Tag: #lovingkindness

Are You Willing To Do These 2 Things?

Text:

Proverbs 12:25-26 (NLT)

25  Worry weighs a person down; an encouraging word cheers a person up.

26  The godly give good advice to their friends; the wicked lead them astray.

Observation:

Do you realize that you have within you the resources to bring joy to many people?

There are people in your circle of influence, and circle of concern who are dealing with worry.

These are the two things that Solomon says the godly can do to help others.

  1. Give an encouraging word.
  2. Give good advice.

You have the power within you to be an agent of healing to hurting people. You can bring joy, and a turnaround to others by loving acts of kindness, and godly words of wisdom.

Proverbs 17:22 (NLT)

22  A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength.

The Holy Spirit of God will guide you, and empower you to do God’s will, and work. Don’t forfeit the opportunity to be a blessing, and to be blessed.

Proverbs 3:27 (NLT)

27  Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it’s in your power to help them.

Prayer:

Father, we are so grateful that You equip Your people to be instruments to speak healing, and helpful words to people we encounter who are hurting.

Father, we are so grateful that it is You that provides the opportunity, and that You provide the healing. Father, we acknowledge that You are the Master, and that we are Your servants.

Father, I pray that our service will be motivated by love, and that in Your eyes, You would see us as faithful servants. In the mighty name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

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Ephesians 6:10-11 (ESV) 
10   Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
11  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

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Have You Experienced the Love That Last Forever?

 

Text:

Psalm 143:8 (HCSB)

8  Let me experience Your faithful love in the morning, for I trust in You. Reveal to me the way I should go because I long for You.

Observation:

One of the most amazing things I know I learn as a child, and it is as real today as it was the first time I experienced it.

“Jesus loves me this I know, for the bible tells me so”. I will gladly tell the world that I know that God is real, and that His love never fails.

The amazing thing about God’s love is that He loves us first, and that He loves us without requiring us to do anything but accept His love. Notice what the Psalmist said.

Psalm 143:2 (HCSB)

2  Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.

At this very moment Jesus is standing at the door of your heart, and He watching and waiting for you to open the door and let Him come in. Are you willing to let Him come in?

Psalm 90:14-15 (HCSB)

14  Satisfy us in the morning with Your faithful love so that we may shout with joy and be glad all our days.

15  Make us rejoice for as many days as You have humbled us, for as many years as we have seen adversity.

There is no one that can satisfy the needs of your life but God. Why not open your heart and let God come in?

Prayer:

Father, I am so grateful for the love that You have for us. Father, I pray that no one would reject the love of God that You are waiting to pour into the hearts of those who would receive the gift that You offer to all who believe in You.

Father, I am so thankful that the hope of experiencing the forever love of God is backed by Your promises, and the Word of God.

Romans 5:5 (HCSB)

5  This hope will not disappoint ?us?, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

1 Corinthians 13:13 (HCSB)

13  Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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Isaiah 55:11 (KJV) 
11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

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