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Exodus 35:20-38:31

“All the women whose hearts stirred them to use their skill…” Exodus 35:26

I have trained you up for THIS purpose and for THIS time. No one else is exactly like you. I have placed specific skills within you for a reason and when I stir your heart to use those skills it’s because I want to use YOU. And while it is possible for Me to use anyone else, I don’t want to use just anyone, I want to use YOU – the one I created for THIS purpose to use at THIS time. However, as always, you have the ability to tell Me, “no”. At which point I may use someone else, I may not. But either way you’ve missed out on the blessing of being a blessing.

There are things I want to use you for today; are you willing to let go of your comfort zone and your inhibitions in order to allow Me to use you to the fullest extent? I love YOU, will you let Me show you how much?

Exodus 28:30-31:18

I am so excited to share with you that book 2 of the Jesus Loves YOU series is now available in print

and Kindle e-book!

With this book I pass my last high watermark from Season 1 and my attempt to write through the Bible in a Year! Yay! While I read and wrote a lot farther than this book covers, that was as far as I published.

To celebrate this achievement I am offering the first e-book of the Jesus Loves YOU series for FREE from 8/1/13-8/5/13! Click on the book cover and it will take you to Amazon where you can order yours NOW. If you don’t have a Kindle e-reader you can download the free app here to use on your computer, tablet or even your Smartphone!

I would really appreciate it if you would spread the word over the next few days and get as many copies out there as possible. I need some reviews on Amazon and I’ve heard this is a great way to do just that.

So after you read if you would kindly take the time to write a review I would greatly appreciate it!

Enjoy your free books!!! May God richly bless your time with Him through them!

Exodus 25:10-28:29

“Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain,” Exodus 26:30

I am so in love with the Holy Spirit and His companionship in my life! There is never a dull moment around here because the Holy Spirit’s one of those teachers that can take something as seemingly boring as the details of how the tabernacle is to be built and turn it into something applicable for my life personally TODAY! The Word of God is alive and active and sharper than a two-edged sword, but when paired with the Holy Spirit, the Word of God is never dull! (I would say pardon the pun, but I TOTALLY intended it!)

You see, God has plans for me. He has plans for YOU. He has plans for our welfare and not for evil, to give us a future and a hope. When we call upon Him, and come and pray to Him, He hears us. When we seek Him with all our hearts we will find Him. (Jeremiah 29:11-13) And when we draw near to Him on the mountaintop through prayer and daily Bible reading He shares those plans with us. It’s amazing!

In today’s reading we find two instances where God, in His instructions on how to build the tabernacle, refers to the “plan for it that [Moses was] shown on the mountain”. (26:30 & 27:8) So here we find that God has shown Moses “the plan”, whether he’s gotten to go visit the heavenly version of the tabernacle or just see the blueprints for it, we’re not sure. But we can infer by the scriptures that he has been shown a picture for it, he’s been given a vision on how it’s supposed to look when finished.

Proverbs 29:18 tells us that “where there is no vision, the people perish; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” (KJV) And I have found this proverb to be so true! When I’m moving forward but I haven’t received “the plan” yet, I make myself sick with worry that I’m going to do it wrong. OR, I’ve received the plan (aka His command or law) but I’m not following it, I make myself miserable trying to do things my way instead of His. Ahhhh…. and therein lies the rub. Because, while God is usually more than happy to share His plans with us on the mountaintop, Satan is always more than happy to steal them as soon as we get back down and try to carry them out.

Satan is doing everything in his power to stop us from carrying out God’s will. But he can’t curse what has been blessed by God. He can try, but he won’t succeed. Especially if we understand the way things work around here and remember WHO is in charge.

We are children of God (John 1:12) we are co-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17) WE are the authority over Satan and his minions, NOT the other way around. Just look at the reaction of the seventy-two disciples that Jesus sent ahead of Him into the surrounding cities.

“The seventy-two returned with joy, saying ‘Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!’ And He said to them, ‘I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” (Luke 10:17-20)

My friends, I would like to point out that this was BEFORE the cross, before the resurrection and before the Holy Spirit had been given to them!!! And these were not the top twelve disciples either. These were the guys that were left over after the twelve had already been chosen. That means that this is a gift that is TOTALLY available to us now. Any of us. Whether we feel like we’re in the top twelve or the bottom seventy-two, if we have chosen to follow Christ we have been given dominion over the Enemy!

In the Garden of Eden God cursed the serpent and told him that while he would bite our heels, we would crush his head. (Genesis 3:15) Wouldn’t you say that this statement from Jesus (Luke 10:17-20) would be a fulfillment of that curse upon the serpent and his descendants?

So yes, while Satan may be doing everything in his power to foil our plans to glorify God, his power is nothing compared to the power living and breathing and dwelling within our chests! We have been given power and dominion over Satan. We have been given a direct line to the King of kings and the Lord of lords. We have been given HIS SPIRIT to tap into at any point that we choose.

There is NOTHING that Satan can do to you. Except convince you that none of what I just told you is true. And that’s precisely what he does. He convinces us that we’re powerless against him. That there is no way that we will be able to accomplish whatever task God has placed before us and has asked us to help Him with. Sure He could do it on His own, but then we wouldn’t be part of the blessing or the miracle and He wants to include us in them because He loves us. So He takes us up onto the mountain, shows us the impossible plan, then sends us back down the mountain to carry it out. Where we find we can’t; not by ourselves anyway.

And that’s the whole point. His plans for us are not small, they are not insignificant, they are not minor, they’re IMPOSSIBLE. And the ONLY way that we can accomplish them is to call on Him for help with every single step of the process. Why? Because while we’re building the tabernacle, He’s building us.

Exodus 21:17-25:9

“‘All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.’ And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, ‘Behold the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.'” Exodus 24:7-8

Moses covered the people with the blood of the sacrifice in order to seal the covenant. God covered Adam and Eve’s sin with the blood of a sacrifice, just like He covered YOUR sin with the blood of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross.

On that day Jesus gave up EVERYTHING to be the perfect sacrifice for you so that you could once again enter into the Garden of Eden without fear of death or shame. While the Israelites through countless generations had to offer up sacrificial animal after innocent sacrificial animal, time and time again. Jesus’ blood is so much more effective than the blood of bulls and goats. While the blood of animals is innocent, it’s not knowledgeable. The animals have no choice in the matter; they are grown to be killed as a sacrifice. Jesus on the other hand, not only had choice, he had will. In the Garden of Gethsemane on the night that He was betrayed He had every opportunity to run and hide from the guards and avoid the inevitable. But He didn’t do it. He chose to do the hardest and most horrible thing that anyone in all of history ever has or will ever have to do. He BECAME the sacrificial lamb, perfect and spotless. He CHOSE to offer Himself up for YOU in order to spill His perfect blood for YOU and cover over your sins so that you could once again enter the presence of God without fear or shame. And what’s more, He made a way for you to be in His presence and never leave it again by giving up His Spirit at His death so that He could come and live in your heart all the days of your ETERNAL life!

Now THAT’S my GOD! He is no longer a God who, because He is just, is forced to push His Beloved Ones away. He is a God who calls us each by NAME to His lap on His throne.

Sunday after church I went up to the speaker and hugged her with every fiber of my being and thanked her for giving the message of His heart. He wants us to worship Him.

My friend, do you know what worship is? It’s drawing near to God. It’s touching the hem of His garment, hearing the beat of His heart as you lean against your Papa’s chest and twirl His long white beard in your fingers. It’s singing until there is no breath left in your chest because it’s heaving with sobs of gratitude for being allowed to enter and just be in His presence. It’s lying down on your couch and just thinking about how awesome He is. He DIED for you. No matter what hard or painful things are going on in your life, just that one Truth is enough to bring you to your knees in gratitude if you allow that Truth to sink in and consume your consciousness. He died for YOU. Who else in your life can you say that about? He died so that He wouldn’t have to spend another single day without you in His presence.

And the awesome thing is, through the gift of the Holy Spirit living in your heart, He is with you EVERYWHERE; whether you’re hanging out at the beach or a strip club, at church or a bar. It doesn’t matter where you are, what you’re doing, or who you’re with Jesus is always with you. You need only to acknowledge His presence wherever you are.

And the thing is, the more you acknowledge His presence in your life, and the more time you spend in His Word the more you begin to recognize His voice and feel his gentle (and sometimes not so gentle) nudges. And the more you get to know Him, the more you begin to care about how He feels about you. And the more you care about how God feels about you, the less you care about how others feel about you. Until you get to the point when you can sit on a stage, a weeping sobbing mass of tears and look out at your friends and say to them, “I don’t care what you think of me.” And really mean it.

Suddenly you will find yourself standing next to a giant of a man with an incredibly intimidating voice telling you something that lines up with the letter of the scripture, but not the spirit and simply nod your head and smile at him letting him think you agree when all the while you’re standing there thinking how sorry you feel for him that he just hasn’t discovered that point of Grace yet. You find yourself standing before people in earthy authority over you saying something to you that a few years earlier would have sent you fleeing to your room in tears for weeks, now rolls off your back like water on a duck.

(All personal experiences, by the way.)

I am amazed at how far I have come in four short years of studying the Word of God like a good student studies for finals. I have spent concentrated time in the Word of God and discovered parts of His heart scattered through it like gems in a mine. The more I read the more I find, and the more I realize how little I know. Yet when I look at me and the person I am today I can honestly say that I am not who I used to be. I have been made new! But the funny thing is, I’ve been new all along! It’s just taken me a long time to discover who this new me is and what she looks like and sounds like. And I know that I will continue doing that throughout the rest of my life! And the really cool thing is, I’m Him. The more I discover about Jesus the more I discover about myself. I was made in the image of God! YOU were made in the image of God!

You know how you can try something on at the store and love it. And then try it on again when you get home and it just doesn’t look the same in your mirror at home as it did in the mirror at the store. Usually it’s the angle of the mirror and the difference in lighting that makes things look differently.

So often, Satan tries to get us to look at ourselves through his mirror, through his way of thinking. He plants seeds of Doubt and Shame and Fear into our minds to make us think less of ourselves than we should.

But God wants us to see ourselves through His mirror. He wants us to remember that we were made in God’s image that through the blood of Christ we have been forgiven completely of any wrongdoing that we have or EVER will do. He wants us to remember that we are the children of God Almighty, King of kings and Lord of lords! We were LOVINGLY knit together in our mother’s womb by the hands of the creator of the UNIVERSE with such tender care that each and every one of us is DIFFERENT. God didn’t just stick Adam and Eve into a Xerox machine and hit the copy button, He took the time, and care and love to make each and every one of us individually according to the way HE wanted us to turn out. We’re all fearfully and wonderfully made in His image, yet all DIFFERENT; because, not one of us can accurately portray all of Him at once.

How great is our God that He is ONE God with so many aspects to His character that He has to fill the Earth over and over again with all these different parts of Himself throughout thousands of generations! We’re all pieces of Him!

Exodus 17:1-21:16

I was paid one of the highest complements yesterday. I was quoted from the pulpit, in a positive light! I’ve been serving on the praise team for a few months now in this new church. And a few weeks ago I was approached before church and given a challenge to do something I was already doing. I took it as a complement, but at the same time my flesh wanted to be insulted by it. Because although I knew I was already doing this, it apparently wasn’t coming across as though I was.

I took this burden up onto stage with me at the beginning of service and began laying it on the altar as I sang. And of course, the more I sang the closer I drew to God and the brighter His light shone on the truth. I am doing what He wants me to do and no one can ask more of me than that.

In that moment, right on stage, I fell to my knees in gratitude and revelation. And through the tears that streamed down my face and blurred my vision I looked out at the congregation and told them about the first time I got up on a stage to sing for a praise team and really wanted to raise my hand in praise but I was too terrified to do it. Inside I wanted to lose myself in praise of Him, but outside I was afraid of what everyone watching me would think. “Oh, she’s just one of those crazy hand-raisers.” And then during the song, the Holy Spirit said to me, “I know you want to raise your hand to praise Me, go ahead and do it.” “But LORD, they’re watching me!” And He said, in one of the most pained voices I’ve ever felt, “Are you ashamed of Me and what I’ve done for you?” “NO!” I thought as my hand shot up in the air where it has stayed ever since.

As I told this story to my congregation I explained how, as they could see (indicating my prone position on the floor with tears streaming down my face), I’m not worried about losing myself in worship of Him anymore because, “I don’t care what you think of me”.

They laughed, and some of my friends even clapped. Well, apparently that really stuck with the speaker because she used it for a part of her sermon this week.

Part of today’s reading reminds me of this.

“And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to look and many of them perish. Also let the priests who come near to the LORD consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out against them.’ And Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you yourself warned us, saying, ‘Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.'” Exodus 19:21-23

In the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve walked with God and talked to Him face to face without shame or fear of death, yet here we see the LORD telling His people to “stay back” and “don’t come near or you will die”. What
happened in the time between to cause such a change of reaction from God? Well, Adam and Eve chose to believe Satan instead of God. This caused them to hide from God rather than run to Him when He entered the garden. It also resulted in the first bloody sacrifice in order to cover their naked sin with animal skin. (Genesis 3:21)

Yet still today there are those who run from the presence of God rather than to Him. Why?

Perhaps, they haven’t been introduced to the Truth yet.

His name is Jesus.

“I am the Truth, the Way and the Life. No one come to the Father except through Me.” – John 14:6

Let’s try this again! “Someone” must not want you to see this one…

Exodus 13:1-16:36

“And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians.” Exodus 14:25

Tell me, if this ground had been buried under the Red Sea for years and years and years, wouldn’t it be a safe assumption that it would be a muddy sloppy mess waaaay down deep into the ground? Yet scripture tells us over and over that the ground was dry when the Israelites were walking across it. That may be a small fact that we pass right by when we’re reading something as awesome as the parting of the Red Sea, but it’s not a small fact at all! The ground was DRY; as in packed, hard, dirt and dust flying from feet pounding as they’re hurrying across the sea bed. Yet somehow, by the time the Egyptians go to cross this very same ground, their wheels get clogged and heavy.

Now I did a little digging on my own, through several different translations of this word “clogged”. It seems that there are two ways that the translators like to define it. Either they say “clogged” or they say “separated”. However the rest of the verse, “so that they drove heavily” is either translated “heavily” or “with difficulty”.

Don’t you think that if your chariot wheels, built light for speed and agility, getting clogged with heavy mud would tend to make you drive heavily and with difficulty and perhaps even cause your wheels to separate from your chariot?

But wait, how would that happen if the ground was still dry like it was for the Israelites?

Seriously, how awesome is our God? I mean really! First of all, to even part the sea in the first place, that’s just awesome. But then, like a cherry on top of an ice cream Sunday with whipped cream, He not only parts the sea, but makes the land dry so that their feet don’t get muddy and heavy. You know, because that would make it really hard for them to run across like He told them to. Oh! But wait! It gets better! Because just as the Israelites are finishing crossing, the miracle of the parting is beginning to wear off. The dry ground suddenly isn’t so dry anymore. The walls of water don’t seem quite so tall any more. The ground that was so easy to travel on earlier is not suddenly sticky with mud that’s getting trapped in the chariot wheels, slowing them down and making them simply fall apart! “Ummmm… guys, I think we should get out of here… This YHWH guy, yeah…. I think He’s fighting for the Israelites. Annnnd… I think He’s going to win against us.” WHOOSH!

“Heh, heh, heh, heh, Buh-Bye Egyptian warriors!”

You want to know what I think is really awesome? What Moses said BEFORE all that happened.

The Egyptian army is pressing in on them; they’re literally stuck between the Sea and the army – a rock and a hard place. Talk about the pressure being on! They are that mouse being squeezed until it squeaks! And look! What is it that they do in that moment?

“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? Is not this what we said to you in Egypt; ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” (Exodus 14:11-12)

They squeak! They squeak and the overflow of their heart pours forth as speech. Do you really think they BELIEVE that they would have been better off in Egypt as slaves? Of COURSE they don’t! For years they had been crying out to God to save them from their slavery! But in that moment their hearts are so filled with Fear that they do the thing that we all seem to do in the face of Fear. Freak out. We say things that in our spirit we know aren’t true, yet it’s how we are truly feeling at the moment. We are so desperate for release from the pressure that we’ll say just about anything to keep from being crushed. And it is in that moment that we realize how humanly powerless we truly are. We are weak and fragile beings that no matter how strong and mighty we think we are, we are ALWAYS in desperate need of a Savior.

We are in need of a God who says to us, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall NEVER see again. The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” (Exodus 14:13-14)

Be still and know that HE IS GOD! Yesterday, in my dream, when I stood face to face with pure evil there was nothing that I could do to save myself. And I didn’t have to! Because in the face of the most dangerous being in the universe, God took over for me. I fought until I was at the end of my ability to defend myself and then God took over from there. He defended me when I wasn’t able. He shielded me completely from the curse of the Enemy. What God has blessed NO ONE can curse! Not even Satan himself!

Stop fighting a fight that’s already been won! Jesus has overcome! Yes we will have trials in this world, but Jesus has overcome and so can we! We have been born into the kingdom of God where we now belong to the family of overcomers! YOU are an overcomer. Whatever trial or pressure that you’re facing today, you can and will overcome it! It will pass and you will have been delivered from it, and you will turn back around to look at the Enemy who has been chasing after you and you will LAUGH as they drown in your miracle!

Is that not the most beautiful picture? Satan is drowning in YOUR miracle. The very thing that God did to save us, is the very thing that swallows Satan alive and spits him out dead on the shore afterwards. HALLELUJAH!

That’s MY God! The God who doesn’t just save, He destroys the thing I needed saving from!

“The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained. But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.” Exodus 14:28-29

Exodus 13:1-16:36

Exodus 9:13-12:51

“It was a night of watching by the LORD.” Exodus 12:42

Last night the LORD gave me a dream and I’d like to share the last part of it with you. I was in a town park late at night in the middle of winter and there was snow all over in deep piles. Amongst the piles of snow there were fires scattered here and there as if it were a campground. A young boy came to me and said something to me to get me to follow him to his home. As I attempted to follow him I quickly lost him in his “home” under piles of snow. It was as if they had built a blanket fort and then piled snow on top of the blankets in order to hide the glow from a devilish fire that was raging inside the “tent”.

As I walked around the “home” searching for an entrance to the place I began to feel very uneasy and realized that this had been a trap set for me. The young child had drawn me near to this place of hidden evil beneath a cloak of pure white snow. A place that from a distance looked harmless and pure, yet from up close I could instantly tell that it was nothing of the sort. The eery orange glow that emanated between the cracks in the piles of snow just screamed get away. Just as I decided to leave I slipped at the top of a pile of snow and slid down to the bottom landing precariously next to another pile with that horrible light. As I slid to a stop, part of the base of the other pile slid away and there was an eye in the hole that was created. It had been closed, but with the movement of the snow the eye opened. Frightened I held my breath and closed my eyes willing myself to sink deeper into the snow I had fallen into. And that’s when I noticed my clothes; they were the same color as the snow AND covered in the same little piles of snow! Placing myself in stark contrast to the inside of the “home” which I could now see into quite plainly through the hole my fall had created.

The eye looked straight at me, but didn’t see me! But then the very evil man connected to that eye sat up and opened both eyes to see more clearly. It was at this point that he spotted me, grabbed me by the arm and pulled me into the “home”.

Once inside, it was a full sized building with room after room after room. Although it looked like a small blanket fort from the outside, it was cavernous from the inside! In the face of this man, so obviously connected with evil I had no fear and simply walked away from him into another room. His wife on the other hand was another story. She shrilled a scream of terror at my presence in their “home”. I terrified HER! She screamed for her husband to call “Sven” – whoever he was. I noticed that she had my son and my dog so I went over to them and grabbed them to shake them awake out of whatever trance they had been in to keep them there. And I told them to RUN! Which they did. Then I picked up one of the woman’s DVD’s from off the floor. It was in a white case that looked good, but when I opened it up the DVD was a Zombie movie. I popped the DVD out of the case and held it out in front of me taunting her, “what are you gonna do about it?” She was terrified that I was going to break it. So I, of course, broke it and took the halves of the broken DVD and got close enough to her to scrape one of her wrists with the jagged edges, but she didn’t bleed (which I found interesting).

Then Sven entered the room. He was by far THE most evil thing I had seen in this dream! He looked like a modern day vampire in every sense of the word. His eyes were completely black, his skin was pasty white, yet had the same evil orange glow as the light that was coming from all these rooms. And he HATED me; as terrified as the wife had been of me, that’s how much he hated me. And …I was a little concerned with him. It was as if I had perhaps met my match in this Sven. He was pulling something out of his pocket; something that I knew had the power to destroy me. I stepped backwards into a little space between bookshelves, or furniture of some sort, and I could feel a change in the room. It was as if I had just stepped over a line they had created to trap me and they were happy about it. But they didn’t know that it wasn’t going to work on me. I jumped up onto a desk in the room so that I was standing taller than he was (which was for some reason important, perhaps because I am so short in real life I don’t know). And at the same moment that he opened up another white DVD case to show me the DVD inside, I did the only thing I could think of to do, I began to speak in tongues against him. I may have only gotten one word out, but it was enough. I stood there in complete awe as a bright pure white bubble formed around me, totally encapsulating me and protecting me from all the curses Sven was attempting to throw my way. Nothing he did worked. I just stood there looking at him through my pure white bubble of light. And through the bubble I could read something written in blood backwards, the “line” I had crossed was a curse they had written in blood in order to trap me. But it didn’t work, because I have the blood of our spotless lamb of God, JESUS CHRIST smeared on the doorposts of my heart for all eternity. I have been sealed in His Holy Spirit as a signpost above the home of my heart that I belong to HIM and therefore “the destroyer is not allowed to enter my house to strike me”. (Exodus 12:23)

My friends, if you have not witnessed the baptism of the Holy Spirit I strongly encourage you to seek it out! It is a PROTECTION from the Enemy that you can not match with anything else. Just like the Israelites had to be circumcised in order to take part in the Passover dinner to remain completely safe from the destroyer, we too need to have our hearts circumcised by the Holy Spirit! Only His circumcision doesn’t hurt, it HEALS! I’ve been reading The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson (fabulous book, highly recommend it to EVERYONE), and in this book David recounts the story of several boys who were heavily addicted to Heroine who were completely freed from this addiction when they accepted Christ as their savior and asked Jesus to baptize them in His Holy Spirit; to be sealed for His purposes in their life. Time after time these boys told David that that was the moment they truly felt free from their addiction. When the Holy Spirit came in and flooded their heart with His presence.

There were a few that had, after receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit, had returned to the drug, only to find that it didn’t work for them anymore. Although they succumbed to the tremendous pull and temptation of the drug, it no longer held the euphoria that it had in the past. Now instead of the drug having them in its grip, GOD had them in HIS.

The power of God is available to us through His Spirit. We need only ask Him for it and be willing to receive it. He is faithful and He gives His Spirit to us willingly!

“And I tell you, ‘ask and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent, or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” Luke 11:9-13

“If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light”. Luke 11:36

“Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Whatever you have learned and received and heard and seen in me – practice these things and the God of peace will be with you.” Philippians 4:8-9

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