Submit To The Spirit
The love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Romans 5:5
You need to give the Holy Spirit complete control over your life. You can either hold onto feelings of bitterness, anxiety, and hatred toward someone, or you can yield them to the Spirit of God. When you submit to the Holy Spirit, He takes over your life and replaces bitterness with love and vengeance with affection. Paul said, “Concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another” (1 Thes 4:9).
The capacity to love others is available within you; you just need to understand the resource. If you submit to the Holy Spirit, He will teach you how to love.
MacArthur, J. (2001). Truth for today : A daily touch of God's grace (Page 288). Nashville, Tenn.: J. Countryman.
Lessons Learned: As believers, the Holy Spirit is always with us. The Holy Spirit is our guide, He is our power source, He is our teacher, and He is our constant companion. "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever - the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you" (John 14:16-17). If we submit our lives to the Holy Spirit, if we deny ourselves and allow God to be sovereign, then He will teach us to love in spirit and in truth. Because the Holy Spirit has poured the love of God into our hearts, we have the capacity to love others within us. The Holy Spirit will teach us to love everyone sacrificially, ministering to their needs, teaching God's truth, and serving others.
Applications: To truly love everyone the way we should, we must give the Holy Spirit complete control of our lives. Then He can teach us how to minister to their needs, He can teach us God's truth, He can empower us to serve others, and He can inspire us to humble ourselves and love sacrificially. It is only by God's grace that we can love our enemies. If we were to rely on our own will, we would only have anger, bitterness, and resentment toward them. But the Holy Spirit has poured God's love in our heart. With God's love and the Holy Spirits guidance, we can truly love others as ourselves.
Prayer Subjects: Pray for humility in regard to others. Pray that I would consider the needs of others before my own, even the needs of my enemies. Pray that the Holy Spirit would fill my heart with love and that He would guide me and teach me how to love others biblically.
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Romans 5:5
You need to give the Holy Spirit complete control over your life. You can either hold onto feelings of bitterness, anxiety, and hatred toward someone, or you can yield them to the Spirit of God. When you submit to the Holy Spirit, He takes over your life and replaces bitterness with love and vengeance with affection. Paul said, “Concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another” (1 Thes 4:9).
The capacity to love others is available within you; you just need to understand the resource. If you submit to the Holy Spirit, He will teach you how to love.
MacArthur, J. (2001). Truth for today : A daily touch of God's grace (Page 288). Nashville, Tenn.: J. Countryman.
Lessons Learned: As believers, the Holy Spirit is always with us. The Holy Spirit is our guide, He is our power source, He is our teacher, and He is our constant companion. "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever - the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you" (John 14:16-17). If we submit our lives to the Holy Spirit, if we deny ourselves and allow God to be sovereign, then He will teach us to love in spirit and in truth. Because the Holy Spirit has poured the love of God into our hearts, we have the capacity to love others within us. The Holy Spirit will teach us to love everyone sacrificially, ministering to their needs, teaching God's truth, and serving others.
Applications: To truly love everyone the way we should, we must give the Holy Spirit complete control of our lives. Then He can teach us how to minister to their needs, He can teach us God's truth, He can empower us to serve others, and He can inspire us to humble ourselves and love sacrificially. It is only by God's grace that we can love our enemies. If we were to rely on our own will, we would only have anger, bitterness, and resentment toward them. But the Holy Spirit has poured God's love in our heart. With God's love and the Holy Spirits guidance, we can truly love others as ourselves.
Prayer Subjects: Pray for humility in regard to others. Pray that I would consider the needs of others before my own, even the needs of my enemies. Pray that the Holy Spirit would fill my heart with love and that He would guide me and teach me how to love others biblically.
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