LOVE: THE SECRET OF SUCCESS II

Love is our defense and protection from an evil world that hates us. Many believers are even confused about love and seem to judge love as they do in the world, they love as the world does; they only love those who can love them back, help those that can help them and give to those who can give them back. We do not have to love those who can love us back, no! Jesus admonish us to love and give to those who cannot pay us back otherwise,

It is trade by barter but it is not trade by barter. Give me I give you, attend my ceremony and I will attend yours, that is not love that is trade by barter.

The word of God clearly reveals what love is.

“And what this love consist in is this, that we live and walk in accordance with and guided by His commandments – His orders, ordinances, precepts, teaching. This is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you continue to walk in love – guided by it and following it. (2 John 1:6)

The bible is God’s love manual. You can have the love of God abiding in you and allow this love to work through you and reach other people. Like faith, love becomes active through knowledge of the word. That’s why Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Philippi,

“And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more and extend to its fullest development in knowledge and all keen insight – that is, that your love may display itself in greater depth of acquaintance and more comprehensive discernment;
(Philippians 1:9)

The love of God is released in your life by acting on the knowledge of God’s word. Without revelational knowledge backed by action, love lies undeveloped and selfishness continues to reign supreme in you – even though you are a new creature (born again)


“But he who keeps His word – who bears in mind His precepts, who observes His message in its entirety – truly in him has the love of and for God been perfected. By this we may perceive and know and recognize and be sure that we are in Him:
(1 John 2:5)

As you act on God’s word, the love of God will be perfected in you. That is when love will begin to flow from you to others. There is nothing, absolutely nothing that is more important than learning to love, in fact, how accurately you perfect the love walk, will determine how much the perfect will of God you accomplish. This is because every other spiritual force derives its action from love, faith works by love. Prayer is almost impossibility when a believer steps outside love and refuse to forgive or is in strife with his brother. Every other Christian character is nothing where there is no love.

“if I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love[that reasoning, intentional, spiritual , devotion such as inspired by God’s love for and in us], I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.(1 Corinthians 13:1)

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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