Love Fulfilled Ministry

Now, God is powerful that all grace overflows to you so that always having all sufficiency, overflowing unto all good works, just as it is written 'he gives to the poor that his righteousness, enduring for all time.' The one supplying seed, the sowing, and bread to the extent of food supplies and increases your seed also growing the harvest of your righteousness (1 Corinthians 9:8-9) The word sufficiency (αὐτάρκεια (autarkeia, from autós , "self" and arkéō , "to suffice, be sufficient") meaning a competence of the necessaries of life; a frame of mind viewing one’s lot as sufficient, contentedness. * We know sufficiency comes from grace and God's power, “my grace is sufficient ( ἀρκέω ( arkeō ) ) for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness..” (2 Corinthians 12:9). To be sufficient is that God is enough, he is able or powerful, competent and capable to meet or satisfy our needs. So in context of the opening verse grace overflows so that God's...

The story of Christmas is about Jesus being born. The gift of Christmas is that God gave his Son, " For God so loved  the world that he  gave  his only begotten son so that all who believe in him should not perish but have eternal life " (John 3:16). The motivation for God giving his Son was love, for God so loved . The Christmas story is about God's love for us. In this exists love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us (1 John 4:10-12) Pray not for great deeds to be done so the world will know Christ this Christmas season but that the love of the Father is made known among you. So that you have a genuine and sincere love for one another. Loving one another is the command Jesus gives us and refers not to the world but to the church. We are to love ...