Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering,
as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice that
you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed
when His glory is revealed.
(I. Peter 4.12 & 13).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires,
which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse
you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
(I. Peter 2.11 & 12).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends:
With the Lord a day is like a thousand years,
and a thousand years are like a day.
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some
understand slowness.
He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish,
but everyone to come to repentance.
(II. Peter 3. 8 & 9).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
(I. John 4.7).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us,
we have confidence before God and receive
from Him anything we ask, because we obey
His commands and do what pleases Him.
And this is His command: to believe in the
name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and to love
one another as He commanded us. Those
who obey His commands live in Him, and
He in them. And this is how we know that
He lives in us: We know it by the Spirit He
gave us.
(I. John 3.21-24).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
(I. John 4.7).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
God in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior has entered into
our life and world as one of us to make us at one with Him.
His saving power has been declared at the Cross and at His
Resurrection.
This is how we know God as Jesus crucified, the Holy Spirit Who
raised Him from the dead and the Father Who has sent His Son
to save us has also poured the Holy Spirit in our hearts so we can
call Him our Father!
This is the Unity of the Holy Trinity Who is God for all eternity.
Make it clear to your friends and family. When you say God, you
call on the Eternal Lord Who said, Let Us (Father, Son and Holy Spirit)
make humanity in Our image, after Our likeness.
“God, Who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to
the forefathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by
His Son, Whom He has appointed heir of all things, through Whom He
also made the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time.
He is the brightness of the glory of God and the express image of God’s
nature and upholding and maintaining, guiding and propelling the
universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself
accomplished our cleansing of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the
Majesty on high.”
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.”
Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life.
“The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.
He who believes in the Son has everlasting life, and he who does not
believe the Son shall not see Life, but the wrath of God remains in him.”
Jesus said:
“This is the will of Him Who sent Me, that everyone who sees
the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting Life and I will raise
him at the last day.”
” Most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting Life.”
Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through Me.”
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
GREATEST LOVE
“I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.
Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit He cuts away
and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that
continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer
and more excellent fruit.
You are cleansed and pruned already, because of the word
which I have given you (My teachings).
Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. (Live in Me and I will live
in you). Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding
in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit
unless you abide in Me.
I am the Vine. You are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in
him bears much fruit. However, apart from Me ( cut off from vital
union with Me) you can do nothing.
If a person does not dwell in Me, he is thrown out like a (broken-off)
branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into
the fire, and they are burned.
I you live in Me ( abide vitally united to Me) and My words remain
in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will and
it shall be done for you.
When you bear (produce) much fruit, My Father is honored and
glorified, and you show and prove yourselves to be true followers
of Mine.
I have loved you, (just) as the Father has loved Me.
Abide in My love.
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love and live
on in it, just as I have obeyed My Father’s commandments and
live on in His love.
I have told you these things, that My joy and delight may be in you,
and that your joy and gladness may be of full measure, complete
and overflowing.
This is My commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.
No one has greater love than to lay down (give up) his own life or his
friends.
You are My friends if you keep on doing the things which I command
you to do.
I do not call you servants any longer, for the servant does not know
what his master is doing (working out).
But I have called you My friends, because I have made known to
you everything that I have heard from My Father.
You have not chosen Me, but i have chosen you and I have
appointed you that you might go and bear fruit and keep on
bearing and that your fruit may be lasting, so that whatever you
ask the Father in My Name, He may give it to you.
This is what I command you: that you love one another.”
(John 15.1-17).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR YOUR ABIDING LOVE
FOR US AND FOR GRANTING US THE LOVE SO WE CAN LOVE ONE
ANOTHER! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR THE FRUIT WE BEAR!
THANK YOU FOR LAYING DOWN YOUR LIFE FOR US AND FOR
CALLING US YOUR FRIENDS!
“Now it is an extraordinary thing for one to give his life for even an
upright man, though perhaps for a noble, lovable and generous benefactor
someone might even dare to die.
But God shows and clearly proves His (own) love for us by the fact that
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Therefore, since we are now justified by Christ’s blood, how much more,
(certain is it that) we shall be saved by Him from the indignation and
wrath of God.
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the
death of His Son, it is much more certain, now that we are reconciled,
that we shall be saved ( daily delivered from sin’s dominion)
through His (resurrection) Life.
Not only so, but we also rejoice and exultingly glory in God (in His
love and perfection) through our Lord Jesus Christ. through Whom
we have now received and enjoy our reconciliation.”
(Romans 5.7-11).
Jesus Christ suffered and died on the cross of Calvary to grant us
salvation and eternal Life. He took on human misery and sin to
give us the greatest future. He helps us daily through His Presence.
He sustains, guides and comforts us through the Holy Spirit.
God demonstrates the greatest love, His perfect love for us in that
while we were still sinners Christ died for us. Now, much more
having been justified by His blood we shall be saved from sin’s dominion
and from God’s wrath. WE ARE ETERNALLY THANKFUL LORD JESUS!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE! THANK YOU FOR ETERNAL LIFE!
THANK YOU FOR OUR RECONCILIATION! WE REJOICE IN YOUR
GOODNESS AND KINDNESS! WE EXULTINGLY GLORY IN YOUR
AMAZING LOVE AND PERFECTION AS WE ENJOY OUR REDEMPTION!
HALEELUJAH! WE PRAISE YOU LORD FOREVERMORE!
THE LOVE OF THE FATHER
O righteous Father! The world has not
known You, but I have known You and
these have known that You sent Me.
And I have declared to them Your name,
and I will declare it, that the love with
which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.
( John 17. 25-26).
TOTALLY AMAZING
How awesome and wonderful it is to realize that the Father
loves us with the same love He loves the Son
and the Holy Spirit enables us to experience
and express the love of
the father toward Jesus because Jesus is in us.
Christ in you the hope of glory. ( Colossians 1.27).
THINK ABOUT THIS
Think about this, meditate and pray on this.
Write your comment about how this makes
you feel. Mention how knowing and experiencing this
changes your approach to your family, friends, co-workers
and clients. Tell us about changes in your life and how being
so empowered has enabled you navigate life’s stormy waters
and brought you breakthrough and victory.
BELOVED
Beloved, let us love one another,
for love is of God and everyone who
loves is born of God and knows God.
He who does not love does not know God,
for GOD IS LOVE. (I. John 4.7-8).
We experience and express the perfect
love of God through the Holy Spirit.
We know the greatest love in the universe
is shown to us when Jesus
Christ died for us on the cross.
He lives and gives us the love we need
to display to the world.
The love to
demonstrate that He is the Savior of the world.
He said,
” By this all will know
that you are My disciples, if you
have love for one another.” ( John 13.35).
POINTS FOR MEDITATION
Meditate on these verses.
Talk to your friends and family about these.
Please write your thoughts and comments.
Much much more to come.