TIME OF POWER

Susan Rohrer once said: “Powerfully loving, commandingly joyful, actively peaceful, compellingly patient, emphatically kind, intensely good, infallibly faithful, potently gentle, and vigorously self-controlled. Who wouldn’t want to know a person like this? “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, who will stay with you forever. He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God. The world cannot receive him, because it cannot see him or know him. But you know him, because he remains…

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Phoebe Farag Mikhail said: “The job of writing the death and funeral announcements at church sometimes falls to me. Families are often too distraught with the death of their loved one and pulled in different directions because of all the other arrangements. My husband, a priest, will usually be with the family, comforting them even as he also grieves the departure of another member of the body of Christ. “Departed in the hope of the Resurrection,” I write. Every death…

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1. “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” 2. “Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.” 3. “Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I will say, Rejoice.” 4. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.”

Have you not heard that we need the spirit of joy to overcome the depressing mood of selfishness, the nature of unjust mammon, and its deadly hate? Yes, we can only have great pleasure if we have faith and believe that the earth has a future in Christ Jesus. Yes, Jesus Christ talked a lot about giving us a future filled with joy and rejoicing with the Father. I mean, your future with complete satisfaction is with Jesus Christ. The…

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Eberhard Arnold said: “It is a simple thing: joy in everything that lives. Anyone who can rejoice in life, in other people, in the fellowship of the church community – anyone who feels joy in the mutual relationships of trust and inner fellowship – such a person experiences what love is. Anyone who cannot feel joy cannot live.… Only where there is joy do love and justice dwell. We need the spirit of joy to overcome the gloomy spirit of…

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1. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” 2. “For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.” 3. “And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” 4. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the…

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Now at death the soul, or spirit of man, returns to God (Ecclesiastes 12:7); which if understood of the souls of humanity in general, it means that at the end they return to God the Judge of all, who passes sentence on them, and orders those that are good to the villas of heaven complete with joy and happiness, and those that are evil to hell and destruction eternally. Meaning, at death, the spirit, or soul of a human, gets…

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Karen Washington said: “I literally went to the soil and put both my hands in that soil, and I felt that belonging, and I’ll never forget that because now I understand my true connection to the land. At the end of the day, we come from the soil, we’re going to go back to the soil. Understanding that gave me a sense of power.”

Alice von Hildebrand said: “What does it mean to be made for immortality? It means there is something inside you that is going to last for ever and ever and ever. In my apartment building, there are all sorts of people; it’s a little microcosm of humanity. Sometimes I feel so sorry for the people because it seems that all they are doing is making money and more money – for what? You can’t take gold with you in your…

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1. “To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.” 2. “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” 3. “Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.” 4. And which now has been manifested through the…

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