{"id":2998,"date":"2022-05-01T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T17:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2022-05-01T09:55:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T17:55:36","slug":"5-1-22-devotion-luke-627-28-hope-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"5-1-22     Devotion      Luke 6:27-28    Hope For Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Luke 6:27-28<\/strong> \u201c<em>But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,\u00a028\u00a0bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.\u201d<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Proverbs 24:17-18<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles; 18 Lest the Lord see it, and it displease Him, And He turn away His wrath from him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God has assured that a day of recompense for the evil will come. Though they may hide or bury their fear, let us dread that day for them. They are those who hide their eyes and cover their ears lest they see the light and hear the truth. Let us have for them the fear of God that they should have, because we know what the inevitable future that awaits those who reject Jesus as Savior and Lord. Let us fear as they should fear and truly pray for them with Godly love. Perhaps their hardened hearts will break and they will repent. What a joyous day that will be. A day of glory and honor to Him who does not wish for any person to perish. (<strong>Peter 3:9, 1 Timothy 2:4, Ezekiel 3:18-21<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>We must love those who have chosen to reject eternal life.\u00a0 We must love those who love their sin and who rage against God. Cry for them. Pray that they stop running to their current destiny, that they stop and love God. Pray that they truly love God by coming to Him through Jesus our Savior and Lord.\u00a0 Pray for them. Love God for them. We who walk with God will have hope for them, the hope they should have. Yet our love and hope for Him does not save them by and of itself, but perhaps their hearts will change.\u00a0 We all have family and friends who don\u2019t love Jesus.\u00a0 The Lord loves even those who raise their fist at Him. For now, He offers them the hand of peace and love, till the day they die.<\/p>\n<p>God is good all the time and He loves us.\u00a0 This is true and immutable. Oh how we love our God in whom we have hope! Praise God!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Psalm 150:6<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<em>Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Micah 7:7<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<em>But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will Hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Micah 6:8<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<em>He has\u00a0shown you, Oh man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; and what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of you, but\u00a0to do justly, to love\u00a0mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Numbers 6:24-26<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<em>The\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 6:27-28 \u201cBut to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,\u00a028\u00a0bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.\u201d\u00a0 Proverbs 24:17-18 &#8211; Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles; 18 Lest the Lord&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[705,106,94,1874,90,88,17,2036],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-ezekiel","tag-luke","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-peter","tag-proverbs","tag-psalm","tag-timothy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}