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Nicodemus1968 · #**181** 01-30-2020, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Barb

ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!! THANK YOU!!!

For the record: I began this thread as a point of info re BOTT's services, and to see who might be going.

Having been in and around since the the FCF days I know how threads can veer off and get back on track, as all good conversations do, but this thread has taken an ugly turn.

We are family, the family of God... I urge us all to remember that in all things. We may disagree, strongly disagree on whether Sister Vesta Layne should address the conference from behind the pulpit. We may question why the pastor's wife would choose a certain song... there may be a good reason for it, I don't know.

And so disagreements and discussions on issues are one thing... it's all apart of being on a public forum, but in the opinion of this old woman, the rest is unseemly.

I so appreciate n David and others who speak sense in confusion...

I watched BOTT 2020, and probably next year Ill do the same. Yet, it also shows us what Pentecost is going through. I mean when a Preachers wife declares I have taken Medication for depression and it helped me. When she says praying and fasting didn’t, what I am suppose to think? Do you Mrs. Barb agree with her decision? What that does is it opens doors, and you’ll see that same women with battle other issues, why? Because this is all too familiar to me, when you open one door another will open. So, Armpit gets 2 calls from separate ministers both claiming they're badly sick, one had to go to the Hospital! The other both him and his wife are sick and thats who he just knows about. Do you think it’s impossible that as she spoke about her depression it opened doors of infirmity to attack the church? Or, maybe its just coincidence? Or as you put it confusion....

Barb · #**182** 01-30-2020, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Nicodemus1968

I watched BOTT 2020, and probably next year Ill do the same. Yet, it also shows us what Pentecost is going through. I mean when a Preachers wife declares I have taken Medication for depression and it helped me. When she says praying and fasting didn’t, what I am suppose to think? Do you Mrs. Barb agree with her decision? What that does is it opens doors, and you’ll see that same women with battle other issues, why? Because this is all too familiar to me, when you open one door another will open. So, Armpit gets 2 calls from separate ministers both claiming they're badly sick, one had to go to the Hospital! The other both him and his wife are sick and thats who he just knows about. Do you think it’s impossible that as she spoke about her depression it opened doors of infirmity to attack the church? Or, maybe its just coincidence? Or as you put it confusion....

Honestly, Brother Nic, I don't know...

I cannot speak to what this pastor's wife said because I was not there and did not hear it. On its face value... it is a fact that a medication can help in depression, however... to stand before anyone, and say that prayer and fasting did not help her, it makes no sense to do that. No, I don't agree with her saying that at all.

As for demonic spirits, as a layperson, and please understand I am just a little old lady with no credentials under my belt, just 68 years in and around the Church...

I am of the opinion that a spirit from hell doesn't need and open door. Just as the Holy Ghost is moving in and among His people I am certain the devil and his minions are fast at work as well.

Because, let’s think about this… the devil doesn’t need to constantly be on the case of the heathen… he’s got them in his grip. It is the saint of God he attacks with vengeance, and what better place than where we assemble together?

We see it in our church services all the time… the pastor is preaching, especially during messages on the Blood and the Name, and babies will wail, folks will be up and down, moving about causing a distraction… anything to disrupt.

The enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy, SO could those things be from demonic oppression? I don’t have a clue, but the point of my post was to ask why some have to be so brittle about it. Can we not discuss as a Body without all the finger pointing?

I respect you for your attitude in questioning me… and it’s ‘Miss’ Barb, but you may call me just Barb…