Hi Yvonne,

Welcome to AAG. My name is Carla, and I'd just like to welcome you to this wonderful family. Please come visit me on my page to say hi. I have sent you a friend request. I see you are a retired homemaker.. Well I am a homemaker also. My kids are young still.

I see that you love to be creative... how wonderful! I would love to see some of your drawings. I look forward to hearing from you.

Love in Christ, Carla

what are your 5 animals, if i may ask? i love animals too.

Hello Yvonne
Warm greetings in the Lord! This is Nienie one of TheNET Moderators. Welcome to this wonderful internet family of followers of Jesus Christ! We're glad you are here!

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Many blessings
Nienie

Take His hand again friend
He loves you and care for you deeply and He wants you to live a life in fullness and joy!He doesnt hate you, loved you so much that He gave His Only Son!
You have so much to offer, just hold on to Him and you will see how many lives you are going to touch!
Good to have you here.
Blessings Nienie

Hello Yvonne, I can see you are in a very low place in your heart.
I don't know what to offer you except freindship and prayer.
I do know that freinds are not dependant on what we can get from them...or else I too would have none.
I also do know that God our father can turn things around.
Romans 8:28 All things work together for the good of those whom love him and are called according to his purpose.
I am in a bit of a dark place myself at the moment with something, but I know that my father loves me, and that he will bring me through it.
All I can say is learn about his nature and accept that people would like to be your freind, not for what you can offer, but for true reasons. We are not supposed to go it alone in this world.
We may or may not have answers for you, but know that God your father created you and he truely does!
Wether you feel you are worth it, or wether you feel you are not..
Jesus still died for YOU so that you may learn, just how far, just how wide, and just how deep his love for you really is.
That even if we destroyed our Fathers most precious possession (his son) he still forgave us freely and he still loves us. That was the point.
He still died for you Yvonne and it is still a free gift of love to you not dependant on anything you do, have done, or will ever do! A free gift just for you, all you have to do is accept it.
Realize that even so much as being called by God is of God and not us, for he hardens and softens hearts according to his will, not our efforts.
And he is softening yours, because here you are, there is no doubt it is the same for all of us.
None of us feel we deserve Gods love, I think the more we understand Gods love for us, and the more we understand our failings the more we feel we truely don't deserve it..because the truth is WE DON'T, but he did it for us as a free gift to show us how far he would go to prove to you BEYOND ALL REASON just how far he would go to prove his love to us. HIs true nature to us.
I know you know he is calling you, you are precious to him, he wants you to know his love.
If he were not calling you, you would not be seeking him at all, you simply would not care, and your heart would be hard.
Just as you want so much for your own children to know you love them, even if they reject it, so he does want for you to see his love.
Bless you and may you truely come to seek and know his nature.

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Julia

hello yvonne, just passing by.

Hello Yvonne
Be strong. Supporting you in prayer.
God Bless
Richard

hello, here's a joke to welcome you at AAG! God bless you today and always. by the way how did you get to know this christian site?

Which Way to Heaven?

Reverend Billy Graham tells of a time early in his ministry when he arrived in a small town to preach a sermon. Wanting to mail a letter, he asked a young boy where the post office was. When the boy had told him, Dr. Graham thanked him and said, "If you'll come to the Baptist Church this evening, you can hear me telling everyone how to get to heaven."

The boy replied, "I don't think I'll be there... You don't even know your way to the post office."

canada is a beautiful place. went there last year, and hope to return this year again. but i am going to ontario -i think this is far from alberta.

ottawa city and toronto. nice places, went to see niagara falls on the canada side.

your quote: I have forgotten, and question today, how much God loves me. I am "keeping an open mind" as I seek Him once again.
It is the same lie that spins in our heads so often, couple that with another lie satan would have us believe, that being that we can not be accepted by our Father because we keep screwing up.
Oh my dear sister, I wish I could some how show you how much you Father truely loves you.
Luke 12:6 "Are not five sparrows sold for two cents? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God."Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
Do you not understand my dear sister, you where chosen, hand picked by your Father.
He chose to share his knowledge with you, it is not about your worthiness, because not one of us are worthy, and there are scriptures to prove this also.
I will tell you this from my heart of hearts.
GOD IS NOT DOING THIS TO YOU, WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH, WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH IS A RESULT OF THE WICKET WORLD YOU LIVE IN, THE RESULTS OF ADAM CURSE YOUR BODY AND GIVE WAY TO SIN,BUT BECAUSE OF JESUS CHRIST, YOUR FREEDOM HAS BEEN PURCHASED!!
It will not be this way forever, there is hope in Jesus, you have hope that those unsaved do not. You WILL be rescued in the time he comes, your pain forever gone in every way.
And do not discount that he may indeed heal you of your pains in this life too.

Something I become to understand the other day as I was intrequed as to why God had not healed my teeth when I asked.
I do not fully know why, but I do know this...

When we go to a dentist, we understand the dentist did not put the cavity there, we understand that the dentist will likely cause us more pain temporarily, and indeed drill a bigger hole in order to remove the plaque, so that he may fill our tooth again better then before and heal our pain.

God did not cause you what ever kinds of pain you are enduring, but he may well have a plan better then you imagine.
You see, he may have to do a bit of digging around to get rid of the plaque in your soul, but be sure that our Father is THE MASTER DENTIST! he will not only fill your soul, but make it better then new.
We are like teenagers you see, we beleive that we know what we want, and what we need in life and what we need to make us happy.
You see as parents of teenagers, we know better for our children sometimes. Then what they think they need and want.
But in fact our father knows better then us what is best for us to truely fulfil us our needs and our hearts.
For he knows you better then you can know your own children, his ways are higher and his thoughts are higher. His interest and attention has been on you fully without distraction since you were in the womb!

I can quote, scripture after scripture to you of his love for you, and know fully in my heart that every word was MENT FOR YOU!! because that is what it is Yvonne, the bible is God's love letter to you. It is full of his promises and he is not a promise breaker, for as he says, 2nd timothy 2:13 If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful because he cannot be untrue to himself.
To be sure that what ever you are going through, or have been through, he promises he will never give you anything you can not handle.
So when it seems this way, it is because we are trying to do it on our own.

I pray for you that you would receive his joy, the joy of the LORD will be your strength.
But first I pray that he will show to you his true nature, so that you may know his true love.
Acceptance is a choice, but salvation is a gift, you need not do anything but accept it and receive it.
I do truely know that.

yes, that is a frightning thing isn't it.
I hope to encourage you and uplift you because I DO know that God loves you and I have been in the darkness as you are for far to long in my life, now knowing the freedom that comes from Jesus I just want so much for you to have it too. No christian should have to live in darkness.

A beautiful reminder of who we serve...

Hey Thanks for the add,I feel drawn to you calling it a God Prompt think are to get to know one another better.

Yvonne, I have found a few things on bitter almond. which I will investigate in refference to the bible and pray on it.
It could be that you are either eating something that contains bitter almond, or it's oil and do not know it for it's name is not necessarily labled as 'bitter almond', or it could be in refference to something you are doing or believing that is what was ment.
I will read up on both the plant, and it's refferences in the bible and let you know what I come up with.

I have posted more information, I hope will be helpful to you in your inbox.

quite a shock to see how much that it could be in, but if it is that he is telling you not to eat it, then it verry well sounds as though it could be something you consume, or something in respect of it's refference to an action in the bible, such as in one of the excerpts I posted in your inbox.


Have a look at what it is that you are eating, putting on your lips or ask about your medication if it contains any of the names on the list I gave. Read what was written on the bible on it and pray about it.

Your Father loves you, he'd not give you only half an answer to your prayer, he is the mighty and fully loving Father, do what you can on investigating what you could be consuming, what it says in the bible in respect of it and pray on it. he will give you an answer.

Yvonne, so many people feel the way you do, and go through what you do.
I have written a blog at the bottom of my page if you ever want to take a look at it.
However I would like to suggest some excellent uplifting veiwing for you if you are willing.
It is by a lady called Joyce Meyer.
If you go on youtube and type in Joyce Meyer the dynamics of fear.

There are about six parts to this.

There are others of hers that are great to watch to. I do hope you take the time to watch them and be encouraged.

Once my internet speed gets a bit faster I plan on putting some of her sermons on my page. I will let you know as I do it.

Hi Yvonne
Thanks for being my friend. Like you and all our brothers and sisters in Christ I am on a journey to discover more about the incredible love of God. I am learning slowly but surely. I seem to learn most when I feel inadequate or powerless. I am beginning to understand that we simply let be and let the Holy Spirit transform our nature.
God Bless. Lets support each other in prayer.
Richard

Thank you, Missy for the card. It was very sweet of you.
I am not sure I want to follow God any longer. I know that is terrible, but I feel so let down by Him.
Thank you again,
Regards,
"Y"