{"id":5030,"date":"2022-02-10T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T19:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2022-02-10T15:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T20:24:37","slug":"check-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/check-your-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5032\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/web3-sacred-heart-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6>I\u2019m sharing this with you because I believe someone may benefit from the conversation.<\/h6>\n<h6>In my prayer time this morning I had a heart to heart with Jesus. It was about some things that I was feeling and that have been bothering me lately. I got very real with him. You know what? He got very real right back at me, and this is what He said.<\/h6>\n<h6><em>\u201cWhen you\u2019re not doing what you\u2019re called to do, out of a heart of love, you get out of sorts. Besides you don\u2019t walk by feelings, you walk by faith! Faith pleases me. It shows me you trust me and believe me. It shows the devil he doesn\u2019t have a hold on you. Prayer puts you in a position of surrender and is not selfish. It takes your focus off yourself and puts it on me. After all that\u2019s what it\u2019s supposed to do.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>You worship out of a heart of love and gratitude, not obligation or duty. And not because I demand it. I didn\u2019t do what I did to manipulate praise. I had no selfish motivation. I did what I did because, one, I love my Father and two, I love you. Mankind.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>My motivation was inspired because of love. Not because I am King. Not because I am Lord and Creator. Not because I have All Power. When you are the very essence of Love, the only thing you can, do, is love. And because of my love for you, and you accept that love, you will do the same. Not selfishly or enviously or greedily or in pride. It comes from a place of peace. A place of hope. Love, is, that place. It\u2019s a place where you\u2019d give everything for the one you love.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>Those stripes I took, the rejection, persecution, mocking\u2019s, the beating and verbal abuse. The crown of thorns pushed into my head, each nail, one by one, hammered into my hands and feet, the nakedness, the suffocation, a torturous death, the abandonment I felt by my father and the world, the betrayal of friends, the tears, the gasps for air as my lungs filled and collapsed. My spirit leaving my body as I hung upon a pole. My blood and water pouring from my side.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>All of that was done from a place of deep, eternal love for all. I did it willingly because, I love you!<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>Check your heart, your own motivation. Why are you, doing what you\u2019re doing? If it\u2019s not totally because of love, my love, then you need to repent. Forgive yourself and others, regardless of what they do. Ask yourself, \u201cWho do I love?\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>Only an\u00a0<\/em><em style=\"letter-spacing: -0.2126px;\">unselfish<\/em><em><span style=\"font-size: 1.063rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 21.26px;\">heart of<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.063rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;\">\u00a0holy love, will be accepted in my kingdom.<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>Love, unconditionally. No strings attached. No jealously. No flesh. No hate. No judgment or prejudice, love without wanting anything in return. Then you will begin to know who I am and how to love in Spirit and in Truth.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>If you read my words, honestly and with an open heart, you\u2019ll see this is what I\u2019ve been saying from the beginning. Everything I\u2019ve done, created, said, lived and died for, was from a heart of Love. All of it!<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>Check your heart!\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>~Love, Papa God<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill February 10, 2022<\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>1 Corinthians 13<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>English Standard Version<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>The Way of Love<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>13\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.\u00a0<strong><sup>2\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>And if I have\u00a0prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith,\u00a0so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.\u00a0<strong><sup>3\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>If I give away all I have, and\u00a0if I deliver up my body to be burned,<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-28652a\">a<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0but have not love, I gain nothing.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em><sup>4\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><em>Love is patient and\u00a0kind; love\u00a0does not envy or boast; it\u00a0is not arrogant\u00a0<strong><sup>5\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>or rude. It\u00a0does not insist on its own way; it\u00a0is not irritable or\u00a0<sup><span style=\"font-size: 21.26px;\">resentful; [<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-28654b\">b<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0<strong><sup>6\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>it\u00a0does not rejoice at <span style=\"font-size: 21.26px;\">wrongdoing but<\/span>\u00a0rejoices with the truth.\u00a0<strong><sup>7\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,\u00a0endures all things.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em><sup>8\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><em>Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.\u00a0<strong><sup>9\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>For\u00a0we know in <span style=\"font-size: 21.26px;\">part,<\/span>\u00a0and we prophesy in part,\u00a0<strong><sup>10\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>but\u00a0when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.\u00a0<strong><sup>11\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.\u00a0<strong><sup>12\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>For\u00a0now we see in a mirror dimly, but\u00a0then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as\u00a0I have been fully known.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em><sup>13\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><em>So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>Footnotes<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h6><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013&amp;version=ESV#en-ESV-28652\">1 Corinthians 13:3<\/a>\u00a0Some manuscripts\u00a0deliver up my body\u00a0[to death]\u00a0that I may boast<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013&amp;version=ESV#en-ESV-28654\">1 Corinthians 13:5<\/a>\u00a0Greek\u00a0irritable and does not count up wrongdoing<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2019\/06\/22\/a-doctor-on-why-blood-and-water-gushed-from-jesus-heart\/\">A doctor on why \u201cblood and water\u201d gushed from Jesus\u2019 heart (aleteia.org)<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sharing this with you because I believe someone may benefit from the conversation. In my prayer time this morning I had a heart to heart with Jesus. It was about some things that I was feeling and that have been bothering me lately. I got very real with him. You know what? 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