Love is a divine imperative and love requires us to do these things. They are not recommendations or suggestions, they are commandments (mitzvah = commandments or divine imperative). Mitzvah is a morally, divine imperative and obligation to do as God commanded. In Deuteronomy 6:5, God commands, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and with all your soul and with all your strength [your entire being]”. In Mark 12:30-31, Jesus commands us, “and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul (life), and with all your mind (thought, understanding), and with Read More
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God Is Speaking: Pay Attention
God is speaking to us right now. If we pay attention, we can clearly hear His voice. Sometimes it’s through friends, other times through enemies. We really need to listen. One missed message from God can cause us to miss something vitally important. Thank God, He is not like me. I do not like to repeat myself. He loves us enough to give us the message several times through a multitude of ways. Have you ever noticed the verses in the Bible that repeat? They repeat because God wants us to pay attention to what they say. Take a look Read More
God: Pro-choice or Pro-life? Choose LIFE!
God is all about LIFE. I read a Facebook post the other day which nearly made me want to rant. The Holy Ghost said, be slow to speak, in other words, practice James 1:19. He reminded me just as Jesus said of those who were killing him, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” I am always very careful about saying what God said and what He meant when He said it. God reminded me that my job is to ‘lovingly educate’. This article said God is Pro-choice because He gave us free will to Read More
L.O.V.E
Love is frequently mentioned in the Bible. Depending on the translation, you can find love mentioned between 200 and 600 times. That tells me that God wants us to know all about love. I am not talking about the feeling people get when they think they love someone; I am talking about the God kind of love. The love I am talking about is a verb and requires action. It’s something God commands us to do. Let us love one another () because God is love. On this day when we make an extra effort to let others know we Read More
Do You Really Trust God? It’s A Heart Thing
During this season of transitioning, (graduations, relocations, broken/distancing of relationships, off to college, new jobs, etc), God is doing a work in our hearts, because it’s a heart thing with God (. Do we really trust God? We can say a lot with our lips but our hearts are far from it (Matthew 15:8, Proverbs 23:26). God will free us up from the weight that we carry but we have to continue to trust Him, to walk in love, and to speak the truth in love every time we speak. We must continually ask the Holy Spirit, to show us where Read More
Obedience: Better than Sacrifice
Obedience is crucial. In the Biblical sense, obey means “to hear God’s Word and act accordingly”. 1 Samuel 15:22-23 (NLT) states, “But Samuel replied, ‘What is more pleasing to the Lord: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams. Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as bad as worshiping idols. So because you have rejected the command of the Lord, He has rejected you as king’.” In this verse Saul was rejected as king because he failed to utterly destroy the Read More
