Jesus is with His Own. Are you one of His?

 

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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The LORD's peace passes all understanding

-pelicans

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Philippians 4:5b-7

..."the Lord is near.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."...

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When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean,

   And waves are tossed wild with an angry roar,

It's said, far down beneath the wild commotion,

   That peaceful stillness reigns forevermore.

Far, far beneath, noise of tempests falls silent,

   And silver waves lie ever peacefully,

And no storm, however fierce or violent,

   Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.

So to the heart that knows Your Love, O Father,

   There is a temple sacred evermore,

And all life's angry voices causing bother

   Die in hushed silence at its peaceful door.

Far, far away, the roars of strife fall silent,

   And loving thoughts rise ever peacefully,

And no storm, however fierce or violent,

   Disturbs the soul that dwells, O Lord, in Thee.

-Harriet Beecher Stowe

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"Pilgrim was taken to a large upper room 

that faced the sunrise.  And the name of the 

room was Peace."

-from Pilgrim's Progress

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What is the Cure?!

-internet meme 

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I am pruned to bear more fruit.

 -Kinsman

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I walked a mile with Pleasure,

    She chattered all the way;

But left me none the wiser

    For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow,

    And ne'er a word said she;

   But oh, the things I learned from her

    When Sorrow walked with me.

-unknown

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John 15:1-11

Jesus says:  “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. 

You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 

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.

These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full."...

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