That came out wrong.

Nobody is perfect,

except for Jesus.

But I am going to try to do, whatever I can do,

to be as much like him,

as I can.

Awwwwwwwwe, thanks Spidey!

I'm going to give my testimony,

at my church,

and hopefully,(im praying)

I will be hired on with the "Cancer Society",

where I have volunteered my time to help others,

facing this struggle.

OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD!

I PRAYED LAST NIGHT, THEY CALLED TODAY!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMEN!

THANK YOU JESUS....AGAIN!!

God Indeed Hears and Answers Prayer !!!

Amen!!!

((({{{(Luv}}})))))

Ohhhhhhhh,

thank you so much Morning Song.

God Bless you.

AMEN!!

((((( COWBOY )))))

Hi! The bible is an amazing book of but you have to read it in a way that it applies to every day life. Any one that knows the bible will tell you that you need to start in the new testament. However, i personally recomend to start on the prophetic books like revelations, ezekiel, daniel, jeremiah, and isahia. If you concentrate on prophecies for the world your mind will be intrigued as many prophecies are being fullfill right before our very own eyes. For example, a country called israel did not exist about 2000 years ago but in the prophecy this country was to be reborn again and be a nation. In 1948 israel was born again after hitler set out to destroy every jewish person but his anger only resulted in the rebirth of a nation after world war ll . In this books you will ready how God is describing our current generation. It talks about how fast people will travel, nuclear warefare and future events. Did you know that in the future their will be no old people and and their will be a ratio of 7 woman for one man. Every foreigner will go back to their own country. We are headed for globalization which is one government one president ( the anti christ and the 666 . By that time, personal Ids will not be needed because it will be inplanted in our heads or our hands. In our time we will see syria damascus vanish in flames and rome will dissapear from the map . The temple of jerusalem rebuilt but as long as isrel keep fighting everything is okay cause once peace comes it will be the end of the world. So yes read the bible its not good to be in the dark. Ooo and by the way in genesis when the bible mentions that the sons of God came to woman and gave them children. Those were fallen angels having intercourse with woman and as a result giants were born. It is this same beings that are responsible for the great mysterys of the world like the pyramids, and all the supernatural around the world.

Thank you for your comments, and suggestions, and God bless!

~Kitten~

Each time......before I begin.....I ask..

Lord, give me the understanding that only You can provide.
Amen.

Then.....

I read!!!!

Ive been told that many times,

and so thats what I do.

Thank you Ghost!

God Bless

Goodbye Whitney Houston



She was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all time.

Her list of awards includes two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards as of 2010.

Houston was also one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide.

Houston released seven studio albums and three movie soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification.
Houston was the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits ("Saving All My Love for You", "How Will I Know", "Greatest Love of All", "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", "Didn't We Almost Have It All", "So Emotional" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go").

She was the second artist behind Elton John and the only female artist to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards (formerly "Top Pop Album") on the Billboard magazine year-end charts.

Houston's 1985 debut album Whitney Houston became the best-selling debut album by a female act at the time of its release. The album was named Rolling Stone's best album of 1986, and was ranked at number 254 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Her second studio album Whitney (1987) became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart.



R.I.P.

((((( WHITNEY HOUSTON )))))

8/9/1963-2/11/12

Whitney Houston was one of the biggest, and brightest, stars to ever shine.

I will miss her greatly.



~A prayer for Whitney~

Lord,

I ask that you please take, this fallen angel, to heaven, and forgive her all of her sins, involving drugs.

Please, give Whitney, the peace now, (that she was seeking here, by using drugs), in heaven, with you.

I ask this, in the name of your son, Jesus Christ.

Amen

I come to you, as my last hope.

Thank you for all of the ways you bless my life.

You are soo good to me. I ask, and you make sure I receive.

I need your help for getting my tooth fixed.

Western Union lost my $200.00 down payment in the mail, and now say it will be 30 days before they can even start to re track its whereabouts. I need a miracle, or I will lose one of my front teeth.

I ask for your help.

I ask in the name of your son, Jesus christ.

Amen

Praying the $200 lost by Western Union is FOUND !!!!

Luv...I've been in a similar situation..so I can relate....

Praying the lost money Shows Up in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen!!

Always Remember that reading the Bible could be different from studying the Bible, Bible is the writting mind of God, and Genesis and revelation are mostly written in coded symbols, meaning that except God reveals to you what he wrote , you can get it right.
but Only the HolyGhost can decode it. Therefore HolyGhost Is a Decoder of the written mind of God [The Holy Bible]

God Bless u as you seek , may he give you the eyes to found him

Thank you Morning Song.

I have been praying hard on that myself,

but we wont even know,

what happened to it,

IF, we even find out,

WHAT happened to it, for a month.

And im running out of time.

If someone else got ahold of it, and cashed it,

I lose.

And it cant be resent.

If we find it,

its likely going to take so long,

that my tooth will be past the point,

of saving with a root canal.

He stopped payment on it also,

just in case,

its lost in the mail,

and didnt get cashed.

Thank you John

and God bless you!

I didn't read all of the posts, etc... but here is my answer to the OP's first question...

...look in your table of contents for the New Testament "Book of John." (aka "Gospel of John"... aka "Gospel according to John"... aka "John") That is actually a great place to start reading the Bible. It takes you through the life of Jesus, his death on the cross, and his resurrection. Then motor right on through to the "Book of Acts" (the next book in the Bible after the Gospel of John.) The Book of Acts tells the stories of the very first Christian churches.

When I first became a Christian, this was what my first Pastor told me to do, and I find it is helpful to first have some idea what it is to be a Christian and what the original first Christian church did, etc. before digging into the deeper bookd (like Genesis, etc...) Keep reading all the way through to the end of the New Testament.

(You've probably heard this before, but...) You don't read the Bible like a novel... i.e., pick it up and start at page one and proceed through to the last page... howbeit there IS a happy ending...

You study it in relative portions... study sections that tie together in similar meanings. It is a sacred text, not a novel.

For example...

The fall of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden (Genesis) is connected to the "why" of why God sent his son Jesus to the world as the last sacrifice for sins (Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). The connection being... by eating of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis) Adam and Eve chose to sin... Jesus was God's final corrective answer to the world's sin problem. Everything is tied together philosophically, and spiritually. Verses in one book are tied to topics and verses in many other books.

What you might find helpful is a printing of the Bible called "The Thompson Chain Reference Bible." http://kirkbride.com/

This printing has tons and tons of very helpful scripture references in the middle and on the edges of the colums that help you study topics that string throughout many verses in the Bible. For instance "salvation" and many other topics... there is also a numbered topic index in the back that ties common-topic scriptures together so you can study one idea/concept in the Bible from one end of the scriptures to the other.

I might also suggest getting something called a "concordance"... a concordance is a dictionary of sorts that helps you find Bible verses when you can only remember one or two words of a certain verse. For example, if you could remember "for God so loved the world" but couldn't remember where in the Bible it said that, you could choose any of the words in that sentence and (depending on how exhaustive the concordance is) it would list every verse with each of those words, in alphabetical order.

The most exhaustive concordance ever compiled of the King James Bible was "Strong's Exhautive Concordance of the Bible." Mr. Strong literally separated every single word in the King James Bible, even down to the "thou's and thus's..." and put them in alphabetical order... then pain-stakingly listed in chronological order every single verse in the King James Bible that contains each and every word.

http://www.amazon.com/Strongs-Exhaustive-Concordance-Bible-Strong/dp/0917006011

Another idea is...

When I studied a law class in college, I found the need to buy a legal dictionary in order to keep up with all of the strange new terms. "Legal Speak" and what I call "Lawyer Talk" is crammed full of Latin and all kinds of stuff I'd never been exposed to before. So I bought "Black's Law Dictionary" (that works for legal stuff, not the Bible...)

However...

I might suggest finding a credible "Bible Dictionary" that will define all those odd and new Bible words. Something like Smith's: http://www.amazon.com/Smiths-Bible-Dictionary-William-Smith/dp/0917006240 Then, as you come across stuff like "Lot's Wife" you can get a run-down of who she was and why she turned into a pillar of salt, etc... There are also Bible Encyclopedias printed for similar reasons.

Something we have today that most generations of Bible readers never had... is the Internet. If there is a scripture you are trying to find, Google it. Its amazing how much information pertaining to the Bible is out there.

If you don't like the King James version, you can find any and every English version of the Bible, available for free reading, out on the web. Most times, each version, no matter how simple it is to read, has been painstakingly processed by a room full of scholars, and the meaning has been left the same. English isn't the only text, the Bible has been printed in hundreds of languages. So for those folks who think the King James English version is the (ahem) "only true Bible"... then if I spoke only French, I guess I couldn't read the Bible, huh? I do love the King James, but I also read the New International Version. I suppose the whole idea is to open ONE of them and read... that's much farther than many ever get...

If you don't like reading, you can also get the Bible on mp3 via a CD recording... or... here is a site that allows you to download the King James version as an audio book on mp3, book by book, for free:
http://www.audiotreasure.com/indexKJV.htm

Also... when you read the Bible, don't read it like a novel... i.e.... when you read a novel, you generally try to race through as many chapters as possible to get to the other side... that's just not how you read the Bible.

For example, open your Bible to one of the Pslams...

...Turn to any one of them... just read them verse-by-verse and give some thought to what each verse means and is trying to say...

...read the Proverbs this way, too...

...actually, read the entire Bible that way... look for meaning, try to picture the characters, try to find the meaning in why folks would have left this or that particular verse or book in the Bible... what is the connection to the bigger picture and the whole... (?)

This is how you will get much more out of it in the long run. The idea is to "meditate on the scriptures"... not buzz through them in a week from start to finish just to say "I read the whole Bible"...

As you read, certain verses will (sort of) "jump off the page" and hit you in a way that has a deeper meaning. Just the first verse of the 23rd Pslam... "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want..."

There is a lot of meaning in that one simple verse.

A shepherd is someone who is watching over (typically) a sheep. Sheep need protection from wolves and predators (we typically need protection from Satan and his demons...). The shepherd also makes sure the sheep have the necessities of life, water, food, shelter, protection from wolves, etc. If the "Lord" is our shepherd, if he is in charge of what we do in life, then he is watching out for us. And the comfort the pslamist finds is a correlation between himself being a needy sheep, and God (the Lord) being that entity which watches over those in need. Because God is watching over him, he feels no sense of "want"... I might relate that condition of non-want as being or finding peace in this life. Simply stated, if God is in charge, (for example) perhaps you won't be driven by materialistic "gotts-have's" but rather you "shall not want." There are also other Bible verses where it talks about God being our provider. If he is your Shepherd, he will provide for you, and you "shall not want."

The verse only has 9 words, but has an ocean worth of depth...

Happy Bible reading...


GG49

Another tip for "short attention span" readers like me... (I learned this when stumbling through ultra-boring college text books...) Leave the book open in a common place somewhere in your house. Don't plague yourself by thinking you have to read 100 pages to a sitting. Read a verse and think about it. Maybe read a chapter. Maybe just read one of the Pslams today.

There really is no prize in the achievement of saying "I've read the whole Bible"... if you get to the last page and have no idea what it is you just read. (Its not a novel...).

The Bible is a book of faith, a book that contains God's promises to us, and it is a book of hope. It is a book of love, given from God to all human beings, no matter what race or financial situation that human may be in. Its not just for the rich, its not just for the poor.

Another thing...

... the one main theme throughout the entire Bible is Jesus Christ and him cucifed for our sins, that on the thrid day he rose from the grave, and is now ascended to the Father. That we who believe in Him will also have eternal life.

The life we live here on Earth is a testing ground. God wants to see if we will choose to follow his son Jesus, or will we deny him. For those that follow, the hope and the prize is heaven as our home. Some will not choose to follow. There is a place for them at their end, too, but it is not with God.

Yes, some of the concepts might "seem" hard, but the thing was written so the most simple of child could read it and understand. It is not a difficult concept to know that God loved you and I and every human so much that he sent his son. Jesus came here, and lived in the same exact type of body that we are given. It says in the scriptures that he was tempted in every way, but did not ever sin.

Just find a nice table in your home to lay the Bible, and open it to some place (like the book of John, etc.) and don't stress that you have to read gobs of it per Sunday. Read a word. Read a verse. Mostly, don't just read it like a newspaper, but read it a bit, then listen for God's still small voice talking to your heart through those words.

Jesus said that if anyone thirst, come to him and he would give you living waters. You are thristy, and you come and read... and he will pour out the waters of understanding to you. How many in this world have no desire to ever turn a single page in that book... how that must make Jesus sad... But that you want to learn, it is God that put that desire in your heart. When you "thirst" go to His word (the Bible) for a drink of something deep...

:-)

Wow!

Thank you for taking all of that time and effort for lil ole me!

You even supplied me with reference points, and the links to find all that you talked about. That is very cool!

I will take your suggestion, and start to read the book of John. I have only gotton to Exodus so far, so it wont be hard to switch. I started at the beginning, and was cool till I hit Genesis, and got tripped up with all the the thous and thos, and a ton of pages describing the measurements of the tabernacle? And things being repeated over, and over, and over again. And yes, I am ADHD, and that doesnt help.

So I started to listen to the audio bible on the net, and Morning Song directed me to a version that talks in my lingo, and so now I listen, and read along with what im hearing. Its MUCH easier, and keeps my attenion, MUCH more now!

Thank you again, for taking the time to care and help.
God bless you,
Kitten

Not sure which English version you are reading but... if it is the King James version (a.k.a. "KJV"), think about this... it was written at the time of William Shakespeare (1564-1616). The KJV was finished in 1611. We just don't talk like that today. Folks say they have a hard time understanding Shakespeare, too... because nobody talks today the way he penned his plays FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

I haven't read back through all the posts, so I'm not sure which version Morning Song gave you, I have been here long enough to know she is true-blue and loves God with a sincere passion. What many churches today use is called "The New International Version." It is written in what one might say is "today's English" (not 400-year old English.)

Here is a link to this version online (I clicked it to the Book of John for you...)

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1&version=NIV

If you look at the top of the page, there is a drop-down that says "New International Version"... you'll notice many more choices of Bible translations on that drop-down. Not just English... but French, Spanish, and a whole bunch of languages I can't pronounce, haha. (Arabic, Bulgarian, Haitian Creole, all kinds of languages.) And it also has the traditional King James... (I count 30 English versions alone... wow...)

I do love the King James Version, it is probably the translation I have read the most. But if I were from Bulgaria (for example) I guess I wouldn't be reading the KJV... I'd be reading something relevent