One of the major hindrances to believers walking in love is strife, slander, and gossip. Strife among the brethren is a dangerous thing. God's Word says it's an abomination!
We should not be the source of strife in any way in our home, church, or community. We should be the source of harmony, peace, unity, and love.
We need to be in the S.O.S. business: stamp out strife!
Ephesians 4:29-32 says,
"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
"And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
"And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."
Love does not run around the church telling everybody what you know about So-and-so. Love doesn't talk bad about church leadership. Love speaks good things. And if you can't say anything good about someone, go in your prayer closet and pray. If you see something that isn't quite right, love doesn't broadcast it all over the place, causing strife and division. Love prays and believes the best.
When strife is dealt with, power will come. But when there's strife and discord, all kinds of doors are opened up for the powers of darkness to come in.
It's time we became the source of unity, love, faith, and power in our churches. Church splits are not of God. It's not God's plan for churches to split. God's love promotes unity. God's love brings people together; it doesn't separate.
"Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins—forgives and disregards the offenses of others."
—1 Peter 4:8, Amplified
"Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."
—Romans 13:10
When we walk in love, we fulfill God's law of love. He told us to love Him with all our heart, mind, and soul and to love our neighbor as ourselves. Love will overlook any wrong anyone has ever done to us. Love forgives.
There's a big "plus" to our walking in love. We in the Body of Christ must make every effort to walk in God's love at all times because "Faith works by love” (Galatians 5:6). When we walk in love, we walk in great faith. Why is this? Because God is love.
"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
—1 John 4:7,8
When the compassion of Jesus, combined with faith, flows through us, we will do mighty exploits for Him. When Jesus saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion to reach out to them. As He is, so are we in this world!
Kathryn Kuhlman once said, "You must believe in the religion of love. Love for everybody, everywhere— the rich and the poor, the learned and the unlearned, the well and the afflicted. That's the religion of love. It satisfies the heart. It's deep enough for the soul, and broad enough for the whole world and everybody."
"When you know your rights and authority as a child of God, you will be bold in all you do."
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