![]() God proved his goodness through his Son, Jesus Christ. What doubts do you have about God? Do you believe that he accepts you even when you have doubts?.Why does making eye contact with someone make such a big difference in how that person feels?.How does it change your attitude toward that person when you consider how much God loves you and that he has accepted you? Think about someone who easily irritates you or is hard to love.And when his love flows through you, it’s possible for you to love others unconditionally. Loving like Jesus means you accept other people the way Jesus accepts you. This is how he wants us to love other people. When we are fearful and unwilling to trust, God still accepts us. When we doubt, God’s love does not change. When people have doubts about God, you need to first listen and show that it doesn’t change your love or acceptance. ![]() Acceptance means you listen to others’ fears and doubts. The Bible says in Romans 15:1, “We must bear the ‘burden’ of being considerate of the doubts and fears of others” (TLB). But when you give someone your attention, even for just a moment, you affirm their value as a person and show that you accept them. What about you-do you look and listen? When someone at work drops something off at your desk, do you say anything to them? When somebody serves you at a restaurant or a clerk helps you in a grocery store, do you look them in the eye and say, “Thank you”? It may seem like a small thing. The highest form of love is focused attention. When you look someone in the eye, you’re declaring that they matter to you. One of the ways you demonstrate acceptance to someone else is to look at them and listen to them. And God says he wants you to act similarly toward everybody in your life. That doesn’t mean he approves of everything you do, but he accepts you, no matter what you’ve done. And pray that He will then give me the strength to say it over and over and over with winsome passion.”įollow us on Twitter and instagram tuned to Praiseworld Radio to listen to exclusive gospel tunes and exciting radio programs all day every day.What God does for you, he wants you to do for other people. Pray that the Holy Spirit will tell me what to say. “Pray that out of my family’s pain, Jesus Christ will be honored. To make it through, he needs your prayers. “I’d just rather, if it was up to me, celebrate that hope quietly and privately, rather (than) smile for a hundred selfies with visitors on the patio, or preach multiple services continuously for 4 days starting on Thursday.” “Of course, I WILL celebrate Easter, because the Resurrection IS that unmovable hope, that steadfast reality, that soothes and comforts the loss in my heart,” he writes. ![]() While he normally would rather cherish the family he still has, his calling asks more of him, to put aside himself and focus on the gospel. The fact that Easter is the anniversary of Matthew’s death is a hard one for Warren. I called that week ‘The Battle For Hope’ because each day that week we launched a different hope initiative, and then on Friday Matthew died.” That day, April 5th, coming 5 days after Easter, was the worst day of my life. “On this Easter week two years ago, my son Matthew ended his life, and his 27 year battle with mental illness In a message to his staff, Warren opened up about why he called the week before April 5, 2013, “The Battle for Hope.” This Easter will make it exactly two years since Pastor Rick Warren’s son killed himself, and he and his family ask for your prayers as they remember their son this season.
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