Coffee ☕️ And Conversation A Ray Of Hope

The Pain Christ Bore For You

To find the Light of Christ, you must fully understand He personally bore actual pain for you when He suffered and died on the cross for you.

We can explain what He did. We can explain how He took all of your life to the cross.

However, you must go beyond words of explanation.

You must pray daily to see at least a glimpse of Christ's pain suffered for you on the cross.

Until you see and in a vicarious way experience what Christ suffered for you on the cross, you will never fully know, never be fully enlightened, and never fully see Him.

Christ sacrificed all of His love for you.

He took all of your mistakes, burdens, hopes, dreams, sufferings, pains, worries, grief, beliefs, whims, sins, thoughts, words, and deeds to the cross.

Christ sacrificed Himself so you could have a chance at immortality in Heaven with Him. In prayer, let Him show you His suffering.

In prayer, let Him show you how He was tortured, maimed, beaten, flogged, and humiliated in ways beyond human understanding.

All this was done for you.

On the cross, Christ took you and your life into His heart.

On the cross, Christ took your life into His life.

On the cross, Christ took you into Himself and suffered and died for you.

On the cross, your life became His life.

Christ did all this for one reason…because He loves you.

Let yourself imagine.

Let yourself be willing to believe. Let yourself be touched by the world's most beautiful truth…He loves you.

Coffee ☕️ And Conversation A Ray Of Hope

Hope And Finding Strength

Psalms 31:24---Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

An incredibly important question we can ask about finding strength is, "How can I be strong when I am weak?"

The answer is that you find strength when you are weak, not from yourself, but from God.

You find strength when you are weak because you truly believe God is working within you, and because you trust Him to give you the necessary power to get the job done…even when you are at your weakest.

Our strength when we are weak comes from what we call to hope in God.

When you trust or hope in God, you get something extra, like an extra amount of spiritual fuel, out of every circumstance.

Too often people look for strength, hope, and help from outside themselves.

Too often people consider strength, hope, and help from outside themselves to be the hope and help that will save them from trouble.

However, we find God and find His strength, hope, and help within us rather than from outside of us.

Coffee ☕️ And Conversation A Ray Of Hope

Praying When You Are In Pain

Revelation 21:4---And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

We have a wonderful God.

We have a loving God who loves each of us in a personal and special way.

When we pray we must try to remember how Christ is within us and does not want us to feel pain or sorrow.

Our God has a wonderful world waiting for us.

His words give us a vision of a new world where our current burdens will be no more.

When we pray, we can pour out our pain to Christ who knows all about our pain and suffering.

Christ Jesus, our blessed Savior, comes to us in our darkest hour and shows us a new order of life in the future.

Pain has a way of making everything seem meaningless.

However, when we pray to Jesus and ask Him for hope, then He comes to us and gives us the assurance our pain is only temporary.

He instills in us, knowledge and wisdom showing us the night will soon fade away because of the dawn that is almost here.

Coffee ☕️ And Conversation A Ray Of Hope

Seeing Blessings

Psalm 107:1-3---O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever. Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.

We can count our blessings in a grand and glorious mental exercise. However, counting our blessings in our hearts and minds is often not enough. We become a blessing to God as we actually see His blessings poured out in our life. Just thinking about how God blesses us with the freedom to worship is not enough. We become a blessing to God when we actually do worship. Just thinking about praying and how we can come close to God in prayer is not enough. We become a blessing to God when we actually do pray and come close to Him in prayer. Blessings are poured out in our life not just to be counted. God pours blessings out in our life so we can see His blessings, absorb them, and take them in. When we see His blessings, when we absorb His blessings, and when we take His blessings in, we can fully become His work and witness. Living in His blessings gives us His power to be humble, contrite, and forgiving.

Coffee ☕️ And Conversation A Ray Of Hope

God Knows About Your Suffering

Your pain, isolation and loneliness are a burden God carries with you.

You are not alone in this life.

A person is walking with you and beside you every moment you breathe the breath of life.

That person is our most wonderful Savior and Friend, Jesus Christ.

You will never walk this path of life by yourself.

You will never be by yourself.

You are not ignored as you gasp for air in life's darkness and pain.

Your muscles and joints may cry out in pain yet your God is always pushing you to live up life as much as possible.

Your heart may break at the suffering you endure, but God holds your heart in His hands.

God treasures your heart.

No life on earth is ever lived without God knowing about it.

No microbe lives without the knowledge of God.

We cannot understand all of this mystery.

We cannot fathom all that God is and does in our lives and in the lives of others.

What we can fathom and what we can understand is the presence of God in our hearts.

We can understand most clearly that each of us has the power to accept or reject the love that is God.

Each of us, every second we are alive does make the decision to accept or reject the love that is God.

A Message From The Veil Of The Temple

Coffee ☕️ And Conversation A Ray Of Hope

Using Your Mind To Feel Better

Quite often, your thoughts determine your emotions or how you feel.

More importantly, you determine how you feel by how you think or what you think about.

You often feel the way you think as you process the events of your life.

Your thoughts and emotions are the results of this processing of events.

Conversely, how you think and how you feel can determine how you process the events of your life.

How you think about something that can easily determine how you feel.

"It's raining" can make you feel good or bad depending upon whether you see the rain as a positive or negative event.

Thought is the ancestor of every life experience.

The positive or negative aspect of any experience is grounded in what we think about the experience.

A wonderful experience for one person could easily be a terrible experience for someone else based upon what each person thinks about the event.

The thought we have toward an event that will determine our experience.

What is most important in this matter is we can control what and how we think.

We can choose our thinking processes.

We can mold and shape our viewpoints, opinions, and beliefs.

In many ways, the healthiness of our mental life is dependent upon the healthiness of our viewpoints, opinions, and beliefs.

Coffee ☕️ And Conversation A Ray Of Hope

Find The Power For Healing

A cure is physical, while healing is spiritual.

The closer you get to the spiritual cause of your illness, your adversity, your pain, or your suffering, the more powerful your healing and the more likely your cure.

In every illness, adversity, pain, and suffering there is a spiritual component.

The spiritual component of your illness, adversity, pain, or suffering may appear because of your great adversary who seeks to destroy you.

When you come to grips with the fact you have a great adversary and you can oppose this adversary with love, healing followed by a cure becomes more and more possible.

With enough love, first healing then a cure becomes more and more a probability.