LOVE IS AN ACTION WORD
February 21, 2025Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, loveG26, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 2 Timothy 2:22 Rather than embracing erotic love, physical pleasures, gluttonous appetites, and miserly wealth, Paul instructed Timothy to run after Christlike, self-sacrificing love. As a pastor, one should embrace the principles that Christ embodied. A pastor should be eager to visit those in hospitals, the bereaved, and those in prison. He/she should reach out to those members in nursing homes or home-found (not home-bound because they are not chained there, but you find them there—It’s…
PURSUE LOVE
But you, O man of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, loveG26, perseverance, and gentleness. 1 Timothy 6:11 The man of God, Timothy, needed to run from false teaching and the sin that accompanied it and…
EXEMPLIFYING CHRIST-LIKE LOVE
Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in loveG26, in faith, in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12 Love in the context of the verse above is Christ-like love. It is a…
OVERWHELMING, OVERFLOWING LOVE
And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflowG4052 with loveG26 for one another and for everyone else, just as our loveG26 for you overflows . . . 1 Thessalonians 3:12 May the Lord flood you with an unending,…
CLOTHED IN CHRISTLIKENESS
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved,G25 clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.…
CLOTHE ME IN CHRIST’S VIRTUES
LIKE-MINDED LOVE
Therefore if you have encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from His loveG26, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same loveG26, being *united in spirit…
ABOUNDING IN AGÁPĒ
And this is my prayer: that your loveG26 may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the…
HUSBAND’S MISSION
Husbands, loveG25 your wives, just as Christ lovedG25 the church and gave Himself up for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without…
WALKING IN DADDY’S LOVE
Be imitators of God, therefore, as belovedG27 children, and walk in loveG26, just as Christ lovedG25 us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God. Ephesians 5:1-2 Therefore be imitators of God [copy Him and…
LOVINGLY EXPRESSING TRUTH
Instead, speaking the truth in love,G26 we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head. Ephesians 4:15 Rather, let our lives lovinglyG26 express truth in all things – speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly. Enfolded…