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Living With A Wound Of Love

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We will naturally desire to experience the sweet love of our Beloved, and this is good. Wouldn’t it be sad if we did not desire this? Thus, our challenge is to desire to experience the love of the Beloved in this life as well as the next, while at the same time completely letting go of control of making that happen and being content if we don’t experience it. Instead, we focus on walking in the Spirit, Christformation and doing God’s will. This is one of the great challenges of the Christian life. It may take an entire life to fully embrace this tension. We should enjoy spiritual pleasure as long as God provides it, as long we as focus on God and not the pleasure. This means we do not cling to the pleasure. The spiritual hedonist focuses on their own will being done (their desire for pleasure) while Continue Reading →

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We Have All Good Things – Weekly Words Of Encouragement

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For the LORD God is a sun and shield;the LORD bestows favor and honor.No good thing does he withholdfrom those who walk uprightly. Psalms 84:11 (NIV) This Psalm encourages us by reminding us that God enlightens the world of those who walk with him. He is a blanket of light like the sun, making all good things visible so that we know God’s reality. And he is a shield of protection for his followers, protecting our hearts from the Enemy and from the destruction of sin. He gives us favor by dwelling in us by his Spirit and giving us an eternal destiny in his utopia. In the next age he will honor us, glorify us and give us grace (1 Pet. 1:13). In that day he will not withhold anything good from us but shower us with all of his blessings. We will live in a New Eden, where Continue Reading →

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All Nations Will Belong To God – Weekly Words Of Encouragement

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Rise up, O God, judge the earth,for all the nations are your inheritance. Psalms 82:8 (NIV) This Psalmist is asking God to judge the earth, especially rulers who are partial to the wicked and support oppressors. Like the Psalmist we all want such practices to end permanently. Then the Psalmist declares a most encouraging word. “All the nations are your inheritance.” This means that ultimately the nations will belong to God. How will this happen? After he judges the citizens of all nations, those who pass judgment will remain with God. And God will gather members from every nation to himself. These people will be the true representatives of their nations and the truly redeemed and restored citizens of those nations. At the end of this age all these nations will be reunited with God in his community: After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that Continue Reading →

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The Supreme Goodness Of Loving God

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God is populating his kingdom with lovers until the day when he will fulfill all his promises of the kingdom and establish the perfect community of love with himself and his followers. Loving him is our greatest good, and for citizens of his inaugurated kingdom the King’s greatest commandment is to learn to fully love him. This keeps us on the trajectory that culminates in our future spiritual marriage with God on the New Earth. In this way we conform to the core of the image of Christ, for his highest priority is oneness with the Father and love is the bond of that oneness. These are the reasons that loving God is the supreme commandment and supremely important for all of our growth. God’s love for us is the foundation of his goodness to us. Our resulting love for him is the foundation of all our responsibilities toward him Continue Reading →

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When God Seems Distant Remember His Deeds – Weekly Words Of Encouragement

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And I said, “This is my fate;the Most High has turned his hand against me.”But then I recall all you have done, O LORD;I remember your wonderful deeds of long ago. Psalms 77:10-11 (NLT) The Psalmist felt that God had abandoned him, that the Lord had rejected him and would no longer love him: Has the Lord rejected me forever?Will he never again be kind to me?Is his unfailing love gone forever?Have his promises permanently failed? Psalms 77:7-8 (NLT) But then he thought back to God’s great deeds of the past. He remembered that God miraculously brought Israel through the Red Sea (vv. 16-20). Likewise, if you wonder if God is with you and cares for you, remember what he has done in the past. Remember supernatural events that only God could have done. Remember how he rescued you from the kingdom of darkness. This is enough for your faith. It Continue Reading →