Monday, April 30, 2012

Love is....

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (ESV ) Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Greetings to my wonderful WIFI ministry subscribers, family and friends all around the world....  I awake

today with "LOVE" on my mind... When I think about how Jesus gave his only begotten son that we may have

life.... That's enough right there to let me know that Jesus loves me, oh yes he does...

Well, I've come to the conclusion that "I'm in Love with Jesus and he's  in Love with  me...."  This is the only long term relationship

I've  ever kept in these  46 years outside of my family... I'm so happy to report that there has never been a

break up between us, and our love just keeps on getting  stronger and stronger..  Even the times when I did

not do right, he just kept right on being God throwing his loving arms around me, and for that I say "Thank

you"   When we come to realization and realize that 'Love" is really all we need... Everything else falls in

place... I love some of the finest of things, but I'm convinced that only what you do for Christ will last...

2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)  17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed

away; behold, all things are become new.

 

Everyday as I  walk around I see all of his great creations and how he made everything so beautiful and so

unique...  I amazed everyday that the sun comes up, when the stars and  moon comes out at night...  I'm

amazed with  man in general how we are all different, but yet all the same...  Our animals are some unique

and beautiful creations also..   I'm fascinated with all the beautiful flowers, plants and trees... When I look all

around I see nothing but Love letting me know that there is a God that sits high and looks low.   Everyday, I

take the time out to just say Thank You Lord for showing me what Love really is...

New Direction- I'm in Love with Jesus


Bible Verses about "Love Is...."

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 345 helpful votesLove is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 157 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

John 13:34 ESV / 110 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 79 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 58 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 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, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...

John 3:16 ESV / 57 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 54 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Hebrews 13:1 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Let brotherly love continue.

Romans 13:10 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 42 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

John 15:13 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 14:15 ESV / 33 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Song of Solomon 1:1-17 ESV / 29 helpful votes

The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you. I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. ...

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 28 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

 

1 John 4:9-10 ESV / 27 helpful votes

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 through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 4:11 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 3:16-18 ESV / 24 helpful votes

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 24 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Mark 12:30 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Mark 12:31 ESV / 23 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

1 John 4:20 ESV / 22 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 22 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 14:23 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

John 14:21 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

John 13:35 ESV / 19 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Mark 1:1-45 ESV / 18 helpful votes

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ...

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,


Luke 12:35-40 ESV / 17 helpful votes

“Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. ...

Ephesians 4:1-3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.


John 15:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

John 21:15-17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 11 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Matthew 23:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.

Luke 5:6 ESV / 5 helpful votesAnd when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.

    Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas, April 30, 2012 Cited:  Scriptures are from Open Bible - http://www.openbible.info/topics/love_is

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Thank you Lord for all you've done for me....

1 Thessalonians 5:18 (ESV) Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.


Today I stop  to show my gratitude to God and take the time to say:

"Thank you Lord for all you've done for me!"   

"If I had ten thousand tongues, I could not thank you  enough for all you are doing in my life"...

Everyday is not Sunday, but life still just keeps on getting better and better as I yield my life to you dear Jesus and begin to focus on God all by himself and pray for other's rather than focusing on my problems and what I don't I have...  I realized a few months back when I really sick and in tremendous chest pain that it's not about me, but it's about "Jesus!"

God has always been my all and all, and that right there makes is to easy to pause and say

"Thank you"

on this Saturday in the month of April 28, 2012....


Being Thankful

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 548 helpful votesGive thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Psalm 107:1 ESV / 345 helpful votesOh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
Ephesians 5:20 ESV / 317 helpful votesGiving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Colossians 3:15-17 ESV / 254 helpful votesAnd let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
James 1:17 ESV / 202 helpful votesEvery good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
2 Corinthians 9:15 ESV / 155 helpful votesThanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 132 helpful votesDo not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Psalm 105:1 ESV / 122 helpful votesOh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!
Psalm 106:1 ESV / 121 helpful votesPraise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
Psalm 118:1-18 ESV / 84 helpful votesOh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. ...
Colossians 3:15 ESV / 83 helpful votesAnd let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Psalm 20:4 ESV / 79 helpful votesMay he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans!
Colossians 4:2 ESV / 75 helpful votesContinue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
Psalm 30:12 ESV / 72 helpful votesThat my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Romans 1:21 ESV / 60 helpful votesFor although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Colossians 3:17 ESV / 47 helpful votesAnd whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 47 helpful votesA Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Romans 10:9 ESV / 34 helpful votesBecause, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
John 3:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 10:10 ESV / 28 helpful votesFor with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 27 helpful votesThe Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 27 helpful votesFor by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Micah 6:8 ESV / 26 helpful votesHe has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Psalm 9:1-2 ESV / 26 helpful votesTo the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
Psalm 46:1-11 ESV / 25 helpful votesTo the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. ...
John 14:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 21 helpful votesAnd Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Isaiah 12:4-5 ESV / 21 helpful votesAnd you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted. “Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth.
Psalm 100:4 ESV / 21 helpful votesEnter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!
1 John 1:9 ESV / 20 helpful votesIf we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 10:4 ESV / 20 helpful votesFor Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Psalm 95:2 ESV / 20 helpful votesLet us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 20 helpful votesTo the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. ...
Philemon 1:4 ESV / 18 helpful votesI thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 18 helpful votesBut test everything; hold fast what is good.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 18 helpful votesFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 17 helpful votesI am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ...
John 3:3 ESV / 16 helpful votesJesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 1:12 ESV / 14 helpful votesBut to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Romans 10:13 ESV / 13 helpful votesFor “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Matthew 10:28 ESV / 13 helpful votesAnd do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 12 helpful votes“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Psalm 100:1-5 ESV / 12 helpful votesA Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
Acts 17:11 ESV / 11 helpful votesNow these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
James 1:1-27 ESV / 10 helpful votesJames, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...
Romans 5:1 ESV / 10 helpful votesTherefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 10 helpful votesJesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...
Psalm 7:17 ESV / 10 helpful votesI will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.
1 Chronicles 29:13 ESV / 10 helpful votesAnd now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.
Malachi 3:11 ESV / 9 helpful votesI will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts.
Psalm 118:28 ESV / 9 helpful votesYou are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you.
2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 8 helpful votesThe point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Ecclesiastes 7:14 ESV / 8 helpful votesIn the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 8 helpful votesHe who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...
1 John 2:27 ESV / 7 helpful votesBut the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 7 helpful votesBaptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 7 helpful votesIn him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 7 helpful votesOr do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. ...
James 4:6-12 ESV / 6 helpful votesBut he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. ...
Colossians 2:7 ESV / 5 helpful votesRooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
Psalm 35:18 ESV / 5 helpful votesI will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you.
John 10:10 ESV / 4 helpful votesThe thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Malachi 3:15-18 ESV / 4 helpful votesAnd now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.’” Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name. “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
Ecclesiastes 12:1-14 ESV / 4 helpful votesRemember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low— they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— ...
Psalm 40:1-17 ESV / 4 helpful votesTo the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. ...
2 Samuel 1:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votesAfter the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.” And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.” Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” ...
Psalm 102:2 ESV / 3 helpful votesDo not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!
Psalm 145:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votesA Song of Praise. Of David. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. ...
Psalm 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votesMy eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes.
Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
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Friday, April 27, 2012

World In Focus International Ministries: I will bless the Lord at all times....

World In Focus International Ministries: I will bless the Lord at all times....: God has been so good to us and he has done great thing for us all..  We should always stop and take the time to  bless the Lo...

I will bless the Lord at all times....

God has been so good to us and he has done great thing for us all..  We should always stop and take the time to  bless the Lord at all times....No matter what it looks like.. Whether I'm up or down, I'm still going to bless the Lord because he keeps right on blessing me in spite of my pain, my shame, my difficulties, through the storm and the rain through my heart aches and my pain.. . I don't know about you, but God has done great things for me so  I will bless the Lord because he has done great and mighty things for me!!!(Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas 4/27/2012)

I'm just gone let Psalms 34 speak for me on today and the bible says:

Psalm 34 King James Version (KJV)

Psalm 34

"I Will Bless the Lord At All Times"- He's good! Joe Pace

 1I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

 2My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Byron Cage - I Will Bless The Lord

 4I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

 5They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

 6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

 7The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

 8O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

 9O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

 10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

 11Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

 12What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

 13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

 14Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

 15The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

 16The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

 17The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

 18The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

 19Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

 20He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

 21Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

 22The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.


          
Posted by Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas - April 27, 2012

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Grace and Forgiveness

Psalm 19:12 King James Version (KJV)- 12Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

The late Bishop G.E. Patterson "Yes Lord/Invitation to Christ

Greeting to all of my wonderful subscribers, family and friend's of World In Focus International Ministries (WIFI)...  Thank you so much for your continued love and support, I can't say thank you enough... Today I want to touch on grace and forgiveness which is a big issue in our world today and tends to be a very touchy subject when it comes to us truly and really forgiving each other like Christ has forgiven us and showed us time and time again his precious love, grace, compassion, forgiveness and mercy...  Often times we become angry at the thought of forgiveness because it just seems so hard to let go of the things that hurt us so bad... It's not that we don't want to let it go, it's just the thought of never wanting it to ever happen again in our lives...   I had to come to grips on yesterday and realize that battle really is not mines  but it's the Lord...  So after a long day of thinking, I had to come to terms that Grace and Forgiveness or not options that are vital to Christian growth if we desire to move forward and go higher in him...  The scripture says in Luke 18:13  (KJV) 13And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I asked God to please ease my pain and take all these bad memories away from me and be merciful and replace them with things of  Love, Peace, Joy and  Happiness..  When we develop  a positive  attitude,  God takes care of us - forgives us, cleanses us through the blood of Christ,  covers our transgressions and keep us under the shadow of His wings .                                                                                1 John 1:7  (NIV) 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.  Romans 4:7 - "Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Psalms 17:8-9 (ESV) Keep me as the apple of your eye;  hide me in  the shadow of your wings, from the wicked who do me violence,  my deadly enemies who surround me.  I seek for those things which are good and pleasing to God...  I never want to find myself bitter, because I feel no better than the person that has trespassed against me...  We as Christians have to learn how to be the bigger person... In the word of God he teaches us all how to be good disciples and  gives us instructions on how to come to him and draw others to him by taking them down the Romans road which is full of Grace and Forgiveness...   It really simple too.... He said all we need to do is confess with our mouths and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead and though shall be saved...  So you have to stop and ask the question do you believe that Jesus Christ Died for your sins?   If the answer is yes, you are headed on the right road...  Then the next step is letting you know that God is faithful and just to forgive us from ALL unrighteousness...  He gave his only begotten son who was wounded for our transgressions, beat and bruised for our iniquities...   He then lock his head in the arms of his shoulders and died, BUT he did not stay there very long....  He stayed there all day Friday,  and Saturday, but early Sunday Morning our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ got up with all power in hands to show the world the kind of love he has for you and I.    That's what I call real love that a man would lay his life down for friend... It's not happening much these days, but we do have some people that love each other so hard  that they would give their all for them...    I say just love unconditional like Christ loved us... 

The Cost of Being a Disciple Luke 14:25-34 New Living Translation (NLT) 25 A large crowd was following Jesus. He turned around and said to them, 26 “If you want to be my disciple, you must hate everyone else by comparison—your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple. 27 And if you do not carry your own cross and follow me, you cannot be my disciple.

28 “But don’t begin until you count the cost. For who would begin construction of a building without first calculating the cost to see if there is enough money to finish it? 29 Otherwise, you might complete only the foundation before running out of money, and then everyone would laugh at you. 30 They would say, ‘There’s the person who started that building and couldn’t afford to finish it!’ 31 “Or what king would go to war against another king without first sitting down with his counselors to discuss whether his army of 10,000 could defeat the 20,000 soldiers marching against him? 32 And if he can’t, he will send a delegation to discuss terms of peace while the enemy is still far away. 33 So you cannot become my disciple without giving up everything you own.

34 “Salt is good for seasoning. But if it loses its flavor, how do you make it salty again? 35 Flavorless salt is good neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown away. Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand!”  

Posted by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas / April 26, 2012