Dependence

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de·pend·ence /dɪˈpɛndəns/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[di-pen-duhns] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1.
the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like.

Both Darcie & I were really "brought up short" this weekend in regard to this whole "DEPENDENCE" thing. On Friday morning I went to turn on my computer and it had decided to rebel in the night and would not accept any power from the power source......thus it would not turn on. This morning, 20 minutes before Darcie was going to speak in a church service, her computer rebelled and would not boot up. We both realized, about the same time, how DEPENDENT we had become on these machines. I spent all day Friday & half of Saturday getting our back-up computer configured to where I could even do E-mail and connect to the Internet. Darcie is, at this very moment, having to speak without the help of her pictures she shows as she tells of the testimonies of these persecuted saints.

Now you are probably asking "what's this got to do with anything"..........DEPENDENCE upon anything but God, and His Holy Spirit, is an effort in futility, especially as we move closer to the end of the age. A classic principle that is given by the apostate is being INDEPENDENT in nature. In fact, the word "apostasy" gives a connotation of "a rebellious walking away from the TRUTH to embrace a 'feel good' ideology". Now if we know that the APOSTASY must come first then I believe it would behoove all of us (Darcie & myself included) to become less dependent on this world and it's trappings and become more dependent on God and His Holy Spirit's leading in our lives. I'm not saying that we are to shuck off all the useful things in the world that help us "tell the story", but I am saying we need not become so dependent on those things that we become unable to function without them..........I guess in this case you should have a "Plan B"..............as long as that plan is Holy Spirit given.

I guess the following says it all about this admonition;
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