november quotes…
” be bold before man and broken before God.”- pastor james 11.18.09
” in humility, know that I answered, not that you prayed.” – God 11.9.09
“to be the friend the person needs you to be, and that God equips you to be, rather than the friend we want to be.” – deb email 11.12.09
” God loves you just the way you are, but He loves you too much to let you stay that way.” – pastor han’s face book status
“if grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking…” – kim walker “how He loves us”
” real love isn’t our love for God, but His love for us. God sent his son to be the sacrifice by which our sins are forgiven.” – 1 John 4: 9-10
” not to us” – gerald’s gchat status
“some pursue happiness, others create it.” – joyce’s card
“laughter and coughing you cannot hide.” – korean proverb
” i hear and i forget. i see and i remember. i do and i understand.” – confucius, via amy’s facebook status
” always be yourself, because the people that matter don’t mind and those that mind don’t matter.” – tau shanklin roberts
“water the plant on m.w.f.” – my mom
” at this moment, someone is thinking good thoughts of you.” – a fortune cookie fortune
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‘I agreed to become a suicide bomber’
A 14-year-old boy in the tribal region of Bajaur, in north-west Pakistan, says he was detained by Taliban forces who tried to turn him into a suicide bomber. The boy is now in army hands.
He provided a detailed account to BBC correspondent Orla Guerin. His story cannot be independently verified.
The boy says he was beaten until he agreed to become a suicide bomber
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There were five people who came after me from a place in Bajaur. They tricked me. They told me they were going to behead my father.
I went with them but my father wasn’t there. They tied me up.
They said: ‘You have two choices. We will behead you, or you will become a suicide bomber.’ I refused.
There were two more guys of my age. They were also training to be suicide bombers. If we refused they would tie our hands behind our backs, blindfold us and start beating us.
They brainwashed us and told us we would go to heaven. They said ‘there will be honey and juice and God will appear in front of you. You will have a beautiful house in Heaven’.
We used to ask them to let us out to pray. They would reply ‘you are already on your way to heaven. You don’t need to pray.’
They beat me hard for five days. I wasn’t given any food. While they were beating me I agreed to become a suicide bomber. They separated me from the other boys.
Mosque mission
They took me to a dark room and started giving me pills. I was handed over to Maulvi Fakir [the Bajaur Taliban commander]. After all this preparation they said I was to go and do the job in a mosque.
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It was an ordinary mosque but the cleric there used to talk against the Taliban, and they declared him their enemy. They told me the cleric was a non-believer, a non-Muslim.
They took off my shirt and put the jacket on my shoulders. There were two hooks on my chest. They told me that when you go there you say ‘Allahu Akbar’ [God is Great] and then you pull apart these two hooks. Then they took me there, showed me the mosque and went off.
I was drugged and I couldn’t feel anything. I only came to my senses when I arrived in the mosque. I saw the peaceful kind face of the cleric, and I saw the mosque was full of holy books. I saw the people praying. And I thought, they are all Muslims. How can I do this? I decided not to and I came out.
I sat under a tree outside the mosque and waited for prayers to be over. After that I made my way back to the Taliban. Then they called me ‘a son of a bitch’ and asked why I had come back without doing it.
I told them I could not do it because they were carrying out body searches of all the people entering the mosque. They took off my vest and handed me over to Maulvi Fakir.
They tied me up but I told them to give me another chance and I would do it. They trusted me. I was roaming around with them for a couple of days. I got to the road, found transport and came home. They followed me to my house. They wanted to know if I was still there or had run somewhere else.
Watch Orla Guerin’s TV report from Bajaur
The Taliban had beaten me so harshly my back was scarred. When my parents saw that my mother started to cry, and told me not to go back to them. My father asked them why they were after his son. One day he took his weapon and went after them. But they wanted to kill him so he came back home and closed the door.
Before the Taliban came we used to enjoy freedom. We used to play, and go to our schools. There were no restrictions on us. Morning and evening we used to play games, and sit and chat with friends. We used to listen to music on our mobile phones. They banned that. They stopped us doing anything. They stopped us playing cricket and going to school. We felt like prisoners.
I want to join the army because they are the defenders of the land. They are fighting for the right cause. I want to fight against the Taliban. I have no other intention except to defend my country. The Taliban should be eliminated.
I want to tell the Taliban that they are cruel, and what they did to me was unjust. I can’t kill innocent Muslims.
I am not afraid of them. I am only afraid of God. I am answerable only to Him.”
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prayer…
“be joyful always. pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” – 1 thessalonians 5:16-18
“be self-controlled and alert. your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” – 1 peter 5:8
“watch and pray so that you will not fall into tempation. the spirit is willing but the body is weak.” – mark 14:38
“an unforgiving spirit invites satanic possession. satan’s favorite realm is the spirit. to corrupt our spirits, to provoke us to retaliation, revenge, or unmercifulness – that is his chosen work and his most common and successful device” – e.m. bounds
“if you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. and what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—i have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that Satan might not outwit us. for we are not unaware of his schemes.” – 2 corinthians 2:10-11
“if satan cannot keep people from praying, he can cause delay in the answer to prayer. in this way he tries to discourage and break down their faith. he wants Christians to minimize the power of urgent, persistent praying” – e.m. bounds
“now when daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward jerusalem. three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.” – daniel 6:10
“i want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer.” – 1 timothy 2:8
“do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. instead, be filled with the Spirit. speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” – ephesians 5:18-20
“Not until recently had I ever felt the weight of the fact that those outside Christ have no defense against the devil. God can restrain the devil from doing his maximum worst. But the world cannot. They are helpless before Satan’s supernatural power. They are utterly in his sway, except for God’s restraining providence.
This should make us tremble for the hopelessness of the world and marvel at the magnitude of God’s power and grace to keep the world from being ten thousand times more violent and miserable than it is.” – john piper
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SURPRISE!!!!
i didn’t go to graduate school.
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i went to, writeasmanypapersasyouphysicallycan school….
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