October 2007 Log

Psalm 42:5
Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His presence {countenance}.

In God's presence there is hope --
there is light --
there is favor --
there is joy --
there is life.

Psalm 42:1-2
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When can I come behold His face and drink in His presence?

Like the panting deer, is your whole being seeking and thirsting for the living God? Seek Him, search for Him, praise Him with your whole being and heart -- you will find Him (Jere 29:13); He will smile.

Psalm 44:3
For by their own sword they did not possess the land,
And their own arm did not save them,
But Your right hand and Your arm
And the light of Your presence, for You favored them,
And smiled upom them.

Psalm 89:15
How blessed are the people who worship you,
Who know the joyful sound! O LORD,
They walk in the light of Your presence {countenance}.

Blessed are the people who know the passwords of praise, who shout on parade in the bright presence of GOD! (MSG)

1 Corinthians 13:6
Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness,
... but rejoices with (in) the truth; (NASB, NKJV)
... but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.; (NLT)
... but has joy in what is true; (BBE)
... but takes pleasure in the flowering of truth; (MSG)

2 John 1:3, 6
Grace, mercy and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment (love one another), just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
... and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Love, grace and truth -- they can not be separated!

Praise the LORD! Jesus altogether lovely!

Song 5:10-16
My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand. His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven. His eyes are like doves by streams of water, washed in milk, mounted like jewels. His cheeks are like beds of spice yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with myrrh. His arms are rods of gold set with chrysolite. His body is like polished ivory decorated with sapphires. His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars. His mouth is sweetness itself; He is altogether lovely. This is my lover, this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

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Love Rejoices in the Truth

God is love -- 1 Jn :8

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen
his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full
of grace and truth. --Jn 1:1

Love, grace and truth can not be separated!

Worship in Spirit and in Truth

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will
worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers
the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit
and in truth. -- Jn 4:23-24

Unity is in Spirit and in Truth

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves,
and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning
and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the
truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that
is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every
supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does
its work. --Eph 4:15-16

Love and rejoice in the Truth
Speak it out boldly in love!

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
... and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They
perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this
reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the
lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but
have delighted in wickedness.

2 John 1:3, 6
Grace, mercy and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from
Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is
the commandment (love one another), just as you have heard from the
beginning, that you should walk in it.