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Love Your Neighbour as Yourself

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31 NIV) God wants you to love yourself the way He loves you. ThisContinueContinue reading “Love Your Neighbour as Yourself”

Love Does Not Envy

Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. (1 Corinthians 13:4 MSG) I once came across a quote that said, “People can have more than you and still be jealous.” Because jealousy and envy are often used interchangeably, we tend to think that they’re the same, but they’re not. Here’s a good definition of both termsContinueContinue reading “Love Does Not Envy”

Forgiveness is the Power of Love!

While waiting for the traffic light to change, I couldn’t help but notice the following message on the rear window of the car across from us: “Forgiveness is the power of love!” It was a simple yet awesome reminder not only of the power of God’s love for us that manifests itself through His forgiveness,ContinueContinue reading “Forgiveness is the Power of Love!”

I Me Wed

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as YOURSELF.'” (Matthew 22:37-39 NIV, emphasis added) In the Canadian romantic comedy, “I Me Wed,” a successful andContinueContinue reading “I Me Wed”

I Do But At What Cost?

“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”’ContinueContinue reading “I Do But At What Cost?”

The Greatest Payback

Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. (Romans 12:19 NIV) In Romans 12, the apostle Paul tells us not to take revenge because that’s God’s job (v. 19). He then goes on to say,ContinueContinue reading “The Greatest Payback”

Have Faith!

And He did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith. (Matthew 13:58 NIV) For the past few years, God has led me on a journey of discovering how the miracles of Christ are relevant to us today. And I’ve noticed that the basis for every miracle was faith. Almost every personContinueContinue reading “Have Faith!”

You Will Do Great Things

Then Saul said to David, “May you be blessed, David my son; you will do great things and surely triumph.” (1 Samuel 26:25 NIV) Just a few chapters before, Saul made a similar confession: “I know that you will surely be king and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hands.” (1 SamuelContinueContinue reading “You Will Do Great Things”

You’re a Mighty Warrior!

“The LORD is with you, mighty warrior.” (Judges 6:12 NIV) God called Gideon a “mighty warrior”, but Gideon didn’t see himself that way; he saw himself as weak and unworthy (Judges 6:12, 15). When Gideon finally saw himself as a warrior, he was empowered. He couldn’t be stopped because he knew God was with him.ContinueContinue reading “You’re a Mighty Warrior!”

In Due Season

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. (Galatians 6:9 KJV) She was going through some mortgage papers, when she pointed at the year they had purchased their house and said, “It has taken two years for it to be ready!” I wasContinueContinue reading “In Due Season”