ROOTED AND GROUNDED IN LOVE
Saturday 15th January 2022
Matthew 9:13 But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."
God prizes mercy above sacrifices.
Romans 5:5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the LOVE of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Mercy is an outflow of love.
God is more concerned with where the prayers come from (the heart).
1 Corinthians 13:1-13... And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Everything that flows out of love never disappoints. That's why you ought to increase your capacity to love.
Cross-examine yourself and see where you are lagging in any of the attributes of LOVE and ask the Holy Spirit (spirit of LOVE) to help you.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Both the I(self) and Christ can not live at the same time. "I" must die for Christ to live in you.
Isaiah 58:3 (GNT)The people ask, “Why should we fast if the Lord never notices? Why should we go without food if he pays no attention?” The LORD says to them, “The truth is that at the same time you fast, you pursue your own interests and oppress your workers.
The primary reason for fasting is to surrender and allow the Lord to transform us. This is the kind of fasting that yields results.
Ephesians 3:14-17 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; THAT YOU, BEING ROOTED AND GROUNDED IN LOVE
May the Holy Spirit ground and root our hearts in LOVE because it is the foundation for Christianity.
STAY BLESSED AND HIGHLY FAVORED, WE LOVE YOU. PASTOR BEN OCHOLA.!
