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    "AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE" AUDIO BLOG
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    "If we could spread love as quickly as we spread hate and negativity, what an amazing world we would live in." WE COULD ... IF WE TRIED

    1 Corinthians 13:1-13

    ​Let Love Be Your Guide

    13 "I may speak in different languages, whether human or even of angels. But if I don’t have love, I am only a noisy bell or a ringing cymbal. 

    2 I may have the gift of prophecy, I may understand all secrets and know everything there is to know, and I may have faith so great that I can move mountains. But even with all this, if I don’t have love, I am nothing. 

    3 I may give away everything I have to help others, and I may even give my body as an offering to be burned. But I gain nothing by doing all this if I don’t have love.

    4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, and it is not proud.

    5 Love is not rude, it is not selfish, and it cannot be made angry easily. Love does not remember wrongs done against it.

    6 Love is never happy when others do wrong, but it is always happy with the truth. 

    7 Love never gives up on people. It never stops trusting, never loses hope, and never quits.

    8 Love will never end. But all those gifts will come to an end—even the gift of prophecy, the gift of speaking in different kinds of languages, and the gift of knowledge.

    9 These will all end because this knowledge and these prophecies we have are not complete.

    10 But when perfection comes, the things that are not complete will end.

    11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, and I made plans like a child. When I became a man, I stopped those childish ways.

    12 It is the same with us. Now we see God as if we are looking at a reflection in a mirror. But then, in the future, we will see him right before our eyes. Now I know only a part, but at that time I will know fully, as God has known me.

    13 So these three things continue: faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love."

    ​Amen!
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    "WE HAVE BEEN MADE RIGHT WITH GOD" AUDIO BLOG
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    Romans 5:1-10

    1 "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

    2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

    3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

    4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

    5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

    6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

    7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

    8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

    9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
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    10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life."

    ​Amen!

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    "PRAYER SCRIPTURE COMPILATION" AUDIO BLOG
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    In my distress, I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.-Psalm 18:6 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.-Psalm 145:18  Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.-Jeremiah 29:12  Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.-Jeremiah 33:3 
     
    Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.-James 4:2 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.-1 John 5:14  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.-John 13:34  Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.-Romans 12:12  Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.-Colossians 4:2  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.-Hebrews 4:16  
     
    Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.-Philippians 4:6-7  Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.-1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
     
    But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.-Matthew 6:6  But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.-Matthew 6:7
     
    Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.-James 4:2  Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.-James 5:16  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.-1 John 1:9
     
    I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.-Psalm 66:17   And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.-Acts 16:25  And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.-1 John 5:15  But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.-James 1:6 
     
    And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.-John 14:13  For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.-Matthew 18:20  Therefore, I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.-Mark 11:24
     
    And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.-1 John 3:22  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.-1 Peter 5:8
     
    Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.-John 15:16  These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.-Acts 1:14  But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.-1 Peter 4:7
     
    But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.-Luke 6:27-28  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,-Galatians 5:22  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.- Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.-John 14:27
     
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    Philippians 2:5-11 Easy-to-Read Version

    5 Learn From Christ to Be Unselfish In your life together, think the way Christ Jesus thought.

    6 He was like God in every way, but he did not think that his being equal with God was something to use for his own benefit.

    7 Instead, he gave up everything, even his place with God. He accepted the role of a servant, appearing in human form.

    During his life as a man,

    8 he humbled himself by being fully obedient to God, even when that caused his death—death on a cross.

    9 So God raised him up to the most important place and gave him the name that is greater than any other name.

    10 God did this so that every person will bow down to honor the name of Jesus. Everyone in heaven, on earth, and under the earth will bow.

    11 They will all confess, 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' and this will bring glory to God the Father."

    ​Amen!

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    "HOW PRIDE KILLED HAMAN-
    ​BOOK OF ESTHER" AUDIO BLOG
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    Proverbs 27:2 - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

    Esther 5:1-14

    1 "Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.

    2 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.

    3 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom.

    4 And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.

    5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

    6 And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.

    7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;

    8 If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.

    9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.

    10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends; and Zeresh his wife.

    11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

    12 Haman said moreover, Yeah, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow am I invited unto her also with the king.

    13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

    14 Then said Zeresh, his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made."

    Following is a commentary of Esther 5:1-14 by Matthew Henry, 1710, from www.biblestudytools.com as follows:

    Esther's application received. (Verses 1-8)

    Esther 5:1-8 - Esther having had power with God, and prevailing, like Jacob, had power with men too. He that will lose his life for God, shall save it, or find it in a better life. The king encouraged her. Let us from this be encouraged to pray always to our God, and not to faint. Esther came to a proud, imperious man; but we come to the God of love and grace. She was not called, but we are; the Spirit says, Come, and the Bride says, Come. She had a law against her, we have a promise, many a promise, in favor of us; Ask, and it shall be given you. She had no friend to go with her, or to plead for her; on the contrary, he that was then the king's favorite, was her enemy; but we have an Advocate with the Father, in whom he is well pleased. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace. God put it into Esther's heart to delay her petition a day longer; she knew not, but God did, what was to happen in that very night.

    Haman prepares to hang Mordecai. (Verses 9-14)

    Esther 5: 9-14 - This account of Haman is a comment upon Proverbs 21:24. Self-admirers and self-flatterers are really self-deceivers. Haman, the higher he is lifted up, the more impatient he is of contempt, and the more enraged at it. The affront from Mordecai spoiled all. A slight affront, which a humble man would scarcely notice, will torment a proud man, even to madness, and will mar all his comforts. Those disposed to be uneasy, will never want something to be uneasy at. Such are proud men; though they have much to their mind, if they have not all to their mind, it is as nothing to them. Many call the proud happy, who display pomp and make a show; but this is a mistaken thought. Many poor cottagers feel far less uneasiness than the rich, with all their fancied advantages around them. The man who knows not Christ, is poor though he be rich, because he is utterly destitute of that which alone is true riches.





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    Prayer is amazing! Confess your sins, forgive and ask for forgiveness.

    James 5:16 - "Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."

    John 15:7 - "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."

    Mark 11:24 - "Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them], and ye shall have [them]."

    1 Thessalonians 5:17 - "Pray without ceasing."

    A Simple Prayer:

    Heavenly Father,

    Thank you for our many blessings, and for letting Your Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

    We pray you help the sick, the hungry, the fearful, the abused, and that Your Light will shine on them and let them know that they are loved and in Your sight and in Your Plan.

    We eagerly await the day when Peace will reign forever and ever. We pray You work through us to reach those in need of Your Word.

    ​Amen.