#Love the Lord

[faithful-christian-walk]

James 5:15 NIV

And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.

[thelordismylightandmysalvation]

God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation.  Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

(Graphic via Verse of the Day - James 1:12 (NLT)

[lightfromthelighthouse]

Good Morning!☀

And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, Deuteronomy 10:12

Successful living hinges on having the right priorities. Knowing what to do and when to do it is vital to progressing in an orderly manner. Understanding what should gets top priority sets the tone for your day, week, month, year, and life.

Many of us are bombarded with demands coming at us from all directions. We are hard pressed to know where to begin. God gives us the answer to this question in Moses's final words to the Israelites before they entered the promised land. He made it clear that their top priority was to put God first in both their personal life and their national life. This was not simple obedience but rather a love relationship with all the rights and responsibilities of the same. In turn God promised to care for them and bring them into the land he promised to them.

Our first love is to be God. Our first priority is to obey his word. First things first!

[dress-this-way]

Loving The Lord With Your Whole Soul - StoneGable

[dmckinney79]

And their eyes were opened, and they knew him. Luke 24:31

[emmargrimes]

Believing in Jesus will change your life. It has changed mine so beautifully since I started going back to church 4.21.24. God gives me the strength and patience to handle everything and everyone and every situation that comes my way. Love & praise the Lord everywhere you go!! 🫶🏻🩵🌻🪷🐟🌸🩶

[starqueen87]

Happy Black Love Day! 🖤❤️🧡💚💛

Founded in 1993 by Ayo Handy Kendi, Black Love Day is observed as a 24-hour display of Black love, demonstrated through love towards the Creator, for self, for the family, within the Black community and for the Black race.

Black Love Day has 5 tenets:

1. Love thy Lord (creator)

2. Love thy self

3. Love thy family

4. Love thy community

5. Love thy race

Why Black Love Day is important

1. It spreads love

2. It opposes racism

3. It stands against violence

Happy Black Love Day!! Go and spread the love!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[malialauren]

Find Peace

-john 16:33

-2 thessalonians 3:16

-isaiah 26:3

-philippians 4:6-7

-1 peter 5:7

[paintedcrows]

Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night, 70s Classics)

[chickenflavoreddildo]

Gettin' on my knees for the lord 🙏😍

[glitter-stained]

Random goon: Hey boss, were you the one to pick that name as an alias? And why this one?

Red Hood : I used to have another name, before... A long time ago. But that person is dead now. I get to choose for myself now, they can't take that from me. I won't let them.

Goon: Huh.

***

Random Goon: Say boss, why do you never take off your shirt in front of us?

Red Hood: Well uh, I actually have that really fucked scar on my chest and I'm not comfortable with...

Random Goon: Don't worry boss, we get it, you don't have to explain yourself to us.

***

Red Hood, high on some toxin: God, I wish my family...

Random Goon (on boss-sitting duty): why not try reaching out to them?

Red Hood: They would never accept me as I am now... They wouldn't agree with my so-called "life choices". Besides, they don't miss me, they miss the person they think I used to be... I wasn't even a man when I last saw them.

Random Goon: Damn boss, that sucks.

***

And then the goons throw the Red Hood a party on trans visibility day and Jason is so confused he straight up cries.

[ideas-ideasideasideas]

Batman gives each of his Robins a different code to use when they’re in trouble and need immediate extraction. He promises that when they call, he’ll drop everything just to get to them, come hell or high water.

Jason, during his time with the League, shares his code with Damian, to be used “only in the direst of circumstances, when you have exhausted all other options.” He doesn’t know if Bruce will answer, given how fractured their relationship was before he died, but it is better than nothing. Every tool counts when they live such dangerous lives.

Damian uses it exactly once, and Bruce, who still feels the loss of his son like a yawning chasm in his chest, responds to it even though he knows it can’t be Jason because Jason’s dead. What he finds, instead of Jason, is a boy in League garbs, drenched in blood from the tips of his midnight-black hair to his too-small feet, with a face that Bruce sees himself and Talia in, requesting asylum from a grandfather who wishes to possess his body. Bruce doesn’t question how this boy who is so clearly his son knew the code. Talia al Ghul is resourceful and places family above all; the code is not beyond her abilities to discover, and she is not above using Bruce’s desperate love for his dead son to ensure that hers does not meet the same fate.

Bruce takes Damian in, because of course he does, and since Jason is dead he allows Damian to keep using the code. After all, it’s not like Jason is alive to use it, right? If someone uses the code, there’s no one it could be but Damian, right?

The next time the code is used, Bruce traces the location to Gotham even though Damian was supposed to be in Bludhaven visiting Dick. But whatever happened that resulted in Damian being in Gotham can wait, because he has already failed one son and he will not fail another, his son is in trouble and he needs to get to him, he needs to—

What he finds, instead of Damian, is a boy (just eighteen, too young, but also too old, but also he will always be a boy to him) in League garbs, drenched in blood from the tips of his midnight-black hair to his too-large feet (when had he gotten so big), wearing the face of his dead son.

(Who, maybe, just maybe, may no longer be so dead.)

[2asuccess]

A Home for the Lonely

We were not meant to live in isolation. God said in the beginning, “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18). The psalmist also said, “God places the lonely in families” (Psalm 68:6). God places the lonely in families because He values relationships for people. Relationships are important – in the home and outside of it. That’s one reason you should make church a priority in your…

[lightfromthelighthouse]

Good Morning!☀️

And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, Deut. 10:12

Successful living hinges on having the right priorities. Understanding what should get top priority sets the tone for your day, week, month, year, and life.

Many of us are bombarded with demands coming at us from all directions. We are hard pressed to know where to begin. God gave Moses the answer to this question in Moses's final words to the Israelites before they entered the promised land.

He made it clear that their top priority was to put God first in both their personal and national life. This was not simple obedience but rather a love relationship with all the rights and responsibilities of the same. In turn, God promised to care for them and bring them into the land he promised to them.

Our first love is to be God. Our first priority is to obey his word. First things first!

[a-godman]

Pursue Christ as Love and Peace to be Constituted with Him as Love and Live in Peace

As those who love the Lord and want to be a proper vessel for Him to fill and use, we need to pursue Christ as love, for love is the very nature of God’s essence and we can receive His dispensing to become the same as He is as love, and we need to pursue Christ as peace, allowing the God of peace to rule and reign in us as peace. Amen! Paul’s word to Timothy in 2 Tim. 2:22 is a charge to us…

[dmckinney79]

Lamentations 3:22 - "The LORD'S loving-kindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail."