"He can't save Himself..." - Mark 15:31 "Yeshua went to the cross freely knowing He had the authority to call 12 legions of angels to stop His crucifixion BUT He loved us so much He could not stop it because that meant God would lose His beloved creation...you!"
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"Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness..." - Matthew 6:33 "The Kingdom of God is a spiritual reality that can be experienced by anyone who seeks it diligently with a humble, repentant and childlike heart through Yeshua..."
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"Bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ..." = 2 Corinthians 10:5 'We must decide to think about what we think about. Our thoughts are extremely powerful. We must take each and every thought captive and immediately throw each thought that does not come from God..."
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"Freely you have received, freely give..." - Matthew 10:8 The generous gifts that have been given to us are free to us BUT they have come at the HIGHEST Price... We must go out daily and exhaust all of our resources by freely giving of ourselves, our time, our talent and our treasure to pay back our
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"I am the light of the world..." - John 8:12 We are called to be the light of the world but we have to turn from our propensity to seek the darkness. And when we choose to be the light of the world, then we must go into and contact the darkness in order to be God's light...
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"I am the bread of life..." John 6:35 When Yeshua said this He was referring to so much more than just the physical aspect of bread. One of those aspects that He was also referring to, was for us to be consuming Him daily and being reliant upon Him for our survival..."
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"Salt does no good in the box or a bag...it needs to be in direct contact with the soil or the Earth. In other words, the salt operates by being present and not absent and as long as salt is locked up...we cannot be the salt of the Earth...because we are not in contact with the Earth..."
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"We are called to be perfect, as our Father in Heaven is perfect"- Matthew 5:48. So many of us Christians actually just throw our hands up in the air and say..."Oh well, I'm not perfect" when we sin or we behave in an inappropriate manner. We use our "imperfection" almost as an excuse to sin...
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"The End Game for our Christian Journey, our Walk through the life God blessed us with, is to spend eternity with Him through our repentance of our sins, our belief in Yeshua (Jesus) and bring as many people as we can to Him with us..."
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"Understand, we are not promised to have a perfect life nor easy life...no quite the opposite...but when we have faith and trust in God...He will provide of all of the things we need to meet our challenge..."
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"We must make God our New Year's Resolution...to be renewed by His Holy Spirit and Power daily... - Isaiah 65:17 tells us..."Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. And the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind..."
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"Love...and the greatest of these is Love. God is Love and He calls us to love Him and to love everyone else as we love ourselves. Imagine what a world would look like with God's Agape Love flowing freely from everyone for Him and each other..."
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"Peace that passes all understanding is only understood when God is totally in control of our lives through the power of Jesus Christ, made manifest by the Holy Spirit..."
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"Consider it pure Joy my brother and sisters whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance" James 1:2-3 "Our Joy is not found in the circumstances, possessions, accomplishments or even people in our lives. Our Joy is rooted in God..."
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"May the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with Hope by the power of the Holy Spirit..." - Romans 15:13 "Our God is our God of Hope! God is also the source of ALL Hope...Our Hope is directly correlated to our Love, Faith and Trust in God..."
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"This is the week of Thanksgiving and I for one, love this holiday...maybe it's the turkey...Lol. Seriously, we all tend to be "thankful" on Thanksgiving but we are called to give thanks to God everyday not just one day of the year..."
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"Agape Love is Godly Love. A self-sacrificing, selfless Love that we as human beings cannot understand unless and until we have the Holy Spirit of the Living Father God dwelling within us from His grace through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the repentance of our sin..."
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"We must have blind faith regarding our relationship with God. When we try to "think and analyze' God's word to understand all of it, we become like the Pharisees, knowing the words but not the living spirit of the word. Jesus calls for us to come to Him as a child, not a college professor..."
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"We are called to love God with all of our hearts, our souls, our minds and our strength and to love others as we love ourselves...Jesus tells us that this is the foundation on which all the scriptures are written... - So let's Love God and BE God's Love to the entire world..."
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"God bestows His unmerited grace upon us through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ because He Loves us, so let's live our lives showing His grace to all others who we touch in our lives..."
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