Hope in Today Ministries, Inc., Daily Devotion to God’s Holy Word.
The Sermon:
What Manner of Love is this? What Manner of Love is Jesus To Us?
By Karen Rowe
To prepare our heart, and prayerfully, in the way, the Spirit of the Living Lord, has revealed this to me to share with us who read this Today, I pray that the Holy Spirit will open our eyes to see; and our ears to hear, how much God has SO loved the world through Jesus.
Once we have come to know and believe in the love God has for us, isn’t it up to us who believe to consider this?
The “I” is in the to Avoid (AvoId) for the “I” in The Manner Of Pride (PrIde).
WHY?
To ABIDE!
To Abide in the Love that God has for us; and God in US!
The “I” is in the to Avoid (AvoId) for the “I” in The Manner Of Pride (PrIde), So That, we pray, discuss, understand in Christ the Word of God we get … SO THAT we can really grow and grow in the Truth of Christ to Shine for Jesus!
We can Abide in the Love God has for us; & So That all goes well with us … & So That we can be an extension of that Light that God has shined in us when we 1st experience that wonderful Light from LIFE fill us …THAT we know by the filling of God’s Grace, Mercy & Love, THAT we are well-loved by God!!!
There are Human Matters Of The World, BUT in Jesus Name God’s Love for the world is to make a difference in the world, though and by the Name of Jesus, the Love of God whom God has given unto to the World to Receive!
But how do you Receive, unless you 1st Believe?
WE BELIEVE!
“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.”
John 1:4
King James Version (KJV)
We could stop right there for a while … Take time to Pause … Ponder & Pray …
“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.”
The Holy Spirit of God is drawing our heart near to Him to Believe the Truth and to separate the Truth from the Lies. This is the 1st Miracle! That God could take a stubborn heart and bend it to a bow in the Presence of His Son!
And then we spiritually & supernaturally begin to GROW, like a corn seed will grow! Everything is already in that corn seed to grow! The Stalk, the roots, the Tassels, even the ears of corn are in that corn seed! So it is in the Word (JESUS) of God; the SEED that comes to our heart when we 1st believe that Jesus THE Christ has come in the flesh, died on the cross, was buried for 3 days & has been resurrected on the 3rd day; and HE, Jesus, is the Son of the Living God!
This happens when the LIVING SEED of God’s Word (JESUS) is planted in our heart! IN the beginning was the WORD; and the WORD was with God and the WORD was GOD!
The Word is Jesus! The Light is Jesus! The Life is Jesus! The Truth is Jesus!
John 1 King James Version (KJV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
Pause again and take that in … Breathe in the NEW Life through and by the Name of Jesus through your very nostrils & deep down into your Spirit and your soul!!!
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (Genesis 2:7).”
Jesus was already on the scene at this 1st breath of life!
Jesus was already on the scene at this breath of life! But something happened? Sin entered and Death & knowledge of both good and evil come to man kind. We didn’t need knowledge before we knew about evil. And one day knowledge will again pass away; for we will no longer need knowledge…
Pause again and take that in … into your very SOUL & SPIRIT!!!
Love never fails; but if there are prophesies, they will be done away; if there are tongues, “they will be ceased; if there is knowledge it will pass away (1 Corinthians 13:8 Berean Study Bible).
The Life is in the seed (Jesus / The Word of God)! We can garden the seed; or we can let the weeds take over the garden of our heart (Our heart is our life in the Spirit of everlasting Life through and by the Name of Jesus!!!)…
Our heart is our life in the Spirit of everlasting Life through and by the Name of Jesus!!!
We could stop right there A G A I N & for a while … Take time to Pause … Ponder & Pray …
Is there any area of Pride in your life, that you are too stubborn to LET the FRUIT (___) of the SPIRIT (is___) flow through you to ________________________________?
Take time and Pause…
Insert these Descriptive “Fill-in-the-Blank” words …
Galatians 5:22-23 New International Version (NIV)
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Who has hurt you? Who do you feel has abandoned you? Friend, no one can love us like Jesus, yet, we can love like Jesus! But there’s MORE! We must RISE UP in Jesus to love and honor love like Jesus! Like this: Seek The Truth to extinguish the lies!!!
Don’t stop that beautiful flow of Grace that you find in your alone time with Jesus … When you come face to face with Stubborn Pride, hurt feelings, etc. Get your faith and talk well & talk it all out (if the other is in Christ). Seek The Truth to extinguish the lies!!! Seek God 1st and all things will be added!
How do you love the unlovable? You remember people are human! And, you honor God by your faith to love like Jesus loves & forgive like Jesus forgives.
How does Jesus love?
Do you know how Jesus loves?
God doesn’t love the wicked!
God’s doesn’t love the sins!
God loves the sinners!
God loves us imperfect people!
God loves me in my weakness and my strengths! Jesus loves you! Don’t leave your first Love in Jesus for stubborn pride. God forgives in the Name of Jesus! And, so do we in Christ; we CAN overcome the “Tide of pride”!
Overcome the “Tide of pride”
The Purpose is for Cause of Christ, the love of Jesus that God has for the world. God has a Creative & Redemptive Invested Interest In People! God is The Manner of Love (The Love of JESUS), God is love! Jesus, IS the Christ, The Son of the Living God, whom The Father has bestowed upon us COME to JESUS to Believe and Abide in! Jesus & The Living Word through and by Jesus Name and our helper, God the Holy Spirit, is the manner of where we remain in Christ Jesus, the Son of the Living God!
I thank God for that sermon! Now on to the devotion … and then I get to be a part of picking up some new baby calves!!! Glory Glory !!! …
Friend, I realize this is a sermon before the devotion,
but when you are personally ready to move on….
Pride moves according to it‘s own desires. Faith seeks guidance and takes God at His Word!
“Behold as for the proud one, his soul is not right within him, but righteousness will live by his faith (Habakkuk 2:4).”
[Fitting Quote & Right on for me! Thanks, Emily McCauley Evans]
Hope in Today Ministries, Inc.,
The Daily Devotion to God’s Holy Word.
Avoid The Manner Of Pride To Shine Jesus In The Matters Of The World, By Karen Rowe
When I was younger, age didn’t have anything to with It. Now that I am older, age doesn’t matter to me. But what gets my attention is the Living Word!
The world doesn’t know It, because even IF the world has heard it, the lost have not understood it.
Because, like this: After the Miracle, we RECEIVE Jesus to tell us all things! WITH JESUS, we can unlock the mysteries of God’s Holy (set apart) Word.
Holy means set-apart. God is Holy & God is set apart from sin. YET, God has SO LOVED the sinners.
How much has God loved the world? The Bible says SO MUCH that He GAVE His Only Begotten Son to be the LIGHT OF MEN that TO ALL who Believe the Light is of God might believe & be saved from…
Saved from Death TO LIFE!
Saved from lost TO found!
Saved from a lack of knowledge TO knowledge!
Saved from no understanding TO have the ability!
In the world, there is sin, evil & destruction.
WE live in this broken world, but Friends, IN Christ the Bible teaches us that IN Christ, we are NOT OF this world!
The world has the world’s way & its system.
BUT GOD has His Way & His system that is with His Structure & His Order.
Yet, at this time & for a little while longer, we must suffer FOR the cause of Christ.
Friend,
Only in Christ Jesus~
If you feel all alone? Jesus will come to you!
If you feel like people condemn you? Jesus did not come to condemn you!
Jesus looks at our heart, even if you don’t know all the words to say! Jesus will fill your heart between just you & God! Jesus is the ONLY one that should be placed between you & God; THEN freedom comes >
YET, in this world, we have a job to do!
Be the Reflection of the One True Light!
Like John said, I am not the light, but the ONE who Comes to our Repentance is!
Lord, thank you for this Revelation!
Believe & commit (__) in your heart to JESUS; HE cleanses you to be made righteous in = God’s eyes!
Why does this matter? How God sees our heart is all that matters! & to be the extension of JESUS, we need the Mind of Christ to handle the matters in the world!
By all means AvoId PrIde / not people! But take alone time with Jesus 1st to love people with honor!
Faith will not grow if we do not honor our 1st Love!
Love in Christ,
Karen Rowe
“Writing the Story of my life with every choice Jesus helps me to make and learning how to be blessed and live life large, happy and free. I care.”
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The Train Whistle, Sounding the call of God’s Love, by Karen Rowe
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Personal Motto: “I don’t have it all figured out, BUT GOD DOES … Follow JESUS!”
Personal Revelation Life Verse: 1 John 4:16
16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. (HCSB)
Holy Spirit you are welcome here!
Thank you Jesus!
TILL NEXT TIME!
“GRACE AND PEACE TO YOU FROM GOD OUR FATHER AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST (2 Corinthians 1:2, NIV).”
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Blessings,
Karen