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1 Corinthians 13:4-8 New International Version

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails.

Wouldn’t you like to be able to live out this type of love. Have you ever been short with others, impatient and even easily angered? I have. 

But you know I don’t want other people to have the ability to change my emotions to anger, or irritation.

You know what irritable means? Able to be irritated. 

Too often we are able to be irritated and when we are we are not living in peace and joy. I’d rather live there with those two.

1 John 4:7-8 (ESV)
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Romans 5:5 English Standard Version (ESV)
5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

2 Thessalonians 3:5   (ESV)
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)
5 May the Lord direct your hearts into [realizing and showing] the love of God and into the steadfastness and patience of Christ and [a]in waiting for His return.

Ephesians 3

14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

We can pray for ourselves and for others to be strengthened in our spirits so that Christ dwells in our hearts through faith, that we are rooted, established in his love and grapes the vastness of his love for us. In doing so, we are filled with the fullness of God.

Blessings in Christ,
Tim Dumas
Hope for Healing, Faith for Living