Love is hard work. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. – 1 John 4:8 (ESV) If we do not love one another how can we say we have received God’s love and been born again? Love is the proof we are to look for to identify fellow...
Love for Others And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two...
What is love? Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, – Deuteronomy 7:9 (ESV) The word “love” is mentioned 567...
“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.” – Luke 22:31-32 (ESV) Peter was sifted in a great and...
Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.” – Exodus 20:20 (ESV) There are two types of fear: fear that comes from guilt and shame and fear that is a result of reverence...
So he went out from Pharaoh and pleaded with the Lord. And the Lord turned the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s...
