Cristy Li

I chose you and I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last John 15:16A
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Jesus said to His Disciples: As the Father has loved Me, so I have love you. Abide in My love. If you keep My Commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. I have said these things to you so that My joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

This is My Commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants because the servant does not know what the master is doing but I have called you friends because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from My Father. You did not choose Me but I chose you and I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another. John 15:9-17

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The Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I have said to you. John 14:26  -Image: Gadel

Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me, bless His Holy name. Bless the Lord O my soul and do not forget all His benefits.

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His steadfast love toward those who fear Him and as far as the east is from the west, so far He removes our transgressions from us.

The Lord has established His throne in the heavens and His Kingdom rules over all.

Bless the Lord O you His angels, you mighty ones who do His bidding, obedient to His spoken word.  Psalm 103:122, 11-12, 19-20

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Preserve me O God, for in Thee I take refuge. I say to the Lord,
‘Thou art my Lord.’ Psalm 16:1-2A -Image Courtesy: His Mercy Lives

Lifting Up His Eyes to Heaven, Jesus Prayed Saying:

“I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their word, they they may all be one. As You Father are in Me and I am in You, may they also be in Us so that the world may belive that You have sent Me. The glory that You have given Me, I have given them, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them even as you have loved Me.

Father, I desire that those also whom You have given Me, may be with Me where I am, to see His glory which You have given Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

Righteous Father, the world does not know You but I know You and these know that You have sent Me. I made Your name known to them and I will make it known so that the love with which you have loved Me may be in them.” –John 17:20-26

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Your Word is Truth, Sanctify Them in the Truth.  John 17B-17A
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Lifting Up His Eyes to Heaven, Jesus prayed saying:

“Now I am no longer in the world but they are in the world and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them in Your name that You have given Me so that they may be one as We are one.

While I was with them, I protected them in Your name that You have given Me. I guarded them and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost so that the Scripture might be fulfilled but now I am coming to You and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy made complete in themselves.

I have given them Your Word and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking You to take them out of the world but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.

They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world. Sanctify them in truth, Your Word is truth.

As You have sent Me into the world, so I have sent them into the world and for their sake I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.” –John 17:11-19

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I will ask the Father and He will give you another Advocate
to be with you forever. John 14:16  -Image Courtesy: Mercy Lives

Rain in abundance O God, You showered abroad. You restored Your heritage when it languished. Your flock found a dwelling in it; In Your goodness O God, You provided for the needy. The Lord give the command, great is the company of those who bore the tidings.

Our God is a God of Salvation and to God, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

God will shatter the heads of His enemies, the hairy crown of those who walk in their guilty ways. Psalm 68:10-11, 20-21

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