Love, Bless, Forgive. (Original Work) by bickler33

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Love, Bless, Forgive. (Original Work)
Good Morning Friday ... 
Father thank You for this NEW day. Please continue to fill our HEARTs & MINDs with your LOVE & TRUTH and TRANSFORM our ordinary day into an extraordinary day TODAY!‭

- Love, Bless, Forgive. 

 Love Your Enemies, Bless Those Who Curse You without a doubt sounds completely counterintuitive to what we learn growing up in this world. Nonetheless, God Said It for a reason. Loving, blessing, and praying for those who wrong us has serious spiritual healing tied to it. If we can let Our Father and Savior teach us this kind of discipline, I have no doubt we would be so filled with peace and contentment that forgiveness would come with much less difficulty. Just think about Our Brothers, The Apostles, singing, praying for, and converting their captors into God-Fearing, God-Loving people. 

We really have nothing to offer God except our obedience. God doesn't need our help being God, so why would we think we know better than Him? Bottom line is: If Our Father Commands Us To Do Something, It Is For Our Good... not to help Him. Since this is the case, even when what we have learned from the world is counterintuitive, we should "be like a child" and have faith in Our Father That He Knows Best. Our God and Savior want us to "Have Life, and have it More Abundantly" and He Knows, because He Made The Rules, that forgiveness, loving, blessing, and praying for those who don't agree with us or hate us will bring us Life. Every commandment of God Our Father is tied to this "abundant Life" that Our Savior Spoke of and He Knows... because He Followed Them All, and Perfectly. 

It may be difficult, it may feel counterintuitive, but forgiveness and doing good to those who curse you is a discipline Our Father Is Trying To Show Will Bless Us If We But Follow Him. Remember, God Loves You, God Longs For You, and God wants us to have His Peace with us here while we suffer our fallen state in this small part of eternity. 

In beginning the process of forgiveness God's Word Tells Us To:

A.) Don't keep a record of things someone has done wrong to you
B.) Pray for those who persecute you rather than plotting against them 
C.) Don't harbor hate in your heart for someone, hate the wrong action and our fallen state as humans.
D.) Don't focus on what that person did to you, but rather focus on what Yeshua, Jesus Christ, and God Our Father Have Done For Us.

 Closing Thought:

It may seem like an outrageous thing for us to Forgive, Love, and Bless those who seek to or have done something to persecute us, but Our Messiah Yeshua, Jesus Christ Died For Them Also. If The King of The Whole World and The Only Perfect Person To Walk The Face Of This Earth Thinks They Are Worth Forgiving.... Aren't They?


The Word of God:

“But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away. “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭5:39-48‬ ‭

“Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.”
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭3:11‬ 

“Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭18:2-5‬ ‭

“I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.”
‭‭John‬ ‭10:9-11


For a copy of this devotion, picture verses that go with it, or other encouragement, please visit:

https://servantofyeshua7.weebly.com

Thank you and God Bless!
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