Love Fulfilled Ministry

Now may the Lord guide aright your heart to the extent of the love of God and to the extent of the endurance of Christ (2 Thessalonians 3:5) One way love endures is when we are guided into the love of God we will endure trials and tribulations. Love is a foundation along with faith, as we are deeply rooted and founded in faith and love (further reading;  A Foundation To Endure ). Love endures as we mature, into the fullness of God.  But the ones in the good soil, these exist the ones who, hearing upon a beautiful and good heart, grasp the word and bear fruit through endurance (Luke 8:15) The good soil is a place, "the ones in the good soil." The sower sows the seed of the word of God in many places but this place is good soil, fertile for growth. The seed grows deep roots in good soil, then it grows up and outward through endurance to bear fruit. How do they have good soil to endure?  We read earlier in Luke 8:13, that they hear the word and receive it but they do not hav...

 In him exists life and the life exists the light of men (John 1:4) We see in the Bible that God's chosen people were to be a light unto the world. Jerusalem in the Old Testament was to be a city on a hill, a light to the world. But they were not. How could his people be a light to the world if that light did not dwell in them and they did not walk in the light?   to the people that dwell in darkness a great light, and the people in the region also a shadow of death, a light dawned (Matthew 4:16) Have you ever gone without dwelling in the light for some time? John writes, this is the message that they heard from Jesus, God is light (1 John 1:5). And being light, those who walk in the light, have fellowship with him, and the blood of Jesus cleanses them from all sin (1 John 1:6). God dealt with the separation of darkness and light through Jesus who is the light, through the gift of righteousness and new birth there is no longer a barrier, a dividing wall between God and ma...