March 1st - "Walk in Love

God cannot love you more. He will not love you less and he loves you with an unconditional everlasting love. Right? Thank you, Lord. This is exactly right. Get a hold of that. You are a child of the king, and he loves you like this will transform your life because that kind of love can't do anything but transform you. [01:12:41] (28 seconds)  #ChildOfTheKing

So we need help from the holy spirit for us to be imitators of god. This is how we can give agape love to others that are not our children or even people that we do like. Jesus goes beyond that to say that we are to agape love our enemies, not just our friends, our enemies. I don't know about you. I can't do that. Not on my own. This surely cannot be done by us in our flesh. We need God's help in the form of the holy spirit. We've talked about it multiple times now. I'm gonna take a minute. The holy spirit is given to us at the moment of our salvation. [00:54:00] (47 seconds)  #HolySpiritEmpowers

We saw earlier that light is a characteristic of god, and if so, we are going to walk in the light, we need to be reflecting god's holiness in our everyday life. At work, at school, and especially at home, for our spouses who know us best and mostly because our children will be listening and watching. More is caught by them than is taught. They are watching us, and they will catch the things we say and do. We are to choose to speak what is good, pure, true. And when we do, we are showing agape love to the world around us. [01:04:28] (47 seconds)  #ReflectGodsLight

So let's grab a hold of that. I'm a saint because god said so. Your past has no hold over you. It is completely forgiven. And so is your future. And we'll talk about this in a minute. God knew what you were gonna do ten years from now before time began. So your future is forgiven too. So live in your identity as a child of the king because that's what you are, a child of the king. Grab ahold of that and put that inside when the devil comes knocking. Send him away. I'm a child of the king. [00:32:50] (43 seconds)  #IdentityInChrist

Because he knew all those things. We'll talk about that in a minute. Nowhere in scripture are we called a sinner saved by grace after we accept Jesus. Nowhere are we called a sinner after we accept Jesus. God never calls us where where we are. Only where we're gonna be at glorification. God does not see you as you are. When you accept Jesus as your lord and savior, that's who he sees. When he looks at you, he sees Jesus. He sees the work that was done and the forgiveness for you. So god's only gonna call you what he sees you. [00:31:50] (39 seconds)  #SeenAsJesus

So there is no other sign except a transformed life that the holy spirit is in you. We'll talk about what that looks like in a minute. There is no baptism of the Holy Spirit in the scriptures. K? There are some religions that do. The filling of the Holy Spirit is commanded. It's an everyday asking God to fill us full of the holy spirit so the holy spirit can be in charge of our life. It can be as easy as saying, I want more of you, God. If you say that every morning, God will do that. He will fill you with the Holy Spirit. [00:54:58] (42 seconds)  #FilledWithTheHolySpirit

So when we accept Jesus as our lord and savior, we get a new identity, and we are transformed in god's eyes from a sinner to a saint. Now this is not what the Catholic church says about a person that's great and done all these great things. That's not what god's saying when he's calling us a saint. He is calling us that because it is a person that is filled with the holy spirit and given new life. So that's what you have. Because knowing that we will still sin and that that is covered by the blood of Jesus. Amen. [00:31:04] (46 seconds)  #SaintByGrace

So we got a helmet that goes on our head that protects our minds from those thoughts, and it says that that shield of faith is there to quench the fiery darts of the evil one. The fiery darts of the evil one are those thoughts that he wants you to think. You ever been thinking about something, and next thing you know, some crazy thought comes in your head? That's a fiery dart. You take it captive, and you replace it with God's word, then we go forward. [00:35:46] (30 seconds)  #TakeThoughtsCaptive