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carmelitesaet · 3 years

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Remembering and praying for the people of Afghanistan. May peace be fostered and human dignity be everywhere respected. "I join in the unanimous concern for the situation in Afghanistan. I ask all of you to pray with me to the God of peace so that the clamour of weapons might cease and solutions can be found at the table of dialogue. Only thus can the battered population of that country – men, women, elderly and children – return to their own homes, and live in peace and security, in total mutual respect." #popefrancis #prayforafghanistan #peace #prayer #faith #spirituality #community #mission #vocation #catholic #christianity #jesus #christ #lectiodivina #inspirationalquotes #afghanistan #prayforpeace #supportingwomen #humandignity #humanrights #humanity #kindgomofgod #weareone #weareallinthistogether #peaceinchrist #peaceintheworld #carmelite #carmelites https://www.instagram.com/p/CSsri5dJQbA/?utm_medium=tumblr

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faithpeacehopejoy · 5 years

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And anyone who believes in God’s Son has eternal life. Anyone who doesn’t obey the Son will never experience eternal life but remains under God’s angry judgment.”

John 3:36 (NLT)

Jude 1:21

21 keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

Faithful People Share Their Faith

By Rick Warren

“Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, ‘Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven’” (Matthew 9:2 NIV).

If you’ve accepted God’s gift of salvation by grace, you’ve received the best gift ever offered to anyone. But have you shared that gift with others since you became a Christian?

Faithful people share their faith. Today’s verse comes from the story in Matthew 9 about a man who was sick and paralyzed. His friends wanted him to be healed, so they brought him to Jesus by lowering him on his mat through an opening in the roof of a house where Jesus was.

Notice Matthew 9:2 says, “When Jesus saw their faith.” It was not the paralyzed man’s faith that led to the healing—it was the faith of his friends. When Jesus saw that these friends cared enough to bring their paralyzed friend, he said, “Those guys have great faith. They’re not just asking; they expect me to heal their friend,” and he did.

You have friends who are spiritually paralyzed and can’t get to Jesus. They are paralyzed by fear, guilt, doubt, pain, or maybe even resentment over being hurt in some church in the past. They are paralyzed, and they can’t get to Jesus on their own.

God is watching to see if you will be faithful enough to bring them. And if you are, God will honor your faith. He’ll not only heal your friend; he’s also going to bless you. It’s a blessing of faith.

As long as a church will keep reaching out to more unbelievers, God will keep blessing it. The moment a church’s members say their church doesn’t need to grow anymore, they’re saying they don’t care about the world—an attitude that’s inconsistent with God’s priorities.

But as long as we keep bringing spiritually paralyzed people to Jesus, God will bless our churches and our lives.

Don’t you want to be a part of that?

PLAY today’s audio teaching from Pastor Rick >>

Talk About It

Did someone else’s faith play a part in how you came to Jesus for salvation? Share your story with someone today so they can be encouraged.

What does it mean to have a blessing of faith?

How is your church or your small group actively reaching out to unbelievers and sharing the Gospel? If you’re not doing this, how can you start today?

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

— Romans 8:31

God Is for You

Adapted from the resource Closer to God Each Day Devotional - by Joyce Meyer

God is a big God; nothing is impossible with Him. We have nothing to fear from our enemies because none of them are as great as our God.

God is for us; He is on our side. Satan has one position—he is against us. But God is over us, under us, through us, for us, and He surrounds us. Of whom, then, should we be afraid?

So, like Mount Zion, we should never be moved because God is all around us. And if that wasn’t enough, I saved the best until last: He is in us, and He said that He will never leave us or forsake us.

Salvation is our most awesome blessing from God, and we have been given the Helper, the Holy Spirit Himself, to empower us to be like Jesus. God has blessings and spiritual power in abundance for us. He is powerful and mighty and able to do what we can never do on our own.

God desires that we let the Holy Spirit flow through us in power to show people His love and to help people with His gifts. It all centers in Him.

Prayer Starter: Father, thank You for always being with me and giving me the strength and ability to succeed in life. Please help me to be ever-mindful of your power and presence within me to do whatever I need to do and to bless the lives of those around me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

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