You must persevere in Love for all Men To receive your Miracle and Never give up
God wants all His children to grow in perseverance, a sign of our maturity in Christ.
We must grow in perseverance in faith in God's word, as seen in our last lesson.
We must also grow in perseverance in love for all men.
No matter how others behave, we must always forgive and bless them.
We must not give up and get angry with them and curse them.
If we give up and do not persevere in love, we sin against God and our miracles will not manifest.
1. We must always walk in love towards all men
MATTHEW 22:39
39 And the second is like it: “Love your neighbour as yourself.”
MATTHEW 5:44-45 NKJ
44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,
45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.
The second great commandment is this, "Love your neighbour as yourself."
Jesus commands us to love all men, at all times, including our enemies, and forgive them and bless them.
In this way, we live as mature sons of God.
In this way, no sin arises to hinder our miracles from manifesting.
2. Never give up loving others
1 CORINTHIANS 13:8
8 Love never fails.
Never get angry with your wife or husband and curse them by complaining.
Never get angry with your children and curse them by complaining.
Never get angry with others, in the Church or outside the Church, and curse them by complaining.
Never get angry with your leaders in the Church or in the government, and curse them by complaining.
If we get angry and complain about others, we are cursing them.
Our curses open a door for the devil to destroy those we curse.
And God cannot bless and change those whom we have cursed.
Therefore, never say, "What a bad husband I have!"
Or "What a bad wife, bad children, bad neighbours or bad leaders we have!"
Our curses become sins that stop God from blessing us.
Our curses will make our problems worse.
3. Always forgive and bless others by the words of our mouth and God will do what we say
1 PETER 3:9
9 Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
Always forgive your husband (or others) and bless them by saying, "My husband's sins are forgiven. He is a good husband to me."
Persevere in your love for your husband, no matter how bad he is behaving.
Forgive him, and bless him, and God will do what you say.
MARK 11:23 ESV
23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
Whatever evil your husband does to you, do not return evil with evil.
Persevere in love, speak words of blessing over him, and God will change him, according to the words we say.
In the same way, we are to persevere in love for all men, forgive them and bless them, including our Church and government leaders.
In this way, God will do what we say, and we will see our miracles.
We must persevere in saying, "God has given me a good family, a good boss, good colleagues, a good church, good church leaders, good brothers and sisters in Christ, good neighbours, and a good government."
Jesus says that God will do what we say and declare and decree.
And nothing shall be impossible for us, if we persevere in love, and bless all men, and decree the will of Father God over them (MATTHEW 17:20).
MATTHEW 17:20
20 He replied, "Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
As you persevere in love, you grow to become more and more like God Himself, for God is love (1 JOHN 4:8).
That is the main purpose for the trial you are facing (JAMES 1:2-4; ROMANS 5:3-4).
God allows these trials to mould you into the likeness of Jesus His Son (ROMANS 8:29).
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A TESTIMONY
"GOD CHANGED THE HEART OF MY BOSS AS I RETURNED GOOD FOR EVIL"
Brother BBB:
"I work for a difficult boss. He is always speaking words of condemnation and unkind words to all those working under him.
He likes to look down on my work no matter how hard and how much effort I put in to solve the company's production systems.
"I, therefore, prayed for him, I forgave him, and I asked God to bless him and change him.
I never returned evil for evil and always speak respectfully to him.
"Over the months I served under him, his attitude towards me begin to change.
He is now less judgmental and does not show anger as often as before towards me.
He now begins to appreciate my work and contribution in keeping the company production systems going.
"I give all glory, praise and thanksgiving to God!"
COMMENTS (Brother Andrew)
1. We must persevere in showing love to our enemies, as we face trials in our workplace or family.
2. God wants us to develop perseverance in love, a sign of maturity in Christ.
3. If we try to run away from a difficult situation, as in the situation above, and never learn to persevere in love, then God will allow the same situation to arise in our lives, so that we will learn to grow in perseverance in love for others.
4. For example, if you change your job just to avoid a difficult boss or colleague because you do not want to persevere in faith and in love and in rejoicing, you will face the same issues in your new job.
Your job and the trials you faced are used by God to bring your life to maturity in Christ.
5. God's purpose in our lives today is not only to bless us to be a blessing to others, but His ultimate purpose is for each of us to become like Jesus (ROMANS 8:28)
Shalom.