Tag: Patience
The Purpose of Love
Love fuels our faith to overcome the world and to win the lost. However, love needs to be cultivated intentionally. So, allow the Holy Spirit to teach you how to love unconditionally. Romans 5:5 says, “And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”
Where there is love, there is hope and people need to see and feel that ray of hope that we possess. When we allow the Holy Spirit to love through us, he is also teaching us the God kind of love… Agape. It is not in our ability to love but God’s ability operating in us that produces unconditional love.
So, when you fall short if being able to love someone because of their words deeds or actions. The way the look, smell or act, ask Holy Spirit to help you love them the way God loves them if only just a little and a little goes a long way when God is in it!
Remember the depth in which God loves you even when you act unbecomingly. He sent his son to die while you (me) were in the midst of sin. It is with that same compassion we are to love another and with God, all things are possible!
Love never fails! Valarie
Perfected Love
Fear has the power to hold people captive in their own minds. It has the power to paralyze and destroy without ever leaving a mark. Fear tramples on dreams and crushes hopes. Fear binds us to failure. We can never fulfill our God given purpose if we are always in fear.
Job said, “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that I was afraid of is come unto me.” (Job 3:25)
What thing have you greatly feared that has now come upon you? What were you afraid of that now is a reality in your life? Can you break its hold or influence?
We give life to our fears and infuse it with power to overtake and torment us. It is very real and for too many people a yoke around their neck that drags them down with every step.
So, how do we overcome this spirit of fear? It is written, “There is no fear in love; but perfect love cast out fear: because fear hath torment. He that fear is not made perfect in love.” (1 John 4:18)
Love has the power to break fears hold in our lives. Knowing and believing that you are loved unconditionally by God is the first step in breaking the power of fear. He first loved us while we were yet still sinners and his love never changes.
Don’t fear things to the point that you give it power to torment you. When fear rises up, let love rise up even higher and know that love never fails!!!
Love in Action – God word produces actions. Valarie
What does it mean to fear the Lord? Too often we confuse fear with being afraid as in harmful, terror, nightmares the wrath of God etc.
However, fear here is respect, honor, high regard or reverence to name a few.
When we respect, honor and hold the Lord in high regard reverencing who he is, wisdom will be our companion. Knowledge and understanding will open our spiritual eyes to see things that would normally be unknowable with our carnal minds.
We would see unconditional love as something attainable despite the actions of the world around us.
We’d understand better how the Holy one of Israel was able to do all he did despite the sinful nature of man including forgiveness of sins.
Love in action – Reverence the Lord! Valarie
The Thing I Fear the Most
The thing I fear the most is falling out of love with love or me allowing love to become tainted with my feelings, cares and concerns. Let me clarify, not my love because that can happen at any time. I’m talking about God’s love in me. Although my fears may be valid, they are not rooted in the spirit but the flesh.
However, perfect love cast out all fear (1 John 4:18) and the only love that is perfect is Gods. As I continue to renew my mind with the word of God, me fears will become less and less. It is said that practice makes perfect. As I practice walking in love and letting it takes root in me, my fears will subside. Perfected love will break the hold of fear leaving me fearless in love.
Love in Action – Let us love in both word and deeds! Valarie
You Are Fearfully And Wonderfully Made!
Psalm 139:13-16 (MSG)
13-16 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I’d even lived one day.
Don’t try to fit into someone else’s mold. There maybe someone like you but there’s only one you. Even identical twins are different, that’s why there are two of them. Hug and Love from me to you! Valarie
Love In Action 
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