Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me, but you can’t come where I am going. So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.” Simon Peter asked, “Lord, where are you going?”And Jesus replied, “You can’t go with me now, but you will follow me later.” John 13:33-36
Jesus loves. He taught that you should love everyone. “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you” – Matthew 5:44.
He lived this principle all his life. When he was arrested, Peter slashed the ear of Malchus one of the arresters. But Jesus forbade him. “Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath” – John 18:10-11.
We are also to love the same way. “Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head” – Romans 12:20.”
Jesus loved Lazarus. So when he was sick, look the message the sisters of Lazarus sent to Jesus: “Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick” – John 11:3. A simple message but it carried divine weight because of the love element in the message.
Faith to do anything in the life of man doesn’t work without love. “Faith which works by love” – Galatians 5:6. Thousand prayers of faith for you without love are vain prayers. God doesn’t only work with faith when it comes to prayer. How much the one praying loves you matters to him and how much you also love him or her also matters.
Jesus didn’t love Lazarus only, he also loved Martha and Mary. “Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus” – John 11:5. Love is our kingdom culture. You can’t thrive without it.
Jesus loves you and me too. “Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end” – John 13:1. Jesus sacrificed his life to show how much he loved us.
LET’S PRAY
Heavenly Father, give me grace enough to know that, love dismisses hostilities and becomes the adhesive that glues two enemies into friends. Lord Jesus, help me to love unconditionally.
AGREE WITH ME
You are a plant and you just need water to flourish and bear fruit to fulfill your destiny. So, you need to be connected to the Source that never dry. I therefore decree and declare this morning “May your business, finances, career, academics, marriage, family, health, physical person and spiritual person be connected to the Fountain of life, by the Power of the Holy Spirit in the mighty name of Jesus Christ!”
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