Praying with Understanding

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Prayer, I believe is a conversation between us and God, either we are giving thanks, making requests or even asking questions. Yet it is not uncommon to feel like a prayer could be such a complicated and maybe even a delicate conversation to have, after all, it's God we are talking to here. There is no way that wouldn't be somehow daunting! I remember learning to pray as a child during family devotions and how nervous I'd get, mumbling through my words, hardly able to get anything coherent out. My auntie, bless her, would jump in the middle of one of my many long pauses to rescue me and carry on with the prayer but once we were done, my uncle would almost chide her for not giving me a chance to learn and develop my confidence. I didn't blame her; I found those long pauses very uncomfortable too! So, I usually understand when people tell me they do not know how to pray and would prefer others to pray for them or they'll just avoid it altogether and some even ask if
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The Ultimate Holiness is Love

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"The ultimate holiness is love".

I heard someone say this and it hit me right in my spirit and I just had to drop it here to inspire someone.

Love covers a multitude of sin and it is sin that make us unholy. I believe love is the antidote to sin so we must love one another to be able to present ourselves Holy to God.

The God we serve is Holy, there is none as holy as He.
In love, He made us in His image.
In love, He forgives us.
In love, He shows us His mercies.
Because of His love for us, He sent His only Son, Jesus to die as an atonement for our sins.
Jesus Christ loved us so much that He sent the Holy Spirit to comfort us and continue to lead us in His truth when He ascended to heaven. He did that just so we may come to know the truth of how loved we all are. 
We must never let go of that truth.

We are so loved, and we must refuse to believe anything less or else.

We are holy because we live in love, the same love that brought Christ to us.
A lot may be going on around us at the moment, to make us question if God truly loves us or if He wants us to really love one another? It is all over the scriptures, the message of love and reminders that it is the greatest thing of all, therefore, we must be assured that the Father's love that will see us through.

The two questions asked in Psalm 24:3  about the person that may ascend the mountain of the Lord and stand in His holy place were answered this way: 
  • The one with clean hands and a pure heart 

  • The one who has not lifted his soul to what is false and has not made oaths deceitfully.

My emphasis here will be on the 'pure heart', a heart that knows nothing but love for God and for everyone. EVERYONE.
If we can put a tick✅ against the pure heart, I assure you we are on our way towards working out the remaining conditions on that list because love will help us to keep our hands clean and make us honourable.

Without holiness no man can see God; We will love one another so that we may see God.

Love always

Ige.x 

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