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\"SHadventlovegraphic\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.
\nJohn 15:13 NIV<\/p>\n

Ponder those words. \u00a0Do you have a friend that would do that for you? \u00a0You know that you do. If you have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, He has already paid that price for you.<\/p>\n

You see, Jesus knew from the Creation of man, that His father meant for Him to come dwell among us, to be an example of how we should live in this broken world. God knew it would be better for us to see how to live a perfect life. \u00a0And Jesus is the example of living a selfless life.<\/p>\n

We are blessed to know God and His Son. Not all that are called accept true life. \u00a0Not all that accept true life follow Him. \u00a0All we can do is pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ. \u00a0We can pray for their acceptance, \u00a0and we can pray for our ability to accept them, not judge them. \u00a0We all have to keep our thoughts and actions in check. We get so busy with life that sometimes we forget to check in with our Father. We can change and begin to seek our heavenly Father more.<\/p>\n

But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us,
\nnot because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy.
\nHe saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
\nWhom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior,
\nso that, having been justified by His grace,
\nwe might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.
\nThis is a trustworthy saying. And I want you to stress these things,
\nso that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves
\nto doing what is good. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone.
\nTitus 3:4-8<\/p>\n

\u00a0* \u00a0 \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0\u271d \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2605 \u00a0 \u00a0* <\/span><\/p>\n

Father, thank You for sending Your son Jesus to live among us. \u00a0Thank You for the many times You give us to live for You. \u00a0Jesus, we thank You for interceding on our behalf every day….even when we don’t deserve it. \u00a0In Jesus’ name, Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends. John 15:13 NIV Ponder those words. \u00a0Do you have a friend that would do that for you? \u00a0You know that you do. If you have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, He has already paid that price for you. You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":23511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[4866,4651,3367,1287,425,1832,3174,1071,8103],"class_list":["post-23568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-4th-week-of-advent","tag-advent","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-john-1513","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-tina-marin","tag-titus-34-8","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SHadventlovegraphic.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-688","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23593,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568\/revisions\/23593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}