09/04/2018
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I am your best friend, as well as
your King. Walk hand in hand with Me through your life. Together we
will face whatever each day brings: pleasures, hardships, adventures,
disappointments. Nothing is wasted when it is shared with Me. I can bring beauty out of the ashes of
lost dreams. I can glean Joy out of sorrow, Peace out of adversity.
Only a Friend who is also the King of kings could accomplish this divine alchemy. There is no other like Me! The friendship I offer you is practical and down-to-earth, yet it is saturated with heavenly Glory. Living in My Presence means living in two realms simultaneously: the visible world and unseen, eternal reality. I have equipped you to stay conscious of Me while walking along dusty, earthbound paths.
“No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you keep on doing what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you [My] friends, because I have revealed to you everything that I have heard from My Father.” John 15:13–15
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, Because the Lord has anointed and commissioned me To bring good news to the humble and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up [the wounds of] the brokenhearted, To proclaim release [from confinement and condemnation] to the [physical and spiritual] captives And freedom to prisoners, To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord, And the day of vengeance and retribution of our God, To comfort all who mourn, To grant to those who mourn in Zion the following: To give them a turban instead of dust [on their heads, a sign of mourning], The oil of joy instead of mourning, The garment [expressive] of praise instead of a disheartened spirit. So they will be called the trees of righteousness [strong and magnificent, distinguished for integrity, justice, and right standing with God], The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified. Isaiah 61:1-3
Only a Friend who is also the King of kings could accomplish this divine alchemy. There is no other like Me! The friendship I offer you is practical and down-to-earth, yet it is saturated with heavenly Glory. Living in My Presence means living in two realms simultaneously: the visible world and unseen, eternal reality. I have equipped you to stay conscious of Me while walking along dusty, earthbound paths.
“No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you keep on doing what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you [My] friends, because I have revealed to you everything that I have heard from My Father.” John 15:13–15
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, Because the Lord has anointed and commissioned me To bring good news to the humble and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up [the wounds of] the brokenhearted, To proclaim release [from confinement and condemnation] to the [physical and spiritual] captives And freedom to prisoners, To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord, And the day of vengeance and retribution of our God, To comfort all who mourn, To grant to those who mourn in Zion the following: To give them a turban instead of dust [on their heads, a sign of mourning], The oil of joy instead of mourning, The garment [expressive] of praise instead of a disheartened spirit. So they will be called the trees of righteousness [strong and magnificent, distinguished for integrity, justice, and right standing with God], The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified. Isaiah 61:1-3
Working together with Him, we strongly urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain [by turning away from sound doctrine and His merciful kindness]. For He says,
“At the acceptable time (the time of grace) I listened to you,
And I helped you on the day of salvation.”
And I helped you on the day of salvation.”
Behold,
now is “the acceptable time,” behold, now is “the day of salvation”— we put no obstruction in anyone’s path, so that the
ministry will not be discredited, but we commend
ourselves in every way as servants of God: in great endurance, in sufferings,
in hardships, in distresses, in beatings, in imprisonments, in
riots, in labors, in sleepless nights, in hunger, in purity and
sincerity, in knowledge and spiritual insight, in patience, in kindness,
in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love, in [speaking]
the word of truth, in the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness for the
right hand [like holding the sword to attack] and for the left [like holding
the shield to defend], amid glory and dishonor; by
evil report and good report; branded as deceivers and yet [vindicated
as] truthful; as unknown [to the world], yet
well-known [by God and His people]; as dying, yet we live; as punished, yet not
killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as
poor, yet bestowing riches on many; as having nothing, yet possessing all
things. 2
Corinthians 6:1-10
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