{"id":1599,"date":"2012-12-09T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2012-12-07T15:23:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T20:23:31","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-12-09-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/09\/pearls-of-wisdom-12-09-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 12-09-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>LOVE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever tried to love someone and failed miserably not once, not twice but time after time?\u00a0 You think you have this love thing down to a science and then they do something more to absolutely provoke you to want them to disappear off the face of the earth.\u00a0 Come on, Christians, every one of us have experienced this type of situation at one time or another in our lives.\u00a0 It seems that person rubs our fur the wrong way.\u00a0 If you have ever rubbed the fur of a cat the wrong way, you know that they do not like it one little bit.<\/p>\n<p>What is the reason we fail at that love (Remember we are talking about God\u2019s agape love, not human love, which is naturally doomed to failure.)?\u00a0 I have seen the answer to our dilemma.\u00a0 It is this.\u00a0 Until we know how much God loves us individually, personally, we cannot love others with His love.\u00a0 It is not a reality to us.\u00a0 The Word of God tells us that we will love others as we love ourselves.\u00a0 We have been going at this love walk from the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p>First, develop that love relationship with God by focusing on how totally and deeply and unconditionally God loves you personally.\u00a0 Yes, you!\u00a0 That is where we must start.\u00a0 Out of that understanding will come our devoted love for God.\u00a0 Then we love ourselves because we see that we are worth loving because God loves us.\u00a0 We see ourselves as the apple of His eye.\u00a0 Then, and only then, will we be able to love others as God wants us to do.\u00a0 Our love for them comes out of our love relationship with Him.\u00a0 It all begins with a personal revelation of His Love for us (you and me, particularly you).<\/p>\n<p>My prayer for each of you today is that God Himself will give you a personal revealing of His total and complete love for you.\u00a0 He sees you as perfect and worthy and of great value through the blood of Jesus Christ His Son and your Lord.\u00a0 God\u2019s divine love is the greatest power in the universe.\u00a0 You have Him in you today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOVE Have you ever tried to love someone and failed miserably not once, not twice but time after time?\u00a0 You think you have this love thing down to a science and then they do something more to absolutely provoke you to want them to disappear off the face of the earth.\u00a0 Come on, Christians, every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}