O Holy Spirit, thou Giver of every good and perfect gift, grant to me the intensions of this prayer reminder. May the Father’s will be done in me and through me. And may thou O mighty Spirit of the Living God, be praised and glorified for ever and ever. Amen.
“Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, and lighten with celestial fire, Thou the anointing Spirit art, who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart. Thy blessed unction from above, is comfort, life and fire and love, enable with perpetual light, the dullness of our blinded sight.”
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:1
Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
Jesus said, “You are my friends is you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made know to you everything that I have heard from my Father.”
“You did not choose me, but I chose you, and I appoint you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands, so that you may love one another.”
Jesus said to his disciples, “As the Father has loved me, so I have love you, abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Fathers commandments and abide in His love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.”
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
Everyone who believes that Jesus in the Christ born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.1 John 5
“For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments, and his
commandments are not burdensome; for whatever is born of God conquers the
world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. Who is is he who conquers the world, but the one who believe that Jesus is the son of God.”
My brothers and sister in Christ, God has given us the ability to make good choices, the discernment to know right from wrong, and he has set before us the choice to choose life or death. What will be your choice?
“This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you, life and death, blessings, and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live, and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
“See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death, and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees, and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.”
“Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.”
When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart, wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Deuteronomy 30 – Our God is awesome!
“Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors. The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.” Our God always makes good on his promises.”
“If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name of the Lord your God, the curses of disobedience will never leave you.”
“The Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!” because of the terror that will fill your heart and the sights that your eyes will see.”
“All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees, he gave you.”
“They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.”