ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.
Friday February 14th, 2025.
Topic : Manifesting The Nature Of God.
Memory Verse:1 John 4:11. Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another.
Bible Reading : 1 John 4:7-9 – 9 GNB. Key Verse : v9.
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.
In the letters of John, we have the instructions of an elder who had seen it all. This was the only Apostle whom they could not kill despite all attempts because of God’s agenda for his life and ministry. God preserved his life through unbelievable circumstances so that he could be given the book of Revelations. During that heavenly encounter, he was taken to the secret places of the almighty where he saw and heard things that he wasn’t permitted to share with mortal men. At the beginning of this chapter, he was telling us how to discern the spirit of error by their teachings and followership. There he made us understand the reason some people will never follow the pathway of truth. “Those false prophets speak about matters of the world, and the world listens to them because they belong to the world. But we belong to God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever does not belong to God does not listen to us. This, then, is how we can tell the difference between the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.” 1 John 4:5-6.
Finally he began to teach a very important dimension of discernment of the Spirit of truth which can be identified by passing the test of love. He tried to help us understand love properly from source. Now love is a predominant nature of God. We are called children of God because we bear his nature in our spirit, and that nature is all about sacrificial giving or care and not in any physical appearance. This love of God is revealed in our relationship with fellow men. “There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear. So then, love has not been made perfect in anyone who is afraid, because fear has to do with punishment. We love because God first loved us. If we say we love God, but hate our brothers and sisters, we are liars. For people cannot love God, whom they have not seen, if they do not love their brothers and sisters, whom they have seen. The command that Christ has given us is this: all who love God must love their brother or sister also.” 1 John 4:18-21.
“I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burnt — but if I have no love, this does me no good. Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.” 1 Corinthians 13:3-7. As people go about in the name of celebrating love today, we must ask ourselves very important questions about our underlying intentions for going into relationships in the name of love. Many are there for selfish reasons, to use and dump and to take advantage of the vulnerable. Again we must note that as children of God, we don’t love on special days, rather we live to make sacrifices for the well being of people around us because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by his Spirit. The love of God gives generously without expecting anything in return. Such type of display of love attracts rewards from the almighty. “And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples.”” John 13-34-35.
Prayer :Thank you Father God for loving me and coming to die on the cross to save me through your son Jesus Christ. Help me by your Spirit to be like you. Let your Spirit be at work in me to help love all men always just like yourself. Let my life be such that will draw many to you in Jesus wonderful name…. Amen 🙏🏿.
Yearly Bible Reading : Exodus 19:1-25.
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