"FATHER, I WANT THOSE YOU HAVE GIVEN ME TO BE WITH ME WHERE I AM, AND TO SEE MY GLORY, THE GLORY YOU HAVE GIVEN ME BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD!

 A MESSAGE AND REVELATION FROM GOD TO THE WORLD. I AM A SON OF GOD AND I AM PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE. GOD IS ALL POWERFUL, GOD IS ALL KNOWING, AND GOD IS EVERYWHERE AT ONCE. IN THE SCRIPTURES GOD HAS REVEALED HIMSELF AS GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT.

THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND EVERYTHING IN IT, THE WORLD, AND ALL WHO LIVE IN IT; FOR GOD FOUNDED IT UPON THE SEAS AND ESTABLISHED IT UPON THE WATERS.

WHO MAY ASCEND THE HILL OF THE LORD? WHO MAY STAND IN GOD'S HOLY PLACE? HE WHO HAS CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART, WHO DOES NOT LIFT UP HIS SOUL TO AN IDOL OR SWEAR BY WHAT IS FALSE. HE WILL RECEIVE BLESSING FROM THE LORD AND VINDICATION FROM GOD HIS SAVIOR. (Psalm 24:1-5)

WE WHO ARE STRONG OUGHT TO BEAR WITH THE FAILLIGS OF THE WEAK AND NOT TO PLEASE OURSELVES, EACH OF US SHOULD PLEASE HIS NEIGHBOR FOR HIS GOOD, TO BUILD HIM UP. FOR EVEN CHRIST DID NOT PLEASE HIMSELF BUT, AS IT IS WRITTEN:

 "THE INSULTS OF THOSE WHO INSULT YOU HAVE FALLEN ON ME."  FOR EVERYTHING THAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE PAST WAS WRITTEN TO TEACH, SO THAT THROUGH ENDURANCE AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE SCRIPTURES WE MIGHT HAVE HOPE.

MAY THE GOD WHO GIVES ENDURANCE AND ENCOURAGEMENT GIVE YOU A SPIRIT OF UNITY AMONG YOURSELVES AS YOU FOLLOW CHRIST JESUS, SO THAT WITH ONE HEART AND MOUTH YOU MAY GLORIFY THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. ACCEPT ONE ANOTHER, THEN, JUST AS CHRIST ACCEPTED YOU, IN ORDER TO BRING PRAISE TO GOD. (Rom.5:4-7)

"MY PRAYER IS NOT FOR THEM ALONE. I PRAY ALSO FOR THOSE WHO WILL BELIEVE IN ME THROUGH THEIR MESSAGE, THAT ALL OF THEM MAY BE ONE, FATHER, JUST AS YOU ARE IN ME AND I AM IN YOU. MAY THEY ALSO BE IN US SO THAT THE WORLD MAY BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE SENT ME.

I HAVE GIVEN THEM THE GLORY THAT YOU GAVE ME, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE AS WE ARE ONE: I IN THEM AND YOU IN ME. MAY THEY BE BROUGHT TO COMPLETE UNITY TO LET THE WORLD KNOW THAT YOU SENT ME AND HAVE LOVED THEM EVEN AS YOU HAVE LOVED ME.

"FATHER, I WANT THOSE YOU HAVE GIVEN ME TO BE WITH ME WHERE I AM, AND TO SEE MY GLORY, THE GLORY YOU HAVE GIVEN ME BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. "RIGHTEOUS FATHER, THOUGH THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW YOU, I KNOW YOU, AND THEY KNOW THAT YOU HAVE SENT ME.

I HAVE MADE YOU KNOWN TO THEM, AND WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE YOU KNOWN IN ORDER THAT THE LOVE YOU HAVE FOR ME MAY BE IN THEM AND THAT I MYSELF MAY BE IN THEM." (John 17: 20-26)

AS A PRISONER FOR THE LORD, THEN, I URGE YOU TO LIVE A LIFE WORTHY OF THE CALLING YOU HAVE RECEIVED. BE COMPLETELY HUMBLE AND GENTLE, BE PATIENT, BEARING WITH ONE ANOTHER IN LOVE. MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO KEEP THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH THE BOND OF PEACE. 

THERE IS ONE BODY AND ONE SPIRIT- JUST AS YOU WERE CALLED TO ONE HOPE WHEN YOU WERE CALLED - ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM; ONE GOD AND THE FATHER OF ALL, WHO IS OVER ALL AND THROUGH ALL AND IN ALL. BUT TO EACH ONE OF US GRACE HAS BEEN GIVEN AS CHRIST APPORTIONED IT. (Eph. 4:1-7)

THE SEASON OF LENT IS A TIME OF PREPARATION FOR WHEN JESUS WILL DIE ON THE CROSS, THIS IS THE 40 DAYS OF LENT. A CONTRAST BETWEEN LIGHT -JESUS AND DARKNESS -THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL TRIES TO TEMPT US AWAY FROM GOD INTO THE DARKNESS AND JESUS DIES TO RECONCILE US TO GOD.

FOR ME LENT IS A TIME TO BE MORE CHRIST LIKE THAN CHRISTIAN. BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS -JESUS AND EVIL AND UNRIGHTEOUS -THE DEVIL. I CHOOSE GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS AND I AM CHRIST LIKE BY THE GRACE OF GOD.

HUMBLE YOURSELVES, THEREFORE, UNDER GOD'S MIGHTY HAND, THAT GOD MAY LIFT YOU UP IN DUE TIME. CAST ALL YOUR ANXIETY ON GOD BECAUSE GOD CARES FOR YOU. BE INNER SELF-CONTROLLED AND ALERT.

YOUR ENEMY THE DEVIL PROWLS AROUND LIKE A ROARING LION LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DEVOUR. RESIST THE DEVIL, STANDING FIRM IN THE FAITH, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BROTHERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ARE UNDERGOING THE SAME KIND OF SUFFERINGS.

AND THE GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO CALLED YOU TO GOD'S ETERNAL GLORY IN CHRIST, AFTER YOU HAVE SUFFERED A LITTLE WHILE, GOD WILL HIMSELF RESTORE YOU IN CHRIST AND GOD WILL MAKE YOU STRONG IN CHRIST, FIRM IN CHRIST AND STEADFAST IN CHRIST. TO GOD BE THE POWER FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN. (1 Peter 5:6-11)

JESUS SAID: AND AGAIN, "I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN GOD." AND AGAIN JESUS SAYS, "HERE AM I, AND THE CHILDREN GOD HAS GIVEN ME." SINCE THE CHILDREN HAVE FLESH AND BLOOD, JESUS TOO SHARED IN THEIR HUMANITY SO THAT BY HIS DEATH JESUS MIGHT DESTROY HIM WHO HOLDS THE POWER OF DEATH - THAT IS, THE DEVIL - AND FREE THOSE WHO ALL THEIR LIVES WERE HELD IN SLAVERY BY THEIR FEAR OF DEATH. (HEB. 2:13-15)

DEAR CHILDREN, DO NOT LET ANYONE LEAD YOU ASTRAY. HE WHO DOES WHAT IS RIGHT IS RIGHTEOUS, JUST AS JESUS IS RIGHTEOUS. HE WHO DOES WHAT IS SINFUL IS OF THE DEVIL, BECAUSE THE DEVIL HAS BEEN SINNING FROM THE BEGINNING. THE REASON THE SON OF GOD APPEARED WAS TO DESTROY THE DEVIL'S WORK.

NO ONE WHO IS BORN OF GOD WILL CONTINUE TO SIN, BECAUSE GOD'S SEED REMAINS IN HIM; HE CANNOT GO ON SINNING, BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD. THIS IS HOW WE KNOW WHO THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE AND WHO THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL ARE: ANYONE WHO DOES NOT DO WHAT IS RIGHT IS NOT A CHILD OF GOD; NOR IS ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LOVE HIS BROTHER. (1 John 3:7-10)

THE DEVIL WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, NOT HOLDING TO THE TRUTH, FOR THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THE DEVIL. WHEN THE DEVIL LIES, HE SPEAKS HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE, FOR THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF LIES. (John 8:44b)

THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND WHOEVER LIES IS DOING THE DEVIL'S WORK. WHOEVER CLAIMS TO LIVE IN GOD MUST WALK AS JESUS DID. JESUS ANSWERED, "YOU ARE RIGHT IN SAYING I AM A KING. IN FACT, FOR THIS REASON I WAS BORN, AND FOR THIS I CAME INTO THE WORLD, TO TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH. EVERYONE ON THE SIDE OF TRUTH LISTENS TO ME." (John 18:37)

"FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT GOD GAVE HIS ONE AND ONLY SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD THROUGH CHRIST. WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST IS NOT CONDEMNED, BUT WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE STANDS CONDEMNED ALREADY BECAUSE HE HAS NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF GOD'S ONE AND ONLY SON.

THIS IS THE VERDICT: LIGHT HAS COME INTO THE WORLD, BUT MEN LOVED DARKNESS INSTEAD OF LIGHT BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL. EVERYONE WHO DOES EVIL HATES THE LIGHT, AND WILL NOT COME INTO THE LIGHT FOR FEAR THAT HIS DEEDS WILL BE EXPOSED. BUT WHOEVER LIVES BY THE TRUTH COMES INTO THE LIGHT, SO THAT IT MAY BE SEEN PLAINLY THAT WHAT HE DONE HAS BEEN DONE THROUGH GOD." (John 3:16-21)

DEAR FRIENDS, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR LOVE COMES FROM GOD. EVERYONE WHO LOVES HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD AND KNOWS GOD, WHOEVER DOES NOT LOVE DOES NOT KNOW GOD, BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE.

THIS IS HOW GOD SHOWED HIS LOVE AMONG US: GOD SENT HIS ONE AND ONLY SON INTO THE WORLD THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH CHRIST. THIS IS LOVE: NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT GOD LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON AS AN ATONING SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS. 

DEAR FRIENDS, SINCE GOD SO LOVED US, WE OUGHT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN GOD; BUT IF WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, GOD LIVES IN US AND GOD'S LOVE IS MADE COMPLETE IN US. WE KNOW THAT WE LIVE IN GOD AND GOD IN US, BECAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN US OF GOD'S SPIRIT.

AND WE HAVE SEEN AND TESTIFY THAT THE FATHER HAS SENT HIS SON TO BE THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD. IF ANYONE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD LIVES IN HIM AND HE IN GOD. AND SO WE KNOW AND RELY ON THE LOVE GOD HAS FOR US.  (1 JOHN 4:7-16)

SUCH CONFIDENCE AS THIS IS OURS THROUGH CHRIST BEFORE GOD. NOT THAT WE ARE COMPETENT IN OURSELVES TO CLAIM ANYTHING FOR OURSELVES, BUT OUR COMPETENCE COMES FROM GOD. GOD HAS MADE US COMPETENT AS MINISTERS OF A NEW COVENANT - NOT OF THE LETTER BUT OF THE SPIRIT; FOR THE LETTER KILLS, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE. (1 Cor.3:4-6)

THE HOLY SPIRIT ALSO TESTIFIES TO US ABOUT THIS. FIRST GOD SAYS: "THIS IS THE COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THAT TIME, SAYS THE LORD. I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR HEARTS, AND I WRITE THEM ON THEIR MINDS." THEN GOD ADDS: "THEIR SINS AND LAWLESS ACTS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE." (Heb.10:15-17)

FINALLY, BE STRONG IN THE LORD AND IN GOD'S MIGHTY POWER. PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE YOUR STAND AGAINST THE DEVIL'S SCHEMES. FOR OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST THE RULERS, AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES, AGAINST THE POWERS OF THIS DARK WORLD AND AGAINST THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF EVIL IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS. THEREFORE PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD, SO THAT WHEN THE DAY OF EVIL COMES, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO STAND YOUR GROUND. (Eph.6:10-13)

"BECAUSE DAN LOVES ME," SAYS THE LORD, "I WILL RESCUE DAN; I WILL PROTECT DAN, FOR DAN ACKNOWLEDGES MY NAME. DAN WILL CALL UPON ME, AND I WILL ANSWER DAN; I WILL BE WITH DAN IN TROUBLE, I WILL DELIVER DAN AND HONOR DAN. WITH LONG LIFE WILL I SATISFY DAN AND SHOW DAN MY SPIRITUAL SALVATION." (Psalm 91:14-16)

I HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THROUGH THE COVENANT GOD GAVE ME. GOD PUT HIS LAWS IN MY HEART AND WROTE THEM ON MY MIND. I FULFILL GOD'S LAW BY SPEAKING THE WORDS OF MY COVENANT TO GOD AND LOVING ALL MY NEIGHBORS AS MYSELF AS I PRAY FOR ALL PEOPLE, ALL PLACES AND ALL THINGS. VISIT MY YOU TUBE CHANNEL: GODS WORD @godsword7849 AND RECEIVE YOUR BLESSING! AMEN.

PRAISE BE TO THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO HAS BLESSED US IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS WITH EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING IN CHRIST!

A MESSAGE AND REVELATION FROM GOD TO THE WORLD. I AM A SON OF GOD AND I AM PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE. GOD IS ALL POWERFUL, GOD IS ALL KNOWING, AND GOD IS EVERYWHERE AT ONCE. IN THE SCRIPTURES GOD HAS REVEALED HIMSELF AS GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT.

THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND EVERYTHING IN IT, THE WORLD, AND ALL WHO LIVE IN IT; FOR GOD FOUNDED IT UPON THE SEAS AND ESTABLISHED IT UPON THE WATERS.

WHO MAY ASCEND THE HILL OF THE LORD? WHO MAY STAND IN GOD'S HOLY PLACE? HE WHO HAS CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART, WHO DOES NOT LIFT UP HIS SOUL TO AN IDOL OR SWEAR BY WHAT IS FALSE. HE WILL RECEIVE BLESSING FROM THE LORD AND VINDICATION FROM GOD HIS SAVIOR. (Psalm 24:1-5)

WE WHO ARE STRONG OUGHT TO BEAR WITH THE FAILLIGS OF THE WEAK AND NOT TO PLEASE OURSELVES, EACH OF US SHOULD PLEASE HIS NEIGHBOR FOR HIS GOOD, TO BUILD HIM UP. FOR EVEN CHRIST DID NOT PLEASE HIMSELF BUT, AS IT IS WRITTEN:

 "THE INSULTS OF THOSE WHO INSULT YOU HAVE FALLEN ON ME." FOR EVERYTHING THAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE PAST WAS WRITTEN TO TEACH, SO THAT THROUGH ENDURANCE AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE SCRIPTURES WE MIGHT HAVE HOPE.

MAY THE GOD WHO GIVES ENDURANCE AND ENCOURAGEMENT GIVE YOU A SPIRIT OF UNITY AMONG YOURSELVES AS YOU FOLLOW CHRIST JESUS, SO THAT WITH ONE HEART AND MOUTH YOU MAY GLORIFY THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. ACCEPT ONE ANOTHER, THEN, JUST AS CHRIST ACCEPTED YOU, IN ORDER TO BRING PRAISE TO GOD. (Rom.5:4-7)

PRAISE BE TO THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO HAS BLESSED US IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS WITH EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING IN CHRIST. FOR GOD CHOSE US IN CHRIST BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO BE HOLY AND BLAMELESS IN GOD'S SIGHT.

IN LOVE GOD PREDESTINE US TO BE ADOPTED AS GOD'S SONS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, IN ACCORDANCE WITH GOD'S PLEASURE AND WILL - TO THE PRAISE OF GOD'S GLORIOUS GROCE, WHICH GOD HAS FREELY GIVEN US IN THE ONE GOD LOVES. IN CHRIST WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH CHRIST BLOOD, THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RICHES OF GOD'S GRACE THAT GOD LAVISHED ON US WITH ALL WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING.

AND GOD MADE KNOWN TO US THE MYSTERY OF GOD'S WILL ACCORDING TO GOD'S GOOD PLEASURE, WHICH GOD PURPOSED IN CHRIST, TO BE PUT INTO EFFECT WHEN THE TIMES WILL HAVE REACHED THEIR FULFILLMENT - TO BRING ALL THINGS IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH TOGETHER UNDER ONE HEAD, EVEN CHRIST. Eph.1:3-10)

AS A PRISONER FOR THE LORD, THEN, I URGE YOU TO LIVE A LIFE WORTHY OF THE CALLING YOU HAVE RECEIVED. BE COMPLETELY HUMBLE AND GENTLE, BE PATIENT, BEARING WITH ONE ANOTHER IN LOVE. MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO KEEP THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH THE BOND OF PEACE. 

THERE IS ONE BODY AND ONE SPIRIT- JUST AS YOU WERE CALLED TO ONE HOPE WHEN YOU WERE CALLED - ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM; ONE GOD AND THE FATHER OF ALL, WHO IS OVER ALL AND THROUGH ALL AND IN ALL. BUT TO EACH ONE OF US GRACE HAS BEEN GIVEN AS CHRIST APPORTIONED IT. (Eph. 4:1-7)

THE SEASON OF LENT IS A TIME OF PREPARATION FOR WHEN JESUS WILL DIE ON THE CROSS, THIS IS THE 40 DAYS OF LENT. A CONTRAST BETWEEN LIGHT -JESUS AND DARKNESS -THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL TRIES TO TEMPT US AWAY FROM GOD INTO THE DARKNESS AND JESUS DIES TO RECONCILE US TO GOD.

FOR ME LENT IS A TIME TO BE MORE CHRIST LIKE THAN CHRISTIAN. BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS -JESUS AND EVIL AND UNRIGHTEOUS -THE DEVIL. I CHOOSE GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS AND I AM CHRIST LIKE BY THE GRACE OF GOD.

HUMBLE YOURSELVES, THEREFORE, UNDER GOD'S MIGHTY HAND, THAT GOD MAY LIFT YOU UP IN DUE TIME. CAST ALL YOUR ANXIETY ON GOD BECAUSE GOD CARES FOR YOU. BE INNER SELF-CONTROLLED AND ALERT.

YOUR ENEMY THE DEVIL PROWLS AROUND LIKE A ROARING LION LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DEVOUR. RESIST THE DEVIL, STANDING FIRM IN THE FAITH, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BROTHERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ARE UNDERGOING THE SAME KIND OF SUFFERINGS.

AND THE GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO CALLED YOU TO GOD'S ETERNAL GLORY IN CHRIST, AFTER YOU HAVE SUFFERED A LITTLE WHILE, GOD WILL HIMSELF RESTORE YOU IN CHRIST AND GOD WILL MAKE YOU STRONG IN CHRIST, FIRM IN CHRIST AND STEADFAST IN CHRIST. TO GOD BE THE POWER FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN. (1 Peter 5:6-11)

JESUS SAID: AND AGAIN, "I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN GOD." AND AGAIN JESUS SAYS, "HERE AM I, AND THE CHILDREN GOD HAS GIVEN ME." SINCE THE CHILDREN HAVE FLESH AND BLOOD, JESUS TOO SHARED IN THEIR HUMANITY SO THAT BY HIS DEATH JESUS MIGHT DESTROY HIM WHO HOLDS THE POWER OF DEATH - THAT IS, THE DEVIL - AND FREE THOSE WHO ALL THEIR LIVES WERE HELD IN SLAVERY BY THEIR FEAR OF DEATH. (HEB. 2:13-15)

DEAR CHILDREN, DO NOT LET ANYONE LEAD YOU ASTRAY. HE WHO DOES WHAT IS RIGHT IS RIGHTEOUS, JUST AS JESUS IS RIGHTEOUS. HE WHO DOES WHAT IS SINFUL IS OF THE DEVIL, BECAUSE THE DEVIL HAS BEEN SINNING FROM THE BEGINNING. THE REASON THE SON OF GOD APPEARED WAS TO DESTROY THE DEVIL'S WORK.

NO ONE WHO IS BORN OF GOD WILL CONTINUE TO SIN, BECAUSE GOD'S SEED REMAINS IN HIM; HE CANNOT GO ON SINNING, BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD. THIS IS HOW WE KNOW WHO THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE AND WHO THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL ARE: ANYONE WHO DOES NOT DO WHAT IS RIGHT IS NOT A CHILD OF GOD; NOR IS ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LOVE HIS BROTHER. (1 John 3:7-10)

THE DEVIL WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, NOT HOLDING TO THE TRUTH, FOR THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THE DEVIL. WHEN THE DEVIL LIES, HE SPEAKS HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE, FOR THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF LIES. (John 8:44b)

THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND WHOEVER LIES IS DOING THE DEVIL'S WORK. WHOEVER CLAIMS TO LIVE IN GOD MUST WALK AS JESUS DID. JESUS ANSWERED, "YOU ARE RIGHT IN SAYING I AM A KING. IN FACT, FOR THIS REASON I WAS BORN, AND FOR THIS I CAME INTO THE WORLD, TO TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH. EVERYONE ON THE SIDE OF TRUTH LISTENS TO ME." (John 18:37)

"FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT GOD GAVE HIS ONE AND ONLY SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD THROUGH CHRIST. WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST IS NOT CONDEMNED, BUT WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE STANDS CONDEMNED ALREADY BECAUSE HE HAS NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF GOD'S ONE AND ONLY SON.

THIS IS THE VERDICT: LIGHT HAS COME INTO THE WORLD, BUT MEN LOVED DARKNESS INSTEAD OF LIGHT BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL. EVERYONE WHO DOES EVIL HATES THE LIGHT, AND WILL NOT COME INTO THE LIGHT FOR FEAR THAT HIS DEEDS WILL BE EXPOSED. BUT WHOEVER LIVES BY THE TRUTH COMES INTO THE LIGHT, SO THAT IT MAY BE SEEN PLAINLY THAT WHAT HE DONE HAS BEEN DONE THROUGH GOD." (John 3:16-21)

DEAR FRIENDS, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR LOVE COMES FROM GOD. EVERYONE WHO LOVES HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD AND KNOWS GOD, WHOEVER DOES NOT LOVE DOES NOT KNOW GOD, BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE.

THIS IS HOW GOD SHOWED HIS LOVE AMONG US: GOD SENT HIS ONE AND ONLY SON INTO THE WORLD THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH CHRIST. THIS IS LOVE: NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT GOD LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON AS AN ATONING SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS. 

DEAR FRIENDS, SINCE GOD SO LOVED US, WE OUGHT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN GOD; BUT IF WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, GOD LIVES IN US AND GOD'S LOVE IS MADE COMPLETE IN US. WE KNOW THAT WE LIVE IN GOD AND GOD IN US, BECAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN US OF GOD'S SPIRIT.

AND WE HAVE SEEN AND TESTIFY THAT THE FATHER HAS SENT HIS SON TO BE THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD. IF ANYONE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD LIVES IN HIM AND HE IN GOD. AND SO WE KNOW AND RELY ON THE LOVE GOD HAS FOR US.  (1 JOHN 4:7-16)

SUCH CONFIDENCE AS THIS IS OURS THROUGH CHRIST BEFORE GOD. NOT THAT WE ARE COMPETENT IN OURSELVES TO CLAIM ANYTHING FOR OURSELVES, BUT OUR COMPETENCE COMES FROM GOD. GOD HAS MADE US COMPETENT AS MINISTERS OF A NEW COVENANT - NOT OF THE LETTER BUT OF THE SPIRIT; FOR THE LETTER KILLS, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE. (1 Cor.3:4-6)

THE HOLY SPIRIT ALSO TESTIFIES TO US ABOUT THIS. FIRST GOD SAYS: "THIS IS THE COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THAT TIME, SAYS THE LORD. I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR HEARTS, AND I WRITE THEM ON THEIR MINDS." THEN GOD ADDS: "THEIR SINS AND LAWLESS ACTS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE." (Heb.10:15-17)

FINALLY, BE STRONG IN THE LORD AND IN GOD'S MIGHTY POWER. PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE YOUR STAND AGAINST THE DEVIL'S SCHEMES. FOR OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST THE RULERS, AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES, AGAINST THE POWERS OF THIS DARK WORLD AND AGAINST THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF EVIL IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS. THEREFORE PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD, SO THAT WHEN THE DAY OF EVIL COMES, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO STAND YOUR GROUND. (Eph.6:10-13)

"BECAUSE DAN LOVES ME," SAYS THE LORD, "I WILL RESCUE DAN; I WILL PROTECT DAN, FOR DAN ACKNOWLEDGES MY NAME. DAN WILL CALL UPON ME, AND I WILL ANSWER DAN; I WILL BE WITH DAN IN TROUBLE, I WILL DELIVER DAN AND HONOR DAN. WITH LONG LIFE WILL I SATISFY DAN AND SHOW DAN MY SPIRITUAL SALVATION." (Psalm 91:14-16)

I HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THROUGH THE COVENANT GOD GAVE ME. GOD PUT HIS LAWS IN MY HEART AND WROTE THEM ON MY MIND. I FULFILL GOD'S LAW BY SPEAKING THE WORDS OF MY COVENANT TO GOD AND LOVING ALL MY NEIGHBORS AS MYSELF AS I PRAY FOR ALL PEOPLE, ALL PLACES AND ALL THINGS. VISIT MY YOU TUBE CHANNEL: GODS WORD @godsword7849 AND RECEIVE YOUR BLESSING! AMEN. 

FOR ME LENT IS A TIME TO BE MORE CHRIST LIKE THAN CHRISTIAN!

 A MESSAGE AND REVELATION FROM GOD TO THE WORLD. I AM A SON OF GOD AND I AM PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE. GOD IS ALL POWERFUL, GOD IS ALL KNOWING, AND GOD IS EVERYWHERE AT ONCE. IN THE SCRIPTURES GOD HAS REVEALED HIMSELF AS GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT.

THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND EVERYTHING IN IT, THE WORLD, AND ALL WHO LIVE IN IT; FOR GOD FOUNDED IT UPON THE SEAS AND ESTABLISHED IT UPON THE WATERS.

WHO MAY ASCEND THE HILL OF THE LORD? WHO MAY STAND IN GOD'S HOLY PLACE? HE WHO HAS CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART, WHO DOES NOT LIFT UP HIS SOUL TO AN IDOL OR SWEAR BY WHAT IS FALSE. HE WILL RECEIVE BLESSING FROM THE LORD AND VINDICATION FROM GOD HIS SAVIOR. (Psalm 24:1-5)

WE WHO ARE STRONG OUGHT TO BEAR WITH THE FAILLIGS OF THE WEAK AND NOT TO PLEASE OURSELVES, EACH OF US SHOULD PLEASE HIS NEIGHBOR FOR HIS GOOD, TO BUILD HIM UP. FOR EVEN CHRIST DID NOT PLEASE HIMSELF BUT, AS IT IS WRITTEN:

 "THE INSULTS OF THOSE WHO INSULT YOU HAVE FALLEN ON ME." FOR EVERYTHING THAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE PAST WAS WRITTEN TO TEACH, SO THAT THROUGH ENDURANCE AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE SCRIPTURES WE MIGHT HAVE HOPE.

MAY THE GOD WHO GIVES ENDURANCE AND ENCOURAGEMENT GIVE YOU A SPIRIT OF UNITY AMONG YOURSELVES AS YOU FOLLOW CHRIST JESUS, SO THAT WITH ONE HEART AND MOUTH YOU MAY GLORIFY THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. ACCEPT ONE ANOTHER, THEN, JUST AS CHRIST ACCEPTED YOU, IN ORDER TO BRING PRAISE TO GOD. (Rom.5:4-7)

MOSES DESCRIBES IN THIS WAY THE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT IS BY LAW: "THE MAN WHO DOES THESE THINGS WILL LIVE BY THEM." BUT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT IS BY FAITH SAYS: "THE WORD IS NEAR YOU; IT IS IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART," THAT IS, THE WORD OF FAITH WE ARE PROCLAIMING: THAT IF YOU CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH, "JESUS IS LORD," AND BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART THAT GOD RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD, YOU WILL BE SAVED.

FOR IT IS WITH YOUR HEART THAT YOU BELIEVE AND ARE JUSTIFIED, AND IT IS WITH YOUR MOUTH THAT YOU CONFESS AND ARE SAVED. AS THE SCRIPTURES SAYS, "ANYONE WHO TRUST IN CHRIST WILL NEVER BE PUT TO SHAME." FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE - THE SAME LORD IS LORD OF ALL AND RICHLY BLESSES ALL WHO CALL ON HIM, FOR, "EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED." (Rom.10:5-6a, 8b-13)

AS A PRISONER FOR THE LORD, THEN, I URGE YOU TO LIVE A LIFE WORTHY OF THE CALLING YOU HAVE RECEIVED. BE COMPLETELY HUMBLE AND GENTLE, BE PATIENT, BEARING WITH ONE ANOTHER IN LOVE. MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO KEEP THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH THE BOND OF PEACE. 

THERE IS ONE BODY AND ONE SPIRIT- JUST AS YOU WERE CALLED TO ONE HOPE WHEN YOU WERE CALLED - ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM; ONE GOD AND THE FATHER OF ALL, WHO IS OVER ALL AND THROUGH ALL AND IN ALL. BUT TO EACH ONE OF US GRACE HAS BEEN GIVEN AS CHRIST APPORTIONED IT. (Eph. 4:1-7)

THE SEASON OF LENT IS A TIME OF PREPARATION FOR WHEN JESUS WILL DIE ON THE CROSS, THIS IS THE 40 DAYS OF LENT. A CONTRAST BETWEEN LIGHT -JESUS AND DARKNESS -THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL TRIES TO TEMPT US AWAY FROM GOD INTO THE DARKNESS AND JESUS DIES TO RECONCILE US TO GOD.

FOR ME LENT IS A TIME TO BE MORE CHRIST LIKE THAN CHRISTIAN. BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS -JESUS AND EVIL AND UNRIGHTEOUS -THE DEVIL. I CHOOSE GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS AND I AM CHRIST LIKE BY THE GRACE OF GOD.

HUMBLE YOURSELVES, THEREFORE, UNDER GOD'S MIGHTY HAND, THAT GOD MAY LIFT YOU UP IN DUE TIME. CAST ALL YOUR ANXIETY ON GOD BECAUSE GOD CARES FOR YOU. BE INNER SELF-CONTROLLED AND ALERT.

YOUR ENEMY THE DEVIL PROWLS AROUND LIKE A ROARING LION LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DEVOUR. RESIST THE DEVIL, STANDING FIRM IN THE FAITH, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BROTHERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ARE UNDERGOING THE SAME KIND OF SUFFERINGS.

AND THE GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO CALLED YOU TO GOD'S ETERNAL GLORY IN CHRIST, AFTER YOU HAVE SUFFERED A LITTLE WHILE, GOD WILL HIMSELF RESTORE YOU IN CHRIST AND GOD WILL MAKE YOU STRONG IN CHRIST, FIRM IN CHRIST AND STEADFAST IN CHRIST. TO GOD BE THE POWER FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN. (1 Peter 5:6-11)

JESUS SAID: AND AGAIN, "I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN GOD." AND AGAIN JESUS SAYS, "HERE AM I, AND THE CHILDREN GOD HAS GIVEN ME." SINCE THE CHILDREN HAVE FLESH AND BLOOD, JESUS TOO SHARED IN THEIR HUMANITY SO THAT BY HIS DEATH JESUS MIGHT DESTROY HIM WHO HOLDS THE POWER OF DEATH - THAT IS, THE DEVIL - AND FREE THOSE WHO ALL THEIR LIVES WERE HELD IN SLAVERY BY THEIR FEAR OF DEATH. (HEB. 2:13-15)

DEAR CHILDREN, DO NOT LET ANYONE LEAD YOU ASTRAY. HE WHO DOES WHAT IS RIGHT IS RIGHTEOUS, JUST AS JESUS IS RIGHTEOUS. HE WHO DOES WHAT IS SINFUL IS OF THE DEVIL, BECAUSE THE DEVIL HAS BEEN SINNING FROM THE BEGINNING. THE REASON THE SON OF GOD APPEARED WAS TO DESTROY THE DEVIL'S WORK.

NO ONE WHO IS BORN OF GOD WILL CONTINUE TO SIN, BECAUSE GOD'S SEED REMAINS IN HIM; HE CANNOT GO ON SINNING, BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD. THIS IS HOW WE KNOW WHO THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE AND WHO THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL ARE: ANYONE WHO DOES NOT DO WHAT IS RIGHT IS NOT A CHILD OF GOD; NOR IS ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LOVE HIS BROTHER. (1 John 3:7-10)

THE DEVIL WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, NOT HOLDING TO THE TRUTH, FOR THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THE DEVIL.WHEN THE DEVIL LIES, HE SPEAKS HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE, FOR THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF LIES. (John 8:44b)

THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND WHOEVER LIES IS DOING THE DEVIL'S WORK. WHOEVER CLAIMS TO LIVE IN GOD MUST WALK AS JESUS DID. JESUS ANSWERED, "YOU ARE RIGHT IN SAYING I AM A KING. IN FACT, FOR THIS REASON I WAS BORN, AND FOR THIS I CAME INTO THE WORLD, TO TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH. EVERYONE ON THE SIDE OF TRUTH LISTENS TO ME." (John 18:37)

"FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT GOD GAVE HIS ONE AND ONLY SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD THROUGH CHRIST. WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST IS NOT CONDEMNED, BUT WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE STANDS CONDEMNED ALREADY BECAUSE HE HAS NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF GOD'S ONE AND ONLY SON.

THIS IS THE VERDICT: LIGHT HAS COME INTO THE WORLD, BUT MEN LOVED DARKNESS INSTEAD OF LIGHT BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL. EVERYONE WHO DOES EVIL HATES THE LIGHT, AND WILL NOT COME INTO THE LIGHT FOR FEAR THAT HIS DEEDS WILL BE EXPOSED. BUT WHOEVER LIVES BY THE TRUTH COMES INTO THE LIGHT, SO THAT IT MAY BE SEEN PLAINLY THAT WHAT HE DONE HAS BEEN DONE THROUGH GOD." (John 3:16-21)

DEAR FRIENDS, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR LOVE COMES FROM GOD. EVERYONE WHO LOVES HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD AND KNOWS GOD, WHOEVER DOES NOT LOVE DOES NOT KNOW GOD, BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE.

THIS IS HOW GOD SHOWED HIS LOVE AMONG US: GOD SENT HIS ONE AND ONLY SON INTO THE WORLD THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH CHRIST. THIS IS LOVE: NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT GOD LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON AS AN ATONING SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS. 

DEAR FRIENDS, SINCE GOD SO LOVED US, WE OUGHT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN GOD; BUT IF WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, GOD LIVES IN US AND GOD'S LOVE IS MADE COMPLETE IN US. WE KNOW THAT WE LIVE IN GOD AND GOD IN US, BECAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN US OF GOD'S SPIRIT.

AND WE HAVE SEEN AND TESTIFY THAT THE FATHER HAS SENT HIS SON TO BE THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD. IF ANYONE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD LIVES IN HIM AND HE IN GOD. AND SO WE KNOW AND RELY ON THE LOVE GOD HAS FOR US.  (1 JOHN 4:7-16)

SUCH CONFIDENCE AS THIS IS OURS THROUGH CHRIST BEFORE GOD. NOT THAT WE ARE COMPETENT IN OURSELVES TO CLAIM ANYTHING FOR OURSELVES, BUT OUR COMPETENCE COMES FROM GOD. GOD HAS MADE US COMPETENT AS MINISTERS OF A NEW COVENANT - NOT OF THE LETTER BUT OF THE SPIRIT; FOR THE LETTER KILLS, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE. (1 Cor.3:4-6)

THE HOLY SPIRIT ALSO TESTIFIES TO US ABOUT THIS. FIRST GOD SAYS: "THIS IS THE COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THAT TIME, SAYS THE LORD. I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR HEARTS, AND I WRITE THEM ON THEIR MINDS." THEN GOD ADDS: "THEIR SINS AND LAWLESS ACTS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE." (Heb.10:15-17)

FINALLY, BE STRONG IN THE LORD AND IN GOD'S MIGHTY POWER. PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE YOUR STAND AGAINST THE DEVIL'S SCHEMES. FOR OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST THE RULERS, AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES, AGAINST THE POWERS OF THIS DARK WORLD AND AGAINST THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF EVIL IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS. THEREFORE PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD, SO THAT WHEN THE DAY OF EVIL COMES, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO STAND YOUR GROUND. (Eph.6:10-13)

"BECAUSE DAN LOVES ME," SAYS THE LORD, "I WILL RESCUE DAN; I WILL PROTECT DAN, FOR DAN ACKNOWLEDGES MY NAME. DAN WILL CALL UPON ME, AND I WILL ANSWER DAN; I WILL BE WITH DAN IN TROUBLE, I WILL DELIVER DAN AND HONOR DAN. WITH LONG LIFE WILL I SATISFY DAN AND SHOW DAN MY SPIRITUAL SALVATION." (Psalm 91:14-16)

I HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THROUGH THE COVENANT GOD GAVE ME. GOD PUT HIS LAWS IN MY HEART AND WROTE THEM ON MY MIND. I FULFILL GOD'S LAW BY SPEAKING THE WORDS OF MY COVENANT TO GOD AND LOVING ALL MY NEIGHBORS AS MYSELF AS I PRAY FOR ALL PEOPLE, ALL PLACES AND ALL THINGS. VISIT MY YOU TUBE CHANNEL: GODS WORD @godsword7849 AND RECEIVE YOUR BLESSING! AMEN.

FOR ME LENT IS A TIME TO BE MORE CHRIST LIKE THAN CHRISTIAN. BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS -JESUS AND EVIL AND UNRIGHTEOUS -THE DEVIL. I CHOOSE GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS AND I AM CHRIST LIKE BY THE GRACE OF GOD!

 A MESSAGE AND REVELATION FROM GOD TO THE WORLD. I AM A SON OF GOD AND I AM PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE.

THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND EVERYTHING IN IT, THE WORLD, AND ALL WHO LIVE IN IT; FOR GOD FOUNDED IT UPON THE SEAS AND ESTABLISHED IT UPON THE WATERS. 

WHO MAY ASCEND THE HILL OF THE LORD? WHO MAY STAND IN GOD'S HOLY PLACE? HE WHO HAS CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART, WHO DOES NOT LIFT UP HIS SOUL TO AN IDOL OR SWEAR BY WHAT IS FALSE. HE WILL RECEIVE BLESSING FROM THE LORD AND VINDICATION FROM GOD HIS SAVIOR. (Psalm 24:1-5) 

WE WHO ARE STRONG OUGHT TO BEAR WITH THE FAILLIGS OF THE WEAK AND NOT TO PLEASE OURSELVES, EACH OF US SHOULD PLEASE HIS NEIGHBOR FOR HIS GOOD, TO BUILD HIM UP. FOR EVEN CHRIST DID NOT PLEASE HIMSELF BUT, AS IT IS WRITTEN: "THE INSULTS OF THOSE WHO INSULT YOU HAVE FALLEN ON ME." 

FOR EVERYTHING THAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE PAST WAS WRITTEN TO TEACH, SO THAT THROUGH ENDURANCE AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE SCRIPTURES WE MIGHT HAVE HOPE.

MAY THE GOD WHO GIVES ENDURANCE AND ENCOURAGEMENT GIVE YOU A SPIRIT OF UNITY AMONG YOURSELVES AS YOU FOLLOW CHRIST JESUS, SO THAT WITH ONE HEART AND MOUTH YOU MAY GLORIFY THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. ACCEPT ONE ANOTHER, THEN, JUST AS CHRIST ACCEPTED YOU, IN ORDER TO BRING PRAISE TO GOD. (Rom.5:4-7)

JESUS SAID: "MY PRAYER IS NOT FOR THEM ALONE. I PRAY ALSO FOR THOSE WHO WILL BELIEVE IN ME THROUGH THEIR MESSAGE, THAT ALL OF THEM MAY BE ONE, FATHER, JUST AS YOU ARE IN ME AND I AM IN YOU. MAY THEY ALSO BE IN US SO THAT THE WORLD MAY BELIEVE THAT YOU SENT ME. I HAVE GIVEN THEM THE GLORY THAT YOU GAVE ME, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE AS WE ARE ONE:

 I IN THEM AND YOU IN ME. MAY THEY BE BROUGHT TO COMPLETE UNITY TO LET THE WORLD KNOW THAT YOU SENT ME AND HAVE LOVED THEM EVEN AS YOU HAVE LOVED ME. FATHER, I WANT THOSE YOU HAVE GIVEN ME TO BE WITH ME WHERE I AM, AND TO SEE MY GLORY, THE GLORY YOU HAVE GIVEN ME BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. (John 17:20-24)

AS A PRISONER FOR THE LORD, THEN, I URGE YOU TO LIVE A LIFE WORTHY OF THE CALLING YOU HAVE RECEIVED. BE COMPLETELY HUMBLE AND GENTLE, BE PATIENT, BEARING WITH ONE ANOTHER IN LOVE. MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO KEEP THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH THE BOND OF PEACE. 

THERE IS ONE BODY AND ONE SPIRIT- JUST AS YOU WERE CALLED TO ONE HOPE WHEN YOU WERE CALLED - ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM; ONE GOD AND THE FATHER OF ALL, WHO IS OVER ALL AND THROUGH ALL AND IN ALL. BUT TO EACH ONE OF US GRACE HAS BEEN GIVEN AS CHRIST APPORTIONED IT. (Eph. 4:1-7)

THE SEASON OF LENT IS A TIME OF PREPARATION FOR WHEN JESUS WILL DIE ON THE CROSS, THIS IS THE 40 DAYS OF LENT. A CONTRAST BETWEEN LIGHT -JESUS AND DARKNESS -THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL TRIES TO TEMPT US AWAY FROM GOD INTO THE DARKNESS AND JESUS DIES TO RECONCILE US TO GOD. FOR ME LENT IS A TIME TO BE MORE CHRIST LIKE THAN CHRISTIAN. BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS -JESUS AND EVIL AND UNRIGHTEOUS -THE DEVIL. I CHOOSE GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS AND I AM CHRIST LIKE BY THE GRACE OF GOD.

HUMBLE YOURSELVES, THEREFORE, UNDER GOD'S MIGHTY HAND, THAT GOD MAY LIFT YOU UP IN DUE TIME. CAST ALL YOUR ANXIETY ON GOD BECAUSE GOD CARES FOR YOU. BE INNER SELF-CONTROLLED AND ALERT.

YOUR ENEMY THE DEVIL PROWLS AROUND LIKE A ROARING LION LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DEVOUR. RESIST THE DEVIL, STANDING FIRM IN THE FAITH, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BROTHERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ARE UNDERGOING THE SAME KIND OF SUFFERINGS.

AND THE GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO CALLED YOU TO GOD'S ETERNAL GLORY IN CHRIST, AFTER YOU HAVE SUFFERED A LITTLE WHILE, GOD WILL HIMSELF RESTORE YOU IN CHRIST AND GOD WILL MAKE YOU STRONG IN CHRIST, FIRM IN CHRIST AND STEADFAST IN CHRIST. TO GOD BE THE POWER FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN. (1 Peter 5:6-11)

JESUS SAID: AND AGAIN, "I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN GOD." AND AGAIN JESUS SAYS, "HERE AM I, AND THE CHILDREN GOD HAS GIVEN ME." SINCE THE CHILDREN HAVE FLESH AND BLOOD, JESUS TOO SHARED IN THEIR HUMANITY SO THAT BY HIS DEATH JESUS MIGHT DESTROY HIM WHO HOLDS THE POWER OF DEATH - THAT IS, THE DEVIL - AND FREE THOSE WHO ALL THEIR LIVES WERE HELD IN SLAVERY BY THEIR FEAR OF DEATH. (HEB. 2:13-15)

DEAR CHILDREN, DO NOT LET ANYONE LEAD YOU ASTRAY. HE WHO DOES WHAT IS RIGHT IS RIGHTEOUS, JUST AS JESUS IS RIGHTEOUS. HE WHO DOES WHAT IS SINFUL IS OF THE DEVIL, BECAUSE THE DEVIL HAS BEEN SINNING FROM THE BEGINNING. THE REASON THE SON OF GOD APPEARED WAS TO DESTROY THE DEVIL'S WORK.

NO ONE WHO IS BORN OF GOD WILL CONTINUE TO SIN, BECAUSE GOD'S SEED REMAINS IN HIM; HE CANNOT GO ON SINNING, BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD. THIS IS HOW WE KNOW WHO THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE AND WHO THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL ARE: ANYONE WHO DOES NOT DO WHAT IS RIGHT IS NOT A CHILD OF GOD; NOR IS ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LOVE HIS BROTHER. (1 John 3:7-10)

THE DEVIL WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, NOT HOLDING TO THE TRUTH, FOR THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THE DEVIL. WHEN THE DEVIL LIES, HE SPEAKS HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE, FOR THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF LIES. (John 8:44b)

THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND WHOEVER LIES IS DOING THE DEVIL'S WORK. WHOEVER CLAIMS TO LIVE IN GOD MUST WALK AS JESUS DID. JESUS ANSWERED, "YOU ARE RIGHT IN SAYING I AM A KING. IN FACT, FOR THIS REASON I WAS BORN, AND FOR THIS I CAME INTO THE WORLD, TO TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH. EVERYONE ON THE SIDE OF TRUTH LISTENS TO ME." (John 18:37)

"FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT GOD GAVE HIS ONE AND ONLY SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD THROUGH CHRIST. WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST IS NOT CONDEMNED, BUT WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE STANDS CONDEMNED ALREADY BECAUSE HE HAS NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF GOD'S ONE AND ONLY SON.

THIS IS THE VERDICT: LIGHT HAS COME INTO THE WORLD, BUT MEN LOVED DARKNESS INSTEAD OF LIGHT BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL. EVERYONE WHO DOES EVIL HATES THE LIGHT, AND WILL NOT COME INTO THE LIGHT FOR FEAR THAT HIS DEEDS WILL BE EXPOSED. BUT WHOEVER LIVES BY THE TRUTH COMES INTO THE LIGHT, SO THAT IT MAY BE SEEN PLAINLY THAT WHAT HE DONE HAS BEEN DONE THROUGH GOD." (John 3:16-21)

DEAR FRIENDS, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR LOVE COMES FROM GOD. EVERYONE WHO LOVES HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD AND KNOWS GOD, WHOEVER DOES NOT LOVE DOES NOT KNOW GOD, BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE.

THIS IS HOW GOD SHOWED HIS LOVE AMONG US: GOD SENT HIS ONE AND ONLY SON INTO THE WORLD THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH CHRIST. THIS IS LOVE: NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT GOD LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON AS AN ATONING SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS. 

DEAR FRIENDS, SINCE GOD SO LOVED US, WE OUGHT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN GOD; BUT IF WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, GOD LIVES IN US AND GOD'S LOVE IS MADE COMPLETE IN US. WE KNOW THAT WE LIVE IN GOD AND GOD IN US, BECAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN US OF GOD'S SPIRIT.

AND WE HAVE SEEN AND TESTIFY THAT THE FATHER HAS SENT HIS SON TO BE THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD. IF ANYONE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD LIVES IN HIM AND HE IN GOD. AND SO WE KNOW AND RELY ON THE LOVE GOD HAS FOR US.  (1 JOHN 4:7-16)

SUCH CONFIDENCE AS THIS IS OURS THROUGH CHRIST BEFORE GOD. NOT THAT WE ARE COMPETENT IN OURSELVES TO CLAIM ANYTHING FOR OURSELVES, BUT OUR COMPETENCE COMES FROM GOD. GOD HAS MADE US COMPETENT AS MINISTERS OF A NEW COVENANT - NOT OF THE LETTER BUT OF THE SPIRIT; FOR THE LETTER KILLS, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE. (1 Cor.3:4-6)

THE HOLY SPIRIT ALSO TESTIFIES TO US ABOUT THIS. FIRST GOD SAYS: "THIS IS THE COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THAT TIME, SAYS THE LORD. I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR HEARTS, AND I WRITE THEM ON THEIR MINDS." THEN GOD ADDS: "THEIR SINS AND LAWLESS ACTS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE." (Heb.10:15-17)

FINALLY, BE STRONG IN THE LORD AND IN GOD'S MIGHTY POWER. PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE YOUR STAND AGAINST THE DEVIL'S SCHEMES. FOR OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST THE RULERS, AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES, AGAINST THE POWERS OF THIS DARK WORLD AND AGAINST THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF EVIL IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS. THEREFORE PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD, SO THAT WHEN THE DAY OF EVIL COMES, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO STAND YOUR GROUND. (Eph.6:10-13)

"BECAUSE DAN LOVES ME," SAYS THE LORD, "I WILL RESCUE DAN; I WILL PROTECT DAN, FOR DAN ACKNOWLEDGES MY NAME. DAN WILL CALL UPON ME, AND I WILL ANSWER DAN; I WILL BE WITH DAN IN TROUBLE, I WILL DELIVER DAN AND HONOR DAN. WITH LONG LIFE WILL I SATISFY DAN AND SHOW DAN MY SPIRITUAL SALVATION." (Psalm 91:14-16)

I HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THROUGH THE COVENANT GOD GAVE ME. GOD PUT HIS LAWS IN MY HEART AND WROTE THEM ON MY MIND. I FULFILL GOD'S LAW BY SPEAKING THE WORDS OF MY COVENANT TO GOD AND LOVING ALL MY NEIGHBORS AS MYSELF AS I PRAY FOR ALL PEOPLE, ALL PLACES AND ALL THINGS. VISIT MY YOU TUBE CHANNEL: GODS WORD @godsword7849 AND RECEIVE YOUR BLESSING! AMEN.

JESUS SAID: AND AGAIN, "I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN GOD."

 A MESSAGE AND REVELATION FROM GOD TO THE WORLD. I AM A SON OF GOD AND I AM PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE.

THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND EVERYTHING IN IT, THE WORLD, AND ALL WHO LIVE IN IT; FOR GOD FOUNDED IT UPON THE SEAS AND ESTABLISHED IT UPON THE WATERS. 

WHO MAY ASCEND THE HILL OF THE LORD? WHO MAY STAND IN GOD'S HOLY PLACE? HE WHO HAS CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART, WHO DOES NOT LIFT UP HIS SOUL TO AN IDOL OR SWEAR BY WHAT IS FALSE. HE WILL RECEIVE BLESSING FROM THE LORD AND VINDICATION FROM GOD HIS SAVIOR. (Psalm 24:1-5) 

"THE GOD WHO MADE THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT IS THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND DOES NOT LIVE IN TEMPLES BUILT BY HANDS. AND GOD IS NOT SERVED BY HUMAN HANDS, AS IF GOD NEEDED ANYTHING, BECAUSE GOD HIMSELF GIVES ALL MEN LIFE AND BREATH AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

FROM ONE MAN GOD MADE EVERY NATION OF MEN, THAT THEY SHOULD INHABIT THE WHOLE EARTH; AND GOD DETERMINED THE TIMES SET FOR THEM AND THE EXACT PLACES WHERE THEY SHOULD LIVE.

GOD DID THIS SO THAT MEN WOULD SEEK GOD AND PERHAPS REACH OUT FOR GOD AND FIND GOD, THROUGH GOD IS NOT FAR FROM EACH ONE OF US. FOR IN GOD WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING. AS SOME OF YOUR OWN POETS HAVE SAID, 'WE ARE GOD'S OFFSPRING.'

"THEREFORE SINCE WE ARE GOD'S OFFSPRING, WE SHOULD NOT THINK THAT THE DIVINE BEING IS LIKE GOLD OR SILVER OR STONE - AN IMAGE MADE BY MAN'S DESIGN AND SKILL. IN THE PAST GOD OVERLOOKED SUCH IGNORANCE, BUT NOW GOD COMMANDS ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE TO REPENT.

 FOR GOD HAS SET A DAY WHEN GOD WILL JUDGE THE WORLD WITH JUSTICE BY THE MAN GOD HAS APPOINTED. GOD HAS GIVEN PROOF OF THIS TO ALL MEN BY RAISING CHRIST FROM THE DEAD." (Acts 17:24-31)

JESUS GAVE THEM THIS ANSWER: "I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, THE SON CAN DO NOTHING BY HIMSELF; HE CAN DO ONLY WHAT HE SEES HIS FATHER DOING, BECAUSE WHATEVER THE FATHER DOES THE SON ALSO DOES. FOR THE FATHER LOVES THE SON AND SHOWS HIM ALL HE DOES. (John 5:19-20a)

FOR JUST AS THE FATHER RAISES THE DEAD AND GIVES THEM LIFE, EVEN SO THE SON GIVES LIFE TO WHOM HE IS PLEASED TO GIVE IT. MOREOVER, THE FATHER JUDGES NO ONE, BUT HAS ENTRUSTED ALL JUDGEMENT TO THE SON, THAT ALL MAY HONOR THE SON JUST AS THEY HONOR THE FATHER. HE WHO DOES NOT HONOR THE SON DOES NOT HONOR THE FATHER, WHO SENT HIM. (John 5:21-23)

HUMBLE YOURSELVES, THEREFORE, UNDER GOD'S MIGHTY HAND, THAT GOD MAY LIFT YOU UP IN DUE TIME. CAST ALL YOUR ANXIETY ON GOD BECAUSE GOD CARES FOR YOU. BE INNER SELF-CONTROLLED AND ALERT.

YOUR ENEMY THE DEVIL PROWLS AROUND LIKE A ROARING LION LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DEVOUR. RESIST THE DEVIL, STANDING FIRM IN THE FAITH, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BROTHERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ARE UNDERGOING THE SAME KIND OF SUFFERINGS.

AND THE GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO CALLED YOU TO GOD'S ETERNAL GLORY IN CHRIST, AFTER YOU HAVE SUFFERED A LITTLE WHILE, GOD WILL HIMSELF RESTORE YOU IN CHRIST AND GOD WILL MAKE YOU STRONG IN CHRIST, FIRM IN CHRIST AND STEADFAST IN CHRIST. TO GOD BE THE POWER FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN. (1 Peter 5:6-11)

JESUS SAID: AND AGAIN, "I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN GOD." AND AGAIN JESUS SAYS, "HERE AM I, AND THE CHILDREN GOD HAS GIVEN ME." SINCE THE CHILDREN HAVE FLESH AND BLOOD, JESUS TOO SHARED IN THEIR HUMANITY SO THAT BY HIS DEATH JESUS MIGHT DESTROY HIM WHO HOLDS THE POWER OF DEATH - THAT IS, THE DEVIL - AND FREE THOSE WHO ALL THEIR LIVES WERE HELD IN SLAVERY BY THEIR FEAR OF DEATH. (HEB. 2:13-15)

DEAR CHILDREN, DO NOT LET ANYONE LEAD YOU ASTRAY. HE WHO DOES WHAT IS RIGHT IS RIGHTEOUS, JUST AS JESUS IS RIGHTEOUS. HE WHO DOES WHAT IS SINFUL IS OF THE DEVIL, BECAUSE THE DEVIL HAS BEEN SINNING FROM THE BEGINNING. THE REASON THE SON OF GOD APPEARED WAS TO DESTROY THE DEVIL'S WORK.

NO ONE WHO IS BORN OF GOD WILL CONTINUE TO SIN, BECAUSE GOD'S SEED REMAINS IN HIM; HE CANNOT GO ON SINNING, BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD. THIS IS HOW WE KNOW WHO THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE AND WHO THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL ARE: ANYONE WHO DOES NOT DO WHAT IS RIGHT IS NOT A CHILD OF GOD; NOR IS ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LOVE HIS BROTHER. (1 John 3:7-10)

THE DEVIL WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, NOT HOLDING TO THE TRUTH, FOR THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THE DEVIL.

WHEN THE DEVIL LIES, HE SPEAKS HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE, FOR THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF LIES. (John 8:44b)

THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND WHOEVER LIES IS DOING THE DEVIL'S WORK. WHOEVER CLAIMS TO LIVE IN GOD MUST WALK AS JESUS DID. JESUS ANSWERED, "YOU ARE RIGHT IN SAYING I AM A KING. IN FACT, FOR THIS REASON I WAS BORN, AND FOR THIS I CAME INTO THE WORLD, TO TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH. EVERYONE ON THE SIDE OF TRUTH LISTENS TO ME." (John 18:37)

"FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT GOD GAVE HIS ONE AND ONLY SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD THROUGH CHRIST. WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST IS NOT CONDEMNED, BUT WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE STANDS CONDEMNED ALREADY BECAUSE HE HAS NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF GOD'S ONE AND ONLY SON.

THIS IS THE VERDICT: LIGHT HAS COME INTO THE WORLD, BUT MEN LOVED DARKNESS INSTEAD OF LIGHT BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL. EVERYONE WHO DOES EVIL HATES THE LIGHT, AND WILL NOT COME INTO THE LIGHT FOR FEAR THAT HIS DEEDS WILL BE EXPOSED. BUT WHOEVER LIVES BY THE TRUTH COMES INTO THE LIGHT, SO THAT IT MAY BE SEEN PLAINLY THAT WHAT HE DONE HAS BEEN DONE THROUGH GOD." (John 3:16-21)

DEAR FRIENDS, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR LOVE COMES FROM GOD. EVERYONE WHO LOVES HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD AND KNOWS GOD, WHOEVER DOES NOT LOVE DOES NOT KNOW GOD, BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE.

THIS IS HOW GOD SHOWED HIS LOVE AMONG US: GOD SENT HIS ONE AND ONLY SON INTO THE WORLD THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH CHRIST. THIS IS LOVE: NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT GOD LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON AS AN ATONING SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS. 

DEAR FRIENDS, SINCE GOD SO LOVED US, WE OUGHT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN GOD; BUT IF WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, GOD LIVES IN US AND GOD'S LOVE IS MADE COMPLETE IN US. WE KNOW THAT WE LIVE IN GOD AND GOD IN US, BECAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN US OF GOD'S SPIRIT.

AND WE HAVE SEEN AND TESTIFY THAT THE FATHER HAS SENT HIS SON TO BE THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD. IF ANYONE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD LIVES IN HIM AND HE IN GOD. AND SO WE KNOW AND RELY ON THE LOVE GOD HAS FOR US.  (1 JOHN 4:7-16)

SUCH CONFIDENCE AS THIS IS OURS THROUGH CHRIST BEFORE GOD. NOT THAT WE ARE COMPETENT IN OURSELVES TO CLAIM ANYTHING FOR OURSELVES, BUT OUR COMPETENCE COMES FROM GOD. GOD HAS MADE US COMPETENT AS MINISTERS OF A NEW COVENANT - NOT OF THE LETTER BUT OF THE SPIRIT; FOR THE LETTER KILLS, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE. (1 Cor.3:4-6)

THE HOLY SPIRIT ALSO TESTIFIES TO US ABOUT THIS. FIRST GOD SAYS: "THIS IS THE COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THAT TIME, SAYS THE LORD. I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR HEARTS, AND I WRITE THEM ON THEIR MINDS." THEN GOD ADDS: "THEIR SINS AND LAWLESS ACTS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE." (Heb.10:15-17)

FINALLY, BE STRONG IN THE LORD AND IN GOD'S MIGHTY POWER. PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE YOUR STAND AGAINST THE DEVIL'S SCHEMES. FOR OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST THE RULERS, AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES, AGAINST THE POWERS OF THIS DARK WORLD AND AGAINST THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF EVIL IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS. THEREFORE PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD, SO THAT WHEN THE DAY OF EVIL COMES, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO STAND YOUR GROUND. (Eph.6:10-13)

"BECAUSE DAN LOVES ME," SAYS THE LORD, "I WILL RESCUE DAN; I WILL PROTECT DAN, FOR DAN ACKNOWLEDGES MY NAME. DAN WILL CALL UPON ME, AND I WILL ANSWER DAN; I WILL BE WITH DAN IN TROUBLE, I WILL DELIVER DAN AND HONOR DAN. WITH LONG LIFE WILL I SATISFY DAN AND SHOW DAN MY SPIRITUAL SALVATION." (Psalm 91:14-16)

I HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THROUGH THE COVENANT GOD GAVE ME. GOD PUT HIS LAWS IN MY HEART AND WROTE THEM ON MY MIND. I FULFILL GOD'S LAW BY SPEAKING THE WORDS OF MY COVENANT TO GOD AND LOVING ALL MY NEIGHBORS AS MYSELF AS I PRAY FOR ALL PEOPLE, ALL PLACES AND ALL THINGS. VISIT MY YOU TUBE CHANNEL: GODS WORD @godsword7849 AND RECEIVE YOUR BLESSING! AMEN.

THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND EVERYTHING IN IT, THE WORLD, AND ALL WHO LIVE IN IT; FOR GOD FOUNDED IT UPON THE SEAS AND ESTABLISHED IT UPON THE WATERS!

 A MESSAGE AND REVELATION FROM GOD TO THE WORLD. I AM A SON OF GOD AND I AM PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE.

THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND EVERYTHING IN IT, THE WORLD, AND ALL WHO LIVE IN IT; FOR GOD FOUNDED IT UPON THE SEAS AND ESTABLISHED IT UPON THE WATERS. 

WHO MAY ASCEND THE HILL OF THE LORD? WHO MAY STAND IN GOD'S HOLY PLACE? HE WHO HAS CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART, WHO DOES NOT LIFT UP HIS SOUL TO AN IDOL OR SWEAR BY WHAT IS FALSE. HE WILL RECEIVE BLESSING FROM THE LORD AND VINDICATION FROM GOD HIS SAVIOR. (Psalm 24:1-5) 

"THE GOD WHO MADE THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT IS THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND DOES NOT LIVE IN TEMPLES BUILT BY HANDS. AND GOD IS NOT SERVED BY HUMAN HANDS, AS IF GOD NEEDED ANYTHING, BECAUSE GOD HIMSELF GIVES ALL MEN LIFE AND BREATH AND EVERYTHING ELSE. 

FROM ONE MAN GOD MADE EVERY NATION OF MEN, THAT THEY SHOULD INHABIT THE WHOLE EARTH; AND GOD DETERMINED THE TIMES SET FOR THEM AND THE EXACT PLACES WHERE THEY SHOULD LIVE.

GOD DID THIS SO THAT MEN WOULD SEEK GOD AND PERHAPS REACH OUT FOR GOD AND FIND GOD, THROUGH GOD IS NOT FAR FROM EACH ONE OF US. FOR IN GOD WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING. AS SOME OF YOUR OWN POETS HAVE SAID, 'WE ARE GOD'S OFFSPRING.'

"THEREFORE SINCE WE ARE GOD'S OFFSPRING, WE SHOULD NOT THINK THAT THE DIVINE BEING IS LIKE GOLD OR SILVER OR STONE - AN IMAGE MADE BY MAN'S DESIGN AND SKILL. IN THE PAST GOD OVERLOOKED SUCH IGNORANCE, BUT NOW GOD COMMANDS ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE TO REPENT.

 FOR GOD HAS SET A DAY WHEN GOD WILL JUDGE THE WORLD WITH JUSTICE BY THE MAN GOD HAS APPOINTED. GOD HAS GIVEN PROOF OF THIS TO ALL MEN BY RAISING CHRIST FROM THE DEAD." (Acts 17:24-31)

JESUS GAVE THEM THIS ANSWER: "I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, THE SON CAN DO NOTHING BY HIMSELF; HE CAN DO ONLY WHAT HE SEES HIS FATHER DOING, BECAUSE WHATEVER THE FATHER DOES THE SON ALSO DOES. FOR THE FATHER LOVES THE SON AND SHOWS HIM ALL HE DOES. (John 5:19-20a)

FOR JUST AS THE FATHER RAISES THE DEAD AND GIVES THEM LIFE, EVEN SO THE SON GIVES LIFE TO WHOM HE IS PLEASED TO GIVE IT. MOREOVER, THE FATHER JUDGES NO ONE, BUT HAS ENTRUSTED ALL JUDGEMENT TO THE SON, THAT ALL MAY HONOR THE SON JUST AS THEY HONOR THE FATHER. HE WHO DOES NOT HONOR THE SON DOES NOT HONOR THE FATHER, WHO SENT HIM. (John 5:21-23)

HUMBLE YOURSELVES, THEREFORE, UNDER GOD'S MIGHTY HAND, THAT GOD MAY LIFT YOU UP IN DUE TIME. CAST ALL YOUR ANXIETY ON GOD BECAUSE GOD CARES FOR YOU. BE INNER SELF-CONTROLLED AND ALERT.

YOUR ENEMY THE DEVIL PROWLS AROUND LIKE A ROARING LION LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DEVOUR. RESIST THE DEVIL, STANDING FIRM IN THE FAITH, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BROTHERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ARE UNDERGOING THE SAME KIND OF SUFFERINGS.

AND THE GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO CALLED YOU TO GOD'S ETERNAL GLORY IN CHRIST, AFTER YOU HAVE SUFFERED A LITTLE WHILE, GOD WILL HIMSELF RESTORE YOU IN CHRIST AND GOD WILL MAKE YOU STRONG IN CHRIST, FIRM IN CHRIST AND STEADFAST IN CHRIST. TO GOD BE THE POWER FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN. (1 Peter 5:6-11)

JESUS SAID TO THEM, "IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER, YOU WOULD LOVE ME, FOR I CAME FROM GOD AND NOW AN HERE. I HAVE NOT COME ON MY OWN; BUT GOD SENT ME. WHY IS MY LANGUAGE NOT CLEAR TO TO YOU? BECAUSE YOU ARE UNABLE TO HEAR WHAT I SAY. YOU BELONG TO YOUE FATHER, THE DEVIL, AND YOU WANT TO CARRY OUT YOUR FATHER'S DESIRE.

THE DEVIL WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, NOT HOLDING TO THE TRUTH, FOR THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THE DEVIL.

WHEN THE DEVIL LIES, HE SPEAKS HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE, FOR THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF LIES.

YET BECAUSE I TELL THE TRUTH, YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME! CAN ANY OF YOU PROVE ME GUILTY OF SIN? IF I AM TELLING THE TRUTH, WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME? HE WHO BELONGS TO GOD HEARS WHAT GOD SAYS. THE REASON YOU DO NOT HEAR IS THAT YOU DO NOT BELONG TO GOD." (John 8:42-47)

THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND WHOEVER LIES IS DOING THE DEVIL'S WORK. WHOEVER CLAIMS TO LIVE IN GOD MUST WALK AS JESUS DID. JESUS ANSWERED, "YOU ARE RIGHT IN SAYING I AM A KING. IN FACT, FOR THIS REASON I WAS BORN, AND FOR THIS I CAME INTO THE WORLD, TO TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH. EVERYONE ON THE SIDE OF TRUTH LISTENS TO ME." (John 18:37)

"FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT GOD GAVE HIS ONE AND ONLY SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD THROUGH CHRIST.

WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST IS NOT CONDEMNED, BUT WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE STANDS CONDEMNED ALREADY BECAUSE HE HAS NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF GOD'S ONE AND ONLY SON.

THIS IS THE VERDICT: LIGHT HAS COME INTO THE WORLD, BUT MEN LOVED DARKNESS INSTEAD OF LIGHT BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL. EVERYONE WHO DOES EVIL HATES THE LIGHT, AND WILL NOT COME INTO THE LIGHT FOR FEAR THAT HIS DEEDS WILL BE EXPOSED.

BUT WHOEVER LIVES BY THE TRUTH COMES INTO THE LIGHT, SO THAT IT MAY BE SEEN PLAINLY THAT WHAT HE DONE HAS BEEN DONE THROUGH GOD." (John 3:16-21)

DEAR FRIENDS, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR LOVE COMES FROM GOD. EVERYONE WHO LOVES HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD AND KNOWS GOD, WHOEVER DOES NOT LOVE DOES NOT KNOW GOD, BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE.

THIS IS HOW GOD SHOWED HIS LOVE AMONG US: GOD SENT HIS ONE AND ONLY SON INTO THE WORLD THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH CHRIST. THIS IS LOVE: NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT GOD LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON AS AN ATONING SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS. 

DEAR FRIENDS, SINCE GOD SO LOVED US, WE OUGHT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN GOD; BUT IF WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, GOD LIVES IN US AND GOD'S LOVE IS MADE COMPLETE IN US. WE KNOW THAT WE LIVE IN GOD AND GOD IN US, BECAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN US OF GOD'S SPIRIT.

AND WE HAVE SEEN AND TESTIFY THAT THE FATHER HAS SENT HIS SON TO BE THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD. IF ANYONE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD LIVES IN HIM AND HE IN GOD. AND SO WE KNOW AND RELY ON THE LOVE GOD HAS FOR US.  (1 JOHN 4:7-16)

SUCH CONFIDENCE AS THIS IS OURS THROUGH CHRIST BEFORE GOD. NOT THAT WE ARE COMPETENT IN OURSELVES TO CLAIM ANYTHING FOR OURSELVES, BUT OUR COMPETENCE COMES FROM GOD. GOD HAS MADE US COMPETENT AS MINISTERS OF A NEW COVENANT - NOT OF THE LETTER BUT OF THE SPIRIT; FOR THE LETTER KILLS, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE. (1 Cor.3:4-6)

THE HOLY SPIRIT ALSO TESTIFIES TO US ABOUT THIS. FIRST GOD SAYS: "THIS IS THE COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THAT TIME, SAYS THE LORD. I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR HEARTS, AND I WRITE THEM ON THEIR MINDS." THEN GOD ADDS: "THEIR SINS AND LAWLESS ACTS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE." (Heb.10:15-17)

FINALLY, BE STRONG IN THE LORD AND IN GOD'S MIGHTY POWER. PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE YOUR STAND AGAINST THE DEVIL'S SCHEMES. FOR OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST THE RULERS, AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES, AGAINST THE POWERS OF THIS DARK WORLD AND AGAINST THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF EVIL IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS. THEREFORE PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD, SO THAT WHEN THE DAY OF EVIL COMES, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO STAND YOUR GROUND. (Eph.6:10-13)

"BECAUSE DAN LOVES ME," SAYS THE LORD, "I WILL RESCUE DAN; I WILL PROTECT DAN, FOR DAN ACKNOWLEDGES MY NAME. DAN WILL CALL UPON ME, AND I WILL ANSWER DAN; I WILL BE WITH DAN IN TROUBLE, I WILL DELIVER DAN AND HONOR DAN. WITH LONG LIFE WILL I SATISFY DAN AND SHOW DAN MY SPIRITUAL SALVATION." (Psalm 91:14-16)

I HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THROUGH THE COVENANT GOD GAVE ME. GOD PUT HIS LAWS IN MY HEART AND WROTE THEM ON MY MIND. I FULFILL GOD'S LAW BY SPEAKING THE WORDS OF MY COVENANT TO GOD AND LOVING ALL MY NEIGHBORS AS MYSELF AS I PRAY FOR ALL PEOPLE, ALL PLACES AND ALL THINGS. VISIT MY YOU TUBE CHANNEL: GODS WORD @godsword7849 AND RECEIVE YOUR BLESSING! AMEN.

"I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, THE SON CAN DO NOTHING BY HIMSELF; HE CAN DO ONLY WHAT HE SEES HIS FATHER DOING, BECAUSE WHATEVER THE FATHER DOES THE SON ALSO DOES!

A MESSAGE AND REVELATION FROM GOD TO THE WORLD. I AM A SON OF GOD AND I AM PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE.

"THE GOD WHO MADE THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT IS THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND DOES NOT LIVE IN TEMPLES BUILT BY HANDS. AND GOD IS NOT SERVED BY HUMAN HANDS, AS IF GOD NEEDED ANYTHING, BECAUSE GOD HIMSELF GIVES ALL MEN LIFE AND BREATH AND EVERYTHING ELSE. 

FROM ONE MAN GOD MADE EVERY NATION OF MEN, THAT THEY SHOULD INHABIT THE WHOLE EARTH; AND GOD DETERMINED THE TIMES SET FOR THEM AND THE EXACT PLACES WHERE THEY SHOULD LIVE.

GOD DID THIS SO THAT MEN WOULD SEEK GOD AND PERHAPS REACH OUT FOR GOD AND FIND GOD, THROUGH GOD IS NOT FAR FROM EACH ONE OF US. FOR IN GOD WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING. AS SOME OF YOUR OWN POETS HAVE SAID, 'WE ARE GOD'S OFFSPRING.'

"THEREFORE SINCE WE ARE GOD'S OFFSPRING, WE SHOULD NOT THINK THAT THE DIVINE BEING IS LIKE GOLD OR SILVER OR STONE - AN IMAGE MADE BY MAN'S DESIGN AND SKILL. IN THE PAST GOD OVERLOOKED SUCH IGNORANCE, BUT NOW GOD COMMANDS ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE TO REPENT.

 FOR GOD HAS SET A DAY WHEN GOD WILL JUDGE THE WORLD WITH JUSTICE BY THE MAN GOD HAS APPOINTED. GOD HAS GIVEN PROOF OF THIS TO ALL MEN BY RAISING CHRIST FROM THE DEAD." (Acts 17:24-31)

JESUS GAVE THEM THIS ANSWER: "I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, THE SON CAN DO NOTHING BY HIMSELF; HE CAN DO ONLY WHAT HE SEES HIS FATHER DOING, BECAUSE WHATEVER THE FATHER DOES THE SON ALSO DOES. FOR THE FATHER LOVES THE SON AND SHOWS HIM ALL HE DOES. (John 5:19-20a)

FOR JUST AS THE FATHER RAISES THE DEAD AND GIVES THEM LIFE, EVEN SO THE SON GIVES LIFE TO WHOM HE IS PLEASED TO GIVE IT. MOREOVER, THE FATHER JUDGES NO ONE, BUT HAS ENTRUSTED ALL JUDGEMENT TO THE SON, THAT ALL MAY HONOR THE SON JUST AS THEY HONOR THE FATHER. HE WHO DOES NOT HONOR THE SON DOES NOT HONOR THE FATHER, WHO SENT HIM. (John 5:21-23)

HUMBLE YOURSELVES, THEREFORE, UNDER GOD'S MIGHTY HAND, THAT GOD MAY LIFT YOU UP IN DUE TIME. CAST ALL YOUR ANXIETY ON GOD BECAUSE GOD CARES FOR YOU. BE INNER SELF-CONTROLLED AND ALERT.

YOUR ENEMY THE DEVIL PROWLS AROUND LIKE A ROARING LION LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DEVOUR. RESIST THE DEVIL, STANDING FIRM IN THE FAITH, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BROTHERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ARE UNDERGOING THE SAME KIND OF SUFFERINGS.

AND THE GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO CALLED YOU TO GOD'S ETERNAL GLORY IN CHRIST, AFTER YOU HAVE SUFFERED A LITTLE WHILE, GOD WILL HIMSELF RESTORE YOU IN CHRIST AND GOD WILL MAKE YOU STRONG IN CHRIST, FIRM IN CHRIST AND STEADFAST IN CHRIST. TO GOD BE THE POWER FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN. (1 Peter 5:6-11)

JESUS SAID TO THEM, "IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER, YOU WOULD LOVE ME, FOR I CAME FROM GOD AND NOW AN HERE. I HAVE NOT COME ON MY OWN; BUT GOD SENT ME. WHY IS MY LANGUAGE NOT CLEAR TO TO YOU? BECAUSE YOU ARE UNABLE TO HEAR WHAT I SAY. YOU BELONG TO YOUE FATHER, THE DEVIL, AND YOU WANT TO CARRY OUT YOUR FATHER'S DESIRE.

THE DEVIL WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, NOT HOLDING TO THE TRUTH, FOR THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THE DEVIL.

WHEN THE DEVIL LIES, HE SPEAKS HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE, FOR THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF LIES. YET BECAUSE I TELL THE TRUTH, YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME! CAN ANY OF YOU PROVE ME GUILTY OF SIN? IF I AM TELLING THE TRUTH, WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME? HE WHO BELONGS TO GOD HEARS WHAT GOD SAYS. THE REASON YOU DO NOT HEAR IS THAT YOU DO NOT BELONG TO GOD." (John 8:42-47)

THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND WHOEVER LIES IS DOING THE DEVIL'S WORK. WHOEVER CLAIMS TO LIVE IN GOD MUST WALK AS JESUS DID. JESUS ANSWERED, "YOU ARE RIGHT IN SAYING I AM A KING. IN FACT, FOR THIS REASON I WAS BORN, AND FOR THIS I CAME INTO THE WORLD, TO TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH. EVERYONE ON THE SIDE OF TRUTH LISTENS TO ME." (John 18:37)

"FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT GOD GAVE HIS ONE AND ONLY SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD THROUGH CHRIST. WHOEVER BELIEVES IN CHRIST IS NOT CONDEMNED, BUT WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE STANDS CONDEMNED ALREADY BECAUSE HE HAS NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF GOD'S ONE AND ONLY SON.

THIS IS THE VERDICT: LIGHT HAS COME INTO THE WORLD, BUT MEN LOVED DARKNESS INSTEAD OF LIGHT BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL. EVERYONE WHO DOES EVIL HATES THE LIGHT, AND WILL NOT COME INTO THE LIGHT FOR FEAR THAT HIS DEEDS WILL BE EXPOSED. BUT WHOEVER LIVES BY THE TRUTH COMES INTO THE LIGHT, SO THAT IT MAY BE SEEN PLAINLY THAT WHAT HE DONE HAS BEEN DONE THROUGH GOD." (John 3:16-21)

DEAR FRIENDS, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR LOVE COMES FROM GOD. EVERYONE WHO LOVES HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD AND KNOWS GOD, WHOEVER DOES NOT LOVE DOES NOT KNOW GOD, BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE.

THIS IS HOW GOD SHOWED HIS LOVE AMONG US: GOD SENT HIS ONE AND ONLY SON INTO THE WORLD THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH CHRIST. THIS IS LOVE: NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT GOD LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON AS AN ATONING SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS. 

DEAR FRIENDS, SINCE GOD SO LOVED US, WE OUGHT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN GOD; BUT IF WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, GOD LIVES IN US AND GOD'S LOVE IS MADE COMPLETE IN US. WE KNOW THAT WE LIVE IN GOD AND GOD IN US, BECAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN US OF GOD'S SPIRIT.

AND WE HAVE SEEN AND TESTIFY THAT THE FATHER HAS SENT HIS SON TO BE THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD. IF ANYONE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD LIVES IN HIM AND HE IN GOD. AND SO WE KNOW AND RELY ON THE LOVE GOD HAS FOR US. (1 JOHN 4:7-16)

SUCH CONFIDENCE AS THIS IS OURS THROUGH CHRIST BEFORE GOD. NOT THAT WE ARE COMPETENT IN OURSELVES TO CLAIM ANYTHING FOR OURSELVES, BUT OUR COMPETENCE COMES FROM GOD. GOD HAS MADE US COMPETENT AS MINISTERS OF A NEW COVENANT - NOT OF THE LETTER BUT OF THE SPIRIT; FOR THE LETTER KILLS, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE. (1 Cor.3:4-6)

THE HOLY SPIRIT ALSO TESTIFIES TO US ABOUT THIS. FIRST GOD SAYS: "THIS IS THE COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THAT TIME, SAYS THE LORD. I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR HEARTS, AND I WRITE THEM ON THEIR MINDS." THEN GOD ADDS: "THEIR SINS AND LAWLESS ACTS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE." (Heb.10:15-17)

FINALLY, BE STRONG IN THE LORD AND IN GOD'S MIGHTY POWER. PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE YOUR STAND AGAINST THE DEVIL'S SCHEMES. FOR OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST THE RULERS, AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES, AGAINST THE POWERS OF THIS DARK WORLD AND AGAINST THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF EVIL IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS. THEREFORE PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD, SO THAT WHEN THE DAY OF EVIL COMES, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO STAND YOUR GROUND. (Eph.6:10-13)

"BECAUSE DAN LOVES ME," SAYS THE LORD, "I WILL RESCUE DAN; I WILL PROTECT DAN, FOR DAN ACKNOWLEDGES MY NAME. DAN WILL CALL UPON ME, AND I WILL ANSWER DAN; I WILL BE WITH DAN IN TROUBLE, I WILL DELIVER DAN AND HONOR DAN. WITH LONG LIFE WILL I SATISFY DAN AND SHOW DAN MY SPIRITUAL SALVATION." (Psalm 91:14-16)

I HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THROUGH THE COVENANT GOD GAVE ME. GOD PUT HIS LAWS IN MY HEART AND WROTE THEM ON MY MIND. I FULFILL GOD'S LAW BY SPEAKING THE WORDS OF MY COVENANT TO GOD AND LOVING ALL MY NEIGHBORS AS MYSELF AS I PRAY FOR ALL PEOPLE, ALL PLACES AND ALL THINGS. VISIT MY YOU TUBE CHANNEL: GODS WORD @godsword7849 AND RECEIVE YOUR BLESSING! AMEN.