Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Love - Bless - Pray

Love-Bless-Pray
My devotion this morning was the June 7 devotional in My Utmost for His Highest. (I am rereading it)
John 14:13
"Whatsoever you ask in My Name, that I will do."
Many times this phrase is taken out of context, and not just by unbelievers, but by sincere believers, as well. ...
We must read the passage preceding such a promise. 



We must believe not only that GOD IS, but that JESUS IS. That's Jesus served God and did as God had Him do. That where One was, the other was.
In that last garden prayer Jesus prayed that we would be one in Him as He is in the Father; that we would all be one: live as one, serve as one, love as one, die as one.
Because Jesus died for us, we who believe no longer live under the penalty of sin, which is death. Therefore we are free to forgive all offenses against us. We are free in Christ. And He lives freely in us.
Jesus reigns in our lives through the power of God's Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit of God which calls us to repentance: to admit we have sinned and desire to sin no longer. Sin cannot reign where God reigns; the chains of sin are broken by the blood of the Lamb of God, which takes away the sins of the world.
1 John 4:9-11
We love because the love of God, His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, loves through us. That love will set this world on fire with a spiritual fire that burns up hate and discord.
That love abounds in the hearts and minds and words and actions of the one who believes that Jesus Christ is LORD.
It is that belief that gets answered prayer, for it is only with the belief not just in a higher or greater power, but the belief that salvation is found in no other that can ask anything in Jesus' Name and receive it, also.
My dearest brothers and sisters in Christ, let us Love-Bless-Pray like that!
  

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