This is the opposite of the ways of the world. Some would say to get revenge. Others would say to create distance or avoid at all costs. But Jesus says to love our enemies and pray for them. This is a tall order. It is nothing that we can accomplish on our own...
1 John 4: 7-8Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that lovethis born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1 John 4: 11-21(more on love your brother.)...
’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you,...
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy muchpeace… If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life andpeace. In that stillness you know what His will is.– Amy Carmichael ...
If we refuse to surrender to the love of God, we must feel the absoluteness of His will as wrath (23-24). A Parable for 2025 January 14, 2025Personal On Saturday as I started my regular bike ride, I thought: ‘The rail line to Ellenbrook is now completed: perhaps the bike path—...
Father. “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” (1 John 3:1). When we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, we become God’s children. Fathers instruct, guide, and discipline their children, but they also love to...
Lift Up Your Hearts!: 50 Blessings and Prayers for Parish Meetings and Ministers These 50 blessings and services include opening and closing prayers, a Scripture reading, time for reflection on the word and intercessions. There are bles... D Mccann 被引量: 0发表: 2007年 Prayers for the New...
but every year the LORD will make it more and more clear that in His Book there is no error, no excess, and no omission. It is no discredit to be a simple believer; the faith which looks alone to Jesus is a crown of honor on any man’s head and better than a star o...
Dumbledore later explains to Harry that the reason Professor Quirrell could not touch Harry or be touched by Harry is on account of the love Harry's mother bestowed upon him when he was a baby. Dumbledore says that such a love "leaves a mark." Such a mark cannot be seen; it resides ...
poor or of the low classes of society … but rather … it was being a follower of Christ … of having eyes to see and ears to hear His word … and of acting on the light and knowledge received … and of radiating this pure love of God to one’s fellow men. It was radiating ...