PRAYER & COUNSEL: Father, I thank you for commanding us to love one another. It is writtten: Anyone who loves has been born of God & knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. You want us to love our enemies & the unlovable. You want us to love one another & to love sinners & hate sin. Faith works through love. Without love, there is no connection with Heaven. Love is the missing ingredient in the church today. I PRAY: I rebuke the spirit which is making your church unloving in Jesus name. Restore your love in the church today. Help us to love one another. Love will enable us to advance Your Kingdom. In Jesus mighty name we pray, Amen.
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds & write them on their hearts. I will be their God, & they will be My people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying: Know the Lord, because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest. (Hebrews 8:10-11). If our hearts are not changed, following God's rules will be unpleasant & difficult. We will rebel against being told how to live the Christian way. The Holy Spirit, however, gives us new desires, helping us wanting to obey God. With new hearts, hearts of flesh & not hearts of stone, we will find that serving God is our greatest joy. Under God's new covenant, God's law is inside us & not outside, ie, on a tablet of stone. No, it's written in our hearts. It is no longer an external set of rules & principles. The Holy Spirit reminds us of Christ's words, activates our ...
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