Hey Ya'll!!

Please know that if I don't respond to each of you and your replies, it's not because I don't want to. I read them last night as I was going to bed. My wife and I both did. I was in tears as I read. I had been thinking about backing away from the computer saying that I just didn't have time, then when I read your replies and posts, my spirit swelled up in me. I'm so glad these posts bless you all. They do me. They help me so much in my walk with the Lord. One day as I was reading one, the Lord spoke to me and told me I needed to start posting them here. I am so glad they gave me permission to do so. God bless each of you and let's keep on posting and replying. You are all a blessing to me and I appreciate you so much. God bless, Randall

Randall, you are definitely a blessing to us too!! Since I've started coming here and posting and praying, I can feel the Lord's presence and can't tell you how much it means to me to have all of you here. This last move to GA from AR has been so hard. I felt myself falling into depression (again) and it has been hard. All of our family lives in AR and I miss my family so much. But, I'm feeling better and feeling the depression lifting and I know it is because of your prayers. By the way, my phone interview went good and I go in the morning (8am) to meet him face to face and do some type of screening (probably a typing test). The job would be great because I would be able to work from home. Anyway, I've lifted the person I talked to up to the Lord and know this is in His hands. I really feel a peace about the entire situation. I pray you have a blessed day!! Shel

Randall, You are a true blessing to this board!! Have a wonderful day filled with blessings from our Savior. Melanie-

You are a blessing to me! I dont feel like I have a right to post much, because I am not having surgery (yet!). But since I have found this board, and have started reading everyones post, I have been so blessed. I have felt the Lords presence so strong the past few days. This past week I was in a very deep valley, I shouldn't have been, It was approx. one year to date Sunday that I was (finally!) SAVED. I think satan knew that and wanted to make sure I didn't enjoy it! LOL :0) Old demons from my past kept creeping back into my thoughts, I had a bad week with my family, and my husbands family has been ill. Before I finally let Jesus in, my persistant thoughts were of how fat and ugly I was, I felt so much guilt (could it have been SIN, Yep!) I was on the verge of suicide. I still dont see how the Lord could love me so much, but HE DOES, and always sends just what I need right when I need it !!! But I had let some of those thoughts sneek in, knowing that they were straight out of the devils mouth. (John 8:44) BUT prayer works!! Last night something really strange happened! I had to stop at Walmart after work last night, and I have a really unhealthy need to walk by the cloths and look at myself in the mirrors (yep, really STUPID). But looking in the mirror, I thought, I am WONDERFULLY AND FEARFULLY MADE, and really thought I wasn't ugly for the first time in...okay for the first time! So I pray that everyone who post here, doesn't stop!!! You never know who you will touch! (maybe someone from the atheist board will get curious and sneek a peek here also!) I so appreciate your prayers and thoughts, I know that I will be praying for you when you are down in your valley, but like my pastor says, we have a Lily in that valley Thank you for not being afraid or ashamed to post, and to tell the world you are a CHRISTIAN, some times I wonder if people dont think it's a dirty word Okay, I've rambled enough, I thank you once again! God Bless! Have a wonderful day!!! Kim Watts 'I will praise thee, for I am wonderfully and fearfully made: Marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.' Psalms 139:14

Randall, You may never know just how much you affect people with your posts. They most often touch my heart, I mean like right down to the core. You are a real blessing~not just your posts but you yourself are a blessing to this board. Please before you "back away from the computer" Pray about it. Sometimes our lives get busy and congested that we can't do all that we want to do. There is an answer for it. If the Lord doesn't want you to post here anymore (I don't see that, You touch a lot of lives) He will let you know. God bless, Annette

Hey yourself! I am also fairly new to this forum and so glad I found it. I have been reading your posts and enjoy them. The other forum here where I have been going a lot I have two people there who have flat out said they will never "speak" to me again just because when they were saying how wonderful it was that Canada has accepted gay marriage I spoke up and said that it made me sad. Likewise about abortion, guess I find it hard to just let things go but I feel if they have a right to give their opinion I have as much right to give mine. I tried to give it in a nice way but the response was not at all nice. Doesn't surprise me but what did come as a bit of a surprise was how only one other person on that board was willing to say they also did not think gay "marriage" was a good thing and they were pro-life. That was an eye opener. Makes me think of the quote of MLK "When all is said and done it is not the words of our enemies we will remember but the silence of our friends." Anyway. thanks for your posts.

I agree.. Sin is Sin no matter what pretty label you put on it! I am guilty of remaining silent when I should have spoken up.. But the guys at work say the more I loose the mouthier I get... Hum.. maybe confidence makes us bolder. Linda

Bless your heart, Randall. The enemy will always try to discourage us and get us off the path in which the Lord is directing us, but Thank God for His Holy Spirit's guidance and encouragement! He never fails us, just like He has done with you! Thank You, Jesus! Be blessed, Randall, you have brothers & sisters here who truly care and love you! You sister, Cindy