Posted by: the warrioress | October 25, 2011

Because I Cried Out

I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit.

You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.”
You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”
O Lord, you took up my case; you redeemed my life.
You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!
You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.
O LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me–
what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.
Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.
Pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, for what their hands have done.
 

Lamentations 3:55-64

And the trials, tribulations, and snoopings continue over on the old site relentlessly, as some play at detective and attempt to stalk and pry into my private personal life.  I’m impervious to their silliness though, because I’m held up by my God.  I don’t hear their wicked natterings and gossipy titterings because my faith is strong and steady in Him who loves me.  Threatening, hateful comments have been left pending;  the darkness within them is oozing  out like black slime, but I don’t feel it;  it doesn’t even touch me.

I am sheltered by God above;  I do not fear.  I have faith and will sleep the sleep of the rested and peaceful.  And I will rise ready to serve You again, dear Father.

Peaceful : Beautiful young woman jumping on a beach at sunset

I am blessed

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 24, 2011

Gossip

We’ve probably all had to deal with gossip, either because we have the problem ourselves or we’ve experienced people gossiping about us or perhaps both. Regardless… when we begin to attempt to live according to the bible, things have to change. The bible says a lot about gossip and the harm that it can do. Many people gossip purely out of a type of social anxiety. They are insecure and have very little to talk about except the criticism and tearing down of other people. Life can be routine and even dull without incessant drama for some, and gossipy chat about others can spruce things up.

It’s the negative side of human nature that gives into gossip, but this is actually what the darkness of the world craves to read and talk about and so we often give them what they want – if we want to be read and paid attention to. Unfortunately, if we don’t stop gossip within ourselves and our own personal lives, it’s not going to be stopped around us. We have to set the example in our Christian walk and behavior. Whether we’re Christian or not, gossip’s harm returns to us in many ways, so it behooves everyone to learn to control the tongue and avoid spreading and listening to gossip.

Don’t expect this noble pursuit to happen overnight though; it can be difficult to change habits of a lifetime. It will take work to search for other topics to share and listen to. I think we’re all the better for it though, if we can attempt to curb this aspect of our fleshly, worldly nature and learn to practice something more loving and compassionate. The following reading was helpful to me today regarding this topic and I hope it will be helpful to you, the reader:

Many times when we gossip, we do it because we feel sure that we’ll get away with it. But the Bible tells us that sooner or later, we’ll be found out. Proverbs 10:20 in the Message Bible says: “Loose talk has a way of getting picked up and spread around. Little birds drop the crumbs of your gossip far and wide.”

And Jesus said that our hypocrisy would not be hidden forever. What we have whispered to others will eventually be broadcast for all to hear. (Luke 12:1-3 TLB) We mustn’t deceive ourselves by thinking that what we say about others in private won’t have serious consequences.

I know from experience that trying to refrain from gossip without getting to the root of the problem is futile. Jesus said that whatever is in our hearts will eventually come out of our mouths. (Luke 6:45) That’s why the Lord demands that we deal with what’s in our hearts. In Zechariah 7:10 (NIV), He says, “In your hearts, do not think evil of each other.” Only by obeying this command can we successfully overcome our tendency to speak negatively about others. While we can’t change our own hearts, we can ask God to change us.

David prayed, “Create in me a new, clean heart, O God, filled with clean thoughts and right desires.” (Psalm 51:10 TLB) We can pray this same prayer, trusting the Lord to answer by making us more like Jesus as we seek Him daily. 

James 1:26 (TLB) gives us an idea of just how important what we say is to our witness: “Anyone who says he is a Christian but doesn’t control his sharp tongue is just fooling himself, and his religion isn’t worth much.”

If we don’t make a serious effort to control our speech, we can’t expect to make a real difference for God. In Ephesians 4:29 (NIV), Paul says: “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouth, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” Our words have the power to build up and tear down. They can either “pierce like a sword” or “bring healing.” (Proverbs 12:18)

And the words we speak can affect us, as well as others. Proverbs 18:21 (AMP) says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life].” That’s why Peter says, “If you want a happy, good life, keep control of your tongue.” (1 Peter 3:10 TLB)

Gossiping, or even just passively listening to gossip, can affect our physical and mental health and well-being. Proverbs 18:8 in the Message Bible says, “Listening to gossip is like eating cheap candy. Do you really want junk like that in your belly?” 

What if WE are the victims of gossip? Peter says, “Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate when people say unkind things about you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God wants you to do, and He will bless you for it.” (1 Peter 3:9 NLT) May our heartfelt prayer each day be: “May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing to You, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer”! (Psalm 19:14 NLT) 

Prayer: Lord, forgive me for the times I’ve spoken unkindly about others. I ask that You change my heart, and deal with me when I sin with my mouth. When the words of others hurt me, help me to respond in a Christ like way. Thank You that as I guard my mouth and my tongue, I will keep myself from trouble! (Proverbs 21:23 AMP) – J. M. Farro

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 23, 2011

This gave me chills! You have to watch this

This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen online.  It’s just amazing.

Watch this and you’ll see what I mean.  This is beautiful and if nothing else convinces, this should.

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 23, 2011

Loving the Unlovable

How can a Christian love her enemies? What about those who detest her and wish her harm because of her faith? How do we as Christians really find a way to love those who want to hurt us consistently?

It’s easy to feel sorrow for people whom we see  with sympathy but what are we to do when our enemies are abusing and mistreating us? What do we do when they are determined to silence and destroy our testimony? What do we do when we simply don’t like someone and think they are an awful person?

Living the Christian life according to the directions contained within the Bible is challenging and for the sincere of heart.  I think it could take a lifetime of learning to practice the principles set down within the pages of the Bible again and again.

These principles do not come to my heart naturally.  My nature is that of a warrior. Humility, forgiveness, and the willingness to do away with the pride of life is contrary to whom I was before finding salvation.  Years later, it’s still a struggle. I’m reminded of Peter who chopped off the ear of the guard who came for Jesus;  it’s probably what I would have done as well.

The world does not encourage meek, passive traits in human beings these days and Christians have to live in the world; still we are to pattern ourselves after Jesus Christ and His example; this is what God would have us do. How then do we find our way to truly loving our enemies?  The following reading sheds some light on this, for me anyway:

The assumption that is made in Christ’s teaching regarding our enemies is that we are hated or despised undeservedly (1Pet 4:15,16; Matt 5:11). That is, we are being persecuted for our faith, for his sake, and not for anything that deserves such a response. Before we attempt to apply the following principles to our relationships we should search our hearts and ensure that we have not created enemies by doing wrong. If it is possible that we have offended others and are ourselves guilty, then we should first seek their forgiveness. That being said, let’s look at the proper attitude toward our enemies.

Job did not rejoice when his enemies suffered destruction. A mark of godly character is to rejoice with those that rejoice, and to weep with those that weep (Rom 12:15). This extends even to our enemies. God said that those who are glad when they see calamities (disaster or trouble) will not go unpunished! (Prov 17:5)

Although David’s enemies brought false accusations against him, rejected his goodness and responded with evil, David did not respond likewise. He mourned when his enemies were sick, he humbled himself and even prayed for them. At the same time that David was praying for his enemies, in the same passage, he was also praying that God would judge them!

David was not willing to rise up against his enemies himself. He brought his cause to the Lord. He personally prayed for these men and their well being, while knowing at the same time that they needed to be judged by God. By accusing David falsely, they were actually doing damage to the name of God, in whom David trusted. David desired that these men would be judged so that God’s name could be cleared. As a result, his friends would magnify the Lord and David could speak of the righteousness and praise of God all the day long.

Each time Jesus was persecuted by his enemies, he did not respond in like manner. Instead, as our example, he committed his cause to God. God is the ultimate judge and we can be assured that when he does judge, he will do it righteously. When we fail to rely on God in dealing with our enemies, it is very likely that we will respond in emotion or wrath. By submitting to God as the righteous judge we protect ourselves from losing our testimony in a fit of retaliation. Our enemies expect retribution and confrontation. By submitting to God and responding in love, we immediately project character qualities that are different from what this world is used to. We create an opportunity for God to receive glory by our willingness to forgo our own glory. See also Rom 12:19

Stephen was able to respond to his enemies the very same way that Jesus did. How was this possible? He was filled with the spirit of Christ. A mark of spirituality in the life of a Christian is his ability to bear and respond well to reproach, criticism, persecution and hatred from others. When we become embittered toward our enemies or lash out toward them, we are acting in the flesh and not in the spirit (Gal 5:19-25). We must love our enemies.

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 22, 2011

Scary People

Out in cyberspace where people compete with one another for time and attention, when one is threatened by another’s points of view, opinions, or beliefs, the easiest thing one can do is get rid of the person through one venue or another. How does one get rid of the person? There are numerous ways for the sicker among us.

One can pretend that the person doesn’t exist through ignoring what threatens one or essentially blocking them out of one’s mind; this is the least overt and harmless of one’s methods.

A little more intimidating, one can strive to create drama and angst with the person directly in order to influence others to take sides against the person who is threatening; hence creating a virtual lynch-mob that will focus upon running the person off.

One can resort to covertly advertising to everyone encountered that one is being victimized by the person so that other people begin to feel sorry for one, which results in the same lynch-mob mentality in the sad attempt to get rid of said person.

One can become increasingly proactive and tattletale behind the person’s back to those in charge or try to get the person into trouble, resulting in getting the person removed from wherever it is everyone is congregating — and last but not least, onecan mislead, outright deceive, and basically trick everyone around one into what one perceives, through a variety of underhanded schemes and manipulations.

Unfortunately, warped, disturbed people have the ability to exercise all or any of these sick options and proceed to put them into action once we come into their focus.  There are so many people on the internet on a variety of social networking sites that will go to any and all lengths to do away with anyone who intimidates or threatens their weak sense of self esteem and identity.  If we spend any time at all online at a regular locale, we’ve all probably had to deal with someone who disliked us for absolutely no reason that we could fathom, short of just outright jealousy over our ideas, who we are, or what we look like. These people envy us to the point they begin to have contempt and dislike for us, in that they feel that we are a threat to them in some unspoken way.

While we innocently go about our daily existence, this kind of person is scrutinizing and focusing upon us in a truly pathological manner and we don’t even know it until they make themselves known through forcing themselves into our lives through strange machinations of circumstances, events, and people.

Suddenly we become aware that we have an actual enemy out here, who is deluded and akin to the woman in the movie “Fatal Attraction.” It’s someone scary, disturbed, and actually obsessed. This person has at their disposal a whole host of tricks up their sleeves and while we’re hardly naive, there is no way that we can possibly fight against or even realize what this individual is capable of.

People don’t attempt to get rid of or silence someone who doesn’t threaten them. Truly disturbed people will go to practically any length to see someone else censored, silenced, degraded, humiliated, or demeaned in order to wipe away their internet presence. Their intent becomes obvious over time to more than just themselves, although they are very adept at lying to themselves and living in an alternate reality where they are the victim and their target is the enemy. Their primary purpose is to convince everyone else of their perspective so that they can continue to sustain their delusion.

I’ve had to deal with a person like I’m describing, for a very long time now. This person is a sad, pathetic individual and it’s becoming clear to me that I haven’t even begun to touch the surface of how deranged she is. I don’t think I realized how consuming focusing upon me has become for her. I’m truly at a loss to know how to deal with her now and in the future. Most people would suggest that one avoid, stay away from, and just ignore her and she’ll eventually go away.

Unfortunately, I’m beginning to recognize that there are some people who will never go away. One can only hope that they never make themselves known in real time within our daily lives because they can become akin to something out of a horror tale and wreak havoc upon our comfortable existence.

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 22, 2011

Reality is really just reality!

 

 

There is a lot of garbage floating around the internet that promises to change your life. We’re literally bombarded with it. From “The Secret” that Oprah Winfrey promoted and got behind, to a lot of New Age material that is basically old age “positive thinking” repackaged, this New Age mumbo jumbo appears to be everywhere we look! We are being overwhelmed by mystical promises that encourage us to find our power within ourselves and create our own realities. We even hear this from the prosperity preachers that encourage us to use our minds so that we can visualize and create what we most want. These philosophies almost promise something magical that we can make happen if we simply … focus.

New Age-ism is becoming the prism through which we are told we should view the world. More and more we see this perspective subtly and not so subtly laid out for our consumption as a society. Because this perspective is being pushed and forced onto humanity through so many venues, despite ourselves it will eventually begin to impact us, whether we think so or not. What all of this New Age babble is attempting to do is convince us that we can control everything in our lives with our minds; that we are in charge, that we are powerful, and that we create our own realities. To sum this up in a nutshell, New Age thought wants to convince us that:

 – we are God and we can be and act as God –

Unfortunately, New Age propaganda does not recognize or admit that no matter what we are thinking in our minds is reality, there is still a real, true, actual reality that exists, nevertheless. This reality does not alter or change no matter what we’re thinking or perceiving. We can successfully bury our heads into the sand, though, and convince ourselves of these lies. We can tell ourselves that something is the opposite of what it really is. We can believe the lies we attempt to tell ourselves. What this is, though, is something else entirely. It’s something we often did as children when we couldn’t face the truth of things in our lives. We pretended.

Pretending may feel “real,” but it’s not real. It may actually look and feel so real that we don’t recognize our own delusion, but we’re really only fooling ourselves; we’re not actually changing reality. There are some realities that exist in our world whether we are able or willing to look at and acknowledge them or not. What are some of these?

People are starving; they are truly, honest to goodness, going hungry in our world. Our weather is changing and becoming more and more unpredictable. Wars are increasing. Violence all over the world is growing and increasing. People are becoming de-sensitized to violence.

These are just some of the realities that are truth no matter what we may desire or “feel” about them. No matter how long or often we focus, we cannot change these realities with our minds. Certainly we can bury our heads in the sand or lie to ourselves about the truth of these matters, or pretend that they don’t exist, but how does this really help anyone, much less ourselves? We’re not living in the real world! We are unable to face reality and so we escape it instead, just like the alcoholic or the drug addict, or anyone who uses an unfortunate technique to runaway from the hard truths within life.

Personally, I would rather deal with the unfortunate realities head on and not fool myself about what truth is. I want to see the real thing, no matter how much it hurts. It builds my character and strength of mind and heart to actually see reality and accept it as it is. I do my part to fight against what upsets or disillusions me if I can’t accept it, but I’m not going to intentionally delude myself because I don’t have the inner ability to simply look at reality. If I don’t recognize the hard realities and confront them, I can’t change the facts of what is occurring.

I don’t want to escape from everything difficult just to make life easier for myself. This is an extremely selfish, sad way of viewing the world and more than anything else, it’s a weak way of living life. It doesn’t take much character to run away and hide from truth. What this consists of is intentional deceit and trickery. It’s a way of deceiving one’s own self because one doesn’t have the strength of character to face and take on truth. I’m tougher than this and don’t want to shy away from the hard stuff of life. I want to make a difference by seeing reality and putting my dukes up to do whatever I need to do to either change it or learn to cope with it without fear through accepting it.

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 21, 2011

Cruelty

I never have been able to keep my mouth shut.

I will witness horrible things said and done, and even as a child I had to stand up, come forward, and speak up about it. I’m not saying I offered a sermon to the perpetrator because I was too young to know how to give a sermon, but I didn’t mince words. Nothing has changed now; I’m still exactly the same.

Cruelty horrifies me. It agitates and shocks me. After the shock begins to fade, it angers me. I think this is because I’m a very empathetic person and I can’t stand to see other people hurt and suffering, most especially when they are being hurt or are having to suffer out of someone else’s intent.

I am more apt to be able to accept cruelty aimed at myself than I can when I find it aimed at someone else. There is something within me that just will not be passive and allow real cruelty to occur without voicing my displeasure with whomever is perpetrating it. This “problem” tends to get me into trouble, especially lately.

Being on the internet, cruelty within the written word is quite literally everywhere one looks. It’s rare that we don’t stumble upon it daily because there are so many people who give into this aspect of human nature. Not many people speak up about cruelty when it’s occurring. I suppose they fear that they will be the next target for the cruel person’s wrath, so it’s easier to simply stay quiet or turn away entirely. Well, I cannot do that; something within me will not allow me to.

As for when cruelty is fired at me, and it certainly has been, I’ve learned over time to handle it lightly and treat it with humor if possible. There are times, however, that cruelty is so over the top, that it floors me — it actually renders me briefly speechless. At these times, I find that it’s best to simply turn these cruel people over to Him in whom my complete and utter faith resides. God will not let me down, nor forget me. He will take care of everything far better than I ever could and with perfect precision and wisdom. Not only will He do that, but I sleep well at night, knowing that God is in charge — no matter how the situation may seem to the contrary.

“…it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power…”
(2 Thessalonians 1:6-9). (Modern KJV)

God will repay those who harm us in any way because we are the apple of His eye. We belong to God. We are the elect of God. We are King’s Kids. The Law of Sowing and Reaping also applies here- one will reap what they sow. Our enemies- to the degree that they say or do anything against one of God’s true children- to that same degree they will receive back from God in full recompense. And if our enemies do not repent by the time they die, they will suffer the consequences of eternal damnation.

(source: http://7-star-admiral.com/0753_2Thessalonians_commentary.html)  

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 20, 2011

Naming my blog

I thought I would mention how I came about deciding upon a name for this blog.

I’m considering actually creating my own domain name and address because it’s so reasonable to do so on this site and it increases one’s blog traffic immensely. I’ve already experienced several views but to get the views up there, one really needs to be able to reach a wide audience and there are so many tricks of the trade to this, but a good name is really important.

When I was over at the dating site, Matchdoctor, I met a wonderful lady there, (HpyLady), who was messaging back and forth with me and one day she commented, “you’re a bible warrior!”

I chuckled to myself as she said it but I didn’t forget her words and they kind of grew on me over time, and I liked the sound of that because it fits, based upon what’s occurring all around us in the times we’re now living through. For those of you who have seen the movie, The Book of Eli, you’ll understand what I’m talking about. If you haven’t seen it, you need to view it.

Christians may yet have to become “bible warriors,” in my opinion. It is going to get that difficult out here to be able to share the word of God with others. People are eventually going to kill us for attempting to share it, and I think the bible will actually be banned before too much longer. The stage is being set for this very thing to come about.

We are rapidly losing our freedoms in this nation and freedom of religion will be one of the first to go. Christians are already being verbally and emotionally persecuted for our faith here in America, and in other countries Christians are being murdered. Things will definitely escalate in the future. Christians have to be able to put on the whole armor of God, as the good book says, and we may have to actually put it on literally as well. Time will tell.

Anyway, this lady friend of mine unknowingly gave me the idea for the name of this blog, which sort of resulted in an idea for the user name as well, “the warrioress.” I think both are a good fit for me and explain writings that may be a bit controversial for some. Censorship is my enemy and I stand by everyone being allowed freedom of speech, including those with whom I disagree.

Thank you, HpyLady for a wonderful, colorful, brilliant name and title. God bless you, my friend.

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 20, 2011

And now for a momentary change of pace…

I was just thinking earlier… pretty much about every five minutes that I was writing, about how I could not exist without a multitude of smilies as my writing must have them. I have become so used to using these dern things and now I cannot and will not go without them. Well, this site does not apparently have its own, however, webpress is aware that we need these and so we can put them in ourselves!

And so, based upon my feelings this lovely evening for the good moderator over on MD, I thought I might offer him a few here on my blog before I go to sleep for the evening. So just for you, MD Moderator..here you are:

Smiley  Smiley                           Smiley

and last but definitely not least….this one’s for you:  Smiley

Goodnight all,

dancing smiley courtesy of www.freesmileys.org

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 19, 2011

Ugly hearts?

I’m striving not to think in black and white terms when it comes to people I meet and the way that they think, or the things that they choose to freely say. I need to see them as blending in shades of gray, in that they are made up of good, bad, mediocre, and whole rainbow of colors in their natures. It’s so hard though, because these days, many are seemingly becoming pretty bad.

I was reading over on MD and encountered a comment in the Random Thoughts section that was enough to quite literally turn my stomach. It went like this:

Apparently one person was kicked off and another left before that happened!

And doggone it! I didn’t get to congratulate one for finally making (or attempting to make) an honest woman out of his g/f after living off her all these years!

 

I know who this older woman is talking about, as does everyone else.  He is no longer there to speak for himself, as I am not either. These disgusting comments are the kind of thing we have both had to tolerate the entire time that we were members there.  The moderator allowed this and never did delete commentary that was insulting toward us or the other Christians. He is still allowing it today, it would appear, so nothing has changed there in the slightest.

What is amazing to me though is that the person who made this comment is an older, mature, retired woman who claims to be a Christian, who should know better.  Unfortunately, what I’ve seen from her is a tendency to gossip, and take jabs at other people’s expense. I see more of the same directed at me as well on the same thread, from the same bullies and trolls that are filled with glee when they are able to hurt others freely. How very ugly this all is. And something within me tells me quietly within my mind that they must have ugly hearts…

I don’t understand this though, because there is good in them as well. This lady who made this terribly ugly comment loves animals and cares for them. How could someone who loves cats act like this and want to reach out and stab someone with her words so callously? What kind of hate must she have within her that she wants to hurt another so badly? And how does that gel with the animal-loving person that she appears to be? I just don’t understand it.

I’ve seen some serious ugliness on that forum and in the blogs and will continue to, I guess, and what is most surprising to me is that this ugliness is often emanating from people who claim to love God or to be spiritual. It’s beyond me entirely. I guess that they’ve forgotten that the two greatest commandments that Jesus said the Law and Prophets were based upon were to love God with all of our hearts and to love our neighbor as our self. I don’t think these people get it.

At any rate, I could feel myself getting tense and wanting to go back there again and respond to these people, and most especially to her who said what she did, and just let her have it. The man she said that about doesn’t need or deserve that kind of disrespect and ugliness. I do hope he doesn’t read that. And it infuriates me that he might read it and be hurt by it but there’s nothing I can do about that now. I can’t keep going back there just because some of the people there show what is within their hearts for all to see. (sigh)

I will have to let it go. I cannot ride to the rescue like an angry knight-ess charging forth to rescue those whom she loves; I don’t think that the man in question would expect me to do so at this point anyway. I hope he can just let it go and ignore these sick, unfortunate, obviously disturbed-on-some- level people who don’t know how to love, who are short on compassion and mercy.

If this keeps up, I may have to stop reading over there entirely because I won’t be able to ever put this behind me if I don’t.

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