Love is kind. If it’s not, it’s something else. Love keeps no record of wrongs. If it does, it’s something else. Love is not envious. If it is, it’s something else. Love is not easily offended. If it is, it’s something else. Love is patient. If it’s not, it’s something else. Love is not arrogant. If it is, it’s something else. Love is not rude. If it is, it’s something else. Love does not demand its own way. If it does, it’s something else. Love is not irritable. If it is, it’s something else. Love does not enjoy injustice. If it does, it’s something else. Love rejoices and embraces the truth. If it doesn’t, it’s something else. Love never gives up. If it does, it’s something else. Love never loses faith. If it does, it’s something else. Love is always hopeful. If it isn’t, it’s something else. Love will endure any and all circumstances. If it won’t, it’s something else.
HIS POWER...HIS PROMISE Helping people walk in the Spirit the devotional below is seminal! The devotion below is today from Oswald Chambers. I makes me think of some I have known that have assumed that the Lord doesn’t want them empowered by the Holy Spirit or that He won’t manifest Himself in them because they have reasoned otherwise. Given ministry opportunities to have the Holy Spirit confirm the Word of God with demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power, they rely on how they feel, their experience thus far and not on the reality that the will of God in mission and ministry is either done in the Holy Spirit’s Power or not at all. Our capacity to do what Jesus does has nothing to do with our imagined capacity, but upon the indwelling power of God through is. Now to Him who is able to do far above and beyond what we could ever imagine or think, by His power at work in us now, to Him be glory… Matthew 25:14-30 Jesus told the parable of the bags of gold as a warning ...

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