Love is

-The Little Red Hen Quilt Shop

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Love

Love is patient

Love is kind

Love does not envy or boast

Love is not rude

Love is not self-seeking

Or easily angered

And it keeps no memory of wrong

It never delights in evil

But rejoices in truth

Love

Always protects

Always trusts

Love always hopes and perseveres

Love never fails

For God so loved the world

That He gave His only Son

That whoever believes in Him

They will never perish

They will love forever

For God is Love

Love never fails

God is Love

And Love never fails

-Jay Stocker

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1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

"Love is patient, 

love is kind and is not jealous; 

love does not brag and is not arrogant,

does not act unbecomingly; 

it does not seek its own, 

is not provoked, 

does not take into account a wrong suffered,

does not rejoice in unrighteousness, 

but rejoices with the truth;

bears all things, believes all things, 

hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails;"

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John 3:16-21

“For God so loved the world, 

that He gave His only begotten Son, 

that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, 

but have eternal life.

For God did not send the Son into 

the world to judge the world, 

but that the world might be saved through Him.

He who believes in Him is not judged; 

he who does not believe has been judged already, 

because he has not believed in the name 

of the only begotten Son of God.

This is the judgment, 

that the Light has come into the world, 

and men loved the darkness 

rather than the Light, 

for their deeds were evil.

For everyone who does evil hates the Light, 

and does not come to the Light for fear that 

his deeds will be exposed.

But he who practices the truth 

comes to the Light, 

so that his deeds may be manifested 

as having been wrought in God.”

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1 John 4:15-16

"Whoever confesses that 

Jesus is the Son of God, 

God abides in him, and he in God.

We have come to know and have 

believed the love which God has for us. 

God is love, and the one who abides 

in love abides in God, and God abides in Him."

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Does this Shoe Fit?

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References

Amen Clinics

Heart of Sound

 

Look up: 

"Cult Behavior Signs"

Read and Read and Read about Cults. 

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You are not alone.

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Cry out to Jesus!

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Psalm 3

O Lord, how my adversaries have increased!


Many are rising up against me.


Many are saying of my soul,


“There is no deliverance for him in God.” 

But You, O Lord, are a shield about me,


My glory, and the One who lifts my head.


I was crying to the Lord with my voice,


And He answered me from His holy mountain. 

I lay down and slept;


I awoke, for the Lord sustains me.


I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people


Who have set themselves against me round about.

Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God!


For You have smitten 

all my enemies on the cheek;


You have shattered the teeth of the wicked.


Salvation belongs to the Lord;


Your blessing be upon Your people! 

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There is Freedom in Christ! Cry out to Him! 

He will give you a way to escape! And a way to return to a normal life!

He will give you a way to survive if you have "lost" a loved one to a cult-like situation!

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..."Why must I go about mourning?"...

-Rural Skyscraper hidden in the Woods

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" Why..." Psalm 42:9

"Dear Believer, can you answer the above question? 

Can you find any reason why you are so often mourning instead of rejoicing? 

Why do you allow your mind to dwell on gloomy thoughts? 

Who told you that night will never end in day?

Who told you that the winter of your discontent 

would continue from frost to frost and from snow, ice, and hail to even deeper snow and stronger storms of despair?

Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter?

Then, have hope!

Hope forever, for God will not fail you!

-Charles H. Spurgeon

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Psalm 8

O Lord, our Lord,


How majestic is Your name in all the earth,


Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!


From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,


The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;


What is man that You take thought of him,


And the son of man that You care for him?


Yet You have made him a little lower than God,


And You crown him with glory and majesty!


You make him to rule over the works of Your hands;


You have put all things under his feet,


All sheep and oxen,


And also the beasts of the field,


The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,


Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Lord,


How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

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Ruth Graham's Joy

-Decision magazine, 6/25

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Mama Bears Must Firmly Hold Their Confidence in God's Faithfulness

Job 13:13-15

...“Be silent before me so that I may speak;

Then let come on me what may.

“Why should I take my flesh in my teeth

And put my life in my hands?

“Though He slay me,

I will hope in Him."...

2 Timothy 1:12

..."For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day."... 

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I will not doubt, though all my ships at sea

       Come drifting home with broken masts and sails;

       I will believe the Hand that never fails,

From seeming evil works to good for me.

       And though I weep because those sails are 

         tattered,

       Still will I cry, while my best hopes lie shattered:

             “I trust in Thee.”

I will not doubt, though all my prayers return

        Unanswered from the still, white realm above;

        I will believe it is an all-wise love

That has refused these things for which I yearn;

        And though at times I cannot keep from 

           grieving,

        Yet the pure passion of my fixed believing

              Undimmed will burn.

I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain,

         And troubles swarm like bees about a hive.

         I will believe the heights for which I strive

Are only reached by anguish and by pain;

         And though I groan and writhe beneath my 

           crosses,

         Yet I will see through my severest losses

               The greater gain.

I will not doubt. Well anchored in this faith,

          Like some staunch ship, my soul braves every 

            gale;

          So strong its courage that it will not fail

To face the mighty unknown sea of death.

           Oh, may I cry, though body leaves the spirit,

           “I do not doubt,” so listening worlds may 

               hear it,

                   With my last breath.

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An old seaman once said, “In fierce storms we must do one thing, for there is only one way to survive; we must put the ship in a certain position and keep her there.”  And this, dear Christian, is what you must do.

Sometimes, like Paul, you cannot see the sun or the stars to help you navigate when the storm is bearing down on you. This is when you can do only one thing, for there’s only one way. 

Reason cannot help you, past experiences will shed no light, and even prayer will bring no consolation. Only one course remains: you must put your soul in one position and keep it there.

You must anchor yourself steadfastly upon the Lord. And then, come what may—-whether wind, waves, rough seas, thunder, lightning, jagged rocks, or roaring breakers—- you must lash yourself to the helm, firmly holding your confidence in God’s faithfulness, His covenant promises, and His everlasting love in Christ Jesus.

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—Richard Fuller,4/1, Streams in the Desert

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We are Weary and Heavy Ladened

-internet photo

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Matthew 11:28-30

"...[Jesus says] 

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” 

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Weary ones... let us learn to run to Jesus, rest in Jesus, trust in Jesus.  

He is our only hope. 

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He will wipe away our tears!

-internet photo

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"Earth has no sorrow 

that heaven cannot heal" 

This is attributed to Irish poet, writer, and lyricist Thomas Moore (1779-1852). 

Thomas Moore's full quote is:

"Here bring your 

wounded hearts, 

here tell your anguish; 

Earth has no sorrow 

that Heaven cannot heal".  

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Isaiah 35:10

..."And the ransomed 

of the Lord will return

And come with joyful shouting to Zion,

With everlasting joy upon their heads.

They will find gladness and joy,

And sorrow and sighing will flee away."...

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Revelation 21:4

..."and He will 

wipe away every tear from their eyes; 

and there will no longer be any death; 

there will no longer be any mourning, 

or crying, 

or pain; 

the first things have passed away.”

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I Remember Your Name, LORD, in the Night

Psalm 119:49-56

"Remember the word to Your servant,

In which You have made me hope.

This is my comfort in my affliction,

That Your word has revived me.

The arrogant utterly deride me,

Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.

I have remembered Your ordinances from of old, 

O Lord,

And comfort myself.

Burning indignation has seized me 

because of the wicked,

Who forsake Your law.

Your statutes are my songs

In the house of my pilgrimage.

O Lord, 

I remember Your name in the night,

And keep Your law.

This has become mine,

That I observe Your precepts."

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Speak the Truth: Jesus Saves!

John 3:16-21

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Blessed be the LORD God for Jesus!

-Kinsman

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1 Peter 1:3-5

..."Blessed be the God and Father 

of our Lord Jesus Christ,

 

who according to His great mercy 

has caused us to be born again 

to a living hope through the resurrection 

of Jesus Christ from the dead, 

to obtain an inheritance which is 

imperishable and undefiled 

and will not fade away,

 

reserved in heaven for you,

who are protected by the power 

of God through faith for a salvation 

ready to be revealed in the last time."...

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