Seize the Moment – Day 338
A Life of Prayer Bears the Fruit of Practical Love!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, February 18.
Please continue to pray for all who are being adversely affected by the winter storms. Pray for people to have electricity, to be warm and have safe shelter, hot food, and clean water. Please pray for the many linemen out in the cold trying to restore power and for our first responders and medical personnel. Thank you!
Remember that your life of prayer bears the good fruit of practical love! Listen to 1 John 3:16-18,
We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
While I believe in and practice a disciplined life of prayer and study, the Christian life is a call to live out our faith in practical acts of sacrificial love. We are to follow Jesus’ example and love one another sacrificially so that the world will know that we are His disciples (John 13:34-35).
We all have our personalities and preferences, but for Spirit-filled Christians it is a both-and: the life of prayer and study will bear the fruit of practical love!
Seize the moment and love “in deed and truth”. It starts with prayer that leads to making a phone call to check on someone today, delivering a meal, dropping off a bag of groceries, or shoveling a driveway. You don’t have to do everything for everyone, just something for someone! It starts with prayer.
Listen to a simple version of this week’s memory verse: “For I am convinced that [nothing] will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39).
God Bless you!