The Greatest Power of Intentional Love in Our Lives : (Devotion & Bible Study)
📔 Daily DevotionIn this episode of Warfare Prayers, Pastor Derrick Crosby explores 1 Peter 4:7-11, emphasizing the importance of spiritual sobriety and intentional love. Through a heartfelt story, listeners learn how deliberate acts of love can heal relationships and cover a multitude of sins. The episode concludes with a devotional, Bible study, deliverance, and a prayer guide for forgiveness, a clean heart, and the Holy Spirit’s help to love others as God loves us, reminding believers that purposeful love is essential for making the most of their time.📖 Bible Reference"1 Peter 4:7-11": "00:01:34"💡 Key Devotion MomentSpiritual intelligence and its significance in daily lifeThe concept of sobriety in a spiritual contextThe urgency of being watchful and serious in prayersThe importance of intentional love for othersHow love can cover a multitude of sinsThe distinction between passive and intentional loveThe biblical commandment to love God and neighborsAn illustrative story about intentional love in a marital conflictThe role of the Holy Spirit in enabling true loveThe call to make the most of one's time through deliberate acts of love🙌 Call To Action Subscribe To Warfare Prayer Podcast for daily inspiration, devotion and prayer. Share this episode with someone going through trails and challenges Leave a review for Warfare Prayers Podcast. Support Warfare Prayers Here 🛡 Spiritual Warfare Resources https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbL9sqcPLOrmzG0c91Igb6wWarfare Prayers WebsiteDevotion Transcript00:00:00 Welcome to warfare prayers. The podcast where you will find guidance and strength for life's toughest battles. Here you'll be inspired and spiritually grounded through my daily devotions, discovering the power of deliverance and peace that comes from God's Word. We are in our second episode of making the Most of Your Time, and we're in first Peter four seven through 11. And in our last episode, we talked about making the most of your time is being spiritually intelligent. That simply means spiritually I am sober. I'm not intoxicated with the things of the world, and the reason that we can't be intoxicated by the things of the world is because the enemy, Satan himself, hunts the person that's not sober. The Bible says the devil walks about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, and he wants to devour the person that's not sober. So we have to learn to be spiritually intelligent. The way we do that is we renew our minds every day, and the way to renew our minds is to make that decision to stay in God's presence.00:01:34 Because it's in his presence is where we find the fullness of joy. In our episode today of making the most of our time. Peter talks about first he says, but the end of all things is at hand. This is first Peter chapter four, verse seven. He says, but the end of all things is at hand. Therefore, be serious and watchful in your prayers. That's the sober part. Then he says, above all things have fervent love for one another, for love will cover a multitude of sins. So what Peter is talking about now, he says, above all things, if you're going to make the most of your time, you must be. Let me plant this in your mind, soul and spirit for this episode. Brothers and sisters, you must be intentional in your love for others. You must be intentional in your love for others. Because the Bible says in verse eight that love covers a multitude of sin. Now what exactly does that mean? how does love cover a multitude of sin? Because if you're not intentional in your love for others, you're going to waste your time.00:03:07 Love is so important that Jesus based all all of the commandments down to this one commandment. He says, love the Lord your God with all of your heart, all of your mind, and all of your soul. And then he says, love your neighbor as yourself. This means you must be intentional in your love for others. Now, what does it mean when it says love covers a multitude of sin? Well, think about it like this. I'm going to give you this story. A husband and wife one day was fussy. They were really going at it. So the wife suggested they write down their complaints on a piece of paper, and then show the other person exactly how they felt. She thought it might cut down on the bickering. The husband agreed and got the paper. She got out the pencil and they both started writing. They both wrote furiously for a while. The husband would pause, look up at his wife and write some more. The wife would pause, look up at her husband and write more.00:04:18 The husband would pause again, look at his wife with an even angrier look on his face, and he'd write even more. The wife did the same thing and then put her pencil down. But her husband still was writing. He looked at her in fury and continued writing. He kept writing. Then he wrote some more. Then he wrote even more. Now the wife was getting furious because she had covered one side of the page and her husband was already finishing the backside of his paper. He kept looking at her and would come up with more to write. Now the wife was clenching her fist and tears of anger were welling up in her eyes. Finally, the husband said he was finished. They exchanged sheets of paper and looked over each other's sheets. As soon as she gave him her sheet and looked at his, she felt terrible. She felt horrible. She wanted to quickly take her sheet back. After looking at his for when she looked at her husband's sheet of paper. In spite of his pain and anger, he had written on the page on every line.00:05:49 I love you. I love you. He said I'm ticked off, but I love you. I'm angry, but I love you. I don't want to be here right now. But I love you. And in between every complaint, he mentioned the phrase I love you. When she saw that much love, it covered the multitude of sins that had brought up the argument in the first place. That is because this is intentional love. He was intentionally loving her in spite of how he felt. And so when she saw that much love, it covered a multitude of sin that brought up the argument in the first place. This is intentional love. See, it's the same type of love that Jesus had when he was going to the cross. And the same people that were crucifying him, he says, father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And the only way to love like this intentional love only comes through the power of the Holy Spirit. It's the spirit that enable us to love like this.00:07:16 You cannot love this way in your flesh. You can only love this way in the power of the Holy Spirit. So, brothers and sisters, to make the most of your time, you must be intentional in your love for others. It simply means I'm going to choose to love people regardless of how I feel. Let us pray. Father in the matchless and powerful name of Jesus. Lord, we come before you today with surrendered hearts, because we know, father, that we can be filthy as filthy rags. Lord, we can become bitter. We can become resentful. We can become angry. We can become people that are not pleasing unto you. But, father, we first ask for forgiveness for all of our sins. And we pray, father, that you would forgive us and cleanse us of any unrighteousness. And, Lord, we pray that you would create in us a clean heart and renew a steadfast spirit that we would love. How you love, that we would be kind as you have been kind to us, that we would be forgiving as you have forgave us.00:08:39 Teach us, father, how to be intentional in the way we treat other people. Teach us, father, how to love to the point where people can see your light living on the inside of us. For your word declares that love covers a multitude of sins. Father, we pray that the love that you put in us would blot out the hurts, habits, and hangups of other people. So, father, we thank you and we pray that these things happen only by the power of your Holy Spirit. And it's in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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