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I think one familiar short, yet most powerful statement a believer can say is "I’m “Walking by Faith”. At my age, I have been through countless storms, some small and some big. Nonetheless , my faith continues to carry me through. This is my life’s testimony. The world wants you to believe that there is something wrong with a life like mine because I've gone through and I’m still going through. They want you to believe that if you have what the Jones’s have then you are living a fulfilled life. Pretty funny, huh? Well, I walk by faith, and I know I’m God’s best. That should be fulfilling enough, and God is still completing me as I happily tell my story about how more complete my life is. As you walk by faith, you will be strengthened. You need to understand that challenges are merely new opportunities for you to reach your greatness. Finally, know that your life will truly be blessed when everything that you touch will provide you with a blessed life and no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. "Whatever I go through, whatever happens, "Either Way I Win"; whether God heals me here on earth, or heals me by calling me home to be with Him, "Either Way I Win"!

Saturday, February 4, 2012

A Better Way

 "But earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best gifts and graces (the higher gifts and the choicest graces).  And yet I will show you a still more excellent way [one that is better by far and the highest of them all - love]."
1Corinthians 12:31 AMP

I am amazed when I think about all the attributes of love the Apostle Paul describes in 1Cor.13.  This being the case, why is the spiritual gift of love the least sought after?  Could it be that we do no appraise love as the greatest gift?  Or maybe we do not have the understanding that when all else has faded away, love will still remain.  In 1Cor 13:8 it says, "Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].  As for prophecy (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose); it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superseded by truth]."

We must remember that "God is love" (1John 4:8b) and we must stay rooted in the main thing.  When we are rooted in love, all the spiritual gifts will be freely demonstrated to bless the body of Christ in the way they were intended.  Not to cause discord or division, but to help us walk together in love.
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