OVERCOMING THROUGH LOVE

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38 I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us. We can’t be separated by death or life, by angels or rulers, by anything in the present or anything in the future, by forces 39 or powers in the world above or in the world below, or by anything else in creation. - Romans 8:38-39 GW

That serpent of old – the devil – knows that God loves us so much that He came down into the human race, lived among us, destroyed the works of the enemy, orchestrated and perfected our salvation and gave us authority over all the works of the enemy. Not only that, Jesus also commanded us to go and keep on doing what He did, He sent us forth exactly the same way He was sent forth (John 20:21)

Let us resist and overcome the devil by walking in love, for it is our faith that overcomes the world, it is by faith that we are able to quench all the fiery darts of the enemy and as the Word reminds us “faith works by love” (Galatians 5:6) .

The enemy doesn't want us to see, experience and believe in the love that God has for us, let’s not fall for his lies.

¹⁶ We have known and believed that God loves us. God is love. Those who live in God’s love live in God, and God lives in them. – 1 John 4:16 GW

We know and believe God loves us and we abide in that love knowing that nothing, absolutely nothing can separate us from the love of God. Jesus said:

⁹ “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. ¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. – John 15:9-12 NIV

Beloved, the beauty of it all is this: Jesus gives us a command and then by His grace He enables us to obey it, He doesn't leave us to depend on our own strength. He is with us always by His Spirit to strengthen us to do His will. Walking in love is walking in God, for God is Love. As we receive and believe in the love that the Father has for us, we will find ourselves touching others with that same love, for we will be willing vessels through which His love can flow to the world He died to save.

In Ephesians 3:16-19, the Apostle Paul prayed that we may be rooted and grounded in Love and that we may know the love of Christ with surpasses all knowledge so that we may be filled with fullness of God, whose very essence is Love.

God loves each one of us, no one is insignificant in His sight, so beloved, know this: you are perfectly loved by God, He hasn't stopped His blessings from flowing into your life and you shouldn't either. We can short-circuit God's blessings in our lives when we stop believing His Word. Let's not dwell on our past failures, sins and shortcomings, Christ took them all on His body on that rugged cross, never to be held against us anymore. To dwell on our past sins

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and failures is to walk in unbelief, as we will be trusting in ourselves more than trusting in God's love for us and what Jesus He has done to reconcile us to Himself. 

The enemy will try to remind us of them to discourage us and paralyze our faith but let’s not give him that opportunity. Let’s focus on Jesus and what He has done for us, not on ourselves and certainly not on our shortcomings.

Let us live our lives with the confidence of knowing that God loves us perfectly, unreservedly and eternally. God loves you – no ifs, ands or buts!