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Old 08-06-2017, 02:20 PM
 
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My favorite and guiding light verse of the bible, 1 Corinthians 13.

Have read it hundreds of times.


Just wanted to point out one tiny phrase within...

Love always hopes.

I ask you, friends of City Data Christianity Forum... to please just go silent within yourself and meditate on that today or when you have time. No need to comment (or you can, if you wish). Don't jump to a response, just let that linger in your heart and mind and let it wrap around you today. What does that mean to you personally? Think on it and ask God for guidance and love.

Just wanted to put that out there as it jumped in my heart last night and caused tears to come to my eyes and a lump in my throat (good tears, profound, and deep) and I wanted to share.


peace,
sparrow
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Old 08-06-2017, 03:47 PM
 
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The word hope in that passage, according to Strong's, comes from a root word that means "joyful and confident expectation".
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Old 08-06-2017, 08:44 PM
 
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Hope is also the fuel that can keep one moving forward during dark times when every step is uphill.
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Old 08-06-2017, 08:51 PM
 
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hope in hope means nothing!
Hope in the one who does love and can love and will love means something.... Like Jesus doing what the Father is doing is Love. doing you doing hope isn't love ..
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Old 08-06-2017, 08:58 PM
 
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hope in hope means nothing!
Hope in the one who does love and can love and will love means something.... Like Jesus doing what the Father is doing is Love. doing you doing hope isn't love ..
Hoping in the One who IS LOVE, means everything.

And the One who is love, has a joyful and confident expectation for each of us to become what we are in the One.

aisi
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Old 08-06-2017, 09:13 PM
 
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Love always hopes.

It also patiently endures all things, including the negativism of others - who condemn humanity.
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Old 08-06-2017, 11:14 PM
 
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Hoping in the One who IS LOVE, means everything.

And the One who is love, has a joyful and confident expectation for each of us to become what we are in the One.

aisi
maybe read what I said again please.
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Old 08-06-2017, 11:19 PM
 
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hope in hope means nothing!
Hope in the ONE who does love , and can love, and will love means something....just Like Jesus doing what the Father is doing was real Love for humanity . who of you knows what it was that John demanded as proof ( he wanted to see people set, he wanted people FREE... John the baptist demanded proof of God loves by what signs did Jesus that prove his love and proved who he was...? Jesus set people FREE from ailments and demons. and everything.)

so doing you doing "hope" isn't really love .. these things will follow those that believe... they will Set people free from real ailments , real disease , real demonic oppression and real death and worse .

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Old 08-06-2017, 11:23 PM
 
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[b] - who condemn humanity.[/i]
sorry happy Harry-ettes but humanity was condemned a long time before I came around.. that is why we have those promises to EVE in the first place.. that the serpent and all his buddies and in low places.. will be crushed. darlin it is written in the stars a long long time before I was born I'm just a keeper of that fact.. . and I just happily hope that the happy hopeful Harriets/or harry-ettes get a clue before they all become hari-kari Harry-ettes when things become not exactly their kind of happy or hopeful because they are not happy or hopeful about the right things the only happy thing worthy is Jesus and his keys to the universe and his key to heal the broken is the only way through to realer happy and realer hopeful.

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Old 08-06-2017, 11:53 PM
 
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sorry happy Harry-ettes but humanity was condemned a long time before I came around.. that is why we have those promises to EVE in the first place.. that the serpent and all his buddies and in low places.. will be crushed. darlin it is written in the stars a long long time before I was born I'm just a keeper of that fact.. . and I just happily hope that the happy hopeful Harriets/or harry-ettes get a clue before they all become hari-kari Harry-ettes when things become not exactly their kind of happy or hopeful because they are not happy or hopeful about the right things the only happy thing worthy is Jesus and his keys to the universe and his key to heal the broken is the only way through to realer happy and realer hopeful.
It seems you have constructed a worldview that works for you.

If it is benign with gusts up to beneficent, I salute your walk. It may not be mine, but perhaps we can see each other at crossroads and the occasional paralleling of our paths.
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