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We can either love God because we hope for something from Him, or we can hope in Him knowing that He loves us. Sometimes we begin with the first kind of hope and grow in the second. In that case, hope and charity (love) work together as close partners, and both rest in God. All desires but one can fail. The only desire that is infallibly fulfilled is the desire to be loved by God. We cannot desire this efficaciously without at the same time desiring to love Him, and the desire to love Him is a desire that cannot fail. Only the one who has had to face despair is really convinced that they need mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency...

(I Samuel 1:9) “Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the Lord's house.” Have you ever been in a place or maybe you are there now. A place in which the enemy has come at you for so long and so hard that the anguish in your soul is so much you cry out, “I have had enough!” In I Samuel 1 it opens with the story of Hannah. Her husband was ### and he was also married to ###. ### had two sons by ### but Hannah was barren. The Lord had closed her womb and in the story it does not give us a reason only that the Lord had closed it. In those times giving your husband sons to carry on the family name was of great value and not being able to have...

These affirmations will affirm your faith in God. Your love to God and your proximity to God, both will be enhanced. ............... I am with God and God is always with me. The Divine Spirit is omnipresent all around me and guides me at every step. God's love is working through me now and always. All my thoughts, words and actions are divinely guided. I am a spiritual being having a human experience. Everything that is happening is only for the good of me. I patiently and respectfully ask for Divine guidance on all things. I am responsible for my own spiritual growth. I trust all things in my life are working for my highest good and am receiving all I am meant to have When I love people more, I receive even more love from them in...

King Darius decided to divide his kingdom into 120 provinces and he appointed a high officer to rule over each province. The king also chose Daniel and two others as administrators to supervise the high officers and protect his interests. This King made a decision to put Daniel in charge because he saw Daniel as someone special. Daniel 3:3 says: Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. Let's look at this remark about Daniel, it says an excellent spirit was in him. Daniel had favor because he was a man who gave God time. He prayed and worshipped and thanked his God three times a day. He enjoyed being with his Lord and...

To 'let go' does not mean to stop caring... it means I can't do it for someone else. To 'let go' is not to cut myself off... it's the realization I can't control another. To 'let go' is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences. To 'let go' is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands. To 'let go' is not to try to change or blame another, it's to make the most of myself. To 'let go' is not to care for, but to care about others. To 'let go' is not to fix, but to be supportive. To 'let go' is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being. To 'let go' is not to be in the middle arranging the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own...

Knowing what the word 'Word' means, 'something said, including the thought'. Know that the Lord is showing you a truth. When you open your Bible, know you are looking at GOD'S WORD, but realize it is God's thought in His Word that we must know and understand. The word of God says the Holy Spirit reveals the deep things of God to us. ( Corinthians 2:10 ) 'But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God'.... When God gives His word to us, does it not include His thoughts. To hear God's 'voice', for to read God's word and because of the thought process in our infinite minds, we do not arrive at the meaning of what God is actually saying. If we don't have the input of the...

What To Do When Everything Seems To Go Wrong Acts 16:16-34 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation. And this she did many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, And brought them to the magistrates...

```markdown (Judges 7:2-7) “The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’ Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained. But the Lord said to Gideon, “There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go; but if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.” So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the Lord told him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel...

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