#James 1

[thestarwarslesbian]

Does anyone remember in red, white and royal blue (book for this not film) when Henry was talking about how James 1 had a male lover who was called George?

Well Nicholas Galitzine is going to be playing said lover in a uk historical drama.

We have come full circle guys!

#red white and royal blue incorrect quotes #nicholas galitzine #mary and george #george villiers #james 1

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What Are you Thankful For?

James 1:17 says "Every good and perfect gift comes from above, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change."

This shows how every single good thing ever to have happened is a blessing from God! Nothing is good apart from him, only a broken attempt to.

Since God is so good reblog with 3-5 things you are thankful for. Being grateful is one of the best ways to draw near to God and find contentment.

Here are mine:

That my dog found an amazing home

For my wonderful, dear friends with whom I do book club

For my gift of writing and imagination

For wonderful, inspiring stories like LotR and HTTYD that have moved me personally (and furthered my faith, though that may sound surprising :)

For close family to be with for Thanksgiving!

🦃🦃 Happy Thanksgiving!!! 🦃🦃

#what are you thankful for #thanksgiving 2023 #thankful #grateful #blessed #james 1 #god is good #thanksgiving #happy thanksgiving

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God against favoritism

I found it interesting while reading my verses this morning, James’ importance of not finding favoritism-

My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. 2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. 3 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” 4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Wow- interesting…. Don’t favorite the rich over the poor, huh?

5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? 7 Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?

Sound familiar?

The RICH are the ones exploiting the POOR. It’s been this way since the beginning of time.

Proverbs 15:16 - Better to be poor and fear the Lord than to be rich and in trouble. 17 Better to eat vegetables with people you love than to eat the finest meat where there is hate.

THE BIBLE IS FOR THE POOR- NOT FOR THE RICH

Something every modern church just so happens to ignore… 🤷‍♂️

James 1 says-

27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

That means- the religion of the modern church is POLLUTED!

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[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Salutations

1 From James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. To God’s faithful people  who have been scattered. Greetings.

When You Are Tested, Turn to God

2 My brothers and sisters, be very happy when you are tested in different ways. 3 You know that such testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 Endure until your testing is over. Then you will be mature and complete, and you won’t need anything.

5 If any of you needs wisdom to know what you should do, you should ask God, and he will give it to you. God is generous to everyone and doesn’t find fault with them. 6 When you ask for something, don’t have any doubts. A person who has doubts is like a wave that is blown by the wind and tossed by the sea. 7 A person who has doubts shouldn’t expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 A person who has doubts is thinking about two different things at the same time and can’t make up his mind about anything.

9 Humble believers should be proud because being humble makes them important. 10 Rich believers should be proud because being rich should make them humble. Rich people will wither like flowers. 11 The sun rises with its scorching heat and dries up plants. The flowers drop off, and the beauty is gone. The same thing will happen to rich people. While they are busy, they will die.

12 Blessed are those who endure when they are tested. When they pass the test, they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. 13 When someone is tempted, he shouldn’t say that God is tempting him. God can’t be tempted by evil, and God doesn’t tempt anyone. 14 Everyone is tempted by his own desires as they lure him away and trap him. 15 Then desire becomes pregnant and gives birth to sin. When sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

16 My dear brothers and sisters, don’t be fooled. 17 Every good present and every perfect gift comes from above, from the Father who made the sun, moon, and stars. The Father doesn’t change like the shifting shadows produced by the sun and the moon.

18 God decided to give us life through the word of truth to make us his most important creatures.

19 Remember this, my dear brothers and sisters: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and should not get angry easily. 20 An angry person doesn’t do what God approves of. 21 So get rid of all immoral behavior and all the wicked things you do. Humbly accept the word that God has placed in you. This word can save you.

22 Do what God’s word says. Don’t merely listen to it, or you will fool yourselves. 23 If someone listens to God’s word but doesn’t do what it says, he is like a person who looks at his face in a mirror, 24 studies his features, goes away, and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 However, the person who continues to study God’s perfect laws that make people free and who remains committed to them will be blessed. People like that don’t merely listen and forget; they actually do what God’s laws say.

26 If a person thinks that he is religious but can’t control his tongue, he is fooling himself. That person’s religion is worthless. 27 Pure, unstained religion, according to God our Father, is to take care of orphans and widows when they suffer and to remain uncorrupted by this world. — James 1 | God's Word Translation (GWT) The Holy Bible, GOD’S WORD® Translation Copyright 1995 by God’s Word to the Nations. All rights reserved. Cross References: Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:6; Genesis 22:1; Numbers 22:27; Deuteronomy 14:29; 1 Kings 3:9; Job 14:2; Psalm 34:13; Psalm 37:2; Psalm 85:2; Psalm 119:113; Isaiah 29:19; Jeremiah 2:3; Jeremiah 11:6; Matthew 4:7; Matthew 5:12; Matthew 5:22; Matthew 5:48; Matthew 14:28; Luke 21:19; Luke 22:30; John 8:32; Acts 1:15; 1 Corinthians 13:12; Ephesians 1:13; James 5:20

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The Apotheosis of James I and Other Studies: Multiple Sketch for the Banqueting House Ceiling, Whitehall by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1628-30)

Tate Britain (19.11.22)

#photography #art #aesthetic #ceiling #I forgot what the name of this piece is forgive me #museum #she’s gorgeous tho #James 1 #whitehall #sir Peter #Sir Peter Paul Rubens #sketch #Guys I found the name!

[foggybarbarianphilosopher]

James 1 is honestly one of the more beautiful chapters in the Bible..

(fun fact did you know that James was written even before the Gospels were? It was a letter to the earliest Christians on how to be a Christian, still relevant today 🪷)

what stayed with me is that if you're humble, you should be happy of your high status, but if you're wealthy you should not be too proud: For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.

James 1:11 NIV

Anyway I saw this waterlily pond holding a fallen flower today, under a temple tree and thought it was significant. The sun is shining fiercely here. It is 34C today ☀️✨

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[jeffersonvann]

empty or pure?

20240124 Photo by Paula Schmidt on Pexels.com empty or pure? James 1:26-27 (JDV) James 1:26 If anyone thinks he is religious but does not control his tongue, his religion is empty and he deceives himself.James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father looks like this: it looks after orphans and widows in their distress and it keeps oneself unstained from the world. empty or…

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#James 1

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Church notes - 27th August 2023

27th Colossians 3:16

Ephesians 4:11 - 16

Challenge: Become like Jesus Change our thinking, lifestyle and attitudes.

Romans 8:29 He wants us to become like Jesus Our values and moral decisions to be like Jesus.

Fruit of the Spirit Galatians 5:22, 23

Romans 5:3, 4 God is more interested in who you are, than what you do.

God uses troubles to teach us to trust Him.

God uses temptations to teach us to obey Him.

God uses trespasses to teach us to forgive.

Matthew 27:41 - 44

Four Habits of a Disciple The habit of time in God's Word The Habit of Prayer The Habit of Tithing The Habit of Fellowship

2 Timothy 3:16

James 1:22 - 25

Matthew 6:9 - 15 Start with praise of God Committ to God's plan for your life Our daily needs Forgiveness Protection

Tithing. 1 Corinthians 16:2

Fellowship. Hebrews 10:24, 25

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[asthecrowcrafts]

"Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world." - The Bible, ESV, James 1:19-27

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[madewithonerib]

James 1:18 | ¹ HE chose to give us 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 of #truth, that we'd be a kind of firstfruits of HIS creation.

the other night was grappling with GOD is sovereign & the bad in life.. GOD thundered a few times during the ordeal.

Checkout Berean Literal Translation

James 1:1-27 | A Greeting from James James, servant of GOD & of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, to the 12 tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings. ² Esteem it all joy, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 various trials, ³ knowing that #testing of your faith produces endurance.

When GOD thundered some more it was like it shook me out of it more as tho HE planted HIS seed of goodness to #remind me of all the good HE has done; and the verse only GOD is good GOD is #incapable of evil, though HE is sovereign of everything [Jam 1:13]

was like catching a glimpse in a flash of the acorn that turned out badly because it was not sheltered/showered in GOD's Garden under HIS careful pruning away of the evil..

As Tim Keller said the doctrine of sin is

Just as the entire tree, is all in that acorn, it's all in there, so murder & mass murder is in 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.

What do you think mass murder is?

—————————————————————— 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. [15:55] ——————————————————————

And therefore we are able to take a look at even the worse people and have compassion on them —and know: “𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿.”

——————————————————————— And I realize it could be me right there. ———————————————————————

I've got it all, I've all the apparatus/equipment —but GOD in HIS mercy up to this point:

𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗶𝘁.

Healing Relationships | Timothy J. Keller [Mt 5:20-26]

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like a tug of war as Paul outlined in Romans

Romans 7:22-23 | For in my inner being I delight in GOD’s law. ²³ But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind & holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

I appreciate your statement that we are not this wicked & evil generation

But check it out what you said about pursuit of GOD being what keeps us pure/righteous

Romans 9:31-32 | Israel's Unbelief ³¹ but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. ³² Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone

³³ as it is written:

“See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in HIM will never be put to shame.”"

[Romans 8:28-30; 13:1; Hebrews 1:13; Ephesians 1:11-12]

Romans 13:1 | ¹ Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.

Hebrews 1:13 | The Supremacy of the SON [Colossians 1:15-23] ¹³ Yet to which of the Angels did GOD ever say: “Sit at MY right hand until I make YOUR enemies a footstool for YOUR feet”?

Romans 8:28-30 | GOD Works in All Things [Ephesians 1:3-14] ²⁸ And we know that GOD works all things together for the good of those who love HIM, who are called according to HIS purpose. ²⁹ For those GOD foreknew, HE also predestined to be conformed to the image of HIS SON, so that HE would be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰ And those HE predestined, HE also called; those HE called, HE also justified; those HE justified, HE also glorified.

Ephesians 1:11-12 | Spiritual Blessings [Romans 8:28-34] ¹¹ In HIM we were also chosen as GOD's OWN, having been predestined accord -ing to the plan of HIM WHO works everything by the counsel of HIS will, ¹² in order that we, who were the first to hope in CHRIST, would be for the praise of HIS glory.

Romans 9:1-33 |

¹ I speak the truth in CHRIST; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the HOLY SPIRIT. ² I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

³ For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from CHRIST for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood, ⁴ the people of Israel.

Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

�� Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of CHRIST, WHO is GOD over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.

⁶ It is not as though GOD’s word has failed.

For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. ⁷ Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”

⁸ So it is not the children of the flesh who are GOD’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as off spring.

⁹ For this is what the promise stated:

“At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.” ¹⁰ Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac. ¹¹ Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that GOD’s plan of election might stand, ¹² not by works but by HIM WHO calls, she was told,

“The older will serve the younger.”

¹³ So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

¹⁴ What then shall we say? Is GOD unjust? Certainly not! ¹⁵ For HE says to Moses:

“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, & I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

¹⁶ So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on GOD’s mercy. ¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh:

“I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display MY power in you, & that MY Name might be proclaimed in all the Earth.”

¹⁸ Therefore GOD has mercy on whom HE wants to have mercy, and HE hardens whom HE wants to harden.

¹⁹ One of you will say to me,

“Then why does GOD still find fault? For who can resist HIS will?” ²⁰ But who are you, O man, to talk back to GOD? Shall what is formed say to HIM WHO formed it, “Why did YOU make me like this?”

²¹ Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

²² What if GOD, intending to show HIS wrath & make HIS power known, bore with great patience the vessels of HIS wrath, prepared for destruction?

²³ What if HE did this to make the riches of HIS glory known to the vessels of HIS mercy, whom HE prepared in advance for glory—

²⁴ including us, whom HE has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

²⁵ As HE says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘MY People’ who are not MY people, and I will call her ‘MY Beloved’ who is not MY beloved,”

²⁶ and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not MY people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living GOD.’”

²⁷ Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved. ²⁸ For the LORD will carry out HIS sentence on the Earth thoroughly and decisively.”

²⁹ It is just as Isaiah foretold:

“Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.” ³⁰ What then will we say?

That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

³¹ but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. ³² Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone

³³ as it is written:

“See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in HIM will never be put to shame.”"

James 1:1-27 | A Greeting from James [Jude 1:1-2]

¹ James, a servant of GOD & of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, To the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings. ² Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds, ³ because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

⁴ Allow perseverance to finish its work, so you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

......................................................................................... ⁵ Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask GOD, WHO gives generously to all with -out finding fault, & it will be given to him. ⁶ But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown & tossed by the wind. ⁷ That man should not expect to receive any- thing from the LORD. ⁸ He is a double-mind- ed man, unstable in all his ways. .........................................................................................

⁹ The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.

¹⁰ But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

¹¹ For the sun rises with scorching heat & withers the plant; its flower falls & its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

¹² Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life GOD has promised to those who love HIM.

¹³ When tempted, no one should say,

“GOD is tempting me.” For GOD cannot be tempted by evil, nor does HE tempt anyone. ¹⁴ But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away & enticed.

¹⁵ Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; & sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

¹⁶ Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

¹⁷ Every good & perfect gift is from above, coming down from the FATHER of the Heavenly lights, with WHOM there is no change or shifting shadow.

.................................................................................................. ¹⁸ HE chose to give us birth through the Word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of HIS creation. ..................................................................................................

¹⁹ My beloved brothers, understand this:

Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, & slow to anger, ²⁰ for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness GOD desires.

²¹ Therefore, get rid of all moral filth & every expression of evil, & humbly accept the Word planted in you, which can save your souls. ²² Be doers of the Word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

²³ For anyone who hears the Word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, ²⁴ & after observing himself goes away & immediately forgets what he looks like.

²⁵ But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, & continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

²⁶ If anyone considers himself religious & yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart & his religion is worthless.

²⁷ Pure & undefiled religion before our GOD & FATHER is this: To care for orphans & widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

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[re4med]

The Morning Devotional: WCF 19.6 (Part One)

The Morning Devotional for June 28, 2023 The Westminster Confession of Faith 19.6 (Part One) VI. Although true believers be not under the law as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified or condemned;a yet is it of great use to them, as well as to others; in that, as a rule of life, informing them of the will of God and their duty, it directs and binds them to walk accordingly;b discovering…

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God promised to those who LOVE him ♥

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[biblebloodhound]

How To Deal with Temptation (James 1:12-16)

“There are two eras in American history: the passing of the buffalo and the passing of the buck.” Will Rogers

Eve reaching for the forbidden fruit, by S.J. Grove, 1995 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each person is tempted when they are dragged…

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