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Atheist can never believe in love.

Atheist can never believe in love. Love ,true love is mere chemicals in the atheists dictionary.

“Praise him with tambourine and dance;

Hello my friend, I hope you are doing well this day.

I wanted to share some of my favourite passages of the Bible, these passages inspire me and help me to remember how to worship the Lord.

Words which stand out for me in the follow passages are “dance, praise, everlasting steadfast love, sleep, desolate places to pray”.

These words help me to remember my devotion to God and how to draw closer to him.

Psalm 150:4 Praise him with tambourine and dance;

praise him with strings and pipe! | English Standard Version 2016 (ESV) | Download The Bible App Now

“Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!”

Psalm 150:4 ESV

Psalm 103:17 But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,

and his righteousness to children’s children | English Standard Version 2016 (ESV) | Download The Bible App Now

“But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children,”

Psalm 103:17 ESV

“A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.”

Proverbs 24:33-34 ESV

“But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.”

Luke 5:16 ESV

When I see these words within my devotional practice, I’m drawn to an ancient spiritual practice known as Bhakti.

What is Bhakti?

https://pluralism.org/bhakti-the-way-of-devotion

Bhakti: The Way of Devotion

Bhakti – devotion to the divine – is based on another interpretation of Vedanta: that the soul and the Divine are not One, but inexpressibly, mysteriously, both One and distinct, allowing for a relationship of love. This loving devotion, bhakti, is expressed through songs, hymns, offerings, dances, and plays.

Where an image of the divine is present and loving worship upon that image is sought, singing, dancing and praising the divine, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is forever in our hearts and whose presence grows stronger throughout proper practice and offerings to him.

Notice how the Lord works through you after your devotional practice, bringing about solutions to your unconscious mind while you sleep.

If this works for you, don’t forget to share it with others, either by attending a spiritual ceremony, or group and testifying how the love of Christ was present within you while you performed your strict devotion to him.

Peace and blessings to you Amen.

Faith through love.

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Freedom in Christ – Galatians 5:1.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.

9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

God loves a broken spirit…

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God loves a broken spirit…

Reflecting upon how for a heart to open, it must first be broken. While understanding why this is ,we must become aware of how our hearts have become hardened over time and how to break through this hardness of heart, our hearts must be broken.

Not in a physical sense, but in an emotional and spiritual sense.

Such noteworthy figures have commented upon this idea from Shaun Hick to the Sufi poet Rumi.

“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.” — Shaun Hick Sufi

The poet Rumi wrote, “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

Wherein this idea is also reflected upon within spiritual texts, particularly within passages of the Bible. For it is written, how God prefers a Contrite Spirit and a broken heart.

Such statements within the Bible may be difficult to understand or comprehend, perhaps pondering upon the idea that God is deliberately breaking our hearts as we ascend toward him, to know him better.

For our notions of God and our reality may be false, wherein we may only follow God at times simply because we think we are going to benefit in some sense and therefore God may be deliberately breaking our heart to test our love and to show us what true love is.

Here, the following are a few passages from the Bible which demonstrate how God favours a broken heart and a contrite spirit.

Psalm 51:17: The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

https://bibliajfa.com.br/app/kjv_apocrypha/19O/51/17

Psalm 34:18: The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

https://bibliajfa.com.br/app/kjv_apocrypha/19O/34/18

Isaiah 66:2: For all those things hath mine hand made, and those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

https://bibliajfa.com.br/app/kjv_apocrypha/23O/66/2

Isaiah 57:15: For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

https://bibliajfa.com.br/app/kjv_apocrypha/23O/57/15

Hardened hearts. Ephesians 4:18: Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

https://bibliajfa.com.br/app/kjv_apocrypha/49N/4/18

Hebrews 3:8: Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

https://bibliajfa.com.br/app/kjv_apocrypha/58N/3/8

Exodus 9:12: And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.

https://bibliajfa.com.br/app/kjv_apocrypha/02O/9/12

Mark 8:17: And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?

https://bibliajfa.com.br/app/kjv_apocrypha/41N/8/17