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my eldest sister
so full of hatred
May 17 2008

lord pls intervene, i hate my sister. she loves controlling and she takles turn to bitch and slander others amongst the sibkling and gets eyryone to fights and separates. stranglely she can turn around and claimed she is the best person in the world. Lord help me for i cannot stand her and i trully thinks she is a satan.

Reply Date
pryer
we
May 19 2008

I will pray for both of you.

dangerous ground
Marianne
May 18 2008

Dont hate, it only leads to more of the same. Jesus, I lift up this person and the sister to You, Dear Jesus, please intervene with Your holy presense and let love overflow in their hearts. Dear reader, there is a bood called "The Bait of Satan" by author John Bevere. You may want to read it, I think it may help tremendously in handling those feelings that are hate, hurt and soforth. God Bless You!! and your family, In Jesus Name, Amen

How To Handle Quarrels.
Michael.
May 17 2008

Lord, I must not practice the manly art of sel-defense. I must take Jesus as my example in this. When He was reviled, He did not revile in return, but rather committed himself to His heavenly Father (1 Peter 2:23). I must not answer all of my critics. For one thing, they are too many and to satisfy them would take all my time. For another thing, my critics may unwittingly be my best friends. Like a mirror, they show me my faults and shortcomings that my blinded eyes could not see otherwise.
I respond to my critics with either thankfulness or silence. Thankfulness to them for being "kind" enough to point out areas in which I may improve; and silence if the criticism is malicious and mischievous. By silence I mean silence toward them, not silence toward God. Criticism should drive me to prayer and to the placing of the critic in God's hands. I pray that if the criticism is fair I will accept it; if not, that God will defend me.
I must be careful not to line up support when under attack. It is so easy to take sides, to collect friends, and to make the criticism develop into an issue where battle lines are drawn. To do that is to refuse to admit I need correction, to refuse the benefits of criticism. Further, it creates an endless cycle of petty charges and counter-charges that only cater to pride and ostentation. Among believers there may be differences of opinion, but no quarrel is ever necessary. Whenever a quarrel, a rift, or a schism develops in the body, someone has forgotten to say, "Forgive me!"
Jesus is my example as the perfect handler of criticism because He went to the cross with a pure conscience. And so I am counseled to "keep a good conscience [as Jesus did] so that in the thing in which [I am] slandered, those who revile [my] good behavior in Christ may be put to shame" (1 Peter 3:16).

"An arrogant man stirs up strife, but he who trusts in the lord will prosper" (Proverbs 28:25). *AMEN*

hate
linda
May 17 2008

Father You said hate is as sinful and equal to murder. Your love was shed abroad, it is our duty to love one another, even our enemies, in fact You said it was above all the other comandments. We are Your children, following You, so we obey You and love one another at all costs. You said whoever does not love his brother/sister, does not love Me, so I pray for an infilling of the Holy Spirit, in Jesus' name, amen&amen.



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