Love Fulfilled Ministry

Exists no fear in love, rather perfect love drives out fear because fear has torment. Now, the one who fears is not fulfilled in agape love . * Think of what torments a person. Webster dictionary defines torment as to cause severe usually persistent or recurrent distress of body or mind. Worry is defined as to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts. *  It also defines worry as strangle, choke? In the parable of weeds, Jesus tells us the devil plants weeds to choke us out.   Fear, worry, anxiety, the devil uses to torment. Agape love drives out this fear and torment so that the goal of Perfect Love is accomplished, Fulfilled , which means to finish, bring to an end, complete, perfect. Paul writes agape love is above all the other virtues (kindness, humility, compassion, gentleness, patience) because love leads to  perfectness  (completeness, maturity, ripeness of knowledge or practice). * Paul also writes we should set our heart...

Be still, and know that I am God... * God is Love. * Therefore to know God, one must know His love. So to be still and know him is to know His love. Why is it so important that we know the love of God? That God wants to reveal himself, his love to us? Paul prays, not just that, he falls on his knees to the Father praying that we may " have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. *   Paul really, really wants us to get this, to know the love of Christ, so that we may be filled to the fullness of God. * If you love me keep my Commandments. * What does this scripture mean? that love is tied directly to obedience or obedience is tied directly to love. Jesus goes on to say, " the one having my commandments and keeping them exists the one loving me. Now, the one loving me is loved by my Father and loving him and revealing myself to him. " *  How do you love Jesus? have and keep his commands. The one...

for the Lord disciplines whom he loves, and he chastens everyone whom he accepts as his son.” Endure, endure as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father ? * Where you disciplined by an earthly father? Many children grow up without knowing discipline, without reverence for an earthly father. We relate to our heavenly Father as we relate to our earthly and without an earthly example, it is much more difficult to submit. If we learned submission to an earthly father and reverenced them who disciplines us for what they might seem to be best, how much more will we live, experience life when we submit to the Father of spirits? Our heavenly Father loves us and disciplines us for our benefit, so that we share in his holy character. for they disciplined for a short time as seemed best to them but He for our benefit, so that we share of his holy character. * What would it mean if I were without discipline? It would mean eithe...

What manner of love the Father presents to us, so that we are called children of God, and so we exist! * The word for "what manner of" is also translated as "of what country" or "of what kind?" *   It is true of Agape love it is not of this world, as John writes, of what kind of love is this, of what country? Who loves like this? God exist love so agape love is from a country where God exists, of the heavens. The one who loves, John writes, has been born of God, and agape love is a primary distinction of God's people. A manner describes a way of doing things, or outward behavior or way of behaving toward others. Agape love has no dimension, no breath, width, height, or depth, a love we will always be experiencing for eternity. Agape love is difficult to capture its whole meaning in a few words. Agape love is often explained as sacrificial love, but I believe it is best described as relational. God so loved the world, sending his Son as a sacrifice...