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Re: Re: If i ever have? ---Yes :)

Citim:

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Po citoj ato që tha darke
...everybody has something to teach and learn...

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How do you seek the TRUE and ONLY GOD?

Psalm 119:1-2
Blessed are they whose ways are blameless
who walk according to the law of the Lord.
Blessed are they who keep his statutes
and seek him with all their heart.

what do see in the scripture?
a-blessed means happy(superlative happy)
b-happiness is not the goal of one who seeks God but the by-product
c-to seek God you must do it with all your heart
d-seeking God means to 'keep his statutes'
e-all of them?
f-none of them?

Mathew 7:7-8
Ask and it will be given to you;seek and you will find;knock and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives;he who seeks finds;and to him who knocks ,the door will be opened.

a-Seek and God GUARANTEES you will find Him.
b-ask God for help.
How powerful is that?

Jeremiah 29:11-14
For i know the plans that i have for you-declares the Lord-plans to prosper you and not to harm you,plans to give you hope and a future.

Now these scriptures are very encouraging.The God of all creation is screaming out loud saying that he is so close to us-just seek Him with all your heart.

Acts 17:11
Now the Bereans were of more NOBLE character than the thessalonians for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures EVERY DAY to see if what Paul said was true.

a-now it's clear that one should read the Bible for his own convictions.
b-one should read the Bible daily so that he can be reminded every day of the presence of God.

Re: How do you seek the TRUE and ONLY GOD?

Citim:

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Po citoj ato që tha lorie
...to seek God you must do it with all your heart...

...Seek and God GUARANTEES you will find Him....

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Re: How do you seek the TRUE and ONLY GOD?

Citim:

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Po citoj ato që tha lorie
Psalm 119:1-2
Blessed are they whose ways are blameless
who walk according to the law of the Lord.
Blessed are they who keep his statutes
and seek him with all their heart.

what do see in the scripture?
a-blessed means happy(superlative happy)
b-happiness is not the goal of one who seeks God but the by-product
c-to seek God you must do it with all your heart
d-seeking God means to 'keep his statutes'
e-all of them?
f-none of them?

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Citim:

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Po citoj ato që tha lorie
Mathew 7:7-8
Ask and it will be given to you;seek and you will find;knock and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives;he who seeks finds;and to him who knocks ,the door will be opened.

a-Seek and God GUARANTEES you will find Him.
b-ask God for help.
How powerful is that?

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Citim:

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Po citoj ato që tha lorie
Jeremiah 29:11-14
For i know the plans that i have for you-declares the Lord-plans to prosper you and not to harm you,plans to give you hope and a future.

Now these scriptures are very encouraging.The God of all creation is screaming out loud saying that he is so close to us-just seek Him with all your heart.

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Citim:

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Po citoj ato që tha lorie
Acts 17:11
Now the Bereans were of more NOBLE character than the thessalonians for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures EVERY DAY to see if what Paul said was true.

a-now it's clear that one should read the Bible for his own convictions.
b-one should read the Bible daily so that he can be reminded every day of the presence of God.

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The last one has a and b both true

good job

The Bible is the most reliable book in antiquity.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching ,rebuking,correcting and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work

Now think of this scripture.Pause.....You ponder deeply.What does it mean? How do you interpret it?Be careful -there are a million intepretations of a scripture( the mind twists reality) but only one is true.

It means:
a-All ( and i mean every single one) Sripture is insipred by God,the creator of everything.
b-It is to be applied to our lives, in our relationships.
What else can you add?
c-Scripture is meant to help in accomplishing good works.


Hebrews 4:12-13
For the word of God is living and active.Sharper than any double-edged sword,it penetrates even to deviding soul and spirit ,joints and marrow;it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.NOTHING IN ALL CREATION is hidden from God's sight .Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Now i may imagine how you feel :YOU probably feel astonished, scared, surprised or even stupefied.Or just laid back. When i first read this scripture i was puzzled and surprised that actually God was seeing every single thing i was doing and hearing every single thought i was thinking. THAT threw me off-God sees everything.
a-The word is relevant
b-The word cuts(hurts) -compare it to a scalpel .It hurts, it takes out the layers and hurts.
c-but it is good to be cut because it cuts the 'cancer' (sin) out.
He always tries to get to our hearts and cut the bad things out.

2Peter 1:20-21
Above all ,you MUST ( not may ) understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation.For prophecy NEVER had its origin in the will of man ,but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Can you guess what this scripture REALLY mean? It's pretty straightforward.In fact the Bible itself is pretty simple and straightforward.What it says it's what it means.

a- Keep in mind that it says -THERE'S NO PRIVATE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE BIBLE.
There's only one interpretation of the Bible-and that is God's .The other interpretations people do are false and twisted.
b-And the 2nd important thing is that the Holy Spirit inspired the men who wrote the books of the Bible.It was written over along period of time after Jesus' death ,in different times and different locations( Thessalonia- Greece, Rome(Italy),in prison by Paul, Corinth ect) and the authors of the Bible were 40 poeple altogether.( some were desciples ,some friends of the desciples ) and what's amazing of all that makes the Bible be so special is that even though these authors were so different,the palces and times were so different they were unified,they talked about one and only thing. What are the chances, some strangers that probably never met, can write about the glory of God unless they had the same Spirit inside them.(the Holy Spirit)

Re: The last one has a and b both true

Citim:

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Po citoj ato që tha lorie
good job

The Bible is the most reliable book in antiquity.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching ,rebuking,correcting and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work

Now think of this scripture.Pause.....You ponder deeply.What does it mean? How do you interpret it?Be careful -there are a million intepretations of a scripture( the mind twists reality) but only one is true.

It means:
a-All ( and i mean every single one) Sripture is insipred by God,the creator of everything.
b-It is to be applied to our lives, in our relationships.
What else can you add?
c-Scripture is meant to help in accomplishing good works.

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Citim:

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Po citoj ato që tha lorie

Hebrews 4:12-13
For the word of God is living and active.Sharper than any double-edged sword,it penetrates even to deviding soul and spirit ,joints and marrow;it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.NOTHING IN ALL CREATION is hidden from God's sight .Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Now i may imagine how you feel :YOU probably feel astonished, scared, surprised or even stupefied.Or just laid back. When i first read this scripture i was puzzled and surprised that actually God was seeing every single thing i was doing and hearing every single thought i was thinking. THAT threw me off-God sees everything.
a-The word is relevant
b-The word cuts(hurts) -compare it to a scalpel .It hurts, it takes out the layers and hurts.
c-but it is good to be cut because it cuts the 'cancer' (sin) out.
He always tries to get to our hearts and cut the bad things out.

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Citim:

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Po citoj ato që tha lorie

2Peter 1:20-21
Above all ,you MUST ( not may ) understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation.For prophecy NEVER had its origin in the will of man ,but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Can you guess what this scripture REALLY mean? It's pretty straightforward.In fact the Bible itself is pretty simple and straightforward.What it says it's what it means.

a- Keep in mind that it says -THERE'S NO PRIVATE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE BIBLE.
There's only one interpretation of the Bible-and that is God's .The other interpretations people do are false and twisted.
b-And the 2nd important thing is that the Holy Spirit inspired the men who wrote the books of the Bible.It was written over along period of time after Jesus' death ,in different times and different locations( Thessalonia- Greece, Rome(Italy),in prison by Paul, Corinth ect) and the authors of the Bible were 40 poeple altogether.( some were desciples ,some friends of the desciples ) and what's amazing of all that makes the Bible be so special is that even though these authors were so different,the palces and times were so different they were unified,they talked about one and only thing. What are the chances, some strangers that probably never met, can write about the glory of God unless they had the same Spirit inside them.(the Holy Spirit)

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For lorie and jona

From the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians.

7 Dhe secilit i jepet shfaqja e Frymës për dobinë e përbashkët.
8 Dikujt, pra, i jepet, me anë të Frymës, fjalë diturie; një tjetri, sipas të po atij Frymë, fjalë njohurie;
9 një tjetri besim, nga po ai Frymë; një tjetri dhuntitë e shërimeve, nëpërmjet po atij Frymë; një tjetri pushtet për të kryer veprime të fuqishme; një tjetri profeci; një tjetri të dallojë frymërat;
10 një tjetri larmi gjuhësh; një tjetri interpretimi i gjuhëve.
11 Dhe të gjitha këto i bën i njëjti dhe i vetmi Frymë, duke i ndarë gjithsecilit dhunti veç e veç ashtu si do vetë.

12 Sepse ashtu si trupi është një, por ka shumë gjymtyrë, dhe të gjitha gjymtyrët e të njëtit trup, megjithse janë shumë, formojnë një trup të vetëm, kështu është edhe Krishti.

I don't know why, today, I was thinking of this again. Actually this verses always seemed to me very misterious. Since I was child I've always wondered which one of the gift the Holy Spirit will have given to me? I don't know. I just wanted to share with you this lecture.

Kisses!

For Lori and Darke

Perhaps it is the name of the city: Vitoria- Victory. Perhaps it is the feeling that I haev grown too used to comfort and have lost my ability to improvise in crisis situations. Perhaps it is the enthusiasm of the people who are, at this moment, trying to restore a cathedral built many centuries ago and who, in order to draw atthention to their efforts, have invited a few writers to give talks. or perhaps it is the old saying of the conquistadors of the Americas : " It is not life that matters, but the journey".
So I keep on journeying. After many long, tense hourse I reach Vitoria.
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I walk through the skeleton of the cathedral , studying the restoration work curently being carried our: this time the architects guarantee that they have found the perfect solution. Everywhere there are metal suppors, scaffolding, grand theories about what to do next and some criticism about what was done in the past.

And suddenly, in the middle of the central nave, I realise something very important: the cathedral is me, it is all of us. We are all growing and changing shape, we notice certain weaknesses that need to be corrected, we don't always choose the best solution, but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent, in order to honour not to the walls or the doors or the windows, but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.

YEs we are all cathedrals, there is no doubt about it, but what lies in the empty space of my inner cathedral?
Esther, The Zahir. She fills everything. She is the only reason I am alive. I look around, I prepare myself for the talk I am to give, and I understand why I braved the snow, the traffic jams and the ice on roads: in order to be reminded that every day I need to rebuild myself and to accept for the first time in my entire existence- that I love another human being more than I love myself.
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For a week I walk by the Seine each morning and when I get back, I lock myself in my study. As if I were listening to a voice of an angel, I write a book, or rather, a letter, a long letter to the woman of my dreams, to the woman I love and will always love. This book might one day reach her hands and even if it doesn't I am now a man at peace with his spirit. I no longer wrestle with my wounded pride, I no longer look for Esther on every corner, in every bar and cinema, at every supper, I no longer look for her in Marie or in the newspapers.

On the contrary. I am pleased that she exists. She has shown me that I am capable of a love, of which I myself knew nothing, and this leaves me in a state of grace.
I accept the Zahir, and will let it lead me into a state of either holiness or madness!

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fragment from Paolo Coelho's The ZAHIR. Hope you liked it.

Besos para las dos.

For Lori and Jona

I love this part:

Citim:

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Po citoj ato që tha analistja


On the contrary. I am pleased that she exists. She has shown me that I am capable of a love, of which I myself knew nothing, and this leaves me in a state of grace.

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For the future writers.

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world. Once every two years, I sit down in front of the computer, gaze out on the unknown sea of my soul, and see a few islands- ideas that have developed and which are ripe to be explored. Then I climb into my boat- called The Word- and set out for the nearest island. On the way I meet strong currents, winds, storms, but I keep rowing, exhausted, knowing that I have drifted away from my chosen course and that the island I was trying to reach is no longer on my horizon.
I can't turn back , though, I have to continue somehow or else I'll be lost in the middle of the ocean; at that point a series of terrifying scenarios flash my mind, such as spending the rest of my life talking about past successes, or bitterly criticising new writers, simply because I no longer have the courage to publish new books. Wasn't my dream to be a writer? Then I must continue creating sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and go on writing until I die, and not allow myself to get caught in such traps as success or failure. Otherwise, what meaning does my life have? Being able to buy an old mill in the south of France and tending my garden? giving lectures instead, because it's easier to talk than to write? withdrawing from the world in a calculated, mysterious way, in order to create a legend that will deprive me of many pleasures?
Shaken by these alarming thoughts, I find a strength and a courage I didn't know I had. They help me to venture into the unknown part of my soul. I let myself be swept along by the current, and finally anchor the boat at the island I was being carried towards. I spend days and nights describing what I see, wondering why I'm doing this, telling myself that it's really not worth the pain and the effort, that i don't need to prove anything to anyone, that I've got what i wanted and far more than I ever dreamed of having.
I begin our of a feeling of duty, but suddenly the thing takes hold of me and I can't stop. I am tired but I must write just one more line, one more sentence, one more page. I am not longer in control of where I place my feet, the island is being revealed to me, I am being propelled along its paths, finding things I have never thought or dreamed of.

The book writes itself, the writer is just the typist.. NOw I know that this is absolutely true, no one knows why the current took them to that particular island and not to the one they wanted to reach.
It is a constant source of surprise to me to discover that other people were also in search of that very island and that they find it in my book. One person tells another person about it, the mysterious chain grows and what the writer thought of as a solitary exercise becomes a bridge, a boat, a means by which souls can travel and communicate. From then on I am no longer the man lost in the storm. I find myself through my readers, I understand what I wrote when I see that others understand it too, but never before. I understand that my soul is not alone.

From Coelho's the Zahir