It’s September! How excitement the kids go back to school! The school is a good place for people to learn. Without school, how will they know? It is important to keep the education in people’s life. So I finish graduated from high school in 2003. But, is that all I am done with school? There is more I can do is to keep learning something new. My son, Leo, is two, not yet going to preschool. I am training on how to be a better parenting to him. I have parenthood education. And I still a self-schooled lady in my heart. I keep reading Bible and studying it, History, Life Study, and biblical Biography. I also have homeschool schedule for Leo. I’m gotta keep teaching Leo the lessons. Like abc alphabetically, potty training, baby’s signing words, etc. Really parenting challenge! But I want him to be successful in school. And one day Leo will choose which career he wants.
One unchristian person told my spiritual brother that he was not interesting in being argued with religious people. One hundred percent truth! It’s how damaging the church members disunited to each other! Jesus praying in John 17:23: ‘complete unity’. Also, the apostle Paul’s passion for ‘perfectly united’. The word “unity” means “being united or joined as a whole”. Like the body of Christ, the church members perfectly united.
Unity in friendship is the most important thing in the sight of God. Choose a friend who can unite with you. 1.You can unite with both wealthy and poor people who are wise. 2.Defamation is dangerous. It should go punished. I felt betrayed by the former friend who is a defamed person and took my loved one away. 3.The greedy people want to be friend with person who gives money or gifts to them. 4. The fake friend does not help people in need. All saying is “Get a job. You need to earn money by yourself.” 5. Forgiveness is a beautiful trait in friendship. 6. Angry is not good for friends. A person need to control angry.
All theses you need to consider.
I can feel so easily offended by the insults. Oh, yeah. It’s the truth with you. I don’t like how people treat me like I’m easy that they can hurt my feelings. It isn’t cool. I questioned myself, “Where is unity?” That should be a good question. Not laughable because God don’t like to see ugly in church and in neighborhood. I can leave both church and neighborhood community if they do not practice unity. Because of unity is very important. Like again Paul said “perfectly united”. Think of koinonia, a Greek for fellowship with Jesus. It’s a worthy of love in church that Jesus pray for. Amen.
It’s August! And today I’m telling you the story about hope.
The homeless people’s hope for the church’s job is to unite. I was homeless the last time my former church did not apply Luke 10 but to drop me off to the shelter for free instead of paying me for inn. They did not let me to stay over the inn until I find a place to live. It’s a sad truth. I am not going to re-worry about that church, because Jesus is my Hope. I have faith in Him that He love me like I’m His daughter who needs comfort and warm.
I can feel hopeless. The reason why I feel hopeless is because of I can see the futility in humanity. There is no good in humanity because of I’m rejected. I’m the only one that I have to keep praying and praying until I receive the answer. Well, without hope I can die from that. All I gotta do is to keep hoping and hoping. It’s not easy. Because of life is fleeting. I’m clinging on to hope in spite of the fact that I’m wrestling with my own situation. I’m praising to the Lord forever! Amen and amen.
I prayed that God will give Joe a new life. He needs Jesus and His Hope. I keep praying for my Leo to become an obedient child and accept Jesus as his Hope and Savior. We need faith. Without it is dead. Same as Hope. Because of Jesus is Hope. Like I said without hope I can die from that. Also love, don’t forget that. The killer and attacker are not love! Paul prays, “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
I believe in the hope of God. And because of Jesus, he is my hope. The hope in me is the Holy Spirit. I have faith that what God has done for me.
My ability for hope is to endure and persist my struggle. The hope for humanity is in Jesus. What are two things that hope for humanity?
1. Unity God does not like to see ugly in church & neighborhood like their members fight each other and report police on each other. As He want to see the peace and mutual edification in church & neighborhood.
2. The Scriptures The Bible is Hope. It gives us hope for correcting and edifying.
All these hopes for making world a better place to live. With peace & love, Loi
I want to discuss about freedom and strength. Today I read about encountering Jesus and sharing the testimony. When I was 17 years old, I wanted to leave Jehovah’s Witnesses and be free. But I had been battling with my parents about choosing to have faith in Christ, not Governing Body for many years until I finally made leaving their belief in 2015. It was very hard for me to stand up with what I believe and trying to convince them that I am older enough to decide… But I am so thankful for some of my prayers answered by Yahweh. I want to keep practicing fruitfulness and not falsehood but God pouring the living water on me to keep me blossom and I’m be fruitful. I’m choosing the soulful church that is biblically based, not the freewill Baptist. As Nicky Gumbel says, “Free will means we are responsible for our own choices.” So this Baptist church is only heard God’s Word, that’s it. I am thankful for a lesson I learned from it. I want to move forward to the serenity. I am spending my time with the Lord and to read my Bible ritually morning time. Also Bible in One Year, too.
Today my strength is to learn how to exercise stably by step by step in designing specifically for fall prevention. I watched this great program from The Grow Young . I need to keep exercising this video because I now have my hips blocked and it’s hard for me to walk normal. My current walking is not the same as before I was pregnant with my only child. So what am I going to do to get my hips healing? The Grow Young fitness instructor Deron Buboltz said, “Best exercises you can do is to help you get better position…make sure the other direction…speed up to 30…” My goal for bringing me, my hips to a place my hips never have been before. So I plan to start this exercise video at 3pm for 30 minutes for two weeks and then the next new video will explain new exercise for me.
The point of this today devotional is to keep my mind, body and soul strength and spiritual blossom fruitfully.
Today is the last day of June. This month was crazy and it’s unnecessary. I was not pleasantly about the thing that go as unplanned. It’s so disgraceful! Why should I take order that I wasn’t asked to? Oh, God. I pray for the next new month of July that everything America is in more of freedom than of lesser. And pray for my strength to gain in the name of Jesus.
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.~Psalm 55:22
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.~Philippians 4:13
I finally completed my 30 days of devotional. I made this 30 days My Live Loi Devotional! If you want to read them, visit at:
Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.~John 21:25
The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.’~Deuteronomy 31:8
Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride; milk and honey are under your tongue.The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.
Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard,
nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.
You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon. She
Awake, north wind, and come, south wind!Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread everywhere.Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.
I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.~Ecclesiastes 3:12-13
Don’t be afraid. I saved you. I named you. You are mine. When you have troubles, I am with you. When you cross rivers, you will not be hurt. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not hurt you.~Isaiah 43:1-2
Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.~Joshua 1:8
Brothers and sisters, I know that I still have a long way to go. But there is one thing I do: I forget what is in the past and try as hard as I can to reach the goal before me.~Philippians 3:13
“Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”~John 13:34-35
Today I revised and submitted my old poem about my old friends. I know them for many years. They were in my hometown. I wonder how they are doing. Are they still Jehovah’s Witnesses? I haven’t heard from them since… I will pray for them. Here is my old poem. It is read:
There were the two old friends with a husband visited me for the talk
The talk discuss about how we need to draw closer to God
Not this world
The two old friends were:
M-Managed her situation as a bright woman
O-Obedient to her God, Jehovah
N-Nomad; Monies was so lucky to be a traveler
I-Indemnify herself
E-Eager in Jehovah
D-Daring attitude
I-Infinitesimal woman
L-Ladylike
E-Eccentric way
Dee with her husband who was an artist
After meeting, I informed them that I had to leave for home
Which I had no time to talk to
So I killed my time for roaming and roam
Because of a second bus on Saturday was always a long wait
Until I finally got home
And I wrote a poem
To be in relaxation
Today I contacted someone who is a professional counselor. And I will like to practice DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) class again. I took that class in Rochester in 2009 to 2011. And I plan to participate exercise and eating diet regularly to keep my body and my mind healthy.
Breakfast Omelets to eat Drink coffee but tea is the best Yam? But not breakfast
Midday after good lunch I’m going to walk around… Not sitting in at all the times Drink water, yes
Dinner I’m eating the green things but various vegetables Nourishing healthy me, my body Nurturing my mind healthy Eating well everyday Re-energetic me
As of yesterday devotional we discussed about loving your enemies, choose love, not hate. I know enemies are hateful, but to change the attitude, choose love.
However, if people don’t choose love, then they are hateful. As you watch the news, you see everyday people get killed for any reason or no reason. The people should choose love, not hate one another.
The Bible says, “Thou shall not murder.” Killing is not love. As killers are hateful. They should choose the scripture John 13:34-35 says, “Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” Instead of killing people, choose love, not hate.
Jesus taught us how to choose love over hate. If you are still mad at someone who had wronged, Time Out. Think, which choice you choose? Do you hate your enemies? Or do you love them? Love is a good choice. So choose love, not hate. And forgive people who had wronged you.
Today I visited sermon online and learned about Jesus rejected in Samaritan Village. The story about the two brothers, John and James. They were the sons of Thunder. Really, Jesus was their best friend…could be their first cousin. Their mother was a sister of Virgin Mary. Jesus knew all of them grew up together, played with them. – John knew how to love his neighbor, he changed his personality to follow Jesus.
Jesus taught us to love one another. We love the enemies. It’s on the gospel, the letter was sent out to remind people to love each other. ‘If you love God and hate peoples, then you are a liar.’ (1 John 4:20) No anger but must show love to each other. Jesus also taught us how to forgive people, show them grace. Change from angry to grace to glorify God.
No vengeance but take healing helps to set the forgiveness. It means for God. Really the truth is in addition to better John says, “No, you need to remember that when we were young, we continued to learn the extra phrase…” Jesus says, My meaning is not rough, but healing.
I got this sermon message. Yes, I have heard it true statement “Love your enemies” since I encountered Jesus earlier on when I was a Jehovah’s Witness, it’s really hard for me. Loving my enemies have training me how to show grace to them for glorify God. I do my best to apply the scripture 1 John 4:20 but I must do. As if I don’t show love to my enemies, then my life is meaningless. It’s true that I can be unrecognized by people who I don’t like. I pray for my journey from grief to grace and get healing from the cruel society. I keep following Jesus Christ and I have faith that one day I will go to the New Jerusalem.
