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“Who are these people all dressed in white? And where have they come from?” –Revelation 7:13 Today we thank God for saving and sanctifying the saints on earth and in heaven. We especially thank Him for taking our family members, relatives, and friends to be with Him in heaven. We look forward to becoming holy and joining Jesus and the family in heaven. We cannot do this by our own power but we can let it be done to us (see Lk 1:38). The Father and the Son have sent the Holy Spirit to make us holy. All we have...
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“You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You.” Isaiah 26:3 When our minds are focused on the love of God, we experience indescribable tranquility and peace of mind. When you trust God during every day, and through every problem, you will be able to enjoy His peace. By focusing on Jesus Christ and the peace and prosperity that He gives, you are set free from worry because you know that God is in control of your life – therefore on person or circumstance can disturb your tranquility. His love enfolds you and...
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“Blindness has come upon part of Israel until the full number of Gentiles enter in, and then all Israel will be saved.” –Romans 11:25-26 St. John Chrysostom taught: “God attached so much importance to [man’s] salvation that He did not spare His own Son for the sake of man. Nor does He ever cease to work, trying every possible means, until He has raised man up to Himself and made him sit at His right hand” (Catechism, 358). The Lord uses every means to call us to conversion. For example, by the Jews’ “transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles”...
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“I speak the truth in Christ.” –Romans 9:1 St. Paul described his sufferings as follows: “…labors and imprisonments, with far worse beatings and frequent brushes with death. Five times at the hands of the Jews I received forty lashes less one; three times I was beaten with rods; I was stoned once, shipwrecked three times; I passed a day and a night on the sea. I traveled continually, endangered by floods, robbers, my own people” (2 Cor 11:23-26). Paul suffered greatly, and much of this was due to his own people’s hatred and persecution of him. Nevertheless, Paul had a...
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“For I am certain that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor powers, neither height nor depth nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God that comes to us in Christ Jesus, our Lord.” –Romans 8:38-39 Some of you are in prison. You’ve been separated from your loved ones. Some of you are divorced or separated from spouses. You too have been separated from your loved one. Some of you have been separated from a loved one because of their death. It’s an awful, unceasing...
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