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Encouraging scriptures for the day

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hello my friends,.

here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

Kosonen

Jesus warned the Christians for their deficiency in love.

Revelation 2:2 “I know your deeds, and your labor and endurance, and that you cannot tolerate bad men, and that you put to the test those who say they are apostles, but they are not, and you found them to be liars. 3 You are also showing endurance, and you have persevered for the sake of my name and have not grown weary. 4 Nevertheless, I hold this against you, that you have left the love you had at first. 5 “‘Therefore remember from where you have fallen and repent…”

Is it not amazing that Christians in Ephesus had served God and ministered to Jesus faithfully, but that was not enough? Their deficiency was that they had not enough love in themselves.

If we want to feel more love in ourselves, we should pray for help from God in Jesus’ name. That will do miracles. And feeling love is sweet. It’s worth the effort.

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Encouraging scriptures for the day

by Kosonen in

jw
friends

hello my friends,.

here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

Kosonen

What will make life happy for people who will live forever on earth? Some are worried if life will become boring? Some think life will stay interesting if they can study God’s creation and learn about it more and more.

But according to the Bible what makes a happy life?

It is love. People need to have the feeling of love in their body. People don’t necessarily need to be more loved. Instead people need to have in themselves love toward others. Love for God, love for Jesus, love for people around them, love for God’s creation.

1 Corinthians 8:1 ….We know we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up…. 3 But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him.

Hebrews 8:11 “‘And they will no longer teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying: “Know Jehovah!” For they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them.

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Encouraging scriptures for the day

by Kosonen in

jw
friends

hello my friends,.

here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

Kosonen

Let’s draw our attention to Jesus’ teaching that is a polar opposite to what people usually would prefer:

Luke 6:26 “Woe whenever all men speak well of you, for this is what their forefathers did to the false prophets. 27 “But I say to you who are listening: Continue to love your enemies, to do good to those hating you, 28 to bless those cursing you, to pray for those who are insulting you. 29 To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also; and from him who takes away your outer garment, do not withhold the inner garment either. 30 Give to everyone asking you, and from the one taking your things away, do not ask them back.

Think about religious organizations where thousands and millions of their followers praise their leaders and what Jesus said in verse 26 about it.

Think also about how far we should stretch ourselves to be able to do what Jesus taught in verses 27 to 30.

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Encouraging scriptures for the day

by Kosonen in

jw
friends

hello my friends,.

here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

Kosonen

Thank you for 2 thumps up you gave me for the scriptures I posted last time. 🥰

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Why are the 2 newly appointed Governing Body Members from Bethel, when there are anointed ones all over the world? they could have used.

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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books & brochures.

enjoy life forever!—an interactive bible course.

Kosonen

I would like to see Japanese and Korean brothers in the Governing Body. Some Asians and some French and African.

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Encouraging scriptures for the day

by Kosonen in

jw
friends

hello my friends,.

here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

Kosonen

Sorry to hear your frustration, PioneerSchmioneer, I read your posts and thought a bit if I could write you a reply, but I don't feel any force to do that. The task would be too burdensome. So I suggest that we concentrate on nice and timely beneficial scriptures. I could just post such scriptures without comments so that there would be less to complain about. I actually did that for a while, but then some complained that the scriptures has no comments, so I started to add some comments to them.

When I posted just scriptures I hoped that while people read them God's holy spirit would help them to see the value in them. That would be better than if I had to try to explain something about them. But I think some people experienced that too, because not everyone complained that I just posted a few new scriptures everyday. I tried to find mobile numbers to JW brothers and sisters and JW relatives and I found about 100 and I just posted them scriptures the WT literature seemingly have ignored for years or even decades. But that did not go well either. I got many angry demands that I stop posting them scriptures and they often misunderstood me in my view on Jesus. They deemed that I appreciated Jesus excessively much, when in fact it is themselves who don't appreciate Jesus enough, mostly because the organization and the Governing Body steals the spot light from Jesus Christ our Savior, and also because they are excessively jealous for Jehovah God. Quite similar to the jews who opposed Jesus because they said they were disciples of Moses and accused Jesus to be a blasphemer of God.

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Encouraging scriptures for the day

by Kosonen in

jw
friends

hello my friends,.

here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

Kosonen

Nice and comforting to know why God sent his unique Son Jesus Christ to earth. It was because God loved mankind. The scripture is again very clear on that. So we can be confident that Jehovah God loves us. And He has granted his Son Jesus to be the Savior of the world.

1 John 4:7 Beloved ones, let us continue loving one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love has not come to know God, because God is love. 9 By this the love of God was revealed in our case, that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world so that we might gain life through him. 10 The love is in this respect, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins. 11 Beloved ones, if this is how God loved us, then we are also under obligation to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we continue loving one another, God remains in us and his love is made perfect in us. 13 By this we know that we are remaining in union with him and he in union with us, because he has given his spirit to us. 14 In addition, we ourselves have seen and are bearing witness that the Father has sent his Son as savior of the world.

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Encouraging scriptures for the day

by Kosonen in

jw
friends

hello my friends,.

here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

Kosonen

As a congregation member of the Watchtower society my understanding of John 3:16 was blurred. It reads in the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC):

“For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.”

Some doctrines of the WT organization claim that God’s love for mankind was not his primary motivation to save mankind. But we should trust John 3:16.

Also Jesus’ love for mankind is not enough taught within the WT organization. But apostle Paul taught it:

Galatians 2:20 Indeed, the life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and handed himself over for me.

Jesus himself assures about his love for those who believe him. John 15:9 ASV:

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.”

Apostle Paul again refers to Jesus Christ’s love for those who believe him.

Ephesians 5:25 Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB): “Husbands, love your wives even as the Christ also loved the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} and gave himself for her,”

Some interesting facts about the origin of the Greek word ekklesia that is mostly translated as church.

https://biblehub.com/greek/1577.htm

Strong's Concordance

ekklésia: an assembly, a (religious) congregation

Original Word: ἐκκλησία, ας, ἡ

Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine

Transliteration: ekklésia

Phonetic Spelling: (ek-klay-see'-ah)

Definition: an assembly, a (religious) congregation

Usage: an assembly, congregation, church; the Church, the whole body of Christian believers.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 1577: ἐκκλησία

ἐκκλησία, ἐκκλεσιας, ἡ (from ἔκκλητος called out or forth, and this from ἐκκαλέω); properly, a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place; an assembly; so used

1. among the Greeks from Thucydides (cf. Herodotus 3, 142) down, an assembly of the people convened at the public place of council for the purpose of deliberating: Acts 19:39.

2. in the Sept. often equivalent to קָהָל, the assembly of the Israelites, Judges 21:8; 1 Chronicles 29:1, etc., especially when gathered for sacred purposes, Deuteronomy 31:30 (Deuteronomy 32:1); Joshua 8:35 (Joshua 9:8), etc.; in the N. T. thus in Acts 7:38; Hebrews 2:12.

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Encouraging scriptures for the day

by Kosonen in

jw
friends

hello my friends,.

here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

Kosonen

Maybe there are some brothers or sisters who appreciate the scriptures I post on this thread? But if there are not, which I am unable to know, I could well stop posting. But I still hope someone is encouraged by the scriptures I post.

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Encouraging scriptures for the day

by Kosonen in

jw
friends

hello my friends,.

here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

Kosonen

PioneerSchmioneer:

"why am I always able to give you answers saturated with references, Bible verses, and information--but all you can do is give me is cut and paste information from a religion you don't agree with, whose religious leaders disfellowed you."

The simple answer might be, because it is the easiest and quickest way for me to respond. I think that could be described as pragmatism.

Because there is a lot I don't like in the WT library, but there are also things that are useful for me.