Aug.07.03: Light For the Day -  "God's Love Opens the Door of the Heart" -- Proverbs 4:23  "Above all else, guard your Heart, for it is the wellspring of life." --------------- From the Heart of Jesus  through me to you; A Heartfelt prayer  To Help get us through! Father, You know the plight of Your sheep; the battles we fight and the Light we seek. We cry, "Abba Father, cause us to see." In Your Name, O Jesus, we long to be free! Lord forgive us of all our sins. Fill us with hope as new life begins. Release us from evil and fill us with Love. Wash us clean in Your Precious, shed Blood. From Your Heart O Jesus, through these humble hands Pour out Your Spirit To the lost in the land. Amen. -- Love Nikki ------------- - 1John 4:9,10 (NIVUS) 9 this is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. 10 this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. - Psalm 139:23,24 23 Search me, O God, and know my Heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. - Revelation 2:2-5  2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. 4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. 5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. - Romans 6:9-16 "9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over Him. 10 the death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God. 11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey Him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey - whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?"