"I know the spirit is purging me of everything that's hurting me"
I still love this song
Praying! Stay in faith!
Scripture says to let love be without hypocrisy. To be a hypocrite used to mean to be an actor, to play a part. So we're not supposed to be simply playing a part when we act lovingly, kindly, or just nice toward someone. It should be genuine.
Can there be true peace here? I think there can be. It's what I've striven for, with equal expression, for quite awhile. I know we can achieve it. We can LOVE one another, listen (or ignore and look at another post?) and embrace each other. Differences are going to be a given, but the love of Christ is a command.
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Well, I stil have my 'receipt' as evidence.
Trying not to act up with these clerks. Gotta remember who I am and WHOSE I am but they are about to take me to THAT place.
*chanting* JesuslovesmeJesuslovesmeJesuslovesme
I was going to acknowledge that then changed my mind... LOL
Just to add the flip side of love to this too. Perfect love, believes all things. It doesn't mean that you are blinded to people's behaviors or the things they do to you, but its a great idea to assume the best about people until they show you otherwise, or you know with certainty that their intentions toward you are wrong. This is important to me, especially in a forum where you can't tell what people's motivations are. There is always hiprocrisy in the church, and it is always revealed. But we remember, that only God knows what is in people's hearts. And they will have to deal with God for showing false love, for by our love others are supposed to recognize his church. The word says not to love in word or talk, but in deed and truth. But it also says, it believes all things.
1 Corinthinas 13:4-7
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.
I thank God I have a praying mother
today she said "you know, when I think about you and everything you had to go through
the song "I don't believe He brought me this far to leave me" comes to mind
and then she prayed with me and as she prayed
she said the verse "He is the same God today, yesterday and forevermore"
I almost burst out crying
because it's exactly what I needed to hear
why was I stressing?
so pointless
So I want to pass it on to you
ladies remember He is the same God forevermore
the same God who promises not to leave you or forsake you
I bought a small rock that has the word "Grateful" engraved on it. I keep it in my purse and I am trying to be grateful for at least ONE thing a day.
Today I am grateful for my life. I am breathing and living and that means I have another chance to get this right.
The fire upon the altar must be continously burning, it must not go out. Leviticus 6:13. You want to triump, keep the fire kindled! Give the enemy no place! Lord continue to stir up the gifts of all the women here. Refresh the again and again, so that you may empower then by your holy spirit. Be not wearry in well doing, but be refilled with the holy spirit, Acts 2, 4