Gentle and Lowly

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">We were designed to feel for God’s glory but fail in doing so because sin broke our feeling system and Jesus is the only one who can teach us how it gets fixed.</span><br></p>

<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-af5a6f98-7fff-7f11-dd59-6406e61a4af5"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Our unique friendship with Jesus leads us to obey His commands to love one another as He has loved us by believing&nbsp;we are His chosen friends, loved with an unsurpassed love, instructed in the Father’s will, and given prayer to successfully obey.</span></span><br></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The Spirit is given to Christ’s disciples so that they will be faithful in their lives bringing about Conviction of sin of the world and courage of Heart for Christ’s disciples.</span><br></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">As we see in God's heart that He is full of mercies we will be willing to surrender to Him and genuine transformation will then occur in our lives.</span><br></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Answering God's invitation to us through Christ by listening to His word spoken over us and to us will bring life where there was death, nourishment where there was starvation, and bring us into the promised life which is all part of His plan redeeming all things through Christ.</span><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">God's covenant with us should remind us of our failings, prove to us His deep love, and restore us to fellowship with Him.</span><br></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The ways that God demonstrates His love toward us are experienced by us in remembering His past love, enjoying His present love, and hoping in His future love.</span><br></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">God has made sinners alive, raised them from the dead and seated them with Jesus Christ in order that they might, by His overabounding grace, reveal His manifold wisdom before&nbsp;the watching&nbsp;world.</span><br></p>