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How would you describe your relationship with the Lord? - 12/5/2008 2:15:05 PM
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Little_1
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1 How would you describe your relationship with the Lord and
2 What difference does your relationship with the Lord make to your everyday life?
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/5/2008 5:21:49 PM
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1 How would you describe your relationship with the Lord and
I live in loving gratitude.
2 What difference does your relationship with the Lord make to your everyday life?
I live loved and accepted. 
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/5/2008 5:39:35 PM
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ORIGINAL: Little_1
1 How would you describe your relationship with the Lord and
2 What difference does your relationship with the Lord make to your everyday life?
1.)I really dont have the words to desrcibe what my relationship is like with Him, there are no words that will ever do Him justice......our relationship, is unlike anything I have ever experienced. I will NEVER forget being told, that when others fail you and walk out on you...HE WONT! I have experienced this.....in my darkest hour, when I thought I couldnt go on, He was there to lift me, to strengthen me and to surround me with His peace and love. just when I think it doesnt get any better than this....He shows me something else, and always leaves me in amazement.
2.)Today I know, that no matter where I am, no matter what Im going through, He is always with me and IM NEVER ALONE, and Im always looking forward to the day, that He brings me HOME!
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/5/2008 7:15:08 PM
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1 How would you describe your relationship with the Lord
Really one-sided. He gives and I take when I get around to it. He's all-powerful, all-knowing and loving... and I'm a wimp who gets crabby and forgetful and ungrateful. Most of the time, anyway.
Then He reminds me and I fall on my face in grief, humility, and great rejoicing because He has covered my sin and holds His hand out for me to take. I sure wish I'd get my act together better, but He leads and slowly I grow. I'm not going to live long enough to get really good at this, but by His grace I'll keep on toddling along.
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2 What difference does your relationship with the Lord make to your everyday life?
Every difference. I wake up knowing (well, usually) that I am His. My day is to spend time with Him, make decisions that are for eternity rather than my short-sightedness (play video games or tell someone about Jesus?), and choose to do things according to His will (I'm a wife and mother, so am I taking care of my husband and kid? Am I avoiding sin? What difference will my choices make a 100 years from now?).
It's taken me forever to learn to look ahead to eternity, and I'm still inconsistant about it.
I'm not perfect (look how obnoxious I can be. Jesus was only that way to the enemies of God, not everyone) and I fall on my face sometimes because I tripped. But I hope I'll stay open to learning and keeping sin out of my life. May people perhaps come along by seeing that if God loves me He could love them, too! 
1 Cor. 1: 26-31
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/5/2008 7:52:13 PM
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Dancre
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ORIGINAL: Little_1
1 How would you describe your relationship with the Lord and
2 What difference does your relationship with the Lord make to your everyday life?
My relationship with Him is very special and wonderful. He loves me just as I am and sees me as I will be, not as I am now.
My difference is He forgives while others won't. He loves when others won't. He's cool when others aren't.
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/5/2008 9:32:19 PM
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Feudal !!!
The King conscripted me into His service -- and there is no greater honor on earth.
He summons me to His feasts, where I dine from His Table, and am thereby incorporated into His Body. He issues me His uniform, so that I can represent Him everywhere I go.
He debriefs me, and acts on the information I provide Him. He corrects and encourages me.
His feasts are raucous, exuberant, and rowdy events, and blessed are those who are invited.
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/5/2008 9:48:19 PM
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deermousie
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Feudal !!!
The King conscripted me into His service -- and there is no greater honor on earth.
He summons me to His feasts, where I dine from His Table, and am thereby incorporated into His Body. He issues me His uniform, so that I can represent Him everywhere I go.
He debriefs me, and acts on the information I provide Him. He corrects and encourages me.
His feasts are raucous, exuberant, and rowdy events, and blessed are those who are invited.
I nominate this as the best response of the year!
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/5/2008 10:24:38 PM
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In progress.
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/6/2008 12:14:14 AM
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In progress.
Same here,I was content so long just stuck at a baby stage,but am
finally growing alot now that I have put the effort in.
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/6/2008 10:46:22 AM
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Precious, Secure, Intimate
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/6/2008 2:12:46 PM
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My relationship with the Lord USED to be the best thing ever. I remember I could not wait to get come from school or from work so so that I could sit on my bed and listen to Him speak to me. I remember I would have done anything for Him and He would have done anything for me. I for sure felt that I was married to Him as the Bible states that we as believers are married to Him. I remember I used to feel so small but He would always cover me and make me feel so important even thouh I am not.
Today I would describe my relationship as one that has just started again. I just recently started talking to God again, and thinking about Him all the time. I miss Him terrribly and let the things of the world and sin get in my way. If I had to decribe my relationship with HIm in one world today, it would be, GROWING.
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/6/2008 2:47:45 PM
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Probably the single word would be 'expectant'; expecting to be Precious, Secure, Intimate, GROWING, refining, molding...
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/6/2008 10:26:32 PM
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TorchHeart
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ORIGINAL: Little_1
1 How would you describe your relationship with the Lord
I don't know how to describe it. Right now, I feel as though its simply there, and that's about it. I definitely go back and forth with how close I feel to Him due to how things have happened in my life. I go from feeling loved and happy, to mad and regretful, to a gauntlet of other feelings. He's there, and I trust that. I try to trust Him, but we don't always see eye-to-eye. So the relationship is just there, for now.
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2 What difference does your relationship with the Lord make to your everyday life?
Its helped me to learn compassion, and (I feel) to understand hurt and confussion and anger and hate and not-so-pleasant feelings and why people have them. I know God gives me my words and is the reason I have any of the abilities I do at all. I credit Him for all of that. But I don't know what else to say. I try and get over what I feel He's let happen, too. And that's the hard part.
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/7/2008 4:05:53 AM
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ORIGINAL: TorchHeart
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ORIGINAL: Little_1
1 How would you describe your relationship with the Lord
I don't know how to describe it. Right now, I feel as though its simply there, and that's about it. I definitely go back and forth with how close I feel to Him due to how things have happened in my life. I go from feeling loved and happy, to mad and regretful, to a gauntlet of other feelings. He's there, and I trust that. I try to trust Him, but we don't always see eye-to-eye. So the relationship is just there, for now.
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2 What difference does your relationship with the Lord make to your everyday life?
Its helped me to learn compassion, and (I feel) to understand hurt and confussion and anger and hate and not-so-pleasant feelings and why people have them. I know God gives me my words and is the reason I have any of the abilities I do at all. I credit Him for all of that. But I don't know what else to say. I try and get over what I feel He's let happen,
Torchheart - this is such a real and honest post. The Lord can help those who are honest before Him. He does not like pretence. God has big shoulders and it does not shock Him when we tell Him we are having a difficult time understanding things that have happened or if we are angry and upset with what He has allowed.
I know this may be hard to do, but I would encourage you (from experience) not rely on your feelings as being a thermometer of the temperature reading of your faith because feelings are deceptive at the best of times. However, we cannot ignore that feelings are none the less very real and on the positive side, it is good that you are learning why people experience the range of feelings which they do and this helps you to see where they are coming from. The very fact that you are still stayed upon the Lord is evidence that your faith is strong (but this is not because of whether you are feeling good about God or not - this has to do with your foundation in the Lord which you have built over the years through prayer and His Word). Bless you TH. "The Lord is near to those who call upon Him; to those who call upon Him in truth." You have been truthful and as long as you remain likewise in prayer, you can be sure the Lord is near to you (whether you sense His presence or not). God's Word cannot lie and thankfully it is not depenedant upon our feelings. 
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/7/2008 6:45:36 AM
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Hi TorchHeart,
In agreement to what Little 1 said, may I add the following:
Years ago I was discussing God with a young man. I asked him if his father loved him. All the evidence of his parents' love was there for all to see. He agreed that his father loved him.
I then asked him whether God loved him. He replied that he didn't feel it. He just didn't see it around him. There was, in his eyes, no evidence of such love.
I explained that this was a natural reaction on his part to something he did not see nor feel. I explained that despite his feelings, God's love and protection was still there. Every day God protects us from more evils and problems than we can possibly imagine - without us knowing about it or even "feeling" it.
Not many people experience His love in a real positive way that they can associate with Him. This doesn't mean His love is not there.
It means that our feelings come in the way and blind us to what is obvious; to what is there, freely offered to all of us.
I am praying for you that you come to know, and feel, the true love of God.
May He bless you always.
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/7/2008 2:40:01 PM
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Great posts, mvic and Little_1. TorchHeart, I just started reading a book that you might find helpful, too. It's called Disappointment with God by Philip Yancey. Have you read it? I'm not too far into it yet, but it has challenged my perspectives on some things.
Now to answer the OP.
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1 How would you describe your relationship with the Lord
It's a work in progress, as others have said. In some ways I feel like my relationship with Him has grown by leaps and bounds in the past few years, and in other ways I feel like I still have so very far to go. The past few months have brought some of the most emotionally painful experiences of my life, in situations that I had been sure God was working in and wanted me in (not to say that He wasn't working in them after all, just that the results were not what I had expected or prayed for). For a while that felt like a barrier to me in getting closer to God. It wasn't so much that I blamed Him for what happened, though I did ask Him a lot of "why" questions. The problem was more that I was afraid He was going to allow even more pain in order to teach me in some way, and I didn't think I could handle it. The hurt is still there now, but God has done a lot of healing, and I've learned a lot about trusting Him. And I do realize that I'm very blessed.
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2 What difference does your relationship with the Lord make to your everyday life?
He has really opened my eyes to the needs of others and taught me to be more generous and compassionate towards them. I'm learning to view people and situations through His eyes, and to be obedient to His leading (though I still need a lot of work on that!). It also has changed my perspective on my own needs and wants, especially from a material standpoint.
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/7/2008 4:10:57 PM
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1. Hard
2. Stops me going over the edge.
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/7/2008 4:14:43 PM
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1 How would you describe your relationship with the Lord and
2 What difference does your relationship with the Lord make to your everyday life?
Let me ask a third question: do men and women experience different "flavors" of relationship with the Lord? The reason I ask is because ...
so much "worship" music nowadays is drippy, saccharine, sentimental ditties about "Jesus is my girlfriend," and what a s-w-e-e-t romance we have going.
Believe it or not, some of us manly types really aren't that excited by the notion of "dating" Jesus. Serving Him, yes. Joining Him in His wars against His enemies and humanity's, yes. Receiving worthy and demanding assignments from Him, and putting our hearts into those tasks, yes. Learning, day by day, how to be all that we can for His glory and the good of those we influence.
In my everyday life, the manly, sacrificial love of God, as made known to us through Jesus Christ, has shown me how to be a man. How to accept responsibility, and simply do the routine things that need doing. To love one wife, to raise children, to love wisdom and pursue it.
And how to have patience with those who trivialize the glorious Gospel of the King, neutering it and changing it into another form of personal, emotional, self-indulgence.
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/7/2008 4:22:35 PM
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ORIGINAL: TorchHeart
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ORIGINAL: Little_1
1 How would you describe your relationship with the Lord
I don't know how to describe it. Right now, I feel as though its simply there, and that's about it. I definitely go back and forth with how close I feel to Him due to how things have happened in my life. I go from feeling loved and happy, to mad and regretful, to a gauntlet of other feelings. He's there, and I trust that. I try to trust Him, but we don't always see eye-to-eye. So the relationship is just there, for now.
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2 What difference does your relationship with the Lord make to your everyday life?
Its helped me to learn compassion, and (I feel) to understand hurt and confussion and anger and hate and not-so-pleasant feelings and why people have them. I know God gives me my words and is the reason I have any of the abilities I do at all. I credit Him for all of that. But I don't know what else to say. I try and get over what I feel He's let happen, too. And that's the hard part.
Hi TorchHeart,
Reading your post really touched my heart and reminded me of what I was going through just 3 weeks ago, and even today, if Im not careful, I can fall back into the devil's lies. When you say, that you are trying to get over what He has let happen to you, and thats the hard part....although I dont know what you are talking about, I can agree with you 100%. I have undergone some life changing events, and I still dont understand "WHY." And how He allowed this to happen to me, but Im trusting that He knows whats best for me, and the true comfort that I have, is knowing, He does control all, and sometimes He will allow these things to take place whether we understand them or not.
I just wanted to say that, Im not here to lecture you because Im sure there is nothing anyone could say that you havent already heard or even read in God's Word, but I want you to know, that you are in my thoughts and in my prayers today.
Sincerely,
Abby
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RE: How would you describe your relationship with the L... - 12/7/2008 4:27:15 PM
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ORIGINAL: Little_1
1 How would you describe your relationship with the Lord and
2 What difference does your relationship with the Lord make to your everyday life?
My relationship with the Lord is not one that I am very proud of. He's always there for me and I have turned my back on him several times. I have been struggling for awhile now and after awhile it just gets too tiring. What fills my heart is knowing when everyone else may have given up on me, He never did and never will.
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