Love is spiritual, not physical power

ByPastor Rufus Ajiboye Reading Time: 3 minutes

Peace to you, dear readers of “Daily Word for Spiritual Edification”! I thank God for being able to keep meeting with you through this word, be encouraged through it and be fed with solid biblical teaching that is able to save our souls.

We are still talking about how to live and walk in victory in these last days. God has given us His weapons –faith, hope and love. We have discussed faith, and today we will once again talk about love. Yesterday I pointed out that if we won’t learn to walk in love, our faith will not work. We also talked about love that makes our faith alive and active. If we won’t learn to walk in love, our hearts won’t be able to cope with the evil of the last days. We must practice walking in love; otherwise, our lives will be filled with wrong things and they will affect our overall condition.

Let’s read several Scripture verses.

«A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones» (Proverbs, 17:22).

When we do not walk in love, but think of paying back to those who have betrayed, slandered or hurt us, then we will lack the joy and peace. Besides, revenge and unforgiveness allows demonic influence to enter our lives, and then a broken spirit starts drying out our bones and brings illnesses. A broken spirit brings bone illnesses, and it is very serious. When we walk in love, we will be strong and healthy even in the midst of hatred and lawlessness of the last days.

«A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken» (Proverbs, 15:13).

A broken spirit comes out of heartaches. What is heartache? It is deep sadness that you let into your heart because of people hurting, offending, abusing you and treating you unjustly. All these things happen to use because we have not learned to look at these things like Jesus; He entrusted His problems to God Who is the Righteous Judge. If we won’t learn to walk in love and to react in love, then our hearts will be filled with sorrow. But sorrow steals our health and dries our bones.

 «The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, but who can bear a broken spirit?»(Proverbs, 18:14).

All these Scripture verses apply directly to our love walk. Love is spiritual, not physical power. When we walk in love it brings health and strength to our spirits. A strong spirit helps an individual to overcome all sicknesses. But if we give our hearts to hatred, bitterness, revenge, unforgiveness, it undermines our hearts. And when our spirits are weak, we are not able to withstand difficult situation and we fail in life. That is why it says, „who can bear a broken spirit?” Nobody! If you do not walk in love, you get ill, irritated and your hearts is filled with bitterness. If you do not walk in love, you destroy yourself as a person. If you do not walk in love, you open the door for demonic influence and it gradually destroys your whole life. You must not allow these things into your life. In these last days there will be very hard times, but we can live through them and live in joy, be happy despite what people do against us. All of this is possible if we train ourselves to walk in love.

God bless you! We will continue tomorrow.

Pastor Rufus Ajiboye

 

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