ESTNLOVE-Established in Love, Washington D.C., DC (2026)

12/22/2023

Life Lesson 》Do not worry God can use every thought, word, and action that comes from your enemies. Your enemies will eventually lead to you being given new blessings or to God using them to address old prayers that long lay unanswered within the depths of your soul. Therefore, God allows their perceived negativity to still work together for your good in the end.

Present Suffering and Future Glory

Romans 8:26-31

26 ...The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.

27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

More Than Conquerors

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

09/08/2023

Life Lesson 》God's Love can speak to you through anything. Even through the lyrics of a song. Turning even your torturer into your remedy.

God's Everlasting Love

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

07/12/2023

Life Lesson 》 God can speak to you through anything. Even when I found myself having difficulty hearing his voice for direction, God said "I will show you" through your sight. In a way that reaches to the depths of your soul.

Ephesians 1:18 - Thanksgiving and Prayer

17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might

20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,

21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

04/24/2023

Life Lesson 》Practice allowing this to be your response to counteract any negative thought that comes to mind.

Isaiah 41:9-13

Fear Not, for I Am with You

9 "...I have chosen you and have not rejected you."

10 So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

11 “All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish.

12 Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all.

13 For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.

04/16/2023

Life Lesson 》 God is the creator of the power that exists within the soul, which cannot be constrained to my own internal thoughts or be limited by the difficulties that exist within external life situations.

Treasure in Jars of Clay

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;

9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;

10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.

11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

12 So death is at work in us, but life in you.

13 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,

14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.

15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

01/16/2023

Life Lesson 》 We each have a soul, a living entity, formed with the potential to be redeemed by God, that cannot destroyed by men.

Just as matter cannot be destroyed, such as the atom that comprises the human body. Neither can the soul be destroyed.

The soul just as matter can change form, but through any of these changes the soul like matter is conserved (according to the law of conservation of energy).

~ MATTHEW 10 ~

Persecution Will Come

16 “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. 17 Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues, 18 and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles. 19 When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. 20 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

Have No Fear

26 “So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known...

28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...

10/26/2022

Life Lesson 》Do not allow your thought life to be centered on what other people think, to the point where you forget yourself and God.

Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A SERVANT OF CHRIST?

"True and False Fasting"

Isaiah 58

6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.

9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

“If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk,

10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.

11 The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

07/19/2022

Life Lesson 》Only God can judge, based on the infinite knowledge that he possesses about the entirety of our souls.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Let No One Disqualify You

Colossians 2:16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you...

18 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism...

19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

Put On the New Self

Colossians 3:12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Picture: Taken from an activity that I created during my first year as a Social Work Intern providing group counseling sessions at a substance use disorder clinic. I relayed that each flower petal on the board represents an aspect of your soul and that in judging yourself it maybe helpful to consider every aspect of your being.

07/19/2022

Life Lesson 》Know yourself and learn to love all you have come to be.

I Am the Light of the World

John 8

12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

13 So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.”

14 Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

15 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

16 Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.

06/13/2022

Life Lesson 》Trust yourself and the thoughts formed within your own mind, believe that they originate from God and the everlasting knowledge that he possesses about you.

God’s Perfect Knowledge of Man

Psalm 139

16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you...

20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name...

23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

05/02/2022

Life Lesson 》Practice refocusing my attention on all that God says that "I AM."

John 10 Further Conflict Over Jesus' Claims

32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”

33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I SAID, YOU ARE GODS’?

35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—

02/09/2022

Life Lesson > Passing judgment just means that your faith is limited, but Jesus can heal, bless, and elevate anyone.

Jesus Heals the Blind and the Mute

27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

28 When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”

“Yes, Lord,” they replied.

29 Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith let it be done to you”;

30 and their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one knows about this.”

31 But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region.

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