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“What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it...
“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs...
Matthew 18:20 (NKJV)
For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them
Why the emphasis on “I am there”? Isn’t the Spirit of Jesus already resident in the individual believer? Yes, but two is the beginning of the vision of the Body of Christ on earth, its...
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we...
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 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...
John 13:1-11 ESV:
“Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot...
The “Reformers” once contended with errant teachings that diluted the Biblical narrative about Jesus being the sole mediator between God and man.
There’s a new aberration being presented, that needs to be refuted by the Church, that attempts to take “Cast all your cares upon the Lord” to “Just...
An Original Work / February 13, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Divide asunder,^
so to my cares, Your Spirit-wonders
speak as the signposts I need for faith
to coax me to obedience,
by choice and conviction.
How You loved us first!^^
Continue Your work,
Jesus, Living Word!^^^
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^ Hebrews 4:12; 1 Peter 5:6-7
^^ 1 John 4:19
^^^ Jesus, Living Word
“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good...
“Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble...
An Original Work / February 10, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
“Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one. And we have...
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your...
This entry seeks to offer an understanding on soft power, apply it to U.S. developmental aid, and to an extent assess this type of aid in general. Lastly, I will offer some understanding of whether such aid is biblical.
It has been a several decades since Joseph Nye wrote the book, Soft Power...