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Our Blog is Inspired by The Holy Spirit
Memorial of Saint Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr
In all circumstances, give thanks,
for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.
Emphasis mine Allulia Refrain 1 Thessalonians 5:18
These past few weeks we have had the theme of always giving praise and thanksgiving. Something that is very rare in our society today.
We were doing a Communion Service at the V/A last Sunday, and the Psalm reading was the 23rd Psalm. The Lord is my shepherd.
We mentioned to the people in attendance that we pray this Psalm every day. The interesting thing for me is the ending, which The Holy Spirit brought to mind for our homily.
The Version I learned was “I will live in the house of the Lord forever.
The Psalm that was read at our communion service said “and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD
for years to come.”
The NABRE the Bible that is used at Mass, or so I thought said, “I will dwell in the house of the Lord
for endless days.
I will not change from saying forever!
Why?
As we explained, to live in the house of the Lord now requires me to live in the love, Joy, and Peace of the Holy Spirit.
Sooooooooo how can you claim to be in Heaven now, by growing in the Love, Joy, and Peace of The Holy Spirit?
Answer, where else am I? In my younger years I experienced anger, hate, envy, pride, and only a fool wouldn’t realize these come from satan.
But
Living in Love, Joy, and Peace, separates me from everyone else who isn’t in the house of the Lord.
And
When I die, I go from the house of the Lord to the house of the Lord, and that is forever,
But
Forever started today, not when I died.
Beautiful isn’t it.
In Luke 10:9 Jesus says’The kingdom of God is at hand for you.’
And
Jesus demonstrated this by throwing out demons, and healing the sick, which we have also reported is happening today.
So,
Since we have the option to choose to live in the Kingdom of God, and we know this by our Love, Joy, and Peace we should In all circumstances, give thanks,
Prayer:
If you want to grow in Love, Joy and Peace, this is a result of growth in Patience, Kindness, Generosity, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control.
Sidebar:
I thought what we wrote above would be the Sidebar.
Wrong, which is why I enJoy this ministry so much.
Thursday we were at the jail, and a Muslim man spoke up.
The Muslim stated that the only reason he was coming to Bible Study was to hear me, and he thought being a Muslim that he was in the right religion.
We asked him to consider:
Allah is a single god, and as I learned in the book No God but One Allah or Jesus by Qureshi Nabeel, a young man studying to be an Imam until he found Jesus, and then he wrote this book comparing the two religions.
Nabeel wrote that Allah is a single god who needs the love of his followers and they have to obey the law to get to heaven. We believe God is a Triune God, with The Holy Spirit being a real game changer, because The Holy Spirit IS Love, and has entered our souls when we were baptized.
We didn’t say this but maybe the Holy Spirit will get me to ask him another question. That being, the Muslims believe they get to heaven by their good works, how many good works must they do to offset their sins?
Christians believe our sins were nailed to the Cross of Jesus, and we are going to heaven because we have been justified through the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus.
We didn’t say this but I pray we will. “Maybe you’re coming to Bible Study because The Holy Spirit wants to present a different option to you that will change your life, that option being Love, Joy, and Peace, which if you pray it every day really does change your life, as many of you have found out.
And
Then In all circumstances, give thanks,
This is the first time in four years we have had the quote of the week in the main part of the blog, and the sidebar.
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Lisbon Portugal Picture by Jim Boisvert
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