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Proverbs 17:9  Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. The picture is from my prayer wall. I was reading my daily devotional and the verse above written really struck me.  The bible verse reminds me of an idiom-' burn one's bridges': Have you tried that?  I have. But most of the time i'm the one at the other side of the bridge watching others burn bridges. Whether you are in the ministry or not, serving people or not, people will come and go. As a minister, you can pour out your life and give your best and still people will leave.  Oh I can get over every time someone walks off. Its nothing personal no matter how personal my occupation is. What saddens me is not why they left(everyone has reaaons. Its not always bout you), but how they left. I have tried experiencing the usual 'changing of numbers so I won't be able to contact them'.  Or The usual 'avoid me game' and even 'blocking me ...

I prayed to God for somethig specific about someone specific. Personal. He answered me specifically through the following verses in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, the Love chapter and the verses that describes that specific the most. A rhema I've held for so long I desired to live it out. Not just to memorize but to make it actual. Particularly special in my heart for I have known love not as a fleeting feeling or emotion. But an actual person who made a specific decision. What my specific request might be, I may not yet share for I myself do not fully understand. But someday I will. Oh someday I'll finally will. For now all I know when I read each word, each line, reminds me of someone this time. Let me call this person 'You' for now. "Love (You) endures with patience and serenity, love(You) is kind and thoughtful, and is not jealous or envious; love (You) does not brag and is not proud or arrogant. You is not rude; You is not self-seeking, You is not provoked [no...

Love is a choice. Always have and always will. For the emotions and feelings are a fruit and gift of that choice. Many will come by that will be better than the one you love and even the same emotions will arise. Yet what sets them apart is the CHOOSING. You chose that person and loving is choosing that person over and over and over again every single day. The feelings may fade but the choosing remains. #whogot #JESUSCHOSEYOU

Love is patient It is not bound by time. Never limited by seconds, minutes and hours. Time does not alter love for it is not an emotion or feelings that simply fade. But instead a decision made. Love does not decrease in passion over time instead it grows stronger and stronger, more potent each passing days, months and years. Like wine (or stinky cheese) it gets sweeter (or stronger? ;- ) in time. So love learns to wait. It thrills in the waiting season, confident in every turning that it will remain the same. Love grows in the shade of time, does not diminish its luster but all the more grows brighter. For real love unlike photographs does not fade. Real love unlike the waves easily swayed. Love remains. It is enduring. Like a rock among the crashing waves, it is immovable. The only way that love be tested in its patience is in the waiting. How it waits. What it does as it waits. For patience is not how long you wait but how you behaved in the waiting. For we might...

1 Corinthians 13:1-3: " 1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; [ a ] but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing." This is my devo for today. I put it an my blog as an entry because it really broke me. It broke me inside because lately it's been becoming busy in the Ministry. My week would be packed with winning, consolidating people and discipling the leaders. Sunday Service here. PEPSOL there. Cell here. And this verse was like an eyeopener to me. I might be lost in all of the work and I would forget that "if I have not Loved' it is all for Not...