Winning The Battle of Love
Today is Valentine's Day and I have been shown enormous amount of love and appreciation by my husband, Earnie. I received flowers and candy. He made a nice breakfast, as well. However, the greatest gift he gives me every single year is his love for and faith in Jesus Christ. This is a gift that no amount of good deeds or money could buy. He first had to fall in love with Christ, before he could fall in love with me. When Christ is your first love it governs your behavior and creates your character. No amount of good deeds, hardwork, or "never giving up" in your marriage can make up for giving attention to your first love - Jesus Christ.
Your love for Christ must be a deep and faithful love, an everlasting love; and it requires your full devotion to HIm. Eternal love is what God gave us. A love that is not govern by our behavior, but by His strength and desire to be in a relationship with us.
Many people say, if God loves me why does bad things happen? In fact, God loves us in spite of bad things happening. Love is not a feeling for God. It is His very being. Love is who God is.
I John 4:8 (NLT) states, " But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love."
The book of Psalms speaks of God's unfailing and faithful love.
If you are a single woman looking to get married, do not concentrate on the man's degree of love for you at first. First, try and understand his degrees of love for God. His faithfulness to God will determine his faithfulness to you. I know we women have heard the phrases, "How he treats his mother will determine how he treats you." But, how he treats is mother is not the real measure of how he will behave in a marriage. However, how he treats his covenant with God, will determine how he treats his covenant (marriage) with you . If he breaks his covenant with God, he will break his covenant with you.
This is how we know if a man is of God or of the Devil. A man who does not do what is right and does not have a covenant with God is not of God nor does he love God. So how can he offer you eternal love, if he has not experience the Eternal One.
I remember when I was in my early 20's how I so desperately wanted to be loved. I looked for love not knowing that Love finds me. False love masqueraded in my infatuations and I would not be true to my own values. It turns out that, I did not have to look at all. Once I surrendered my life fully to Him, he sent an abundance of love into my life. As long as I was trying to get love it never truly came. Once I became true to my Lord, I remained true to my own standards, requirements and values. Once I had standards than like magic every "bad" guy that approached me knew I was woman of character and faith and either they were too scared to try anything or they simply just did not approach me. It was as though God had thrown a "red ribbon." A red ribbon symbolic of His love for me and from that day forward guys knew I was special. Especially this one guy name Earnie McNair, and he made me his covenant keeping wife for over 28 years now.
With His love on this Valentine Day 2010; I pray that God throws His "Red Ribbon" on you today.
Pastor Tricia
Your love for Christ must be a deep and faithful love, an everlasting love; and it requires your full devotion to HIm. Eternal love is what God gave us. A love that is not govern by our behavior, but by His strength and desire to be in a relationship with us.
Many people say, if God loves me why does bad things happen? In fact, God loves us in spite of bad things happening. Love is not a feeling for God. It is His very being. Love is who God is.
I John 4:8 (NLT) states, " But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love."
The book of Psalms speaks of God's unfailing and faithful love.
If you are a single woman looking to get married, do not concentrate on the man's degree of love for you at first. First, try and understand his degrees of love for God. His faithfulness to God will determine his faithfulness to you. I know we women have heard the phrases, "How he treats his mother will determine how he treats you." But, how he treats is mother is not the real measure of how he will behave in a marriage. However, how he treats his covenant with God, will determine how he treats his covenant (marriage) with you . If he breaks his covenant with God, he will break his covenant with you.
This is how we know if a man is of God or of the Devil. A man who does not do what is right and does not have a covenant with God is not of God nor does he love God. So how can he offer you eternal love, if he has not experience the Eternal One.
I remember when I was in my early 20's how I so desperately wanted to be loved. I looked for love not knowing that Love finds me. False love masqueraded in my infatuations and I would not be true to my own values. It turns out that, I did not have to look at all. Once I surrendered my life fully to Him, he sent an abundance of love into my life. As long as I was trying to get love it never truly came. Once I became true to my Lord, I remained true to my own standards, requirements and values. Once I had standards than like magic every "bad" guy that approached me knew I was woman of character and faith and either they were too scared to try anything or they simply just did not approach me. It was as though God had thrown a "red ribbon." A red ribbon symbolic of His love for me and from that day forward guys knew I was special. Especially this one guy name Earnie McNair, and he made me his covenant keeping wife for over 28 years now.
With His love on this Valentine Day 2010; I pray that God throws His "Red Ribbon" on you today.
Pastor Tricia
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