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The LORD's Minstrel
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irenemcg
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Luk 10:27 He answered: " 'Lovethe Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' ; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' "
It is June and the weather here in the UK at present is great, but in the midst of all our sun worshippig this summer are we the children of God rememberig to turn our attention to the Son? I have spent several hours over the last few days just soaking in the sun, enjoying the good weather and enjoying the wonders of nature at the coast.It has also been a time to still myself and just soak in God's presence as I have listened to worship music on my mp3 player. We are a fortunate generation, we in the West particularly in English speaking countries have so many translations of the Bible to choose from and can take the sound of worship with us wherever we go. Surely we should be thankful for what we have, bu has the pursuit of God become too easy? When we turn an mp3 player or ipod on are we really seeking to go deeper with the Lord, or do we seek something other than the Lord first and foremost? This is my own questions to myself. Let it be Jesus I pursue, and Him I serve. May His love- 'agape' love shine through me to others. All of my heart- hat means every part of it - withholding nothing, But it doesn't even end there all my energy - srengh must be engaged in pusuit of my God and my mind too. Then from that place love for others should flow.
I used to think it was God first others second, self last, but if we look at just this verse we can see that we must first love God, then love ourselves because if we loathe ourselves how can we begin to love others. God created us in His image, we are His kids- we belong to Him so how dare we despise that which God loves. So as we are transformed more and more into His image, as new creations in Christ being made holy and falling more and more in love wih Him, out of our hears should flow rivers of living waters which brings life and love and from there love to others should flow, for we learn to love as He loves.
LET US SHOW LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER
He wants us to love like He loves,
He wants us to show compassion and love,
To love one another as he has loved us,
Treating others as we would have them treat us.
So Lord we ask you to change our hearts,
That we, your people making a fresh new start,
Might gather together united, in one accord,
Rather than speaking to others that last hasty word.
So we need to get our focus right, with Jesus first,
For when we truly come and for him thirst,
Everything else starts to fall into it’s God given place,
And we can treat our brothers and sisters with grace.
We willspend eternity together, worshipping our King
And his praises forever together we will sing,
So since the first fruit of the spirit is love,
Let us all start now on a new learning curve.
Learningto show love as he would have us do,
A humble and contrite spirit he would have us pursue,
For when we see others as more important than self,
The desire to prove that we are right will be left.
For ourHeavenly Father wants us to first show love,
He does not want us intent our own point to prove,
The Word says we will know them by their fruits,
So showing love, grace and mercy should be our pursuit.
Teach usyour ways our dear Lord and Saviour,
That we might indeed be salt full of savour,
And may our light shine in this world of men,
As we learn to show love to one another and to them.
Irene McGough 2008
It is June and the weather here in the UK at present is great, but in the midst of all our sun worshippig this summer are we the children of God rememberig to turn our attention to the Son? I have spent several hours over the last few days just soaking in the sun, enjoying the good weather and enjoying the wonders of nature at the coast.It has also been a time to still myself and just soak in God's presence as I have listened to worship music on my mp3 player. We are a fortunate generation, we in the West particularly in English speaking countries have so many translations of the Bible to choose from and can take the sound of worship with us wherever we go. Surely we should be thankful for what we have, bu has the pursuit of God become too easy? When we turn an mp3 player or ipod on are we really seeking to go deeper with the Lord, or do we seek something other than the Lord first and foremost? This is my own questions to myself. Let it be Jesus I pursue, and Him I serve. May His love- 'agape' love shine through me to others. All of my heart- hat means every part of it - withholding nothing, But it doesn't even end there all my energy - srengh must be engaged in pusuit of my God and my mind too. Then from that place love for others should flow.
I used to think it was God first others second, self last, but if we look at just this verse we can see that we must first love God, then love ourselves because if we loathe ourselves how can we begin to love others. God created us in His image, we are His kids- we belong to Him so how dare we despise that which God loves. So as we are transformed more and more into His image, as new creations in Christ being made holy and falling more and more in love wih Him, out of our hears should flow rivers of living waters which brings life and love and from there love to others should flow, for we learn to love as He loves.
LET US SHOW LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER
He wants us to love like He loves,
He wants us to show compassion and love,
To love one another as he has loved us,
Treating others as we would have them treat us.
So Lord we ask you to change our hearts,
That we, your people making a fresh new start,
Might gather together united, in one accord,
Rather than speaking to others that last hasty word.
So we need to get our focus right, with Jesus first,
For when we truly come and for him thirst,
Everything else starts to fall into it’s God given place,
And we can treat our brothers and sisters with grace.
We willspend eternity together, worshipping our King
And his praises forever together we will sing,
So since the first fruit of the spirit is love,
Let us all start now on a new learning curve.
Learningto show love as he would have us do,
A humble and contrite spirit he would have us pursue,
For when we see others as more important than self,
The desire to prove that we are right will be left.
For ourHeavenly Father wants us to first show love,
He does not want us intent our own point to prove,
The Word says we will know them by their fruits,
So showing love, grace and mercy should be our pursuit.
Teach usyour ways our dear Lord and Saviour,
That we might indeed be salt full of savour,
And may our light shine in this world of men,
As we learn to show love to one another and to them.
Irene McGough 2008
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God is Love: How Should we Define Love?
When the Scriptures say, "God is love," they aren't telling us that God is some nebulous, warm fuzzy feeling of love. The writers who penned the scriptures weren't saying that in our limited form of human love we will find God. Not at all -- in fact, when we read that God is love in the Bible, this means that God defines love. And when we say that God defines love, we don't mean that He defines it like Webster might define something -- we mean that God is the very definition of love itself. There is no such thing as love without God. As hard as we might try, we cannot define love outside of knowing God. This essentially means that our human definition of love is false.
God is the Creator of all things, and by His very nature, He is love. God says love is unconditional and sacrificial, and it's not based on feelings; therefore, love is not an "intense affection… based on familial or personal ties". To understand what true love is and to be able to truly love others, we must know God, and we can do this through a close personal relationship with Him. We can have that close relationship with God by putting our faith in Jesus Christ, who was God's sacrifice of love for us.
When the Scriptures say, "God is love," they aren't telling us that God is some nebulous, warm fuzzy feeling of love. The writers who penned the scriptures weren't saying that in our limited form of human love we will find God. Not at all -- in fact, when we read that God is love in the Bible, this means that God defines love. And when we say that God defines love, we don't mean that He defines it like Webster might define something -- we mean that God is the very definition of love itself. There is no such thing as love without God. As hard as we might try, we cannot define love outside of knowing God. This essentially means that our human definition of love is false.
God is the Creator of all things, and by His very nature, He is love. God says love is unconditional and sacrificial, and it's not based on feelings; therefore, love is not an "intense affection… based on familial or personal ties". To understand what true love is and to be able to truly love others, we must know God, and we can do this through a close personal relationship with Him. We can have that close relationship with God by putting our faith in Jesus Christ, who was God's sacrifice of love for us.
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The Consummation of Love
1Jn 4:17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
1Jn 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
1Jn 4:19 We love Him because He first loved us.
We are recipients of perfect love, God’s love poured out to us each and every day, demonstrated most fully in the cross work of Christ, His blood poured out for our sake. As we come deeper into a knowledge of our Lord and Saviour we surely find that His perfect love casts out our fears. Praise be to God!
1Jn 4:17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
1Jn 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
1Jn 4:19 We love Him because He first loved us.
We are recipients of perfect love, God’s love poured out to us each and every day, demonstrated most fully in the cross work of Christ, His blood poured out for our sake. As we come deeper into a knowledge of our Lord and Saviour we surely find that His perfect love casts out our fears. Praise be to God!
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Exodus 31:13-NLT . . .
Tell the people of Israel to keep my Sabbath day,
for the Sabbath is a sign of the Covenant between
me and you forever. It helps you to remember
that I am the LORD, who makes you Holy.
Genesis 9:16-NLT . . .
When I see the Rainbow in the Clouds,
I will remember the Eternal Covenant
between GOD and every living creature on Earth.
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We are to love our fellow Christians, but the hard one is we are to love our enemies also.
Luk 6:27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you ,
The Lord Jesus unveils to His disciples a secret weapon from God Himself—the weapon of love. This will be one of their most effective weapons in evangelizing the world. When He speaks of love, He is not referring to the human emotion of that name. This is a supernatural love. Only those who are born again can know it or display it. It is utterly impossible for anyone who does not have the indwelling Holy Spirit to be able to love with this kind of love. (agape Love)
Let's pray that the love of Christ our Saviour will shine through us to all we come in contact with.
1Cor 13: 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Luk 6:27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you ,
The Lord Jesus unveils to His disciples a secret weapon from God Himself—the weapon of love. This will be one of their most effective weapons in evangelizing the world. When He speaks of love, He is not referring to the human emotion of that name. This is a supernatural love. Only those who are born again can know it or display it. It is utterly impossible for anyone who does not have the indwelling Holy Spirit to be able to love with this kind of love. (agape Love)
Let's pray that the love of Christ our Saviour will shine through us to all we come in contact with.
1Cor 13: 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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The LORD's Minstrel
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I Love Jesus so much.
I was crying today thinking about the new earth.
Do you realize how big the new earth is going to be?
I call dibbs on the mansion next to Jesus mansion,in the new jerusalem.
LOL
I was crying today thinking about the new earth.
Do you realize how big the new earth is going to be?
I call dibbs on the mansion next to Jesus mansion,in the new jerusalem.
LOL
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