Where is the love?

On Bishop Jim Earl Swilley, bloginthenow.blogspot.com/ He inserted a picture of a Hand with the word written on it.

Love is one of my favorite topics to explore so here you will find some excerpts from my fellow bloggers writings here from (blog in the now BITN/that I thought were very note worthy!

Water Walker says:

This morning when I was watching TBN, as a new twist this week, as part of my devotion, I had the opportunity to watch Joyce Meyer’s televised show. There was a sweet little story on love she told.

There was a little boy standing outside of a shoe store one day and this lady observed him just standing there, so she walked up to him and said "what ya doin"? The little boy replied, asking God to give me a pair of shoes.

So she took the little boy into the store and purchased 6 pair of socks and asked the merchant for a basin on water. She received permission to take him to the back to wash his feet, as she wanted to spare him the embarrassment of washing his feet in front of the other patrons. When she was finished, she asked the salesmen to bring out the shoes and fit the boy for the shoes he prayed for.

Once they left the store, the boy thanked her and looked at her and asked "Are you God's wife".

That little story really blessed my heart. Joyce says that we should never pray and ask God to do something we can do for our neighbor. Jesus said love your neighbor as you love yourself. Joyce said many times we are able to sow seeds of love to others, but many of us don't want to let go of our "stuff", so we say, well I will pray for you. That is error, if someone is hungry and you can feed them, the thing to do is to feed them. If someone needs a ride, and you have transportation and opportunity to give them a ride, you should bless them with a ride, if someone you in your way (neighbor) has a financial emergency, and you can sow money, and you have the wherewithal, you just make it available, as God leads.

I have seen this dynamic in Christianity a lot lately; it is almost as though people are living by the adage "God bless the child who has his own" more than they are the scripture which speaks about not shutting up our bowels of compassion, or doing unto others and loving your neighbors as ourselves.

A great part of it is fear and lack of understanding of the importance of giving. God gave us a beautiful example of love, for God so loved the world that He gave, He gave, He gave…as many are the sons of God, they shall be called the children of God.

As long as the earth remains, there shall be seed, time and then harvest. I agree as Christians, we ought to find opportunities to sow love to our neighbors, who is everyone who is in our path.

Our steps are ordered of God and when you smile at some one or hold a door, or speak a kind word, or really listen to someone, which is a great seed of love.

WE are to be as He is in the earth…Jesus said you will know my disciples by the love they have one for another. Where is the love?

Water Walker

Robyn says;

"Hear, Israel, and be carful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey . . . These commandments . . . Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your HANDS and bind them on your FOREHEADS." Deut. 6:4“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb . . . The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city and His servants will serve Him. They will see His face and HIS NAME WILL BE ON THEIR FOREHEADS.” Rev. 22:1-4“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord . . . you will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; . . . instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow . . .”School of the Bible by Bishop Swilley: “. Repentance enables us to cease worship of the beast which limits us to a numbers system (666) or the idea that we can only survive and flourish through our natural logic or intellect. NOW we understand that OUR GOD SHALL SUPPLY ALL OUR NEED, NOT ACCORDING TO THE RULES OF THE MATERIAL WORLD but according to HIS riches in glory by Christ Jesus. We can then begin a lifestyle of Lamb-worship which will ultimately perfect our hearts and purify our minds and will bring us into a land that supernaturally flows with milk and honey! Love NEVER fails

God IS Love. CITN corporately and all CITNers individually – be at peace. Walk in love and walk in Love’s supernatural and holistic provision and prosperity! word verification - copyropcopy right off paper - which entirely I did from School of the Bible IV. The picture just inspired me.

robyn

Ketley D said:

Peacemaker, You truly are a peace……Maker!Many times you as the light can walk in some place, when you look you can see whoever was around disappearing; and wonder why? Now come to realize it’s not anything you did, it just that the light in you shine too bright into their darkness and they cannot take it. so, they disappeared.

NOW FOR THE TOPIC AT LARGE…..LOVE!!!I always like to express myself in LOVE.LOVE: is the medicine of mankind. We can live if we have LOVE.(DR.Karl.Menninger)

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to LOVE (W. Somerset Maugham)

I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in LOVE even when not feeling it. I believe in God even when He is silent.LOVE seeketh not itself to please, nor for hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair. (William Blake)

LOVE is a strong emotion and once released it is quite POWERFUL. (KD)If “LOVE makes the world go around,” as the old song goes, then it’s about high and mighty time we discovered just what “REAL LOVE” is.LET US UNCOVERD ITS ESSENTIAL CHARCTER!By asking these questions:1. WHAT IS LOVE?2. WHAT MAKES IT GROW HEALTHY & STRONG?There is no greater invitation to LOVE than in LOVING first. (KD)

Now, let us replace the word “LOVE” in 1COR. 13:4-8a, with GOD and experience the power of His Love.God is patient, God is Kind, God does not envy, God does not boast, God is not rude, God is not self seeking, God is not easily angered, God keeps no record of wrongs, God does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. God always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always, always perseveres. GOD IS LOVE, as LOVE never fails. GOD NEVER FAILS.

His Love enables me to call every country my country, and every man and woman my brother and sister. (K.D)

Faith is the key to fit the door of hope, but is no power anywhere like LOVE for turning the key. (Elaine Emans)

It is natural to LOVE those who LOVE us, but it is SUPERNATURAL to LOVE those who hate us. (K.D)

LOVE for is God ecstatic, making us go out from ourselves; it does not allow the lover to belong any more to himself, but he belongs only to the Beloved.(ST. DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE)To me LOVE is never afraid of giving too much. (KD)So, for us to LOVE and to LOVED better than ever before!LET US NOT LOOK DOWN ON ANYONE; ONLY GOD SITS THAT HIGH.PEACE and LOVE

KD

What is in your spirit about love???

Yve