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“But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”
Matthew 5:44, ESV
Retaliation belongs to the Lord. We should do as Jesus did when He walked this earth: pray for others and be willing to be hurt and even killed for them that they may see His faithfulness and love.
“The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
Exodus 14:14, ESV
God will end all oppression, but first and foremost from our sin. The rest definitely comes at the end of this world at Christ’s return.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts 1:8, ESV
The Holy Spirit empowers us to love others by sharing the Gospel faithfully.
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew 22:37-39, ESV
How do we live God and obey His commandments? We love others.
How do we love others? We obey God’s commandments and seek God above all else.
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:11, ESV
Our world largely seeks to avoid pain and difficult circumstances (or seeks them wrongly), but God will allow and even send painful circumstances to help grow more like Christ.
“Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out”
Acts 3:19, ESV
We have had a way of thinking that is contrary to God. We must turn to God and learn how to live and think in a godly,Christ-like way and ask for God’s forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
Psalm 8:3-4, ESV
The God who created billions of light-years of space and matter sees each of us and loves us enough that He came to us as one of us to save us from our sin.
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
Psalm 27:14, ESV
Our God is in control.
Be patient. Trust Him. He may not fix all of our problems in this life, but He is coming again for us with eternal life.
Be strong in the Lord.
for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
2 Timothy 1:7, ESV
We can overcome our fears by God’s Holy Spirit and the hope we have been given, especially to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with our world.
a simple man of God 