There are many people in this world, some are our own family members and friends, that are hurting and need supernatural strength and peace to get through the day. People encounter things in this world that God never wanted them to go through but because the enemy came in and tried to steal, kill and destroy, they are left to put the pieces of their life back together. It is our job to pray and intercede on their behalf. To allow our Spirit to pray through us so the Holy Spirit; the Comforter, can give them the peace that surpasses all understanding. To give them strength to keep going after a tragedy, and the peace to sleep at night.
God can heal people's hearts, He can heal their minds, and He can make them whole again through our prayers. I'm not talking about prayers that say God let your will be done. I'm not talking about prayers that accuse Him of causing the bad things to happen. I'm talking about praying in the Spirit (praying in tongues) because our Spirit knows how to pray and what specifics to pray for. Our Spirit is directly connected to the Holy Spirit and to God, and so our Spirit even knows when to pray and intercede for someone, so it is very important that we listen closely to our Spirit as it leads us and guides us on when to pray.
Through our interceding, we can also step in and stop the enemy from being able to kill, steal and destroy in another person's life. Prayer has stopped the enemy from causing destruction in people's lives countless times. So when you have a desire to pray and don't know why, don't worry why. Just begin to pray in the Spirit and allow the Holy Spirit to do what needs to be done through our prayers.
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Friday, May 9, 2014
Loving Your Neighbor
Over the past year I have watched too many people turn on each other at
the drop of a dime... or less. Showing no character, no integrity, no
love toward their neighbor, and all too eager to tear someone apart
because they disagree. (this has nothing to do with anyone who comments
on my status' either)
We are here for one purpose; to glorify God... as one body. When we turn on each other and bash those we disagree with, we join up with the devil destroying the very thing that God is trying to build.
God used many non perfect people in the Bible to do His work because the "perfect" people were too busy worrying about who does this right or does that right. God looks at a man's heart, not his outward appearence. He is the one who changes people, not us. He is also the one who promotes people. We are not the judge nor the jury, it is not our responsibility nor right to decide who should do what. Leave that to God.
Let's focus on doing what God puts on our hearts and fight the real enemy; satan. As we fight not against flesh and blood but of principality and powers of darkness. If you find someone you don't agree with (and you will), pray for them. That God will give them wisdom in their endevour and bless them as they grow in knowledge and understanding.
I forward this to everyone I could think of that is or will be used of God because if you haven't had this challenge come your way through people, you may and I want this to encourage you.
We are powerful as a body of Christ, but weak only when we allow ourselves to fight each other.
God is a good God. Let's show the world just how great He is by how we treat one another!
We are here for one purpose; to glorify God... as one body. When we turn on each other and bash those we disagree with, we join up with the devil destroying the very thing that God is trying to build.
God used many non perfect people in the Bible to do His work because the "perfect" people were too busy worrying about who does this right or does that right. God looks at a man's heart, not his outward appearence. He is the one who changes people, not us. He is also the one who promotes people. We are not the judge nor the jury, it is not our responsibility nor right to decide who should do what. Leave that to God.
Let's focus on doing what God puts on our hearts and fight the real enemy; satan. As we fight not against flesh and blood but of principality and powers of darkness. If you find someone you don't agree with (and you will), pray for them. That God will give them wisdom in their endevour and bless them as they grow in knowledge and understanding.
I forward this to everyone I could think of that is or will be used of God because if you haven't had this challenge come your way through people, you may and I want this to encourage you.
We are powerful as a body of Christ, but weak only when we allow ourselves to fight each other.
God is a good God. Let's show the world just how great He is by how we treat one another!
What's Love Got To Do With It?
God calls His children to show love to everyone
because He is love. We are to act as our Father
because we are a part of Him and He is a part of us.
When we show the World love they can see God in us. That is what will
bring people to God and HE will be the one to subtlety
bring change into their lives as they transform.
Condemnation is a thing of the Old Testament. Jesus came so that we don't have to live under condemnation. He even said in Luke 6:36-38
36 Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
37 “Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not
be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will be given
to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be
put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be
measured back to you.” Therefore be merciful, just
as your Father also is merciful.
I have watched lives change so dramatically through the Holy Spirit's guidance as the people were shown love rather than telling them what they needed to change and making them feel that they are not good enough. One of the reasons Jesus died on the cross is because we could never be "good enough" to be a Christian or go to Heaven. People need to come to God just as they are. If we wait around to come to God because we have to fix this or fix that, we will never come to God. We cannot change on our own. We cannot make ourselves be "good enough" to be a Christian. It is ONLY by Grace that we are saved. NOT by works. (Ephesians 2:8) This World is desperate for God but until we get it right by just showing God's love, they will continue to be lost.
Our fellow Christians, our brothers and sisters in Christ should be treated with that same love that God commands us to with the World. Fighting and bickering among Christians is very displeasing to God. People watch us and when they see us turning on each other and fighting it only makes them want to stay away from us. We cannot be a good witness when we are back biting or back stabbing one another. We are held at a higher standard because we are to show the World a Great and Mighty God that loves and takes care of His children. Otherwise, why would anyone want what we have?? If we are fighting as the World does, and our lives are just as miserable as their's, then we have nothing that they want. However, if we become what God calls us to be Overcomers, Victors, and Conquerors who show the World and each other love; then we've got their attention and they will desire to have what we have; God!
I end with these scriptures:
John 13:34-35
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
1 Corinthians 13
The Greatest Gift
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I
have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have
the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and
though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I
am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and
though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me
nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not
parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its
own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but
rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will
fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is
knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be
done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For
now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but
then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is
love.
Condemnation is a thing of the Old Testament. Jesus came so that we don't have to live under condemnation. He even said in Luke 6:36-38
36 Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
37 “Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not
be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will be given
to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be
put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be
measured back to you.” Therefore be merciful, just
as your Father also is merciful.
I have watched lives change so dramatically through the Holy Spirit's guidance as the people were shown love rather than telling them what they needed to change and making them feel that they are not good enough. One of the reasons Jesus died on the cross is because we could never be "good enough" to be a Christian or go to Heaven. People need to come to God just as they are. If we wait around to come to God because we have to fix this or fix that, we will never come to God. We cannot change on our own. We cannot make ourselves be "good enough" to be a Christian. It is ONLY by Grace that we are saved. NOT by works. (Ephesians 2:8) This World is desperate for God but until we get it right by just showing God's love, they will continue to be lost.
Our fellow Christians, our brothers and sisters in Christ should be treated with that same love that God commands us to with the World. Fighting and bickering among Christians is very displeasing to God. People watch us and when they see us turning on each other and fighting it only makes them want to stay away from us. We cannot be a good witness when we are back biting or back stabbing one another. We are held at a higher standard because we are to show the World a Great and Mighty God that loves and takes care of His children. Otherwise, why would anyone want what we have?? If we are fighting as the World does, and our lives are just as miserable as their's, then we have nothing that they want. However, if we become what God calls us to be Overcomers, Victors, and Conquerors who show the World and each other love; then we've got their attention and they will desire to have what we have; God!
I end with these scriptures:
John 13:34-35
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
1 Corinthians 13
The Greatest Gift
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I
have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have
the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and
though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I
am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and
though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me
nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not
parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its
own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but
rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will
fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is
knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be
done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For
now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but
then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is
love.
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