DEVOTION

for March 11th *A.D. 2026.

Written and calendared for this exact date

 by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

 

 Saint Valentine’s Day 

 by John-Michael Riley

 

The King was clear, “No marriage here!

… Cause single men, they have no fear.”

                

They have no  worry, no debts to pay,                                                                       

They love to fight,  most every day.

 

No married partner by his side,

No wife, no kids, no gorgeous bride.

 

But God’s dear Word hath  set the  tone:

“It’s Not so good, that man’s alone.”

 

It isn’t right! Don’t come between us!

“Marry Then!”  said Valentinus.

 

By the scores he helped them wed.

In Holy bliss they always said.

 

Valentinus was arrested,

By his loved one he was tested.

 

She was blind and could not hear.

His prayer to God, God did hold dear.

 

Smitten by her love and  charms;

He Saved the Jailer from all harms.

 

The Jailer heard the Savior’s call;

Then HE saved him,  all-in-all.

 

When on his way to martyrdom,

He sent his sweet, “Be mine.”

 

He wrote his name and stated thus:           

“I am forever thine.”

 Your  Valentine.
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Does it matter whether the Traditional  abbreviation  

B.C./A.D. or the New Age  B.C.E./C.E. is used to describe Calendar years?

Yes, it does. Significantly!

 

B.C./A.D. are the traditional abbreviations that stand for “Before Christ” and “Anno Domani” [Year of our Lord] A.D. Does NOT mean “After Death” as many erroneously believe.

 

B.C.E./C.E is a New Age invention that stands for “Before Common Era” and “Common Era”. [An effort to eliminate the person of Jesus Christ, writing Him out of History,  by no mentioning of HIM, at all].
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The Lord Jesus Christ  [Anointed Messiah and King] was supernaturally Fathered by the Holy Spirit and  born of a virgin girl named  Mary 2026 years ago in Bethlehem.   He was crucified, and after three days, GOD  raised Him from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave. He is GOD’S Incarnate and Everlasting WORD [The WORD made flesh.]  The Church is the Body of Christ, She is His espoused Bride, for whom HE will come again.

 

The singular event of His birth divides and establishes all Human History as having been either Before or After His Birth.     

 

John 1:1: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the  WORD was GOD. [IS FOR EVER GOD] Jesus Christ is GOD’s [incarnate]     WORD, In-The-Flesh.      

 

I and my Father are One.   John 10:30
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WHO IS THE GOD OF THE BIBLE
 

1. ​

Exodus 3:13-15 “And Moses said…

Isaiah 9:6  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:
and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor,
The mighty God,
The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace.

Psalm 139:6 Such knowledge is…

 

1. ​

Psalm 145:1-3
I will…for ever and for ever…

His greatness is unsearchable.

Romans 11:33
O the depth…

How unsearchable…
…His ways past finding out

 

1.    His Name is INCORRUPTABLE!

              (two issues: holy and eternal)

Psalm 72:17
His Name shall endure…

…all nations shall call Him…

 

Psalm 99:3
Let them praise Thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.

 

Psalm 111:9
…holy and reverend is His name
Psalm 135:13
Thy Name endureth…
…and Thy memorial…

 

Psalm 145:21
…let all flesh bless His holy name for ever and ever

 

1.     His name is IMMUTABLE!

Malachi 3:6
I am the LORD, I change not.

 

Hebrews 6:18
By two immutable things…
…to lay hold upon hope…

 

1.      His name is INCOMPARABLE!

Deuteronomy 4:35
…the LORD He is God; there is none else…

 

Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

 

1.       His Name is INDESCRIBABLE!
   El, Eloah, Elyon, Elohim, Adon, Adonai, - Yah, Yahveh, are used 10,952 times in the Bible!
    

Genesis 17:1
And when Abram was ninety and nine years old,  (99) the Lord appeared to him, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
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The Indestructible Book   [GOD’s HOLY WORDS]

 

By Dr. David Brown

 

The 1769 Edition of The King James Bible is Divinely Inspired, Inerrant and Infallible, Providentially Preserved and Protected Words of GOD. They are God-Breathed and Eternal WORDS of Almighty GOD. The GOD who calls Himself “I AM” is Omni-Lingual, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Immutable,     All-Wise, Omnipresent, Eternally Infinitely and Supremely Holy. He is the One-and-Only Triune Three-in-One GOD.

“I and my Father are one”.  John 10:30

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1 John 5:7  Is the fundamental scriptural  doctrine and essential tenet of the Trinity. [The Triune, [Three-in-One] GOD in-Three Persons   (This verse has been repeatedly omitted or Changed in an attempt to diminish the authority and the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ or it has been Removed entirely from all Critical Text translations by apostates with the untenable goal of supporting False Doctrines that give rise to all manner of Cults, False Doctrines, Teachings and Heresies by false Prophets.

Therefore, The incarnate WORD of GOD, [Jesus *Christ (*The Anointed MESSIAH and KING) and His Father are ONE.]          

 

7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, [Jesus Christ] and the Holy Ghost: and
these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, [Holy Ghost] and the water [Life of the Father], and the blood; [The Sacrificial Blood of Jesus Christ]: and these three agree in one. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son [Jesus Christ (The Anointed Messiah and King)].

 

GOD is “I AM” and Jesus Christ is The WORD made Flesh, GOD’s WORD is infinite and endures FOREVER, from Eternity Past through never-ending Eternity Future.
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Why Cults, False Teachers and Heretics have continued to try to take 
1 John 5:7   out of the Bible.     

 

By Dr. Phil Stringer

 

1 John 5:7 Is The Great Trinitarian Proof Text of The Bible. (The immutable Doctrine of the Trinity.)

 

Daniel Webster [Writer of the Webster’s Dictionary] was once asked. “Does it not bother you to believe in the Trinity since you cannot explain it?

 

His answer was,  “What would bother me would be to have a God so small that I could fully explain Him.”
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Why The Traditional  Greek Text AKA The Received Text [Latin: Textus Receptus] TR? is Inspired, Inerrant and Immutable.

 

By Dr. David Sorenson

 

The above link presents Translational Evidence that the Traditional Text is  Inerrant, Infallible and the Inspired [Word-by-Word, GOD-Breathed by Prophets and Apostles moved by the Holy Ghost] Greek Text.  Length: (33:56 minutes)

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The Counterfeit Critical Greek Text of Westcott and Hort

By Dr. David Sorenson

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The preaching, teaching and writings of Charles Spurgeon
are  saturated with God’s Word, the Bible.  His  publications continue to benefit readers with sermons and sound biblical teaching from one whose life was poured out like a drink offering to The Lord Jesus Christ,  to whom Charlie [Charles Spurgeon] was a fully devoted follower. His love of Jesus Christ manifested itself in an singular love for and a never-ceasing effort toward winning souls of the unsaved multitudes.  From one who became known as The Prince of Preachers he remained humble always proclaiming  Christ, and Him crucified.

 

His ministry continues to thrive today at London’s   Metropolitan Tabernacle. 
(Brief History)   a church begun in 1650 with a building erected by members of Charles Spurgeon’s 1861 congregation .

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The following definitive and historical Bridge to Babylon (URL below) documents the explosive creation  of over 100 Critical Text Translations of the Bible into English.

Bridge to Babylon The 1881 Textual Criticism Controversy   (169 minutes.)

(1) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC5rUbs_-E&t=9s   

All attempts to change the Bible by adding to, or taking away from the 1769 edition of the King James Version [KJV] of the Bible can never  prevail because GOD Himself preserves and protects His inspired [God Breathed, Spoken] , inerrant, [without error] immutable [incapability of changing] and infallible [incapable of making mistakes or being wrong] God Breathed [Spoken] WORDS are Eternally Protected and Preserved  from all counterfeit or variant readings, heresy, blasphemy, confusion , error, addition to, or subtraction from is given to GOD’s WORDS by GOD HIMSELF.

 

The Traditional Greek Text was first used  in the FIRST Church at Antioch and was later called  The Received Text [vis. Latin: Textus Receptus TR].  Over 6 Billion King James Bibles account for more sales world-wide than any other version or edition of the Holy Bible. More than all other Versions or Editions Combined.

A brief summary of the life of Charles Spurgeon
1834-1892   by John Piper   (58 minutes)

Spurgeon sermons are saturated with The Word of God, and they continue to bless thousands from his 63 volume set of sermons known as the
 Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit            

(CLICK THIS LINK TO FIND THE SPURGEON SERMON FROM THE SAME REFERENCED SCRIPTURE AS THE SERMON YOU MAY NOW BE PREPARING)  

 

The complete 63 volume set of  sermons by Charles Spurgeon may be SEARCHED here.
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  Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s Conversion  In 1850,  in his own words.
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All  Versions or Editions of Bibles that are NOT  translated from the Traditional  Text [AKA the Received Text (Latin:Textus Receptus) TR or The Byzantine Text]  contain variant  readings that diminish the person and works of Jesus Christ. All  Glory belongs to The Almighty GOD.  He has preserved and protected  HIS WORD as immutable [incapability of any mutation or any change] in the 1769 Edition of the 1611 King James Version  [KJV] Bible.

This version is also known as the Authorized Version  [AV].   ALL GLORY,  LOVE, HONOR AND RESPECT  is due and must be given to the Omnipotent [Almighty], Omniscient [All-knowing], Omnipresent and Infinite GOD.

Over 5,321 hand written Greek Manuscripts known as the Majority Text support  the Traditional Text AKA The [Latin: Textus Receptus] with 99% of the manuscripts in agreement.

 

Additionally, Translational Evidence from Jerome’s Latin Vulgate establish earlier evidence of the  authenticity of The Traditional Text and goes back to the first Christian Church at Antioch. 
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SERMONS AND SACRED PRAISES:
The Metropolitan Tabernacle  (Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892)

SERMON: Securing God’s Attention    Romans 10:9   with Peter Masters

Here is Paul magnificently explaining first, how not to gain the ear of God, and then how to do so - by understanding how He saves the soul and changes the life; also how to approach Him. This is the way to find and know Him.

PRAISE:  I Shall Not Be Moved  By Jerry Lee, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash  

This Train  Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis

 

…be [be being] filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody [music] in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19

SERMON: From The Metropolitan Tabernacle  (Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892)

Securing God’s Attention   Romans 10:9  with Peter Masters

 

Here is Paul magnificently explaining first, how not to gain the ear of God, and then how to do so - by understanding how He saves the soul and changes the life; also how to approach Him. This is the way to find and know Him.

PRAISE:  I Shall Not Be Moved  By Jerry Lee, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash 

I Shall Not Be Moved (Rockabilly) By the Million Dollar Quartet …be [be being] filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody [music] in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19

 

Who was (is) Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

URL:   https://www.gotquestions.org/Charles-Haddon-Spurgeon.html

 

 

DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION written on and calendared for the exact date of March 11th  by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

 

PRAYER 12. March 11th  Part 2 of 10: ON HOLY GROUND.

ANECDOTE 223: March 11th  GOD’S PITY.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: March 11th  -AND ALL THIS ASSEMBLY SHALL KNOW THAT THE LORD SAVETH NOT [DOESN’T SAVE] WITH SWORD AND SPEAR: FOR THE BATTLE IS THE LORD’S, AND HE WILL GIVE YOU INTO OUR HANDS [DEFEAT YOU]-1 Samuel 17:47

(The Battle Belongs to the Lord by John Michael Talbot…sing-along, won’t you?)

MORNING: March 11th   -SIN . . . EXCEEDING SINFUL.- Romans 7:13

EVENING: March 11th  Thou shalt be called, “SOUGHT OUT”- Isaiah 62:12

A SINNER'S PRAYER: March 11th 
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PRAYER 12. March 11th  Part 2 of 10   ON HOLY GROUND

With lowliest reverence, with truest love, we worship [You] God in Christ Jesus, uniting therein with all the redeemed host [holy armies] above, with angels and principalities and powers. We cannot cast [throw] crowns at His feet, for we have none as yet, but if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, if there be about us anything of grace and good repute, we ascribe it all [give all credit and glory] to God. We cannot veil our faces with our wings, for we have none, but we veil them with something better than angelic wings,

the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ.

With these we cover our faces, with these we cover our feet, and with these we fly up to God in holiest fellowship of God.

Glory, and honor, and power, and dominion be unto Him that sitteth [sits] upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and forever. [In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ] Amen.

(Attached in e-mail: PRAYER 12.doc)

Holy Ground by Southern Gospel (Sing-along, won’t you?)

URL:

https://youtu.be/HisFMCEbHzY

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ANECDOTE 223: March 11th  GOD’S PITY.

 

The old father had a very long range of eye sight; [distance vision] and tho the prodigal [rebel son] could not see him in the distance, he could see the prodigal. And the father’s first thought when he saw him was this

“my poor son, my poor boy ! that ever he should have brought himself into such a state as this!”

He looked through his telescope of love, and he saw him, and said, “Ah! he did not go out of my house in such trim as [dressed like] that. Poor creature [child] , his feet are bleeding; he has come a long way, I’ll be bound [I bet.] Look at his face, he doesn’t look like the same boy he was when he left me. His eye that was so bright, is now sunken in its socket; his cheeks that once stood out with fatness, have now become hollow with famine. Poor wretch [poor guy], I can tell [see] all his bones, he is so emaciated [skinny] .” Instead of feeling any anger in his heart, he [the father] felt just the contrary; he felt such pity for his poor son.

And so [that’s how] the Lord feels for you.

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FAITH’S CHECKBOOK March 11th  WHOSE BATTLE?

 

-And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not [doesn’t save] with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you [our enemy] into our hands —1 Samuel 17:47

(The Battle Belongs to the Lord by John Michael Talbot…sing-along, won’t you?)Y sabrá toda esta congregacion que Jehova no salva con espada y lanza; porque de Jehova es la guerra, y el os

el entregara en nuestras manos —1 Samuel 17:47

Let this point be settled, that the battle is the Lord’s, and we may be quite sure of the victory, and of the victory in such a way as will best of all display the power of God. The Lord is too much forgotten by all men, yea, even by the assemblies of Israel; and when there is an opportunity to make men see that the Great First Cause can achieve His purposes without the power of man, it is a priceless occasion which should be well employed. Even Israel looks too much to sword and spear. It is a grand thing to have no sword in the hand of David, and yet [still] for David to know that his God will overthrow a whole army of aliens [the Philistine giants]. If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy. If it were our own battle we might not be confident; but if we are standing up for Jesus, and warring in His strength alone, who can withstand us? Without a trace of hesitancy let us face the Philistines; for the Lord of Hosts is with us, and [therefore] who can be against us?

The Battle Belongs to the Lord by John Michael Talbot (Sing-along, won’t you?)

URL:
https://youtu.be/c7uRX4srnsM

 

Prayer: Thank you, Lord, that Thou saveth [save] not with sword and spear:

for the battle is Yours, and You will give our enemies into our hands. Give me courage, comfort and confidence in Your victory in Your name, Lord Jesus, Amen.

 

MORNING March 11th  "SIN . . . EXCEEDING SINFUL." —Romans 7:13

 

(Hear Today’s Sermon, won’t you?)

URL:
https://files.metropolitantabernacle.org/MT/sermons/2017/September/Wed060917.mp4

 

El pecado … pecado sobremanera pecante —Romanos 7:13

BEWARE of light thoughts of sin [kidding, jesting or laughing about it]. At the time of conversion, the conscience is so tender that we are afraid of the slightest sin. Young converts [babes in Christ] have a holy timidity, a godly fear, lest they should offend God [that they might offend God]. But alas, very soon the fine bloom on these first ripe fruits is removed by the rough handling [hateful or unkind treatment] of the surrounding world.

The sensitive young plant of fresh consecration [devotion] turns into a willow in later life: too pliant [flexible], too easily yielding. It is sadly true, that a Christian may gradually grow so callous, [become so desensitized] that the sin which once startled him does not alarm him in the least.

By degrees men get familiar with sin. The ear in which the cannon has been booming will not notice slight sounds. At first a little sin startles us, but soon we say, "Is it not a little one [just a little white one, does it really matter]?" Then there comes another, larger, and then another, until by degrees we begin to regard sin as but a little ill [a bad choice].

Then, follows an unholy presumption: “Well, I’m still a good person and, at least, better than so and so” "We have not fallen into open sin. True, we tripped [up] a little [bit, just a mess-up], but we stood upright [maintained integrity] in the main [over-all]. We may have uttered one unholy word, but as for the most of our conversation, it has been consistent [and proper]."

So we palliate sin [placate its gravity]; we throw a cloak over it; we call it by dainty [politically correct] names.

Christian, beware how lightly you think of sin. [Is it hateful to us or merely to be laughed at?] Take heed lest [for fear that] you fall by little and little [little by little].

 

SIN, A LITTLE THING?

Is it not a poison? Who knows its deadliness? A little thing? Do not the little foxes spoil the grapes? Does not the tiny coral insect build a rock [coral reef] that wrecks a navy? Do not little strokes [by an axe] fell lofty oaks [huge oak trees]?

Will not continual dripping [of water] wear away stones?

Sin, a little thing?

It girded the Redeemer's head with thorns, and pierced His heart! It made Him suffer anguish, bitterness, and woe.

If you could weigh the least sin in the scales of eternity, you would fly [run away] from it as from a serpent [rattlesnake], and abhor [hate] the least appearance of evil. Look upon all sin as that which crucified the Savior and you will see it to be

"exceeding sinful."

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EVENING March 11th  -THOU SHALT BE CALLED, “SOUGHT OUT" —Isaiah 62:12

 

- Á ti te llamarán -Ciudad Buscada —Isaías 62:12
 

THE surpassing [irresistible] grace of God is seen very clearly in that we were not only sought [looked for], but sought out [looked for until found]. Men seek for a thing that is lost on the floor of the house, but in such a case there is only seeking, not seeking out.

 

The loss is more perplexing and the search more persevering when a thing is sought out. We were mingled with the mire as when some precious piece of gold falls into the sewer. Men gather out and carefully inspect a mass of abominable filth, and continue to stir and rake, and search among the heap until the treasure is found.
 

Or, to use another figure, we were lost in a labyrinth [maze]: we wandered hither and thither, and when mercy came after us with the gospel, it did not find us at the first coming. It had to search for us and seek us out; for we as lost sheep were so desperately lost, and had wandered into such a strange country it did not seem possible that even the Good Shepherd should track our devious roamings [self-centered, self-absorbed obsessions].

 

Glory be to unconquerable grace, we were sought out! No gloom could hide us, no filthiness could conceal us, we were found and brought home.

Glory be to infinite love!

 

God the Holy Spirit restored us! The lives of some of God's people, if they could be written, would fill us with holy astonishment. Strange and marvelous are the ways God used in their case to find His own. Blessed be His name, He never relinquishes the search until the chosen are sought out effectually [found and saved]. They are not a people sought today and cast away tomorrow. [God’s everlasting love is not “hit and miss” but inevitable, irresistible and infinitely omnipotent to seek out His chosen.]
 

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures. They will be called, "Sought [Looked for and found] out!"

That any should be sought out is matchless grace, but that we should be sought out is grace beyond measure [infinite grace]! We can find no reason for it but God's own sovereign love and can only lift up our heart in wonder, and praise the Lord that this night we wear the name of

"SOUGHT OUT. "

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A person comes to Jesus by  believing and (whole heartedly) praying like this:

 

 “Lord Jesus, I’m a sinner. I’m lost and hopeless without You.  I will never be able to save myself by my own merits. Without you and your death on the cross I would deserve and spend forever in Hell.

I know that me doing my best or being good (in my own opinion)  and justifying my own behavior as "good"  or "OK" will never  save me.
I look to You, alone  Lord Jesus to save me. 
I come to You   right now.  Lord Jesus.   Please save me.  I believe You died on the cross in my place to pay for my sin debt and put to death my sin nature. I know  You always keep your word.  Please save me. You say and  it’s written in the Bible that you won’t reject anyone who comes to You. I'm coming  to You now. Thank You for saving me.
I  give myself (all of myself) to You, Lord Jesus. I declare that You are my Savior and Lord. I’m sorry for and I turn away from  every sin (every bad thought, every bad word I have spoken and every bad thing I have ever done)  and look to You free me from the penalty of sin, to keep me free from the power of sin and empower me overcome any temptation from sin’s  presence.  Thank you for forgiving  all of  my sins by dying on the cross to pay the punishment that I deserve.  (I was a sinner by nature and by behavior). But now I'm washed clean by Your blood that was shed [poured out] for me at Calvary [at the cross].

Thank you Lord Jesus that You loved me and died for me before I was born and that You love me now and will always love me and will never reject or turn your back on me. I know You are the Way, the Truth and the Life and that no one can come to the Father other than by You.

Thank you Father that You have made a way for me to see myself as ungodly.  But,  because You are good You have made a way and given me the desire to come to You, to turn away from my sin and to trust in the Lord Jesus.  You have forgiven me because He took my place and You have provided for  me to be born again [born from above, born of the Holy Spirit].  
You prompted this desire and faith to believe in Your only begotten Son who,gave up  His life and died on the cross to pay my sin debt, not mine alone, but the sins of the whole world. 

Thank You, Heavenly Father that you raised Jesus from the dead. He is ALIVE and in Him we are victorious over sin, death and the grave and in Christ Jesus there is no condemnation. After You raised Him from the dead You gave Him a Glorified, [everlasting] physical body and  after he was seen by many witnesses on earth You took Him up to reign with  You  in heaven. 

 

 I pray this in the name, of Your only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ with a grateful heart.   Thank You for saving me heavenly Father and for sending the Comforter, The Spirit of Truth, for my guidance and solemn instruction into all truth.,  Amen.”

Thank You Holy Spirit of Truth, The Comforter, The Paraclete [true friend who is by your side and always has your back]  for the new life in Jesus and the  victory that comes when I recon myself dead indeed unto sin and alive unto God through Christ Jesus our Lord trusting You, Holy Spirit for Your  empowerment  to see  this promise fulfilled. Romans 6:11

Thank you that you, Holy Spirit,  always exalt [lift up] the Lord Jesus.  John 16:8-11

 

With all my heart, I thank you Lord Jesus for saving me. 
I ask now that You live Your life through me in Your name, Lord Jesus I pray, Amen.

 

 

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