Need more patience to endure an uphill battle.
“But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.”
Luke 8:15 NKJV
An Uphill Battle
Even When It Gets Harder
This truth is immutable.
“From the rising of the sun to its going down
The LORD’s name is to be praised.”
Psalm 113:3 NKJV
Spring Flower
“For with You is the fountain of life;
In Your light we see light.”
Psalm 36:9 NKJV
Song Sparrow
“Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth,
Who have upheld His justice.
Seek righteousness, seek humility.
It may be that you will be hidden
In the day of the Lord’s anger.”
Zephaniah 2:3 NKJV
Kevlar
“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;“
Ephesians 6:17 NKJV
Sunflower Seedling
“Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
John 3:5-6 NKJV
Subtle Subversion
Though the sun means energy, to say “God is energy” is foreign to Scripture.
Scripture talks about God’s “power and great glory“.
“There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.”
Revelation 22:5 NKJV
Palliative “Peace”
The only peace I can “imagine” is not the one John Lennon sang about,
but the one Jesus Christ offers.
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
John 14:27 NKJV
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Inflation
“For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the LORD;
“I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”
Psalm 12:5 NKJV
Blossom In The Truth
You can’t blossom in the faith if you hold on to falsehood.
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.”
1 John 4:1-3 NKJV