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Where Does Love Begin?

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Love -  it is the craving of all. It is a common need; we must have love in order to be fulfilled in our life. The absence of love creates a vacuum, an endless hole within, a need that must find its abundant source. In all of creation, One meets the satisfaction of this definition... one and only one is the sufficient, boundless, and everlasting source--that one is God. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.  1John 4:7 BUT where does LOVE begin? We seek love mostly in people, but after being hurt, rejected and treated ungracefully we convince ourselves that we will never be loved genuinely. We seek love with sex, desires, things, adventures and accomplishments searching to be fulfilled. We try to love over and over, but mess up so much, and get rejected. So where do we start with love? Where does it begin? GOD is birthed in us through Jesus. When we accept Jesus, the Holy Spirit--LOVE-- lives

Show Me My Sin - Know Grace

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Grace is the ability to receive undeserved mercy.  Mercy is forgiveness, access, protection or ability granted that did not have to be given. Therefore Grace is receiving forgiveness that is not deserved but granted by the power and benevolence  of the One that is able. God gives grace and mercy.  He is able and worthy to do so, because of Jesus' life, death, burial and resurrection. He is the only one able to forgive sins. Sin... a small word. Without sin, grace, mercy and forgiveness is less needed and therefore does not poured out into a person's life. While grace and mercy can still be provided to draw you away from sin or to "for a time" when you are under another's covering, insulate you from temptation, forgiveness is only known by sinners. "Show me my sin"  is a request a person can make if they are serious about knowing God. Sin keeps us apart from God. Sometimes in our life, when we are not sensitive to sin or before we are

Build The WALL First, Mexican American Border

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UPDATE: June 2013 I wrote this post on February 14, 2011; it is now June 2013 and still nothing has been done about building the wall between Mexico and the United States but much has been discussed and plotted about giving Mexicans and other Nationalities that have illegal entered or illegally overstayed their visa to have the right to become an American Citizen. Let us start with the right terminology. A person that enters the country illegally is a foreigner who is breaking the law thus they are rightly called an illegal alien, not an immigrant. An immigrant is one who applies for immigration status and obeys American laws, so let us stop calling lawbreaking foreigners immigrants. If they want the fine status of immigrant they can return to their foreign nation from which they came and apply to come to America as an immigrant legally. American Citizenship is not a right to be tossed about lightly and given to people who come to our country illegally or who are lawbreaker

If I died Tonight - What I want you to know

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None of us know when our last day on earth will be. I was thinking about this and decided to write down what I would want anyone left behind after my death to know: GOD is all that matters.  I know I am going to heaven. It is not because I was good, though I tried to be. It is because God is good and He showed me that He is life. Jesus is God. He was born to live a life without sinning so that he could die to release all humans from the curse of eternal death. I have sinned and so have you, therefore, you and me and every person who ever lives is cursed to eternal damnation, to join the rebellious fallen angels in hell for eternity. But as I said, God is Good, therefore, He became the provision to give us a way to avoid that future. He loves us so much He died for us so that we might live. And He didn't stay dead, He rose from the grave. He beat Satan and death... and made a way for us to do so also. You see it is kinda hard to realize that what is physical in life is

Three Essentials to Prayer - How to Pray?

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Many Christians wonder how to pray. They "try" as they suppose they should. They study prayer topics in the Bible and try again to emulate the "Lord's Prayer" which is an excellent example of the ingredients of prayer...but they are frustrated by the lack of power found in their prayers and the sheer boredom of trying to pray. They hear voices and are confused if they are hearing God, Satan or their own heart desires. Rightly so, they sense their meager attempts to pray are fruitless, and worse, cause them to doubt their faith and question both their own heart and that of the reality of God Himself. Should communicating to the Creator God be so troublesome? Is God not able to communicate to us if He wishes? God is ABLE. Therefore, if God is able then what is wrong? It must be us-- our condition- - our own attitude and actions. While in everything spiritual we are continually growing, here are three essentials to Prayer: Patience Precepts