The Enemy is the Problem

Have you figured out that love has an enemy?
"The devil does not want you to love." Those words by Creflo Dollar startled me into reality.
The devil will do anything to keep you from loving.
Don't be surprised by this. Everyday something will try to get in the way of your loving.
You have an enemy. But be encouraged, you also have the answer: LOVE through it all.
Maybe you can't do it on your own, but you can through His Spirit, through His strength.

The Answer is Love

Creflo Dollar says, "The answer is always [around] love."
So whatever your question, whatever your dilema, the answer is always to be found in love.
Quit trying to "figure it out," and start loving your way through it.
No matter what your issue, the answer is always love.

Love Takes Faith

Creflo Dollar preached, "Faith works by love. Fear works by selfishness." He went on, "Love is the power God intended us to operate in." Where there is faith, there can be love. Love needs faith as it's fuel, or as Creflo put it, "You need faith to love." Loving is an act of faith. Fear comes when we're more concerned about us than others. Fear comes when we take our eyes of our Lord and put them on our circumstances. Fear exposes that we don't really trust God. Pastor Dollar reminded us, "The seduction is always from love to selfishness." (The Armor of Love CD, #1)

Losing & Loving

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost." G.K. Chesterton

If you haven't come to that understand, realize that today.

Anything alive can die. Anything real can leave.

The way to truly treasure anything, is to realize it's only here for now.

Value = Love

Someone pointed that out today. If you value something you love it. If you love something/someone, you value them. Value and love are so closely related. Value is giving worth to something, usually great worth. It's how we make our purchases. It determines how much we are willing to pay for something, how much we value it. Sometimes we buy for value, a price we think is good. Sometimes, we buy out of desire, regardless of price. Watch what you value, because you'll end up loving it. Watch what you love, because it/they have great value!

The Therefores Matter

In my Bible Romans 14 has two subtitles: The Law of Liberty, and The Law of Love. The Law of Love section (verses 14-23) has a conclusionary "Therefore" in verse 19. "THEREFORE, let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another." Therefore, let us do that. Pursue the ways and means of peace today.

Today, pursue ways to edify another - not yourself. This may be the hardest thing. Looking intently for ways to edify another, since seeking ways to edify ourselves comes so naturally. Be unnatural today, be supernatural, be otherminded, be loving.

Love Shows No Partiality

On this day 55 years ago in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person. Doesn't that make you sad? That is not the way of love. Today, vacate your seat to someone else, in honor of those who are less fortunate than us. If you see someone is relegated to a lower position, you be the one to give them your place. Honor others by loving all people, no matter their race, no matter their economic position, no matter their ideology.

Deuteronomy 10:17-For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality...