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#Colossians3:12 “Clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” • Dear Heavenly Father, help us to keep our eyes focused on You and You alone, not worrying about this and that. Help us to be truly like our Father in Heaven - slow to anger, quick to love. Fill our hearts with compassion, kindness and gentleness, and pour out Your patience upon us in abundance so that we can show the same patience to others. Dear Jesus, please also scan our hearts and minds and reveal to us anything that is displeasing to You. Help us to come to You with a repentant and humble heart each and every day. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen! - - - - - - #colossians #epistle #paulsletters #stpaul #apostlepaul #colossians312 #bibleverse #dailybible #godsword #kindess #patience #humility #compassion #gentleness #clotheyourselfincompassion #wordofgod #bibletruth #jesus #amen (at Manchester, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEWOvTrHdKS/?igshid=1v3kwzi4ke9sl

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This morning I have lingered long over these magnificent and heartbreaking words. Paul is in custody in Rome. So far as we know, he was not released. His last letter comes to an end like this. Consider and be astounded! He is deserted. He is an old man. A loyal servant. In a foreign city, far from home. Surrounded by enemies. In danger of death. Why? Answer: So he could write this precious sentence for our souls: “But the Lord stood by me!” Oh, how I love those words! When you are deserted by close friends, do you cry out against God? Is your God really the people in your life? Or do you take courage in this magnificent truth: “I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20)? Do you strengthen your heart with this inexorable oath: “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5)? Then let us say, “The Lord stood by me!” Question: What was threatened in 2 Timothy 4:18? Answer: that Paul might not attain the Lord’s heavenly kingdom! “The Lord will . . . bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom.” Question: How was Paul’s attaining the heavenly kingdom threatened? Answer: “Evil work.” “The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom.” Question: How could an evil work threaten Paul’s attaining the heavenly kingdom? Answer: by tempting him to forsake his allegiance to Christ through disobedience. Question: Was this temptation the “lion’s mouth” from which he was rescued? Answer: Yes. “Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith” (1 Peter 5:8–9). Question: So who gets the glory that Paul did not yield to this temptation but endured to the end in faith and obedience? Answer: “To him [the Lord] belong glory and dominion forever and ever” (1 Peter 4:11). Question: Why? Wasn’t it Paul who stood firm? Answer: “The Lord stood by me and strengthened me!” From “When Everyone Deserts You” copied & shared via #solidjoys from #desiringgod #godsplan #godsword #godspromises #restingodspromises #neverleavenorforsake #wordifgod #paulsletters #godsgotthis #ifgodbeforuswhocanbeagainstus #restinginhim #instarunners #dadlife #training

“Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭3:8‬ ‭ESV‬‬ #itsalljesus #christalone #countitallaslost #wordofgod #paulsletters #instarunners #fitness #tri #besalty