Daily Bread - 04/28/07
1 John 4:13 - By this we know that we abide in Him and He abides in us because of the Spirit that He has given us.
Jesus dwells in us by the Spirit that He has given unto us (1 John 3:23; John 14:23). As a result then we are privileged to dwell in Him and as we dwell in Him we dwell in His love. This relationship of love is key to all of the power and blessings of God being manifested in and through our lives (Galatians 5:16;1 John 4:16; Ephesians 3:17-18). It is through our love one for another that our union with God is revealed. It is by this divine love that all men will know that we are His disciples (John 13:35). It is this divine love of the Father that is the evidences or fruits that the Spirit of God dwells in us.
The love of God is in us because the Holy Spirit has poured His love into our hearts (Romans 5:5). This kind of love does not have a human origin and we must both depend upon and yield to the Holy Spirit for it to be revealed through us. The kind of love that we have been given to bless one another with is the same love that Jesus has for us (John 13:34).
Walk in love!
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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