Friday, July 21, 2017, 04:31
Ephesians 4:
With all humbleness of mind, and meekness, with long suffering, supporting one another through love, Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace
But let us follow the truth in love, and in all things, grow up into him, which is the head, that is, Christ. By whom all the body being coupled and knit together by every joint, for the furniture thereof according to the effectual power, which is in the measure of every part receives increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Humble and meek in mind; to not thinking higher of yourself than others, with long suffering taking care of and supporting one another through love, keeping unity in the body; the body of Christ should function like a well-toned human body your shoulder does not look down upon your foot because it is closer to the head, and your left hand does not argue with your right hand to do what it does, your right arm does not compete with your left leg to gain position, your liver does not tell the heart I think I could do your job better. Your body works together to accomplish the things you do and it takes instruction from your head to get it done.
The church is supposed to work together taking instruction and guidance from its head Christ Jesus, getting long with all parts of its body, but the majority of Churches in America function like a paraplegic who has no control over movements or functions of their body. Parts arguing, out of sync with each other witch doesn’t allow the body to function properly.
If every part of the body of Christ were to truly apply love to and in every situation, the world would be running to it with the desire to be a part, but instead the world sees the church as a lame duck wallowing in the pool of life an essay target, something that needs to be put out of its torment, and quite honestly is willing to do just that.
i will say it aging: “love is the most important aspect of the Christian life”. Learn to love one another as Christ has loved you giving of yourself for the good of another not living a life of self-putting yourself, your wants and needs before the needs of others.
Grow up, love Christ with all your heart mind and soul and love everyone ells as you love yourself putting their needs and wellbeing before your own.
By follow the truth in love, and in all aspects of life, growing in the faith taking your lead from the head witch is Christ. Who builds and knits the body together all the body, being coupled and knit together so that His Spirit can flow through every member of the body making it posable for each member to grow drawing in others to the body.
Buy without love the body becomes week and ineffective a joke to the world in which we live. A newscasts like a bug to be crushed.
Thursday, July 20, 2017, 02:38
Ephesians 3:17-19
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith: That you, being rooted, grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all Saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height:
And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you may be filled with all fullness of God.
By faith; our faith in Christ, Christ lives in our hearts, by love our love of Christ will drive us to know Him as we open up to the leading of His Holy Spirit we can and will grasp and understand the being of God and His ways.
On my walk with the Holy Spirit over the last several years i have come to understand the will of God in my life, my response to Him, and the existence of peace, joy and love in my daily walk is directly determined by the depth of my love for Christ and my relationship with Him.
The relationship between Christ and us is all based on love, His love toward us, our love for Him and our love towards others.
remember Love never false.
Love of Christ builds our faith in Christ.
Through love we are able to grasp and understand who God really is, and His plan of reality instead of man’s concepts,
Three days ago we talked about what love is; it is an action that can be practiced, love is:
• Patient … do you operate on your time or God’s
• Kind … do you worship Christ or do you gripe and complain to Christ and about Christ and what you don’t have?
• Not jealous … or are you trying to be a god in your life and others life?
• Does not brag … do you take credit for what God does in your life as if it was of you?
• Not arrogant … do you take the credit for what God has done in you, and tell others about how great you are?
• Does not act unbecomingly … are you puffed up before God expecting Him to jump every time you speak
• Does not seek its own way … do you think you’re thought and ways are more relevant then God’s timing and ways?
• Is not provoked … do you get angry with God because He does not give you what you want when you want it?
• Does not take into account being wronged … do you feel wronged by God because He does not give you what you want, and keep a tally or score sheet on when you don’t get the answer you want?
• Does not rejoice in sin … do you live is sin rather than repent and give in to Christ
• Or do you rejoices in truth Bearing all things, Believes all things, hopes all things and Endures all things … knowing in faith through love that whatever come in to your life that Father God, Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit our for you and not against you they have your best in mind.
Love is patient, are you patient with Father God, Christ Jesus or the Holy Spirit?
Or when you ask Him for something do you expect an answer right then and become indigent because you think it takes too long to get an answer?
i have found that when you really love the Lord, you will comprehend He is in control and you need not worry about things so when you ask for something weather it is for health or something, through love your faith will grow and you will realize He has a time for everything and His timing is not ours.
Through love of Christ our faith grows and with faith in Christ we will know He is in control of our lives and everything around us, and it is up to us to subdue and kill the worldly spirit in us, and through faith in Christ it is posable to do, for Christ is for us not against us and His plans are higher than ours, His ways are higher, deeper and wider than ours are or ever could be but through our love of Him and to Him our faith is made strong and through our faith in Him and of Him we can understand His ways and have total confidents His plan for our life is better than anything we could muster up.
And know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you may be filled with all fullness of God.
Wednesday, July 19, 2017, 03:27
Ephesians 1:4
As he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, and without blame before him in love:
Chosen before creation to be holy;
So why do we chose to be unholy
Chosen to live blameless before Him: in love
So why do we chose to live outside His love by living lives filled with wont, greed, self, and despair, desiring the things and ways of this world instead of desiring and walking after His love, Joy and Peace, living a life filled with His longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, growing in faith, treating others with meekness, living a truly self-restraint in action, and word; self-control.
Living life under the wing of Jesus this can be accomplished if you are willing to sacrifice self and grasp hold of Christ.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and loose his sole?
Tuesday, July 18, 2017, 05:43
Galatians 5:6-25
For in Jesus Christ neither being circumcision or uncircumcision benefits anything. But rather faith which works by love, benefits all things.
For brethren, you have been called in to liberty: only do not use your liberty as justifications of the flesh; But instead by love serving one another not self.
For all the Law is fulfilled in one saying, which is this, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”.
If you bite and devour one another, take heed lest you be consumed by one another.
I say, Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary one to another, so that you cannot do the same things if you are living in the spirit that you would living in worldly flesh. And if you be led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.
But under the fruit of the Spirit witch is
• love,
• joy,
• peace,
• longsuffering,
• gentleness,
• goodness,
• faith,
• Meekness,
• temperance:
Against such there is no law.
For they that are Christ’s, has crucified the flesh with the affections, lusts, its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit not boastful, challenging one another or envying one another.
Being in the liberty of Christ does not give us the freedom to sin, yes our sin will be forgiven if we truly repent but that does not give us the freedom to continue in sin.
Wearing the chosen clothing of the time, saying the right words or attending the right church or church service is going to get you any closer to having the right outlook on life.
You can play church even babble on like your speaking in tongs, but if your heart is not right if you look down on others, or think you’re a class up from others, that your garbage is better than your neighbor you are only fooling yourself and walking in a dangerous place.
The close you wear, the words you use even the churchy so called spiritual words you use mean nothing, what you have and what you do mean nothing if your life is not lived out in the fruit of the Spirit witch are
• love,
• joy,
• peace,
• longsuffering,
• gentleness,
• goodness,
• faith,
• Meekness,
• temperance:
Is your life a reflection of these nine attributes?
Against such there is no law.
Or does your life reflect the attributes of self, lusts, its passions and desires boastful, challenging and envies.
If you say you live in the Spirit then also walk in the Spirit
For they that are Christ’s, have crucified the flesh. Heard realities, if your flesh controls you day by day living you need to ask yourself these questions;
- Do i allow the Holy Spirit to lead me?
- Do i really care about others?
- Is my life that much more important or valuable the others?
- Do i live to share Christ or to gather things?
- Who do i truly belong to, Christ or myself?
Seek Christ and the Spirit of Christ; and allow your life to be saturated with and a mire of the attributes of being filled with the Holy Spirit and the loving forgivness of Christ witch is: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance.
Learn to truly love one another as you love yourself.
Monday, July 17, 2017, 05:11
1 Corinthians 13: 1-13
Though I speak with the tongues of men and Angels, and have not love, I am as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I had the gift of prophecy, and knew all secrets and all knowledge, yes, if I had all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and had not love, I would still be nothing.
And though I feed the poor with all my goods, and though I give my body, that I be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
• Love suffers long: it is bountiful:
• Love is not envies not:
• Love dose’s not boast in itself:
• Love is not puffed up:
• Love dose’s no uncomely thing:
• Love doses not seek her own thing:
• Love is not provoked to anger:
• Love it thinks no evil:
• Love rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth:
• Love suffers all things:
• Love believeth all things:
• Love hopes all things:
• Love endures all things.
• Even if prophesying would be abolished, or the tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away
• Love never fall away,
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is in part will be abolished.
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.
For now we see through a glass darkly: but then will we see face to face. Now I know in part: but then will I know even as I am known.
And now abides faith, hope and love, even these three: but the greatest of these is love.
How does your life measure up to the list above, is your love gentle and kind?
Do you consider others before yourself?
According to Jesus showing love is the most important action you can perform throughout your life on this earth, love is an action not a feeling, beings it is an action you can practice it and perfect it
Love is:
- Patient
- Kind
- Not jealous
- Does not brag
- Not arrogant
- Does not act unbecomingly
- Does not seek its own way
- Is not provoked
- Does not take into account being wronged
- Does not rejoice in sin
- But rejoices in truth
- Bears all things
- Believes all things
- hopes all things
- Endures all things
Take each one of these and practice them each day, start at the top Patients , patients is not a feeling it is a response an action it is first on the list because it is the most important if you can learn to be patient with others the rest of the list will fall in to line in your life.
(When i ran across this in 1972 i hated everyone my life was the opposite of the list above, i had no patience with anyone. After reading the bible i realized my life was upside down, understanding that I needed to put others before me, considering them as equals to me that I am no better than anyone ells on this earth. Making the choice to take this list and live it out, I started with patience i took each incident in my day and mentally chose to be patient in the situation, it was tuff at first the first year really didn’t do that great but keep trying, the second year was a little better, then someone told me “if you want your life to change when you recognize you are doing something wrong at that moment turn to Christ and ask for His help to change If you are sincere in your heart He will help you just ask and do not doubt He will do it”. and i’m still practicing being patient and am still catch myself and have to go to the Lord and ask for help, but one thing i noticed was that as i lean in to being patient with others the rest of the list just fell in to line, Have i got it down am i perfect, not yet but i at least don’t want to kill every one and have learned to get along with others to treat them as equals, not placing myself above them. )
You can change your attitude, attitude is not a feeling it is action. Go out and practice loving one another.
so go and make your life a life of practicing love.
Side Not::
This is where i comes in, i'm not I am, when righting of myself i is not capitalized because it reminds me of where i stand, not being equal with or above Christ, but a servent of Christ. my importance is in Him and comes from Him.
in school we were told to capitalize names to show importance, (lifting up self) is not what we are to do, so i don't as a reminder to me.