MV No Condemnation

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Faith, Memory Verse

MV

The idea is for you to memorize the following memory verse and then (If you like) to learn a little more about the section as you see fit. I actually love this section of scripture for it brings me much strength. Enjoy!

Level 3 Memory Verse

1. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
3. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God accomplished by sending His own Son in the form of sinful flesh, reconciling sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 
4. That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the (Holy) Spirit. (Romans 8:1-4 NKJV)

Here is a invaluable section of Bible verses to memorize.

Todays Devotional will be (MY) breaking down ‘verse 1’ of this most crucial section of text.  Simply put: it is how the following verses impacted and continues to impact my life.

In the previous chapter, Romans 7:14-25, the text teaches us that everyone (including the great Saul who became Paul) is subject to sin and its nature within the human and the human-condition.  We further recognize that evil is present in us even when we desire to do good.  Of course, we know this was by design.

IN chapter 7 Paul conveys how glad he is to have Jesus, the Son of God, pay his our sin debt; of this I am agreed.

Paul notes, that with our minds and souls we serve God by desire and will and intent…

However, with our flesh we often continue to mess-up and serve the law of sin, because of our flesh.

This Side of the Whirlwind: Walk the Walk

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Don't Be Afraid!, Love

Here’s Your Chance!

You know how – at times – we’re looking for ways to show our Christian love and charity to our fellow man/woman/kiddo…?

Just like you wouldn’t want to kiss a cat with sticky lips…

(You know I mean – your lips being sticky – not the cat’s lips.  That would be gross) 😦

You wouldn’t want to kiss this opportunity to show your Christian love and charity goodbye.  This is the perfect opportunity for us to live the talk of our faith.  Demonstrate the love God He has sewn in us to all those people who know you’re a living breathing Christian, right?

After all, if we (the Christians) get sick and die the worse thing that happens to us is that we join the Lord in paradise.  Where’s the down side?

1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

So get out there and share, share, share HIS love and mercy! 

   

Good chatting with ya!

 

Eternal Hope? :This Side of the Whirlwind

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From The Heart, Love, Poems

Eternal Hope

Decades passed entrenched in great, deep abiding hope

This Side of the Whirlwind: Flowers’ Heir

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From The Heart, God is Great!, Love, Meaning of Life, Poems, Steven R. Harrel for This Side of the Whirlwind

Flowers’ Heir

Remember, our needs are met in Christ Jesus even as the Flowers of the field.

It’s just that sometimes we don’t feel or understand where God is going with our lives.

For your edification and enjoyment…

Flowers’ Heir

In great beauty you are spun from soil and air,

Light from distant sun and seed of formers fair;

Then with great beauty once again you are spun,

Until in your juniors your face smiles towards distant sun.

 

This Side of the Whirlwind: Shaped and Transformed Into?

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From The Heart, Love, Meaning of Life, Steven R. Harrel for This Side of the Whirlwind

Shaped and Transformed Into?

What are you learning?

If you were called upon to prepare a group of people for a wide-ranging existence…

Where they needed to love the unlovable and show kindness to those who did not seem to deserve kindness…

What kind of environment would you prepare for your people?

Would you not create an environment where the principles and characteristics of kindness and love were not generally displayed and seldom offered on a daily basis?

 

Wouldn’t you instead put your people face to face with

This Side of the Whirlwind: Oh God, What If?

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From The Heart, Hearing God's Voice, Love

Oh God, What If?

The Quest:

Oh God, what if –

I were to You obey –

With all my life, through all my days,

endure my cross, obey Your will,

regardless the pain or strife I feel

Bear humiliations and sorrow’s

cold breath

Brave disgrace and live bereft

Face the choice of a martyr’s short, short life

Just to live my life for Christ?

To Sacrifice:

The Second Half of Christ’s Covenant Series

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God is Great!, Love, Prophecy, Steven R. Harrel for This Side of the Whirlwind, The Great Consummation, The Great Tribulation

The Second Half of Christ’s Covenant

The Series

One of the more important NEW revelations for this generation of the Saints is a revelation on “The Second Half of Christ’s Covenant”.

Why is this revelation so important, you might ask?

Well, I’m glad you asked…

The Second Half of Christ’s Covenant is the Great Consummation.

I know, most people call this period the Great Tribulation

Temple of the Soul: Poem

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From The Heart, Love, Meaning of Life

Temple of the Soul

In the temple of our human souls stands an altar of solid unblemished gold

Where polished and burnished, flawless and without seams,

Our hearts are revealed both young and old while living out illusionary themes,

And though without question our hearts are not empty,

They are filled with visions of our deeds, our lives, our desires of flesh.

Yet our living souls in perfect image – where no other can truly read – nor gaze.

It is a place of grand communion – a temple impossible for another soul to brave.

Neither father nor mother nor lover or friend can share this great chasm

Or its unobtainable great seat,

For only Jesus our Savior, Jesus our friend can commune with our soul in our lives without end.

This unique human place where God and human soul can chance meet,

Where God can become friend and our soul He can mend,

Beyond treasure, beyond prize in our short diminutive lives,

Christ abiding in the Temple of our Souls as Bridegroom with Bride,

Friend and befriended, alive and ever alive.

By Steven R. Harrel                                                           Finished 6/18/2019

Misappropriating Love

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From The Heart, Love, Steven R. Harrel for This Side of the Whirlwind

Most of us know that love and sex are worlds apart.  Nevertheless, nearly every outspoken morally minded person has had to endure the absurd justifications for errant and immoral sexual conduct BY those caught in our spheres of influence.

Consider:

How often have you encountered a guilty abuser justifying their aberrant sexual relationship using this phrase, “But we love each other”?

Objectively consider this fact… we DO NOT have sex with 98% of the people we truly love AND YET, somehow, we are able to continue loving those individuals!  Go figure?

We all recognize that love is neither a requisite nor obligate for sex.

We also know that sex does not mean love.

In fact, if you had sex with that other 98% of those you love and don’t have sex with… you’d destroy your relationship with those individuals, probably forever.

Infanticide Vs Matricide

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From The Heart

I was reading a Post deriding the new “Reproductive Health Act” regarding Full-Term Abortions and could not avoid my ire!

Then said to myself, “Wait a minute, maybe we should simply look for the silver lining to this ugly legislation. So, here’s what I was thinking as horrible as it might sound!

Maybe we should vote for an amendment to New York’s Reproductive Health Act.  An amendment which would allow every baby to come to Full-Term and then have both parties represented: both the mother and the Newborn.

Just think of it:

• Both the Segregate and the Baby will have Lawyers representing their rights and positions immediately following the delivery.   
• Each Lawyer will have a chance to argue on behalf of their client’s best interest.  
• The baby might even have a 50/50 chance or better to abort the Segregate.  
• After all, the baby is an innocent and cute and has never attempted to harm a living soul. 
• The Segregate, well, she was willing to kill her own Newborn child!

If this were the law the mother wouldn’t stand a chance.

Just a thought, but the number of human baby abortions just might go down!

As I said, I could not avoid the ire!

Just another sign of Christ’s soon coming return.

2 Timothy 3:1-7

“Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth!”