From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gods Work Ministry Inspirational and Encouragement E-Mail
Dear Friend, It is important in life that we love others unconditionally just as God's love is unconditional towards us. His love is perfect and is not dependent on whether we triumph or stumble or whether we succeed or fail. The Lord loves each of His children equally and as our example, we are to have that same love towards everyone we come into contact with. The Bible declares in Romans 12:9, Let love be without dissimulation... The word dissimulation is defined as To conceal one's true feelings or intentions. Let us not go forth saying that we love with no feeling behind it, but rather let us go forth with a pure heart showing God's love to all unconditionally just as the Lord wishes for each of us. (Acts 10:34-35) (Jeremiah 31:3) I hope today's message encourages your heart to show your love freely so that others may be encouraged and lifted up by your positive words and actions. I LOVE YOU ANYWAY The fear of rejection may be one of the most basic fears of the human experience. Dr. Joe Harding tells a heart-warming story of a man who finally decided to ask his boss for a raise in salary. It was Friday. He told his wife that morning what he was about to do. All day the man felt nervous and apprehensive. Late in the afternoon he summoned the courage to approach his employer. To his delight, the boss agreed to a raise. The man arrived home to a beautiful table set with their best china. Candles were lighted. His wife had prepared a festive meal. Immediately he figured that someone from the office had tipped her off! Finding his wife in the kitchen, he told her the good news. They embraced and kissed, then sat down to a wonderful meal. Next to his plate the man found a beautiful lettered note. It read: Congratulations, darling! I knew you'd get the raise! These things will tell you how much I love you. While on his way to the kitchen to get dessert he noticed that a second card had fallen from her pocket. Picking it off the floor, he read: ?oDon't worry about not getting the raise! You deserve it anyway! These things will tell you how much I love you. Total acceptance! Total love. Her love for him was not contingent upon his success at work. In fact, just the opposite. If he were to fail there, if he were to be rejected by his boss, he'd be all the more accepted at home. She stood behind him no matter what; softening the blows, healing the wounds, believing in him, loving him. We can be rejected by almost anyone if we're loved by one. That's the way families can be with each other. And I like to think that's the way God is with us, too! ?oWe love Him because He first loved us.? Author Unknown Read and meditate on these scriptures: 1 John 4:20-21 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from Him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. John 15:9-13 Jesus declares As the Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you: continue ye in My love. If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father commandments, and abide in His love. These things have I spoken unto you, that My Joy might remain in you, and that your Joy might be full. This is My commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Hebrews 13:1-3 Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. Colossians 3:23-25 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. All of these scriptures can be found in the King James Version Bible. Today Selected Poem: MESSAGES TO REMEMBER Click here to read --- http://www.Godswork.org/inpoem110.htm Today Selected Testimony: WHO CRUCIFIED CHRIST? Click here to read --- http://www.Godswork.org/testimony192.htm In Christ Service, Dwayne Savaya Gods Work Ministry Please feel free to visit the Website to read more Encouraging and Inspirational stories, poems and testimonies. Our E-mail Archives are available as well to read the messages that have been sent in the past. You can also send Free E-cards to friends and loved ones with the many choices available. 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