A Call, A Commission, and A Place
DO NOT let your hearts be troubled (distressed, agitated). You believe in and adhere to and trust in and rely on God; believe in and adhere to and trust in and rely also on Me. John 14:1 AMPC
Then go
…and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you… Matthew 28:19-20 AMPC
for I go to prepare a place for you. And when (if) I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to Myself, that where I am you may be also. Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me. I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, desolate, bereaved, forlorn, helpless]; I will come [back] to you. Jesus answered, If a person [really] loves Me, he will keep My word [obey My teaching]; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home (abode, special dwelling place) with him. Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. John 14:2-3, 6, 18, 23 AMPC
for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 1 John 5:1-4 NIV
So keep on keeping on, doing the work of the Father till the return of His Son who has went to prepare us a place…
From the rising to the setting sun may thy Kingdom come, and may thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven
Excerpts from Amnesiac gods…getting back to joy 01/08/2020
“One of my favorite movies is City of Joy. I think it resonated with me so much because it captures the plight of humanity to overcome suffering by exchanging despair for a new identity clothed with dignity, and where there once was pain becomes, instead, a place of power, and ones fear becomes joy.
You lose your joy when you forget your identity”
More than our birth name, our ancestory, or national heritage, we are children of God, born for a kingdom, not of this world.
“The Kingdom comes as we participate in the building of a spiritual temple, a process called sanctification.
To become a spiritual temple one must pattern themselves after Jesus, and become love.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7 NIV
Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn’t seem to make a dime’s worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God. By loving we participate in His Life and Essence.” (Excerpts from an article Rich Mullins wrote in July-Aug 1994 – Virtue Reality ).
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 1 John 4:16 NIV
For,
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may Participate in the Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. 2 Peter 1:3-4 NIV
Dear friends, now we are Children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 NIV…
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 1 John 5:1-4 NIV
So, believe, and do as you see your Father do,
Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. Psalm 82:3-4 NIV”