Conversational Prayer-Sonnets and Scriptures

May 8 ~

... and Jesus seeing their faith said ... Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee ... If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness ... do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward ... make every opposing thought a prisoner and have it obey Christ ... "If you stay in Me, and I in you, you bear much fruit" ... The Spirit ... brings a harvest of love, joy, peace ... Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty ...
Matt.9:2 (KJV); 1 Jn.1:9 (KJV); Heb.10:35 (NAS); 2Cor.10:5 (Beck); Jn.15:5 (Beck); Gal.5:22 (Wey); 2Cor.3:17 (KJV)

Be of Good Cheer - 2

I should accept this fact? My thoughts are snares
if they dwell on Self's failings, cares, despairs?

Yes, child. If thy Life I have now become,
the first thing from which thou should always run
is thine own joyless thoughts! Look unto Me!
Eschew their cunning logics. They'd trap thee!
(More: not to look to Me is disobedience!
Let that reminder put in thee some sense!)
I'm here both to be served, child, and to serve.
There's no one good, nor doth My grace deserve.
Yet I give it if asked! Dare thou believe
enough to ask for grace?
Child, I don't leave,
forsake, abandon ... I deliver thee!
Confess thine unbelief -- and come to Me!

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You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus ... Looking unto Jesus ... "I will never fail you nor forsake you." Hence we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid; what can man do to me" ... See to it that no one fail to obtain the grace of God ... And now, children, live in Him ... Be happy in the Lord always! I'll say it again: Be happy! ... I can do everything through Him who gives me the strength ...
2Tim.2:1 (RSV); Heb.12:2 (KJV); 13:5,6; 12:15 (RSV); 1 Jn.2:28 (Beck); Phil.4:4,13 (Beck).

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