Daily Bread 5/3/2024

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Daily Bread – May 3, 2024 (The Sixth Day – Genesis 1:24-31) 1 John 4:17 – In this the love is perfected within us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. Perfected Love The most yielded state of the heart is being at rest knowing you are loved. God wants us to know His love. In this state of confidence and faith, we will receive everything Jesus wants to transmit into our hearts by the Holy Spirit (John 16:12-15). When Father wanted to convince Abraham of the things He had promised, He swore an oath to him. Today, He has even done something greater for us. In order to convince us of His love and commitment to us, He sent His only begotten Son to die for us at Calvary. We must respond to His love and accept the fact that He loves us and cares for us so intensely that He spared not His Own Son for our sakes (Romans 8:32). Love is the key to walking in the fullness of the expression of God. We can know the love of Christ that passes knowledge and thereby be filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:18-19). Living in and expressing this love of God that has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit is the witness that God dwells in us and we dwell in Him. If you want any dimension of the things of the Spirit to grow and mature in your life, then you must continually give yourself to doing them. If we give ourselves to continually dwelling in the love of God, and thereby allowing the most glorious thing in the world to be expressed through our lives, then our love will grow and mature and will be perfected. So it is also with every dimension of the attributes and nature of God. If we will give all attendance and diligence to the Holy Spirit Who has come to teach us to walk in the majesty of God’s ways, then we will add unto our faith, purity; and to purity knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brother kindness; and to brother kindness, love. By doing this we will find ourselves moving into the full display of the divine nature we received when we were born again and made a new creation (2 Peter 1:3-11). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen