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LOVING PEOPLE WHO ARE HARD TO LOVE

November 18, 2024 12:13 am , Leave a Comment ,

My all-time favorite sermon titled “Love Your Enemies” delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is the most powerful speech I’ve ever heard. Americans desperately need to heed the wisdom from this message delivered on November 17, 1957. Dr. King’s anointed words are just as relevant today as they were 67 years ago. Dr. King said: “Love is understanding creative redemptive goodwill for all men.”

Christ’s love is what the world needs more than anything else.

Matthew 5:43-48 says: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”

It’s easy to love the people who are kind to us and treat us well. The difficulty of loving comes when people are mean to us and treat us unfairly. Judgmental people who say unkind, critical words are the hardest people for me to love. But through Christ’s Spirit and power, I am able to love those who don’t love me.

I believe it’s only through the power of God that we can love our enemies and pray for the mean people to have a joyful life. The people who are hardest to love are the ones who need it the most. Christ’s love flowing through us coupled with prayer will bring transformation.

Love is the most powerful force in the universe. It never fails.

We can make a huge difference in our world if we learn to love all people regardless of our differences and varying beliefs. God (LOVE) will transform our world if we will follow Christ’s command to love our enemies.

I am inspired by the words that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: “I still have a dream…men will rise up and come to see that they are made to live together as brothers…” May Dr. King’s dream come true. May we always walk in love and live as peacemakers.

Let’s pray for the CHURCH to rise up and love one another as Christ taught us.

LORD,

Thank You for Your grace and mercy that never ends. Help us to love our enemies with Your perfect love. Help us to love those who persecute us and spitefully use us. Let Your unconditional love be what the CHURCH is known for.

Bring unity and a spirit of brotherhood upon our land. Bring forth countless peacemakers in our country to bring change to our communities and help us live in harmony with each other. Let us all walk together in our diversities as one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Let every person from every race or background be treated equally with respect and honor. Cover our cities with Your peace and protect our neighborhoods from civil unrest during the days ahead.

Show countless people Your radical love. Speak to the hearts of all the people who call You, “Lord.” Raise us up to be the CHURCH You want us to be. Let us rise up and become people who love You fully and love each other perfectly. Let Your perfect love rule in the hearts of all Your followers. Make us ready for Your return, without a blemish or stain.

Awaken millions of souls to the reality of their need for Christ’s love and peace. Let the greatest spiritual awakening spread across our world. Let us arise in fervent prayer until we see Your kingdom come and Your will be done in America. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

I hope you will listen to this powerful sermon…

 

 

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LOVE IS WHAT OUR WORLD NEEDS

January 15, 2024 8:49 pm , Leave a Comment ,

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I am thanking God for his life and legacy. I agree with Dr. King’s words. Love is the highest good, indeed. Love is what our world desperately needs. In 2024, may we go forth as conduits of Christ’s love.

LORD,

Thank You for the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Help us to always remember that love is the highest good we can do in our lives.  Help us show honor to every human and help us embrace our differences. Bring unity among us and help us live a life of love. Fill us with more of Your love so that we can make a difference in the world every day. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

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HONORING THE LEGACY OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

January 22, 2019 12:57 am , Leave a Comment ,

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my greatest heroes. My soul is deeply touched every time I listen to Dr. King’s famous speech, “I Have a Dream.”  Few people have inspired me more in my pursuit of living a life of purpose. His simple message of love and unity has the power to transform lives and communities. His words spoken in 1963 are just as relevant now as they were then.

May Christ touch your soul as you read the following excerpt from Dr. King’s famous speech.

“I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

Let’s honor Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy by spreading love everywhere we go and let us treat all people with the honor they deserve.

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank You for Your everlasting love and for the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Let us rejoice in knowing that every person is treasured and created equally. Help us to always show honor to every human and let us lovingly embrace our differences. Help us be gentle with one another and let the fruit of the Spirit grow daily in each of our lives. Clothe us in humility and let our love for one another be what draws lost souls into Your kingdom. Bring unity among us and let us serve each other in true kindness. Above all, let us love You with all our strength and let us love our neighbor as ourselves. I pray in Christ’s name. Amen.

May freedom ring today and every day.

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