I Want to KNOW what LOVE is?

According to Dictionary.com, Love is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. A feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection. Sexual passion or desire or beloved person. Most people think of Love in some of those same ways. However, the description in the bible looks much different from the world standard.

This is what I Corinthians 13 has to say on the subject of LOVE:

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

As you can see the bibles' description is a little more involved than the world standard. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, LOVE never FAILS.

Valentines Day is just a little more than a week away and there are people that will feel sad and lonely because they are not married or in a relationship, but I tell you the TRUTH. If you have a relationship with Jesus Christ, there is NO other LOVE that can compare, because He is the Greatest LOVE of ALL. Read I Corinthians 13 today and let God show you His LOVE!

Prayer CHANGES EVERYTHING

I can reminder a time when I found it very hard to pray. It wasn't that I didn't believe in prayer, it was that I didn't know about the POWER of prayer. When I saw people pray, it always seemed that they were so spiritual, with all the eloquent words and authoritative sound of their voice. I thought I could never pray like that. Then God revealed something to me about prayer. He said, "I am not looking for people with ability, I am looking for people that are available to me".

When I realized that God was looking for a willing and submitted vessel, then I thought, "well, I am certainly available to you and willing to receive whatever it is that you have for me". However, I was still stuck on the whole "speaking with the tongues of angels" thing, as I didn't think I could speak like that and if I couldn't do that I thought, "will God hear my prayers"?

It wasn't until years later that God revealed truth to me about "how we should pray". I was asked to pray at a Singles meeting in Virginia Beach and I didn't really know what I should say or how I should pray, until I walked up to the podium and God said "open up your mouth and I speak my heart through you. When I opened my mouth and spoke a few short works, I saw the hearts of the people open and tears were flowing. I was shocked at what God was doing in the mist of His people. It was at that moment that I finally got it! I understood what prayer was really about. It was not about ability, it was about relationship.

When you have a relationship with the Father, you learn His heart and He is the one that gives you what to say and it accomplishes what it was sent forth to do. So, when you pray today, don't think about how you sound or what you say. Simple get in tuned to what the Father wants to say in and through you and let His will be done.

You will come to know as I now know, prayer is a WEAPON! It is more powerful than any earthly arsenal. Although man has built weapons that will destroy the flesh, he has yet to build a weapon more powerful than prayer, that divides soul and spirit. Prayer, not only changes things...It changes EVERYTHING!