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The hardest part of living a loving life can be the times we don’t know what’s right. When we have no idea what to do next, we should pray and wait. Jesus is love. The Holy Spirit is our guide and God’s Word is our compass. We must read His Word so we know what is best and right, but even then sometimes choosing right can be difficult. Making a wrong decision is not the end of our journey, and it doesn’t ensure our failure. We all make fearful and faithless decisions, and we all chose wrong some …

If you want the power of God in your life, then fight to live a loving life. Below are a few scriptures that lead to everything I say on Instagram. We must know what love really is! It’s not a feeling. The closest you will ever be to Jesus is when you love Him and others. 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.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 “If I speak in t …

The greatest miracle ever is the miracle of salvation! It’s the free gift of God, lest no one boast. We can’t earn our salvation. If we could be holy enough on our own.....Jesus wouldn’t have gone to the cross on our behalf. Religion is a trap. It’s the idea that God loves us so long as we don’t sin. So it leads us to fight to be holy so Jesus will love us. That leads to either.....self-righteousness or shame. That’s not love it’s manipulation. Jesus doesn’t love us if we love Him. He loves us p …

If someone loves you they will protect you. They are not perfect in love, but they will want to be. They won’t defend their selfishness. They will fight to protect you at all cost. They would prefer to pay the price then to see you pay the price for sin. If they hurt you, they will not make excuses. They will regret it and be quick to repent. If we love someone we will protect them, and if someone loves us they will protect us. If we love, we are more concerned with protecting then we are being …

The second sign someone may love you is that they will be kind. Love is kind, but kind is not always nice. Kindness never wants to hurt you, but more than kindness doesn’t want to hurt you, it wants what is best for you. If someone loves you, and it comes down to them telling you what is best for you or telling you what you want to hear, they will tell you what is best for you. Even if it may cost them their relationship with you. If someone is really kind they won’t just be kind to you. They wi …

Though we are created to be loved and to love, we only control whether or not we love. God loves us, but we don’t control if others love us. If others love us, then it’s easier for us to love. If others don’t love us, then it’s harder for us to love. But loved or not, our purpose is fulfilled in loving not being loved. Romans 12:1-5 “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worsh …

It’s not loving to knowingly allow people with no intention of changing to keep running over you. That’s selfishness. Love does trust and seeks truth, and if people are truly repentant after failing, then love trusts again and again. We all fail - often even when love rules our life. We have a responsibility to seek the truth and pray and decide if someone is really in the fight to live a loving life. If they are, we should trust God, pray for them, and give them a second chance. Trusting someon …

Bullying as we all know is an attempt to manipulate other people. It’s an effort by people to get what the bully wants without regard for other people. A bully is someone who either willingly rejects the truth or doesn’t know the truth. They are unwilling to change and won’t listen to truth that suggest they should. Either way, they don’t feel safe standing for the truth fearing it will cost them too much. So they attempt to manipulate and control others by overwhelming power, shame, or the thre …

What matters most is what we believe. Love requires we seek and believe the truth. Fear wants us to believe what we feel. Whatever we believe will guide our lives. Our beliefs are the rudder on our ship. We don’t need to figure out why the truth doesn’t fit our beliefs and bend the truth to fit our beliefs. We need to figure out why our beliefs don’t fit the truth and change our beliefs to fit the truth. The truth is not hard to find but it takes courage to seek it. It’s found by asking “why” th …

Maybe the biggest struggles we face is the struggle to know what is God and what is our own feelings. If we are asking that question though, I believe we are in a good place, because many times we don't have to ask. We know what is right and just don't want to do it. When we are unsure, we should wait and pray until we are confident in the next move we should make. We can know God won't lead us with fear, He doesn't want us to follow signs, and while we wait we should make sure we are giving Him …