Yom Re-vi-i, Shevat 27, 6002 – February 14, 2018
Loving Is Winning
Over the last few days in speaking with several friends I have heard stories of situations where people have reacted to others badly, making public false and/or misleading accusations against people. As I pondered this morning these situations, I recalled something our Messiah said that makes so much sense now.
Matthew 5:44 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;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Paul repeated this in his letter to the Romans.
Romans 12:14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
It is clear that if we can be more like the Messiah and less like those that choose to speak evil, we can do what He did, and overcome the world.
John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Let us all try to love one another.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. Praise the name YAH! Let Your kingdom come here. Let Your will be done here, as it is in heaven, without hesitation. Send us now Your overwhelming provision, that it might overflow to those around us. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. Deliver us from the evil here. Wipe away all thoughts or memories of evil done to us or by us, and replace them with thoughts and memories of You and Your love toward us. Restore unto Your people one thousandfold all that has been taken or held back in any way of that which is good from Your people, and the more besides. Send in quickly the $424,523,962.53 that we might use it to promote Your kingdom. WE ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). We ask all these things of You, Father, in Your name YAH. We ask all these things in the name YAH Yeshuah. Amen.