I posted this for a friend on Facebook who said that they had lost all their faith. It broke my heart. I don’t know what they are going through, but I KNOW that God cares!

God is Your Hope:

Psalms 33:18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

Psalms 38:15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

Psalms 42:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

Psalms 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Psalms 71:5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.

Psalms 71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.

Psalms 78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

Psalms 119:114 Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

Psalms 130:7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

***Psalms 31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. ***

Psalms 147:11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

Joel 3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

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The Bible’s definition of “hope” is Jesus:

Jeremiah 14:8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

1 Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;

Hebrews 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [Jesus as our sacrifice] did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

1 Peter 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

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Our Hope overflows our heart with love so that we share the Message of Jesus and His Second Coming with everyone we come into contact with:

Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

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How do we keep that hope?

Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. [Reading the Bible]

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How do you know you have hope?

Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

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How long does it take to get this kind of hope?

Galatians 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

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What can I do for God in return?

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

There is nothing that you can do in return, but if you DO have this kind of Hope (which is Jesus in YOU which changes you character]:

1 John 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Let God change you so that His desires and will become your own. It is called “unity”, “unification” and “oneness” in the Bible. That is where you will find the fountain of happiness!

Love you! Be happy! <3

I love how much my God cares! He shows it every day - You’ve just gotta read the Bible to discover how He works and train yourself to see it! *sigh* I love my God! <3 He’s SO beautiful. <3

Awww! This is TOTALLY how I feel that God feels about US! <3 (I think I’m about to cry!)

And Never Forget IT!

God is AMAZING - He has the ability to see YOUR FUTURE. He only wants what is BEST for you and always does His best to guide you toward it!

#GodIsGoodFaithfulHonestLovingAndWonderful

#AMEN

So elegant aren’t they?
Think what you want, but I believe that God created romance to be elegant and gentle! <3
God is the ULTIMATE ROMANTIC!!! <3 AWWW… He’s SO CUTE!!! <3

#LoveYouGod!

AMAZING - AREN’T THEY?
NEVER forget how powerful, capable and loving God is!
He can take care of anything EVERYTHING, including ALL of your problems!
Just Ask! <3

To answer this question we must begin in Heaven.

God knew, before He even created us, that our ENTIRE race would fall away from Him! He had a plan ready. He KNEW Jesus would volunteer to go and sacrifice Himself in order to restore us to Them. He didn’t ASK Jesus to do it —- Jesus VOLUNTEERED. He KNEW what He was going to endure, and knew that HE was the only one who could do this! What AMAZING LOVE, huh?! (Read - “The Desire of Ages” by Ellen G. White.)

You know about His life, so I’m going to paraphrase: Jesus had NO SINS, everything he DID was to glorify God; from eating to what He did for a living! And what did He do for a living? He Preached; He TAUGHT people what God says is acceptable and good; He Healed people; He FORGAVE others!

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Let’s go to Jesus’ Last Meal. [John 13:2-17]

2   And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him;

3   Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;

4   He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.

5   After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

6   Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

7   Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

8   Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.

9   Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.

10   Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

11   For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.

12   So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?

13   Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.

14   If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.

15   For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

16   Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.

17   If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

This story is actually a parable of Jesus Himself, showing us who HE is as well as His mission!

In Verse 3, Jesus knew that He had come from God and was going back soon.

Look at Verse 4. Jesus took off HIS garments and put on garments called a “towel” at the time. These garments are actually servants’ clothes!

In Verse 5, Jesus is pouring water into a bason - the water itself is another parable of Jesus!  (John 4: 13,14. & John 7:38) Jesus WASHED the disciples’ feet. I would assume that Jesus made sure that they were SPOTLESS. This symbolizes that Jesus is transferring their [our] sins onto Himself AT THAT TIME!

In verses 6 through 8 A disciple objects to Jesus washing his feet! He didn’t know what Jesus was trying to do! If he wasn’t washed by Jesus, then he couldn’t have his sins taken away! Sometimes we seem to fight God by WANTING to continue in our sins, don’t we?

In Verses 9 & 11, we see Peter change His tune right, he then asks Jesus to clean ALL of his body. In verse 10 Jesus says that he is already clean. In verse 10 & 11, Jesus refers to “not all” being clean, meaning Judas who was to betray Him.

I’d like to bring to your attention here that Judas’ feet were washed too! Jesus KNEW that Judas would NOT accept Him and had already prepared to betray Him, and He STILL WASHED HIS FEET!!! God still took away Judas’ sins, even though Judas didn’t want to have any part with God! NOW THAT is an AMAZING type of mercy, grace, forgiveness and love I have EVER HEARD of!

As for verses 12-17, I should think that they were self explanatory. Obviously if Jesus served others, then surely WE are to serve others too! That may NOT be what you want to hear, but this is how things are in Heaven! Serving others is the norm there. As we seen Jesus be here on Earth, so it is in Heaven.

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Jesus talked to His Disciples after Judas leaves to fetch those who would crucify Him in John 14:16, 20, 23, 26

16   And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

20   At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

23   Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

26   But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Now, this is confusing, but let me explain. Jesus asks God to send the Holy Spirit to YOU in Verse 16. Verse 23 speaks of God (the Father) and Jesus dwelling WITHIN a person THROUGH the Holy Spirit (by OBEYING HIS commandments and asking Him to well within you, you can invite them into you) which is in Verse 26 and that is how you know that Jesus came from God and was IN His Father, that WE are in Jesus, and Jesus IS in US - which also means that GOD HIMSELF dwells within YOU!

*SQUEALS* WOO-HOO!!! That was difficult, but I hope that this explanation was thorough for you! If I confused you, let me know, ok?

But, WOW!! Isn’t God AMAZING!?

And our rewards, we CANNOT even FATHOM!!!

Isaiah   64 : 4   For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

Also, Revelation 7 & 14 are interesting for believers! (Read Revelation or do some Bible Studies about it if you can’t wait! I’ve posted links to sites that have EXCELLENT studies in a previous post!)

#MuchLove

#NeverStopLearning

#LoveGodWithALLyourMight

How could anybody NOT see that LOVE is the motivation for the creation of these beautiful works of art?!

When you think about how amazing God is, you can NEVER be bored ever again!

#TrustMe

#ThisIsTheGodIServe

Everything He creates whispers “I Love You”. #TheTruth

Don’t be mad at me for saying, but God has His reasons for everything that happens.

We may not like what He ALLOWS to happen to us, but He can see the Past, the Present, the Future and all the possibilities we have throughout our lives. Including what choices we CAN make, and those that we DO make.

He Promises us, in the Bible, that all of His intentions towards us are only Good ALL THE TIME!

Getting through the hard times all boils down to if we trust Him.

Please Trust Him and tell Him that you don’t know what’s going on, but that you trust Him, no matter what. He rewards those who trust Him! Maybe not the way you’d think or want Him to, but He does! <3

#Love you!
#Take care!

My sister is reading this book called: ”V^ Crazy Love” (The “V” and “^” are supposed to be up and down arrows!) The following is what I’ve been trying to say, but I haven’t found the words until my sister read this book and wrote them down for me! Here they are:

“Philippians 4:4-6

4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

6 Be careful for nothing [Also can be translated as “Be anxious for nothing”]; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” [emphasis added]

Worry implies that we don’t quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.

When I am consumed by my problems - stressed out by my life, my family, and my job - I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God’s command to always rejoice! In other words, that I have a “right” to disobey God because of the magnitude of my responsibilities!

Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.”

And now my thoughts:

This does convey MOST of what I wanted to say, but not ALL of it. Read ALL of my posts because there are snippets of what God has done for me and WHY I think the way that I do about God as well as HOW I KNOW that God cares about everything that I do and that HE ALSO CARES about what I do!

I can NEVER say it enough: GOD IS AMAZING! I’m SO glad that I don’t have to wait to start serving HIM! I am doing that RIGHT NOW! My blog doesn’t have almost four-hundred and fifty thousand views for no reason! God is getting His message to people who want to know HIM better and love HIM in all that they do!

It’s REALLY easy and eliminates the stress! I just send the Holy Spirit to talk to people and He clears up all the problems I have! I LOVE telling God to take care of something for me! He is SO QUICK! He amazes me every time! He’s always just waiting for me to give Him something to do! I don’t ever want to be without God - He is the world to me!

Take some time to go through my blog… when you’re ready, I challenge you to give God a chance to prove that HE WANTS to take care of your EVERY NEED! Try Him this week! God is SO AMAZING, I KNOW you’ll understand what I mean if you just TRY!

#GodIsAMAZING

#GodIsFaithful

#GodWantsToHelp

#GodIsAlwaysGood