“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: ”
1 Peter 3:7-8(KJV)
Today I will like to ask you some questions; How is your relationship with your spouse? How is your relationship with your parents? How is your relationship with your brothers and sisters? Keeping and holding offence in your heart will hinder your effectiveness and productivity as a child of God.
Therefore choose to forgive and let go of all offences even as God for Christ sake forgave you. By so doing, you will be able to offer true worship to God from your heart because you are been obedient to His Word. The Bible says in 1 Samuel 15:22, “… Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.”
Imagine such a senario where a man and his wife has just finished fighting and then he goes into a service and sows a seed without first reconciling with his wife, he has just lost that seed he sowed. This is because how can he claim to love God who He has not seen and he refuses to forgive and love his wife who he sees everyday. The Bible says in 1 John 4:20 “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”
PRAYER
Dear Father I thank you because my love is abounding more and more in knowledge and in all judgement because the love of God is shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Spirit towards my brethren and towards all men in Jesus Name. Amen.
For further study read:
Matthew 18:34-35, Colossians 3:12-14, Ephesians 4:32, 1 John 3:14-16,
Luke 11:4, Luke 17:3-4, Luke 23:34, James 2:13
DOING THE WORD
Don't let the sun go down on your wrath. Forgive.
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Hold no offence 2
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