Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

 1.8.25- Prayer is not a substitute for doing something. It is doing something. John 15 John 15 New American Standard Bible Jesus Is the Vine—Followers Are Branches 15  “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.   2  Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every  branch  that bears fruit, He  [ a ] prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.   3  You are already  [ b ] clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.   4  Remain in Me,  [ c ] and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit  [ d ] of itself  [ e ] but must remain in the vine, so neither  can  you unless you remain in Me.   5  I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him  [ f ] bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.   6  If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up; and they gather ...

 1.7.25- Worth is not set by performance, but personhood. False idenity set by this world based conditions on which we had no choice. Nationality, gender, socio economic class, skin color, True idenity is a human created in the image of God who gave his son for all. Genesis 1 26  Then God said, “ [ ai ] Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and  [ aj ] let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”   27  So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.   28  God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that  [ ak ] moves on the earth.”   29  Then God said, “Behold...

1.6.25- I was given certain freedoms from birth. Freedom from worry about not having a loving family, community and school as I grew up. There so many loving people in my surroundings i wish all people could have a fun loving, kind bunch to be around growing up.. Most recently I received some "limitations" or "freedoms" depending on how you look at it. Since 10.13.23 i mostly move by scooter or wheel chair. It's in the way you sincerely describe it. It gave me secure movement without much pain. Freedom. My new close friend, Felix Stalls, was given to me about 10.1.1980. He was a very wise Christian businessman. He had survived heart attacks and cancer and many other things including service in WWII. He was not false or shallow pollyanna in any way but he said "my 'problems' are what I call 'opportunities'." It's called "reframing'. A new freedom of movement has come in the form of a new, lighter scooter made smaller and ...