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Hi there, I agree with the above authors of the posts and this line stood out to me. DO NOT BE AFRAID of her being very vindicative!!!!!! It's a manipulation from the enemy and fear!!! I know what you are growing through as I had a friend-collague who liked to control other, keep them under her reach and influence, calling, texting when she wanted but most importanly she liked talking and gossiping and when I realised that I had to stop her involving me into her gossips. She was non-stop talking and telling do not telll anyone and going herself telling other everything people shared with her. Anyway my spirit was not comfortable with this and I didn't want to be controled by her. I just stopped going to coffee shops with her, at work pretended to be very busy, on the phone I told her I was busy couldn't talk for a long time, I just tried to take our contact to a minimum. I knew she was manipulative and could be backbiting me because of my behaviour. BUT I didn't care about that, I was determined to stop her, to take her out of my life cause our friendship was toxic. Even some other colleagues came up to me (messengers from her) asking what went wrong between us, I was responding like everything was ok. After sometime she calmed down, she stopped attacking me with phone calls. Then she left to a different country, different job. I went to her leaving party with beautiful flowers, she was puzzeled but I behaved very friendly but there was already the distance between us and she didn't try to cross the line. Now you might ask why I didn't talk to her, explained to her everything... As I look back now, I think that may be it would have been better if I talked to her and explained to her certain things but stil not sure how she would react to that or whether she would understand me as it was her nature and I saw that in her, not her. May be it was better to cut the ties like this, drastically. Anyway, it's been three years now, we reconnected on FB but and she is the same, so I am VERY reserved and cold with her cause she hasn't changed, she is the same and it is my responsibility not to let her into my life the way she used to be in there, not hers or somebody else's. This is not an advice to act like this but rather an example not to be afraid to stand your ground! If God is directing you to cut the ties with your friend, just keep praying and asking Him. Whatever He has started, He will bring it to the end. He will not leave you without any help or direction with your friend.

I raise her in my prayers:praying:, I've found out today that a friend's mom also has a cancer and doctors do not want to keep her in the hospital. Another problem is that the friend of mine is 6,5 months pregnant and has a 2,5 year old daughter and her mom lives overseas.

It's feels like you are moving step by step, good job, Connie :clap2:

Sure, we can not rely on our own strenght. If, for instance, not this scripture/encouragement from God through Lind, I would have been struggling on my own until now. But now I just let everything go and am enjoying His love.

Mia, I just felt to share with you this: Isaiah 45 1 "This is what the LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut: 2 I will go before you and will level the mountains [a] ; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. 3 I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name. " God has given me these verses a year ago and I have been standing on these verses concerning several situations like yours He indeed has done things so far that just amaze me and it is just the beginning - His favour, grace, His mighty hand, wow, I am just excited to see what He is going to do for you too

Linda, I forgot to replt to this post, sorry for that But the day you posted it, I woke up so down and felt so beaten and defeated because of one situation. And before even fellowshiping with God I logged in to this website and read the scripture and immediatelly realised that God is speaking and that I saw the situation through my eyes not through God's eyes. I was literally ready to give up. But after reading it, I gave in to God and denied the thought of giving up. Isn't OUR GOD wonderful, He always finds ways to speak to us. Thanks for posting the scripture.

Praise God, haven't had such a smooth and painfull surgery, the surgeon and his stuff were so gentle and professional and instead of an hour, the surgery lasted half an hour. Our God is good and faithful. I am so thankful for His financial and dental specialist provision

in couple of hours I am going to have a tooth extraction surgery with a sedative and an anasthetic and I ask for your prayers that the surgeon's hands will be under His control and that everything will go smoothly.

Please pray for me, this toothache is just impossible to bare, I have really strong painkillers but they also stop working after some time and I need to retake them over and over but I do not want to get used to them or addicted. I also take antibiotics before the tooth extraction. I woke up 3.30 am with terrible toothache, I had tears in my eyes and was praying, Lord take this pain, I give it to you, it's on the cross. And praying these words gave such a relief both phisically and emotionally. I really felt I have a friend who listens to me even at 3.30 am

Thanks and praise Lord as right after three days, my mom passed her exam with flying colours, she was very afraid, our instructor didn't believe she would pass the exam but GOD is with her. The person who actually took the exam, on the exam paper wrote "pretty good" and drew a smile:) which is very rare. Now my mom is more confident and she believes that she can drive. I love how God can work in our lives, when men say it can not be done, Gode says a BIG "YES".

Right you are, Mia, one step at a time. I just passed the test and already a new-old issue came to the surface my tooth /a-praying-place-f10/visiting-new-dentists-t9313.htm#49432

Ok, since my last post about my tooth, I spoke to one more dentist, my new dentists they sent the xrays and their conclusion to him and they all came to one decision to extract the tooth and put an implant instead. They believe that it is better to do now as in my age the implant will find its right place in the bone and it will be easier for my body to receive it. Yes, it is an expensive procedure but they say it is worth it. They also added that if I try to keep the tooth, I might weaken the bone itself, the jaw bone. And it will be way complicated to remove the tooth after couple of years. I didn't want to remove the tooth but I believe that all things work for our good. If I hadn't eaten an olive and hadn't broken my tooth, I would never found out that under the tooth I had such a complicated issue. Praise Lord SO could you please pray that the removal of the tooth and the implant planting goes smoothly and of course the revocery period. And that the price of this whole thing is acceptable for me and the dentist THanks for your support

Thank you for your prayers So here is the report from today's visit to the root canal specialist. Before trying to take out the instrument from the tooth, the dentist did additional xray from another angel and you won't believe this, it turned out that in my tooth there are two instruments left not just one. So this complicated my situation. As one instrument was closer to the surface but the other was down in the root and here is the abscess. So the dentist started his work, it lasted almost 2 hours, he was working with microscope, basically he performed microsurgery on my tooth and digged out one of the instruments but the other one wouldn't come out. I am a little bit worried as according to the dentist the only option at this point is to remove the tooth and put an implant. He told several other options but these options carry some other risks and the option to put a crown on my tooth is building a house on a sand After I left the office I remembered the dream I had couple of weeks ago - my left lower tooth kind of cracked the top of it and fell on my hand. And I showed my mom and dad and told them that the crown on my tooth cracked and we were puzzled and didn't know what to do. At first I thought this dream was symbolic but it turned out to be literal I do not want to give up. I am now looking for another root canal specialist, I want to have second, third opinion. I think to remove the tooth is very easy and I can do it anytime but to save the tooth is more important for me right now.

Thanks for your support, that makes me smile Also, I forgot one more important thing, to visit all these dentists, I need a car or someone who will be taking me there and bring back home (it's about half an hour ride). So I have the appointment tmrw but haven't found the person who'll give me a hand in this

Connie, I trully believe you are well able to prepare fruitfully and pass this test with flying colours.

As I was reading the Bible in the morning before the test, I came across the following verse which I believe is a confirmation of the verse you put once more. "See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you" Isaiah 42:9

Hi everybody, I have been praying for a VERY good dentist for my lower left molar which I broke a while ago by an olive stone. Well, a friend of mine recommended a dentist she used to work with and I visited this dentist. After x-ray and examination, he told me that my root canal of the broken tooth contained an instrument (apparently another dentist somehow left in my rootcanal a piece of instrument). So there is a process of abscess under that instrument which can cause my tooth to be removed . As a resilt my dentist referred me to a root canal specialist who on the phone told me that he would try and save the tooth, he had had more complicated cases which were successful. Tomorrow he is going to open the filling and work with the root canal. I pray that his hands are blessed and that my tooth is saved, so that later the other dentist can put a crown to fully protect it Well, visiting both dentist for one tooth is quite expensive but I am ready to pay to preserve the tooth. I ask you to pray with me, so that the price goes down supernaturally as I have couple of other teeth that will need treatment later.

Thanks for rejoicing with me, He is indeed GOOD

I have a praise report - I passed my driving test!!!!!!!! PRAISE GOD!!!!!!!!

So, tmrw early in the morning, I am taking my driving test. I do not say once more as I just leave the past failures behind and start from the scratch. Basically, it's my first behind the wheel test

[quote="Mia Sherwood"] Mia, I have been meditating recently on the prayer needs I wrote about and one more thing which is not in the list and I was wondering why I haven't been receiving as much confirmations and encouragements through people, Word, dreams as I used to before. I had and still have this impression that everything is in standstill and it seems that nothing is moving and I really COULDN"T understand WHY, even in my prayer life and worship time. I literally don't know how to pray, what to proclaim as if those scriptures given by God were for a season. And when I come to prayer or Bible reading, I just can not pray the same thing over and over. Do you see what I mean here? I believe that one sentence was an answer from the Lord.

Thanks a lot for all you uplifting posts, I expected that all my spiritual sisters and brothers would write a bunch of verses from the Bible, etc, but you all made this rather complicated word "procrastination" so easy to understand and decide to come against it and just do it. In my case it's not just in everyday life, I mean running errands, etc. I find myself procrastinating, putting off making some important decisions, like I am afraid to face them and if I put them off until tomorrow, it will be easier to make the decision.

Dreamster, I have been there too, I mean perfectionist who wants to control everything and everyone and then fails several times and does not understand why as I was in control. Then turned "I do not care", indifference attitude. This is such a bondage. I also try to do things without putting off but not very successfull yet And Cholette, you described me in your post. At times I can get paralized over a small issue and sit back with such an indifference and do nothing about an issue that it can drive crazy people around me. First I start panicing, then fear, then thoughts, then I start over analyzing, then confusion and I am paralised. And I know I have blown so many opportunities to serve people and to get things done for myself. Mia, how have you overcome this word "procrastination"?

Procrastination! I heard this word in me about a week ago. I have never heard this word before and I googled it and wikipedia gave me the following definition - Procrastination refers to the counterproductive deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. And it continues defining the term. Procrastination may result in stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, severe loss of personal productivity, as well as social disapproval for not meeting responsibilities or commitments. These feelings combined may promote further procrastination. While it is regarded as normal for people to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when it impedes normal functioning. Chronic procrastination may be a sign of an underlying psychological disorder. As I read the description further, I somehow saw myself in this. I realised that it is God who is speaking and showing me some issues inside me. Why I started this topic? I wonder has anyone ever faced this state, this issue? If yes, how have you addressed it? Blessings, Nubava