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Dear Gracious Heavenly Father, Creator of all good things and redeemer of this world, please send your Spirit upon us and help us to be good and faithful servants. Guide us this day to learn of the works of your Son Jesus, and to bring your light to all people of the truth. Please teach us to be more like your Son, and share the love of your Son, so we can have your understanding and wisdom, and direction to help others, to become selfless, and to aid and educate through your word, in the teachings of the life and love. In Jesus Name, Amen.

Good morning everyone, you don’t all know what strength and faith you have given me with all your cards, e-mails, letters and cares and concerns. This week has been a rough one for me, and basically for all of us, there has been an unseen force that has sent us a lot of affliction on myself, countless others, and the church.

We know that Jesus is our strength and our life and breath, and that is all that we really need. We are all human and still living in the flesh, are there are times where you need people, people close to you, may it be family, friends or your children, people that you admire, care about; love, or just general friends and acquaintances that you are close to. To give you that extra hope confidence, love, compassion, and understanding, or maybe just someone that will listen, to give you that extra drive to go on. May it be just with a few words, or a gentle smile, or maybe a word of just saying the future will be eternal with Christ, and with joy, and the life we live now does serve a purpose, but not a purpose for ourselves. Our purpose is for Christ and His people and the church. Matt 10:39 the love you have all given me, and the love of Christ guiding me, has made a great change in my life and eventually, I in return can make a change for others. The same would exist for anyone that is suffering unjustly, partially, or unreasonably. Because if my spirit is edified and uplifted than it is far easier for me to find the words to uplift and pray and to say the right things or words to others. If we cling too much to this world, then the future for the world to come will not be as we picture it.

We are all the part of the body of Christ and we need to strengthen the chain, not to weaken the links, we have to consider each other first, Phil. 2:3-4 this way the entire body of Christ will be in full readiness and fully armored, to defeat the evil that dwells within our flesh, also with others within the world. Christ pictured the church as a body with all different parts, if the foot is not edified then the body can not walk, if the hand is not edified, or cared for, the hand cannot hold the shield of faith to stop the arrows of the evil one. If the eye is not edified the body will be blinded, and all will fall into a ditch. So we must all edify each other, to give us strength to go on to fight of the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life which weakens us. 1John 2:16.

Prayer is our most powerful weapon next to the word of God, to fight against the evil darkness’ and powers of this world. Prayer is the light of God, which carries and guides us through the darkness of this generation. We are fighting a fallen world and broken generation. If we don’t try to repair it now our children will suffer, which is plane and simple to understand. I often wonder what it would be like without Christ and the Spirit being a non-Christian, with no scripture or word to guide us through this life and darkness, I guess if you are without Christ you would (not) notice that the walls per say are defiantly falling in on us, and on top of us, and it seems that only a chosen few realize what is taking place.

We as Christians are the major foothold of the survival of civilization. With out us, even though many of us are hidden and unseen the civilization as we know it now, would be a living hell. Even to some Christians the walls that are falling in on us are presently unseen. And to others(non- believers) they don’t care about eternal life, or don’t understand it, or really don’t think that it exists, they only care about today and themselves, and some only believe that this is the only life that they have. So it is very understandable that they act in the way they do. All for self, all for today, wanting everything right now, to not be patient, or to even understand about waiting upon the Lord.

And our job is simple one to explain the fact if they except Christ, there would not be such an importance, and great eagerness in there daily life of satisfying themselves. Some go around and don’t even believe that they will stand in front of the judgment seat of Christ, and be evaluated. This is why they act the way they do, do the things the way they want to, and use others as stepping stones to get to the top, but the thing is, the top of what? Matt. 16:26 A few years of pleasure, and then life of eternal destruction. It doesn’t make much sense to me, how could it make sense to them? That is why we as Christians must be out there to witness, show our kindness, being more or less like Christ, and to perform the great commission; Mark 16:15-18. So are we doing this? Are we doing what Jesus asked us to do? Then the great task still avails, how do we get them to listen? They have this temporary power, and potency, and certain particular forces, and edges with this wealth, they don’t think or need that they should listen, they will say I am a good person and I do help people with a few things, the fact remains they should be helping people with a lot of things, but that is not up to me to judge. All things are given by God to each and every individual, James 1:17 But we again as Christians have to find a way to reveal the true light and purpose, of the true objective to life, and the presence of God.

Christ is our strength and we need the unity of friendship and fellowship to go on. Just last week when I spoke about evil using others to manipulate towards the destruction of others, so today our base is to edify others, and ourselves within our own realm, to preach and teach the love of Jesus, and who we can save in and from this fallen world. As I see and read and write back to many prayer requests, the evil one is using money as a major stronghold, people don’t want their honor to be destroyed, it seems money is one of a major concern on our prayer networks today; Of course the top requests are health problems. People are loosing jobs, careers, houses, cars, you name it, and it is all about finances. Most are not relying on Christ, or the truth of Christ, or the word of Christ. And the reasoning behind a lot of marriage breakups is finance situations.

Christ is all and in all, Christ is our strength and our provider Phil4:19 and our might which gives us the ability to stand firm. Still people need to survive; our system of proposed or worldly leadership forgets the suffering of our own people. It seems the rich are all afraid to share, or they don’t want to share, or they never experienced what it was like to be poor, or they have no true knowledge of what the poor have to go through to survive. Maybe this will be our next project to educate the rich, on what and how it is to be poor, and hear the cries of a baby totally innocent and hungry, and how the mother feels, and the thoughts that go through a mother’s mind, to feed her children. We must educate also that the rich would receive blessings that would be poured upon them not only in this life, but in the life to come, if they could only help the suffering brothers and sisters of this world.

What else can we say? We have to plant seeds first before something will grow, if the seed does not get planted then the fields of life will be empty. So we as Christian workers are to plant seeds, may it be with edification, education, compassion, communication, and words that come from the Father through the Spirit of God.

Our future lies on what we do today. If we go on about our business and our own concerns daily, thinking only of ourselves, the future could be a desecrated wasteland.

It takes many years for a tree to grow, and if seeds are not planted now, our future will end up with small spouts and tiny bushes that can be swayed and uprooted by the wind, weather, and nature. Did you ever try to move a large tree, with roots growing deep into the soil, you realize that you can’t move it, and most of the time any force of nature can not move it. So the time is now to plant seeds.

Dear Holy Father, as we come to a close of this restful day of worship, please continue to hold our hands during this week. Please help us to remember your words, please help us to take notice to the people that need help, this week; we need to be your servants, to hold friendship, love, and compassion, to all. In Jesus Name. Amen

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. 1John 2:15-17

I can never stop thanking God for all the generous gifts he has given you, now that you belong to Christ Jesus. He has enriched your church with the gifts of eloquence and every kind of knowledge. This shows that what I told you about Christ is true. Now you have every spiritual gift you need as you eagerly wait for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will keep you strong right up to the end, and he will keep you free from all blame on the great day when our Lord Jesus Christ returns. God will surely do this for you, for he always does just what he says, and he is the one who invited you into this wonderful friendship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 1Cor. 1:4-9

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.1John 4:7-21

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

And now, dear brothers and sisters, let me say one more thing as I close this letter. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.Phil. 4:6-8

But people who aren't Christians can't understand these truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them because only those who have the Spirit can understand what the Spirit means. We who have the Spirit understand these things, but others can't understand us at all. How could they? For,

"Who can know what the Lord is thinking?

Who can give him counsel?"

But we can understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ. 1Cor. 2:14-16

For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself;

for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.

For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. Rom.14:7-10

Then Jesus said to the disciples, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must put aside your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross, and follow me. If you try to keep your life for yourself, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for me, you will find true life. And how do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul in the process? Is anything worth more than your soul? Matt.16:24-26

And He said to them, " Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

" He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

"These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;

they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." Mark 16:15-18

If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. 1Tim. 3-10

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. As it is written:

"He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor;

his righteousness endures forever."Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.

12This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. 13Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. 2Cor. 9:8-13