From: "Phil Rembleski" <PHIl@rescuechurchofchrist.org>

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Sent: Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 5:34 AM

Subject: 9-28-22 THOUGHTS

9-28-22   THOUGHTS

RELATIONSHIP  is a wonderful thing.  That God desires a close relationship with each of us is even more wonderful!  Jas 4:5b  "He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us"?  This is a powerful statement when we consider it carefully.  God wants what makes us, US!     John 14:23  Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.

Isa 56:5   To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, And a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off.
Jer 3:19   "Then I said, ‘How I would set you among My sons And give you a pleasant land, The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’ And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father, And not turn away from following Me.’
Hos 1:10   Yet the number of the sons of Israel Will be like the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered; And in the place Where it is said to them, "You are not My people," It will be said to them, "[You are] the sons of the living God."       [see Rom 9:25-26]
John 1:12    But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,
Rom 8:14-17   For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.  15  For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of  adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!"  16  The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,  17   and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.
Rom 8:21  that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
2Cor 6:17-18    "Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE," says the Lord. "AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you.  18  "And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me," Says the Lord Almighty.
Gal 3:26   For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 4:6   Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
1John 3:1  See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and [such] we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

My Prayer:
We praise you and thank you, O Lord, for loving us so dearly.  Your love has been on display from the creation.  May we truly see, and may we truly respond to that love.  Yours is a powerful, active, awesome love.  Please, O God, may our love be in kind.  Keep us from a pitiful, wimpy, selfish love, that is no love at all.  Teach us to die to self,  that we may learn to live to You.  May we allow you to come, and make your abode with us.  In the name of Jesus, Amen.
          Pray for our sister Heather