Ecclesiastes 3:1

New King James Version

Everything Has Its Time

3 

To everything there is a season,

A time for every purpose under heaven:

Just like seasons they come and go at specific times of the year only that specific time. Well so as there is a right time for everything, and everything on earth will happen at the right time. Not in our time as we hope but in God’s time, the right time in God’s eyes. These are the seasons of life.

1 Peter 2:9 (Good News Translation)

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But you are the chosen race, the King’s priests, the holy nation, God’s own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.

you are his chosen people, the King’s priests. You are a holy nation, people who belong to God. He chose you to tell about the wonderful things he has done. He brought you out of the darkness of sin into his wonderful light. To share his good news and marvelous works. To tell of his miracles and his life that others will come be his holy people also. Also people he also has chosen. We are royal in his name. We each have a God given focus and God given gift that we are taught to share and tell of God’s life and word.

Continue reading “Royal Nation”

Ephesians 1:18English Standard Version

¹⁸ having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints

When we open our mind to new ideas in christ our hearts shine and become enlightened I pray that you also may be enlightened that you know what is the hope and purpose that he has called you for if we live in God’s word eventually we will see production and proof of his presence hense in turn we will begin to find meaning in our path and journey of life I pray that God will open your eyes to see his presence and your mind to see his truths then you shall know the hope he has chosen us as followers to have you will know that the blessings God provides and promised as he promised his holy people are rich and fullfilled in glory

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Ephesians 2:8-9 (New International Version)

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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.

We live our lives in Satans sin of the world and had God not prepared and sent his son as a sacrifice for all the world and mankind we would be the ones suffering death so when we hear Ephesians 2:8-9 when it says

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.

It is saying it is by the grace of God

By Jesus death on the cross which has saved you through faith that you have life this is not from anything we’ve done to save ourselves it is by sacrifice on the cross by Jesus it is a blessing and gift from God not by works but by death no one can boast about it as their own doing

For that alone would be sin

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

“I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them.” Ezekiel 11:19–20

Jesus secured this by his blood for all whom the Father gives him. Quote By John Piper

For God created each of us with one organ called the heart ❤️ he said in Ezekiel 11 that he was going to give us one heart by our evil ways and sin we shadow and mask that heart ❤️ he takes away all that by giving us a new spirit in Christ Jesus removing the tainted, shadowed heart full of evil and deceit and ungodly lifestyles thus removing our heart of stone our ungodly ways taking them from our bodies doing this that we may live life in God’s way of good and a godly life giving us a new heart and full new life in one body

My fiancé was born with a backwards heart and had to go through heart surgery when he a baby to survive because of this he has to be on a transplant list for a new heart ❤️

I gave him this scripture and played the song by Danny Gokey “Tell your heart to beat again” https://youtu.be/F77v41jbOYs

every time he hears it he cries

This was his writing about his heart condition every child born with this is a true miracle By Shane

https://thesouthpawedpoet.wordpress.com/2020/10/26/a-walking-miracle-living-with-a-broken-heart/

God knows everything there is to know about us in all aspects and views we can not hide anything from him. Nothing of the mind in thought. Nothing spoken. Nothing done. God knows it all. We are to live in Godly lifestyle that honors him. Though living truly like the spirit is so hard for we as humans still sin. Our Mind is the hardest to overcome with Satan always filling it with deceitful temptations and obstacles of evil, lies and deceit. The heart is full of love and leads your gut but it’s the most deceitful of all. The Bible says in Jerimiah

“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”

Jeremiah 17:9-10 NLT

For God knows all our inner sources and even if we try to hide away something from him we cannot. The lord search’s us like a database in a system he finds all the flaws and works of evil and puts up our offense against us for the punishment he sees fit. He gives each one the rewards he sees for the works of good deeds they have done all in accountability of what he sees they deserve as only God can do. Our heart is a work of art, a touch of the master’s hand it can be a beautiful loving place filled with peace. However it is also the most dangerous and difficult place as well filled with lines of temptation and deceit of you.

For it tells all your inner truth about you and your inner soul it shows God weather you are sincere or fake it’s no disguise God knows from the heart of your dishonest and a fake. How bad is the human heart really? That is a question needing to be re-examined of all exams run upon our heart. Are you honestly living in a godly way pleasing to God and sincere in all you do? Or are you living out of deceitful actions trying to hide the real you which you can not do. Examine yourself in all you do safe yourself and your heart which deceives you. Ask God to guide you and change you if you’re walk with him is not as pure as possible. He is always Accepting of you and willing to help you if asked. Just ask and give him the chance not only for him, but also for you. God can test a person’s mind and decide what each one should have. He can give each person the right payment for what they’ve acted upon. This is how we then come to the understanding of

Nothing can hide its evil as well as the human mind. It can be very sick, and no one really understands it. But I am the Lord, and I can look into a person’s heart. I can test a person’s mind and decide what each one should have. I can give each person the right payment for what they do.

Jeremiah 17:9-10

“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.” By J. Palmer

Jeremiah 17:9-10 NLT paragraph taken from The Human Heart

The Human Heart – Living Water Ministries By J. Palmer

Story Of Faith A Backwards Heart And Ways Made Straight By God – Living Water Ministries By J. Palmer

How Do I Learn To Receive Love?

John 13:8

New Living Translation

8 “No,” Peter protested, “you will never ever wash my feet!”

Jesus replied, “Unless I wash you, you won’t belong to me.”

We are taught to obey the laws of God above no other law this shows honor and respect to him as a man and our God one thing you must do out of love and respect to him is the practice of washing feet many churches throughout the world do this practice

It is an honor of love, respect and living sacrifice it is what Jesus has told us to do to be his unless we practice foot washing in relationship with him we will not be showing him love and honor as he wants and deserves

Philippians 3:9

New Living Translation

9 and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith.

You can not live an I Life living all about yourself and your own righteousness but about God’s righteousness and living our lives right in faith through Christ our lives should represent and reflect him in all reverence

Luke 18:16

New Living Translation

16 Then Jesus called for the children and said to the disciples, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children.

But Jesus called the little children to him and said to his followers, “Let the little children come to me. Don’t stop them, because God’s kingdom belongs to people who are like these little children.

Hosea 2:20

New Living Translation

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I will be faithful to you and make you mine,

    and you will finally know me as the Lord.

The Lord, Jesus promises to always be faithful in everything in our lives that he will show us his true self making us his that we then and only then will know him as the lord

Why should I love God?

Deuteronomy 6:5

New Living Translation

5 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.

We are taught to love one another in reverence that includes loving God the same as well

Joshua 22:5

New Living Translation

5 But be very careful to obey all the commands and the instructions that Moses gave to you. Love the Lord your God, walk in all his ways, obey his commands, hold firmly to him, and serve him with all your heart and all your soul.”

But remember—continue to obey the law that the Lord’s servant Moses gave you. You must love the Lord your God and obey his commands. You must continue to follow him and serve him the very best that you can.”

Mark 12:29-30

New Living Translation

29 Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. 30 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’

mark 12:29-30 Jesus answered, “The most important command is this: ‘People of Israel, listen! The Lord our God is the only Lord. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength

Psalm 116:1

New Living Translation

Psalm 116

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I love the Lord because he hears my voice

    and my prayer for mercy.

Always love The Lord for he always loves you hears you and is only an ear away at all and any times

1 John 3:1

New Living Translation

3 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.

1John 3: 1 The Father has loved us so much! This shows how much he loved us: We are called children of God. And we really are his children. But the people in the world don’t understand that we are God’s children, because they have not known him.

1 John 4:19

New Living Translation

19 We love each other because he loved us first.

We have learned to love each other in his image because he first loved us and showed us his grace

John 15:10&11

New Living Translation

10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!

I have obeyed my Father’s commands, and he continues to love me. In the same way, if you obey my commands, I will continue to love you. 11 I have told you these things so that you can have the true happiness that I have. I want you to be completely happy.

Shane and J. Palmer

There are many thousands! Here are just a few:

First, God designed and made us. Not only that, but He made us in His image – that is, able to think and feel, understand and love and take responsibility, just as He does. The Bible tells us that when God designed and created the world, He said,

“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”. (Genesis 1:26)

That’s a great honor!

Secondly, He is interested in us.

For he knows the secrets of the heart. (Psalm 44:21)

And even though He knows all about us, He still loves us! He could turn away from us in disgust, but He carries on loving us.

Thirdly, He wants to give us all that we need to be happy and satisfied in life.

If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? (Romans 8:31-32)

That brings me to the greatest reason for loving God. He is perfectly good and we are rebels, but instead of despising us, He gave His own Son to die for us:

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life”. (John 3:16)

Lastly, God commands us to love Him.

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might”. (Deuteronomy 6:5)

It must be very important to love God if He commands us to do it!

I could go on listing reasons to love God, but instead, I’d like to ask you a question: “do you love God?”

The sad thing is that many people do not love Him, though they may respect Him. Actually, the Bible says that we often behave like His enemies, because we do wrong things.

So how can someone really love God?

Just as you love your parents and your friends because you know and trust them, you can love God when you know and trust Him through Christ. Jesus said that He is the only way to God. He died for us so that we can be forgiven and have God as our beloved Father. But we need to admit our sins and turn from them; this is called repentance. Even more than that, we need to believe in Jesus as our Saviour and Lord. Then God will be our Father and make Himself known to us. This is an amazing reason to love Him!

In summary, there are many reasons to love God but the most important is that He gave his Son to save us and be with us forever. I encourage you to ask God for forgiveness and to ask Jesus to be your Lord and Saviour.

Here are some more Bible Verses for your further consideration:

• 1 Peter 3:18

• John 14:16

https://www.lookingforgod.com/questions-and-answers/category/22/question/1193/

Many of us love God.

But some just respect God and do not love Him. Some indicate that they hate the term God. All these three groups will list various reasons for their respective relationship with God. Even those of us who love him will highlight differing reasons for doing so.

Here is an English translation of a poem from Spanish poet Leon Felipe (1884-1968), who was born in Spain but lived his later life in Mexico. This was translated by Harvard Divinity School student Walter Smelt and published in the recent issue of “Harvard Divinity Bulletin.”

Spanish translation

Señor,
Te quiero
porque juegas limpio.
Sin apilar la cubierta, sin milagros.
Tarjeta por tarjeta,
me dejas acostarlos
sin utopías, nada
bajo la manga
mientras juego
tu terrible
solitario.

English Translation

Lord,

I love you

because you play clean.

No stacking the deck, no miracles.

Card by card,

you let me lay them down—

no utopias, nothing

up your sleeve—

as I play out

your terrible

solitaire.

We asked our panel of distinguished religious leaders of the region the following question: Why do we love God?

Here is what they have to say:

Muhammed A. Quddus, Northern Nevada Muslim Community member

If love is a feeling of affection, warmth and appreciation, the reasons for the believers to love God are obvious. To them, it is God who created them, protects them, sustains them, and it is to whom they shall return to an eternal life in a paradise, hopefully. It is God’s miracle that develops babies from “nutfah,” nurtures them in mothers’ wombs, brings them into this world as beautiful little creations, and offers boundless potentials to do good in this world as adults. As they grow, endless opportunities are made available by God for them to enjoy the gifts of this life and earn rewards by performing good deeds to secure an enjoyable place for eternity in the life thereafter.

Yes, the humans are subject to accountability for their actions. However, without accountability, life would be, as Thomas Hobbes put it, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” What is there not to love God?

GOD IS LOVE

Robert W. Chorey, Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno curia moderator

God loves us first. It starts with this and only this. Then start with the reality that there is absolutely no reason for you, me or any of us to exist, and yet we do. We are intended … God loves us and God wants us.

Gratitude would be the next awareness, I am grateful for simply being. I am grateful for you simply being. That gratitude is only for God.

Jesus Christ reveals the extent of God’s love; willing to give of self for all to save the world; save it from our ingratitude, from our self-centeredness that causes so much suffering for all.

Gratitude can only increase when we personally become aware of this.

Gratitude that is ultimately love; the acceptance of the utter goodness of God. Love that acknowledges the good in all of creation, in all of others.

Final realization: We are created by God to love.

LOVE HEALS ALL

Matthew T. Fisher, Reno Buddhist Center resident priest

Buddhism is a nontheistic world view; we have no direct answer to the question. We do not worship any god or gods as part of Buddhist practice. We do have deep gratitude to the Wisdom and Compassion of the Universe and to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who guide and sustain us through our spiritual journey.

The Buddha taught three forms of love: loving-kindness, compassion, and sympathetic joy. They are three qualities of heart that reside within us. Skillful spiritual practice brings love into all of life and to all we encounter. Love can be present when we speak, conflict and live with others. This is challenging, but possible. It begins with setting the intention. Practicing loving-kindness, even briefly, each day is beneficial. A drop of practice is effective, as the Buddha said, “With each drop of water, the jug is filled.”

These are just some things from yet there is much more on this site below 

https://www.rgj.com/story/life/2016/09/30/faith-forum-why-do-we-love-god/91342188/

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My life for you I give

All of me

I give to you

All my broken pieces

Making me unchained

Breaking my bondage

Giving me life

Healing you give me

by all yours scars

For I want to be a sacrifice to you

I lay down my spirit

My shattered heart

All of me I give to you

Laying at the bottom of the cross

I lay all of it and all of me at your feet

I’m the morning when I rise

I long to see your face

As you sing over me

Soak me in your grace

Glory and Mercy

In life I honor you

I speak of your name

Make me a river

Make me overflow with the words to say

Give me living water

that it flow through all I do and who I am