Good Morning Friends!
✨📖✨ “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth. It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it; (Isaiah 55:8-11 NIV). •
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✨📖✨Haven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away; (Matt. 24:35).
✨Men have no will naturally to come to Christ, or to have him to reign over them; they have no desire, nor hungerings and thirstings after his righteousness and salvation; wherever there are any such inclinations and desires, they are wrought in men by God; who works upon the stubborn and inflexible will, and, without any force to it, makes the soul willing to be saved by Christ, and submit to his righteousness, and do his will; he sweetly and powerfully draws it with the cords of love to himself, and to his Son, and so influences it by his grace and spirit, and which he continues, that it freely wills everything spiritually good, and for the glory of God. •
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✨God therefore both implants in them principles of action to work from, as faith and love, and a regard for his glory, and gives them grace and strength to work with, without which they can do nothing, but having these, can do all things: and all this is "of [his] good pleasure"; the word "his" not being in the original text, some have taken the liberty to ascribe this to the will of man. •
~~~ ✨John Gill’s Commentary
Loving one another is of the utmost importance to God. Some of us take it lightly and we cover up our true feelings by making statements such as “I’m going to love them from a distance. This means I like them better from far away. By doing this we’re able to look away from the most basics of needs that people have. Someone may be in need of something as simple as water, food, shelter, clothing, encouraging, a listening ear. Perhaps someone needs a Bible, or just a cup of coffee or a hug. Has your heart hardened to a brother or sister in need? Don’t follow the crowd, be kind to one another. Help someone who may be hurting. If you see a need, meet it. Be a giver, God loves a cheerful giver. Scripture confirms that when we give to those in need, it’s just like we gave it to God; (Matt. 25:40). What you make happen for others, God will make it happen for you. Perhaps that’s why He placed you on the same paths. Did you see them and just passed them by? 🤷🏽♀️
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