Spirit and Life Devotional is a daily publication by Pastor Chinaemerem Ibezim, senior pastor of Able Ministers Chapel, a church based in Calabar, Cross River State.
“Let love be your highest goal! But you should also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives—especially the ability to prophesy.” – 1 Corinthians 14:1 NLT
The New King James Version says to “Pursue love.” The Message Bible says it even better, “Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does.”
You rarely see someone whose priority it is to love other people. Love doesn’t seem like a common goal for majority of us: we want to walk in dominion, we want to prosper, to live in good health, to do signs and wonders, and so on, which are good! But to live a life of love? Not a common goal.
Apostle Paul wrote probably the greatest article on love: “If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
We can be everything before men, but without love we are nothing before God. I pray that we will all be baptized afresh with the Spirit of love! May we be filled with love that hate and selfishness are completely eliminated in us! Amen!
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