Your calling is to fulfil the royal law of love as given to us in this Scripture: “You must love and value your neighbor as you love and value yourself!” For keeping this law is the noble way to live. James 2:8 (Passion Translation) To Love – Part 5 Go to PART 1 |...
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Matt 11:28 (NIV) In chapter 11, Matthew writes about the time when John the Baptist was in prison and sent for Jesus asking “are you the one? Or should I look for another?” I have judged John...
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed. Psalm 34:18 (NLT) Pain and Gain Have you ever fainted? Or been severely winded? Passed out? The feeling of going down and losing control of your responses and senses, watching the...
Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Matt 28:20 (NLT) The disciples thought they'd lost everything. Jesus had been crucified, He was buried and His tomb was guarded...
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Phil 1:25 (NIV) Paul’s letter to Philemon addresses something we can all relate to: complicated and broken relationship. Onesimus was a slave in Philemon's house and reportedly stole some money from him and then...
Most of us are aware of and enjoy love…it's wired into our DNA! However none of us really experience ‘perfect love', humanly speaking, because none of us are perfect! This creates a crack for the enemy to fill us with fear. Fear about stepping out, being out of...
Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this? (Esther 4:14 NLT) It may seem that Esther was in the right place, at the right time. Some might say a cosmic coincidence where the stars aligned and she was able to be the hero that saved the day....
Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross. (Colossians 1:20 MSG) Everything...
He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds. (Psalms 147:3 NKJV) Author Henri Nouwen writes, “When those you love deeply reject you, leave you, or die, your heart will be broken. But that should not hold you back from loving deeply. The pain that comes from...
For his unfailing love toward those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. (Psalms 103:11 NLT) It's unfathomable to imagine a love that is unfailing since most of our experience, day-to-day, is dealing with love that fails and is not...
