1 Corinthians 15:12-20
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
20 But in fact
Christ has been raised from the dead,
the firstfruits of those
who have fallen asleep.
Last week, there was a Post about the many boxes Edward and I have opened from our family in Estates. The thing about, "Opening the box...."
You just never know what you are going to find. My father had a terrible Christmas when he was two years old, he had a terrible case of Chicken Pox and wouldn't even speak. My grandmother Bit wrote Daddy spent his Christmas leaning on her legs and ankles. She was very relieved when he went back to being chatty the next week.
My Grandmother Anita's box was Valentines Cards, Christmas Cards and Anniversary and no occasion whatsoever letters from my grandfather who had died before World War II. Ray was an architect, drew extremely well, and Ray left amazingly detailed love letters in a beautiful hand. My mother remembered the letters and cards, but hadn't seen these in 50 years. Grandmother Anita had cleared drawers in a chest of drawers in her room, the decades old correspondence was in new condition. Mother promptly framed them and hung them on the walls. I looked at my mother and said, "He is named Ray because he is Light. Love and Light." Mother said he definitely believed Jesus. Anita wore her wedding rings in widowhood for 52 years, Anita would call us on the phone, elatedly, and tell us with great joy when she dreamed of Ray in Heaven. Anita always called him Ray and after a few decades, we did too.
Valentine's Day is one of the days we tend to get things we don't keep for a long time. Sort of an inverse relationship with Steadfast Love.
I love to have flowers. Love that.
If we could give the best gift, wouldn't we give - more years together. More times to have Joy. More peace. More Love.
Ray didn't live to be old, yet he left more Love. More Joy.
Roads of Heaven
What would be more precious than Forever?
Give Life along with the Flowers and Chocolates.
Song of Songs 6:3
I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he browses among the lilies.
Psalm 60:5, 108:6
That your beloved ones may be delivered,
give salvation by your right hand
and answer
Song of Solomon 1:16
Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful.
Song of Solomon 2:8
The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains,
bounding over the hills.
Matthew 3:17
And behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son,
with whom I am well pleased.”
Matthew 12:18
My Beloved in whom My soul is well-pleased; I will put My Spirit upon Him, And He will proclaim justice to the nations
Matthew 17:5
He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said,
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”
Acts 15:25
Seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul
Romans 9:25
As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”
Romans 11:28a
Regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.
Romans 16:5
Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.
Romans 16:8
Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.
Romans 16:9
Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.
Romans 16:12
Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 4:17
That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
2 Corinthians 12:19a
It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding,beloved.
To the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
Ephesians 5:1
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
Ephesians 6:21
So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything.
Philippians 4:1
Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.
2 Timothy 1:2
To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Philemon 1:16
no longer as a bondservant but more than a bondservant, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
Jesus and His Beloved Brothers
James 1:16
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
James 1:19
Know this, my beloved brothers:
let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers,
has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith
and heirs of the kingdom,
which He has promised to those who love Him?
Jude 1:17
You must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:20
You, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith
and praying in the Holy Spirit,
1 John 2
7
Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
Psalm 139
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!
Abba, Father
Psalm 139 is the perfect reminder in all of Psalm 139.
Jesus helps us daily to find the path of Love and Encouragement.
Abba,
You have Blessed this Nation and believing Nations
with an Open Always Prayer Life
being who we are and believing You make us better and more loving.
We can look at Psalm 139
and remember the generations of people and families
doing all they can for their children in complex life
needing Jesus as Savior.
Your Word
gives us Hope
Love
Faith
Encouragement
We can ask for Your Holy Spirit to know
all of us
every cell
every molecule
Just as water is a wonder
You have created us as Wonders of Your Creation
and as Your Holy Spirit
knows every thought, every molecule
every cell
the hairs on our head
we have been filled with the
Light of Jesus Christ
and only the better
for Jesus to be the Light within us.
Our Prayer this year,
The Light of Heaven,
The Light of the world, God's Good Creation
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
The Light of Nations
The Light of Mankind
will be
the Light filling this complex time
with more
of Your Love, Encouragement
Guidance, Mercy
Grace upon Grace.
We ask simply God
for Your Love
and Your Mercy
Your forbearance with this time.
Knowing Spring follows Christmas
Summer brings warmth
Autumn tells the Glory of God
and Christmas renews us in Hope
New Years is Jesus giving us pause to
remember
Jesus Christ makes ALL things New.
As we are asked to remind God
to bless us with more Heaven on earth,
His Good Will be done.
To You, our Father, be the Glory
Our God is an Awesome God! Amen
and Alleluia
in Jesus Christ and His Glory!
Matthew 13:31,32
Jesus put before them another parable: “The Kingdom of Heaven
is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field.
Although it is the smallest of all seeds,
yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree,
so that the birds of the air come
and
nest in its branches.”
♔ LORD JESUS SAVES †
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