Title: Love in Action - - Forgive Others
Text:
Colossians 3:13 (NLT)
Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.
Observation:
There is nothing that is superior to or that will outlast love. To love and be loved is one the highest aspiration of humans, and rightly so.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NLT)
Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
Loving another person is more than a feeling; it is something that you do; love is a verb. When combined with forgiveness it makes something beautiful.
Ephesians 4:31-32 (NLT)
31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior. 32 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.
Loving and forgiving others is hard work. However, God has worked into us the ability; we just need to release it through obedience to His Word.
Matthew 6:14-15 (NLT)
14 “If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. 15 But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Prayer:
Father God, I am so grateful that I am a recipient of the forgiveness of God. Father, as one who has been forgiven much, I pray that I will grant forgiveness to others. Father, transform me more and more each day to be more loving and forgiving of others.
Father, I know that I can’t do this on my own, but You can, and that You will because You said that You would. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Philippians 1:6 (NLT)
And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.
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Matthew 4:4 (HCSB)
4 But He answered, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
Psalm 2:8 (HCSB)
8 Ask of Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance and the ends of the earth Your possession.
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