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THE POWER OF YAHWEH’S LOVE (2): BRINGS MERCY

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Wednesday FEBRUARY 22, 2023

THE POWER OF YAHWEH’S LOVE (2): BRINGS MERCY

“Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.”
Jude 1:21 (KJV)

Beloved, after this month in this #WordForTodayDevotional, you will never have any reason to hold down your head any more in life. The love of the Father has procured His mercy upon you. By that love, you have become the object of His mercy. This is mind-blowing to say the least. Romans 9:22-23 says, “23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?” The Father’s love has made us the vessels of mercy. That means that there is nothing that runs in your generation that should be part of your life. There is no wrath of the enemy or even the curse of Yahweh (if any) on your lineage that should be part of your experience today. This is because you are now the vessel of His mercy. His love has brought us His mercy.

DEPLOYING YAHWEH’S LOVE IN THE MARKETPLACE OF LIFE

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Monday FEBRUARY 20, 2023

DEPLOYING YAHWEH’S LOVE IN THE MARKETPLACE OF LIFE

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew 7:12 (KJV)

The World is a marketplace. A market place is a place of buying and selling. If you are a banker, you are selling your banking skills and knowledge and the management of the bank is paying you for it. Everybody is either selling something or buying something. The marketplace is a place we meet people and interact with them. Those in your marketplace are those you meet in the course of buying or selling skills, commodities or knowledge. Those that come in contact with you in the course of making your money are people of your marketplace.

LOVE AND DISCIPLINE IN PARENTING

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Sunday FEBRUARY 19, 2023

LOVE AND DISCIPLINE IN PARENTING

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4 (KJV)

The Yahweh-kind of love says, that fathers should not provoke their children to wrath but to bring them up in the teaching and fear of the Lord (see Ephesians 6:4 BBE). It is unfortunate how fathers in our day are too busy to teach their children but are too quick to discipline. You have no right to discipline a child you have not taught. That is wickedness. Discipline is correction to ensure there is no deviation from instruction. How can you discipline without first giving instruction? That is exactly what our text is saying, do not provoke your children to anger but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

DEPLOYING YAHWEH’S LOVE IN MARRIAGE

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Friday FEBRUARY 17, 2023

DEPLOYING YAHWEH’S LOVE IN MARRIAGE

18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Colossians 3:18-19 (KJV)

The first place that the characteristics of the Yahweh-kind of love manifests is in the family between husband and wife, then extends to the children and then to the Church and society at large. This is why the failure of people to function in the Yahweh-kind of love in their family has resulted in the high rate of disintegration of families these days. The scripture is littered with instructions to love our spouses. It is only the Yahweh-kind of love that can hold marriage together making it a heaven-on-earth experience of a home. Submission is a function of humility and patience which are all characteristics of the Yahweh-kind of love. When the wife is told to submit to her own husband, it is another way of telling the wife to love their husbands. Titus 2:4-5 brought it out clearly, “ 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.” When you love your husband, as a wife, you would be kind, obedient, patient, courteous, generous and appreciating him for the things he does for you and the family. The author has seen from experience as a pastor counselling numerous people that a godly woman is the best blessing a man can receive. Just as the scripture says in II Peter 3:1-2, “ 1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands? that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives? 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.”; the author has seen the impact of godly submissive wives on ungodly husbands which confirmed the Word that they are always drawn by the chaste conduct of their wives.

CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (13): NEVER FAILS

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Thursday FEBRUARY 16, 2023

CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (13): NEVER FAILS

Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end] …
I Corinthians 13:8 (KJV)

There is only one thing in life that has guarantee, that you can hold closing your eyes and be 100% sure that you are safe and secure. You can completely build your life on this one thing and never again think twice in terms of safety, prosperity, peace and eternity. The Lord Yahweh, the creator of heaven and earth is that one person that cannot fail. In 1 John 4:8, the word tells us that Yahweh is love. Just as Yahweh can never fail, the Yahweh-kind of love can never fail. Walking in the Yahweh-kind of love is the only failure-proof existence that guarantees victory and success both in life and eternity.

CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (12): HOPES ALL THINGS

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Wednesday FEBRUARY 15, 2023

CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (12): HOPES ALL THINGS

… its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, …
I Corinthians 13:7 (AMPC)

This word we see translated as “hope” is the Greek word “elpizo” which means to expect or confide. The word is translated in other places as “trust” and “expect.” It is the confident expectation of something to come. To “hope all things” means to confidently expect the long-term spiritual growth of our fellow brothers and sisters in HaMashiach; to expect that their lives will turn out right; to expect that their situation will change for the better; to treat them according to that beautiful future you expect. To “hope all things” means that we never consider another to be a lost case. It means that we never give up on each other, even when we see one another fall and fall hard.

CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (11): BELIEVES ALL THINGS

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Tuesday FEBRUARY 14, 2023
CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (11): BELIEVES ALL THINGS
… is ever ready to believe the best of every person, …
1 Corinthians 13:7 (AMPC)
The word translated as “believes” in the second phrase is “pisteu.” The New Testament Greek Lexicon meaning for the word includes: to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in, to trust, etc. Once again, Apostle Paul is speaking about our relationships within the body of HaMashiach. Apostle Paul is not calling for a foolish gullibility. However, being guarded against the possibility of being taken advantage of is not correct either. Obviously, this does not mean that we are to lose all discernment when we love someone. In fact, Apostle Paul prays for the Philippians to have a love characterized by discernment. In Philippians 1:9-10 (NKJV), we read, ‘And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, 10 that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ,’

CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (10): BEARS ALL THINGS

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Monday FEBRUARY 13, 2023

CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (10): BEARS ALL THINGS

Love bears up under anything and everything that comes …

1 Corinthians 13:6 (AMPC)

The more I try to comprehend this love, the more I am amazed and feel like I have not even started at all. The acid test of spirituality is walking in the Yahweh-kind of love. The Yahweh-kind of love bears up under anything and everything that comes. The Greek word rendered bears up or beareth (KJV) is stego. It means to cover and is related to the word indicating a roof, or a covering that offers protection from the elements. In his commentary, W. E. Vine explains that this covering either supports what is placed upon it, or covers what is placed underneath it. Love acts in both ways in bearing all things. The implications of this is awe-striking.

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

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Friday FEBRUARY 10, 2023

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

… 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.

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

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Thursday FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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.”