Let Love Unite Us

Philippians 4:10-23

10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again; though you surely did care, but you lacked opportunity. 11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

14 Nevertheless you have done well that you shared in my distress. 15 Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only.16 For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities. 17 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account. 18 Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God. 19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 20 Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.

21 Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me greet you. 22 All the saints greet you, but especially those who are of Caesar’s household.

23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

1 Timothy 1:5 states, The purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and a sincere faith.  God’s world operates off love.  When we are loving God with all our heart mind, body and soul to want to please Him by using all the fruits of the spirit.  Love gives us the drive to press on in all circumstances.  Love is not weak, but a power that will knock the enemy straight on his back, if we keep pushing forward in it.  We cannot use our own thinking to outwit the devil, but the thinking of God.  “The harvest is plenty but the laborers few”, the scripture tells us, meaning there’s not enough love moving in the kingdom of God.  1 Corinthians 13 says, everything in the world might fail us, but never true for forthright love for God and man.  Because a sincere heart working off a foundation of love can’t be defeated in the kingdom of God.  It is God’s mode of operation and though people may fail us, because of their lack thereof, God can’t.  When prayers, supplication and a thankful heart is operating by counting all trials joy, counting every small and large blessing that God sends, and working out our salvation with fear and trembling showing God we want to get this right for Him and the blessing.  He, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, our Angels and a cloud of witnesses are here to protect and root us on.  They love us sincerely and whole heartedly, wanting to spend the rest of eternity with us.  Verses 10 – 20 speak of real love in desperate moments, not just when one’s on top.  Children of God Let Love Unite Us. 

Blessings to all as we stand in love united,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.

Be Like Christ

2 Corinthians 10

Now I, Paul, myself am pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you. ² But I beg you that when I am present I may not be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. ³ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. ⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, ⁵ casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, ⁶ and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.

⁷ Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ’s, let him again consider this in himself, that just as he is Christ’s, even so we are Christ’s. ⁸ For even if I should boast somewhat more about our authority, which the Lord gave us for edification and not for your destruction, I shall not be ashamed— ⁹ lest I seem to terrify you by letters. ¹⁰ “For his letters,” they say, “are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.” ¹¹ Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such we will also be in deed when we are present.

¹² For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. ¹³ We, however, will not boast beyond measure, but within the limits of the sphere which God appointed us—a sphere which especially includes you. ¹⁴ For we are not overextending ourselves (as though our authority did not extend to you), for it was to you that we came with the gospel of Christ; ¹⁵ not boasting of things beyond measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but having hope, that as your faith is increased, we shall be greatly enlarged by you in our sphere, ¹⁶ to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s sphere of accomplishment.

¹⁷ But “he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.” ¹⁸ For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

Paul is pleading with the people, for them to understand the seriousness of our bibles’ and the truth it declares.  We have to come to God with a willing and humble heart to receive this awesome gift He has bestowed to us.  We cannot walk as the world, pleasing our flesh each day and say amen, God bless.  This is only deceiving ourselves.  We can’t continue to mingle the worlds’ wisdom, with God’s wisdom and believe He’s alright with it.  When He states our worlds’ wisdom is foolishness to Him.  No one can unlock God’s heart into our situations, better than we can.  God asks that we work out our own salvation with fear and trembling.  The war is on between Father God and satan.  We must take on the mind of Christ and, pick up our bibles in defense to reveal the wrongs and judgments the enemy is pinning on us.  If our bibles are not read daily and worked by faith satan will eat us alive.  He has already separated us in our thinking and believing in the word of God.  We must seriously love God with all our heart and love our brothers and sisters as we love ourselves.  The scriptures are to be written upon the tablets of our hearts, so when the tests and trials come, we will know how to embrace them and then react.  The bible is supposed to run our world, to implement justice and righteousness to all.  Joy, peace, and riches are to surround us.  Money is taking God’s children by storm and though He has a handle on it, we don’t.  We cannot let money determine our every thought and motive, letting satan use us as puppets.  We’re either weak for it, or too harsh with it.  How high or low will we extend ourselves for it?  We don’t have to sell our birthright as kings and queens, as heirs of God.  Man does not rule this world, God does.  Be like Christ.

Blessings and peace as we strive to become Christ like,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst. 

The Love Journey

1 Corinthians 13

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. ⁴ Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; ⁵ does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; ⁶ does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part. ¹⁰ But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. ¹² For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. ¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Owe no one anything but love, for he who loves has fulfilled the law.  (Romans 13:8) Though I speak with the tongue of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass 1 Corinthians 13:1 says.  It is our words fused with love that brings our inheritance into focus and then into existence.  God tests and tries our hearts and minds in what their intentions are.  Our words determine if we are trying to grow closer to God in search of His love and inheritance which He has stored up for His children who truly love him.  All the game we may think we have, that may get over on the man in this world cannot get over on God.  His breath has been blown into every living creature.  So when we speak to Him He knows from what part of the heart it comes.  God speaks in verse 3 if we have not love, we are nothing.  From verses 4-7 we are told how sincere love is to operate.  This is the only way to unlock the bible and receive the keys to Father God’s heart.  Then sit down, lay down, and converse with the Man that wants to give us back the keys to His kingdom.  We must turn ourselves into love machines, love dripping and pouring out of our very being to swing our universe back into action.  Love conquers all barriers to what we want on this planet.  It opens the heavens to rain down the blessings that you need to embark upon the journey into God’s heart.  We can’t love as much the way Father God loves us.  He’s there at every turn and corner we try to make to get deeper into His heart.  He’s already planted Himself in ours.  God asks us to grow up and put away our childish ways and selfish behaviors.  We don’t run anything but ourselves.  So we are to program ourselves into selfless beings so God can use us.  We’re in a war between Father and satan, chess pieces, I apologize brothers and sisters for a lack of a better word.  However, God loves us, we His chess vessels so much that He gave us a bible so we could help Him win and see us into our inheritance, winner take all.  We are to outplay and outperform satan at all costs.  Real true sincere love throws him off his game.  Learn the love journey and embark upon God’s heart where there’ll be no turning back.  Love.

Blessings all as we mount up in love to win God’s heart,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst. 

Faith Conquers

Hebrews 11

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ² For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.

³ By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.

⁵ By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. ⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

⁷ By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

⁸ By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. ⁹ By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; ¹⁰ for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

¹¹ By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. ¹² Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

¹³ These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. ¹⁴ For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. ¹⁵ And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, ¹⁸ of whom it was said, “In Isaac your seed shall be called,” ¹⁹ concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

²⁰ By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

²¹ By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.

²² By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.

²³ By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s command.

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, ²⁵ choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, ²⁶ esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

²⁷ By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. ²⁸ By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

²⁹ By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned.

³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days. ³¹ By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.

³² And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: ³³ who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, ³⁴ quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. ³⁵ Women received their dead raised to life again.

Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. ³⁶ Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented— ³⁸ of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

³⁹ And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, ⁴⁰ God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

Faith can move our mountains that hinder us from walking in total assurance that God is here with us today.  Building our faith in the things we cannot see, keeps us moving forward towards the things of God.  We have testimony’s that are to be built and shared with the children of God.  God says, without faith it is impossible to please Him.  So we are to step out of our comfort zones and take a leap of faith into the unknown.  Believing that God will carry us in, through and around all uncharted territories.  God states, in verse 6 for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who come to Him.  Our God asks, that we give up our lives, so we can find our lives, lives that He preordained before the beginning of time.  He says, that our steps have been ordered by the Lord, so how can a man know his way.  It is not about the plans we’ve incorporated for ourselves, but the plans God has already spoke over our lives, that we are denying.  God speaks, in Revelations that there will be no cowards in heaven.  We cannot go on believing, we have this world already figured out by the disastrous things we see. So we try and tuck ourselves away, believing if we’ll just ignore society and stay with our dreams they will manifest. Or if we’ll just shoot, rob, lie, and kill to fulfill pleasures and dreams, we can just let the cards fall where they may. Believe me there both a lie from the pit of hell.  The scriptures from our bible must be obeyed and walked to obtain the promises of our inheritance.  Though God said, there were many of them who didn’t acquire their full inheritance.  He still kept them alive and in perfect peace, as they walked around this world but not of it. They believing God and His word, that something better awaited them.  “If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord.  So if we live or die, we belong to our Lord”. (Romans 14:8)  However, there were some who did receive the promises as verses 32-35 mentioned.  There are many opportunities out here today, for us to use the word of God in faith to proclaim our inheritance.  But if we’re not tested and tried in our faith, to receive it, our walk is in vain.  Conquer faith, then conquer your destiny.

Blessings to us all as we conquer our faith in the living God,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst. 

Let Him Reveal Himself

Isaiah 53

Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
² For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
³ He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

⁴ Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵ But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
⁸ He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
⁹ And they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

¹⁰ Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
¹¹ He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
¹² Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors.

Who has believed is the question.  The message to our world has been sent out for all to follow in our Lord’s footsteps.  We can no longer put our trust into what we hear or see in man’s word or deed.  Many of us have been called, but few are chosen.  Why?  Because we refuse to dig into the scriptures and meditate on them to witness their truth and turn our situation around.  Jesus was brought up like most of us, though His life was to be an example that anyone could change their circumstances and world.  He was fed curds and honey by God’s choice, so He couldn’t be bought or persuaded by fancy delicacies and outlandish gifts offered by the enemy.  And because He didn’t walk around in the most expensive attire and ride in elaborate chariots, He was frowned upon because this is what our flesh seeks.  God asks us to not look at the things we can see, but the things we can’t.  He also asks that we not compare ourselves among ourselves.  Our world is mostly operating off the things that can be seen or touched, striving only for material gain and not a true relationship with our God who says everything belongs to Him.  We are to draw near to God and our Lord to know the reality of how our world operates and the way to obtain true riches on earth and in Heaven. God asks us to not be worried about what we will wear or eat, but to obtain His word and He will add these things to us.  God has given us a heart of compassion, to love Him and the next man, but do we only use it for self-gain?  Is our interaction with one another dishonest?  God speaks in Ecclesiastes, there’s a time and a season for everything in how our hearts are to operate with each other in love.  But we are only training them to be about me, myself, and I.  Jesus Christ lived totally opposite of that spirit from satan and commands we do the same to be ultimately blessed. Let Him reveal Himself.

Blessings to us all as we let our Lord reveal Himself,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.

The Power Of God

1 Corinthians 2

And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. ² For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. ³ I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴ And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵ that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

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 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.

¹³ These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. ¹⁴ But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. ¹⁶ For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

God's word is the only word that matters.  God's word trumps human words and wisdom by leaps and bounds.  His word opens up doors that no man can shut and shuts doors that no man can open.  God's word is life building, life sustaining, and life ordained to see us into our inheritance.  God says He will make the simple wise.  He will build us into beings that all can come to, and rest, feeling at ease in our company.  We can only walk in great fear and trembling when God's word has been worked in faith and He has revealed Himself to give you His approval.  Then when that has happened, you will know that the rest of the scriptures are also true, helping us to throw off yokes and bonds that are keeping us from our destiny.  God states His word is good yesterday, today and forever.  The same things that were done in ancient times are still being done today through man's finite wisdom.  We are getting nowhere with the thinking of man, only now exchanging more money to cover up hundreds of years of mistakes.  We must read, train, and grow in love and the power to defeat satan at his tactics to destroy us.  We must learn the wisdom and knowledge of the obedience of Christ our example, in how to die to our flesh to conquer everlasting riches and eternity.  God destined us to win before He ever spoke His universe into existence.  And man's thinking, without the word of God is destroying us.  “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Eph.2:10) We must love the Man who rules Heaven, earth, and all the things below it.  We must open our hearts, minds, body and soul to the Holy Spirit who wants to companion with us to see us into our victory.  God says whoever puts their trust in man is cursed.  So we must break the curses off ourselves and off our surroundings to grow in the power to bring peace on earth.  As we see in verse 15 we the children of God can judge, when we're judging according to God's standards and lifestyle of living in righteousness.  We are to take on the mind of Christ, put off our sin and break down the barriers in the power of God.  

Bless us Lord as we take on Your power to move mountains,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.

  

Overcome Our World

John 16

“These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. ² They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. ³ And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. ⁴ But these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them.

And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

⁵ “But now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ ⁶ But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷ Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. ⁸ And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: ⁹ of sin, because they do not believe in Me; ¹⁰ of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; ¹¹ of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

¹² “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 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. ¹⁴ He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. ¹⁵ All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.

¹⁶ “A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me, because I go to the Father.”

¹⁷ Then some of His disciples said among themselves, “What is this that He says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I go to the Father’?” ¹⁸ They said therefore, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is saying.”

¹⁹ Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and He said to them, “Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’? ²⁰ Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. ²¹ A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. ²² Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.

²³ “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. ²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶ In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you; ²⁷ for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God. ²⁸ I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”

²⁹ His disciples said to Him, “See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech! ³⁰ Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this we believe that You came forth from God.”

³¹ Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ³² Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. ³³ These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Do you feel that you’re falling, slipping into darkness, or maybe on your own in our world, going through life just existing?  Are you dealing with uncomfortable relationships in your family or with friends?  Well that is because we’ve been bought at an expensive price and we don’t belong to ourselves. (1Corinthians 6:19-20)  God says, we can do nothing without Him.  We are in this world, but not of it.  Jesus explained in the verse, He has given us His testimony so we would not fall.  So when we are fighting the good fight of faith, we can continue on our missions striving to spend eternity with Him and Father God.  Jesus says, they will put us out of churches and might even kill us because they do not know Him or Father God.  We don’t have to walk around deceiving ourselves about the truth.  If God has not come down and shaken up your home or given you your mission because you have sought Him with all your heart, mind, body and soul, then you need to go a little deeper within and strive a little harder to love Him.  It’s not the works we do that get us into heaven, but the love we extend to Him and others.  If we can come up with all kinds of technology to send planes and rockets into the air, why is it so hard to believe that God can surely call His Son back to the throne from which He came.  He was pure and holy and did everything in the flesh to show us we could accomplish our task as well.  However, if we won’t let patience have its perfect work done as God speaks, waiting on the Lord for that fantastic life He promised us, we are not growing our faith.  The gift of love has been planted in our hearts and the Holy Spirit is inside of us to help us implement it in all matters.  This is so we can out maneuver the devil and walk into our Lord’s and Father God’s arms.  Turn to the truth and overcome the world.

Blessings to all as we overcome our world in Christ,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.