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  • CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (7):  IS NOT SELF-SERVING

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    Friday, August 14, 2026

    CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (7):  IS NOT SELF-SERVING

    … Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; …
    I Corinthians 13:5 (AMP)

    The highest revival any person can experience in this side of eternity is the revival of walking in the Yahweh-kind of love.  It will so transform you to the amazement of even yourself.  You don’t know what true spirituality means until the fruit of love is developed and grows in your life.  The Yahweh-kind of love according to Pa Kenneth Hagin has not been to the divorce court and can never go there because it cannot fail.  Look at our text again, this Yahweh-kind of love does not insist on its own rights or its own way.  Wow!  ‘This is my right and I must have it’ is never the way of this supernatural love.  ‘If it is not my way then there is no way’ attitude is not seen in this Yahweh-kind of love.

    Let me illustrate this.  When we are struggling to love another person, typically we find that the cause, or at least one of the causes, is that that person is doing something that we experience negatively or is failing to do something that we would experience positively: “I can’t love my spouse because he/she keeps doing x, y, and z or never does a, b, or c.”  Whenever we find our feelings reflect this thought, the problem is not that we are struggling to love them.  The problem is that we have forgotten what love is!  Love DOES NOT look to its own things.  Love in no way, shape or form depends upon the actions of others for it to either exist or thrive.  While it may be easier for us to love someone who treats us exactly how we would like to be treated, this is no better a form of love than the most secular humanist can muster up!   Yahushua taught us and commanded us to love even our enemies.  Enemy is a strong word in the scriptures.  We can only do this if we embrace the radical idea that love does not look to her own things.

    Love looks outward and cherishes and pursues what is best for another – whether they love us or hate; however they feel about us or treat us.  This love can still be “tough” and still be love.  But it cannot be vindictive, or petty, calculating, or judgmental in any way.  In fact, love’s ultimate concerns are the agenda of its object.  Love occupies itself with what has the best effect upon another.  Love is not concerned with what has been done for it lately, but always wakes up wondering what it can do for the other today.  This is, after all, precisely how Yahweh in HaMashiach has loved you.  It is still this same love that we are to extend to others.

    REMEMBER:   The Yahweh-kind of love seeks the interest of others.

    PRAYER:    Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word to me today.  I ask for grace to grow and develop the fruit of Your love in my spirit.  Help me to be the expression of this love to my world and to reap the benefits thereof in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE:    I release grace upon you to walk in the reality of this love in your relationships.  In this season, I declare supernatural supplies for you now in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    1 John 3:16-17;  Luke 10:25-37

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN:  Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    1 Kings 12:1-13:34;  Romans 8:26-39

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  • CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (6):  IS NOT RUDE

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    Thursday, August 13, 2026

    CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (6):  IS NOT RUDE

    … it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. …
    I Corinthians 13:5 (AMP)

    To be rude is to be socially incorrect in behaviour.  It is of a person, lacking in refinement or grace.  It is lacking civility or good manners.  The Greek work is aschemoneo meaning to be (act) unbecoming, exactly how Amplified puts it.   The place our spirituality is easily known and tested is in the use of words.   So many prayerful people are very rude.  They can easily insult the people in their lives and that does not bother them.  The Yahweh-kind of love is not rude.  If you get the use of your tongue right, then you are a perfect person.  James 3:1-12 explained this issue very succinctly.  It is a long reading, but it is worth the time.   “1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.  2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.  3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us? and we turn about their whole body.  4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.  5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!  6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature? and it is set on fire of hell.  7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:  8 But the tongue can no man tame? it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.  9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father? and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.  10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.  11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?  12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”

    Love doesn’t act improperly, or dishonorably, or indecently.  Love doesn’t behave in an ugly or unbecoming manner.  Love doesn’t needlessly offend, or act bluntly or crudely.  Love does not behave gracelessly.  And so if you state it positively, love always behaves itself – it always acts properly and honorably, and decently and gracefully.  Rather than being rude, love acts with common courtesy.  The Yahweh-kind of love will be gracious with words as the Word commands (see Colossians 4:6).  Selah!

    REMEMBER:  The Yahweh-kind of love always speaks with grace.

    CONFESSION:   My word is always with grace seasoned with salt and it gives grace to every one that hears me.  I function like this as a lifestyle.  Glory be Yahweh!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE:    I decree a restoration of your relationship today as your words align with grace seasoned with salt in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Philippians 2:1-5

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN:  Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Song of Solomon 6:1-8:14;  Romans 8:1-25

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  • CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (5):  IS NOT INFLATED WITH PRIDE

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    Wednesday, August 12, 2026

    CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (5):  IS NOT INFLATED WITH PRIDE

    … love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.5 It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); …
    I Corinthians 13:4-5 (AMP)

    The very word translated “pride” is the Greek word ‘phusioo’ meaning to “puff up” or “blow up.” The English idiom “having a big head” communicates the same idea.  To be puffed up is to have an inflated opinion of oneself.   According to William Penn, the founder of the Colony of Pennsylvania, “A proud man then is a kind of glutton upon himself; for he is never satisfied with loving and admiring himself; whilst nothing else, with him, is worthy either of love or care” (from No Cross, No Crown, chapter XII).  In pride we become the objects of our own love; in humility we learn to love others. 

    Pride is a sin.  Apostle John taught that the pride of life “is not from the Father but is from the world” (see 1 John 2:16).  The Proverbs summarize Yahweh’s attitude regarding pride: “Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate” (see Proverbs 8:13), and, “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” (see Proverbs 16:18).  In contrast to the humility of love, the Corinthian believers were known for their proud behaviour at times.  They argued over which apostle they followed (chapters 1-3), spoke poorly of Paul (chapter 4), boasted of their tolerance of sinful behaviour (chapter 5), took fellow believers to court with lawsuits (chapter 6), dishonoured Yahweh in their taking of the Lord’s Supper (chapter 11), and argued about which spiritual gifts were most important (chapter 12).  Paul’s exhortation that “love is not proud” provided a proper correction for their self-centred attitudes.

    The only thing love sees is the need.  When the Good Samaritan stopped to help the man in need on the Jericho road, he didn’t concern himself with how “Jews do not associate with Samaritans” (John 4:9).  The Good Samaritan did not care how it looked to others.  He was there to help (Luke 10:30-37).  His humble focus on someone else’s need is the illustration Yahushua used of loving our neighbour as ourselves.  We are called to shine the Yahweh-kind of love to our world.  Life is not all about you.  Stop living and centering life on yourself.  Life is about the Lord Yahushua and shining His love to the hurting and dying world.   There is no soul that is more important than the other.   Share the love of the Lord Yahushua with as many as you can find and do that with every humility considering it a privilege.  It is the life you have received in HaMashiach to be for a light to the nations of the earth.  Pride shall not be your ruin in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    REMEMBER:   The Yahweh-kind of love is never inflated with pride but sees the need and attends to it.

    PRAYER:     Dear Father, thank You for Your word to me today.  Let every form of pride in me die now.  Anything in me contending with Your kind of love being manifested through me be consumed by the fire of the Holy Spirit in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE:   The root of pride is cursed in your life now.  The hindrance to that explosion coming your way is just removed now in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Luke 10:30-37

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN:  Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Song of Solomon 4:1-5:16;  Romans 7:1-25

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  • CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (4):  IS NOT BOASTFUL

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    Tuesday, August 11, 2026

    CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (4):  IS NOT BOASTFUL

    … love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, …
    I Corinthians 13:4 (AMP)

    Love is not boastful.  To be boastful is to take delight in our own accomplishments or positions and flaunt the fact that other people have not accomplished them.  This second part is crucial, there is nothing wrong with recognising who we are and what we have done.  We’re not asking people to pretend they are something they are not, or pretend they have not accomplished what they have accomplished.  We’re talking about flaunting that in the face of those who have not and regarding them as inferior because of it.  In fact that is the key, its not about your accomplishments, its about seeing those accomplishments as making you more important than everyone else.  Being boastful is arrogating to yourself the glory of your accomplishments.  It is thinking and talking as though it was all by your power that you are where you are and have accomplished what you have accomplished.  Love is not boastful.  Yahweh-kind of love recognises that there is nothing in anyone apart from Yahweh.  The Yahweh-kind of Love recognises that it is all by the power and help of the Lord that anything has been accomplished at all.

    Again our ultimate example of this is the Lord Yahushua H          imself.  Philippians 2:5-8, says that Yahushua did not consider equality with Yahweh something to be grasped but made himself of no reputation.  He was not boastful of his stand with the Father.  Here was Yahushua who was Yahweh, yet humbled himself to become human on our behalf and died a death of pain and shame for us.  Yahushua was not acting proud or boastfully when he lived among us.  He was the one who took the servants place during the last supper.  Yahushua and his disciples had gathered together to celebrate the passover.  There was no servant there to wash their feet as they came in from the dusty road.  We can imagine the disciples looking at each other, “well, I’m more important than him, surely you don’t expect me to do it.  Look, there’s …, he should be doing it before me.  If so and so, isn’t doing it then I’m not.”  And then Yahushua gets up and washes his disciples feet.  They are silenced and rightly shamed. They were acting proudly but Yahushua was humble.  Love is not proud or boastful.  To be boastful is to consider yourself to be more important than others.  This is the exact opposite of Yahushua who gave everything he had, his privileges as Yahweh, his position, his home, his possessions, his life for the benefit of others. 

    Whatever you have or have accomplished is only because you have received it of Yahweh.  It is the grace of Yahweh at work in your life.  See what 1 Corinthians 4:7 (ERV) says, ‘Who do you think you are? Everything you have was given to you. So, if everything you have was given to you, why do you act as if you got it all by your own power?’ NET says ‘why do you boast as though you did not’?

    REMEMBER:   This Yahweh-kind of Love does not behave and talk as though it is all by one’s power.

    PRAYER:   Dear Father, thank You for Your word to me today.  Help me to know and behave in ways that shows that everything about me is from You and not by my power or godliness in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE:    Pride kills.  I decree its death in your life today in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    1 Corinthians 4:7 in NLT, TPT, AMP, NET, GNT, ETC. (Find the translations and compare here: https://bible.com/bible/8/1co.4.7.AMPC)

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN:  Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Song of Solomon 1:1-3:11;  Romans 6:1-23

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  • CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (3):  IS NOT ENVIOUS

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    Monday, August 10, 2026

    CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (3):  IS NOT ENVIOUS

    …love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, …
    I Corinthians 13:4  (AMP)

    First Corinthians 13 offers one of the Bible’s richest expositions regarding love. Verse 4 notes that love “does not envy.”  So, selfish jealousy is at odds with Yahweh’s type of love.  Some Bible versions rendered ‘love is never envious’ in our text as ‘it is not envious’ (NET), ‘it does not envy’ (NIV), ‘love does not envy’ (NKJV), ‘is not jealous’ (ERV), ‘charity envieth not’ (KJV), etc.  The Greek word translated “envy” is ‘zeloo’ which means “to burn with zeal, to have warmth of feeling for or against, to affect, covet (earnestly), (have) desire, (move with) envy, be jealous over, (be) zealous(-ly affect).”  Literally, the sense is “to be heated or to boil over with envy, hatred, or anger.”  In the context of 1 Corinthians 13, the idea is that love does not focus on personal desires.  It is not eager to increase possessions.  Yahweh’s type of love is selfless, not selfish.   Envy is when you want what someone else has and you resent them for having it.   Spurgeon says it this way “There is a spirit, resident in the natural man, the human nature of man, which is always inclined toward hate and envy, always wanting to get somewhat from other men, and always grieved if other men seem to be or to have more than the person himself has.”

    Envy is the opposite of God’s command not to covet (Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21). “Love is the fulfilment of the law” (Romans 13:10). The one who truly loves will be in conformity to the Ten Commandments, and envy will be excluded.  In contrast to Yahweh’s command, the Corinthian believers were ranking some spiritual gifts as more important than others and envying those who had the “best” gifts. In chapter 12, Paul points out that the different gifts are meant to serve one another and build up the church. No one person has all the gifts, but each child of Yahweh has at least one, and love demands that each gift be used to serve others rather than self.

    “Envy rots the bones” (Proverbs 14:30).  This means that envy is more deadly than the most lethal disease or virus.   It corrupts the bones.  New Living Translation (NLT) says it this way ‘…jealousy is like cancer in the bones’.  When we crave what someone else has rather than being grateful for what Yahweh has given, we hurt ourselves.  Instead of envying others, we are called to love them.  True love—Yahweh’s love—rejoices when others are blessed.  There is no room for envy.  Yahweh-kind of Love does not seek to benefit itself and it is content with what it has, because its focus is on meeting the needs of the loved one and this is who you are as a born again person.  May every trace of envy and jealousy die now and permanently in your life in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    REMEMBER:   The Yahweh-kind of Love does not boil over with envy, hatred or anger.

    CONFESSION:    I am born again by the Word of Yahweh.  The love of Yahweh is shed abroad in my spirit and I am reflecting the glory of that nature to my world today.  I am a lover and do not boil over with envy.  As I come in contact with people today, the love of Yahweh in my spirit will ooze out to bless their lives.  Halleluyah!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE:    I release upon you today the grace to walk in this Yahweh-kind of love and to reap the harvests of supernatural living where everything answers to you at your instance in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Acts 7:9; 17: 5

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN:  Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Ecclesiastes 8:1-12:14;  Romans 5:1-21

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  • CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (2): IS KIND

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    Sunday, August 9, 2026

    CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (2):  IS KIND

    … love is kind and thoughtful, …
    I Corinthians 13:4 (AMP)

    The second attribute of the Yahweh-kind of love is kindness.   What is it to be kind?  The phrase “is kind” in I Corinthians 13:4 is the Greek word chrēsteuomai, from the root word chrēstos, which E. W. Bullinger’s Critical Lexicon and Concordance to the English and Greek New Testament defines as “good, gentle, benevolent…actively beneficent in spite of ingratitude.”   Both “benevolent” and “beneficent” describe someone who does good.  To be kind is to do good unto others, even if they don’t show appreciation for our gestures.  The Yahweh-kind of love is always the answer to the odds of human demeanor.   That definition of chresteuomai says ‘actively beneficent in spite of ingratitude’.

    When the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach taught his disciples how to love with the love of Yahweh, He gave them the example of the kindness of Yahweh.  In Luke 6:31,32,35, the word says ‘31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. 32 For if ye love [agapaō] them which love [agapaō] you, what thank [recompense, reward] have ye? for sinners also love [agapaō] those that love [agapaō] them. 35 But love [agapaō] ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind [chrēstos] unto the unthankful and to the evil.‘

    Yahweh is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.  This is the love of Yahweh.  We see this expressed in Ephesians 2::4-5: ‘4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love [agapē] wherewith he loved [agapaō] us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)‘   We are recipients of Yahweh’s amazing love, for we have experienced His kindness toward us through the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach.  He loved us even when we were dead in sins.  Titus 3:3-6 says ‘3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.  4 But after that the kindness [chrēstotēs] and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,  5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost [the gift of holy spirit]; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.‘

    Yahweh saved us according to His mercy—not because we deserved it.  Yahweh’s love and kindness are not dependent on the goodness or gratitude of others.  Extending the kindness of Yahweh to another person, especially when they are unthankful or evil, is a powerful way to positively affect someone’s life and the Lord Yahushua expects you to release kindness today and always to a hurting and ungrateful world.

    REMEMBER:   The Yahweh-kind of love is benevolent and beneficent in spite of ingratitude.

    CONFESSION:   I am a kind person and through me the Lord Yahushua is extending kindness to the hurting world around.  Oh how much kindness we have received from the Lord!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE:   Something glorious is sparking off in your life from this day as you key into kindness in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Ephesians 2:2-10, John 13:26-38

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN:  Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Ecclesiastes 4:1-7:29;  Romans 4:1-25

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  • CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (1): ENDURES LONG

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    Saturday, August 8, 2026

    CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (1):  ENDURES LONG

    Love endures with patience and serenity; …
    I Corinthians 13:4  [AMP]

    Beginning from this day, we shall be discussing the characteristics of the Yahweh-kind of love. These are the manifestations of the Yahweh-kind of love in the Believer.  Love is the first fruit of the recreated human spirit.  This is because every other fruit is an overflow of love.  As wonderful as the gifts of the Spirit are, the Bible teaches that it’s the fruit of the spirit – “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, [and] temperance” (Galatians 5:22-23) – that indicate a person is walking in the spirit and not the flesh.   If you want to know whether you’re a spiritual person or not, look to see if you are walking in love. You simply can’t walk in the spirit or be a spiritual person without being ruled by love.  The reason I single out love is because it is the foundation upon which all the other fruit rest.  The others flow out of love.  To find out just how important love is in the economy of Yahweh, read the first few verses of 1 Corinthians 13, “1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.  2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge? and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.  3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”  (verses 1-3).

    Love is the bottom line. Nothing counts without it.  In short, you and I can’t go anywhere spiritually until we get our love walk straight!  Then I Corinthians 13:4 starts enumerating the characteristics of this Yahweh-kind of love and endurance and patience is the first to be mentioned.  It is also worthy of note that Apostle Paul mentioned patience and endurance as one of the fruit of the recreated human spirit.  There is something about patience that model love.  As an individual who has walked with the Lord for years now, this is still an area of concern in the author’s walk of love.  Maybe until you get your long endurance right, you are still to begin in the school of love.  We live in a world that takes advantage of people that endures long and we often just gets tired of enduring.

    The Greek word used here is makrothymia.  Sometimes English translators choose to translate the Greek word hypomonē as “patience” (e.g. Luke 8:15; Romans 2:7; 2 Corinthians 12:12; Revelation 2:3).  But hypomonē differs from makrothymia.  Hypomonē almost always refers to perseverance or endurance in the face of difficult or painful circumstances (think James 1:3).  But makrothymia almost always refers to a forbearing, persevering, patient love toward a person.  It is a form of self-sacrificial love we extend to someone else.  If it is the Yahweh-kind of love, it endures long and is patient.

    REMEMBER:   The Yahweh-kind of love always forbears, perseveres, is patient and endures long.

    PRAYER:    Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word to me today.  I receive the grace to function in authentic love which endures long and is patient in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE:   I see restoration of relationships as this love comes alive in you from this day in the Lord Yahushua’s name Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    I Timothy 1:16;  Colossians 3:12–13; Ephesians 4:2;  1 Thessalonians 5:14;  2 Timothy 4:2

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN:  Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Ecclesiastes 1:1-3:22;  Romans 3:9-31

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  • WHY STUDY THE YAHWEH-KIND OF LOVE? (2)

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    Friday, August 7, 2026

    WHY STUDY THE YAHWEH-KIND OF LOVE? (2)

    So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
    Nehemiah 8:8 (KJV)

    We are continuing from yesterday.  We are exploring the need to study the Yahweh-kind of love.  Our objective is to show you what is in the Yahweh-kind of love, helping you to focus and get the sense so that you can emerge a star.

    Sixthly,  It is the love of HaMashiach which controls us.   II Corinthians 5:14 says, “For the love of Christ constraineth us? because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:”  The word constrain here means move, control, in-charge of, etc.   That is to say, without love, you are immobile, out of control and absolutely not in charge of affairs.  It is only the love of Yahweh which is demonstrated in HaMashiach that controls us, moves us forward and upward and helps us be in-charge of the affairs of life.

    Seventhly, love is the New Testament commandment.  It is the commandment of our Lord and Saviour the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach.  John 13:34 says, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”   This is what makes love the greatest quest of the believer in Yahushua.  It is the New Testament commandment.  It is the commandment of our master and saviour.

    Eighthly, love  for others is the acid test of real genuine faith in Yahushua.  The only thing that testifies that one has passed from death to life is love for others.  The only proof that you have escaped the dominion of darkness is love for the brethren.   I John 3:14 says, “We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.”   I John 2:9 says, “He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.”  That is how important love is.  It is the expression of your present state spiritually.

    Ninthly and finally, we tend to be like what we love.  Hosea 9:10 (NET) says, “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame – they became as detestable as what they loved.”  That is the power of love, to transform us into the image of what we love.  This is because if you love something, you tend to look at that thing often and II Corinthians 3:18 says, “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.“  As you look at the word, you are changed.  As you behold the Lord in worship, you are changed.  This is what this month holds for you beloved, transformation from one level of glory to the other, until you become an exclamation mark before mortals.  Receive it this month!

    REMEMBER:    We study love because we tend to become what we love.

    CONFESSION:    I am set this month for a transformation that will startle my generation; an encounter with the Yahweh-kind of love that will make me a wonder among people.  Halleluyah!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE:   There is a realm you have only dreamed of.  This month, you shall experience it as you fall in love with Yahweh in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    1 John 4:7-10, 20-21

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN:  Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Proverbs 30:1-31:31;  Romans 2:17-3:8

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  • WHY STUDY THE YAHWEH-KIND OF LOVE? (1)

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    Thursday, August 6, 2026

    WHY STUDY THE YAHWEH-KIND OF LOVE? (1)

    So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
    Nehemiah 8:8 (KJV)

    Study brings about understanding and it is understanding that makes you stand out; and until you stand out, you cannot be outstanding.  We are trying to give the sense of the Yahweh-kind of love and cause everyone to understand it.   Amongst others, the following are the reasons why we are studying the love of Yahweh:

    Firstly, the Yahweh-kind of love is widely accepted but wrongly understood.  Many people believe in a “Yahweh of love”, who operates according to their definition of love.  Those people will be shocked to find themselves spending eternity in hell if they believe “a loving Yahweh would not condemn anyone to hell.”  But the error is not just among unbelievers, for many believers also have a very distorted concept of Yahweh’s love.

    Secondly, The love of Yahweh is the basis for Yahweh’s great acts in history.  In Psalm 136, we find the love (“lovingkindness”—NASB) of Yahweh repeated after each new line of the Psalm. The Psalm praises Yahweh for His lovingkindness for two major acts in history, the creation of the world and the deliverance of Israel from their Egyptian slavery.  The prophets of the Old Testament emphasized the love of Yahweh during the dark days of Israel’s captivity (see Isaiah 49:8-16; 63:7; Jeremiah 31:3; Hosea 11:1), and the New Testament speaks of the love of Yahweh in the person and work of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach (see 1 John 4:9).

    Thirdly, The love of Yahweh is the cause, the basis and the standard for the love we are expected to demonstrate in our lives as Believers in HaMashiach.   I John 3:16 says, “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” (see Matthew 5:43-48; John 15:7-12; 1 John 2:4-11; 3:10-11; 13-24; 4:7-11).

    Fourthly, The entire Old Testament law can be summed up in terms of love.  Romans 13:8-10 says, “8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.  9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet? and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.  10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”  If the whole law is summed up in love then, we should study this subject to grasp it.

    Fifthly, Love is to be the greatest goal of our lives as Believers in HaMashiach.   I Corinthians 12:31 called love a more excellent way.  It is to be the greatest quest of the Believer. I Corinthians 13:13 says that love is the greatest of the virtues.  When all things have come to an end, love will continue.

    We shall continue tomorrow exploring the need for studying the Yahweh-kind of love. 

    REMEMBER:   The Yahweh-kind of love is wrongly understood.

    CONFESSION:    Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word to me today.  I ask for understanding as we study Your kind of love this month.  Give me turnaround encounters in the precious name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE:   I decree that your understanding comes alive now in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
     John 15:7-12;  1 John 2:4-11;  3:10-11;  13-24;  4:7-11

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN:  Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Proverbs 27:1-29:27;  Romans 2:1-16

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  • LOVE – WHAT IS IT? (4)

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    Wednesday, August 5, 2026

    LOVE – WHAT IS IT? (4)

    And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
    I John 5:11 (KJV)

    What exactly is this love?  Seventhly, this love is manifested and experienced in HaMashiach.   John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”   I John 4:9 says, “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.”   This is the first point in understanding and experiencing the Love of Yahweh in your life.  If you don’t have the Son, you don’t have the life and love only belongs to the living.   Coming alive in HaMashiach is the only way to experiencing eternal life and consequently the Yahweh-kind of love.   What we do is to respond to the Love of Yahweh.  When that love is shed abroad in our heart, we are then able to extend it to our neighbour.   I John 4:11 says, “Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.”   Until you have experienced the Love of Yahweh, you cannot respond in love to Him, neither can you extend that love to your neighbour.  That is why experiencing the Life of Yahweh in HaMashiach is inevitable.

    Eighthly, the Yahweh-kind of Love is eternal.   It is not what happens today and then disappears tomorrow.  The problem with us is that we have developed human thinking about these things that we imagine that Divine Love is as what humans call love.  What humans call love is basically an expression of their feelings.  But Yahweh-kind of love is a choice and He has made that choice from eternity past and it is not going to change because He does not change. Jeremiah 31:3 says, “The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”  It is an everlasting love Beloved that He loved you.

    Ninthly, the Yahweh-kind of love is one attribute of Yahweh among many.   The love of Yahweh is not the complete truth and revelation about Yahweh as far as the Bible is concerned.  It is one attribute of Yahweh among so many others.  For example, Yahweh is a consuming fire (see Hebrews 12:29), Yahweh is a man of war (see Exodus 15:3), etc.  In His book, Knowing God (p. 108), J. I. Parker said concerning the love of Yahweh, “It is not an abstract definition which stands alone, but a summing up, from the believer’s standpoint, of what the whole revelation set forth in Scripture tells us about its Author. This statement [God is love] presupposes all the rest of the biblical witness to God. The God of whom John is speaking is the God who made the world, who judged it by the Flood, who called Abraham and made of him a nation, who chastened His Old Testament people by conquest, captivity, and exile, who sent His Son to save the world, who cast off unbelieving Israel and shortly before John wrote had destroyed Jerusalem, and who would one day judge the world in righteousness. It is this God, says John, who is love. It is not possible to argue that a God who is love cannot also be a God who condemns and punishes the disobedient; for it is precisely of the God who does these very things that John is speaking.” 

    REMEMBER:   He has loved you with an everlasting love.

    PRAYER:   Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You for Your Word to me today!  I receive your love into my heart love and I respond in obedience in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE:   Your encounter with this love will transform every area of your life in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Psalms 136

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN:  Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Proverbs 24:10-26:28;  Romans 1:18-32

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