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

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Tuesday FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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 accomplished that 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.

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

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Monday FEBRUARY 6, 2023

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.”

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

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Sunday FEBRUARY 5, 2023

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 demeanour. That definition of chresteuomai says ‘actively beneficent in spite of ingratitude’.

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

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Saturday FEBRUARY 4, 2023

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).

YAHWEH KNEW YOU

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Friday FEBRUARY 3, 2023

YAHWEH KNEW YOU

“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”

Jeremiah 1:5 [KJV]

This is absolutely mind-blowing. You are not a biological accident the circumstances surrounding your birth notwithstanding. You are not a mistake that just happened. No matter what your parents or any other person have said, you are very much in the plan and agenda of your heavenly Father. The Hebrew translated ‘know’ in our opening verse means to have an intimate knowledge as deep as intercourse. It is knowing the hidden naked side and details of a person. That is to say that before you ever existed, YAHWEH knew you personally, intimately and holistically. That is the definition of love – intimacy that is a result of knowledge. Psalms 139 captured this knowledge of love in a most scintillating way. We shall take a few of them. Psalms 139:2-4 addressing Yahweh says, “2. You know when I sit down and when I get up. You know my thoughts from far away. 3. You know where I go and where I lie down. You know everything I do. 4. LORD, you know what I want to say, even before the words leave my mouth.” (ERV). We’re talking about the fact that Yahweh knew you intimately and that before you ever arrive in time. It is a knowing that springs from intimacy and love. He loves you out of knowledge. There’s nothing about you that is a surprise to Him.

THE GREATER LOVE

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Thursday FEBRUARY 2, 2023

THE GREATER LOVE

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
John 15:13 [KJV]

Greater love is a superior love. It is the surpassing love. It is love that pays the ultimate price. That is the love of Yahweh in full manifestation expressed in Yahushua. When Yahweh made man, in his love He gave him freedom of the will and placed him in the garden of plenty and abundance. However, man obeyed Satan and rebelled against Love. That brought negative consequences to man. Every evil around today is traceable to who man submitted to against his maker. People are always quick to remark, ”if Yahweh is love, why are there so much evil in the world?”. The answer is really simple. Evil in the world is all orchestrated by Satan courtesy of Adam and Eve. The dominion over the earth was given to Adam under the guidance of Yahweh. That guidance was the Word spoken to him. He was also given freedom to do as he please. He could swing his allegiance whithersoever he wishes. That is freedom. As you already know, he sold out to Satan by disobeying Yahweh. That transaction made Satan the god of this world from that day instead of Adam.

WHAT IS THE LORD SAYING FOR FEBRUARY 2023?

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Wednesday FEBRUARY 1, 2023

WHAT IS THE LORD SAYING FOR FEBRUARY 2023?

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
I John 2:15 [KJV]

Welcome to the month of February in our year of the #DependableYahweh. We are already set this year for outstanding success having stayed almost all through January on the fasting and prayer mountain. It was such an intense month of prayer and fasting with the theme “I am empowered on the altar of fasting and prayer to serve the Dependable Yahweh.” We explored the fact that you are here to serve the interest of the Kingdom of Yahweh, otherwise, you would have been physically translated the very day that you got saved. He left you here so that you can be an instrument to bringing others out of the bondage of sin and Satan. We saw what fasting is and scriptural examples of fasting. We examined in depth what fasting offers and how to fast acceptably. There is acceptable fast and also unacceptable fast. We believe in all that you were transfigured as you prayed and more importantly empowered to serve Yahweh this year. We prayed intensely to receive the grace to serve Him as a lifestyle with proofs and we believe that the rest months of this year is already a walkover. Having been empowered, it is now time to prove our love for the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach by deploying ourselves full-time for the interest, increase and expansion of His kingdom.

QUALIFICATION TO BE LED (3): BE IN AND WALK IN LOVE

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Monday December 19, 2022

QUALIFICATION TO BE LED (3): BE IN AND WALK IN LOVE

If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:15 (KJV)

John 14:16-17 says, ‘16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.’ The context of this scripture shows us that your ability to walk with the Holy Spirit is conditioned upon you loving the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach. You can see that loving the Lord Yahushua is not a thing of saying “I love You Lord” that may definitely be included but loving the Lord is keeping his commandments. Keeping the commandments of Yahweh is in two folds. Firstly, is to believe in the Son of Yahweh Yahushua HaMashiach. I John 3:23 says, ‘And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.’ This is the first step towards keeping the new covenant commandment. The rationale is that a dead person does not keep any commandment. Without coming to the life quickening Spirit Yahushua HaMashiach to be quickened, you are permanently dead in trespasses and condemned to eternal damnation (see Colossians 2:13). The dead has no business with the living. You cannot communicate with the Holy Spirit, if your spirit is dead, therefore divine direction does not pertain to such a person.

HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (6): BY TEACHING US THE FEAR OF YAHWEH

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Friday October 21, 2022

HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (6): BY TEACHING US THE FEAR OF YAHWEH

Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Psalms 34:11 (KJV)

The Word teaches us the fear of the Lord. Is it not a wonderful thing that the fear of the Lord can be learnt. That means no one is disadvantaged in life. Just anyone can learn the fear of the Lord and function in the realms of power and glory in their relationship with Yahweh. The Fear of the Lord is reverence for the Lord. It is having a sense of awe for the person, presence and emotions of the Lord. It is living your life in such a way and with the sole priority to please the Lord and bring glory to His holy name. Our relationship with the Father starts with surrendering to the Lordship of Yahushua HaMashiach. John 14:6 says, ‘Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.’ If you have not accepted the Lord Yahushua as Lord and Personal Saviour, then you do not have a relationship with the Father because the scriptures cannot be broken. At the fall of Adam, humanity came short of the glory of Father. It is only in Yahushua that we are reconciled, restored and empowered to fellowship with the Father. Another need to be saved is that at the fall of Adam, humanity acquired the nature of Satan. But at salvation, you become a new creation with the nature of righteousness of the Lord Yahushua. It is this nature of righteousness that makes it possible to be and live holy lives as a new creation. Holiness is the basis of a valid relationship with the Father (see II Timothty 2.19). Having become a new creation in HaMashiach, you must conform your soul and body to this new man in HaMashiach by doing the Word. It is the fear of the Lord that brings about doing the Word.

PILLARS OF PROSPERITY (1): COVENANT GIVING (A)

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Sunday August 21, 2022

PILLARS OF PROSPERITY (1): COVENANT GIVING (A)

Give, and it shall be given unto you? good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Luke 6:38 (KJV)

Covenant giving is the highway of abundance in this Kingdom. The law of seed-time and harvest is also called the law of giving. Giving is like sowing seeds into the ground. The ground you are sowing the seed matters a lot to the harvest that you can expect. That is why it is not every giving that produces harvest. It is only covenant giving that produces bountiful harvest. Covenant giving is that giving that is in line with the Word. Covenant giving is that giving that is commanded by the Word. When you give according to the Word, then you are assured of a bountiful returns. Covenant giving starts with the tithe. The tithe is ten percent of the increase of Yahweh upon your life and business/career. 10% of $100 is $10. That is how simple it is. Tithe is a debt you are owing Yahweh that is why if you refuse to pay, it is regarded as robbery (see Malachi 3:8-12). When you pay your tithe, you provoke the heavens opened over you and your finances and indeed everything that concerns you. When you don’t pay your tithe, you incurred the curse of the Lord released upon the thief (see Zechariah 5:1-4). You also close the heaven over you and expose yourself to the devourer. It is better imagined than experienced. If you are in this Kingdom of HaMashiach and you are not faithful in tithing, you are doing yourself a great disservice. In the new testament, it is our high priest Yahushua that receives the tithe (see Hebrews 7:8).