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Why am I? What is my purpose?

Why am I here? What is life all about? What is the meaning of life? How we answer these big-picture questions is important so we can live with hope and a sense of purpose in times of uncertainty, pain, and frustration.

What is the meaning of life according to the Bible? According to the Bible, knowing God is the meaning of life because He is the “author of life” (John 17:3). The meaning of life is not based on things we see in the world “for life is more than food, and the body more than clothing” (Luke 12:23).

What does it mean to know God? Why can’t we base the meaning of life on relationships, career, or personal happiness? Understanding the answer to these questions in the Bible gives a sense of purpose and fulfillment in our lives.

https://www.openbible.info/topics/why_do_i_exist

What is the meaning to life? Why am I? What is my reason/purpose? A routine question that strikes us at moments of reflection/trial. What is “Life”?

God, as The Author of life, brings meaning to life. Everything God created was meant to show what God is like. God created a world with a purpose, by His design. The world we live in and the life of every person has a purpose and is not just the product of chance, random events, and biological selection.

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Prayer helps you develop a relationship with God

Just like your parents here on earth, your Heavenly Father wants to hear from you and talk to you. When you pray, He listens. Then He answers your prayers in the form of thoughts, spiritual feelings, scripture, or even the actions of other people.

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Prayer helps you gain an understanding of God’s loving nature

The scriptures teach, “God is love” (1 John 4:8). You can feel that love as you speak daily with Him through prayer, seeking His guidance in your life.

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Prayer provides answers

Praying and listening to the answers God gives you can help you better understand your purpose in life. God will help you understand why you are here and what you can do to return to live with Him after this life.

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Prayer helps you find direction in your life

When you privately pray to God, you can work through serious decisions in your life. God always listens and often provides the specific answers and guidance we seek. Even when He chooses not to answer immediately or in the way we might have hoped, prayer itself is a way to find peace.

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Prayer gives you strength to avoid temptation

Jesus counseled His disciples, “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation” (Matthew 26:41). Through prayer, we can overcome temptations to sin. Pray for God’s help to keep you from making wrong choices. This will give you the strength to do what is right.

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Prayer aligns your will with God’s will

The purpose of prayer is not necessarily to tell God how you want Him to do things. Rather, it’s to better understand Him and His ways, bringing yourself into alignment with His will. As C.S. Lewis is often attributed as saying, prayer “doesn’t change God. It changes me.”

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Prayer and regular fasting can help you accept God’s will

Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights before He began His ministry on the earth. As He did this, He communed with His Father in Heaven in prayer. Likewise, if you pray and fast, you can feel closer to God and better understand the things He wants you to do.

 

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Prayer can work miracles

Throughout the scriptures, we see many examples of the Lord working miracles as an answer to prayer. In Old Testament times, the prophet Daniel was thrown into a lions’ den because he refused to stop praying. When he prayed to God in the lions’ den, angels appeared and closed the mouths of the lions. Through daily prayer, you can also experience personal miracles such as healing, peace, and forgiveness for sins.

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Prayer invites the Holy Spirit into your life

As you pray daily, you invite the Holy Spirit to be with you and to comfort and direct you. The Holy Spirit can give you answers, help you feel God’s love, and bring feelings of peace and joy into your heart.

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Prayer helps you become more like Jesus

Jesus set the perfect example of prayer. If you try to follow His example through prayer, you will become more like Him and develop a better relationship with Him and Heavenly Father.

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Be blessed. Because we ARE! Amen

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 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.
Philippians 4:13-15

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 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.
Philippians 4:13-15

We stand to learn!

Have a God blessed day and week ahead, in Jesus’ MIGHTY Name, Amen 🙏🏾

Have you ever unintentionally broken the law?

The Bible teaches that unintentional sin is still sin, as James 2:10-11 states that breaking even one commandment makes one guilty of breaking the entire law. While God differentiates in the Old Testament between intentional (“high-handed”) and unintentional sins, all sin requires atonement and forgiveness through Jesus. 

Key biblical principles regarding unintentional transgression include:

  • Uniform Guilt: The Bible treats sin as a violation of God’s holy nature, regardless of intent, meaning unintentional violations still necessitate redemption.
  • The Need for Grace: Because it is impossible for humans to keep the entire law perfectly, everyone is considered to have “fallen short” and requires the mercy provided by Jesus.
  • Definition of Sin: 1 John 3:4 defines sin as the transgression of the law, and James 4:17 suggests that failing to do the good one knows to do is sin, implying accountability even when actions fall short of God’s standard, whether intentionally or not.
  • God’s Provision: While ignorance does not negate the violation of the law, the Bible provides for forgiveness of unintentional sins through Christ. 

So, regardless of form of law, they are enacted to keep everyone safe (which means living a life fully in the plethora of ones lawful actions!)

We must think “Which law?”

Biblical law is generally categorized into three types—moral, ceremonial, and civil—which together provided a comprehensive framework for the spiritual, social, and national life of ancient Israel. While the moral law is considered eternally binding, the ceremonial and civil laws were fulfilled by Jesus Christ and are not directly applicable today. 

Three Primary Categories of Biblical Law

  • Moral Law (The Ten Commandments): Represents God’s own character and moral standards, summarized in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20). It is considered absolute, universal, and binding for all people at all times.
  • Ceremonial Law: Governed Israel’s worship, religious rituals, sacrificial systems, and regulations regarding “clean” and “unclean” things. These laws pointed to the coming of Christ and were fulfilled or “abrogated” by his death and resurrection.
  • Civil/Judicial Law: Governed the daily life, social interactions, and criminal justice system of the nation of Israel. These laws contained specific punishments for violations and were specific to Israel as a theocracy. 

Other Perspectives and Structures

  • 613 Commandments: Traditionally, the Old Testament Law is divided into 248 positive (“do this”) and 365 negative (“do not do this”) commands, totaling 613, as highlighted in GotQuestions.org.
  • Purpose: The law served as a “tutor” or guardian to bring people to Christ, making their sinfulness evident and demonstrating the need for a savior.
  • Modern Application: Christians generally follow the moral law, while viewing the ceremonial and civil laws as fulfilled, though they still offer wisdom on God’s nature. 

These divisions, while not explicitly labeled as such in Scripture, are commonly used in Christian theology to distinguish the different functions of the Law. 

The Bible teaches that unintentional sin is still sin, as James 2:10-11 states that breaking even one commandment makes one guilty of breaking the entire law. While God differentiates in the Old Testament between intentional (“high-handed”) and unintentional sins, all sin requires atonement and forgiveness through Jesus. 

Key biblical principles regarding unintentional transgression include:

  • Uniform Guilt: The Bible treats sin as a violation of God’s holy nature, regardless of intent, meaning unintentional violations still necessitate redemption.
  • The Need for Grace: Because it is impossible for humans to keep the entire law perfectly, everyone is considered to have “fallen short” and requires the mercy provided by Jesus.
  • Definition of Sin: 1 John 3:4 defines sin as the transgression of the law, and James 4:17 suggests that failing to do the good one knows to do is sin, implying accountability even when actions fall short of God’s standard, whether intentionally or not.
  • God’s Provision: While ignorance does not negate the violation of the law, the Bible provides for forgiveness of unintentional sins through Christ. 

And we pray a difference in our ‘walk’ to the glory of God, Amen.

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Good Day; Have a blessed week ahead, in Jesus’ MIGHTY Name, Amen.

Hallelujah 👏

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“God will wipe away every tear” is a promise of ultimate comfort, signifying the end of suffering, death, mourning, and pain in eternity. This verse describes a future state where the old, painful order of life has passed away, offering hope for healing and divine comfort. 

Key Aspects of the Promise:

  • Total Comfort: God personally wiping away tears symbolizes intimate care, comfort, and the erasure of sorrow.
  • End of Suffering: The text explicitly promises that “there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor pain”.
  • Context: This promise appears in Revelation 21:4 as part of a vision of a new heaven and a new earth.
  • Significance: It serves as a reminder that current suffering is temporary and that, in the end, God will eliminate the causes of pain. 

This verse provides comfort for many who are enduring trials, offering the hope of a time when pain will no longer exist. 

THE VOICE OF TRUTH!

Have you ever stuck in an HOPELESS situations whereby every way was closed against you except the channel of PRAYER with TEARS? That’s when we usually CRY out with FAITH. Though people may respond but with LIMITATIONS, the LIMITLESS GOD is the only HOPE!

“Our HIGH PRIEST is not one who cannot feel SYMPATHY for our WEAKNESSES… we have a High Priest who was tempted… but did not sin. Let us have CONFIDENCE, then, and approach GOD’S THRONE, where there is grace… to help us…”

Heb. 4:15-16 (GNT)

As a mortal man, our WEAKNESSES never spare us from PAINS, SORROW and CRYING both from our sins and the world around us but we have A FRIEND INDEED in JESUS Who SYMPATHIZES with us, His POWER shows up at the PRAYERS of CONFIDENCE in Him!

The truth? God’s intervention in an issue may not STOP it outrightly but rather gives the GRACE to endure and GROW with it into one’s BEST VERSION… so, stop PRAYING with complaints but with TRUST in God!

Shalom!🙏🔥

And we pray 🙏🏾