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God Bless You

This last 5 days have went so fast. The good-byes were hard and the trip home awaits. We know the LORD has our backs and Jesus guides us. We owe all we are to Jesus and we love all of you and look foreword to sharing His words and Love with you

James 1:17
NIV Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

KJV Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
James is contrasting God s nature with our nature in previous verses. Whereas we are fickle, God never changes.
He gives good (earthly) and perfect (heavenly) gifts to us. Sometimes we see God giving only heavenly gifts - salvation, guidance, peace. But he also gives earthly gifts - prosperity, success, favor.
James balances the earthly and the heavenly when He refers to God as the Father of the heavenly lights, which were seen as trustworthy navigation tools.
We may want to exploit the earthly gifts, or only emphasize the heavenly gifts, but our heavenly guide will use all of these gifts to transform us. The God who does not change uses good and perfect gifts to mold us into t

The Bible explains it s self as all of the chapters in rev. can be found as scriptures from with in the entire Bible. Thus the Bible is of no private interpretation. Thus know Gods word and write it upon your heart so that when the anti-christs come you will know Gods word and be able to know the truth and stay upon the straight and narrow path...GBU

:good morning and wow what a beautiful morning it is. we are truly Blessed to awaken to all the wonders of God. man has done his best to remove God, but God can be seen in a new born baby, a young rabbit or little bird or the green grass or the LOVE of one another. Truth is God has not changed but man has. Man races toward his end faster and faster believing all the while he is ruler of this earth. all we have to due is turn on the news and see how wrong man is. Know that God loves you and is willing to complete you in HIM...GBU

While all things are lawful, not all things are expedient to show forth what is the good and acceptable Way of Christ (1Corinthians 6:12). Slavery was also permissible under the Old Testament and is not declared to be wrong anywhere in scripture either (as it was a common custom among all civilizations of the time - Leviticus 25:45-46). Does that make it acceptable under today s heightened awareness of the cruelty of slavery? Paul says whatever state you find yourself in when you come to Christ, therein seek to remain (1Corinthians 7:20) and we should only seek to be married to Him (Romans 7:4). In the Kingdom there is neither male nor female (Galatians 3:28), so, if our hearts and minds are set upon the things of the Spirit rather than the things of this world, then we are to BE the Kingdom here in this earthly realm - today (Matthew 6:10, 1John 4:17). There are far too many of us who are wanting to use scripture to justify what we want in order to satisfy our carnal desires