Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. Good morning indeed we're picking

up with day two of our love like Jesus devotional. In the Bible app there's a link to that in the

description if you guys want to follow along with us and as always I'm going to read the scripture

then towards going to pick up with the divo. Let's do it. The scripture is Hebrews chapter 10

verses 24 and 25. They say this. Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love

and good works and let us not neglect our meeting together as some people do but encourage one

another especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. The devotional is titled

forgiven together and it says this. I was raised in church but truthfully I lived like God

didn't exist. When opportunities came up for me to show love to others at school or work I really

didn't take them. I was a jerk. I was self-centered and prideful. Looking back the major influences

in my life were negative. The wrong friends toxic relationships sex porn and alcohol. I was caught

up with the wrong crowd, lying to my parents, lying to my friends, drinking and feeding the false

ego I had developed. By the time I was halfway through college I was doing terrible things that

were wrecking my body and my life. Fast forward to early 2010 a few weeks before Easter my family had

been invited to attend life church. At this time we hadn't been to church in several years.

It was a critical time in my life and my family's life and this invite couldn't have come at a

better time. We walked in and everyone made us feel so welcome and accepted. It was something I had

never truly experienced walking into a church. During that first service we attended I was overwhelmed

with God's love and forgiveness for the first time in my life. The message spoke of forgiveness

and I understood the story of Jesus and his love. I didn't wait. I decided to commit my life

to Christ that very day. I felt God cleansed me of all the bad things I had done and was a new

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