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Loving Each Other

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Romans-13-8 imageDay 13 – Loving Each Other

Love fulfills the Law. In Galatians 5:14 Paul said:

The whole law is made complete in this one command: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” The only way we can love, as we should love, is to have the Love of God dwelling in us.

Jesus said in John 17:25-26:

Father, you are the One who is good. The world does not know you, but I know you, and these people know you sent me. I showed them what you are like, and I will show them again. Then they will have the same love that you have for me, and I will live in them.”

Jesus gave us a new commandment in John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

And so that is how we love, as He loved; and thereby are we also loved of the Father. And if Christ truly dwells in your hearts by faith; then you shall also be rooted and grounded in His love. Having the Holy Spirit dwelling in us helps us to be able to love, even our enemies.

List of message series:

Day 1 – Love According to God Day 11 – Love One Another  DAY 21 – WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Day 2 – Fruit of the Spirit  Day 12 – Love Everyone  Day 22 – Burning Love – Love in Marriage
Day 3 – God’s Love  Day 13 – Love Each Other  Day 23 – Gentle Love
Day 4 – Agape Love  Day 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day  Day 24 – One Mind  and Purpose
Day 5 – Who’s Your Master?  Day 15 – Free to Love  Day 25 – Love is a Verb
Day 6 – Life Eternal  Day 16 – Patience Love  Day 26 – Steadfast Love
Day 7 – His Great Love  Day 17 – Born of God  Day 27 – Love Forgives
Day 8 – More Than Conquerors  Day 18 – Born to Love  Day 28 – Love in Marriage
Day 9 – God, Who Gave Himself For Me  Day 19 – Love Your Enemy & Your Neighbor
Day 10 – Adopted  Day 20 – Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

Love Everyone

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Day 12 – Love Everyone

Leviticus 19:33-34
“Do not exploit the foreigners who live in your land. They should be treated like everyone else, and you must love them as you love yourself. Remember that you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I, the LORD, am your God.”

love everyone imageChoosing to love strangers and enemies is commanded by God. If we have not love we have nothing. You don’t have to be their friend. Loving is a choice. Choose love. Even God chose to love us. Even when we were strangers to Him. If He can love a stranger, like the message a couple days ago about being adopted. He didn’t have to do that. He did it because He loves all people. If He can do it, so can we. Choose to love everyone. You’ll be glad you did.

Prayer: Dear Father Yahweh, please help and guide each reader and all your people to be lovers of everyone, like You. In Jesus’ name, amen.

List of message series:

Day 1 – Love According to God Day 11 – Love One Another  DAY 21 – WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Day 2 – Fruit of the Spirit  Day 12 – Love Everyone  Day 22 – Burning Love – Love in Marriage
Day 3 – God’s Love  Day 13 – Love Each Other  Day 23 – Gentle Love
Day 4 – Agape Love  Day 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day  Day 24 – One Mind  and Purpose
Day 5 – Who’s Your Master?  Day 15 – Free to Love  Day 25 – Love is a Verb
Day 6 – Life Eternal  Day 16 – Patience Love  Day 26 – Steadfast Love
Day 7 – His Great Love  Day 17 – Born of God  Day 27 – Love Forgives
Day 8 – More Than Conquerors  Day 18 – Born to Love  Day 28 – Love in Marriage
Day 9 – God, Who Gave Himself For Me  Day 19 – Love Your Enemy & Your Neighbor
Day 10 – Adopted  Day 20 – Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

Love One Another

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Phileo – For the next week I’ll be talking about this.
The phileo love refers to an affectionate, warm and tender platonic love. It makes you desire friendship with someone. It’s the kind of love which livens up the Agape love. Although you may have an agape love for your enemies, you may not have a phileo love for the same people. The translation of the word phileo is love in the noun – form: it is how you feel about someone. It is a committed and chosen love.

God’s word tells us:

Leviticus 19:18 Forget about the wrong things people do to you, and do not try to get even. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. I am the Lord.
Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and most important command. And the second command is like the first: ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’

It’s about choice and commitment. What choice will you make?

When you’re not loving people it means you’re not like them. That is a choice too. It’s about the attitudes and choices we make.

Choose an attitude of gratitude and commit to loving people. The choice to love will give you more  happiness in life. Who doesn’t want to be happy? Also, choosing love will give you blessings from God.

List of message series:

Day 1 – Love According to God Day 11 – Love One Another  DAY 21 – WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Day 2 – Fruit of the Spirit  Day 12 – Love Everyone  Day 22 – Burning Love – Love in Marriage
Day 3 – God’s Love  Day 13 – Love Each Other  Day 23 – Gentle Love
Day 4 – Agape Love  Day 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day  Day 24 – One Mind  and Purpose
Day 5 – Who’s Your Master?  Day 15 – Free to Love  Day 25 – Love is a Verb
Day 6 – Life Eternal  Day 16 – Patience Love  Day 26 – Steadfast Love
Day 7 – His Great Love  Day 17 – Born of God  Day 27 – Love Forgives
Day 8 – More Than Conquerors  Day 18 – Born to Love  Day 28 – Love in Marriage
Day 9 – God, Who Gave Himself For Me  Day 19 – Love Your Enemy & Your Neighbor
Day 10 – Adopted  Day 20 – Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

Adopted

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Day 10 – Adopted

God, our Father in heaven persevered and planned our adoption patiently, looking to the time when we would be safely in His home, loved and cherished as children of His very own.
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Being adopted by God means that we are accepted into His family.

For us, this means that we have been given the name of Christ and have the right to be called Christians. Our inheritance is nothing less than the the property of our Heavenly Father-all the spiritual riches that are in Christ, both in the present life and in our life to come.

Our Father God is infinitely patient, wise and loving and the Bible tells us that the fact that God does discipline us is proof in itself that we have been adopted into His family.

Being adopted by God means that we are loved by the Almighty God.

List of message series:

Day 1 – Love According to God Day 11 – Love One Another  DAY 21 – WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Day 2 – Fruit of the Spirit  Day 12 – Love Everyone  Day 22 – Burning Love – Love in Marriage
Day 3 – God’s Love  Day 13 – Love Each Other  Day 23 – Gentle Love
Day 4 – Agape Love  Day 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day  Day 24 – One Mind  and Purpose
Day 5 – Who’s Your Master?  Day 15 – Free to Love  Day 25 – Love is a Verb
Day 6 – Life Eternal  Day 16 – Patience Love  Day 26 – Steadfast Love
Day 7 – His Great Love  Day 17 – Born of God  Day 27 – Love Forgives
Day 8 – More Than Conquerors  Day 18 – Born to Love  Day 28 – Love in Marriage
Day 9 – God, Who Gave Himself For Me  Day 19 – Love Your Enemy & Your Neighbor
Day 10 – Adopted  Day 20 – Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

God, Who Gave Himself For Me

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galatians-220Day 9 – God, Who Gave Himself For Me

“Surely as we meditate on the love of the Lord, our hearts burn within us, and we long to love Him more.” -C. H. Spurgeon

Paul said in Galatians 2:20:

I was put to death on the cross with Christ, and I do not live anymore — it is Christ who lives in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself to save me.

When we accept Jesus as our Savior and we’re born again we aren’t who we used to be. Christ living in me causes me to desire to live by faith. There’s nothing I could ever do to repay Him.

However, we’re called to praise, worship and glorify Him, as well as, share The Good News of Salvation.

I don’t know about you, but, when something that grand and awesome happens I want to shout it from the mountaintops and rooftops to let everyone know of this great and awesome gift.

Meditate on Him. Pray and speak to God in love. Long for Him! Show Him you love Him.

Prayer: Dear Heavenly Yahweh, I pray for the fire in my belly to grip me in such a way that I want to share Your great gift with everyone. I want everyone to experience Your love. In Jesus’ name, amen.

List of message series:

Day 1 – Love According to God Day 11 – Love One Another  DAY 21 – WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Day 2 – Fruit of the Spirit  Day 12 – Love Everyone  Day 22 – Burning Love – Love in Marriage
Day 3 – God’s Love  Day 13 – Love Each Other  Day 23 – Gentle Love
Day 4 – Agape Love  Day 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day  Day 24 – One Mind  and Purpose
Day 5 – Who’s Your Master?  Day 15 – Free to Love  Day 25 – Love is a Verb
Day 6 – Life Eternal  Day 16 – Patience Love  Day 26 – Steadfast Love
Day 7 – His Great Love  Day 17 – Born of God  Day 27 – Love Forgives
Day 8 – More Than Conquerors  Day 18 – Born to Love  Day 28 – Love in Marriage
Day 9 – God, Who Gave Himself For Me  Day 19 – Love Your Enemy & Your Neighbor
Day 10 – Adopted  Day 20 – Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

More Than Conquerors

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Day 8 – More Than Conquerors

Romans 8:37-39 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

There’s nothing in all creation that can separate us from God’s love through Jesus because, for one, He created us and two, He adopted us into His family. The sacrifice of Salvation was our purchase price. There’s nothing bad enough that God won’t love us. Jesus’ Salvation wiped away all sin for all time that makes us clean in God’s eyes. It is finished. Satan is defeated. We can live a victorious life in Christ.

List of message series:

Day 1 – Love According to God Day 11 – Love One Another  DAY 21 – WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Day 2 – Fruit of the Spirit  Day 12 – Love Everyone  Day 22 – Burning Love – Love in Marriage
Day 3 – God’s Love  Day 13 – Love Each Other  Day 23 – Gentle Love
Day 4 – Agape Love  Day 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day  Day 24 – One Mind  and Purpose
Day 5 – Who’s Your Master?  Day 15 – Free to Love  Day 25 – Love is a Verb
Day 6 – Life Eternal  Day 16 – Patience Love  Day 26 – Steadfast Love
Day 7 – His Great Love  Day 17 – Born of God  Day 27 – Love Forgives
Day 8 – More Than Conquerors  Day 18 – Born to Love  Day 28 – Love in Marriage
Day 9 – God, Who Gave Himself For Me  Day 19 – Love Your Enemy & Your Neighbor
Day 10 – Adopted  Day 20 – Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

His Great Love

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romans-5-8 imageDay 7 – His Great Love

Romans 5:8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

This is the ultimate sacrifice of love. I don’t know any mortal person who would do such a thing for all mankind from the beginning to the end of days. In fact, we see today that many people don’t understand true love. We have a skewed idea of what we think love is. We try our best to live out that idea. God’s word tells us. We need to surrender to Him and obey Him. When we love as God loves everything else falls into place.

List of message series:

Day 1 – Love According to God Day 11 – Love One Another  DAY 21 – WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Day 2 – Fruit of the Spirit  Day 12 – Love Everyone  Day 22 – Burning Love – Love in Marriage
Day 3 – God’s Love  Day 13 – Love Each Other  Day 23 – Gentle Love
Day 4 – Agape Love  Day 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day  Day 24 – One Mind  and Purpose
Day 5 – Who’s Your Master?  Day 15 – Free to Love  Day 25 – Love is a Verb
Day 6 – Life Eternal  Day 16 – Patience Love  Day 26 – Steadfast Love
Day 7 – His Great Love  Day 17 – Born of God  Day 27 – Love Forgives
Day 8 – More Than Conquerors  Day 18 – Born to Love  Day 28 – Love in Marriage
Day 9 – God, Who Gave Himself For Me  Day 19 – Love Your Enemy & Your Neighbor
Day 10 – Adopted  Day 20 – Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

Life Eternal

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imageDay 6 – Life Eternal

Yeshua said in John 12:25-26 Those who love their lives will lose them, but those who hate their lives in this world will keep true life forever. Whoever serves me must follow me. Then my servant will be with me everywhere I am. My Father will honor anyone who serves me.

Loving and living for God gives us Eternal blessings. This builds on yesterday’s message, who your master is. Agape love sacrifices worldly love and serves God. It’s impossible to straddle the fence here. You have to choose between the world and God. Living for Eternity with God is much more preferable than being tormented with evil.

List of message series:

Day 1 – Love According to God Day 11 – Love One Another  DAY 21 – WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Day 2 – Fruit of the Spirit  Day 12 – Love Everyone  Day 22 – Burning Love – Love in Marriage
Day 3 – God’s Love  Day 13 – Love Each Other  Day 23 – Gentle Love
Day 4 – Agape Love  Day 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day  Day 24 – One Mind  and Purpose
Day 5 – Who’s Your Master?  Day 15 – Free to Love  Day 25 – Love is a Verb
Day 6 – Life Eternal  Day 16 – Patience Love  Day 26 – Steadfast Love
Day 7 – His Great Love  Day 17 – Born of God  Day 27 – Love Forgives
Day 8 – More Than Conquerors  Day 18 – Born to Love  Day 28 – Love in Marriage
Day 9 – God, Who Gave Himself For Me  Day 19 – Love Your Enemy & Your Neighbor
Day 10 – Adopted  Day 20 – Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

Who’s Your Master

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servant2mastersDay 5 – Who’s Your Master?

Matthew 6:24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in).

Apape love is all about sacrifice as well as giving and expecting nothing in return. It is a committed and chosen love. Therefore, it is a choice to love and serve God. If we choose to love and serve mammon (possessions), we’re sure to crash and burn. Choosing to love and serve God manifests great Eternal blessings.

List of message series:

Day 1 – Love According to God Day 11 – Love One Another  DAY 21 – WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Day 2 – Fruit of the Spirit  Day 12 – Love Everyone  Day 22 – Burning Love – Love in Marriage
Day 3 – God’s Love  Day 13 – Love Each Other  Day 23 – Gentle Love
Day 4 – Agape Love  Day 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day  Day 24 – One Mind  and Purpose
Day 5 – Who’s Your Master?  Day 15 – Free to Love  Day 25 – Love is a Verb
Day 6 – Life Eternal  Day 16 – Patience Love  Day 26 – Steadfast Love
Day 7 – His Great Love  Day 17 – Born of God  Day 27 – Love Forgives
Day 8 – More Than Conquerors  Day 18 – Born to Love  Day 28 – Love in Marriage
Day 9 – God, Who Gave Himself For Me  Day 19 – Love Your Enemy & Your Neighbor
Day 10 – Adopted  Day 20 – Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

Apage Love

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Day 4 – Agape Love

imageThis is an unconditional love that sees beyond the outer surface and accepts the recipient for whom he/she is, regardless of their flaws, shortcomings or faults. It’s the type of love that everyone strives to have for their fellow human beings. Although you may not like someone, you decide to love them just as a human being. This kind of love is all about sacrifice as well as giving and expecting nothing in return. The translation of the word agape is love in the verb – form: it is the love demonstrated by your behavior towards another person. It is a committed and chosen love. This is the kind of love God is and gives.

We choose to love. God chooses to love us. He sees beyond the messy bits and loves us anyway. That’s the kind of love He wants us to have for mankind and Him.

List of message series:

Day 1 – Love According to God Day 11 – Love One Another  DAY 21 – WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Day 2 – Fruit of the Spirit  Day 12 – Love Everyone  Day 22 – Burning Love – Love in Marriage
Day 3 – God’s Love  Day 13 – Love Each Other  Day 23 – Gentle Love
Day 4 – Agape Love  Day 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day  Day 24 – One Mind  and Purpose
Day 5 – Who’s Your Master?  Day 15 – Free to Love  Day 25 – Love is a Verb
Day 6 – Life Eternal  Day 16 – Patience Love  Day 26 – Steadfast Love
Day 7 – His Great Love  Day 17 – Born of God  Day 27 – Love Forgives
Day 8 – More Than Conquerors  Day 18 – Born to Love  Day 28 – Love in Marriage
Day 9 – God, Who Gave Himself For Me  Day 19 – Love Your Enemy & Your Neighbor
Day 10 – Adopted  Day 20 – Love Your Neighbor as Yourself