Hope For the Future

 

1 Cor 13

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Hope has to do with the future.  As does this:

Jer 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

The Lord is in the process of reconciling and restoring all things to Himself.  That is the big picture plan.  The smaller picture is a fractal or just a smaller piece of the big plan.  We were never told to walk around day after day lamenting what the enemy is doing or plans to do.  We are told to walk in faith, hope and love.  Faith and hope are guard rails on the road called love.  These three things remain above and beyond all others and the greatest of them is love.

Matt 22

34Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

37Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ ^c 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ^d 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

1 John 2

3We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. 4Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. 5But if anyone obeys his word, love for God ^a is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: 6Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.

How did Jesus live?  He lived in love.  His entire life in a human body was for the purpose of love.  There is a very big picture plan at work on the earth today and we are to be part of it.  We work out our Lord's plans in His ways.  The counter to the enemy's hatred and darkness is Love and Light, that is our God who is Love and Light.

The Spirit of the Lord has been impressing for some time now the need for us to "level up" and or become the best versions of ourselves, centered in His Will.  Centered in His Will means on that road called love again with Hope and Faith as guardrails.  Wherever we are going, and whatever we are doing we are doing all of it from the perspective of faith, hope and love.  This is how we walk the walk and talk the talk living like Jesus on the earth.

We love as a decision, engaging our willpower, and aligning in agreement with the Lord our God.  We love with His Love, in His Love because thats the only way to do it.  The flesh, and this world have a 0 percent chance of living out what the Lord God commanded concerning love.  We do it all in Him, with Him and through Him and since He=love by His own Word, we do everything in, with and through Love.

Love isn't optional as both 1 Cor 13 and 1 John 4 spell out.  All the other stuff people do and call "good" is complete trash and garbage in the eyes of the Lord when it is not done in and through Love.  Love is the torpedo that will sink all the enemy's ships.  If the hour is late as many believe, then we all must focus on and develop this greatest of Christian virtues.  Heaven would not be Heaven without the Love.  If the Lord began allowing haters through the gates it wouldn't be Heaven anymore.

We are not divorcing what we see in the world around us from faith, hope and love.  On the contrary, we see current events as making the case for perfecting our game, leveling up into the best versions of ourselves which for all of us who believe includes the crowning virtues of faith, hope and love.  The nobody who writes to you today tries to surrender to the Spirit of the Lord, to write only what He wants written.  As you have seen over recent history it all revolves around faith, hope and love.  There is no higher order, more important topic to write on if the hour is indeed late.

We do not know how much time we have left on the earth either individually or collectively as the Church, so we must redeem the time.  We are to fight the good fight of faith.  We are to decide and engage our willpower to love our enemies, to love the brothers and sisters, and love humanity with, in and through our Lord's Love.  We were never told we have to do everything on our own.  On the contrary we can only do everything we need to do with His Help.  We do it all together here on earth because what we are doing now is a kind of "basic training" to use military metaphor for spending an eternity with our Lord ruling and reigning with Him.

We do have hope for the future regardless of what takes place in this world.  Our hope right now today is living a peaceful life centered in the paradigm of faith, hope and love as we move through life.  We keep our eyes on Christ through the entire journey because He keeps in perfect peace those whose eyes are stayed on Him.

Isa 26

You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.

Each and every one of us is to be a walking lamp stand shining life and light into this world.  Those around us should see that light and be lifted up, encouraged, and inspired by it.  They in turn when the process has run its course should become lampstands and lights themselves.  Each one of us is the change we are looking for in the world.  We cannot change others but we can certainly change ourselves.  That incremental improvement day after day is what we are looking for.  We know where we are, on the road called love.  We know where we are going, toward the plans and intentions of the Lord God who loves us.

Keep the faith.  Fight the good fight.  We are dearly loved children.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

You Can't Do Your Job Without Love

 Brother D, what is all this stuff about "love" now.  The nobody who writes to you doesn't know why now but the Spirit of the Lord is all over this.  This nobody assumes its because time is short and He is preparing us for what is coming (whatever, whenever that is).  Time is short?  Well we have elected members of Congress telling us they have seen absolute proof of "interdimensional beings" that they would not necessarily call "aliens" which is a dead to rights, bullseye hit for demons or spiritual beings.  The "alien" or UFO or extraterrestrial story is the main suspect for the great deception that is coming for the whole world.  They are telling us the stuff they saw in classified briefings will be declassified so we all can see it and its happening soon.  Thats what they said.  So, we are not predicting but we are preparing.  How long after the absolute proof drops, before the Restrainer (Spirit filled Church) is removed?  We don't know but reasonable minds would say probably not long after.

Which leads us back to the Lord preparing His people which brings us back to love.  Nobody gets into Heaven without love.  Full stop right there.  Read 1 Cor 13, and 1 John 4 until it sinks in deep.  How important is love?  Again here:

Matt 22:38

37Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ ^c 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ^d 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

This ^^^ is the whole enchilada on one plate.  1 Cor 13 tells us faith does not matter, works do not matter, speaking in tongues and prophesying, understanding all great mysteries, giving to the poor, and every other "good work" means ZERO without love.  This is how we come to a full undestanding of:

Matt 7 

21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

Atheists and satanists dont call Jesus "Lord,"  Christians do.  So how is it all these people will be lined up telling Jesus all the "good things" they did and they still don't make it in?

Matt 7

13“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

The answer is love.  They have not love.  Love is the torpedo that sinks all the enemy ships, and all those who dont make it into the Kingdom.

So, if love is the most important thing and nobody gets into heaven without it, maybe its more important than most of us have been told and its not some optional "nice to have" Christian buffet table item but rather a mandatory, do not pass go, do not do anything else until you get this right item.

So now, back to we cant do our job without love.  Jesus died for us in love.  We are to serve each other and all mankind in love.  Everything we do is to be through the lens of faith, hope and love but the greatest of these is love.  Ok, how do we do this?  We make a decision to do it.  Love isnt a "feeling" its a decision.

Ps 9

1I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;

I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

2I will be glad and rejoice in you;

I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.

Ps 34

1I will extol the Lord at all times;

his praise will always be on my lips.

2I will glory in the Lord;

let the afflicted hear and rejoice.

"I will" is an expression of willpower which is an extension of a decision you make.  

Decision breaks down etymologically as follows:

Root Components:

• de- (prefix)
• -cis- (root, from Latin caedere)
• -ion (suffix)

Breakdown and Meanings:

1. de- (Latin prefix)
   • Means "off," "away," "down," or "completely."
   • It often intensifies the action or indicates removal/separation.
   • Examples: destruct (break down), depart (go away), delete (remove completely).
2. -cis- (from Latin caedere = "to cut, to strike, to kill")
   • This is the core root, meaning "to cut."
   • The same root appears in many English words:
     • decide → literally "cut off"
     • incision (a cut into something)
     • precise (cut short / clearly cut)
     • concise (cut together → brief)
     • suicide ("self-cutting/killing")
3. -ion (Latin suffix)
   • Turns the verb into a noun, meaning "the act of," "the result of," or "the process of."
   • Common in words like action, creation, division, etc.

Literal Meaning:

Decision = de- + caedere + -ion → "The act of cutting off" or "a cutting away."

Why this makes perfect sense:

When you make a decision, you literally cut off the other possibilities. You separate one choice from all the alternatives by "cutting" them away. This is why "decisive" people are sharp and clear—they make clean cuts rather than leaving everything open.

This Latin root (decidere → "to cut off") entered English through Old French decision in the 15th century, preserving the vivid imagery of cutting.

You are as an act of your willpower cutting off other possibilities by choosing to do whatever you choose to do.  In this case we are engaging our willpower through a dec-ision we make to love.  But thats just 1% toward the goal.  Next, its not optional we must do this deicision making and willpower engaging, in Christ, with Christ, and through Christ.  The flesh is powerless, self is powerless to do the kind of loving, God's love the way we are supposed to do it.  So we must partner with, and in the Spirit to get this work done.

The word "is" suggests equivalency.  So when our Lord tells us He is love, that means He = love.  When we extend this thinking to what is written above, "in Christ, with Christ, through Christ" is an equivalent statement to "in Love, with Love, through Love" because He is Love.  This thread goes deep and its woven throughout Scripture in all kinds of different ways.

Why is the Lord hammering on this point over and over?  Because He loves us, He knows the future, and He is preparing us.  For what?  Well, we know how the Bible reads.  We know whats coming, we just dont know when.  Our Lord did not tell us to become experts at predicting or guessing what day He will arrive unexpectedly for us.  He did tell us emphatically, over and over again to be prepared for it, be ready.

So, lets be prepared.  We are in "Feast Season" which lasts about 7 months from April to October.  This is a good time to up our preps without getting out over our skiis with predictions.  The Lord will come back for us when He is ready.  That is going to have to be good enough for us.  For know we can see His preparation work and we can see what is taking place in the world and we do not need to be a rocket scientist to figure out we should be ready.

Soldiers live a life of preparation and readiness.  Thats their job and that is our job...

2 Tim 2:3

Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

The Valley of Decision

 1.  2026-the year of spiritual awakening, and repentance/revival in the Church

2.  3rd attempt on Mr. Trumps life

3.  If my people who are called by my name

4. We war not against flesh and blood

5. Only take flak over the target

6.  The Lord is on the offensive

We need to keep President Trump in our daily prayers, there is a reason his protection is on the daily prayer target list. The attacks against him are satanic.  The attacks against the President are not only attacks on him, they are by extension attacks on all humanity and our Lord's Plans. 

Eph 6:12

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

We are 4 going on 5 months into 2026 which is the year of spiritual awakening, repentance and revival in the Church.  That is the Lord's Will and Plan.  Trump actually read on national TV the repentance and revival scripture:

2 Chron 7:14

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

The passage Trump read also included the rebuilding of the temple...Reading the Word of the Lord from the Oval Office triggered the enemy something serious.  But its not just that reading that has the enemy triggered.  We, the Church, the Body of Christ and The Father, and the Holy Spirit are on the offensive.  The Lord is the General leading the charge.

This post is called the valley of decision because we the Church must stand in agreement and alignment with what He is doing.  His Will is that we take part in all of this.  We pray and act in alignment and agreement with Him and stuff gets done-and THAT is what is really triggering the enemy:

Matt 18:19

“Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

1 John 5

14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

The Lord has us praying for empowerment of the Restrainer.  It is this servants understanding that our God wishes to push back every satanic, demonic plot, plan, agenda back to the gates of hell from whence they came.  For what purpose?  Souls.

1 Timothy 2:3-4

“This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.”

2 Peter 3:9

“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”

The Lord has a purpose and a plan:

Job 42:2 — “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”

Isaiah 14:27 — “For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who can annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

Proverbs 21:1 — “The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.”

Daniel 4:35 — “All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, ‘What have you done?’”

This is also directly tied in with us "leveling up" and being centered in His Will.  Its for a purpose and that plan has been in the works for years.  What the enemy meant for evil the Lord can turn to good.  

Genesis 50:20

NIV: “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”

This is the year of the battle royale.  We are in the valley of decision.  The leftists, globalist, demon-crat, socialist, communist, RINOs etc etc would also like to commit the epic breath taking fraud they are known for.  Over half the states have not turned over their voter rolls because we all know they are full to overflowing with fraud.  Even the red state voter rolls that have been turned over are full of it.

We are over the target.  The good news is, the fact that the enemy is reacting so violently is because they know this is not some pipe dream or fantasy, the Kingdom of Heaven is advancing by force and the war has spilled over into the physical realm.  The Lord's guidance in all this could not be more clear.  Full speed ahead.  Do not stop, do not pause, do not hesitate, put the pedal to the floor until the job is done.

We must be praying over everything all the time.  Some things like the Presidents protection take priority but everything must be blanketed in prayer.  If it means anything of significance we must saturate it in prayer.  The results are real and we are seeing that play out in real time with real reactions from the enemy.  If we cower and hide our heads in the sand, the enemy will finish the job of killing off and or enslaving humanity while mutilating and perverting the children (the job started under Joey diapers and his demonic sidekick the cackling hyena.)

Revelation 21:8

NIV: “But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Being a coward is not really an option (see above).  There is no easy out here.  We stand and fight which is directly implied by:

Eph 6

10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

One does not need armor to hide their head in the sand or retreat.  One needs armor to do battle and our God says put it on...

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

Alien Full Court Press Continues

 another video here.  Maybe "they" are convinced the Restrainer gets pulled out soon.  Who knows...preparation>prediction.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

More Alien Stuff Coming Out

 We have Spielberg's "Disclosure day" movie coming out, and now this guy is going to "blow the whistle" on all the alien stuff.  This month, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tennessee) did some interviews along the same lines telling people they wouldnt be able to sleep at night if they heard what he had been briefed on. Of course this is all soft disclosure before hard disclosure takes place. What is all this "alien" stuff and why the full court press on it right now? Because the "alien thing" is the number one candidate for this:

2 Thess 2:5

5Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

^^^This is the great deception, the powerful delusion for those who perish because they refuse to believe the truth.

Now, we do not know when the Lord is coming back unexpectedly for us, but we can read the signs of the times.

Matt 16

2He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ 3and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. ^a 4A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Jesus then left them and went away.

The sign of Jonah has been given to this generation. It took place during the "great American eclipse" of 2024 where multiple (11?) or more cities literally named Nineveh were directly crossed overhead by the eclipse.

Ok, great, again, what does all this mean? It means we don't have forever to get our jobs done here on earth. We are to level up into the best versions of ourselves centered in our Lord's Will for the purpose of doing His Perfect Will here on earth which is to preach the Good News and save souls. Our Lord Jesus Christ died for all in love and mercy. He still has a heart to save. We remain in the Age of Grace which means today is the day of salvation.

2 Cor 6:2

For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

What we are going to do, we need to do now. We cannot assume we have tomorrow. Nobody is guaranteed to wake up tomorrow so today is the day to get things done. What if the Lord does come back unexpected for His Church this year? Is it possible? You bet it is. Do we know when He will do it? Absolutely not. We are not predicting, we are preparing day in and day out just like Noah prepared for the flood and the wise virgins prepared for the Bridegroom in Matt 25.

All of this soft disclosure is psychological, mental, emotional, spiritual preparation of the battlefield which is a combat tactic used routinely by our own military. In short, this is war. On the other side of what "they" are doing, our Lord has been busy over the period of years now preparing believers to check out of this world while at the same time taking care of His business here on earth which we will continue to do until we are pulled out of here. The scamdemic which is already 5-6 years old depending on when we want to start measuring was the start of the end time hard push for the finish line. Our God has been preparing us precisely along the lines of Matt 25 the parable of the talents, and the parable of the virgins to do the things He has empowered, gifted us to do in preparation for what is coming. He has sent signs like the Great American Eclipse, the lunar tetrads etc to get our attention. Now He is busy with a concentration on a great spiritual awakening, repentance and revival in the Church and a comprehensive course in what it means to love and what the consequences will be for those who refuse to love (according to how He defines it, not what they "feel").

Love is the capstone, it is the beginning and the end. It is the whole Christian enchilada on one plate:

1. The Definition and Supremacy of Love (1 Corinthians 13 – Unchanged Core)

¹ If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

2. God Is Love – The Source and Essence of All True Love (1 John 4–5)

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

¹³ This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit... ¹⁶ And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them... ¹⁸ There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear... ¹⁹ We love because he first loved us. ²⁰ Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar... ²¹ And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

1 John 5:1–3 ¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. ² This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. ³ In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands...

3. God’s Sacrificial Love for the World and Sinners

• John 3:16 — For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
• Romans 5:8 — But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
• 1 John 3:1 — See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
• Ephesians 2:4-5 — But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

4. God’s Everlasting, Unfailing, Steadfast Love (Especially Old Testament)

• Jeremiah 31:3 — The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.”
• Lamentations 3:22-23 — Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
• Psalm 103:8 — The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
• Isaiah 54:10 — “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
• Exodus 34:6-7 — The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.

5. The Greatest Commandments: Love God and Love Your Neighbor

• Matthew 22:37-40 (also Mark 12:30-31; Luke 10:27) — Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
• Leviticus 19:18 — “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.”
• Deuteronomy 6:5 — Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

6. Jesus’ New Commandment: Love One Another as I Have Loved You

• John 13:34-35 — “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
• John 15:12-13 — “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
• John 15:17 — “This is my command: Love each other.”

7. Practical Expressions of Love in the Christian Life

• 1 Corinthians 16:14 — Do everything in love.
• Colossians 3:14 — And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
• 1 Peter 4:8 — Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
• Romans 13:8-10 — Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law... Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
• Galatians 5:14 — For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
• Ephesians 5:1-2 — Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
• 1 John 3:16-18 — This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters... Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
• Romans 12:9-10 — Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

8. Additional Key Insights on Love

• Proverbs 10:12 — Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
• 1 Thessalonians 3:12 — May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
• Hebrews 10:24 — And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.
• Ephesians 4:2 — Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
• Song of Songs 8:6-7 — Place me like a seal over your heart... for love is as strong as death... Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away.

A Unified Biblical Picture

The Bible reveals love as:

• God’s eternal nature (“God is love” – the only time Scripture directly equates God with an attribute).
• Initiated by God — He loved us first, demonstrated supremely in the cross while we were still sinners.
• Sacrificial and active — Not just feelings, but laying down one’s life, serving, forgiving, and doing good.
• The fulfillment of all law and prophecy — Everything hangs on loving God wholly and loving neighbor as self.
• The identifying mark of disciples — The world knows we belong to Jesus by our love for one another.
• Perfect, fearless, and everlasting — It drives out fear, never fails, and binds all virtues together.

Love is both the greatest commandment and the greatest gift. Without it, even the most impressive spiritual acts are empty. With it, we reflect the very heart of God.

So, in short the Lord has been preparing His people in parallel to this world preparing its people for what is coming. One does not have to be a prophet to see what is coming. The Lord told us clearly what is coming. Now we finish preparation and maintain watchfulness and readiness to both do our jobs here on earth and meet the Lord when He shouts for us to meet Him in the clouds.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

Love

 Nobody gets into the Kingdom of Heaven without love so we need to get this right.  How do we love our enemies?  How do we love all the brothers and sisters?  How do we love the seemingly unlovable?  Love has nothing to do with "feelings."  Yes, we can feel love but the Word of God and the Kingdom of God do not depend on feelings for advancement.  

Ps 9

1I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;

I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

2I will be glad and rejoice in you;

I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.

That ^^^ statement "I will" is an egagement of willpower, discipline, purpose, and power.  "I will" has nothing, zero to do with how we "feel" about it.

Matt 11:12

From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.

^^^This translation is brutal.  We can be sure nobody is "storming and taking the gates of heaven by force." That has a zero percent chance of success.  So what does Matt 11:12 mean?  It ties in directly with our post today:

The Greek and Why It's Tricky

The key words come from the root biazo (to use force, to press violently, or to storm something):

• "Has suffered violence" translates biazetai (the verb form). This can be read as passive ("is being violently attacked or treated with force") or middle voice ("is advancing forcefully" or "is forcefully breaking in").
• "The violent" translates biastai (forceful or violent people/men).
• "Take it by force" translates harpazousin (to seize, snatch, or plunder/carry away by force).

This creates real ambiguity, which is why translations and interpreters differ. There is no single "obvious" reading—scholars have debated it for centuries. Here are the main ways people understand it:

1. Negative/Passive Interpretation (Kingdom Under Attack): The kingdom is being opposed and assaulted by hostile forces ("the violent"). This fits the immediate events: Herod had just imprisoned John the Baptist (a violent act against the forerunner of the kingdom), and religious leaders were already criticizing and plotting against Jesus. "The violent" are opponents—like corrupt rulers, Pharisees, or hostile crowds—who try to seize, distort, or suppress the kingdom by force. The kingdom "suffers violence" as it faces persecution from the start. This reading emphasizes opposition and warns that God's work provokes resistance.
2. Positive/Forceful Interpretation (Eager Pressing In): The kingdom is breaking into the world with power ("forcefully advancing"), and eager, determined people are seizing the opportunity to enter it. "The violent" aren't literal thugs but those with intense zeal, urgency, and single-minded effort—like the crowds thronging to John and Jesus, or repentant sinners who "storm" the kingdom through radical response to the gospel. It's like a city under siege, but in reverse: people are pressing hard to get in, not out. This highlights the excitement and wholehearted commitment needed to respond to the kingdom's arrival. A parallel verse in Luke 16:16 says something similar: "the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it."

Forceful people are taking hold of the Kingdom of Heaven Matt 11 says, to this very day.  Willpower, discipline, purposeful, powerful people making dec-isions.  What is a decision?  de-away from, cision-to cut, put the two together it means to cut off other possibilities, or to "put away" other possibilities.  We make a decision to do what is good and pleasing in the eyes of our Lord.  We make a decision to love.  We engage our willpower, and discipline (force).  That is only part 1, we then align and agree with, in, and through our Lord Jesus Christ to do what He has Willed us to do which is to love.  Then, the key part is by the Power of the Holy Spirit, it gets done.

Notice through all of this ^^^ "feelings" had zero to do with it.

Love is the ticket that gets us into Heaven.  Our Lord died for us, in love and mercy.  We offer ourselves back to Him as living sacrifices.  We die to this world and all it has to offer, in love as a response.  We love our enemies, all the brothers and sisters and everyone else as a decision, with willpower, and with by and through the Spirit of Almighty God who loved first.  It will be the lack of love that prevents the enemies of the Cross of Christ from entering the Kingdom.

1 John 4

7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

13This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

19We love because he first loved us. 20Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

1 Cor 13

1If I speak in the tongues ^a of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, ^b but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

The Lord spends ALOT of time on this topic, throughout the Bible.  This goes way beyond, feels good, nice to do, but optional.  Nope, love is the ticket.  Love is the only way anyone gets in so we need to get this right.

^^^The Lord has been preparing us for the end times, the last days and the rapture over the course of years now.  This world is in the process of conditioning people for something else.  As we see these things happening, our sense of urgency should increase.  When is the Lord going to come back unexpectedly?  We don't know, but the course this world is on suggests its probably not far away.  We do not predict, we prepare.  Noah was warned of a coming flood and he prepared an ark to escape.  We too have been warned of a different kind of flood coming for this world.  And a different kind of ark has been prepared for our escape.  Regardless of what you believe about the rapture, getting ready to meet Jesus one way or the other should be at the top of your list.

Maybe the Lord gives this world years, maybe He pulls the plug on it this year.  We are in the 7 month Feasts of the Lord window now.  The Feasts tell us what the Lord has already done and what He still plans to do.  Next up on the list is the rapture, the catching away (forcefully) of the Church which is foreshadowed by the Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashanah.  We are predicting nothing, the Lord already told us what He is going to do, now we prepare for when its going to happen.  The day it happens it will be a surprise even to believers.  Not this servant's opinion, that is the Word of God.  The wise virgins were prepared and ready in Matt 25, so we must be ready.

Love is the capstone.  Love was the beginning of this story and it will be the end.  This post was written to help someone out who cannot figure out how we do this.  How we do this is helped by understanding how we do not do it.  We do not love with feelings.  Feelings are an after effect, not a primary driver.  We make a decision to do what the Lord God told us to do.  We engage our willpower "I will" and we follow up with discipline, purpose and power (of the Holy Spirit).

  Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace