Love one another.

Hello friends,

We live in times of great contrasts.....there are wars and rumours of wars, famine, earthquakes, floods and financial delema and yet we also see breakthrough in technology and medicine and people celebrating life daily, families go on holidays, parents celebrate their childrens achievements and life continues and there is even an exceleration of life and hope for the future. How is this possible one might ask.
Its possible because God is our Father and He has such excellent plans for us His people. He never slumbers or sleeps and He never grows weary. He as a Father watches over the affairs of His household.
the Word of God encourages us to love one another and that by this all  will know that we are His disciples.

We love one another by respecting each other and honoring one another. making room for each others opinions and dreams, listening to each other with full attention, encouraging the best to come forth in one anothers lives.

1 Corinthians 13 says 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. If i have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains but I have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames but have not love I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easliy angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

Wow! such a awesome declaration of what love is. Each of us as we read that piece probably feel we fall short of what it is to truelly love one another......But take courage.... Jesus Christ is love. He layed down His life for us when we were sinners and He took our sin nature to the cross with Him and that old nature was nailed to that cross with Him.  We have been resurrected with Him with a new nature. The nature of Christ .and we have love and we can walk in the new nature because we have been given a new nature. So first of all we silence the voice of the accuser that tells us day and night that we are  no bodies and  failures and we repent before our heavenly Father that we have believed the lie and tried to be good people and we are failing in it because we are nullifying the work that Christ has already done for us, then we thank the Father that we are the children of God and that we have a new nature and we begin to walk in the fullness of our new nature in Christ. Without Him we are nothing But through Him we can do all things

As we walk in the love of God we begin to take on His identity and the old nature and false identity will move off the throne of our lives and the King takes His rightful place and the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts and lives. We can walk in love because He is love. We can celebrate with each others dreams because our Father put those dreams in our hearts. We can expect a good future because His plan is to prosper His children and not to harm them to give us a hope and a future. We can expect the best in all circumstances because He is not the Father of calamity. Woo Hoo!

So dear friends, let us love the Lord  our Godwith all of our hearts and let us love and encourage one another more and more even as the day may seem dark in the earth, Our God reigns and His plan is coming into focus swiftly and the kingdoms of the world will become the kingdom of our God and He shall reign for ever and ever.

I am cheering you on. You are the apple of your Fathers eye. He rejoices over you with singing.
His plan for you will never falter nor will He cut short on what He has promised you.

Keep yourself in Gods loving presence and thank Him for His unfailing love.

Father, thank You for Your love that saved us from ourselves and from the work of the evil one. Keep us close to Your heart Father that we may know Your love more and more, forgive us for trying to live in our own strength, we resign from our self efforts and accept Your nature. We thank You now that the struggle is not ours and we accept Your perfect love that carsts out all fear. We celebrate walking in Your love  and in your ways in Jesus name. Amen.

till next time
love you all
Rose.