know what to make of that situation. To this day I don't know what it was all about. Maybe my dog is just crazy, or maybe there was really something there. I will say though that I do believe animals are able to sense more than we can.

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John Earp
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Posted 10/2/2003 6:40 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress

Hi All,
I could really use some prayer right now. I've been pretty sad lately. Thanks.

Hi Tigress,

As one who has suffered often through extreme bouts of depression throughout my teens and adult years, I can just say I know how deep sadness feels, and I will lift you up in prayer.

One thing a very dear pastor friend of mine once said that has always helped is, "Whenever you feel depressed, pray for someone else that you know is depressed."

"The Discovery of new truth will modify old views and opinions, and there is perhaps no end to this process with finite minds in any world." Charles G. Finney, Systematic Theology.

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