Happy LOVE day!!!

Honored to celebrate today, a day that’s about LOVE!  HAPPY LOVE DAY!!!

Many have spouted to me that it is wrong to celebrate today because it is a pagan holiday.  I see where they are coming from and am accepting of their convictions.  However, it is not my conviction.  No, I’m not saying I agree with the pagan rituals.  However, I am saying … a holiday that focuses on LOVE and celebrates it … yes, I’m for.  From my perspective, today is a very good day. 

No, our family doesn’t rush out and buy flowers, candy and whatever card is left at the last minute.  We don’t tend to dress up and go eat at an expensive place.  Our family, plans time together to have fun, laugh and be together.  Sometimes we are just our family and many times we are with friends that we share the love with. 

You see, Valentine’s is all about love.  Love is defined in world’s dictionaries as, “an intense feeling of deep affection”.   And very accurate is that description.  Many seek after the fleshly fulfillment of the endorphins that are released, the feel happy, feel good, feel a part of a bigger picture, feel needed, feel whole or complete.  Yes, they are seeking love or at least the feelings that love brings to fill the void within and using the words of a song … “in all the wrong places”.

The following scriptures are just a few that tell us that GOD IS LOVE! 

I John 4:8 ESV, “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

I John 4:16 ESV, “So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.”

I John 4:19 ESV, “We love because he first loved us.”

I John 4:7 ESV, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.”

We were each created from Love.  We began as a thought to God who then created man in to being breathing His breath of life into man. (Genesis 2:7)   Genesis 2:18 says “And the LORD God said, “it is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him”.   So, He created a help mate from man’s rib out of love.  (Genesis 2:21-24)   For them to be joined together as one flesh.  (Genesis 2:24)

We were created to want to be loved and to want to love.  It’s in each of our core being.  We are created in His image, the One who IS LOVE.  LOVE is not a sexual thing … however it is an awesome perk as being the ultimate worship or union with God between a husband, wife and God.  It is physically impossible for a man and wife to get closer to God then in that perfect union of three in one.  Which is why the world tries to imitate it with sexual pleasure outside of marriage which without God in the union leaves one even emptier.  Which then proves that GOD is LOVE as LOVE does not leave one empty and scarred but filled and overflowing to succeed at what you were created for. 

So, from my perspective, LOVE is definitely something to celebrate every day, every breath of our lives.  Today is NOT a day to be shunned but to take advantage of the opportunity to show the world what they are seeking and thirsting for.  TODAY is about showing and sharing GOD’s LOVE to the world around you.  We were created with the yearning to have and be loved because we were created out of Love to be able to Love Him back. 

So, you choose …

         1)  Out of expectation … rush out and buy a card (some don’t even read they just grab and go), some flowers and chocolate and give without much thought just to fulfill a commitment or to hope to get something in exchange.

 

       2)  Go with intent purpose and a happy heart and reflect God’s love to others in action, word or deed.   Expecting nothing in return. 

My challenge for you today …

Find ways to show God’s LOVE to others today, those you know and those you don’t know yet.   I would thoroughly enjoy seeing your reply below with pictures or a report of some of the ways you show His LOVE to others today.

Bonus challenge:  

Don’t stop after today … keep showing His love to others throughout the whole year!  And keep sharing and posting below.  Creativity is awesome and helps prompt others into action too. 

HAPPY LOVE DAY!!!!

Prayer for Refreshing the Weary Ones accented with anointing oil Oola Grow

Today we are diffusing and anointing ourselves and My Father's Blessing ministry partners with Young Living Oola Grow essential oil while we pray the following over ourselves and all those on our Gatekeepers' Leaders Prayer Support List.

You can get your oil at http://1111order.com.  Your order sows into the ministry God has asked us to pick up the yoke of in ministering and supporting His leaders and their families in His Love, His Way.  This is an amazing oil to use in foot washing and anointing sessions.

Be blessed.  Be renewed.  The full blessing comes in obedience to Him.  Shalom.  

Refreshment Prayer For Weary Ones

Many Christians are exhausted from running the rat race, even the Christian rat race. Many are weighed down by family demands and tensions. They need strengthening and refreshment to receive God's enabling grace for each day. Pray this for yourself or others who need a fresh touch of the power of the Holy Spirit. You are blessed to be a blessing, and prayer is one of the most powerful ways you can bless others.

Pray this way:

Abba, I come alongside _______ and lift them into Your presence. Thank You for Your love for them. You have given Your word that You have set apart Your godly ones for Yourself. I claim that for _______ today. Give them a fresh touch of Your love in all its fullness. Meet all their needs today, because those who seek the Lord will not lack any good thing.

Please give _______wisdom and understanding, so that they will take only Your yoke and make only the plans that agree with Your divine purposes. Grant them Your favor and blessing. Increase their confidence in Your ability and presence at work in their lives to evict all fear and doubt.

Father, ________ is tired and needs Your divine strength, because they are running at the edge of their endurance. Heal and strengthen them body, soul, and spirit. Foil Satan's plans to attack in physical and emotional areas that are vulnerable. Let their roots tap deeply into You and enable them to keep on keeping on in the demands on them. Lighten their steps; let them mount up with wings as an eagle, as they wait on You. Reveal any sin that is hindering them, and speak to their heart, as You draw them closer to You. Give them grace for today, and then tomorrow give a whole new supply of Your provision of Yourself. Give them Your sweet presence each moment, and let them feel secure in You. When they don't know the outcome of their situation, show them that in You it is safe not to know, because You are good. 

Father, overcome _______'s fears with Your perfect love. Heal ________ where there is pain and hurt. Give them a breakthrough in the situations closest to their hearts, the ones that have wearied them most. Touch and restore the places that have been bruised and shut down. Open them up to new trust in You. Press through walls of disappointment, self-protection, separation, and pain. Minister reconciliation, so that all relationships might enjoy Your unity and sweet fellowship. Release Your fresh touch into each life that has claim upon their spiritual, emotional, and practical responsibility.

We come to Your cross and hide there from all stresses and pressures. Your glory outshines all the plans of the enemy to oppress _______. Mighty Warrior, reveal the real battle that they are up against. Let them rest in You, and stand steadfast, and see that the battle is the Lord's. Let no fiery arrows pierce their safe place in Your refuge. Give them confidence that no weapon formed against them will prosper. 

Place _______ in the refreshing stream of Living Water flowing from Your throne. Refresh them each moment in Jesus. Make them oaks of righteousness planted by streams of water, whose leaves do not wither. Bless them according to Your perfect will, as You watch over their way. Show them Your power and the glory of Your great love. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Based on "Why Know The Father's Heart," Prayer Portions, page 47, © 1991 by Sylvia Gunter. There are two other pieces on the Father Heart of God, p 45-50. Available at www.thefathersbusiness.com  An archive of past devotionals is available on the website.

May you hear and receive what is yours to hear from the sharing of a portion of my insights. 

Be blessed in the Name of the Lord.

Created to Serve in Love,

Michelle Wendt

His Beloved, blessed wife and mother

My Father’s Blessing Ministries and Be Healthy His Way Mentor

For our Be Healthy His Way Team – Emotion Study Group:

Today I’m diffusing and using:

Oola Grow

To support and expand in these areas:

Accomplishment, Approval, At-one-ment, Being Alive, Complete, Directed, Harmony, Humility, Independence, Joy, Movement, Openness, Peace, Real, Reliable, Realistic, Respected, Stillness, Sustained, Transformed, Trust, Unconditional Love, Unity, Worthy

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