Good Morning Brothers and Sisters, may we join in numbers today, standing strong in our faith, lifting up our Praise and Petitions before the LORD for our American Heroes, for our Allies in the Middle East, for our Athletes abroad, for our families and friends. As always, thank you very much for remaining in diligence each day. Love, Jean
Read: Mark 12:28-34
When asked by a lawyer to identify the most important rule in life, Jesus replied, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength (Mark 12:30). In those words, Jesus summed up what God most desires from us.
I wonder how I can possibly learn to love God with all my heart, soul, and mind. Neal Plantinga remarks on a subtle change in this commandment as recorded in the New Testament. Deuteronomy charges us to love God with all our heart, soul, and strength (6:5). Jesus added the word mind. Plantinga explains, You shall love God with everything you have and everything you are. Everything.
That helps us change our perspective. As we learn to love God with everything, we begin to see our difficulties as our light and momentary troublesjust as the apostle Paul described his grueling ordeals. He had in mind a far more exceeding and eternal . . . glory (2 Cor. 4:17).
In the advanced school of prayer, where one loves God with the entire soul, doubts and struggles do not disappear, but their effect on us diminishes. We love Him because He first loved us (1 John 4:19), and our urgent questions recede as we learn to trust His ultimate goodness.
I join in prayer for our heroes and nation!
Prayers said for our Military, all athletes and our beloved Nation.
Blessings, etabeta
Claiming the promise: Mercy triumphs over judgment" (Jas. 2:13)
Joining in prayer for our beloved America, our heroes who defend her, our athlete who represent her, and all of God's people who lift her up in prayer.
Amen and Amen and Amen. Thank you.
Mercy triumphs over judgment” (Jas. 2:13) Hallelujah.
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