Selfishness and rudeness may get us what we want temporarily but it does not bring peace or joy!!!! Think about it!!!
Monday, April 18, 2022
Love God's Way
Amen!!!! Love God's way is far different from love man's way.
Love God's way is based on selflessness, love man's way is based on performance and dedicated to only loving those who enhance the one who wants to appear special.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, 6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
When we love someone and they have fallen into sin we grieve for them and approach them to help them see their need for repentance. We never gloat over the sins of others.
When we love someone we quickly restore them when they are repentant, rejoicing in their confession and cleansing. 1 John 1:9
When we love someone we rejoice when good things happen to them or when they do good things.
When we love someone we weep with them in the hard times, over the difficult people in their lives, and bless them by comforting them.
Those who do not love don't care what their friends are going through as long as it doesn't bother them.
Those who do not love even feel a sense of glee that someone has fallen or that they have not received a blessing.
Those who do not love demonstrate everything the opposite of what God said love was in the 1 Corinthians 13 passage about love.
My guess is that all of us know what love looks like when we see it even if we don't know the verses from the Bible.
God placed it in every human being to need love, to give and receive love. As this apostate age progresses toward the tribulation we are experiencing far less love than ever before. Everyone not only does what is right in their own eyes they hate anyone who does not validate or agree with them.
Learning for the unloving person is impossible, when self is on the throne no one else's input is received with joy, it is spurned and rejected because it is not their own idea. Truth does not matter to the unloving person, only self-promotion.
We can only learn and love when we are humble and receptive to the input of those around us. When we know we are not perfect we can enjoy the thoughts of others, their ideas, and their desires without feeling attacked.
The longer I live the more God's love makes sense and the less man's love does not make sense. We gain far more peace and joy from being loving and none of these things from being unloving.
Morning Manna by Key Ton
A dear Facebook friend sent me this in my private messages I wanted to share it with my other brothers and sisters. This story shows us why we should obey God even when we don't understand, we never know what He is doing. Here is the story!!!
Send by Key Ton, thank you Key for your encouragement to us.
"MORNING MANNA
2022 April 17
BY ANY MEANS SAVE SOME
"IF BY ANY MEANS I.....MIGHT SAVE SOME OF THEM" (ROM 11;14)
St.Paul's motivation to save souls by any means, made him sacrifice much, and as a result, innumerable people got saved. Even after 2000 years, his epistles continue to be awesome, and all over the world souls are not only getting saved but are also being transformed. Any sacrifice we make to rescue even one soul from hellfire is worth the while.
When a certain child of God was going around distributing tracts, he knocked at the door of a house. After a while, a man opened the door. The Christian offered him a tract. The man of the house angrily snatched the tract and banged the door shut on his face.
Anxious to know why the man had been so upset, the Christian went back to the house after a few days. This time, the man had a smile on his face and showed him the fan from which he had hung a rope to commit suicide. "I was been in the act of putting my head into the noose that day when the doorbell rang." he said, " thought, 'Anyway, I'm going to hell. Why should I spend all my time in hell wondering who might have rung the bell? Let me see who is standing outside and then proceed with my plan, and answered the door. The sight of a man with a tract annoyed me, and I was going to chuck the tract into the wastepaper basket when the words 'YOU ARE SOMEONE SPECIAL' caught my eye, I paused to glance at the content of the tract. As I read, a light dawned in my heart I gave my life to the Lord, and abandoned all my foolish plans."
Dear child of God, do all you can, by all means, and at any cost, to save from eternal destruction. Don't go to heaven empty-handed. What a joy it will be to be welcomed at the pearly gates by the souls you led to Christ! What a thrill that will give to your spirit all eternity!
"Help us, Lord to be a lifeline
To a dying world today
Bringing hope to hopeless people
And sharing salvation's way.
~ Morning Manna 🍞
Send by Key Ton, thank you Key for your encouragement to us.
"MORNING MANNA
2022 April 17
BY ANY MEANS SAVE SOME
"IF BY ANY MEANS I.....MIGHT SAVE SOME OF THEM" (ROM 11;14)
St.Paul's motivation to save souls by any means, made him sacrifice much, and as a result, innumerable people got saved. Even after 2000 years, his epistles continue to be awesome, and all over the world souls are not only getting saved but are also being transformed. Any sacrifice we make to rescue even one soul from hellfire is worth the while.
When a certain child of God was going around distributing tracts, he knocked at the door of a house. After a while, a man opened the door. The Christian offered him a tract. The man of the house angrily snatched the tract and banged the door shut on his face.
Anxious to know why the man had been so upset, the Christian went back to the house after a few days. This time, the man had a smile on his face and showed him the fan from which he had hung a rope to commit suicide. "I was been in the act of putting my head into the noose that day when the doorbell rang." he said, " thought, 'Anyway, I'm going to hell. Why should I spend all my time in hell wondering who might have rung the bell? Let me see who is standing outside and then proceed with my plan, and answered the door. The sight of a man with a tract annoyed me, and I was going to chuck the tract into the wastepaper basket when the words 'YOU ARE SOMEONE SPECIAL' caught my eye, I paused to glance at the content of the tract. As I read, a light dawned in my heart I gave my life to the Lord, and abandoned all my foolish plans."
Dear child of God, do all you can, by all means, and at any cost, to save from eternal destruction. Don't go to heaven empty-handed. What a joy it will be to be welcomed at the pearly gates by the souls you led to Christ! What a thrill that will give to your spirit all eternity!
"Help us, Lord to be a lifeline
To a dying world today
Bringing hope to hopeless people
And sharing salvation's way.
~ Morning Manna 🍞
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