Hey everyone, this is Mary DeMuth and this is Pray Every Day, where I pray you through the Bible

verse by verse. Thank you so much for tuning in today on this 20th day of May. Really glad to have you

here and humbled that you had spent some time with me every single day. It's my joy and my privilege

to do so.

All right, today I'm going to read. I'm going to finish up 1 John 3, verses 13 through 24 in the

World English Bible, and this is what it says. Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

We know that we have passed out of death into life because we love

the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer,

and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. By this we know love because

he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

But whoever has the world's goods and sees his brother in need then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God's love remain in him?

My little children, let's not love in word only or with the tongue only, but indeed and truth.

And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him because if our heart condemns us,

God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God.

So whatever we ask, we receive from him because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

This is His commandment that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

He who keeps his commandments remains in him and he in him.

By this we know that he remains in us by the spirit which he gave us.

Mind if I pray for you.

Lord, thank you so much for your spirit, that we are never alone.

We have an advocate, a counselor, a spirit who intercedes, and we are never alone we have an advocate a counselor a spirit who

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