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MGD: The Grip of God's Love

Harvest Chapel International - Kumasi

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  1. You created all things, and by your will exist and

  2. are created. Revelation for eleven Saloon, Beloved, and welcome to

  3. our morning glory devotion facilitating today's devotion. And mister and

  4. Missus champon aj let us kindly share a word of prayer.

  5. Heavenly Father, Blessing, grace, honor, and power be onto your

  6. name this morning. We give you all the glory as

  7. we humble ourselves to listen to your word, open our

  8. hearts and minds to receive your wisdom today in Jesus'

  9. mighty name, we pray, Amen will take our confession from

  10. Joshua one eight. This book of the Law shall not

  11. depart out of my mouth, but I shall meditate in

  12. the day and night that I may observe to do

  13. according to all that is written in it. For them,

  14. I shall make my way prosperous, and then I shall

  15. have good success. Beloved. The topic for today's devotion, Yes,

  16. the grip of God's love, taking from Second Couintance five,

  17. verse fourteen and fifteen, and I read from the King

  18. James version Second Corinthians five fourteen and fifteen. For the

  19. love of Christ constrained us because we does change that

  20. if one died for all, then we all died, And

  21. that he died for all, that they would leave should not,

  22. henceford leave unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them,

  23. and rose again, Amen.

  24. The gream of God's love. I once made a decision

  25. that I knew right down in my bones was wrong.

  26. At the time, I was clever enough to justify it.

  27. I told myself it was practical. I convinced myself it

  28. was necessary. I pushed my conscience aside and moved on

  29. with my day. But God has a way of visiting

  30. us when the world goes quiet. That night, sleep was impossible.

  31. There was a weight on my chest that no amount

  32. of torsing and taining cook shit. The more I tried

  33. to ignore it behavior it became. What made it even

  34. harder was that I knew I still had a small

  35. window to make it right. I could go back and

  36. admit the error, But that meant face and the cost.

  37. It meant the sting of pride and the embarrassment of

  38. saying I got this wrong. As I lay there in

  39. the dark, wrestling with myself, I realized that God wasn't

  40. just pointing out a mistake. He was axing a much

  41. deeper question, who actually owned your life? It was then

  42. I remembered the words of the apostle Paul in seeking

  43. Corinthin's five fourteen, for the love of Christ constrained us.

  44. In our modern world, we don't lie the idea of

  45. being constrained. We want to be free, independent and in charge.

  46. But Paul uses a word that suggests being gripped or

  47. held together. He's saying that the love of Jesus acts

  48. like a fence that keeps us from wandering off a cliff.

  49. You see, Paul had reached a conclusion. He looked at

  50. the cross and judged that if Christ died for everyone,

  51. then everyone must have been dead without him. And if

  52. he died for us, then we have lost the right

  53. to live for ourselves. We are not our own We

  54. were bought with the Christ. The restlessness I felt that

  55. night wasn't God trying to make me miserable. It was

  56. his love refusing to let me go. It was a

  57. claim of the Cross upon my life. Many of us

  58. want a savior who will wash away our past, but

  59. we are less certain about a life lord who was

  60. to governor present. Yet you cannot have one without the other.

  61. The world tries to force us into line using fear

  62. or rules, but God uses something far more powerful. He

  63. uses the overwhelming reality of what Jesus did for us.

  64. When you truly graps that He gave us life so

  65. you could have yours, obedient, stop spinning a choreer. It

  66. becomes a response of love. I had to get out

  67. of bed, humble myself, and fix what I had broken.

  68. It wasn't easy, but it brought a peace that no

  69. self judgment could ever give. Beloved, perhaps you are carrying

  70. a weight to day. Maybe there's a decision, a grudge,

  71. where a secret you're holding onto. Don't fight the restlessness.

  72. That pressure you feel isn't a heavy hand trying to

  73. crush you. It is a loving hand trying to guide

  74. you back. He loves you too much to leave you

  75. where you are. Amen, well take our memory raise from

  76. seeking Corinthians five fourteen. For the love of Christ constraineth us,

  77. because we thus church that if one died for all,

  78. then we are all dead, and that He died for all,

  79. that they which live should not hinds for to live

  80. unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them. And

  81. rouse again, Amen, be loved please let us share a

  82. word of prayer. Lord Jesus, We thank you for your

  83. word today. We pray that you forgive us for the

  84. times we've ignored your voice and choosing what was convenient

  85. over what was right. Thank you that your love won't

  86. let us settle for less than your best. We surrender

  87. every part of our lives to you. We pray that

  88. you'll constrain us today with your love. Give us the

  89. courage to make it right, to humble our pride into

  90. work in obedience, not out of fear, because you first

  91. loved us. Let your peace ruling our heart as we

  92. choose to live for you who die for us and

  93. rose again. Amen. Thank you, beloved and God bless you

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