Love makes little things grow, hate destroys even the big ones. Unknown

People can't really do much to you. They may like you or hate you, but God's opinion is the one that really matters, because He decides your destiny. 
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Do not reprove a mocker or he will hate you; reprove a wise person and he will love you. 
Proverbs 9:8

Our Faith will be Rewarded

By Faith

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
...And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Hebrews 11:1,6 English Standard Version (ESV)

Just hold on to hope, acting out our faith... eventually what we are striving for, we will obtain. 

Commitment to obedience.

Obedience is a choice, a commitment we make, not just to make our lives better, but to fill our being with peace and blessings from God.

God's steadfast love...

Lamentations 3:22-23English Standard Version (ESV)

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
    his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.

And the Greatest is Love

1 Corinthians 13 New International Version (NIV)

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

We Love

Regard this day as a celebration of how God authored and expressed His love for us. Happy Heart's Day to all! 

True Love

Wherever You Go

Joshua 1:5-9New International Version (NIV)

No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.

“Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”

Hope

For so many times that I tried, and persevered, there seemed to be no chances... No opportunities coming my way... They seem to stay just a glimpse... 
But nothing really meet me along the way.... I cry in silence... No one 
can tell, the weight of my burden... Whenever I speak... It is always 
for the enlightenment of others... For lifting up of those who are down... 
Of those who wanted to give up....seemingly hopeless... .... 
Yet inside me... A question of “Is there any hope for me?” lingers....
churns....hopelessness is more real to me...I take on chances 
even though not even a tiny speck of it I see. 
If they don’t want to even go on... 
I actually longed to give up, because I’d been on that path for a long time.

Yet at the end of the day... I just can’t stop holding on...
I still pray.......I still hope.

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

-Jeremiah 29:11

Work Out Your Faith

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.
 Ephesians 2:8-9    Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. John 8:32

Walk in Obedience to Him

Deuteronomy 30:15-20New International Version (NIV)

See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Where there is Mercy, there is Peace.

Luke 6:30-36New International Version (NIV)

Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.

“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Put Your Heart In What You Do

Colossians 3:23-25New International Version (NIV)

23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. 25 Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for their wrongs, and there is no favoritism.


-Doing things diligently brings more benefits than what our eyes can perceive.

Faith Without Works Is Dead

Faith Without Works Is Dead

14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?


James 2:14-20New King James Version (NKJV)