What’s love got to do with it!
1Corinthians 13:7
Love bears all things. believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
What’s love got to do with it!
God’s love is extravagant and intimate.
He loves us in a very personal way.
Jeremiah 1:5
He knows us before we were ever formed.
Matthew 10:30 GW
Every hair on your head has been counted.
God takes exquisite care of His children.
Our lives are valuable to Him.
As He takes care of the birds in the air,
how much more will God care for us!
John 14:2
Though we may have troubles in this world,
God has prepared mansions for our eternity.
John 15:13
No greater love exists than the sacrifice Jesus made for us.
His greatest show of love……..JESUS!!!!
His love is extravagant..!
What?
I already have it!
YES!
Through adoption by God, you already have it.
Power, authority and freedom from fear.
As an adopted child of God we are adopted into the family of God
and become joint heirs with Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:15
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear,
but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out
“Abba Father”.
As an adopted child of God,
we have been given the same rights as the Son
and have been given a new name, a new identity in Christ.
Most importantly, through adoption, we
have been given power and authority to overcome
“all the power of the enemy,” (Luke 10:19)
Jesus had authority over everything; to cast out demons,
heal the sick and over disease.
Matthew 28:18, Mark 1:27, Luke 7:7
As joint heirs with Christ, we inherit eternal life,
the authority to speak over our lives in His Name
and receive all that Christ possesses.
Every person is from God, but not all have been
adopted as sons of God.
To receive your inheritance you must receive Jesus
as your Lord and Savior.
Then all that He has is yours!
Formula’s exist in math and science to find answers.
There are formula’s which make up atoms and molecules.
These are constants.
You may know someone with a “get rich quick” formula,
or how to lose weight.
Unfortunately, what works in life for one person
may not work in another’s.
These are ephemeral and untrustworthy.
The same is true with Christians.
What works for one may not work for another.
There is no magic formula which will work for all to
live victorious, happy, and healthy.
Someone may pray two hours every morning and night.
Go to church three to five times a week and
knows where all the scriptures are.
They appear blessed, highly favored, and grace filled.
Consequently, you try to follow their formula for praying
and after five or ten minutes you run out of things to pray about.
You know the verse but not the book or chapter.
Work prevents you from getting to church more than once a week.
So you try another formula and it doesn’t work either
and you wonder why.
God doesn’t fit in a formula or a box.
God leads each one of us in a different way
and He gives the grace to follow it.
Don’t look for a formula.
There isn’t one.
Listen to God, He is showing the way.
2 Corinthians 12:9
And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you,
My strength is made perfect in weakness”…….
Everyone has faith in something.
We have faith the sun will rise and set daily.
Faith the floor will be there as we set our feet upon it.
These are constants.
The faith put in jobs, cars, friends, family and ourselves is not.
This type of faith can fail.
But when we come to Christ we are given a “measure of faith”.
Romans 12:3
For I say, through the grace given to me,
to everyone who is among you,
not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think,
but to think soberly,
as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
An everlasting faith in God, Who will never fail.
It is a gift that grows.
Every Christian is given the same amount of faith
and every time we tap into faith by
leaning on, trusting in, and obeying God faith magnifies.
II Thessalonians 1:3
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren,
as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly,
and the love of of everyone of you all abound toward each other….
The power source of faith is the word of God.
Just as water is a power source for electricity.
Without water–no power.
Without God’s word–little faith.
Romans 10:17
So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
The more of God’s word the greater the faith.
Faith is planted in our spirit and as we water it with the Word
it flourishes and is nurtured by the Holy Spirit.
Water your measure of faith today with the Word of God.