1 John 3:1
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are......

I am called to refuse the fraudulant claim that the old nature asserts in its pursuit of restored lordship over my life. I am compelled to lay down all before the altar of my Heavenly Father's Glory. I am abundantly alive when conquered and undone, in the revelation of The Father's redeeming love. My heavenly Father bestows indisputable victory of soul and spirit, through grace's redemption and conquest over that which once ruled my fallen soul. Christ's banner is raised over me, a temple of His dwelling, in what was once vacant, ruined within by depravity's contempt toward that by which I now stand redeemed. I am beckoned to the dangerous places to which the Holy Spirit guides me, where my flesh nature is sure to suffer devastating wounds.The Word of The Almighty is my right of passage to places where I have never been from which I will never turn back. Undone in Christ, transformation raises me up in Him, born anew to become what I have never been. I desire no return to what I once was. The past was cursed and today is Promise, and in that I choose to advance.

Philippians 3:7
But Christ has shown me that what I once thought was valuable is worthless

When we allow a sense of betrayal to sabotage our personal health of soul and spirit, as well as our interactions and relationships with others, we have become willing accomplices with those with whom we are aggrieved, by self inflicting far greater injury than the original offense. An absence of intimacy with God may be the reflection of embitterment toward others, having formed a chasm through un-forgiveness.
Hebrews 12:14-15
14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;
FORGIVENESS AND RELATIONAL TRUST ARE NOT THE SAME
Forgiving others is a commandment, trusting them is not. Forgiveness is the extension of grace while relational trust is an affirmation of another's proven trustworthiness. Forgiveness is the expression of unmerited favor. Relational trust is reciprocation toward honor. Forgiveness pardons betrayal. Relational trust may or may not be restored over time. Spiritual transformation is the foundation upon which the possibility of restored trust is built. The work of God within makes all things possible.
Real forgiveness will defeat the tyranny that would otherwise high jack and insatiably rule personal and relational behavior in the absence of personal trust. Forgiveness does not exploit the absence of relational trust.

Jeremiah 33:3
‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

At times, our theology caps our pursuit of God as we believe ourselves to be capable of defining, and exhausting what there is to be known or experienced in God. Such thinking is what turns believers into burnouts, churches into museums, and surrenders families, communities, regions, and nations to the exploitation of Satan. Those who give up on God are lacking the fresh fuel of revelation. Faith fuel is replenished in the higher realms where Christ is exalted ruling over all supposed impossibilities. God’s Spirit invades the realm of impossibility. He is waiting there for us to call on Him with the thunderous authority imparted through Christ. God has not vacated the premises of the impossible, He wants His church to thrive there in fresh revelation and power, fresh love, and a fresh hunger.

1 Corinthians 2:6-12
6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God [a]ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.9 But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

Friends are not so because they merely claim to be. They are so because they refuse to cite humanity when it might appear to provide faint support for disposing of those with whom friendship is claimed. God invested that which is Perfect into that which is imperfect and wholeness into that which is broken.
Christian love is never an enabler or the issuer of a license for bad behavior. However, it is gracious and discerning.

​1 Peter 4:8
8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Of all the places we go in life and no matter how severe, how personal and painful, the situations may become, no matter how dark, the places grow, the one place where we will never be, is alone.

​Relational trust and integrity are essential between the one climbing the latter and the one holding it. Sometimes the assignment takes one to the top of the latter and sometimes the assignment is served at the foot of the latter. Both are essential to completing the overall mission.

Your faith in Christ is a hardship for the devil.
1 John 5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

Jesus as The Truth, is the Authoring Prince and Singular Completer of our faith. The Holy Spirit is the sole Guide into and communicator of the otherwise unknowable Truth that anchors our faith in its author and Completer. Our Father is the ultimate rewarder of our faith.

Hebrews 12:1
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

John 16:13
​However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

When inviting the Holy Spirit to open the eyes of my understanding He requires full access to my heart and He waits for me to remove the locks from the doors.
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2 Thessalonians 3:5
May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ.