tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933559844274352562024-03-13T18:54:39.834-07:00jteamrunnersSharing Faith, Fitness, and Fellowship to glorify God. J-Team Runnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03974010642990033031noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293355984427435256.post-33783770736444534232017-11-07T19:46:00.001-08:002017-11-07T19:46:29.031-08:00Friendship with God<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Four ways to grow my friendship with God:</b></h2>
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<li>Choose to be honest with God.</li>
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<li>I don't have to be perfect.</li>
<li>I do have to be completely honest.</li>
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<li>I must choose to OBEY God in faith.</li>
<li>I must choose to value with God values. </li>
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<li>Friends value their buddies interests. </li>
<li>God isn't going to value something that shouldn't be valued.</li>
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<li>I must desire a friendship with God MORE than anything else! </li>
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<li>What do I put before God?</li>
<li>What is more important than building a stronger relationship with God? </li>
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J-Team Runnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03974010642990033031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293355984427435256.post-5053074106232038302017-10-01T19:23:00.004-07:002017-10-01T19:23:47.561-07:00Endurance <a href="https://youtu.be/_FlBa3umKBw" target="_blank">Christine Caine's Sermon on Endurance </a><br />
<br />J-Team Runnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03974010642990033031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293355984427435256.post-87180488285466849542017-09-25T06:56:00.003-07:002017-09-25T06:56:38.047-07:00Gossip vs. Trustworthiness<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Gossip vs. Trustworthiness</span></b><br />
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Proverbs 25 has many lessons in it. Today when I read it, I found a theme. This theme warned against gossip and encouraged trustworthiness. <br />
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In verses 9-10, Solomon tells us using gossip to get ourselves out of trouble will only end badly:<br />
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<span class="text Prov-25-9" id="en-NIV-17123" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">9 </span>If you take your neighbor to court,</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Prov-25-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">do not betray another’s confidence,</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Prov-25-10" id="en-NIV-17124" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">10 </span>or the </span><span class="text Prov-25-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: yellow; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">one who hears it may shame you</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Prov-25-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white;">and the</span><span style="background-color: yellow;"> charge against you will stand.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Prov-25-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span></span></span>
In verses 18, it says using gossip is like using a lethal weapon:<br />
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<span class="text Prov-25-18" id="en-NIV-17132" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: yellow; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Prov-25-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">is one who gives false testimony against a neighbor.</span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Prov-25-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Prov-25-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;">And, in verses 23, it says using gossip makes you look bad:</span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Prov-25-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Prov-25-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="text Prov-25-23" id="en-NIV-17137" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Like a north wind that brings unexpected rain</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Prov-25-23" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white;">is a sly tongue—which </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">provokes a horrified look</span><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Prov-25-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="text Prov-25-23" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Prov-25-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="text Prov-25-23" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;">In addition, in verses 28, Solomon tells us because gossip is a lack of self-control, a person who participates in such thing will be broken down:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Prov-25-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="text Prov-25-23" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Prov-25-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="text Prov-25-23" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="text Prov-25-28" id="en-NIV-17142" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white;">Like a city whose walls are </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">broken through</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Prov-25-28" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">is a person who lacks self-control.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Prov-25-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="text Prov-25-23" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;">However, in verses 13, Solomon says a trustworthy messenger is like a fresh glass of water and "refreshes the spirit."</span><br />
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<span class="text Prov-25-13" id="en-NIV-17127" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Like a snow-cooled drink at harvest time</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Prov-25-13" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">is a trustworthy messenger to the one who sends him;</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Prov-25-13" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white;">he </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">refreshes the spirit of his master</span><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></span>J-Team Runnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03974010642990033031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293355984427435256.post-86647746918464757002017-09-17T15:14:00.000-07:002017-09-17T15:14:58.815-07:00Goals<h2>
<b>Goals</b></h2>
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<b><br /></b><i>Why are personal goals important?</i></h3>
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<b style="background-color: cyan;">1. Goal setting is a spiritual responsibility. </b><br />
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<i>Paul: “I know that I am not yet what God wants me to be. I haven’t
reached <span style="background-color: yellow;">that goal</span>, but I keep moving toward it to make it mine because
Christ made me and saved me for this. I know that I haven’t yet reached
<span style="background-color: yellow;">my goal</span>, but there’s one thing I always do. Forgetting the past and
straining toward what is ahead, I keep my eyes focused on <span style="background-color: yellow;">the goal</span>
so that I may one day win the prize that God has called me to receive
through Christ in the life above. All of you who are spiritually mature
should think this same way, too.” </i><b>Philippians 3:12-15</b><br />
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<b style="background-color: cyan;">2. Goals are statements of faith.</b><br />
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- Goals stretch your faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God. (Hebrews 11:6)<br />
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<i>"Now to him who by the power that is working within us is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think," </i><b>Ephesians 3:20</b><br />
<i><br />“According to your faith will it be done to you.”</i> <b>Matthew 9:29 </b><br />
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<b>(Let the size of your God be the size of your goal!)</b><br />
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<b style="background-color: cyan;">3. Goals focus my energy. </b><br />
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“I do not run without a goal. I fight like a boxer who is hitting
something—not just the air.” <br /><b>1 Corinthians 9:26 (NCV)</b><br />
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<b style="background-color: cyan;">4. Goals help me keep going. </b><br />
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When you feel like you are going through hell, goals help you keep going. Jesus kept preaching, loving, and healing although he knew he would endure the cross because he knew the ultimate goal to save mankind.<br />
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- You can't learn without mistakes or failures. Failures help you learn.<br />
- Don't waste your failures. <br />- Short-term set backs lead to long-term goals.<br />
- Strive for many small steps forward.<br />
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<i>Job: “I do not have the strength to endure. I do not have a goal
that encourages me to carry on.” </i><br /><b>Job 6:11 (NLT)</b><br />
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<b style="background-color: cyan;">5. Goals build my character. </b><br />
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- Drifting doesn't build your character. <i>Without a vision, the people perish </i>(Proverbs 29:18).<br />
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Paul: “...I keep striving toward the goal...” <b>Philippians 3:12 (TEV)</b><br />
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<b style="background-color: cyan;">6. Good goals will be rewarded. </b><br />
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<i>If your goals are good, you will be respected.”</i> <b>Proverbs 11:27 (TEV)</b><br /><i><br />“All athletes practice strict self-control. They do it to win a prize that will
fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So I run straight to the goal
with purpose in every step.” </i><br /><b>1 Corinthians 9:25-26a (NLT)</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7ClyNK1sIE" target="_blank">Pastor Rick Warren's Sermon</a></b>J-Team Runnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03974010642990033031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293355984427435256.post-46072477191349333492017-08-11T04:53:00.000-07:002017-08-11T04:53:06.205-07:00Fruit of the Spirit: JOY<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”The Joy of Jesus is not something we can fake. It is not happiness that depends on our circumstances or moods but rather the fruit of a Spirit-filled and controlled life. Consequently, it does not fluctuate with conditions. It is by the </span><a href="http://blogs.bible.org/impact/hal_warren/god_the_holy_spirit_part_i_introducing_the_holy_spirit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Holy Spirit</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (1) who dwells within us, we can have the joy of Jesus in the midst of trials. Again, it is the third person of the trinity God the Holy Spirit that brings the Joy of Jesus into our lives!” - Hal Warren</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jesus is our joy provided through the Holy Spirit.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Thessalonians 2:19-20 ESV</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? For you are our glory and joy.” </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Thessalonians 1:6 NET</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, despite great affliction.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romans 14:17 NET</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">joy in the Holy Spirit</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romans 15:13 NET</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Now may the God of hope </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fill you with all joy</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by the power of the Holy Spirit</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John 15:11</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joy doesn’t depend on our moods or circumstances. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Luke 1:47 GW</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Mary said, “My soul praises the Lord’s greatness! My spirit finds its joy in God, my Savior, because he has looked favorably on me, his humble servant. “From now on, all people will call me blessed because the Almighty has done great things to me. His name is holy.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although Mary is a young girl, engaged to Joseph, and never had relations with a man, she chooses to be joyful in God’s plan in her life. She will become the talk of the town and she is unsure of the road ahead but she trusts and believes God has chosen the best for her.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joy through the Lord gives us strength in all circumstances.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nehemiah 8:10 (NLT)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And Nehemiah[</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nehemiah+8:10#fen-NLT-12480a" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #b34b2c; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">] continued, “Go and celebrate with a feast of rich foods and sweet drinks, and share gifts of food with people who have nothing prepared. This is a sacred day before our Lord. Don’t be dejected and sad, for the joy of the Lord is your strength!”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John 16:33 (NET)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage—I have conquered the world.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Revelations 12:11-12a (NET)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die. Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anxiety</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeremiah 17:7-8 GW</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Blessed is the person who trusts the LORD. The LORD will be his confidence. He will be like a tree that is planted by water. It will send its roots down to a stream. It will not be afraid in the heat of summer. Its leaves will turn green. It will not be anxious during droughts. It will not stop producing fruit.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I Peter 5:6-10 ESV</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matthew 6:34 HCSB</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Psalm 94:19 NIV</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Philippians 4:6 NIV</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Resentment from hurt</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Job 5:2 NIV</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark 11:25 ESV</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Confusion</b><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Acts 19:32 ESV
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>“Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.”
</i></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">PSALM 115:5-9 AMP</span><b>
</b></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>“They have mouths, but they cannot speak; They have eyes, but they cannot see; They have ears, but they cannot hear; They have noses, but they cannot smell; They have hands, but they cannot feel; They have feet, but they cannot walk; Nor can they make a sound with their throats. Those who make them will become like them, Everyone who trusts in them. O Israel, trust and take refuge in the LORD! [Be confident in Him, cling to Him, rely on His word!] He is their help and their shield.”
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</i><span style="font-weight: 700;">Ephesians 4:26-29 CSB</span><b>
</b></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger, and don’t give the devil an opportunity. Let the thief no longer steal. Instead, he is to do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need. No foul language should come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.”</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ac039204-d11f-8575-dff6-c8be7c56f0d5"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span>J-Team Runnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03974010642990033031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293355984427435256.post-62285330694006091602017-08-06T06:45:00.000-07:002017-08-06T06:48:00.668-07:00Fruits of the Spirit: Love <h1 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.32; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Galatians 5:22-23 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">English Standard Version (ESV)</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">22 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">23 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fruit of love:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is LOVE? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Agape - Greek word for unconditional and impartial love of God</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Corinthians 13 (ESV)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Way of Love</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13#fen-ESV-28652a" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #b34b2c; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">] but have not love, I gain nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13#fen-ESV-28654b" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #b34b2c; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">b</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">] </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. </span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keeping God’s commandments is showing our love for Him.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John 15:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 9</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daniel 9:11-13 (NET)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “I prayed to the LORD my God, confessing in this way: “O Lord, great and awesome God who is faithful to his covenant with those who </span><span style="background-color: #fffca2; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">love</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> him and keep his commandments”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deuteronomy 11:13 (NET)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Loving one another and letting God love through your actions to others</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 John 4:7-21(ESV)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">God Is Love</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matthew 25:34-40</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.' 37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?'40 And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romans 12:10</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love your enemies and pray for them.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matthew 5:44 (ESV)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,“ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luke 6:32 (NLT)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them!”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luke 6:32 NLT</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love is a sacrifice. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Psalm 51:17 (NIV)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I John 4:10 (NIV) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Psalm 4:5 (HCSB)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Offer sacrifices in righteousness and trust in the Lord.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+5:2&version=ESV" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ephesians 5:2</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; 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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Loving involves discipline. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proverbs 13:24 (NIV)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proverbs 11:12 (NET)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The one who loves discipline loves knowledge, but the one who hates reproof is stupid”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I John 4:18b (AMP)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“ ...But perfect (complete, full-grown) love drives out fear, because fear involves [the expectation of divine] punishment, so the one who is afraid [of God’s judgment] is not perfected in love [has not grown into a sufficient understanding of God’s love].” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What LOVE isn’t:</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love isn’t jealousy, bragging, or arrogant. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I Corinthians 13:4b (ESV)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“...love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant”</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love isn’t rude, inflexible, irritable, or resentful. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I Corinthians 13:4b-5</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“it is not arrogant </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love doesn’t enjoy sin.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I Corinthians 13:6a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“it does not rejoice at wrongdoing,...”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love never ends.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I Corinthians 13:8a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>“Love never ends…”</i></span></div>
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</b></span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“ </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is no fear in love [dread does not exist]. But perfect (complete, full-grown) love drives out fear, because fear involves [the expectation of divine] punishment, so the one who is afraid [of God’s judgment] is not perfected in love [has not grown into a sufficient understanding of God’s love].” </span></li>
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<br /><span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b> Purposes for our Lives:</b><span style="font-size: x-small;">1. God wants you to know and love Him. (Worship)<br />2. Learn to love others. (Fellowship)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">3. To become like Jesus. (Grow Up Spiritually)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">4. Practice serving other people. (Ministry)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">5. You were made with a mission. </span></span></h3>
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<br /><i><b>God uses pain to develop those purposes in your life! </b></i></h2>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Galatians 3:4</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="text Gal-3-4" id="en-ESV-29090" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>"</b></span></span><span class="text Gal-3-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Did you suffer</span><span class="text Gal-3-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?"</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="text Gal-3-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #e06666; line-height: 24px;"><b>Using Pain for my Purposes in Life:</b></span></span><br />
<span class="text Gal-3-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #e06666; line-height: 24px;">1. I can use my pain to draw closer to God. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><b>2 Corinthians 1:8-10</b></span></span><span class="text 2Cor-1-8" id="en-TLB-25852" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">"8 </span>I think you ought to know, dear brothers, about the hard time we went through in Asia. We were really crushed and overwhelmed, and feared we would never live through it. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"></span><span class="text 2Cor-1-9" id="en-TLB-25853" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">9 </span>We felt we were doomed to die and saw how powerless we were to help ourselves;</span><span class="text 2Cor-1-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: yellow; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> but that was good, for then we put everything into the hands of God</span><span class="text 2Cor-1-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">, who alone could save us, for he can even raise the dead. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"></span><span class="text 2Cor-1-10" id="en-TLB-25854" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">10 </span>And</span><span class="text 2Cor-1-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: yellow; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> he did help us and saved us from a terrible death; yes, and we expect him to do it again and again."</span></span><br />
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<span class="passage-display-bcv" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-right: 10px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.1;">2 Corinthians 7:9</span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 14.3px;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">"9 </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Now I am glad I sent it, not because it hurt you but </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">because the pain turned you to God</span><span style="background-color: white;">. It was a good kind of sorrow you felt, the kind of sorrow God wants his people to have, so that I need not come to you with harshness."</span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;"><span class="passage-display-bcv" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; padding-right: 10px;">Galatians 6:2</span><span class="passage-display-version" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 500; line-height: 14.3px;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">"2 </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">Share each other’s troubles</span><span style="background-color: white;"> and problems, and so obey our Lord’s command."</span></span></h1>
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<span class="passage-display-bcv" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-right: 10px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.1;">Galatians 5:22-23</span><span style="font-weight: 500; line-height: 14.3px;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span class="text Gal-5-22" id="en-TLB-26215" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: x-small;"><span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 14.3px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">"</span></span><span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">22 </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: white;">But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives he will produce this </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, </span></span></span></span><span class="text Gal-5-23" id="en-TLB-26216" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">23 </span>gentleness and self-control</span><span style="background-color: white;">; and here there is no conflict with Jewish laws."</span></span></h1>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These same wide paths included firm chat making each step secure. This is similar to the areas in our lives we feel as if we are on stable ground due to good support systems God has provided us.</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then, there are some areas that aren’t so wide and clear. In fact, weeds and roots have overgrown and covered the path making it difficult to not only cross but to clearly see the direction to take unless you focus on the light ahead. I was so convicted on this part of the trail, I began to feel ashamed of myself. God revealed to me this was the area I allowed the world to cloud my relationship with Him. In fact, those overgrown roots caused hurdles to jump to avoid tripping. My idols I place before him cause a stumbling block to see the path clearly. </span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even more difficult areas, such as the big, loose rocky paths that made each step difficult and unstable, reminded me of the areas in our lives that are problematic because we live in an imperfect world. These times aren’t always our fault but necessary we endure fixing our eyes on Jesus (Hebrews 12:1-3). He reaffirms He has already overcame this world (John 16:33) and provides our strength and assistance to endure the adventure to firmer ground (Isaiah 41:10). </span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On a nature trail like the Ruby Jack, there are wildlife as well as near by farm animals who sometimes share the trail whether seen or unseen. Some may chase you as you see them clearly and others make noises staying hidden in the brush nearby. Either of these instances causes fear and uncertainty. God reminded me when I allow my fear to overcome my faith, the evil who one lurks to steal and destroy (John 10:10) uses the fear to block my view of how BIG God is and His protecting power over me. However, allowing my faith to be bigger than my fear reminds me God is with us everywhere we go (Joshua 1:9) and if God is for us, who can be against us (Romans 8:31).</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While running, we came upon aid stations which were needed physically and mentally. Volunteers gave their precious time to serve each runner with encouragement as well as nourishment. There are times in our life we have to allow others to lift us up so we can go forward (Exodus 17:12).</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I passed a Marine with a 45lb. rucksack on his back he wore for the fallen soldier. He wore his combat boots and was completing the same 50K race I was running. I was brought to tears over his sacrifice. This reminded me of the great sacrifices our Lord Jesus endured for us. Each of us are fallen soldiers to sin but He carried the weight of our sins to Calvary where he endured the punishment on the cross to save each one of us from death (John 3:16).</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because the nature of the race, there are different types of runners each going different paces based on their experience, physical capabilities, past training, and whether or not they endured a race injury. It reminded me not to just listen or depend on my body or training. God is at work in all of us and sets our pace in order to fulfill His good purpose. It is easy to become discouraged if someone passes us or to think we may be the last runner in line for the finish, yet, God’s purpose for us is right we He tells us to be even if it means to hold the anchor in the race (Philippians 2:13). </span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The finish line could be seen from almost a half-mile back. There was a hill toward the end that made each movement forward difficult and more painful. Although every part of my legs ached and hurt, I moved forward asking God to give me strength for a strong finish. When I reached 100 meters from the finish line, I felt a rush and strength that could only have been from the Lord. I sprinted into the finish line praising God for the experience. Sometimes our difficult times are painful and it tough to see the finish but when we keep praying and praising God for His strength, He gives us a boost out of our trial and into a beautiful VICTORY (I Thessalonians 5:17-18, I Corinthians 15:57). </span></li>
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