Friday, December 23, 2011

Confidence in Love

I pray about the needs of my heart with confidence before the Lord. Doubts and fears are able to spoil the happiness of a true believer  Uncertainty and suspense are bad enough in matters that relate to our health, our finances and our affections. Our relationships constantly are being challenged due to earthly callings. WE have to remember that our souls are the property of God Almighty. I don't stand a chance alone but with God all things are possible. I seek daily to try and do the right things. What God wants me to do. Doubts and fears can rob us of all of God's blessings.  Confidence should characterize our actions when moving in the direction God wants us to go. Let us not do just to do. Let us remember that we want the best for who ever we are giving God's grace to. Let God shine through us. Let others see God in us. This time of year we are in need of love. We want to show love to others and we want to receive love from others. We need something to remind us that we are loved. God wants us to show him our love. We need to put aside any hatred, jealousy, pride, misunderstandings, and guilt. Just show true, honest, love from the heart. With confidence, show our love. to others so that they can understand the true meaning of being in Christ. We will understand the reason for the season when we are able to give love and receive love from our fellow human beings. Be blessed today and be a blessing to someone. Give and receive love today. I love you.
1 John 3:11-24
11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters,[a] if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death. 15 Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
 16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
 19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

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