RIGHTEOUSNESS PREVAILS / A Holy Life

This is the 3^rd of 5 devotions with the theme from 1 Corinthians 13:6

“Love Does Not Rejoice At  Unrighteousness,

Love Rejoices When Right  Prevail”

RIGHTEOUSNESS PREVAILS
by
Kent Clifford Cooley

(1 Corinthians 13:6; 1 John 1:9; Romans 6:15; 1 Peter 5:5; 2 Timothy 2:19)

Do you remember when you first gave your heart to Jesus, How the sin was gone and you were so clean before the Lord. That is what we experienced at our new birth and that is how God wants us to live. He wants us to be empowered by His presence and the renewing of our minds in His word to live a holy life before Him. He wants us to be overcomers and for righteousness to prevail in our lives. 

These are the scriptural steps for us to take so that righteousness will prevail.

1. Humbling our selves – Pride causes us to get into denial and to make excuses for   our sin but humility gets us out of denial so that repentance is possible

2. Confessing our Sins results in God’s faithfulness to forgive and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

3. Forsaking our sins – Shall we sin that grace may abound, God forbid. We must have a clean break from sin and we must take a total stand against sin

The foundation of God stands sure having this seal;

The Lord knows those who are His

and let him who names the name of God depart from iniquity

There is a sweeping revival of the Love of God taking place over all the earth today. However the world has a counterfeit of a love movement on the earth and it is all about tolerance and compromise. We must not mistake the Agape love of God to be a compromising kind of love concerning sin. The love Chapter (1 Corinthians 13) does not leave out the sin factor but it says that . . .

Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness 

but rejoices when righteousness prevails

Father, I will not be in denial any more. I humble myself before you now. I confess my sins. I thank you that your word declares that You are faithful and just to forgive me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. I am now empowered by Your divine ability to live a holy life before You and to be pleasing in your sight.

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A HOLY LIFE

Devotion: Righteousness Prevails

(1 Corinthians 13:6; 1 John 1:9; Romans 6:15; 1 Peter 5:5; 2 Timothy 2:19)

I want to live a holy life before you(repeat 3 times)

I want to be pleasing in your sight (repeat 3 times)

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TOUGH LOVE / Choices

This is the 2^nd of 7 devotions with the theme from 1 Corinthians 13:6

“Love Does Not Rejoice At Injustice And Unrighteousness,

Love Rejoices When Right Prevails”

TOUGH LOVE
by
Rebecca Cooley

(Adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:6; 5; 2 Corinthians 7:8-16)

It is not a pleasant topic to address the sin factor. 
This subject is highly neglected because it is not popular.

Paul calls it a difficult letter to write as he introduces us to a man in their fellowship of believers at Corinth who was sexually involved with his stepmother. Paul takes us through a process of tough love that brought this man and the fellowship of believers under conviction and eventually restored this man back to the fellowship of believers. These were the steps of tough love.

1. Exposure of complacency and pride in the church;
2. Removal of the sinful man from their fellowship;
3. The purging of sin from among the people; and
4. Disassociation with all immoral people who profess to have faith.

This process was not easy but it brought restoration to the fellowship and to the man who was confronted with sin.

Paul said it like this (I am paraphrasing):

“My letter was a difficult one to write.

However I rejoice because the results brought conviction and not condemnation.

Virtues of excellence were worked through your congregation and sin was purged.”

Make no mistake about it, God’s love is not compromising and Paul did not compromise. All of scripture bears out the same truth. God loves the sinner and He hates sin. He does not save us in our sins. He leads us out of darkness into His light. If we love people we will be willing to risk the loss of their friendship in order to lead them out of the darkness of their sins into God’s marvelous light.

Father, I will not tolerate sin in my life. Help me to do the hard stuff and address the issues of sin that you expose in my life. Lord, I know that repentance of sin are the seeds of revival. Let revival begin right here in me now. A accept the conviction that comes from Your Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit bring conviction on the fellowship of believers and revive us again.

by Rebecca Cooley

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CHOICES

(Adapted from 1 Cor. 13:6; Philippians 2:14-15; Matthew 6:33; Acts 16:25; Proverbs 10:22)

Verse 1: 

I find myself at a cross roads again

I can choose death or choose life

I can complain or I can be thankful

I can choose darkness or light

Chorus: 

You can have this world

                          (Oh, you can have this world)

But give me the Kingdom

                        (Give me the kingdom of God)

You can have hate

                    (Oh yes you can have hate)

But I’ll take the love

                       (love of God instead)

You can have good luck

                            (Oh you can have good luck)

But give me the blessing

                       (blessing of the Lord)

It maketh rich and adds no sorrow to it

              (rich and adds no sorrow to it, no sorrow to it)

Verse 2: 

Some may choose to profane His holy name

Some may choose to speak curses

But His name is so precious to me

And in good times and bad I will sing praises

Verse 3: 

Paul and Silas, locked up in a prison,

Had a reason than to feel annoyed

But where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty

And they began to feel a little joy.

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LOVE REJOICES IN TRUTH / LoveRejoices

This is the 1^st of 5 devotions with the theme taken from 1 Corinthians 13:6

“LoveDoesNotRejoice at injustice and unrighteousness”

“Love Rejoices When Right Prevails"

LOVE REJOICES IN TRUTH
by
Rebecca Cooley

(Adapted from 1 Cor. 13:6)

“Love does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but love rejoices in truth.”

What if Jesus sat down and read the newspaper with me this morning? Would there be anything that would interest Him? 
I pondered over the titles that drew my attention as I imagined my Savior sitting with me. Is our society geared in the direction of rejoicing over unrighteousness and sin? Jesus is Love, so I put every headline under the careful scrutiny of love. Love would not rejoice over someone’s rights being violated. Love would cry over the advertisements enticing people to sin. Love would shed tears of grief reading about God’s commandments being broken. Love would be pained over wrong motivations, giving people incentives to sin. I concluded that Love would find very little in our newspaper to rejoice over.

However, there was one article that made Love smile, ‘Widow Rebuilds Life After Shuttle Tragedy.’ The widow of Columbia mission commander Rick Husband, who died just minutes before landing several years ago, has remarried. She spoke at a memorial for her late husband, “I walked through the valley of the shadow of death but I feared no evil because God was with me. God walked us through such phenomenal grief and triumph came out of tragedy. My children and I are all standing and are proof of that.”

The Love Walk is not for the fainthearted or the weakling. The journey down this road is one of the most challenging of all. It takes the most strength to travel this road. It takes discipline, commitment and faith. It takes trusting God to come through when you don’t see Him. It takes believing in what you cannot see but knowing you are rejoicing in truth and that truth will prevail.

Lord, I want to take the path of love. I believe as I take the hand of Love and continue on this journey, every event in my life will be worth reporting on because You will be involved in the story. Thank you that truth will prevail on my journey of love.

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LOVE REJOICES

(Adapted from 1 Cor. 13:6)

Love does not rejoice at injustice

Love does not rejoice at unrighteousness (repeat)

Love rejoices when right and truth prevail (repeat 3 times)

Love is not happy 
When bad things happen to people

Love is happy 
When good things happen to people

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Devotion by RebeccaAnnCooley

TO PAY ATTENTION OR TO NOT PAY ATTENTION / LovePaysNoAttention

This is the 3rd of 3 devotions with the theme 
taken from 1 Corinthians 13:5

“Love Never Keeps A Record Of A Suffered Wrong”

TO PAY ATTENTION 
OR TO NOT PAY ATTENTION
by
Kent Clifford Cooley

(Adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:5)

Sometimes the things that we should be ignoring are the things that we are paying attention to. And sometimes things we should be paying attention to are the things we are ignoring or showing no interest in. When gossip fills the air, ears perk up when a deaf ear should be turned. Many times children ignore the advice of their parents when this is the most important time they should be paying attention and listening intently. If a student fails to pay attention to the instructor, he will quickly fall behind. Sometimes our choices create unfavorable situations that are irreversible.

What keeps us on track, knowing what to attend to and what to ignore? And even if we know what we are supposed to pay attention to and what we are to disregard, how do we have the power to carry that out day to day and hour by hour? Our answer is found in the Word of the Living God. Only by renewing our minds daily on the truths and treasures found in the Word do we really know what choices to make. We walk in the steps of the Messiah by renewing our minds by His Word. Ask yourself, “would Love pay attention to this or would Love ignore this?” When you are grounded in the Word, you will receive power to answer this question and carry it out in your daily life.

The love chapter tells us what LOVE pays no attention to and instructs us to do the same.

“Love takes no account 
of an evil done to it,

it pays no attention to a suffered wrong.”

Father, I turn my heart toward You. I seek truth and treasure in Your Word. Thank you for the power today to make right choices because of the Word I sought out yesterday.

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 Love Pays No Attention

(Adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:5)

Verse 1:  

Sometimes we listen 
to words we should ignore 

Like negativity and words that scorn

Somebody's not forgiving 

Somebody's not forgetting 

And another scandals being born

Chorus 1: 

Love take no account 

Of an evil done to it 

No matter the amount, 

No matter how long

Others may mention 

Offenses that have been done to it

But love pays not attention 

To a suffered wrong

Verse 2:  

Sometimes we ignore 

Words we should be listening to like 

Life giving words that instruct

The father says to the son 

"listen to my words, 

They will bring life to everyone"

Bridge:  

I listen to words of good advise 

I turn a deaf ear to words that criticize 

I love my neighbor 

I build them up 

I love the Lord 

I listen to His words that instruct

Chorus 2: 

I take no account 

Of an evil done to me 

No matter the amount, 

No matter how long

Others may mention 

Offenses that have been done to me

But I pay no attention 

To a suffered wrong

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FORGIVE & FORGET / I Forgive

This is the 2^nd of 3 devotions 
with the theme taken from 1 Corinthians 13:5

“Love Never Keeps A Record Of A Suffered Wrong”

FORGIVE AND FORGET
by
Kent Clifford Cooley

(Adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:5; John 13:34)

“Love is not resentful;

it takes no account of the evil done to it,

it pays no attention to a suffered wrong.”

Consider the love that Jesus himself expressed at Calvary. If there was ever a reason to be offended and a motive for resentment, Calvary was it. Jesus expressed His Father’s love as described 1 Corinthians 13:5 on the Hill of Golgotha. He displayed no resentment before, during or after the crucifixion. In fact, he prayed that His Father would forgive his abusers and not hold it against them. When those that crucified the Savior of the world stands before God on the Day of Judgment, they will each give an account for every deed done in the flesh, as every man will. However, as they stand before Almighty God on that great day, there will be no record of them having crucified the Son of God.

During His ministry on earth, Jesus gave us a new commandment and He exemplified it throughout his ministry and at his death:

“I give you a new commandment:

that you should love one another.

Just as I have loved you,

so you too should love one another.”

Jesus, I want to love like you love. I want You to express your love through me. Because of Your example, I pray this with great conviction. I forgive. I forget. I do not resent. I will not keep a record of a suffered wrong.

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I FORGIVE

(Adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:5; John 13:34)

Verse:

Jesus did not resent 
The one who drove the nails into His hands

Jesus did not resent 
The soldier who pierced His precious side

He cryed Father forgive them 
For they know not what they do

I can no less but to follow suit

Chorus:

I forgive / I’m not offended

I forgive / I will not resent

I forgive / I not offended

Now I live and let live, I forgive

Bridge:

Love does not keep a record 
Of a suffered wrong

Love does not keep a record 
That’s why I sing this song

I sing this song

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HOW TO FORGET AN OFFENSE / Never Keep A Record

This is the 1^st of 3 devotions 
with the theme taken from 1 Corinthians 13:5

“Love Never Keeps A Record Of A Wrong Done To It”

HOW TO FORGET AN OFFENSE
by
Rebecca Cooley

(Adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:5; Matthew 5:40-44)

“I can forgive but I cannot forget!”

How many times have we heard this statement? Is it a true statement? Is it possible to not only forgive but to also forget? Are we truly forgiving an offense if we are not also forgetting an offense?

The opposite of forgetting is to remember. To remember is to reconstruct something in our mind or to become aware of something that has been forgotten. To remember also means to retain or commit an idea to memory without forgetting it.

In order to begin the process of forgetting an offense or wrong, I must not dwell on the offense in my thoughts or reconstruct the offense with my words in a conversation. Jesus gave us instruction on how to take action on the process of forgiving and forgetting.

"If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt,

let him have your coat also.

And if anyone forces you to go one mile,

go with him two miles.

Give to him who keeps on begging from you,

And do not turn away from him who would borrow from you.

You have heard that it was said,

You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy;

But I tell you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."

Now that we are not reconstructing the offense in thoughts or conversation, let’s construct actions of love and kindness and respect and speak words of life and love about those who we confess to forgive.

Father, I take heed to your Word and I will not keep a record of wrongs done to me. I will not play those recordings over in my mind or form words about them, reconstructing the offense. I relinquish to you all of the records that I have stored in my memory of wrongs done to me. I will replace the negative thoughts that come up in my mind with blessings. I do forgive and I can forget! Thank you for the grace you give me not only to forgive but also to forget every wrong done to me.

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NEVER KEEP A RECORD

(Adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:5; Matthew 5:40-44)

Verse:

I confessed my sins

He was faithful to forgive

And to cleanse me from my siN

He destroyed the records of the wrong I had done

He removed them from His memory

He told me to love others with this same love

To forgive them even as I’ve been forgiven

So I throw away the records of the wrongs done to me

Lord remove them from my memory

Chorus 1:

Love never keeps a record of the wrongs done to it

Love never brings the subject up

Love does not reconstruct what forgiveness has torn apart

Love never keeps a record of the wrong done to it

Chorus 2:

I will never keep a record of the wrongs done to me

I will never bring the subject up

I won’t reconstruct what forgiveness has torn apart

I will never keep a record of the wrongs done to me

Bridge:

I forgive even as I’ve been forgiven

All the wrongs I recall they are none

I forget for my sins have been forgotten

That’s the least I can do because of all He has done

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