Title: Key Ingredients in Getting Along with One Another
Text:
Romans 15:1 (HCSB)
1 Now we who are strong have an obligation to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves.
Observation:
In every church there are members who fit the description in our focal verse for today. There are those who are weak in faith, and there are those who are strong in faith.
There are different levels of maturity. Those who are strong in faith; the mature, must be the adults. They should be helpers, encouragers, and teachers of sound doctrine.
The immature Christian does not need criticism; they need your patience and compassionate love and care to help them grow in their faith.
Proverbs 10:12 (HCSB)
12 Hatred stirs up conflicts, but love covers all offenses.
1 Peter 4:8 (HCSB)
8 Above all, maintain an intense love for each other, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Every person you meet is dealing with something in there life that you know nothing about; and, it has nothing to do with you. You can't fix it, but you can be a light and a model; you can love them. Love is a verb; it is something that you do. You say you can't, but the Word says the Christ in you can.
Ephesians 4:32 (HCSB)
And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.
Prayer:
Father God, my dear Father, I am so thankful that you are a loving and caring father. Lord, I am so grateful that you have provided the ultimate covering of my sins through Jesus Christ, my Savior.
Father God, I pray that you will infuse in me a compassionate heart for those who are new in the faith, and those who are weak in the faith. Lord, it was love that lifted me; stir within me that love so that You can lift others through me. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (HCSB)
21 He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
"Love lifted me!
Love lifted me!
When nothing else could help,
Love lifted me."
Source of hymn: https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/1070
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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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