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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.

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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.

What Is the Meaning of Life According to the Bible?

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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

Increasing your prayer life…

Only God can cast down the spirit of pride.

Only God can cast down the spirit of pride.

According to scripture and spiritual teaching, only God can truly cast down the spirit of pride, which is often viewed as a dangerous, high-ranking, or even demonic force. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble, with pride leading to destruction, arrogance, and spiritual ruin. Overcoming this requires God’s intervention, surrender, and consistent prayer. 

Key insights regarding the spirit of pride and its removal:

  • The Nature of Pride: Pride is often associated with the Leviathan spirit, a high-ranking demonic force considered the “king over all the children of pride”. It is seen as a root cause of marital, familial, and personal destruction.
  • Divine Opposition: God explicitly opposes the proud, a sentiment repeated in James 4:6 and 1 Peter 5:5.
  • The Solution (Humility): The primary, active defense against pride is to humble oneself under God’s hand, which allows Him to lift you up.
  • Key Actions for Deliverance:
    • Repentance: Acknowledging the sin of pride and asking for God’s forgiveness.
    • Prayer: Continual, active prayer is essential to guard the heart.
    • Submission: Submitting to God’s authority and trusting in His timing, rather than seeking self-glory.
    • Guarding the Heart: Actively monitoring one’s inner thoughts for arrogance or self-exaltation. 

Your role? Keep praying. Keep listening to the Holy Spirit for discernment. Guard your heart, stay humble, and let Him handle what only He has the power to tear down.

God bless you abundantly in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Think 🤔 on this! God knows you COMPLETELY!!!

NOTHING comes as a ‘surprise’ to Your Creator/your Sourcd!

“I’ll get ‘it’ right…”; “Just this time…”; “I can always ask God for forgiveness!”…

Do you like gambling? There are numerous helpline’s, resources for the disease:

For immediate, free, and confidential help with gambling addiction near you, call the National Problem Gambling Helpline at 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537), text 800GAM, or chat online at National Council on Problem Gambling, available 24/7. Localized resources in New Jersey and New York include regional Problem Gambling Resource Centers for referrals to counselors and support groups. 

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Key Resources Near You:

  • National Helpline: Call or text 1-800-GAMBLER for immediate, confidential support and local treatment referrals.
  • New York/Regional Support: Contact the HOPEline at 1-877-8-HOPENY (467369) or text HOPENY for 24/7 support.
  • New Jersey Treatment: Localized help is available through organizations like CarePlus NJ and the Discovery Institute in Marlboro.
  • Support Groups:
    • Gamblers Anonymous (GA): 12-step meetings to help you stop gambling.
    • Gam-Anon: Support for family members and loved ones.
    • SMART Recovery: Offers tools to help you change your behavior and manage urges. 

Treatment & Support Options:

  • Counseling: Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is highly effective for changing unhealthy habits.
  • Self-Exclusion: You can register to be barred from casinos, sports betting, and online gambling sites.
  • Financial Counseling: Specialized services to help manage debt caused by gambling. 

Yeah, yeah, yeah…. seriously, as stated there are helpline’s galore! But, your eternity! Gambling with that?!!!

To assure where your eternity is spent, Christianity teaches placing faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, believing He died for sins and rose again. This personal choice, often involving confession and repentance, offers security in spending eternity in Heaven. It is a personal,, not inherited, decision.

Key aspects of securing your eternal destiny:

The Decision: Choosing to follow Jesus is portrayed as the defining moment that determines your afterlife destination.
The Promise: The Bible offers assurance that those who believe in Jesus have passed from death to life and will not face condemnation.
The Action: This involves confessing with your mouth that “Jesus is Lord” and believing in your heart that God raised Him from the dead.

Relationship over Works: While good works may follow, salvation is presented as a free gift of grace, not earned through human effort.
Ultimately, the message is that everyone has a choice between spending eternity with God in Heaven or, by rejecting Him, being separated from Him!

According to religious traditions, particularly emphasized in Psalm 139, God possesses complete omniscience, knowing every detail of a person’s life, including thoughts, actions, secrets, and future, even before they happen. This divine knowledge is not distant but intimate, stemming from a creator’s understanding, often described as loving and comforting. 

Key Aspects of Divine Knowledge:

  • Total Awareness: God knows a person’s actions, such as sitting and rising, as well as their spoken words before they are uttered.
  • Internal Depths: God understands the motives, intentions, and deep struggles of the heart, even those hidden from others.
  • Complete Life Span: God knows a person from before birth, including their entire life story.
  • Comfort in Knowledge: This concept is presented as comforting because it means being fully known and still deeply loved, allowing for transparency and trust in God’s guidance.
  • Omniscience: The understanding that God’s knowledge is not limited to data but includes the “why” behind actions and thoughts. 

Know this for always!

MY blessings rain down from Heaven! ALL things work together for my good, Hallelujah.

I decree in the Name of Jesus in gratitude to my Father in Heaven, Heavenly blessings will Swamp and lift me to the glory of God ALL-MIGHTY!!!

And we pray:

LORD, Heavenly Father; I praise and glorify Your Essence. You cover me, in Jesus’ MIGHTY Name I am filled and spill over. Father, cause me to bless my family in Christ always and all ways in Jesus’ MIGHTY Name, Amen.

As we embark on this day…

As we go forth in Jesus’ Name…

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And 👏 we pray ceaselessly, in Jesus’ Name, Amen

To God be ALL the glory, Amen.