Goal: Stay in the Lines. Get home.
1 John 4
4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
In this the love of God was made manifest among us,
that
God sent His only Son into the world,
so that
we might live through Him.
10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
16 So we have come to know and to believe the Love that God has for us.
16 So we have come to know and to believe the Love that God has for us.
God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world.
17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.
For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
19 We love because He first loved us.
20 If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Psalm 23
Surely goodness and mercy
are
my footprints
all my days
And I find 1 John 4 accurate. Worthy. Trustworthy.
People will surprise you with goodness. People will let you down.
The people who Profess in their hearts and lives for Jesus Christ will go the extra mile. Or go more. And more. But usually when you know the heart of those who Love Jesus - you have goodness.
Make decisions affecting others - as a Christian - can be a challenge. But doing your best. With Jesus. Gives us the satisfaction of Joy, of Being Loved. Riding the waves with Honesty. Going to sleep at the end of the day - God promised to fill every iota.
We can't do 3,000 pages of Scripture. We can do what we can do. God will do the God work.
Matthew 5:17-20
17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets.
I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
18 For I tell you truly, until Heaven and earth pass away,
not a single jot,
not a stroke of a pen,
will disappear from the Law
Until everything is accomplished.
19 So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments
and teaches others to do likewise
will be called least in the kingdom of heaven;
Whoever practices and teaches them
will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven
Hebrews 1:3
All things came into being through the Word,
Who also upholds the universe
by the Power of His Word
One of the Beauties of Optimistic Christianity - is really very profound.
I know people who had very terrible pain with age.
Tendons, muscles, accident - wear and tear. One was a 90-year-old Uncle who believed water aerobics would help him. We prayed for him. The doctor told him - don't even consider improvement this will be endurance. He had a special chair to carry with him for back support. In two years of prayers, water aerobics - our Uncle announced he was entirely pain-free.
My back caused me agonies for about 5 years. I discovered back exercises and relaxed enough to have room for the Lord to heal me. That part of my back rarely bothers me, and I was told by an observer I had terrible arthritis and this would be my destiny. No, Thank God, it was not.
There is a vast difference in Optimistic Christianity.
Even in Physical Pain - running high on the pain number chart.
I know my Aunt had terrible hip pain and was told in the last century to rest. She really was in pain. And she discovered aerobics in her 60s and found life was managed again.
I had a dream my Aunt Clarice went to Heaven.
On earth, a person I met twice in Bible Study prayed for Aunt Clarice's hip to be healed. And I thought, I'm going to pray for this forever and it won't happen. I was 15. Went back to Bible Study and the young girl said, I know she is healed. Nope. And we went to see Clarice 2 or 3 years later and Clarice said I had a perfect day, and I knew you prayed for me. I felt absolutely awful. Really horrible. And time went by, I wish, so very deeply Clarice had told us about her perfect day thinking I had prayed for her.
About 12 years later, I had the dream where I met Clarice, and she said, "Heaven IS ALL TRUE! ALL OF THIS! ALL!" She said Jesus is behind you. Right now. He has your back. I asked Him you wouldn't have my hip pain. I think Jesus did agree. I took her hand and said, Thank you, I never have hip pain. And Clarice said, Now you don't.
I spent 2018 in hip agony. Sciatica. Cold water swimming helped me live again. And Thank God for Him. And for the grace of Clarice asking for His Help. Thanks to the graciousness of God and Aunt Clarice.
There is a vast difference in Optimistic Christianity.
Even in Physical Pain - running high on the pain number chart.
I'm very, very, very happy to say Optimistic, Hopeful Christianity is a Bold and Alive Promise Today of Jesus Christ. When we believe we relax and are open to healing.
And the honesty to admit when we have harsh or cruel circumstance. The refreshing healing in being honest about pain in life. We heal when we fully realize some of life is pain. And the strength from honestly living the truth. We heal when we let our real selves see and feel what is obvious and true.
Living Water of Jesus, available today.
The Children of Israel did not fly across the Red Sea and they did not fly to the Promised Land. The Children of Israel walked. The Disciples walked a lot. Only once does Scripture report the ship arrived 'immediately.' Jesus told the father with his son, "Continued Prayer will fix this." Living Water is available today.
Abba, Father!
WE PRAY
BLESSINGS
Because every time, in Church,
we pray
"Be with us now, and in the hour of our passing"
You, Father,
answer
Prayer!
Thank You, Father.
WE PRAY
for
THE CHURCH
and
OUR NATION
To be
the Voice
of LOVE
Joy, Peace, Patience,
Goodness,
Faithfulness,
gentleness
and
SELF CONTROL
And ask You
for appropriate leadership.
Let's pray
for the departure
of what
is not good.
Both Church
and Nations
led by Jesus Christ and
His Teachings
and Word.
Working
and
Success
in Wholeness
and
Holiness
We Pray
Shining
The Light of Love Peace and Joy
upon
The Teachings of Jesus Christ.
God of Love
God of Encouragement
God of the Bible.
All the Bible
in
Faith
Hope
and
LOVE
♔ Lord Jesus Saves †
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