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GuiltדCleanse Me From My Sin” ????? GUILT can be a crushing burden. “My errors loom over my head,” King David wrote. “Like a heavy burden, they are too much for me to bear.” (Psalm 38:4) Some Christians have become overwhelmed by excessive sadness, convinced that Jehovah could never forgive them. (2 Corinthians 2:7) ????? “Let Us Set Matters Straight Between Us” Jehovah does not abandon repentant sinners. In fact, he reaches out to them! In the parable of the prodigal son, Jesus compared Jehovah to a loving father whose son abandoned his family and pursued a debauched life. In time, the son decided to return home. “While [the son] was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him and was moved with pity, and he ran and embraced him and tenderly kissed him.” (Luke 15:11-20) ????? Do you wish to draw closer to Jehovah but feel that you are “still a long way off” from him? Like the father in JesusÂ’ illustration, Jehovah is moved with tender compassion for you. He is eager to welcome you back. ????? But what if you believe that your sins are too serious or too numerous for Jehovah to forgive? Please consider JehovahÂ’s invitation recorded at Isaiah 1:18: “‘Come, now, and let us set matters straight between us,Â’ says Jehovah. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be made as white as snow.’” Yes, even sins that seem as indelible as scarlet dye on a white garment are not beyond JehovahÂ’s forgiveness. ????? Jehovah does not want you to keep suffering with a guilty conscience. How, then, can you experience the relief that comes from GodÂ’s forgiveness and a clean conscience? Consider two steps that King David took. First, he said: “I will confess my transgressions to Jehovah.” (Psalm 32:5) ????? Remember, Jehovah has already invited you to approach him in prayer and to “set matters straight” with him. Accept that invitation. Confess your sins to Jehovah, and share your feelings with him. From personal experience, David could confidently pray: “Cleanse me from my sin. . . . A heart broken and crushed, O God, you will not reject.”—Psalm 51:2, 17. ????? “Happy Is the One Whose Transgression Is Pardoned” ????? Admittedly, you may feel that confessing your sins to Jehovah God and approaching the elders would be among the most difficult things you could do. David evidently had similar feelings. He “kept silent” for some time about his sins. (Psalm 32:3) Afterward, however, he appreciated the benefits of confessing his sins and correcting his course. A major benefit was that David regained his joy. He wrote: “Happy is the one whose transgression is pardoned, whose sin is forgiven.” (Psalm 32:1, footnote) He also prayed: “O Jehovah, open my lips, so that my mouth may declare your praise.” (Psalm 51:15) ????? Relieved of his guilt and grateful for GodÂ’s forgiveness, David was motivated to tell others about Jehovah. ????? Jehovah wants you to experience the relief of a clean conscience. And he wants you to tell others about him and his purposes, not with feelings of guilt, but with sincerity and deep joy. (Psalm 65:1-4) Remember his invitation “to get your sins blotted out, so that seasons of refreshing may come from Jehovah himself.”—Acts 3:19. ????? https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102015406?q=Jehovah+comes+first&p=par#h=9

@Sonita Just keep the pace, in time more will come! Trying times everywhere. Put our trust in Jehovah he will provide what we need. Thank you for your support! Jehovah Bless! ?????

Special Convention Cluj Romania Don't Give up! JW friends — feeling blissful.

@Nicole I will post as I hear news. So much destruction everywhere. More hurricanes coming!Â

@Sonita What can a woman do? Sometimes it is needed. The women telling the Good News are a large army! Jehovah will use us women to further is purpose if no men are available. Many accounts in the Bible where women were used by Jehovah and were blessed! We are all unified to Our Heavenly Father and Our Lord Christ Jesus. Be Blessed, ?????

Plant your Garden and Reap Bountifully! ????? How to Plant Your Garden...no dirt required!!! How To Plant Your Garden First, you Come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses.  FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING , PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS 1. Peace of mind 2. Peace of heart 3. Peace of soul   PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH: 1. Squash gossip 2. Squash indifference 3. Squash grumbling 4. Squash selfishness PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE: 1. Lettuce be faithful 2. Lettuce be kind 3. Lettuce be patient 4. Lettuce really love one another NO GARDEN IS WITHOUT TURNIPS: 1. Turnip for meetings 2. Turnip for service 3. Turnip to help one another TO CONCLUDE OUR GARDEN YOU MUST HAVE THYME: 1. Thyme for God 2. Thyme for each other 3. Thyme for family 4. Thyme for friends WATER FREELY WITH PATIENCE AND CULTIVATE WITH LOVE. THERE IS MUCH FRUIT IN YOUR GARDEN BECAUSE YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.

@SoF How's this one? From my files? Yours is very conservative. ? Looks good.

Another international blow to the Russian government oppressor of Jehovah's Witnesses The organization of human rights without borders has presented a speech in the OSCE (organization for security and cooperation in Europe), raising the issue of the persecution of Jehovah's witnesses in Russia at the conference and called it " the most heinous violation Of religious freedom in the euro-Atlantic region after the fall of the USSR." They have also denounced the unjust prison that is enduring our brother Dennis Christensen The Russian government and its lover the orthodox sect are doing what they want, but the entire planet is knowing what they've tried to hide. The video is in English and collects the more than 2 minutes of the time we quoted. Â

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Beautiful Creatures of the Deep! ???? Thank you Jehovah God! ??? 'Sharks and turtles at the local day spa' Grey reef sharks, turtles and many other species visit this cleaning station to stay healthy. Its like a car wash. Cleaning stations are unique and important areas on the reef where marine animals have smaller fish remove parasites and dead skin. The grey reef shark in this clip is having it's mouth cleaned! #sharksatthedentist ?. Filmed on tour with @ningaloomarineinteractions . Tap on MP4 Video Link ____Enjoy! IMG_6684.MP4

@Nicole Thought it was cute! Thank you for your support! ?????

@Sonia Good women are a Blessing to others and Jehovah God. Â Thank you for your support! ?????

Rules that the American Catholic sect is giving to their parishioners to get rid of Jehovah's witnesses. Would you be able to rebut these almost military standards? ________________________________ Interaction with a Jehovah's witness Answer the door. This may seem counter-intuitive to get rid of someone, but the fact is, if you don't answer the door, it's likely to mark you as "no house" and come back in the near future. If you really want to get rid of them, you'll have to answer the door and let them know. Interrupt. Sounds rude, but it doesn't have to be. It is likely to deepen your command sequence and it will only be more difficult to get a word Polly interrupt to take control of the conversation. When a Jehovah's witness begins to speak, interrupt with an educated gesture: "excuse me" to draw your attention. Try to raise your hand and keep it between the two at the chest level with the palm of your hand to the other person and start your interjection with "wait". If you wait until the Jehovah's witness asks a question, you can simply reply with: "I would rather not have this conversation". Be honest. If you make up a reason not to want to talk to them, you can see this as an invitation to come back another time. This also starts a conversation. Be honest and direct with your answer to get your point through and avoid one of your starters of the conversation. Avoid making excuses. They are trained to respond to specific protests and may consider coming back in the future if they are too busy right now. We politely. Choose very few words to reject your invitation to speak. It's unnecessary to be rude, and arguing will only stimulate the conversation. A simple and polite decline will do the trick. Once I get a chance to talk, try a simple, "No, thank you". It can also be direct saying, " I'm not interested, thank you." Close the door. Don't hit him in the face, but I understand you've been trained to keep the conversation. Once I have rejected, close the door gently. This is important, because, like the caretakers or any lawyer, they are not likely to accept the first, "no" and will do everything possible to return to you. Closing the door may be the only way to end the conversation. If this feels rude to you, try to say, "I'm sorry" when you close the door.

Preaching to all sorts of people! Picture credit: @mims00777 ?????

@James Thomas Rook Jr. Your a good man. Charlie Brown ??‍?

Praying for all those who are ill right now - Soon all pain and sorrow will be gone forever! - We can just persevere and pray for those that need support right now! - Please share these scriptures, we are many and the hope we have and endurance will help many to endure! Don't Give Up! Brothers and Sisters World-Wide your Father Loves you! ????? Christians thus have a basis for hope and abundant proof that through the resurrected Jesus Christ and by means of God’s Kingdom, obedient mankind will receive, not merely temporary treatment of disease, but permanent release from sin, disease, and death traceable to Adam. For this all praise is due Jehovah, identified by David as the one “who is healing all your maladies.” ????? (Psalm 41:1-4) . . .Happy is anyone acting with consideration toward the lowly one; In the day of calamity Jehovah will provide escape for him. 2 Jehovah himself will guard him and preserve him alive. He will be pronounced happy in the earth; And you cannot possibly give him over to the soul of his enemies. 3 Jehovah himself will sustain him upon a divan of illness; All his bed you will certainly change during his sickness. 4 As for me, I said: “O Jehovah, show me favor.. . . ????? (Ecclesiastes 6:1-2) . . .There exists a calamity that I have seen under the sun, and it is frequent among mankind: 2 a man to whom the [true] God gives riches and material possessions and glory and who, for his soul, is in no need of anything that he shows himself longing for, and yet the [true] God does not enable him to eat from it, although a mere foreigner may eat it. This is vanity and it is a bad sickness. ????? (Matthew 25:39-40) . . .When did we see you sick or in prison and go to you?’ 40 And in reply the king will say to them, ‘Truly I say to YOU, To the extent that YOU did it to one of the least of these my brothers, YOU did it to me. . .(Exodus 15:26) . . .And he went on to say: “If you will strictly listen to the voice of Jehovah your God and will do what is right in his eyes and will indeed give ear to his commandments and keep all his regulations, I shall put none of the maladies upon you that I put upon the Egyptians; because I am Jehovah who is healing you.” ????? (Isaiah 35:5-6) . . .At that time the eyes of the blind ones will be opened, and the very ears of the deaf ones will be unstopped. 6 At that time the lame one will climb up just as a stag does, and the tongue of the speechless one will cry out in gladness. For in the wilderness waters will have burst out, and torrents in the desert plain. ????? (Matthew 8:14-17) . . .And Jesus, on coming into Peter’s house, saw his mother-in-law lying down and sick with fever. 15 So he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and began ministering to him. 16 But after it became evening, people brought him many demon-possessed persons; and he expelled the spirits with a word, and he cured all who were faring badly; 17 that there might be fulfilled what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He himself took our sicknesses and carried our diseases.” ????? (Psalm 103:1-3) 103 Bless Jehovah, O my soul, Even everything within me, his holy name. 2 Bless Jehovah, O my soul, And do not forget all his doings, 3 Him who is forgiving all your error, Who is healing all your maladies, ????? (Revelation 21:1-5) 21 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea is no more. 2 I saw also the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.” 5 And the One seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new.” Also, he says: “Write, because these words are faithful and true. . ."

"No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws him."—John 6:44. ????? Jesus—“The Bread of Life” He explains: “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not get hungry at all, and whoever exercises faith in me will never get thirsty at all. But as I said to you, you have even seen me and yet do not believe. . . . I have come down from heaven to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me. This is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose none out of all those whom he has given me, but that I should resurrect them on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who recognizes the Son and exercises faith in him should have everlasting life.”—John 6:35-40. ????? It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by Jehovah.Â’ Everyone who has listened to the Father and has learned comes to me. Not that any man has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; this one has seen the Father. Most truly I say to you, whoever believes has everlasting life.”—John 6:43-47; Isaiah 54:13. ????? https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102014657?q=john+6%3A44&p=par#h=11

If Jesus Is God, Then... 1) Why did he say "the father has granted him life"(John 5:26) 2) Why did he say "nor have I come for my own initiative, no, but that one that sent me"? (John 8:42; 1 John 4:9) 3) Why did Jesus say he did not know the day or the time of great tribulation, but only the father? (Matthew 24:36) 4) Whom did Jesus pray to?(Matthew 27:46) 5) To whom did Jesus enter "in heaven himself, to appear now in front of the person of God in favor of us"? (Hebrews 9:24) 6) Why Jesus said "the father is greater  than I am"? (John 14:28) 7) Who spoke from heaven in Jesus baptism saying "this is my son"? (Matthew 3:17) 8) Who raised Jesus to a higher position? (Philippians 2:9, 10) 9) How can Jesus be a "Mediator between God and men"? (1 Tim. 2:5) 10) Why the Apostle Paul says "God is the head of Christ"? (1 cor. 11:3) 11) Why did Jesus say that " he delivers the kingdom to his God " and " the son himself will also be subject to the one who held him all things "? (1 cor 15:24, 28) 12) Who was he referring to when he said  "I am ascending to my father... and  to my God "? (John 20:17) 13) How would he sit at the right hand of God? (Psalm 109:1; HEB. 10:12, 13) 14) Why did the apostle John says "to God no one has ever seen him"? (John 1:18) 15) Why didn't people die when they saw Jesus? (Exodus 20:30) 16) How could Jesus be dead and still God stay alive? (Acts 2:24) 17) Why did he need someone who could save him? (HEB. 5:7) 18) Who was Jesus referring to at Proverbs 8:22-31? 19) Why did Jesus say "all power has been given to me in heaven and earth"? who gave him that power? (Matthew 28:18; Daniel 7:13, 14) 20) Who did he offer "supplications and also petitions, with strong outcry" to? (HEB. 5:7) 21) Why was he referred to as "God's son who learned obedience  and be perfect"?  (HEB. 5:8, 9) 22) How could an angel strengthen him if he was God? (Luke 22:43; Matthew 4:11) 23) Why did satan try to tempt him if he knew Jesus / God? (Matthew 4:1-11) 24) When Jesus was sent to earth, it was made "a little lower than angels" (HEB. 2:7) how could any part of the deity be inferior to angels? 25) If Jesus was the same God, against whom satan tempted him to rebel? Can God be tempted to rebel against himself? (Matthew 4:1) 26) Before the end of his earthly life, Jesus cried: "my God, my God, why have you forsaken me"? (Matthew 24:46) can God abandon or forget himself? 27) Hebrews 5:8 says that Jesus learned obedience. Why did he have to learn obedience, if he was God? 28) God's righteousness is perfect (Exodus 21:23-25). The Ransom price for a perfect human is a perfect man. The life of an imperfect man would not be enough to pay the ransom (Psalm 48:8). If Jesus was God, it was not then the price paid too high? (29)Why was he seeking to please God? (John 5:30) (30)Why did he say only God can be called "good"? (Mark 10:18) (31)In Matthew 6:9 Jesus said "Our Father, which art in Heaven"..  Why did he not pray, Our Father, which art standing right here (32)James 1:13: "When tempted, no one should say, God is tempting me. For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt any anyone.. Since Jesus was tempted why did he say God cannot be tempted? Visit jw.org for more information

Doing microphones as a sister in our English group in Slovenia! We just moved there because the need is great, so not enough brothers to cover all duties.” Many Sisters rejoice to be used in this way to help out! What are your thoughts? ??

The Amazing Male Mouthbrooding Jawfish — such as the mottled (seen in the fourth photo with spikes on the side of its head from a fireworm attack), the yellowhead, the banded, and the cardinalfish seen here — use their mouths to protect their eggs until the fry hatch. Mouthbrooding fish are able to produce smaller numbers of offspring with a higher chance of survival than species that offer no broodcare. the males, however, are not able to eat during this period of incubation (which can last anywhere from one to three weeks), but will open their mouths, spitting the eggs out and then sucking them back in to keep them clean and aerated. Wonderful Creation of Jehovah God! photos by (click pic) nicolas terry, shigeru harazaki, steven kovacs, keri wilk, michael patrick oneilll and marcello di francesco Interesting! ?????

RUSSIA UPDATE.. JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES APPEAL TO THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME COURT OF RUSSIA AGAINST DECLARING THEM AS AN "EXTREMIST ORGANIZATION" Lawyers of Jehovah's Witnesses filed a supervisory complaint against the decision of the Supreme Court to liquidate and ban all 396 registered religious organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The complaint is scheduled for consideration by the Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia within 3 months. Believers are asked to completely abolish the decision of the Supreme Court of April 20, 2017 and suspend its execution until the end of the proceedings in the court of the supervisory instance. The decision of the Supreme Court of Russia, unjustifiably attributed to the "extremists" whole religion, has already resulted in the most negative consequences for believers in the form of dismissals, waves of religious hatred, attacks, police raids, criminal cases and imprisonment of innocent people. https://jw-russia.org/news/17091115-214.html The international community unanimously condemned this decision of the court. https://jw-russia.org/news/17090417-212.html Download as PDF (512 KB) https://jw-russia.org/sites/default/files/170911_uc_nadzor.pdf

"The fear of Jehovah is pure, lasting forever. The judgments of Jehovah are true, altogether righteous.They are more desirable than gold, Than much fine gold." (Ps.19:9,10) ???

Imitating their parents at the Kingdomhall, PH. Zamboanga City, Philippines - Teach your children well! @halimawinme Thank you. ??????

@Jay Iza It will "only" be a "cry" in other words "fake"! Time will tell. So much happening everywhere, the days are short! Thank you for your support!

Exhibit of Jehovah's Witnesses in San Bernardio, California at the Norman F. Feldheym Central Library ? September 11- October 21, 2017. EXHIBIT – Commemorating The Centennial Anniversary of Jehovah's Witnesses In The Inland EmpireÂ