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Gloria Copeland — You Are Commanded To LovePosted on December 9th, 2009
John 13:34
KJV—A new commandment I give unto
you, that ye love one another; as I have
loved you, that ye also love one another.
NIV—A new command I give you: Love
one another. As I have loved you, so you
must love one another.
Weymouth—A new commandment I give
you, to love one another; that as I have
loved you, you also may love one another.
John 15:12
KJV—This is my commandment, that ye
love one another, as I have loved you.
NIV—My command is this: Love each
other as I have loved you.
Amp—This is My commandment, that you
love one another [just] as I have loved you.
Romans 12:10
KJV—Be kindly affectioned one to another
with brotherly love; in honour preferring
one another.
NIV—Be devoted to one another in
brotherly love. Honor one another above
yourselves.
Amp—Love one another with brotherly
affection— as members of one family
—giving precedence and showing
honor to one another.
Galatians 3:26
KJV—For ye are all the children of God
by faith in Christ Jesus.
NIV—You are all sons of God through
faith in Christ Jesus.
Amp—For in Christ Jesus you are all sons
of God through faith.
Galatians 3:28-29
KJV—There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither bond nor free, there is neither
male nor female: for ye are all one in
Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are
ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to
the promise.
Amp—There is [now no distinction], neither
Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor
free, there is not male and female; for you
are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong
to Christ (are in Him, Who is Abraham’s
Seed), then you are Abraham’s offspring and
(spiritual) heirs according to promise.
Galatians 6:1-2
KJV—Brethren, if a man be overtaken in
a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such
an one in the spirit of meekness; considering
thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil
the law of Christ.
Amp—Brethren, if any person is overtaken
in misconduct or sin of any sort, you
who are spiritual—who are responsive to
and controlled by the Spirit—should set
him right and restore and reinstate him,
without any sense of superiority and with
all gentleness, keeping an attentive eye on
yourself, lest you should be tempted also.
Bear (endure, carry) one another’s burdens
and troublesome moral faults, and in this
way fulfill and observe perfectly the law of
Christ, the Messiah, and complete what is
lacking [in your obedience to it].
Gloria Copeland
Gloria Copeland — Care for Your NeighborsPosted on December 2nd, 2009
Matthew 18:18-20
KJV—Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever
ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in
heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose
on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again
I say unto you, that if two of you shall
agree on earth as touching any thing that
they shall ask, it shall be done for them of
my Father which is in heaven. For where
two or three are gathered together in my
name, there am I in the midst of them.
NIV—I tell you the truth, whatever you
bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and
whatever you loose on earth will be loosed
in heaven. Again, I tell you that if two of
you on earth agree about anything you ask
for, it will be done for you by my Father
in heaven. For where two or three come
together in my name, there am I with them.
Matthew 22:39
NKJV—You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.
Amp—You shall love your neighbor as
[you do] yourself.
Matthew 25:35-40
NKJV—‘For I was hungry and you gave
Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me
drink; I was a stranger and you took Me
in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was
sick and you visited Me; I was in prison
and you came to Me.’ “Then the righteous
will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when
did we see You hungry and feed You, or
thirsty and give You drink? When did we
see You a stranger and take You in, or
naked and clothe You? Or when did we
see You sick, or in prison, and come to
You?’ And the King will answer and say to
them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch
as you did it to one of the least of these
My brethren, you did it to Me.’”
NIV—‘For I was hungry and you gave
me something to eat, I was thirsty and
you gave me something to drink, I was a
stranger and you invited me in, I needed
clothes and you clothed me, I was sick
and you looked after me, I was in prison
and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous
will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we
see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty
and give you something to drink? When
did we see you a stranger and invite you
in, or needing clothes and clothe you?
When did we see you sick or in prison and
go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘I tell
you the truth, whatever you did for one of
the least of these brothers of mine, you
did for me.’”
Amp—For I was hungry and you gave Me
food; I was thirsty and you gave Me something
to drink; I was a stranger and you
brought Me together with yourselves and
welcomed and entertained and lodged
Me; I was naked and you clothed Me; I
was sick and you visited Me with help and
ministering care; I was in prison and you
came to see Me. Then the just and upright
will answer Him, Lord, when did we see
You hungry and gave You food, or thirsty
and gave You something to drink? And
when did we see You a stranger and welcomed
and entertained You, or naked and
clothed You? And when did we see You
sick or in prison and came to visit You?
And the King will reply to them, truly, I tell
you, in as far as you did it to one of the
least [in the estimation of men] of these
My brethren, you did it to Me.
Gloria Copeland
Gloria Copeland — Love The Secret to Your SuccessPosted on July 15th, 2009
Love. You hear a lot about it. But, the truth is, few
people really know what it is. For most, it’s an
emotional phantom that appears then vanishes
without warning. Illusive. Undefinable. Forever
sought, but rarely found.
Even believers seem to be confused about it at
times. But they don’t need to be. The Word of God
reveals clearly what love truly is.
Look at 2 John 6: “And what this love consists in is
this: that we live and walk in accordance with and
guided by His commandments (His orders, ordinances,
precepts, teaching.) This is the commandment, as
you have heard from the beginning, that you
continue to walk in love [guided by it and following
it]” (The Amplified Bible).
Quite simply, God says love is keeping His
commandments. That brings love out of the
indefinite into something explicit. But God has done
even more than define love for you.
He’s given you instructions so you can know how
to love as He loves. By giving you His Word, God
has given you His love manual in black and white!
All you have to do is follow it, and you’ll be walking
in love.
If you’ve made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life,
you’ve already taken the first step of obedience.
The love of God has been born within you. But,
unless you take action, that love will remain hidden
within you.
Love works in much the same way as the force of
faith. Faith is born into you when you are begotten
of God, but until you begin to act on God’s Word,
that powerful force lies dormant. The same is true
concerning the love of God. You can have the love
of God abiding within you and still be unable to
allow it to work through you to reach other people.
Like faith, love becomes active through knowledge
of the Word.
That’s why the Apostle Paul wrote to the church at
Philippi saying, “And this I pray, that your love may
abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all
judgment” (Philippians 1:9).
The love of God is released in your life by acting on
the knowledge of God’s Word. Without revelation
knowledge followed by action, love lies undeveloped
and selfishness continues to reign supreme in you
even though you are a new creature.
“But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the
love of God perfected: hereby know we that we
are in him. He that saith he abideth in him ought
himself also so to walk, even as he walked” (1 John
2:5-6).
As you act on God’s Word, the love of God will be
perfected in you. That’s when love will begin to
flow from you to others.
Gloria Copeland
Gloria Copeland — Living the Love LifePosted on July 8th, 2009
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, more important
than learning to love. In fact, how accurately you
perfect the love walk will determine how much of the
perfect will of God you accomplish. That’s because
every other spiritual force derives its action from
love. For example, the Bible teaches that faith works
by love. (See Galatians 5:6.) And answered prayer
is almost an impossibility when a believer steps
outside of love and refuses to forgive, or is in strife
with his brother.
First Corinthians 13, the love chapter, says tongues
are just noise if there is no love. If a person has the
gift of prophecy, understands all knowledge, has
enough faith to move mountains but is without love,
he is nothing. If he gives all that he has to the poor
and even sacrifices his life, without the love of God
he gains nothing.
Without love, your giving will not work, tongues and
prophecy will not work, faith fails and knowledge is
unfruitful. All the truths you’ve learned from God’s
Word work by love. They will profit you little unless
you live the love of God.
First Corinthians 13:4-8 paints a perfect picture of
how love behaves. Love endures long and is patient
and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with
jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not
display itself haughtily. It is not conceited (arrogant
and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly)
and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in
us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way,
for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful
or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to
it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].
It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness,
but rejoices when right and truth prevail. Love bears
up under anything and everything that comes is
ever ready to believe the best of every person, its
hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it
endures everything [without weakening]. Loves never
fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes
to an end] (The Amplified Bible).
That may sound like a tough set of requirements, but
you can meet them. You are a love creature. God
has re-created your spirit in the image of love. And
He has sent His love Spirit to live in you to teach you
how to love as He loves. You can live the love life!
Become love-conscious by confessing and acting on
God’s Word concerning this love. As you meditate
these scriptures, see yourself living the love life.
You are the one who has to make the decision to
perfect the love of God in your life. No one else can
do it for you. So, make the decision in faith and
commit yourself to obey God’s Word about love.
Let me warn you: There will be times when you
would rather do anything than allow love to rule.
(It will seem as though it is taking off a pound of
flesh!) There will be times when it would be much
easier to get angry, seek your own and retaliate.
Love is directly opposed to the senses. The senses
have been trained to put themselves and their
desires above anything else, selfishly seeking their
own way. But love, the Word says, does not seek
its own rights or its own way. And to walk in love,
you must demand that your senses (flesh) be subject
to the Word.
Without a definite decision, you will not continue in
the love of God. So, commit yourself to agape
—God’s love—now. And when temptation comes,
you’ll remember your decision and obey love.
Once you’ve made the decision, the most powerful
thing you can do in perfecting the love walk is to
continually confess you are the love of God. Base
your confession on l Corinthians 13:4-8. This God
kind of love will begin to influence all you say and do.
If someone says something unkind to you, love will
say, “That’s OK. I am not touchy, fretful or resentful.
I take no account of that.” And you go free! Learn
to believe in love. It’s the most powerful force in the
universe. Walk in love by faith in the Word. Walking
in love is walking in the spirit. It is walking as Jesus
walked. Love never fails. Nothing works without it,
and there can be no failure with it. When you live by
love, you cannot fail.
It takes faith to believe that love’s way will not fail.
The natural mind cannot understand that because
the natural man and his world are ruled by selfishness.
He believes if you don’t look out for No. 1 (himself),
no one else will. And, in a sense, he’s right.
No one else can look out for him. His selfishness
shuts the door to the love of God, and he winds up
on his own. But when you practice love by faith and
refuse to seek your own, you put the Father into
action on your behalf.
He will allow no man to do you wrong (l Chronicles
16:22). As long as you stay in love, God the Father
seeks your own. He sees to it that love never fails.
Walking in love is to your great advantage!
Agape love is a new kind of power. It makes you the
master of every situation. As long as you walk in love,
you cannot be hurt and you cannot fail. No weapon
formed against you will prosper. No one even has the
power to hurt your feelings, because you are not
ruled by feelings but by God’s love. You are loving as
He loves.
E.W. Kenyon accurately tagged this agape love “a
new kind of selfishness.” You no longer seek your
own success, yet your success is guaranteed! This
love is revolutionary. If we fully understood the great
return from living God’s love, we’d probably be
competing with each other, each trying to love the
other more. And without a doubt, everyone would
emerge from that competition a winner! For love is
truly the only sure secret to our success.