Even with all the chaos and confusion, it’s a blessing to grow up and live in the United States.

Oh, I know we’re full of conflict and our list of things we could do better is long . . . but friends, at this point, we are free!

I looked up the Bill of Rights for a list of freedoms we enjoy. It’s really awesome!

FREEDOMS IN AMERICA

• Freedom of Religion
• Freedom of Speech
• Freedom of the Press
• Freedom of Assembly
• Freedom of Petition

And I for one, don’t want to lose those Freedoms.

Throughout Scripture, there are countless accounts of nations and leaders all with the same message.

♥ In successful nations, the people honored and trusted God and intentionally made every effort to follow His commands.

♥ They prayed and asked God’s to forgive their failures and asked Him to help them commit to following Him in obedience in the future.

They Prayed! They trusted and obeyed God’s will!

So, as you and I celebrate the freedoms we enjoy this weekend and as we begin to prepare to vote for our nation’s leaders in the fall, I thought it might be a really good time to pray, asking God for His forgiveness, His healing, and His help!

Because I believe this is a critical time to Pray for America!

7 Verses You Need to Pray for America Now

I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity. This is good and pleases God our Savior, who wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth.

1 Timothy 2:1–4

Father, I lift up our country to You. We need You. We’ve always needed You but right now at this moment, it feels like we need You more than ever. You want so much more for our nation than we are experiencing at the moment. Please help us.

Thank you for those who are willing to serve our nation … whether they are elected or appointed, military or local law enforcement. Lord, please place Your hand of protection over them. Guide and help them wherever they serve.

Please work in the minds and hearts of those who lead our nation. By the power of Your Spirit, I pray they will know and follow Your will. Please help them look past politics and power and give them hearts to make decisions in line with Your will. Lord, help us! Lead us. Forgive us.

Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.

2. Chronicles 7:14

Oh Father, forgive us. We have gotten so many things wrong. We don’t love you well. We don’t love each other well. We don’t follow your commands as you want. We judge the behavior of others and make excuses for our own. We don’t value Your creation and fail to protect the unborn “least of these.” We need You. We Need Jesus. We need Your Spirit. And most of all we need Your forgiveness and we need to change. Please heal us and help us.

You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, all whose thoughts are fixed on You! Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock.

Isaiah 26:3–4

Father, we need Your peace. We need to focus our thoughts on You. We are so quickly distracted by the problems of the world . . . turning to fear and anxiety rather than turning to You. We look to the government to solve our problems rather than falling to our knees in prayer. We seek worldly solutions for spiritual problems. Please forgive us. Please grow our faith. Make us humble and trusting that we might stand in faith on the firm foundation of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.

Galatians 5:13

Father, please by the power of Your Holy Spirit, help us live in the freedom You give us. You gave Jesus to suffer and die that we might live forgiven and free. We are so very blessed to live in America, a country that was founded for freedom because of Your truths.

But we have not been freed to live in selfishness. We have been freed to love and serve one another. May we live with love for Your glory that the world might KNOW You and Jesus Christ, whom You sent.

May we give thanks and proclaim Your love that the world might know You. (1 Chronicles 16:8) May we praise Your name that the world might know You. (Isaiah 12:5) May we live in unity that the world might know You. (John 17:23)

Be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. 

For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 6:10,12

Father, strengthen us and help us in this spiritual battle. You have given us all we need to fight evil. You have given us Your truth, Your righteousness, and Your peace. You have given us faith, salvation, and the gift of Your Word. You have given us the gift of prayer and the power of Your Spirit. May we SEEK You and Your Kingdom above all else. (Luke 12:31) Father, make us a people whose heart’s desire is to trust and obey Your commands. Give us strength and courage. And help us faithfully run to our war rooms to pray!

If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 

James 1:5

Father, please grant us wisdom as we begin to prepare to vote for those who will lead our nation. Wisdom is defined as knowing what is right and true and doing it. We could even say … wisdom is knowing Your will and obeying it.

Father, as Your children we ask that You will guide us to vote according to what we know to be Your will. Help us. Guide us. Grant us Your grace. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Help us honor Your truth about the precious value of every life born and unborn. (Acts 17:25) Help us love as You love us. (John 13:34–35) Give us humble, sincere, and trusting child-like faith. (Matthew 18:3) And make us compassionate, forgiving, and giving. (Luke 6:36–38) Fill us with wisdom by Your grace and the power of Your Spirit, in Jesus’ name.

May the nations praise You, O God. Yes, may all the nations praise You. Let the whole world sing for joy, because You govern the nations with justice and guide the people of the whole world. 

Psalm 67:3–4

May Your people praise You, O Lord. May we lift up Your name and boldly proclaim all You have done for us. Through Jesus, You have given us Your gift of saving grace. Through Your Spirit, You have given us faith. Through Your love, You give us everything we need now and eternally.

You are sovereign. You rule the nations and all things happen by Your power and for Your glory. May we sing Your praise with joy and without fear trusting that You are always with us covering us with Your perfect grace, mercy, and love. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Friends, there are so many more things we could pray for America.

I hope these prayers will encourage you to take your own needs and your concerns to the Lord in prayer.

And most importantly, I pray that God will transform us all and fill us with His love because His “love covers a multitude of sins.”

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I’m asking God to bless you today!

I prayed until my knees were raw. Day after day, week after week and months led to years and the wait never seemed to end.

I imagine you’ve experienced a time when you have had to wait on God too. Maybe your going through one of those times right now.

Your heart longs for:

• A job.
• A child.
• A restored relationship.
• A spouse.
• A home.
• A ___________.

But one of the problems with long waits is that too often we fall for the enemy’s “what if” taunts.

What if I never get pregnant?
What if I never get hired?
What if I never get married?
What if I never get out of debt?
What if..?

Rev and I have prayed and waited and waited and prayed more times than I can count. Some situations were easier than others. Some of those times we waited well and other times not so much.

Thankfully, God’s patience with us doesn’t depend on our ability to wait on Him.

When God makes you wait, He will always meet every need in His perfect timing. I believe He always has and I trust He always will.

I will admit, however; that through our experiences, I have learned a few things about waiting on God. Some from my ridiculously bad behavior . . . so, let me start with some of the things NOT to do when you have to wait on God.

4 Things to Avoid When God Makes You Wait

• Don’t Panic – I’ve let fear whisper never and tell me that God’s wait is a no. But the truth is, God is able to give us what we need today. With His help, we can embrace His powerful hard to understand peace and trust His perfect timing.
• Don’t Pout – I don’t know about you but I’ve been known to throw a good pouting pity party when I don’t get my way and it isn’t pretty! And pouting never changed a thing; it just made me miserable and it made the people around me miserable, too!
• Don’t Plot – After I’ve panicked and pouted . . . I have on occasion started to plot and strategize. Also known as, impatiently manipulating and forcing the circumstances to get what I want.
• Don’t be a Pitiful Promiser – And if none of that worked, I’d take my self-pity up a notch and add all kinds of “promises” to try to get God to end my waiting. The problem was it was all about my will . . . not His!

Unfortunately, the end result of all my panicking, pouting, plotting, and pitiful promises rarely if ever turned out well. Living outside of God’s will and timing rarely does. Stubbornly fighting for our own selfish desires is never a plan for long-term peace and joy . . . and it also makes us unpleasant to live with and ruins our witness.

Whew! There has to be a better way to live when God makes you wait.

I love this quote by Wayne Stiles in his book, Waiting on God: What to Do When God Does Nothing.

“Waiting is a very active part of living. Waiting on God, if we do it correctly, is anything but passive. Waiting works its way out in very deliberate actions, very intentionally searching the Scriptures and praying, intense moments of humility, and self-realization of our finiteness. With the waiting comes learning. I can’t think of much I’ve learned that’s positive from the times I’ve plowed ahead without waiting on God.”

Helpful Things that will Bless You When God Makes You Wait

1. Be still and know – Don’t doubt. Don’t listen to the enemy’s what-ifs and nevers, but keep trusting . . . completely surrendered to the One who is working everything for good in His children’s lives.

God says, “Be still and know that I am God. I will be praised in all the nations; I will be praised throughout the earth.”

Psalm 46:10

2. Be willing and faithful – Do what God wants you to do today. Serve Him. Help and encourage others. When you and I are busy helping others, we automatically spend less time thinking about ourselves. It can encourage us to know we’re not the only ones going through s difficult time and encourages them to our faith, hope, love, peace, and joy when we could be whiny, cranky, and pouty.

So don’t hide your light! Let it shine brightly before others so that the commendable things you do will shine as light upon them, and then they will give their praise to your Father in heaven.”

Matthew 5:!6

3. Be prepared and expect further orders – Keep growing in faith and live with hope. You and I are eternal people. This is not the end. It’s never the end. God has promised to guide us and give us the courage, strength, and patience we need each day while we endure the wait.

Happy are those who listen to me, watching at my door every day, waiting at my open doorway.

Proverbs 8:34

4. Be patiently focused on the good and lovely – This is the hardest one for me. So, I do my best to limit the amount of time I allow myself to be anxious and upset. I use something I like to call “sadness appointments.” (I set aside 15 to 30 minutes a day to cry, cry out, and generally be miserable if I need it and then I intentionally make every effort to focus on my blessings.) That is how I named my site Counting My Blessings. I was going through a very painful time and needed a specific way to hold myself accountable to focusing on the good things God was doing in my life … even in the midst of the pain.

Give “sadness appointments” a try and let me know how it goes for you.

Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

Philippians 4:8

5. Be attentive and listen for God’s voice – Read God’s Word and learn His promises. Let Him hold you close and remind you of His love for you. Let Him encourage you with hope and give you His peace.

A huge event God used to help me heal during the painful time I mentioned above, was the moment when He quietly whispered to my heart, “you have no idea how I’ve protected you.” I was flattened. What I thought was the worst God had used to protect me from what He knew really was the worst.

He promises that He will never leave, that He will hold us and give us everything we need each day.

I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you.

I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.

Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and He will give you everything you need.

John 14:16, Isaiah 41:10, and Luke 12:31

6. Be a Prayer Warrior – P.R.A.Y = Praise. Repent. Ask. And Yield!

Praise and thank God for who He is and all He does. Repent of your panic, pouting, plotting, and pitiful promises. Ask Him to graciously meet this need as He has done so often in the past. And then Yield . . . remember He loves you and it’s His desire to work all things for your good and His glory.  Pray and surrender your circumstances to Him in faith.

Like Jesus, you can pray…

“Father, Not my will, but Yours be done.” Amen.

And tell Him you trust His plans for you.

I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

Jeremiah 29:11

I’ll admit it’s not easy. No, I’ll admit . . . it’s really hard.

But it’s best. It’s God’s best. And I want God’s best, don’t you?

Because His best for us includes teaching us that we can lean into Him in faith, trusting His perfect will and promises. And sometimes that means making us wait.

And finally, I love this quote by Charles Spurgeon:

If the Lord Jehovah makes us wait, let us do so with our whole hearts; for blessed are all they that wait for Him. He is worth waiting for. The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes. The Lord’s people have always been a waiting people.

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I’m asking God to bless you today!

I’ve been challenged on social media lately to defend my view of the idealogy that science is based on facts and faith is based on feelings.

The truth is . . . the Bible is a book of facts that have withstood the test of time.

1. Archeological finds support the historical details of the Bible.
2. Historians confirm what the Bible wrote about Jesus.
3. The Bible tells scientific truths only discovered years later.
4. Jesus fulfilled over 300 Old Testament Prophecies.
5. The disciples went from fear-filled flee-ers at Jesus arrest to unwavering proclaimers of faith – many of whom died for the message of the resurrected Christ. (Why would they die for a lie?)

I also believe the truth of the Bible because…

The Bible was written:

• over a 1500 year span (from 1400 B.C to A.D. 100)
• over 40 generations
• over 40 authors from many walks of life (i.e. – kings, peasants, philosophers, fishermen, poets, statesmen, scholars)
• in different places (i.e. – wilderness, dungeon, palaces)
• at different times (i.e. – war, peace)
• in different moods (i.e. – heights of joy, depths of despair)
• on three continents (Asia, Africa, and Europe)
• in three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek)

And yet, it contains one message … one truth from Genesis through Revelation.

“For this is how God loved the world: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent His Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through Him.

John 3:16–17

Today, I’m going to God and I’m asking Him to work in our hearts and minds that we might be SEEKERS of the Truth.

Jesus’ truth that is able to set us free.

Simple Prayers for Seekers of the Truth

Jesus said to the people who believed in Him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 8:31–32

Father, Please give me unshakable faith . . . faith that will help me carefully and consistently follow Jesus’ commands to love. I want my life to testify to the truth that I love You completely. I want to love others the way You want me to love them—the way Jesus demonstrated.

Jesus is TRUTH! He is the source of truth and the standard for truth. He freed us from satan’s lies once for all time. By Your grace and with Your help, I will trust and obey.

Lead me by Your truth and teach me, for You are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in You.

Psalm 25:5

Lord, the world is full of messages that contradict Your Word. The enemy uses so-called “scholars” to stir up doubt and division. Messages that make us slaves to sin and leave us heartbroken and hopeless.

Make me a SEEKER of the TRUTH. I want the hope, courage, and strength of Your apostles. I want to follow where You lead me, secure in Your saving grace and blessed with Your peace. I want to trust and faithfully obey Your commands. Please lead me. Teach me. Help me.

So I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

Luke 11:9—10

Lord, I am asking You to increase my faith. Too often, I can relate to the father who said to You, “I believe. Help me overcome my unbelief.” (Mark 9:24) This life can be hard. It wears me out sometimes. So, I ask that You will help me overcome doubt and give me the assurance that every word You said is true!

Make me a life-long SEEKER. You promised, “Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and He will give you everything you need.” (Luke 12:31) Keep me in Your Word and prayer that I might seek You and love you with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength.

And help me to be persistent and bold in prayer, turning to You for wisdom, strength, peace, understanding, love, and everything I need. For Your grace is sufficient for my every need. (2 Corinthians 12:9)

For all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!” And through Christ, our “Amen” (which means “Yes”) ascends to God for His glory.

2 Corinthians 1:20

Thank you, Father. You promised a Savior Messiah and sent Jesus. You gave details about Him to the Prophets of old and fulfilled them all in His birth, life, death, and resurrection. He is our “Amen” for all eternity.

Jesus said, “Anyone who has seen me, has seen the Father.” (John 14:9) John also wrote, “In the beginning, the Word already existed. The Word was with God and the Word was God.” (John 1:1)

Your Spirit inspired John to write words that would help us know that Jesus was at creation (John 1:4) and at redemption’s sacrifice on the cross (John 19:30). That He is risen from the dead (John 20:26–27) and that He will return again. (John 14:1–3)

Please help me faithfully study Your Word as every page points to Your loving grace . . . every page points to Jesus the “Yes” and Amen.”

“The Way, the Truth, and the Life.” (John 14:6)

The very essence of Your words is truth; all your just regulations will stand forever.

Psalm 119:160

Lord God, You are perfect absolute TRUTH! And by Your grace, You want me to know and trust You.

When the enemy tempts and taunts me . . . lead me to the truth. When the world lies . . . lead me to the truth. When I’m overwhelmed . . . lead me to the truth. When my heart is broken . . . lead me to the truth. When I’m my body is ill or my finances depleted . . . lead me to the truth. When the society around me is in chaos and confusion . . . lead me to the truth.

Help me focus on Jesus’ words, “I was born and came into the world to testify to the truth. All who love the truth recognize that what I say is true.” John 18:37

I can trust You today, tomorrow, forever and always. Remain in me by the power of Your Spirit, that I might be a faithful SEEKER of the TRUTH. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

Something for Seekers of the Truth to Think About

Friend, I believe you and I are blessed to live at a time when science has revealed much about the world in which we live. However, we must be aware that scientists are constantly changing their minds . . . giving us new “facts” that alter the “truth.”

One quick example is the data telling us that non-fat foods were healthier than eating foods in their natural fatty state. Today, those processed foods are considered far less healthy than those that were discouraged just a few years ago. The only explanation that makes sense is that the “truth” of science is constantly “growing and changing.”

You and I need truth we can count on…

God’s unchanging TRUTH. Truth that is true at all times and in all places, no matter what the circumstances . . . it is lasting and reliable.

I will leave you with one last word of promise and truth. May you be blessed and encouraged. May you and I be a SEEKERS of the TRUTH!

God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that He would never change His mind. So God has given both His promise and His oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to Him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls.

Hebrews 6:17–19

Jesus the Way, Truth, and Life is our refuge. He is the hope that is the trustworthy anchor for our souls.

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When I was a little girl, a look of disappointment or disapproval was the only thing my parents or teachers needed to do to change my attitude and behavior.

Yep, I am a firstborn people-pleaser!

Even as a teen and young adult, I carefully evaluated my words and actions and did what I could to avoid any and all choices that had potentially negative consequences.

Looking back, I think most of my friends thought I was boring.

I guess I was.

For the most part, it worked for me.

Except for the fact that fear makes a lousy motivator and it’s impossible to live free when we’re bound by fear.

My story would be easier to tell if I could say that it was my desire to honor and glorify God by obeying His commands and following His will that inspired me. But…

The enemy is a great deceiver. He loves to find anything he can to get God’s children to doubt their Father’s love, care, and provision.

For me, it all started with my heart’s desire.

The Bible says,

Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 34:7

I’m a pastor’s wife, teacher, student of the Bible, and I’ve always believed in Jesus as my Savior . . . doesn’t that equal “delighting” in the Lord?

Why wasn’t God giving me the desire of my heart?

Maybe you can relate.

You’ve prayed and waited for:

• a spouse
• a child
• healing
• a job
• a home
• friends
• etc.

And like me, maybe it’s been a year, two, five . . . or longer, and your heart is crying as the wait continues.

That’s when the enemy approached me through the words of a friend.

“You’re not fun anymore.”
“God’s not going to…”
“You need to…”

Words I desperately wanted to hear … so, like Eve, I grabbed hold of that fruit and took a big ol’ bite!

But unlike Eve, I didn’t pay the consequences right away.

I got what I wanted. My prayers were answered and life seemed perfect!

I even convinced myself that my actions were all part of God’s plan for me and for my family.

But then the perfect crashed and burned.

I’m not going to share the details of our story with you, they’re not really important. What is important is the way God used it all to work a miracle in my life and teach me the truth about His forgiveness and love. He offered me the grace I needed to live free!

The Vision that Changed it All.

God allowed me to see myself standing at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the center of the Garden. I heard Satan’s hissed words, “Did God really say?” And I believed his lie that God’s “no” was not out of love but because He was holding out on me.

My inner “good girl” flattened. There I was with a half-eaten piece of fruit in my hand, humbled, broken, hurting, and in need of forgiveness. I’d always known I was a sinner but I guess in reality I’d never thought of myself as being that bad.

Suddenly I realized what a poor miserable unworthy sinner I was and all I could say was…

“Father, please forgive me!”

And the Lord, so rich in love, grace, and mercy, led me with apple in hand to the foot of the cross.

If we confess our sins, He will forgive our sins, because we can trust God to do what is right. He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done.

1 John 1:9

Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

Luke 7:48

But with You there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve You.

Psalm 130:4

I have tears in my eyes as I type this. I’m so overwhelmed by God’s undeserved grace offered in and through Jesus.

My inner “good girl” was full of self-righteousness but in a moment I became a humbly forgiven “redeemed girl” … surrendered and able to live free.

Free of the past failures and free of fear disappointment and disapproval in the future.

God’s grace really is enough.

He said to me, “My grace is enough for you. When you are weak, my power is made perfect in you.” So I am very happy to brag about my weaknesses. Then Christ’s power can live in me. For this reason I am happy when I have weaknesses, insults, hard times, sufferings, and all kinds of troubles for Christ. Because when I am weak, then I am truly strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9–10 (NCV)

Friend, whatever past regrets or problems you’re dealing with today . . . God’s grace is enough. It’s enough to forgive you, enough to give you courage and strength, and enough to give you freedom as you do your best to live for His glory.

Satan will still tempt us. He will still lie and do whatever he can to deafeat us…

The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy.

John 10:10a

His message has been the same since the Garden, but there’s Good News…

My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.

John 10:10b

We have the Good News that God’s promises are forever and always greater than the enemy’s lies.

“For this is how God loved the world: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent His Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through Him.

John 3:16–17

Jesus has defeated that lying cheating enemy!

So, everyone…

For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

Romans 3:23

Can be forgiven.

Then He [Jesus] opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And He said, “Yes, it was written long ago that the Messiah would suffer and die and rise from the dead on the third day. It was also written that this message would be proclaimed in the authority of His name to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem: ‘There is forgiveness of sins for all who repent.'”

Luke 24:45–47

I love the following quote…

“To win the war against fear, we must know the true God as He is revealed in the Bible. He works to give us lasting peace. He receives joy, not from condemning us but in rescuing us from the devil. Yes, the Lord will bring conviction to our hearts concerning sin, but it is so He can deliver us from sin’s power and consequences. In its place, the Lord works to establish healing, forgiveness, and peace.” ~ Francis Frangipane

How to Reject the “Good Girl” Lie and Live Free

1. Know that satan is always at work tempting you to doubt God’s love and saving grace. He will lie to you to steal the truth, kill your faith, and destroy your relationship with the Lord.
2. Accept the truth that you have taken a bite of the fruit satan offered but God is faithfully inviting you to carry it to the foot of the cross. He longs to forgive and give you everything you need to live for His glory.
3. Live confident that you are forgiven and free to live no longer a slave to satan’s lies of guilt from a broken past but released to use your new life for God’s glory without fear of the future.

Although the enemy is relentless he is defeated. Jesus won the victory and by His grace you and I can reject his lies and live … forgiven and free.

So, from one surrendered and redeemed “good girl” (or “good boy”) to another! Stop today and celebrate God’s grace, remember His immeasurable love, and live FREE!

So if the Son makes you free, you will be truly free.

And

We have freedom now because Christ made us free. So stand strong. Do not change and go back into the slavery of the law.

John 8:36, Galatians 5:1 (NCV)

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