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Thursday,3:04 PM
Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 1Cor 13:1 (NIV)
The world can not teach you love, they don’t know what it means. God is love. The one without God can not give the love that comes from God. God is love and without God, there is no love. Many believers don’t have love? No! They have love but they don’t show love because they refuse the concept of love. Love is selfless and undemanding but giving at every opportunity availed to it. Love seeks for the good of others. Love puts others first. How many times have you put the other person first? The person’s feeling, need, want, desire, purpose…. Make a choice to love. It is in you, you need just to put pride, selfishness and “what about me” aside and reach out to others and show the love that God has richly bestowed generously on us when he even sent his only begotten son to die for us. He thought of us first, that is why he did it. His love is not based on all the right things we do (our righteousness is of Christ Jesus). Therefore, the love he is calling us to show is not based on what right thing the person has done or not, it is based on what he has done for us, it is based on us doing it for him; representing him on earth, showing the world the love of the creator. It is not based on what they have done well to us or not. This love is unconditional; it’s not based on anything else but God. Jesus said this command I give to you; Love…, love God (who is love) and he will shed his love abroad in your heart. He will teach you how to love your friends, enemies, the unloving, love those that despitefully use you, love every group of people you can think of. Love is the commandment Jesus gave us. Without love, we are nothing, we amount to nothing. Are you walking in God’s kind of love?
More to come on the topic of love.
The world can not teach you love, they don’t know what it means. God is love. The one without God can not give the love that comes from God. God is love and without God, there is no love. Many believers don’t have love? No! They have love but they don’t show love because they refuse the concept of love. Love is selfless and undemanding but giving at every opportunity availed to it. Love seeks for the good of others. Love puts others first. How many times have you put the other person first? The person’s feeling, need, want, desire, purpose…. Make a choice to love. It is in you, you need just to put pride, selfishness and “what about me” aside and reach out to others and show the love that God has richly bestowed generously on us when he even sent his only begotten son to die for us. He thought of us first, that is why he did it. His love is not based on all the right things we do (our righteousness is of Christ Jesus). Therefore, the love he is calling us to show is not based on what right thing the person has done or not, it is based on what he has done for us, it is based on us doing it for him; representing him on earth, showing the world the love of the creator. It is not based on what they have done well to us or not. This love is unconditional; it’s not based on anything else but God. Jesus said this command I give to you; Love…, love God (who is love) and he will shed his love abroad in your heart. He will teach you how to love your friends, enemies, the unloving, love those that despitefully use you, love every group of people you can think of. Love is the commandment Jesus gave us. Without love, we are nothing, we amount to nothing. Are you walking in God’s kind of love?
More to come on the topic of love.
Monday,2:05 PM
Feelings
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. (vs6) For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; (vs8) and they that are in the flesh cannot please God. (Italics for emphasis). It’s amazing how we base so much of our decisions on the way we feel. Feeling finds its place in the flesh and the scripture teaches that they that leave by the flesh cannot please God (vs. 8). If there is no condemnation for only those who walk according to the Spirit, then those who walk according to the flesh are walking the road of condemnation. The bible teaches in the letter of paul to the Galatians, chapter 5 verses 19-21 reads:
Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency, Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies), Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (AMP)
If we stop and think of some problems that we have in our lives, they are a direct result of the cravings of the flesh. The flesh is so powerful that it can rule and ruin a man’s life. The voice of the flesh speaks a million and one times a day, its favorite word is I. It takes a conscious effort not to leave a life of self. I once heard a great preacher say that your greatest enemy is yourself. She was talking about the flesh. We need to deny the flesh; we need to die to self to be able to leave above it. We need to stop and ask ourselves what the word of God says about what we feel like doing, we need to ask ourselves what we would have done if we were not feeling like that. Acting on the answers to these questions will allow us to leave above the control of the flesh. How do we check our feelings with the word of God if we don’t know what the word of God says, we need to study the word of God daily to be able to act based on it. We could say that it is very hard when it comes to some feelings, every feeling has a root, if we do not water the root, it will not grow. Feelings are inevitable; they come every time, if not controlled, it will control you.
Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency, Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies), Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (AMP)
If we stop and think of some problems that we have in our lives, they are a direct result of the cravings of the flesh. The flesh is so powerful that it can rule and ruin a man’s life. The voice of the flesh speaks a million and one times a day, its favorite word is I. It takes a conscious effort not to leave a life of self. I once heard a great preacher say that your greatest enemy is yourself. She was talking about the flesh. We need to deny the flesh; we need to die to self to be able to leave above it. We need to stop and ask ourselves what the word of God says about what we feel like doing, we need to ask ourselves what we would have done if we were not feeling like that. Acting on the answers to these questions will allow us to leave above the control of the flesh. How do we check our feelings with the word of God if we don’t know what the word of God says, we need to study the word of God daily to be able to act based on it. We could say that it is very hard when it comes to some feelings, every feeling has a root, if we do not water the root, it will not grow. Feelings are inevitable; they come every time, if not controlled, it will control you.