My Rature Ready Family

[Ga Stormspotter]

I would appreciate any input on HUMILITY and witnessing to family who of course know your faults and past mistakes.

[sixfingers]

Not to make it seem too simple, but share the simple Gospel with them. We are all sinners in need of forgiveness. Your mistakes might be brought up by them, but that can be used to your advantage. You realized your mistakes and were convicted of your sins. This is really how it must work with them too.

Its all about realizing we are unrighteous and in sin and in need of a Saviour. Use your past mistakes to point that out. Its part of your testimony!

Blessings!

[Time2Sow]

Taking an active role in bringing up your own faults might be the stongest tool you have.

i found that confessing aloud all my sins to my family as PROOF of God's grace, even the ones my family would have liked to cover their ears for, was a very effective way to witness. For one, they saw my embarrassment and sorrow in my demeanor, which showed that I had a feeling of repentence about these things that was not previously seen..my acceptance of responsibility for things I would have once blamed on childhood, society, and other external forces... it denoted a change in my entire persona that had to speak of an external event effecting an internal change.

Like my tagline says, there aint a one of you or them (my family) that was/is a bigger sinner than i was. I was on par with Saul, for sure. For God to allow me to join the Kingdom PROVES that He is All-Merciful, and no one is beyond His reach. amen and amen.

[PlentyGroovy]

Someone did bring up things I had done to make me look foolish, I told them God uses the foolish to confound the wise. :): Just look at Peter!!

[cameron222]

One of the most powerful preachers on TV, Dr. Gerald Mann, using a confessionary style when preaching. He relates his own failures and trials and really gets God's message of love across to the dying and hurting.

[4fish]

It is certainly tougher to witness to family and those who know you well. I'd just like to encourage you to continue.

Remember when Jesus returned to Nazareth that his own countrymen were offended by his display of wisdom and made comments as if to say 'who does this guy think he is?'.

(Matt 13:53-58) "Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house." Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief".

Also remember the Parable of the Sower (Matt 13:1-9) Don't give up becasue God's word never goes out in vain, but accomplishes the purpose for which God sent it.

You are planting a seed. Other people may be the ones to water it.

[Time2Sow]

You are planting a seed. Other people may be the ones to water it.
:clap :thumb :nod

[HeIsEnough]

One of the most powerful preachers on TV, Dr. Gerald Mann, using a confessionary style when preaching. He relates his own failures and trials and really gets God's message of love across to the dying and hurting.

Interesting Cameron. Do you have some of his stuff you can post? Ya, I know, theres always google. :lol

[blitzkreig]

The straight forward approach might work. Explain to them that you are quite convinced that the Lord is returning for His own quite soon.

And that it seems certain from 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 that those who enter the Tribulation period knowingly rejecting the truth of the gospel will have no further opportunity to be saved, for God will send them a strong delusion so they will believe the Devil's lie. Just as it says in the Bible.

We know of course that a great multitude will be saved during the Tribulation, but apparently these are among those who had never actually heard and rejected the truth.

Tell them that you know that "loophole" doesn't apply to them. This could very well be their last chance.

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[Pendragon]

I would appreciate any input on HUMILITY and witnessing to family who of course know your faults and past mistakes.

When you have come to know him and truly have repented your sins and are willing to do what ever his will is then you have humbled yourself as did accusers and the woman alike. They could not judge because they to had sinned and because Jesus had saved her she repented her sin and served him out of love and gratitude. So the point is if jesus can forgive you so can and should your family forgive you and if they wish to judge let them also remember everytime they take his name in vain lie or even look at a memeber of the oppiste sex in lust they commit adultry accoriding to scripture So if they want to be forgiven for thier own sins they must also learn to foirgive and not judge you for yours but you can only ask this if you have truly repented and asked Jersus to some into your life as saviour. If you have and are making yourself right with Him then it will show in your words actions and deeds and if the family cannot forgive and not judge you according to your past life then it is thier loss on earth and in heaven for your new life that you have recieved


Easy

Jhn 8:1 BUT Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
Jhn 8:2 Now early* in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them.
Jhn 8:3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst,
Jhn 8:4 they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught* in adultery, in the very act.
Jhn 8:5 "Now Moses, in the law, commanded* us that such should be stoned.* But what do You say?"*
Jhn 8:6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.*
Jhn 8:7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up* and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first."
Jhn 8:8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.
Jhn 8:9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience,* went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
Jhn 8:10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her,* "Woman, where are those accusers of yours?* Has no one condemned you?"
Jhn 8:11 She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and* sin no more."



AND


Luk 7:37 And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil,
Luk 7:38 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.
Luk 7:39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, "This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner."
Luk 7:40 And Jesus answered and said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." So he said, "Teacher, say it."
Luk 7:41 "There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
Luk 7:42 "And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more?"
Luk 7:43 Simon answered and said, "I suppose the one whom he forgave more." And He said to him, "You have rightly judged."
Luk 7:44 Then He turned to the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head.
Luk 7:45 "You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in.
Luk 7:46 "You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with fragrant oil.
Luk 7:47 "Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."
Luk 7:48 Then He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."

[Pendragon]

Someone did bring up things I had done to make me look foolish, I told them God uses the foolish to confound the wise. :): Just look at Peter!!

David was an Adulter
Moses was disobediant
Peter Denied Christ
the list goes on Let him without sin cast the first stone again I say

[Ga Stormspotter]

Thank you for your imput, I have applied these principles but, it just seems to me that their hearts are hard. The veil is over their eyes and they refuse to see. Prayer helps a great deal. And I realize that it will be in Holy God's timing. I have been trying to appeal to their hearts and not so much on the emotion.
It means a lot to me your imput and I appreciate all of you.

Is there a bible study on humility?

[sixfingers]

4fish, great advice!

Isa 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.


This is why simply sharing the word of the Gospel is important. It allows God to do His thang. Just sow the word....God will do the rest. Don't loose heart Ga Stormspotter. Like 4fish says, your part might only be planting seeds, someone else years down the road might water it some, and later someone else might till the soil a bit, until the seed finally takes root. Gods word is a powerful powerful thing. Just sow it.

Blessings!

[Time2Sow]

OT Verses searched for word "Humble" . Basically, humble heartedness was required by God for Him to act to uplift the people out of troubles after sinning, just like the bookend to pride going before a fall. ('humility' only brough 2 proverbs)
Ex:10:3: And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
Le:26:41: And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
De:8:2: And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
De:8:3: And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
De:8:16: Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
De:21:14: And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
De:22:24: Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
De:22:29: Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
J'g:19:24: Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
1Ki:21:29: Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
2Ki:22:19: Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
2Ch:7:14: If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2Ch:12:6: Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
2Ch:12:7: And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2Ch:12:12: And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.
2Ch:30:11: Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
2Ch:32:26: Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
2Ch:33:12: And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
2Ch:33:19: His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
2Ch:33:23: And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
2Ch:34:27: Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
2Ch:36:12: And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
Job:22:29: When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
Psalms:9:12: When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Psalms:10:10: He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psalms:10:12: Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
Psalms:10:17: LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
Psalms:34:2: My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Psalms:35:13: But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Psalms:69:32: The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Psalms:113:6: Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
Proverb:6:3: Do this now, my son, deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
Proverb:16:19: Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverb:29:23: A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Isa:2:9: And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Isa:2:11: The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isa:5:15: And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
Isa:10:33: Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
Isa:57:15: For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Jer:13:18: Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
Jer:44:10: They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
La:3:20: My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Eze:22:10: In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
Eze:22:11: And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
Da:5:22: And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;

[Time2Sow]

NT mentions of humility
Ac:20:19: Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
Col:2:18: Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Col:2:23: Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
1Pe:5:5: Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
"humble"
M't:18:4: Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
M't:23:12: And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Lu:14:11: For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Lu:18:14: I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
2Co:12:21: And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Ph'p:2:8: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Col:3:12: Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Jas:4:6: But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Jas:4:10: Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
1Pe:5:5: Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
1Pe:5:6: Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

hope these lead you to the right lesson for your family.