🕊️ A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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The New Man

🕊️ This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. 🕊️

John 13:34-35, Ephesians 4:17-24

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

All that I am and all that I possess, they are blessings from You O Lord!

Thank You!

Bless me this day O Lord, may I walk this day in the newness of life, as I did many years ago, the day I decided to drop what I was doing and follow You with my whole heart, mind, and soul!

🕊️ I remember the call:

I was 21 years old, living with my brother Mike, a quadriplegic, as his caregiver.  I remember he had first been read the Word, about thirty days before, by the man who drove the handicap bus to and from college, Tim Sewell.

I waited and watched daily, as he would come home, Tim always dropped off the others on the bus and brought Mike home last, so he could share the Word with him and disciple him.

I witnessed them reading quietly together in the corner of our living room or just outside our front door in a small courtyard. Their voices were just above a whisper.

I only heard little bits of their reading but I saw them praying and my brother’s attentive behavior as they were together.

After the first few days my brother first met with Tim and he drove away, I asked Mike if he wanted to smoke a joint with me, something we did often together.

My brother told me how he accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior, and he wasn’t going to do that any more. He share that with me but I was not convinced.

Then after about thirty days of smoking my joints alone, i felt I was losing my smoking and partying brother.

Not long after, witnessing them sharing the Word together in our courtyard, as I was sitting at my coffee table, with my glass of JD (Jack Daniels) and preparing to roll a joint to smoke, I just felt that call to hear more, so I got up and went out into the courtyard, asking them if I could join them.

”Sure”, was the response. I can’t remember exactly, if it was then and there I changed my life too, but it was then I realized what they had was real and I wanted the same. So I too decided to accept Christ as my Lord and Savior.

Mike and I became closer that ever before, we began to share God’s Word most of our waking hours together, we were so excited!

Thank You Lord for my brother and Tim for bringing the Good News to our home.

I lift up All my children before You today Lord, my grandchildren, and my great grandchildren, may Your Holy Spirit call to them and may they come to know You and accept You as their Lord and Savior, as I have.

May they receive the gifts You have for them and may they become children of the light and walk in Faith, believing in Your Word, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

Praise Yahweh!