by Apostle Gabriel Cross
There are many facets to the love of God according to 1 Corinthians 13 (The Message):
“1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
3-7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8-10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.”
But there’s one thing that love will not do and that is to intentionally, hurt the one hurting you. Love always heals and perfects; it never hurts and destroys.
Father, raise my love level!
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Love heals 💕
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By: ashokwahi on 05/12/2019
at 1:11 am
Yes, love heals!
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By: Pure Glory on 05/12/2019
at 7:30 am
Reblogged this on thehouseofprayers.
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By: osarobohenry on 05/12/2019
at 4:19 am
Thank you!
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By: Pure Glory on 05/12/2019
at 7:30 am
What a beautiful picture. Love underscoresvall that is good. God is love. Beautiful post. A gift to all who see it.
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By: isaiah46ministries on 05/12/2019
at 10:57 am
Praise God! Thank you!
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By: Pure Glory on 05/12/2019
at 11:52 am
Thinking I need this prayer for myself today. Thanks! ❤️
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By: Irene on 05/12/2019
at 1:50 pm
You are welcome, Irene! Father, raise our love levels!
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By: Pure Glory on 05/12/2019
at 2:04 pm
Yesss Lord God raise it higher and higher in Jesus name! Amen! Blessings & peace to you. 🙂
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By: 🌴🌺🇹🇹🌊Tammy7711🌴🌺🇹🇹🌊 on 05/17/2019
at 2:17 pm
Yes, more of your love Lord, for all others. Love and blessings!
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By: Pure Glory on 05/17/2019
at 2:24 pm
Amen Yesss!
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By: 🌴🌺🇹🇹🌊Tammy7711🌴🌺🇹🇹🌊 on 05/17/2019
at 2:54 pm
Amen Lord. Raise my love level.
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By: joansanusi on 05/20/2019
at 8:57 pm
So be it Lord!!!
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By: Pure Glory on 05/20/2019
at 10:00 pm
Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
AND THE HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS…..YOWZA! 😀
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By: Jonathan Caswell on 10/09/2020
at 11:36 pm
Lord, let me love like you!
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By: Pure Glory on 10/09/2020
at 11:44 pm
So may this be, oh LORD MOST HIGH!
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By: Jonathan Caswell on 10/10/2020
at 6:46 am
Amen!
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By: Pure Glory on 10/10/2020
at 3:19 pm