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Book Review – Because God is Love, part 1 by Fersen Perera
Love is a word that is thrown around a lot in today’s world. We see people using love in lots of different contexts with lots of different meanings. However, that makes it very difficult to truly understand what the Bible means when it indicates that “God is love.” What is love? What is love not? How are we deceived in today’s world into believing the lies that Satan uses to convolute the love of God? All of these questions and more are discussed in depth throughout Mr. Perera’s book as it seeks to uncover and expose the myths and delusions about love. This book is full of scriptural references that …
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Christian Devotional – March 8, 2014
Read 2 John VERSE: 2 John 6–And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love. TRUTH: Looking for a definition of love? Here is one: love is walking in obedience to God’s commands. It is impossible to consider something love if it does not come from the commands of God. God is love and only as we seek to imitate Him will we be able to move and work as He desires. That is how we will display God’s love through us. Also, loving is not just a request, but a command.…
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Christian Devotional – March 7, 2014
Read 2 John VERSE: 2 John 5–And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command, but one we have heard from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. TRUTH: John is not coming to the people with some new idea. He is writing to remind them of something they already know. They have been told and instructed in this from the beginning. John asks that they love one another. While this may seem to be an obvious statement, it stands to reason that they had not been doing it. Do we focus on loving one another? Do we need to be reminded of the importance…
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Christian Devotional – March 5, 2014
Read 2 John VERSE: 2 John 3 – Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love. TRUTH: Grace, mercy, and peace all sound so wonderful to have and experience. However, it’s not just any grace, mercy, or peace; they must be completed together with truth and love. Only through the truth, Jesus Christ, and the love, God the Father, are we able to experience grace, mercy, and peace. Do we feel like we are lacking grace, mercy, and peace? We must seek after God the Father and the Father’s Son so that we experience the…
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Christian Devotional – March 3, 2014
I’m going to change things up a little bit. We’re going to go through 2 John next, but instead of just picking out one verse and moving on to another book tomorrow (2 John only has 1 chapter), we’re going to go through each verse. Since there are 13 verses in the powerful little book, we’ll take 13 days to go through it. I encourage you to read all 13 verses each day. Read 2 John VERSE: 2 John 1 – The elder, to the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth–and not I only, but also all who know the truth– TRUTH:…
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Christian Devotional – March 2, 2014
Read Song of Songs chapter 8 VERSE: Song of Songs 8:6–Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. TRUTH: The love and commitment in a marriage relationship is to be the strongest relationship we have other than our relationship with God. God designed marriage to be the picture here on Earth of the relationship that we have with Christ. Would we describe the commitment and passion we have for our spouse as a blazing fire that is a seal forever? RESPONSE: Father,…
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Christian Devotional – March 1, 2014
Read Song of Songs chapter 7 VERSE: Song of Songs 7:6–How beautiful you are and how pleasing, my love, with your delights! TRUTH: Are we pleasing to our husband or wife? Would our spouse say the same things about us as the beloved says here in these verses? Do we seek to be pleasing and full of delights for our spouse? We are each to be seeking to be delightful to the other. RESPONSE: Father, I praise You for providing a relationship that is designed to be like our relationship with You. I want to please and delight You just as I desire to please and delight my husband. Give…
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Christian Devotional – February 26, 2014
Read Song of Songs chapter 4 VERSE: Song of Songs 4:7–You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you. TRUTH: When we look at our beloved, what do we see? Sometimes, after time passes in a relationship, we start to see only the flaws and disappointments. However, here we are reminded that our spouse needs to hear that we still love them and find them beautiful. When we look at our spouses, do we see all the reasons we committed to love them? Do we tell them that as well? RESPONSE: Father, I love my husband, but sometimes I get more caught up in just telling him…
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Christian Devotional – February 23, 2014
Read Song of Song chapter 1 VERSE: Song of Songs 1:2–Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth–for your love is more delightful than wine. TRUTH: The beautiful love that is discussed through these verses and the entire book of Song of Songs shows the passion and physical love that God designed to be shared between a husband and wife. This passion and love is more delightful than any other pleasure which God created, which is why Satan so loves to distort and pervert it through the rest of the world. Do we honor God’s view of physical love? Do we embrace the truth that physical love is…