Carol Ann Torres

21 "And your own ears will hear a word behind you saying, “This is the way. Walk in it,” in case you should go to the right or in case you should go to the left."  (Isaiah 30:21) NWT 

Walk that path to integrity, it is lighted up for you to receive Blessings!
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"Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in my integrity; In Jehovah I have trusted without wavering."
(Ps 26:1) NWT 

Bravo....   little  brother ❤   A  great  idea  for  a  talk  on  the  stage ;-)
Trying  at  home,  thats  the  best  idea !

Jehovah's Eyes are Roving about in the Earth, show Him your Heart is Complete towards Him. - He rewards His People with Strength and Peace! ~
(2 Chronicles 16:9)
“For,the eyes of Jehovah, are roving about through all the earth to show his strength in behalf of those whose heart is complete toward him.”
(Psalms 29:11)
“Jehovah himself will give strength indeed to his people.
Jehovah himself will bless his people with peace.”

"Those days will                   be cut short."—Matt. 24:22. NWT
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Cutting short the days.      
 
Our King revealed what
 will occur at this point 
during the great tribulation. 
 
Jesus stated:
“On account of the chosen ones those days will
           be cut short.” (Read Matthew 24:21, 22.)
   
Jesus’ words were fulfilled on a small scale in 66 C.E. when Jehovah “cut short”.  the Roman army’s attack on Jerusalem. (Mark 13:20)
 
That action allowed Christians in Jerusalem and Judea to be saved. What will then happen on a global scale during the coming great tribulation?
Jehovah, by means of our King, will “cut short” the United Nations’ attack on religion so that the true religion will not be destroyed with the false. Thus, while all false religious organizations will be torn down, the one true religion will survive. (Ps. 96:5).
 

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Sample Listen to God Bible Study​—Pages 8-9

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Sample Memorial Invitation Presentation 2017

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What Questions Would You Ask God? -Wonders of Creation Exalt Jehovah! - "God said to Job:" Long but worth reading!                    
(Job 38:4-7) . . .Where did you happen to be when I founded the earth? Tell [me], if you do know understanding. 5 Who set its measurements, in case you know, Or who stretched out upon it the measuring line? 6 Into what have its socket pedestals been sunk down, Or who laid its cornerstone, 7 When the morning stars joyfully cried out together, And all the sons of God began shouting in applause?"
JEHOVAH GOD is more exalted than imperfect humans can imagine. His creative works on earth and in the heavens bring him praise and fill us with awe.—Psalm 19:1-4.
As the Creator and Universal Sovereign, Jehovah certainly deserves to be heard when he speaks. But how amazed we would be if he were to speak to us mere humans here on earth! Suppose he spoke to you, perhaps through an angel. Surely you would pay attention. The upright man Job must have listened very attentively when God addressed him some 3,500 years ago. 
What can we learn from God’s words to Job regarding the earth and the material heavens?
Who Founded the Earth, and Who Controls the Sea?
Out of a windstorm, God asks Job about the earth and the sea. (Job 38:1-11) 
No human architect decided how big the earth should be and then helped to form it. Comparing the earth to a building, God asks Job: “Who laid its cornerstone?” Not man! God’s angelic sons looked on and rejoiced as Jehovah created this planet.
The sea is an infant in relation to God, who figuratively clothes it with garments. It “began to go forth as when it burst out from the womb.” God confines the sea as if by bars and bolted doors, and tides are regulated by lunar and solar attractions.
Says The World Book Encyclopedia: “The wind causes most ocean waves, from small ripples to giant hurricane waves more than 100 feet (30 meters) high. . . . After the wind stops, the waves continue to move over the ocean surface and can travel great distances from where they originated. They become smoother and longer. Finally, the waves reach the shoreline, where they break and form the surf.” The sea obeys God’s command: “This far you may come, and no farther; and here your proud waves are limited.”
Who Makes the Dawn Ascend?
God next asks Job about the effects of light and other matters. (Job 38:12-18) No human can command the succession of night and day. Morning light figuratively lays hold of the ends of the earth and shakes out the wicked. Sinners may perform unrighteous acts in “evening darkness.” (Job 24:15, 16) But dawn disperses many evildoers.
In God’s hand, morning light is as a seal from which the earth gets a beautiful impression. Sunlight brings to view many colors, so that the globe seems to be arrayed in splendid garments. Job had nothing to do with this and had not walked about in the watery deep to take inventory of its treasures. Why, to this day researchers have only limited knowledge of oceanic life!
Who Has Storehouses of Snow and Hail?
No man has escorted either light or darkness to its home or has entered the storehouses of snow and hail that God keeps back for “the day of fight and war.” (Job 38:19-23) When Jehovah used hail against his foes at Gibeon, “there were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.” (Joshua 10:11) He may use hailstones of undisclosed size to destroy wicked humans led by Gog, or Satan.—Ezekiel 38:18, 22.
Egg-size hailstones killed 25 people and injured 200 others in central Henan Province, China, in July 2002. Regarding a hailstorm in 1545, Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini wrote: “We were one day distant from Lyons . . . when the heavens began to thunder with sharp rattling claps. . . . After the thunder the heavens made a noise so great and horrible that I thought the last day had come; so I reined in for a moment, while a shower of hail began to fall without a drop of water. . . . The hail now grew to the size of big lemons. . . . The storm raged for some while, but at last it stopped . . . We showed our scratches and bruises to each other; but about a mile farther on we came upon a scene of devastation which surpassed what we had suffered, and defies description. All the trees were stripped of their leaves and shattered; the beasts in the field lay dead; many of the herdsmen had also been killed; we observed large quantities of hailstones which could not have been grasped with two hands.”—Autobiography (Book II, 50), Harvard Classics, Volume 31, pages 352-3.
What will happen when Jehovah opens his storehouses of snow and hail against his enemies? They cannot possibly survive when snow or hail is used to carry out his will.
Whose Handiwork Are Rain, Dew, Frost, and Ice?
Jehovah next asks Job about rain, dew, frost, and ice. (Job 38:24-30) God is the great Rainmaker, and even “the wilderness in which there is no earthling man” enjoys his blessing. Rain, ice, and frost have no human father or originator.
The Nature Bulletin states: “The strangest and perhaps the most important property [of ice] is that water expands as it freezes . . . The blanket of ice that forms and floats on a pond in winter makes it possible for aquatic plants and animals (fish, etc.) to remain alive in the water underneath. If . . . water contracted and became denser as it solidified, ice would be heavier than water and sink to the bottom. More ice would form on the surface until the pond was frozen solid. . . . In the cooler parts of the world the rivers, ponds, lakes, and even the oceans would all be permanently frozen.”
How thankful we can be that bodies of water do not freeze solid! And we certainly are grateful that as Jehovah’s handiwork, rain and dew invigorate the earth’s vegetation.
Read the rest of the articles at:
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10 "Create in me a pure heart,   O God,
And put within me a new spirit," (Psalms 51:10) NWT
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Our  Brothers  and  Sisters  from  Georgia,  in  orbit  of  Russia,  could  preaching  in  peace,  without  pressure  from  the  Government !   They  are  looking  little  happy ❤

Anyway I can download this on my tablet.  I love this so very much. ???

A Widespread Belief - THINK!! - WOULD A GOD OF LOVE TORTURE PEOPLE? -
Learn from your own Bible the answer! 
“I had nightmares of burning in hell! I dreamed of being thrown into a fiery place and would wake up screaming. Needless to say, I tried very hard not to sin.”—Arline.
DO YOU believe that hell is a place of torment reserved for sinners? Many people do. For example, in 2005 a scholar at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland found that a third of the Scottish clergy believed that those separated from God would suffer “eternal mental anguish in hell.” A fifth believed that those in hell would suffer physical torment.
In many countries, belief in hell is widespread. For instance, in the United States, a Gallup poll conducted in 2007 found that about 70 percent of those surveyed believe in hell. Even in predominantly secular countries, belief in hell lingers. A Gallup poll in 2004 found that in Canada, 42 percent of the people believed in hell. And in Great Britain, 32 percent were sure that hell exists.
What the Clergy Teach
Many of the clergy have backed off from teaching that hell is a place of literal fiery torment. Rather, they promote a definition similar to that expressed in a Catechism of the Catholic Church, published in 1994. “The chief punishment of hell,” states that reference, “is eternal separation from God.”
Even so, belief that hell is a place of mental or physical suffering persists. Those who promote this doctrine claim that such a teaching is based on the Bible. R. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, asserts: “It’s simply a fact of Scripture.”
Why Does It Matter What You Believe?
If hell really is a place of torment, you certainly should fear it. However, if this teaching is not true, religious leaders who teach the doctrine create confusion and cause needless mental anguish to those who believe them. They also defame God.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELL
ROOTS IN PAGAN BELIEFS: The ancient Egyptians believed in a fiery hell. The Book Ȧm-Ṭuat, dated 1375 B.C.E., speaks of those who “shall be cast down headlong into the pits of fire; and . . . shall not escape therefrom, and . . . shall not be able to flee from the flames.” Greek philosopher Plutarch (c.46-120 C.E.) wrote of those in the world below: “[They] raised a cry of wailing as they underwent fearful torments and ignominious and excruciating chastisements.”
SECTS OF JUDAISM ARE INFECTED: The historian Josephus (37-c.100 C.E.) reported that the Essenes, a Jewish sect, believed that “the souls are immortal, and continue forever.” He added: “This is like the opinion of the Greeks . . . They allot to bad souls a dark and tempestuous den, full of never-ceasing punishments.”
 
INTRODUCED INTO “CHRISTIANITY”: In the second century C.E., the apocryphal book Apocalypse of Peter said of the wicked: “There is spread out for them unquenchable fire.” It also stated: “Ezrael, the angel of wrath, brings men and women with the half of their bodies burning and casts them into a place of darkness, the hell of men; and a spirit of wrath chastises them.” During the same time period, writer Theophilus of Antioch quotes the Greek prophetess Sibyl as foretelling the punishments of the wicked: “Upon you burning fire shall come, and ever ye shall daily burn in flames.” These are among the words that Theophilus says are “true, and useful, and just, and profitable to all men.”
 
HELLFIRE USED TO JUSTIFY VIOLENCE IN THE MIDDLE AGES: Mary I, queen of England (1553-1558), known as “Bloody Mary” for burning nearly 300 Protestants at the stake, reportedly said: “As the souls of heretics are hereafter to be eternally burning in hell, there can be nothing more proper than for me to imitate the Divine vengeance by burning them on earth.”

A RECENT DEFINITION: In recent years, some denominations have revised their teaching about hell. For example, the Doctrine Commission of the Church of England said in 1995: “Hell is not eternal torment, but it is the final and irrevocable choosing of that which is opposed to God so completely and so absolutely that the only end is total non-being.”
 
What Really Happens at Death?
Does a dead soul know or feel anything? God’s Word says: “The living know that they are to die, but the dead no longer know anything.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5, NAB) 
Describing what happens to a man at death, the Bible states: “He returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.” (Psalm 146:4, KJ) If the dead “no longer know anything” and their “thoughts perish,” how could they sense any torment in hell?
Jesus Christ likened death, not to some form of consciousness, but to sleep.* (John 11:11-14) Some may object, though, saying that Jesus did teach that hell was hot and that sinners would be cast into hellfire. Let us consider what Jesus actually did say about hell.
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Glorify God With All That We Have…
Jehovah’s Witnesses Public Talk
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Keep Growing in Your Relationship With God….

Jehovah’s Witnesses Public Talk

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Jehovah’s Witnesses Public Talk Watchtower Substitute Meeting 26 February 2017

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WHAT a difference !  JEHOVAH  has really changed the new Brother's life ❤
SO  amazing....  a  big  blessing !

One of Jehovah’s Witnesses delivering a public talk in a Kingdom Hall
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Song 134  -  See  Yourself  When  All  Is  New ❤

ENJOY  THE  VIEW  ON  THE  SEA  IN  PARADISE ❤

Sorry....  so  quickly  away  the  nice  winter - pics !  We  can't  enjoy   I  like  it,  looking  longer  on  a  nice  picture...



I  like  it,  looking  details.....   ( I  have  more,  but  3  are  ok.)

Jehovah asked Job on his creation wonders, like the snow? Where does it come from? Where are his storehouses of snow and hail for war? Do you know?                                              
38 Then Jehovah answered Job out of the windstorm:                      
2 “Who is this who is obscuring my counsel And speaking without knowledge?
3 Brace yourself, please, like a man; I will question you, and you inform me."
4 Where were you when I founded the earth?"
Tell me, if you think you understand?"
22 "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,".             
23 Which I have reserved for the time of distress,
For the day of battle and war?"
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Do you feel like a butterfly? Elusive? Or have Nervousness and Excitement may make you run the other way when speaking to others? 
1• butterflies, (used with a pluralverb) Informal. a queasy feeling,as from nervousness, excitement, etc.

What do you need to do?
Be yourself—conversational, sincere, and unaffected.
Why is it important?
If you are nervous, stiff, or awkward in your speech because of being self-conscious, others may be distracted from what you say.
EXPRESSING yourself in a natural manner helps you win   the confidence of others. 
Naturalness should not be confused with carelessness. Poor grammar, wrong pronunciation, and muffled speech are not appropriate. Slang should also be avoided. We always want to manifest appropriate dignity, both in our speech and in our bearing. 
Someone who manifests such naturalness is neither overly formal nor overly concerned about impressing others.
When you approach a house or step up to someone in a public place with a view to giving a witness, do you feel nervous? 
Most of us do, but for some the feeling is more persistent than for others. 
Tension may cause the voice to sound somewhat strained or shaky, or nervousness may manifest itself in awkward movements of the hands or     the head.
If you get nervous before engaging in the ministry, what can help? Careful preparation and fervent prayer to Jehovah. (Acts 4:29) 
Think about Jehovah’s great mercy in inviting people to enjoy perfect health and eternal life in Paradise. 
Think about those whom you are endeavoring to help and their need to hear the good news.
When giving a witness, if you act and speak as you do every day, this will put your listeners at ease. 
They may even be more receptive to the Scriptural thoughts that you want to share with them. Rather than giving them a formal discourse, converse with them. Be friendly. Show an interest!
 
HOW TO DO IT
•  Speak in your everyday manner. Focus your thoughts, not on yourself, but on Jehovah and on the need for people to learn about him.
• When preparing a talk, give principal attention to ideas, not precise wording.

• When delivering a talk and when speaking in everyday conversation, avoid careless speech habits as well as the tendency to use speech qualities in a manner that draws attention to yourself.

• Prepare well for public reading. Read with feeling and a keen awareness of meaning.

• Don't be an Elusive butterfly, move forward, display love and strength to speak the Words of Truth. Open your heart and your love for others, pray for help if doubting or have fear. We have the God of the Universe behind us, Christ and the Holy Spirit, we can't fail. Muster up courage. Replant your garden, you will grow into a wonderful person and you will find many more blessings from Jehovah! 
“Remember this, that you people may muster up courage. Lay it to heart, you transgressors. Remember the first things of a long time ago, that I am the Divine One and there is no other God, nor anyone like me.” (Isaiah 46:8, 9) NWT  jw.org
"I see you and so do others and Jehovah!" You are beautiful what you've become and you have much more joy and happiness helping yourself and others."          ???????
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BROTHER  *SAMUEL  HERD*  IS  ENJOYING  CLEANING  THE  ARK !
Our anointed Brother of the Governing Body, here
just by cleaning the little Ark in Bethel  -  together with a Sister.
Seems,  they  enjoying  their  work....
 

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