Matthew 5:

44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

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Strong's Greek: 25. ἀγαπάω (agapaó) — 143 Occurrences

Besides the above noble usage of G25-love, it had other usages.

BDAG ἀγαπάω:
① to have a warm regard for and interest in another, cherish, have affection for, love
ⓐ by human beings
ⓑ of the affection of transcendent beings
② to have high esteem for or satisfaction with someth., take pleasure in.

Luke 11:

43 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

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2 Peter 2:

15 Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,

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Amnon agape-loved Tamar before he raped her.

There were four different Greek words for love. G25 was the generic expression for love.

"I love my dog" was written in Koine Greek as "ἀγαπῶ τὸν κύνα μου".

Agape love was not exclusively used for noble love. It had general usages for different kinds of common affections.

It's yet another way to learn who's in Putin's pocket. Remember when republicans were proud of being pro-America?

Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Our God is faithful
To His every word!

He completes you,
Fulfills your needs,
When you trust in Him –
On His Word do feed.

Believe He cares.
Do not despair!
Those who trust in Him
Are under His care.

How will you know
He loves you so?
He loves us so much,
To the cross did go.

He died for you,
Gave up His life
To free you from sin
and make you His wife.

He freed from sin,
Made pure within
All who trust in Him,
Who turn from their sin.

He strengthens you,
Helps you to stay
Faithful in service
Throughout every day.

He feels your pain,
Sees all your tears.
He will deliver you
From all your fears.

Trust Him right now.
Do not Him doubt.
Believe His promises.
‘Bout them do shout!

Tell of His love.
Tell of His care.
Tell of His grace to us,
How Christ we wear.

We believe Him.
Now truth within.
Follow Him everywhere,
Turning from sin.

Do what He says.
Obey His Word.
Fellowship with Him,
For His truth we’ve heard.

We love our Lord,
Follow His lead,
We share His gospel
And other hearts feed.

Do not Him doubt.
Fearless we’ll be,
Believing in Him,
as we bow the knee.

Yield to His will.
Make Him our Lord.
Receive salvation
That we can’t afford.

Freely He gives.
Freely He cares.
He died to free us,
His righteousness wear.

Wait for Him now.
Coming again
To receive us to Him –
Hearty Amen!

An Original Work / November 10, 2019

Matthew 22:

36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

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Jesus considers love as the greatest as Paul does in 1 Corinthians 13:

13 now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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Romans 13:

10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law.

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Before Jesus' arrest, he tells his disciples in John 13:

34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

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The word "love" is mentioned 3 times in just one verse. All these occurrences of the word "love" refer to the Greek agape love.

Both Jesus and Paul use agape-love as an ideal for the practical Christian life. However, the Greek word has general meanings. BDAG ἀγάπη:

① the quality of warm regard for and interest in another, esteem, affection, regard, love (without limitation to very intimate relationships, and very seldom in general Greek of sexual attraction).
ⓐ of human love
ⓑ of the love of God and Christ

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② a common meal eaten by early Christians in connection with their worship, for the purpose of fostering and expressing mutual affection and concern, fellowship meal, a love-feast

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See also

• Amnon agape-loved Tamar before he raped her
• Frequency of agape-love in the NT

Jesus asks us, who are his followers, to remain in him, to remain in his love, for his words to remain in us, and for us to be his disciples, bearing much fruit for him. He desires to have sweet fellowship with us all the time, every day of the week. He has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives.

He has called us, gifted us, and equipped us for his service. And he has assigned each one of us specific roles which we are to fill within the body of Christ. And he commands that we obey him and his teachings. He is not only our Savior, but he is our Lord (Owner-Master), and we are his bond-servants (slaves), but more than just servants – we are his friends if we do what he says.


Remain in Him

An Original Work / September 23, 2011
Based off of John 15:1-17

Walk in fellowship with Jesus, Savior and friend.
He’s invited you to be His servant again.
Obey all His commands and do all that He says.
Sit at His feet each day. Worship Him for always.
Call Him master and King. Obey Him in all things.
Turn from all of your sins. Live in vict’ry again.
He’ll restore you today if you call Him and pray;
Forsake all of your ways; take up your cross today;
Follow Him for always.

Follow Jesus your friend where He leads you today.
Abide always in Him. Let His words dwell within.
If you remain in Him, bearing fruit from within,
God will answer your prayers, because for you He cares.
Be His followers now. Remain in Jesus’ love.
You will know peace within; comes from heaven above.
Love your neighbors and friends, and your enemies, too.
God will call you His friend. He will ne’er forsake you.
He has appointed you.

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If you put your faith in a physical object, then it is wrong. We should trust God. Lucky charms are superstitions. They may even be idolatry if you worship them. God dwells in you. Practice How to hear God instead of lucky charms.

Should a Christian own a lucky charm?

I don't. When I see others have them, I think they understand neither science nor God.

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They are purely superstition - trust in magic or chance, or a false conception

In the previous writing, “Encouraging One Another,” I spoke on the subject of how we need to be encouragers, but how there are two types of encouragement. One is the kind of stuff that makes us feel good and that encourages us in the work that we are doing for the Lord. The other kind is a holy urging or an exhortation and it can sometimes be a rebuke, but it is usually an encouragement away from a particular behavior toward walking in obedience to the Lord in holy living and no longer in sin.

And this second half of 3rd John does both. But in this case, John was letting the believers in Christ know of his intentions to correct a situation going on within the church which was out of order and which needed to be dealt with. And that should have served both as a warning to those who were doing evil and as an encouragement to those who were being unsettled by what was going on. For by letting the latter know his intentions, they could perhaps have courage to do what was necessary to correct the situation themselves.

But when we, as followers of Christ, see so much evil and so many lies and liars and deceptions within the gatherings of the church and in the teachings being taught there, and when we witness that no one is doing anything about all the evil that is going on in the name of Christianity, it can be very disheartening. So having a word of encouragement, letting us know that someone who has the power fully intends to resolve that situation, should serve to encourage us that not all is lost, but that there is hope for change.

Sadly, though, I don’t see many “John’s” in our day who are passionate about righting the wrongs and doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord. I am not saying that they don’t exist, but that I personally am not seeing them in those I have observed in many different church gatherings, many of which I attended personally, and some of which I observed online or read about in books or heard about from other followers of Christ. It appears that so much of today’s “churches” (mostly businesses) are on sinking sand.

So, the one who is going to come to the rescue is Jesus Christ himself, but sadly that rescue is going to involve severe discipline of the church at large who has fallen prey to the enemy and who has diluted and altered the character of God/Christ, and of his church, and of his gospel message, and who has turned the church gatherings into a marketplace, which God forbids. For so much of what are called “churches” today are just businesses being marketed to the world just like any other businesses.

[Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 18:1-25]

So, in our world today, it isn’t just about one man or a few rotten men who are leading God’s people in the wrong direction. But we have multitudes of men and women who are teaching lies and who are leading people to follow after false christs and a false gospel and a false hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God. And many of them are directing the paths of their church congregations toward blending in with the world in order to draw in large crowds of people from the world into their gatherings.

And so God is presently speaking similar words about these situations as John did in his remarks about just this one man. And the Lord is warning his people against these charlatans and “wolves in sheep’s clothing,” and those who disguise themselves as servants of righteousness but who work for the devil, instead. And he is telling his people that we need to come out from among these who portend faith in Jesus Christ but who are really ferocious wolves inside. And we need to follow after our Lord, instead.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

For the Lord’s instructions to us are to tell us that we are not to imitate what is evil (not of God) but we are to imitate, i.e. we are to pattern our lives after what is good (what is of God and is holy and righteous and obedient to God). So, when this says that whoever does (is doing) good is from God, this is not speaking of “good” in the eyes of human beings, but what God calls good, which is all that is righteous, just, holy, upright, morally pure, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands.

And then he let us know that whoever does (is doing) evil has not even seen God, and he is speaking of the practice of evil. And so this can include many who profess faith in Jesus Christ but for whom sin is still their practice. So they are also those who are not walking in obedience to the Lord and to his commands, in practice, and they are not honoring Jesus as Lord of their lives, and they have not forsaken their sinful practices, and they are not living holy lives which are pleasing to God, for they still live to please self.

So this is yet another support for the teaching that lets us know that we are not to be partners with nor to be in fellowship with the ungodly. And the ungodly are all who are living in sin and not in walks of obedience to the Lord. Therefore they are not all who profess to be Christians and to be believers in Jesus Christ. For many give lip service to the Lord but their hearts and their behaviors are far from the Lord. And the Scriptures teach that they are not of God, but they are of the devil (1 John 3:4-10).

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Peter 1:15; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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Michie said:

Lawyer for arrested former Vatican employee says manuscript is mystery

The lawyer for the former Vatican employee accused of trying to sell St. Peter's Basilica an allegedly stolen 17th-century manuscript about plans for the massive canopy over the basilica's main altar said the illustrated manuscript is different from one listed in the archives and later reported...

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We can say that the lawyer was breaking the law. Lawyers are supposed to uphold the law, and defend a client, not steal historical documents.

I decided to use the image of Sebastian Castellio as my avatar, a figure that most Protestants probably know nothing about.

Castellio was a Reformed Protestant and one-time friend of Calvin that stayed in Geneva during the worst of the plagues, tending the sick as other elders fled the city out of fear. But he came to disagree with Calvin's authoritarian style, and he denounced Calvin after the execution of Miguel Servetus for heresy, which Calvin approved. He wrote, "If you kill a man for doctrine, you do not prove the doctrine. You merely murder a man". Prophetically, he foresaw the ruin of Europe unless Christians learned to live together in love "until we attain to the unity of faith". His writings would go on to directly influence John Lock's ideas of religious toleration, though Locke hid his contact with Castellio's writings, because it was seen as potentially defending a heretic, which could have brought the death penalty.

There's a new historical novel about his clash with Calvin, Fire and Faith:

A former BBC journalist and deselected Liberal Democrat candidate, David Campanale, has filed a lawsuit against his party, alleging discrimination due to his Christian faith, sparking significant controversy within the political sphere in the United Kingdom.

Campanale claims he was prevented from contesting as a member of parliament in Sutton and Cheam, a significant electoral battleground, because of deep-seated hostility from party members toward his religious views. The legal battle and public outcry have raised questions about religious freedom and discrimination within political parties in the U.K.

Campanale’s civil claim includes serious allegations against the current Liberal Democrat candidate, Luke Taylor, accusing him of leading a campaign that marginalized Campanale for his Christian beliefs, The Telegraph reported.

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In America, no citizen is above the law.

Donald Trump seems to like picking advisors, who think that they are above the law.

Giuliani Says It’s ‘Hard To Believe’ He Had To Report As A Defendant—As His Mug Shot Is Released In Arizona Fake Electors Case

I love reading the 119th Psalm. It is so rich in biblical truth, not that the bible itself is not, obviously, but what I love about the 119th Psalm is the Psalmist’s love for the Lord, and his love for the word of the Lord and his desire to obey it. He doesn’t see the commandments of the Lord as a drudgery or as a burden, but as a delight. And even under the New Covenant we still have commandments of the Lord that we must obey.

There is no sense here that he had his time of devotions with the Lord quick in and quick out, so that he could check it off his list for the day, and so that he could now go about his daily routines. What I get from reading the 119th Psalm is that the word of the Lord was what he breathed in and out each day, and what he lived by, from morning till night. Instead of longing for the pleasures of this world, he longed for the commandments of God. Wow!

He wanted the Lord to guide his steps and to make them steady. He wanted the Lord to help him so that no iniquity would get dominion over his life. But, as we know from reading the Scriptures, as a whole, we have a part in this we must play. We must resist the devil and flee temptation and keep our lives and our eyes and minds centered on Christ and on his word. We must take that way of escape provided for us. And we must cooperate with God.

And he wanted the Lord to redeem him from man’s oppression. And oppression can be acted out in many different ways. It can be in the form of persecution of those who are walking in faithful obedience to the Lord Jesus and who are sharing the truth of the gospel with others. And it can be in the form of others attempting to tempt us to do wrong and to compromise our faith and convictions and to lower our moral standards in order to be accepted. And it can be in acts of cruelty, spite, and malice against us.

But, there again, we must then do as the Lord leads, and as he commands. We must follow the leading of the Lord in how to respond to such situations, and in what to say, or not say. We must not let other humans intimidate us into doing wrong or into compromising our faith and convictions. We must not let the fear of man (humans) overtake us so that we back down and so we retreat and so that we don’t end up doing the will of God for our lives.

And we should be so in love with God, with Jesus Christ, and with his word, with such a strong desire to follow him and to do his will, and with such a strong conviction regarding what the Scriptures teach about what will happen to those who refuse to obey the Lord, that literally our eyes shed streams of tears because other people, especially those professing the name of Jesus, do not obey the Lord and his New Covenant commandments.

It should grieve us. It should break our hearts to see the condition of so much of what is called “church” today where so many are deserting the truth of the gospel to follow after the lies of charlatans. We should be those who weep over the knowledge that so many professing Christians are still walking in sin, ignoring the commands of our Lord, many because they love their sins more, and they are being told that their sins no longer matter to God.

But no matter what we go through in this life, and no matter how many tears we shed, and no matter how much persecution we face, or hardships we experience, if we are following the Lord Jesus with our lives, he is there with us giving us the strength we need to endure. And he will give us all the counsel and help and guidance we need to make it through every trail until the day he comes to take us to be with him for eternity. Praise His Name!

When I Go Home

By G. M. Eldridge

“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes…” Revelation 21:4

In the moment He appears
And the light from heaven shines,
I’ll forget ev’ry fear,
Ev’ry pain I’ll leave behind.
Then I’ll see Him as He is
And I’ll know Him as I’m known.
Ev’ry tear wiped away when I go home.

Ever present is the tho’t
That a moment waits for me
When unworthy as I am,
His glory I will see.
I will empty all my praise
Before my Father’s throne.
Ev’ry tear wiped away when I go home.

If the trial I endure,
And your presence I can’t find,
Be near me, Lord, I pray,
Bring back unto my mind
That your promises are firm
And I’m never on my own.
Ev’ry tear wiped away when I go home.

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A newly approved law will enable Oklahoma public school students to receive off-campus religious instruction during the school day if they choose to.

Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed House Bill 1425 into law Wednesday. The bill was passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature last month, with the Senate voting 38-7 and the House of Representatives voting 51-40.

The law authorizes school districts’ boards of education to “adopt a policy that excuses a student from school to attend a released time course for no more than three class periods per week or a maximum of one hundred twenty-five class periods per year.”

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As Southern Baptist Convention messengers prepare to vote on an amendment in their constitution, known as the Law Amendment, that would permanently ban women from serving as pastors “as qualified by Scripture,” the denomination’s former president J.D. Greear has called it “unwise” and “unnecessary” and said it could lead to a hemorrhaging of minority churches.

“I remain convictionally opposed to this amendment, not because of its content but because of its attempt to undermine our historic principles of cooperation,” Greear, who served as the SBC’s president from 2018 to 2021, wrote on his websiteThursday.

“It overturns a system that works. I don’t oppose the Law Amendment because I’m a closet moderate or soft on theological issues. I am concerned that the missional, cooperative balance that has characterized our Convention since the Conservative Resurgence is about to be overturned.”

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Revelation 22:21 | The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.

2 Corinthians 1:18-22 | As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we preached among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No; but in him it is always Yes. For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why we utter the Amen through him, to the glory of God. But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has commissioned us; he has put his seal upon us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

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If you ever get defeated in a debate, it is probably not the best idea to then broadcast it online.

Yet that is exactly what one radical Protestant did this past week, broadcasting their interaction with an unassuming Catholic named Dave.

Despite just popping in to pick a few groceries, Dave was more than ready for the would be Inquisitor and ended up articulately defending the Catholic faith.

Watch:

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One helpful approach is to pray for wisdom and discernment in decision-making, while also taking practical steps and using the talents and abilities that God has given you. It's about finding that middle ground where we trust in God's plan while also being proactive in our efforts.

It's also okay to acknowledge when we feel unbalanced and seek guidance from others, whether it's through prayer, discussions with fellow believers, or seeking counsel from spiritual leaders. Sometimes, having a supportive community can help provide clarity and perspective.

Lady Bug said:

Can someone close this thread for the time being? I guess I jumped the gun. I should have written down any problems first. Sorry about all this.

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I can help out with that. Let me know if you want it re-opened or you can create a new thread.


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There is no "right" denomination, at list we as humans can't distinguish which one is "right".

I like what Pastor in my church was always saying, at the end no one will ask you to what church you where attending.

If you live on this planet called “earth,” which all of us do, and if you pay close attention at all to what is going on in the world around us, you should be able to connect the words in this passage of Scripture with what is happening in our current world. And this isn’t speaking just in literal terms, such as of earthquakes and tornadoes and such, but it is speaking, as well, in figurative language, of our world in a state of disaster morally, mentally, spiritually, and politically, which is impacting people’s lives in many different ways, most especially in ways which are against Christ and his word.

For we are living in the last days before the return of Christ, and the longer things continue on this earth, the worse they become. And yet, if our trust is in Jesus Christ, and we are living in moral purity and uprightness and in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands, and not in sin, God is our refuge and our strength, and he will help us and he will get us through these times of trouble on the earth before he takes us home to be with him for eternity. So, we are not to fear what is going to happen and what will happen to us, for the Lord will be our strength so that we can endure.

But this requires that we remain faithful to the Lord and that we keep our trust in him and that we do not cave to peer pressure and that we do not reject the ways of God to join in with the world. For temptations abound everywhere for us to do as the world does in order to be accepted by the world. But we aren’t on this earth to be accepted by the world but in order to win the world to genuine God-fearing faith in Jesus Christ – a faith which dies with Christ to sin and is raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to righteousness.

For many liars and deceivers are living among us, and these include our government heads, our news media, heads of organizations, famous people, pastors of “churches,” and our fellow humans. And some of you reading this may be among them. For deception abounds everywhere we look these days. So many things are being faked and altered and misconstrued. And misimpressions is one of the big ways in which lies are being told, because they are indirect lies and they are harder to prove. So, before we go believing anyone, we should pray for wisdom and discernment.

But we will not be discerning and we will not have the wisdom of God in these matters if God/Christ is not truly Lord (Master) of our lives, and if we are going our own way, doing our own thing, instead. For we cannot be Christ-minded if we are worldly minded, and if our minds and hearts are set on the things of this sinful world and not on the Lord and his word and on walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. And we will not be discerning if we are giving way to fear of what other humans are doing, too. So we need to be still, and know that God is God, and he will win this battle.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Peter 1:15; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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Update: I started writing down a story thanks linux poet, I did this even without reading your replies. Or may be coincidence, I wrote about my two brothers personalities as their own theories versus what is truth. Not going into details. I am currently not working for 1 year. I am finding persistence in housework, budgeting and one day volunteering. I find myself tempted to be impulsive and sign up for a job again. Then weigh up like the decision rationally and say that I have self discipline to be persistent with myself. The pain is real I feel it now, loneliness, pain, irritation, I use this as my vehicle on the way forward to cope and move on inch by inch. Character is coming, my life my sweetness and my hope. The piece of coal concentrated then become the diamond.

Are all Habits Godly, I wonder.?

You can grow closer to God by diligently seeking Him. You diligently seek Him by giving undivided time to Him in prayer. God yearns for you more than you want Him. If you seek Him, you will find Him.
Make space for 10-15mins daily prayer: even do that 5 days a week to begin with.

If you are depressed, counselling will be necessary.

Peace to all,

To me what manefests it the power of the spirit will of the being. It is of the spirit through the flesh of the soul in the being. Divinity to me is through the New Spirit in the being to manifest eternal life of the Body.

Peace always,
Stephen