Love gives us the strength to overcome adversity in our lives because it's the foundation of our being that presents us with a purpose. And when we have a purpose, the love within us becomes an unbeatable force. When children grow up together in families they often remain close friends throughout life because there's a … Continue reading Love Gives us Strength
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Love is a Passion Fruit
The Bible says in Galatians 5:22 that love is one of the fruits of the Spirit, and in fact, it's listed as the first fruit, which indicates that it's a priority. It's one of the virtues or the characteristics that make up the wholeness of the Spirit of God; a virtue that we could refer to as … Continue reading Love is a Passion Fruit
What is love?
The Bible is all about love and it tells us that God is the epitome of love. John 3:16 says that He gave His own Son as a sacrifice for us, and although this shows what the essence of love is, it gets lost in the modern world. Even in the Christian realm love has … Continue reading What is love?
Love Your Enemies
Most Christians are familiar with Matthew 5:44 where we're told to love our enemies, but too often we become confused with the connotation of loving a bad person when we're dealing with the world. Our emotions become involved and we begin to pick out other scriptures that seem to clearly say that it's normal to have … Continue reading Love Your Enemies
Love and Forgiveness
Many Christians think that we only need to forgive the people we love and that it's not necessary to forgive the ones who have offended us that are just acquaintances or people we really don't like anyway. Or we think that because we're King's kids we don't have to lower ourselves to forgive the people of world, after … Continue reading Love and Forgiveness
Love or Adultery
One of the greatest tools that the devil is using today to destroy people is deceit, and he is confusing the emotions so that we don't recognize the difference between love and adultery. To fulfill their own lusts, the people of the world have given Hollywood the authority to establish a precedent that the "wannabee … Continue reading Love or Adultery
Love Sinners?
As Christians we often believe that we should love each other, help and support each other, tolerate each other's differences and spend all our time with only Christians. We become a clique unto ourselves - aka denominations - and have no tolerance for anyone outside of our own circle of friends. We forget where we came from and … Continue reading Love Sinners?
Greed and Love Don’t Mix
The lifestyle of Christians has been a hot topic for years. Many believe that "real Christians" should swear a secret oath of poverty and shouldn't own any kind of material possessions so that they can stay pure before God. Others believe that the Lord wants us to prosper and have an abundance of material possessions. … Continue reading Greed and Love Don’t Mix
What is Unconditional Love?
The word "love" is one is that we use to convey a passionate feeling towards someone or something. It's a word that we often use as an expression or a selective emotion but without the heartfelt conviction of true sentiment. It has become a popular word in our vocabulary, but do we really understand what the word … Continue reading What is Unconditional Love?
Why Do We Need to Love God?
Many religious denominations teach us that obedience is the key to a successful Christian life, but obedience is only one of the contributing factors; it's not the main issue. For a healthy Christian life we need to love God. It's not difficult to develop a love for God when we understand who He is and what He … Continue reading Why Do We Need to Love God?
The Beginning of Love
God is love and everything God does is initiated in love and because of love. He created us because He wanted to have a family and He gave us everything to keep us healthy, happy and content. This is the beginning of the Love of God. God walked in the Garden of Eden with Adam … Continue reading The Beginning of Love
Why We Can’t Walk by Sight
Many of us are standing in faith and believing God for healing, financial release or for some other need in our lives. We have given the situation to the Lord and we truly believe that He has heard us and answered us, and so we live each day in a state of waiting to see … Continue reading Why We Can’t Walk by Sight
Faith Isn’t Always About “Me”
Often when we're standing in faith and believing God for something, be it healing, finances, a relationship, a job, whatever it is our focus is on us because it's our need. Our every thought is directed to strengthening our own faith and trust in God for the answer, but we need to step outside of our own little … Continue reading Faith Isn’t Always About “Me”
It’s Time to Put Faith to Work
It's time to put our faith to work! I'm asking everyone to please join me in a stand of faith for a young woman who is in the hospital fighting with cancer for her life. Her name is Fawn and she and her husband love the Lord but the enemy has attacked her with this aggressive … Continue reading It’s Time to Put Faith to Work
When do we Reach Our Goal With Faith?
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” As we continue to struggle in this world and build our faith, we realize that we are able to believe God for bigger and greater things. When we started out we used our faith sparingly, then more often for daily situations, … Continue reading When do we Reach Our Goal With Faith?
Does God Love Some of Us More Than Others?
When Christians discuss the concept of faith, they quickly realize that God seems to pour more blessings onto the ones who have the most faith. And while we need to discuss the levels of faith among ourselves so we can learn and grow, it can present some serious issues if we don't understand what faith is. We … Continue reading Does God Love Some of Us More Than Others?
Don’t Quit Your Day Job…
Like anything else in life, when we're waiting to receive something we want to just stop everything and wait for it. And while the excitement of our expectancy grows, we have to remember that we still have a life to live, things to do and people to see. So, while we're waiting for this special … Continue reading Don’t Quit Your Day Job…
Faith is Made Stronger in Numbers
If one person could have the faith to move mountains like Jesus says in Matthew 17:20, then think what two or ten or a hundred people standing together in faith could do! It's true - faith grows in numbers. Sometimes things will come against us and we are able to give the situation to God and truly trust Him … Continue reading Faith is Made Stronger in Numbers
Where Faith Has Gone Before
When we reach that crossroads in our lives where we have to make a choice between going the way of the world and following God's direction, we need to realize that we are not pioneers in faith. There are many men of the Bible who showed us "where faith has gone before". It's not enough to … Continue reading Where Faith Has Gone Before
Faith Overcomes The World
The problems we face in this world can be very tangible and require very tangible solutions. Whether it's physical healing, financial relief or the many other problems that we face, often something physical or tangible has to happen before we see the answer. If our needs require financial solutions then we're looking for money to … Continue reading Faith Overcomes The World
Smile, God Loves You! 