Let Love Lead You by R.J. Haskins April 11, 2019 · Centerpointe Apostolic Church (Murfreesboro, TN) Kind: teaching Scripture: John 3:16, Luke 23:34, Proverbs 18:21, John 10:10, Jeremiah 29:11, 1 Peter 1:22 Source: https://acts238.life/repository/sermons/r-j-haskins--let-love-lead-you Published by Acts 2:38 Life from the sermon transcript on that page. Free to copy and share with attribution. ------------------------------------------------------------ Good morning. My name is r.j. Haskins, and welcome to day 11 of these 21 day devotional, Restart Your Heart, with the Pentecostals of Murfreesboro. I'm glad that you could join us as they go through this devotional. Instead of someone new, we'll walk through one of the devotionals. I encourage you to go back and catch up on the previous days if you haven't already. I'm doing day eleven, "Let Love Lead You." As with all the daily devotionals that we received, restart in your heart, this is the customer as well morning. When I got this title, I was not thinking that letting lovely view would be what I read in the devotional. But as with God and how he does things, it is exactly what I needed to read, and I'm glad that I was able to deliver this devotional to you today. You know, one of first things in letting lovely view is to know where that love comes from. The text in our devotion states that God is in the midst of us, he saves us, that he was jointed over us enjoy, and that we can rest in his love as he sings over. I gotta read and I grasp the true meaning of it, I bless — you know, my heart actually painted a little bit, like a lady receiving of romantic cars, or sometimes, because that's how our God is. That's how his love is for us. He's the best romantic there is. You know, I mean, you can score some brownie points if you tell your significant other day, she can rest in your love; you rejoice over them, singing over them. You know, I better stop with that part. But you know, that's how our God is. We love this that much. We can rest in that love. You know, the love that our Father has — our Creator, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ — has been there from the beginning, so now in you to the end. One of the most famous scriptures pretty much anyone, saved or unsaved, King quoted: John 3:16. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, and whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." Jenson Franklin talks about the power of forgiveness and how it releases the Spirit of God and the power of healing. We see this with the example of Christ as he was being crucified. That same son of gotten to save the world with being killed by those he came to save. But in the midst of that, in Luke 24 23 verse 24, Jesus says, "Forgive them, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." In the midst of that love that came to save us and turn those people that he came to save was crucified him, he released the power of forgiveness and told Father, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." It's so true, because a lot of times when we're not led by love, we do things we don't know why, we say things we don't know why, we act in ways that totem poles are out of character or unlike us — but it's because we're not being led by love. I think guilty of that such things in my life before, but Jesus was never guilty of such things, because he is — or he was, he is, and will always be — led by love. Furthermore, Denson goes on to talk about, while being saved, what we say to ourselves and how — how we see ourselves matters. You know, the Bible says in Proverbs 18 and 21 that death and life or and the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. You know, it's no coincidence that we see in our world, hear or receive in this — in the world, the reference of love when it comes to life and death, and how, whether you're speaking live or you're speaking dead, it produces a sort of fruit. If we love death, we will speak condemning words not only to others but to ourselves, and the fruit produced body it will bring death, open the natural and the supernatural. You know, how many stories have we read or we've heard of people doing horrible things, committing horrible acts, including suicide, because of what would save negatively? On the other hand, if we love life, we will speak life to others, into ourselves. Loving ourselves is important, but not from an artistic point of view, as incidence points out, but loving ourselves the way God sees and loves us — that we are his sons and daughters, his workmanship, that he is forests, that we can do all things because it's he who strengthens us. What encouragement we find out, what in confidence we have, or that we can receive, when we grasp or the fullness of the love that Christ has for us. What proof can be produced by the love that we speak in life? You know, John 10 and 10 says that these cometh not, coming not, but to steal, to kill, and to destroy. But I come to say that you might have life, and that you might have that work more abundantly. I know for many of us, life, it's as hard. You know, we all fail, we fall. Negative things might have been said to you, by you, and others. But it's all an attempt to steal, kill, and destroy what the life giver has for you. Again, Jesus loved you before you. His grace and mercy is new for you each and every day, and he's working in and on you to be what he wants you to be, and that is a reflection of him. One of my favorite scriptures is found in Jeremiah 29 and 11, and says, "Well, I know the thoughts I think towards you, save the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected in." You know, when I was hitting me hard and, you know, feelings other than love starts to surface, like Jensen said, I thought — I start to think about those things that bring life, not to speak life to myself through God's Word, like surround myself around people who are encouraging me, who uplifting me, and I encouraged myself and God, because I know that it loves me. She wants the best for me. She only thinks good thoughts towards him. And that he's gonna be with, you know. I'm reminded of the song that says, "Oh, how He loves us." God loved, and he loved this with a pure heart. You know, it doesn't matter what you've been through. As a matter of the barriers of the past, mistakes that you have, we can truly grasp the love that God has for us. We will not only love ourselves the way that he loves, but it will lead us to love others the way that it does is. We'll — you know, I'm gonna leave you with this last picture. First Peter 1:22 says, "Seeing you have purified your souls obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the Brenin, see that you love one another with a pure heart firm." Being led by love comes from the inner core, come from deep within. God loves us with the unclaimed love, and as we learn to grasp that love, as we see that love in our lives, as we allowed him to lead us and guide us through love, then when we can love one another with a pure heart forward. I pray that love will leave you today. If you're feeling down, other feelings other than love, start the service. Go back to the source. Go back to where it starts. Thank you, God is in the midst of you. And that if you allow his love, the joy of the love that he had for you, and rest in that love, and allow him to sing Chloe, and what power we have — for power the least for forgiveness, for healing, as distances, and much more. God has great plan for your life. The only things is dogs here. We go through some brows and some circumstances. It's common to each and every man. Oh, God love is there to protect you, to lead you, to comfort you, to guide you. So let that love leave you today. Let's pray. Father, we thank you today for your love. God, if we can truly grab how much you really love it, there were tens our lives forever. We will be more loving them ourselves. We're loving for one another. God, I thank you, O God, that your love is unconditional towards, that you're always reaching for it. And that I pray today that we will rest in your love, and we allow your love to lead us. Allow your love to guide us and direct our paths, and order us to. God, I pray today that with the speak life to ourselves and to others, that we can be God, as we allow your love to leave the leaders, that will lead us to that expected in, and that is, to be with you following time. We thank you today. Thank you for joining me today, day 11, "When Love Leaves You." Take some time to read to devotion for yourself if you haven't already, and join us live again tomorrow at 7 a.m. as we go through day 12, and it's going to get ready for a new you. Goblin.