07_03_30 Dialog About Stopping A Bad Habit

A Dialog About Stopping a Bad Habit Roland of Holland: hey bill, how are you? Bible Lover Bill says: Fine. Roland of Holland: oke, could use some support Bible Lover Bill says: I am now working on the second newsletter. After getting up to go to the bathroom at 3:30 AM, I couldn't go back to sleep. Bible Lover Bill says: What support? Bible Lover Bill says: I was just going to make and send out a prayer needs list of our special group. Roland of Holland: just stopped yesterday and today is very hard to get trough Bible Lover Bill says: But the Holy Spirit wanted more. Bible Lover Bill says: Stopped? Bible Lover Bill says: hard? Roland of Holland: sigarets Bible Lover Bill says: Oh, I should have guessed. Bible Lover Bill says: I was going to put that on the prayer list, but you need a lot more prayer support than just our group. Roland of Holland: haha Bible Lover Bill says: Seek out other Internet groups focussing on prayer. Bible Lover Bill says: What is so funny? Bible Lover Bill says: Also, when you stop a habit, you need to replace the time it took with another better habit. Roland of Holland: reading bible and training with Mrs. T Bible Lover Bill says: I would suggest that you use your normal cigarette time or whenever you feel the urge, work on one of my courses. I recommend that you begin with the Wonderful Children of God list of Scripture. Type out your responses to each reference after the appropriate references. Bible Lover Bill says: I had to let the mail guy in and I was typing the above before I saw what you typed!!!!! Roland of Holland: in what file could i find that? Bible Lover Bill says: We heed to the same Holy Spirit, the only holy spirit. Bible Lover Bill says: It is in the group A and I think I sent you the one page version for handing out.

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Bible Lover Bill says: I could send the just mentioned now if you want. Bible Lover Bill says: I had 4 revivals with it and handed the list out to many and send it via e-mail to many. Roland of Holland: today i discovered that my body is a temple of the holy spirit, and that i had to give that some more respect Bible Lover Bill says: I just sent it. Bible Lover Bill says: That is what got to Dolo too after 10 years of smoking. Bible Lover Bill says: I never tried, but I have been told by every smoker and former smoker about the habit exchange need. Bible Lover Bill says: If you don't replace the bad habit with a good habit, then you could get even worse in the bad habit. Roland of Holland: i've gotten it Bible Lover Bill says: Remember the casting out of a demon and then it was replaced by seven? Bible Lover Bill says: But also knowing that there are prayer warriors praying for you helps a lot too. Bible Lover Bill says: In those groups, ask for any volunteers for you to contact to discuss Scripture when you have a desire to smoke. Roland of Holland: that's what they always say but once in Christ there is no condemnation anymore for those who are in Christ Jesus Bible Lover Bill says: That is false teaching. Read Romans 8:1 carefully. Bible Lover Bill says: Also, CHAPTER 6 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 † Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Roland of Holland: so Bible Lover Bill says: 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Bible Lover Bill says: 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7 For he that is dead is freeda from sin. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: The Holy Bible : King James Version. 1995 . Logos Research Systems, Inc.: Oak Harbor, WA Roland of Holland: you are right Bible Lover Bill says: Romans 8:1 says that there is no condemnation for those who ? Roland of Holland: are in Christ Jesus

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Bible Lover Bill says: 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Bible Lover Bill says: and? Roland of Holland: and that is what my bible tells me Bible Lover Bill says: Every promise of God has at least one condition. This one in a way has 2. Bible Lover Bill says: What is the second part or last part of the verse? Bible Lover Bill says: What does that really mean? Bible Lover Bill says: See how it relates to the Romans 6 passage? Roland of Holland: that is in verse 2. Roland of Holland: but like i told you, you arer so right Bible Lover Bill says: No it is all in verse 1 Roland of Holland: no Bible Lover Bill says: who walk not after the flesh, but after the Holy Spirit Roland of Holland: in wich bible translation is that? Bible Lover Bill says: King James Version Roland of Holland: ok Bible Lover Bill says: How does 1 Corinthians 10:12-13 relate to those two passages in Romans and your dilema now? Bible Lover Bill says: 12 Even if you think you can stand up to temptation, be careful not to fall. 13* You are tempted in the same way that everyone else is tempted. But God can be trusted not to let you be tempted too much, and he will show you how to escape from your temptations. None. Contemporary English Versionʾ (electronic ed.) . ,: : Roland of Holland: be right back, but dutch bible ( NBG/1951), tells it a little different Bible Lover Bill says: The German Bible had some strange things too according to Dolo. Bible Lover Bill says: The original Bible Lover Bill says: Scripture did not have chapters and verses in it. Roland of Holland: we also, the statenvertaling tells a different story then NBG and is more relyable then NBG Bible Lover Bill says: ok

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Bible Lover Bill says: What does "walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" mean to you? Roland of Holland: that I don't walk after my own desire Bible Lover Bill says: Yes and what else. Bible Lover Bill says: How do you walk or live after the Holy Spirit? Roland of Holland: but I have to do what God tells me to do Bible Lover Bill says: Yes via the Holy Spirit and the Bible. Bible Lover Bill says: The rest of Romans 8 indicates it and Romans 12 indicates what you can do instead of the bad habit. Bible Lover Bill says: Thinking as Proverbs 3:5-6 says will get you to be Holy Spirit sensitive instead of self sensitive. Roland of Holland: and I can tell you that that's the hardest part of it, but not impossible Bible Lover Bill says: I know that is true for dealing with any bad habit. Bible Lover Bill says: How does 1 Corinthians 10:12-13 relate to those two passages in Romans and your dilema now? Roland of Holland: that we people need to do what God wants from us before we do our own desires first Bible Lover Bill says: 12 Even if you think you can stand up to temptation, be careful not to fall. 13* You are tempted in the same way that everyone else is tempted. But God can be trusted not to let you be tempted too much, and he will show you how to escape from your temptations. Bible Lover Bill says: Yes!!!! Roland of Holland: you see i get the picture Bible Lover Bill says: Great!!! Bible Lover Bill says: What picture do you see? Roland of Holland: haha Bible Lover Bill says: I would like for you to verbally explain the picture. Bible Lover Bill says: You might even draw it on paper and show Tamara. Bible Lover Bill says: or make a flowchart Roland of Holland: can't draw Bible Lover Bill says: We are saved by God's grace but ............... Bible Lover Bill says: If ...... then .......

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Bible Lover Bill says: Those are two other ways to show the picture which is sort of created by those three passages. Bible Lover Bill says: You can use what you develop in this to help others!!!!!! Bible Lover Bill says: A wonderful word picture based on four of the most important passages in the Bible. (Use the Proverbs 3:5-6 one too.) Bible Lover Bill says: Please send me the results in an e-mail. Bible Lover Bill says: and then get some prayer supporters via the Internet Bible Lover Bill says: and then start that Wonderful Children of God list. Bible Lover Bill says: You might have the best day in your life!!!!! Bible Lover Bill says: I am going to copy the above because it does have the basis to help many!!!!!!

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