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November 15, 2020

Why Joe Won - He Belongs To God 

1 John 4:1-21

1 John 

Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit.  You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world. This is the way to find out if they have the spirit of God:  If a prophet acknowledges that Jesus Christ became a human being, that person has the Spirit of God.  If a prophet does not acknowledge Jesus, that person is not from God.  Such a person has the spirit of the antichrist.  You have heard that he is going to come into the world, and he is already here.  

But you belong to God, my dear children.  You have already won your fight with these false prophets, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.  These people belong to this world, so they speak from the world's viewpoint, and the world listens to them.  But we belong to God; that is why those who know God listen to us.  If they do not belong to God, they do not listen to us.  That is how we know if someone has the Spirit of truth or the spirit of deception. 

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God.  Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God.  But anyone who does not love does not know God - for God is love.

God showed us how much he loved us by sending his only son, into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.  This is real love.  It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.  God lives in us, and his love has been brought to full expression through us.

And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us.  Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his son to be the Savior of the world.  All who proclaim that Jesus is the son of God have God living in them, and they live in God.  We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in him.

God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect.  So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we are like Christ here in this world.  [ARE WE....ARE YOU....AM I?]

Such love has no fear because perfect love expels all fear.  If we are afraid, it is for fear of judgment, and this shows that his love has not been perfected in us.  We love each other [DO WE?] as a result of his loving us first.

If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we have not seen?  And God himself has commanded that we must love not only him, but our Christian brothers and sisters, too. 

[Note: anything in brackets is my personal editorial comment.}

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Thoughts....

Psalm 150 reads: 

Praise the LORD!

Praise God in his heavenly dwelling; praise him in his mighty heaven!

Praise him for his mighty works; praise him his unequaled greatness!

Praise him with a blast of the trumpet; praise him with the lyre and harp!

Praise him with the tambourine and dancing; praise him with stringed instruments and flutes!

Praise him with a clash of cymbals; praise him with loud clanging cymbals.

Let everything that lives sing praises to the LORD!  Praise the LORD!

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   Let Us Pray

God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, forgive us all of our sins.  Please.  May we all learn more about you, receive you into our hearts in your fullness, and carry you with as as we go about every day in life, to love all, as you first loved us. Thank you for allowing us this opportunity.  And thank you for doing everything in your power to ensure the voice of the people who have spoken, will be fully heard.  In Jesus' name I pray, by, and with, the power of the Holy Spirit, to dear Heavenly Father God.  Amen.  We praise you.  We thank you.  We love you.  Amen.

Great is thy faithfulness!

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Now....PRAY....EARNESTLY....as to the way you should go ! 

Go placidly....but go....with the LORD !

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Majesty....worship His Majesty !

NOT fallible mankind ! 

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AMERICA, THANK YOU FOR VOTING WISELY

for the

President of the United States of America!

I am confident that God will prevail in the final say!

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Let us hear from Paul as he prays:  

When I think of the wisdom and scope of God's plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.  I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit.  And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him.  May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love.  And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is.  May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it.  Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

Now glory be to God!  By his mighty power at work within us, he is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope.  May he be given glory in the church and in Christ Jesus forever and ever through endless ages.  Amen.  Ephesians 3:14-21 NLT         

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  One last thing....

Jesus' Prayer of Thanksgiving

'The Unforced Rhythms of Grace'

"Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer:  "Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth.  You've concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people.  Yes, Father, that's the way you like to work."

Jesus resumed talking to the people, but now tenderly.  "The Father has given me all these things to do and say.  This is a unique Father - Son operation, coming out of Father and Son intimacies and knowledge.  No one knows the Son the way the Father does, nor the Father the way the Son does.  But I'm not keeping it to myself; I'm ready to go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen."

"Are you tired?  Worn out?  Burned out on religion?  Come to me.  Get away with me and you'll recover your life.  I'll show you how to take a real rest.  Walk with me and work with me - watch how I do it.  Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.  I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn how to live freely and lightly.

Matthew 11:  25-30

  The Message

And the people said,

"Amen."

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I now write most prayers in the position of ' I ' (first person) because most people are sitting at their computer alone, not in groups, and it allows those reading and praying to personalize the prayer as coming from them going to God.  Variations may appear on holidays when families may wish to use the prayer provided.  I encourage you to pray your own prayers as well.

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Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996.  Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189.  All rights reserved.

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