Here is my apology for all who heard my 'unwholesome' talk last night. After I said that, I regreted already, but my Sin tried to adjust itself with Holy Spirit on my way home. "I have just been cheeky and everyone sees it as a joke." There is no peace in my heart. My God knows me best. When I read the Bible before I went to sleep, He talked to me through Colossians 3:1-17. I had no excuse for my behaviour and no place to hide my sin. My words didn't build up each other and benefit you who heard it. I knew what I said was from my heart, So Proverbs 4 :23 will be the verse guides me in the following days.
I also apologize to Timothy for my rude behaviour in our Bible study group two weeks ago. It's terrible to see myself try to win the conversations and the Bible discussions by my "fine-sounding argument" (Colossians 2:4). I knew I was like a 'resounding gong' made the noise of my own wisdom. So I am sorry.
The last apology is for Jimmy and Derek. I covered myself with the spiritual garment of caring and helping others when I tried to satisfy my own worldly curiosity and habbit of being nosy. It's the Grace of God that He used me to help others before, but I took the God-granted experience as my own strengthen. I wanted to hear the praise from human and hear peolpe say I am useful, I wanted to be somebody and to see people follow me and agree with me and I thought I am somebody. But I am nobody. Now, it's not me live, but Christ Jesus lives in me instead. I knew all the knowledge, but my Sin is always trying to blind me and distract me. I am sorry Jimmy and Derek for my forceful interference in your privacy. I am soooo glad to see you guys are willing to seek God's will first rather than listen to earthly rubbish.
This is my confession to God and apologies to humans. These are my struggles and this is the real Joanna. Now I can feel a bit of the feeling when Paul wrote in Roman 7:24-"What a wretch man I am!" And I thank God that His grace is sufficient for me, for His power is made perfect in weakness. Amen.
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God uses His words to refresh us everyday! Praise His name...
Joanna, you don't have to apologise to me... I didn't find you rude... I'm actually quite happy when people voice out their thoughts and make the discussion more meaningful. I can understand there are a lot of things that you wanted to say, but due to the time constraint, it's always difficult to keep things appropriate. Just take things step by step. The rest shall lie in God's hands.
Dear JOJO,
As scripture wrote ,walk in love,as Christ also has loved us. GOD is merciful,he is continue giving us his love even some time we handle the things not appropriate.
keep Praying ~God knows hw you feel ~ To be honest with him so you may as well talk to Him about it.
gls U ~
heya~
Well first of all, I'm not accepting your apologies!!! because theres NOTHING to apologies to start with.
To be honest I'm not offended by your "nosy" questions, a lot of people ask me that question already. I'm more than happy to share with you the reason why I'm not worry at the moment. Its just at the moment i see God have other great plan in my life and they are more important at this stage of my life. That is to equip myself and serve Him.
I do see you as a loving sister in Christ, even tho you make some nosy comments sometimes, but that's the unique quality of you, as being a caring sister, and not many people can have this quality that is "speak the truth in love". Believe it or not God will use this quality in His plan in some stage of your life. So keep developing your quality. In addition, your caring skill for new friends were really amazing, this is something that I'm lack with it. Praise the Lord that He gives you the experiences/skills that many of us don't have.
If however, you are insist to.... then I have to say sorry to you too. I know I made some random comments to you which I think its not that appropriate sometimes. My coldness + randomness = BS :p
We all make mistakes, however in Him we repent ourselves and love each other.
Lastly I thank God that He gives me a loving sister this year and I pray that God can continue to lead you and have a greater plan in you wherever you go and use you to touch other souls! Amen
God Bless
yo Jo
Its alright. Everyone will make mistakes sometimes without realizing while they doing. Because of god and holy spirit, we can know what is write, what is wrong, what should to say, what should not to say. we are all only human being, all have weakness. However, GOD know us all, who do we really are. for you-joanna, you are really nice person, friendly, honesty, funny and hospitality, yea, you have a big voice and like to talk, make jokes. you bring good ambience when you come to bible study every time. Thats really you are. if you are quiet, coldness and singlehanded, you will not be really you, and lose yourself. Thats not who god really created Joanna. So be yourself, be really you are. We can rely on god and holy spirit to refresh and improve ourselves====, we can watch each other and help each other and encourage each other and pray each other...yea...group2 is one family,nothing will make us down. yea..ywa..gOD bLEss...aMeN...
woo...really been touched by all peoples commments. I see God's love in us, He has given each one of us lots of different characters brothers and sisters. He wants us to use our own special features to serve Him together. He also wanna us to learn things from other people. You have always been a good sharer of your bible knowledge, life experiences...I really thank God for bringing you here to stay and grow with us this year. Yea,I agree that we should be honest to brothers and sisters, not just share our faith, we also share our weakness, so we can help each other and pray for each other...
joanna:
to be honest, i really admire your skill of expression, also your passion on caring for others.those are something i really lack of.
and i enjoyed to spend time with you, or just simply listened to you... i actually enjoyed to listen to all of our group mates, each one of you are so different and so talented.
i learnt a lot from all of you. thank you all, and thank God.
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