“Love never fails – never fades out or become obsolete or comes to an end. As for prophecy, it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
(1 Corinthians 13:8)
“Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so” – David Grayson
Love, you hear a lot about it, but the truth is, very few people really know or understand what love is. For most, it’s an emotional phantom that appears and disappears without warning. Illusive and indefinable, forever sought but rarely found. And to many they have different, strange concept and mindset about love and this has led to the various misunderstanding and crisis among people due to wrong interpretation given to love. To some, any closeness to the opposite sex is love – (well in a way) and to some it automatically means going to bed or about to go to bed for an immoral act with somebody, it is not so – the devil is a liar.
The devil is fighting against true love in the church and among the brethren, the devil perhaps knows more than some brethren that our strength lies in our love one for another. One weapon the devil cannot fight is love, no wonder the bible says God is love (I John 4vs 8) and Jesus earnestly and passionately prayed to our father in John 17:11
“And I am no more in the world, but these are in the world and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep in your name them whom you have given Me, that they may be one, as we are one.”
(John 17:11)
Our strength to prevail, succeed and have victory against the devil is in our unity bounded by love, we cannot be one without love; for perfect love cast out fear. The devil knows that it is what two or three of us agree upon not disagree on earth, that shall be done. It is where two or three of us are gathered together in love that is where God is. So the devil through his agents, which are often human, wants to destroy our unity and love. We suspect every move and everybody, suspect every greeting, accuse one another and speak evil of one another- this in away weakens our strength for battle and expose the body of Christ to ridicule and this, is of no gain to God and Jesus who paid a costly price for the church. Oh! If only the church will understand true love, love and keep on loving. The world hates us enough let us not hate one another,
I have given and delivered to them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world – do not belong to the world as I am not of the world.(John 17:14)
Apostle Lawrence Achudume
The General Overseer of Victory Life Bible Church Int'l
With branches spread across the globe
Can be reached on victory2life@yahoo.com
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