Silence is praise to you, Zion-dwelling God, And also obedience. You hear the prayer in it all. (Psalm‬ ‭65:2‬) The Holy Spirit knows us inside out. He understands more through our groans and wordless silences than we can cleverly gush out. Lord, help us to be real with You. Help us to stop trying to be clever. Help us to come honestly – in trust and hope. After all, You hear the prayer in it all … X #grace #groans #kindness #prayer #forgiveness #faith #caring #Pap

Silence is praise to you, Zion-dwelling God, And also obedience. You hear the prayer in it all. (Psalm‬ ‭65:2‬) The Holy Spirit knows us inside out. He understands more through our groans and wordless silences than we can cleverly gush out. Lord, help us to be real with You. Help us to stop trying to be clever. Help us to come honestly – in trust and hope. After all, You hear the prayer in it all … X #grace #groans #kindness #prayer #forgiveness #faith #caring #Pap

… raising his eyes in prayer, he (Jesus) said: Father, it’s time. Display the bright splendor of your Son So the Son in turn may show your bright splendor. You put him in charge of everything human So he might give real and eternal life to all in his charge. And this is the real and eternal life: That they know you, The one and only true God, And Jesus Christ, whom you sent. (John‬ ‭17:1). Mind blowing words. Jesus defines ‘real and eternal life’ as ‘relationship!

(Jesus speaking) “Take this most seriously: A yes on earth is yes in heaven; a no on earth is no in heaven. What you say to one another is eternal. I mean this. When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my Father in heaven goes into action. And when two or three of you are together because of me, you can be sure that I’ll be there.” (Matthew‬ ‭18:18) Why are we encouraged to ‘get together and make a prayer of it?’ Because it shows ho

…Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching. (Heb 10:22) True love doesn’t just attract – it cares. Bless and Worship Papà by spending an extra few minutes with people today and encourage love to show itself. You may well just end up on the receiving

Our firm decision is to work from this focused center: One man died for everyone. That puts everyone in the same boat. He included everyone in his death so that everyone could also be included in his life, a resurrection life, a far better life than people ever lived on their own. Because of this decision we don’t evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don’t look at him that wa