Growth Daily Verses

In my morning devotions I am running across some very excellent Verses I'd like to share. Let this thread be about that. Share your daily verse or verses (in context). Just one per day and not a whole list of them. Make a pithy comment and let the Spirit speak to the reader.

'Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ' 1 John 4:7-11 https://www.bible.com/bible/59/1JN.4.7-11

God's love for us is foundational to our faith. It's not that we loved Him, but that He first loved us. For God is love. May this truth cover you today. God is the source, the well of love. Drink deeply from the well.

May your day be blessed in Him and may you shine before all with whom God brings you into contact. Have a blessed day.

~Papa

This morning I woke up at 6. I'm not an early riser. But I was eager to get to my morning devotions. Today's verse is found in John.

John 3: 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Jesus did not come to condemn but to save. A mighty truth!

Thank you God for forgiveness and grace in Christ Jesus. May we shine this light of Truth in the world where ever we go.

We ought to bask in the forgiveness and grace God offers. Grace abounds in the Love of God.

Let your light shine before men! God bless! ~Papa

Song of Praise for God's Favor
Isaiah 25:1 O Lord, You are my God;
I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name;
For You have worked wonders,
Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.

Center on God. Centering on God means that one pushes aside all other considerations, worries of the day, thoughts that get in the way, and just be with God. Empty oneself of all other thoughts and worries and distractions and think only on God. And listen. Focus. When we focus we bring into clear view that to which we are observing or thinking of. Allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you. After a while of quite meditation, talk to God about what's on your heart and mind. And then, listen again.

My verse for the day in my morning meditations. God bless! ~Papa

Thank you all for sharing these meaningful verses. Here is my verse for the day. I'm late with it:

Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13: 6-7

Love Well: Loving well begins with God because God is love. When we become believvers, the Spirit enters us and ministers to our spirit. We can love as God loves because He is in us. We cannot do this of ourselves but we can in the power of the Spirit of Christ. May your light shine before men that God may be glorified.

In Christ, ~Papa

Good morning peeps. I hope you all have a good day in the Lord. My devotions today led me to this:

John 13: 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

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My thoughts: Loving as Jesus loved. Serve the least of. Be kind.

It's a command. And if we love Jesus, we keep His commandments. We honor Jesus when we obey. What He asks of us, is good for us. It heals us as it is healing to others. God knows what is best for his children. Obeying is nothing less than doing that which is the very best for us. And it honors God.

We can be selfish, thinking of ourselves over others and their needs. Some people are difficult to love. Jesus was drawn to the least of these. To the unlovable. It's where He spent much of His time. How can we serve others in Love? There are many opportunities. God puts them in our path. See them, and serve in Love.

This is all possible with God. Ask God to grow love in your heart. By the Spirit, this is more than possible.

In Christ ~Papa

Today is more about a chapter than a verse. Which is good I think because we should always examine verses in context. Chapter 14 of Romans is a good read for all of us. Reflect on these:

Romans 14:4 Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

11 For it is written,
"as I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God."

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Judging others. We all stand equally before God. One person feels the liberty to certain things while another feels those same things are wrong. Those stronger in faith should not judge the weaker brother. This is also true of our understandings in matters of faith. Some feel this way towards baptism, others that. And yet, we see judging on this thing (and so many others too) when we can see from Scripture that we ought not to judge.

13Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this-not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother's way.

17for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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So we should practice these things: righteousness and peace and joy in the HS! Lift up the brethren! Show love. This is the way God wants His people to act.

19 So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.

22The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

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Imagine if we all lived this way toward one another. How much more attractive would the Kingdom of God be to the world!

God bless as you serve in love today! ~Papa

Cold and windy and rainy (and dark as it's very early) outside. A perfect time for morning devotions here. My favorite thing to do on a dreary day.

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Loving others. God is love. We are His image bearers. We reflect His image. And love is that reflection.

Husbands, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, that is how you ought to love. But what does this mean? The answer is simple. Christ was a servant. He served in humility. His actions, all of them, were birthed in love. He always had the other's best in mind. And in the end, He gave his life for her. In the same way, husbands should have this mind of Christ in relationship with his wife.

This loving extends out to others and is for all of us, men and women, old and young. It is the way we reflect the image of God, through Christ, by the power of the Spirit.

Romans 13:8 ESV /
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Colossians 3:14 ESV /
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

1 John 4:8 ESV /
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love

1 John 3:18 ESV /
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.