Abba, Father, Adopted

Rom 8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Adopted.

Who needs to be adopted? Orphans. In fact unless you are an orphan you cannot be adopted, not really. Sometimes we talk about being adopted by others when in truth we have a family but others treat us like family, right? Being adopted is being taken in by someone other than your birth parents for whatever reason.

Adoption is usually a choice. I'm not sure anyone can force adoption- outside of personal pressure. I've never heard of anyone being forced to adopt a child. Adoption is a choice.

The Spirit of adoption by God, solidifies Him as our Heavenly Father.

The Jewish people loved to lay claim to Abraham being their Father and through Him, they have a special relationship with God. Jesus,  God's Son, the Messiah came and they rejected Him. Jesus then revealed that those who are not God's chosen are still capable of being His. Grafted into the Tree.

Rom_11:24  For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

The unclean become clean in God, through Jesus Christ.

Act_10:28  And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

Adopted by God, receiving the SPIRIT of ADOPTION, this is truth! Oh to receive the SPIRIT of adoption! The Holy Spirit alone can give to us what we need in Jesus Christ our Lord. Our Savior had the Holy Spirit- Joh 3:34  For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

God gave the Savior, Jesus Christ the Spirit without measure!  Jesus was capable of overcoming the weakness of the flesh, the infirmity of the flesh He was given, by the Spirit! The Spirit that we can have in us as well! The Spirit of adoption!

Please, Abba, Father, please give us the Spirit without measure, not because we deserve it, we do not and NEVER will, but because we choose You, we love You! Help us to love You! Help us to believe You. Please, Father God in Heaven, please save us!

All through Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, our Savior!

Now and forever!

Amen!

We live in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation

We live in the midst of crooked and perverse nation. Yet the majority of people would lay claim to their normalcy. The majority of people would be quick to say that things and people are mostly good- that there are only a few bad apples in the bunch.  The truth is the majority of the people are wrong. We want to believe that people are mostly good, we do. We want this to be the truth for not only our household, our families, our neighbors, our towns, our cities, our states, our countries and our continents.

When we say it's not truth, when we label most people in our world as crooked and perverse we put a target on ourselves. That target is one that will have people asking us who do we think we are to say such things. That target will have us questioning ourselves because we don't want to be among those who think they are in the few, the elect, because we hear a small voice in our conscience saying if we even think we might be among the few, the elect then that's conceit, that's arrogance, that's pride and those things knock you right out of being in the few and elect, right?  It's almost as if we are afraid to believe the truth, we're afraid to call ourselves God's, in truth- sinful and forgiven, truth seekers and repentant, sighing and crying for all the abominations going on around us. We can't be blind to the abominations.  We can't be blind to the truth.  We can't placate our sinning selves by telling ourselves that our sins and the sins of others mean nothing. We cannot believe in God's word and believe that the majority of people are God's. And while we can NEVER judge another person's eternal life, we have to be able to recognize sin. Only in recognizing sin do we know what to seek repentance and forgiveness for. If we refuse to recognize sin for what it is we are in danger of allowing ourselves to be blind to truth, not wanting to see.  We are accountable for every bit of truth we reject.

As we talked about yesterday- the majority of people don't want to believe they have a Creator who demands obedience and is love.  They've perverted love to mean accepting every sin as good, when love in truth is accepting every sinner as good while rejecting sin.  Every sinner has the potential to be forgiven. But nowadays we want to call sin good and it rarely matters what sin it is. We don't want to point out the covetousness, the selfishness, the anger, the lusts surrounding us as sinful. We label them with other names and call them good. It's good to want to have things others have, it spurs you to make your life productive so you can have what others have. It's good to be selfish, you are the only one who will look out for yourself, you need to desire more for yourself than others, no one else is going to. It's good to be angry, you've every right to be discontent over things and reveal that discontent in anger. It's good to have lusts, they give spice to life, they're a part of us, they're natural as breathing.   We tell ourselves all kinds of lies to bury the truth. We live in a world of self-delusion and we do so all the while patting ourselves on the back for our superior intellect and beliefs.  We are too smart to be duped by silly Christianity. We are good people all on our own without any label.  These are the things we believe and hold fast to. We lie and believe our lies to be truth because when we come face to face with the real truth it's appalling to our sinful selves that wish to be saved in our sins.  We don't want to believe sin even exists, it's just easier. We don't want to believe we are accountable to anyone other than ourselves.  We are so wrapped up in our self being the center of all things, that we can't allow ourselves to believe there is a God over us. We refuse to believe there is a standard set by God that we are called to live up to. We refuse to believe a God would let horror in all its many aspects exist at all. 

The truth is- God's love is our only real hope.

Without God and His salvation plan, there is no eternal hope but rather existing briefly, enduring pain in all its forms and enjoying pleasures that are a best temporary.  Life is a struggle- it is enduring. To truly believe that this life is all there is, is an awful way to exist. To believe that we aren't accountable daily for our sins, is to believe a lie.  We are allowed to choose our delusions, Satan has millions of them and is constantly inventing new delusions to suit us individually. The truth isn't welcome to the one who embraces lies.

Do we live in a wicked and perverse nation- that means truthfully the majority of people in that nation are wicked and perverse?

Php 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 

Php 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

We live in a wicked and perverse nation.

We live in a world ruled by the wicked and perverse.

And we MUST hold forth the word of life. We must shine as lights in the world. And not become a part of the world and all its lies and deceptions. The world will call us hateful and liars, the world will believe we are the perverse and wicked. And there will be many so called Christians that are perverse and wicked, and this will give some a reason to consider all Christians perverse and wicked.  We must hold fast to our Savior no matter what. We must hold fast to the hope found in Him and Him alone. 

Please Father in heaven, please keep us in YOU! We need Your truth and only Your truth! Help us not to be deceived! Let the Holy Spirit live in us teaching us, praying for us, sustaining us! We would be Yours!

All through our Savior, our Lord, Jesus Christ!

Amen.

From love we obey love!

Why should the unrepentant wicked be spared? Just because they were born?  Is being born the sole right to inherit eternal life? Did we have any hand in our own birth? Did we create ourselves? Because we didn't *ask* to be born should this give us the consolation prize of eternal life? Sort of like- how horrible that we were born into this awful world that we didn't ask to be born into so give us an eternal life of goodness, and no awfulness, to make up for our not asking for being born. Is that how it is supposed to work? Everyone should be given eternal life simply because they were born, they were created by someone else and not by choice, is this right?

What audacity!

Our lives are NOT scripted! We ALL, every single one of us have had to make choices between right and wrong. (Every single one of us mentally capable of making choices between right and wrong, there are those who aren't mentally capable- those who are too young, those who are mentally incapable through genetics/accidents etc.)   As we grew up from little children we began to understand the difference between right and wrong, yes? As we grew up we began to reason within ourselves the reason why things were considered right and wrong, yes? We were taught consequences of wrong decisions, sometimes because we were punished by those trying to teach us right and wrong, and sometimes because our wrong choice had results that were very unfavorable and not at all what we desired. Before we are capable of knowing right and wrong and capable of making that choice we are NOT accountable for our actions, how could we be? How can a person be accountable for something they are not capable of understanding?   However, once a person does comprehend the difference between right and wrong and chooses wrong over right, they are accountable for those decisions.

The first human sin was a choice, a decision made to disobey, to not believe, to do something other than what they were told to do.

Should God have destroyed His creation of humanity because they disobeyed? 

There was a test of obedience and the humans failed that test.

The humans were AIDED in their decision though, they were INFLUENCED, they were TEMPTED. God did not induce them towards disobedience.

Would humans have disobeyed if they'd been left to their own devices? We'll never know will we.

Perhaps because we were influenced- tempted by that outside influence, we were allowed a second opportunity to obey. We weren't outright destroyed, something none of us can fully fathom just because we do and have existed for over 6000 years.  But for a moment think about being destroyed. Some have said that God should have destroyed us completely, end of story, end of humanity.  But they can only have that thought because they exist. Kind of like, easy to say but you weren't there and you aren't God so you couldn't possibly make that call.

Any good parent, and yes, I said GOOD parent because there are a whole slew of bad ones- any good parent comprehends wanting their child to live, to grow up into a contented, cared for, caring, loving adult who has a great balance in life. A good parent wants the BEST for their child and that doesn't necessarily mean they want their child to have riches untold, or fame, or anything overly materialistic. A good parent wants their child to be loving and to love, able to handle life and all its ups and downs without succumbing to anything detrimental to their wellbeing. A good parent does not want to destroy their child when they commit their first act of knowledgeable disobedience. A good parent does not want to destroy their child- ever because they have the hope their child will one day have that life of wellbeing. And this is US as children grown to adulthood full of past disobediences ourselves, not wanting our offspring to suffer. Yet, we as parents also know that even the best, most well-grounded parents have born children who go on to became horrific adults, it happens.  And yes, there has been the awful thought from these parents of wishing their child had never been born so they couldn't have committed the horrors, and they've wished their own children death so the horror can end- it has happened, but before they wished those things they wished most of all that their child could repent of their horrors and change, turn away from committing any more horrific acts. They wanted their child to live but not in the horror induced by the child.  This is all comprehension on a HUMAN level- human thoughts, human understanding.

God the Father is not human. Jesus was NOT human when the world was created. The Holy Spirit is not human.  These Gods are deities! And yes, one of these three Gods did choose to take on human flesh but this choice was made long before the God we know as our Savior did take on human flesh. Our Savior, NOT in human flesh, was there at the beginning and was part of creating us and all things. We cannot forget we are CREATED BEINGS!

We answer to our Creators!

Our Creators decided not to destroy us but rather give us another choice - another chance to obey or disobey.  And because the ultimate objective, the original objective of creation- was one of pure love this was STILL the plan.  Our Creators did not want a world filled with ENDLESS disobedience, that truly would be horrific. Our Creators want a world filled with ENDLESS love possible only through obedience, only through the comprehension that we are CREATED BEINGS - created for the purpose of love! Created for the comprehension of the pure love found ONLY in our CREATORS. Some call obedience slavery but it's not! A child obeying a parents command is not a slave to their parent. Obeying is not slavery! Obedience towards one who only ever has our wellbeing first and foremost in their minds, that stems from love, that is a true love, a comprehension that from love we obey love.

Psa 147:6  The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

The wicked humans will be ultimately destroyed and their wickedness is their choice, they ALONE have chosen their path of wickedness. They have made the choice not to truly love, not to obey love. They have made the decision not to choose love sometime in their life and holdfast to that choice so that they KNOW what they are giving up - love- and freely give up love.  NONE of the wicked would be happy in eternal life, in eternal love, their discontent would be a part of them forever. It is out of LOVE that the wicked will be completely and utterly destroyed so that they are non-existent, they never would have been content in the obedience of love. 

Please, Father God in heaven, please we would we would obey love! We would obey YOU! All through Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ is it possible for us to obey love, because He is love, and He obeyed love and wants us to obey love! By His grace may we live through the faith given to us by Him, through the Holy Spirit right here and right now! Lord we believe! Help Thou our unbelief!

All in the name of Jesus Christ, now and forever our Lord and Savior!

Amen!

My constant prayer

The following is my constant prayer-

Psa 51:9  Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Psa 51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Psa 51:11  Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Psa 51:12  Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Beautiful words-

Mic 7:18  Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

Mic 7:19  He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Oh to have all my sins cast into the depths of the sea!

Eze 11:19  And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

Eze 11:20  That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Eze 11:21  But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

I need the stony heart out of my flesh, I need a heart of flesh!

Act 15:9  And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

Please, purify my heart by faith!

Luk 11:13  If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

Joh 14:26  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Rom 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Eph 4:30  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Please Father, please I need the Holy Spirit! I ask You for the Holy Spirit, the Comforter! Please I need the Holy Spirit of God dwelling in me, I need the Spirit of Christ! I long to be Christ's! Please Lord, please.

We all long for the Holy Spirit, to be found in You! We need our heart made new! We need our sins cast far from us, we need our hearts made new! 

You and You alone have the power to give us the Holy Spirit, please bless us! We are so lost without You.

By Faith we will trust in YOU and only YOU above all others!

Please.

In the name of Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord!

Now and forever.

AMEN!

Evil wasn't promised forever

Do you sigh and cry for the abominations done in our world?

There are so many abominations that leave me in tears. I can't fathom the horrors we live with. I can't understand HOW people can be so incredibly cruel to others- to people, to animals. I just can't understand and yet it happens all the time. I know I have said cruel things to people before and I've regretted them. Sometimes I might say something hurtful and the moment it's out of my mouth I'm appalled, other times I don't feel the regret until much later.  Words can be cruel we all know this.  People can be so incredibly cruel. We don't like to think about that cruelty, we want it to be far from us. On any local news we can hear of cruelty, it's never far from us. 

Eze 9:4  And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

We are supposed to sigh and cry for all the abominations that are done. We aren't supposed to harden our hearts to them and pretend they don't exist. We aren't supposed to grow more and more callous, we aren't supposed to find humor in the horrors and yet so many do.

My soul hurts when I think of the horrors- the abominations.

We have to know that there will be an end to the abominations.

All but those who are crying and sighing for the abominations, which will have the mark upon them, will be destroyed.  Those who have love and empathy, those who comprehend that this world is not supposed to have abominations, that the abominations were never supposed to exist, these will not be destroyed.

Evil was never promised forever.

Eze 9:1  He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

Eze 9:2  And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.

Eze 9:3  And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;

Eze 9:4  And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

Eze 9:5  And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

Eze 9:6  Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

Eze 9:7  And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

Eze 9:8  And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

Eze 9:9  Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

Eze 9:10  And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

Eze 9:11  And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.

Dear Heavenly Father, please help us to sigh and cry to know that all abominations will one day end, that all who love you are safe in You and Your love!

Please Father, may we be saved through our Savior and His love, His sacrifice.

Please.

In the name of Jesus Christ our Savior, our Lord now and forever.

Amen.

Is God your heavenly Father, or is the devil your father?

When we do not abide in truth- we do not have a heavenly Father, but rather a devil for a father.

They thought God was their heavenly Father. They believed the same heavenly Father of Abraham was their heavenly ancestor. They laid claim to Jesus' Father, as being their Father and yet they did NOT believe in truth.

Joh 8:41  Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Joh 8:42  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

Joh 8:43  Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Joh 8:45  And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

Joh 8:46  Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

Joh 8:47  He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

They believed and they were wrong.  They believed and they rejected the truth.  They were raised to believe. Their entire lives from infancy to adulthood was spent learning of God and yet all their learning meant nothing because it was based upon the lies they wanted to believe, not truth.

The letter of the law DOES NOT SAVE ANYONE!  They lost sight of this! Even with all the animal sacrifices of their religion going on daily they lost sight of the needed sacrifice, they lost sight of the LOVE in all the rituals, the love of one for another. The love of God for them- they lost sight of this.

Jesus was revealing God the FATHER to them, He was revealing Him in person to everyone and they didn't even recognize this because to them God the Father was not about love, He was about rituals and sacrifice.  God was for people who would love- Him and others.  But this was lost sight of along the way.

Jesus wanted all to know this LOVE.

Jesus came to reveal all this LOVE.

The people claiming to know God didn't even recognize God's Son, they didn't recognize God's love.

Today people claim to know God, but how many of them wouldn't really recognize God's son, God's love? Would you, would I?

How many of us have the devil as our Father and not God even though we believe God is our Heavenly Father. 

Lusts, murder, no truth, lies, are you familiar with any of these? The men Jesus was talking to- were they murderers? Liars? Consumed by their lusts? Not in their own minds. They were not guilty of anything they followed their laws to the letter. How many of us today follow the letter of the law, and consider ourselves to be upstanding, honest, hardworking, caring, truthful people, just like they believed of themselves?  We need LOVE in all, we need CHRIST in all! 

We need HIS righteousness! We need HIS love. May we KNOW YOU HEAVENLY FATHER! You are our all in all!

May we not be deceived by our own selves. Open our eyes, our hearts all to YOU and YOUR LOVE as YOU revealed to us in Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, our LORD now and forever!!!!!!!

Please, Father, please!

Thank you!

Amen.

At the last trump- present with the Lord

2Co 4:13  We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;

2Co 4:14  Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

2Co 4:15  For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

2Co 4:16  For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

2Co 4:17  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

2Co 4:18  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2Co 5:1  For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2Co 5:2  For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

2Co 5:3  If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

2Co 5:4  For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

2Co 5:5  Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

2Co 5:6  Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

2Co 5:7  (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

2Co 5:8  We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

2Co 5:9  Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

2Co 5:10  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad

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The same writer of the above verses wrote the following too-

1Co 15:51  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

1Co 15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

At the last trump we are changed.

At the last trump those who are in death's 'sleep' awaken.

At the last trump we are raised in corruptible.

When Paul writes here in 2 Corinthians about being absent from the body to be present with the Lord He's not telling us that upon death we are present with the Lord. If that were true PLEASE explain to me WHY our Lord would raise ANYONE from the dead. Why would he bring anyone back from their spiritual presence with God? Why would we NOT want to die if it had us sooner in God's presence? The truth is- once we die the next thing we will know is the presence of the Lord.  BUT the truth also is, we won't know that until we WAKE up from death's sleep.

When you sleep you know nothing until you wake up, this is truth!

So it is true that once we are divested of our corruptible bodies upon waking up when the last trump is sounded will be absent from our current corruptible bodies as we know them and present with the Lord in the new flesh He will give to us!

And we do want more than anything to be accepted of our SAVIOR.

We walk by faith not by sight.

We walk with the hope, sight unseen, to be Christ's when He returns. Christ gave us the EARNEST of the Spirit. Through the Spirit we have hope. 

So many want to believe Satan's lies.

But Christ did NOT go to heaven when He died.  So He couldn't have been with the thief on the cross next to Him in heaven that day.  Christ was telling that thief today, he was giving him the news that day.  Just as if I were to tell you today that I will be in Virginia with you, but you know my trip to Virginia isn't planned for another year.  Nothing stops me from telling you things about the future- today.

People grasp at straws trying to get things to fit their idea of how things should be, they twist and turn things until they can believe lies easily enough and are blinded to all truth.

LOGIC of God's love tells us that upon death we do not go to heaven in any form at all, especially when we know Christ didn't even go to heaven when He died.   When we know He raised people from the dead- which would be CRUEL if they were already with God having passed through the suffering of this life.

I want to be absent from my body to be present with the Lord and I want this at His return when the last trump sounds and the dead in Christ will rise and those living will rise also to meet Him in the air! I want this so desperately and it's by HIS grace that it is possible, only by His grace through His love!

All though HIM.

In Jesus' name now and forever, AMEN!