Daily Love Walk: 1/22/17

Friday, January 27, 2017

A FRIEND - STRANGER EXAM / LoveTheStranger

This is the 5th of 5 devotions

with the theme from Galatians 5:22

"The Fruit of the Spirit is Love"

"Our Love 4 One Another"

A FRIEND - STRANGER EXAM
by
Rebecca Cooley

(Adapted from Deuteronomy 10:19)

“Love the stranger and sojourner.” When I read this scripture, I did a ‘friend-stranger’ examination on myself. Do I have homely friends? Do I have friends that are not fully accepted in society or in church? Do I have friends who do not act just right all the time? Do I have friends who need to learn to walk in love? Are these types of people strangers to me? Would I befriend someone in need? Can I love someone who is not like me?

A few years ago while serving in a church that did not have Sunday evening services, we decided to have a breaking bread ministry according to Acts 2:42 on Sunday nights. We looked for families to invite over who were not connecting with others at church. As I look back on this season, I can think of only one family that we became close friends with and still keep in touch. We mostly made friends with strangers, people who were not like us and people we would not choose to be our close friends.

Lord, I want to develop my love walk to include strangers and sojourners. As you put people in my path, anoint me to love them according to your Word in Deuteronomy 10:19. Because You love me, I can treat people warm. I am Your hands and Your embrace. I am the expression of Your love to all people, even strangers.

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LOVE THE STRANGER

Devotion: Love The Stranger

(Adapted from Deuteronomy 10:19)

Verse:

You are my hands

You are my feet

You are extensions of Me

You are my hands reaching out to them

You are my warm embrace to the stranger in your land

Chorus:

Love the stranger

Cloth and feed them

Be my witnesses.

They are your neighbor (Repeat)

Love the stranger

Thursday, January 26, 2017

CLOTHED BY LOVE / Love's Clothing

This is the 4th of 5 devotions and music videos

with the theme

from Galatians 5:22

"The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love”

"Our Love For One Another"

CLOTHED BY LOVE
by
Rebecca Cooley

(Adapted from Colossians 3:12; 1 Corinthians 13:5)

"Since God chose you to be the holy people whom he loves,

you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy,

kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

You must make allowance for each other's faults

and forgive the person who offends you.

And the most important piece of clothing you must wear is love.

Love is what binds us all together in perfect harmony."

When you remember that you have put on the garments of tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience and love in the morning, love enters your heart as you clothe yourself with these attributes. Then at key times during the day, the love that you "put on" earlier calms you down. Other times, it inspires you and instructs you to make right decisions. This is what it means to walk with God. We allow him to dress us in the morning and we walk with his garments on all day.

When you put on your clothes in the morning, you make your choice and put it on. We do the same with God’s clothing. We make a choice to allow God to clothe us in love that day. When we spend time with Him in the morning, he clothes us in his attire.

When someone is very rude or hateful and I have on the clothing of love, I can say, “this is one for whom Christ died,” and I feel love for them. The person who is in prison for murdering someone is one for whom Christ died. The clothing of love gives me compassion and I see them through the eyes of love.

When I have on the garments of love, it is like a bullet proof vest. The enemy’s darts cannot go through. Offense bounces off of my garment of love. Rudeness hits my garment of love and falls away.

Father, clothe me this morning with your presence. I put on your love.

Authored by Rebecca Cooley

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LOVE’S CLOTHING

(Adapted from Colossians 3:12; 1 Corinthians 13:5)

Verse:
I get up every morning
And get down on my knees
That’s the only way to start a day,
I say Lord, I love You
And I keep Your love command
To love the Lord my God
With all my heart and soul and mind
And to love my neighbor
Even as my self

Chorus:
Cloth yourselves with love
Like a garment,

Say this is one
For whom Christ died

Attribute to them
The greatest value

God loves them and so do I
This is one for whom Christ died

WordsAndMusic by KentCliffordCooley

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

LOVE ON PURPOSE / Beloved

This is the 3rd in a series of 5 devotions and music videos

with the theme from Galatians 5:22

The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love

"Our Love 4 One Another"

LOVE ON PURPOSE
by
Rebecca Cooley
(Adapted from 1 John 4:6-7)

Lord, I want more of You. I want to know You more. I want to feel Your presence.

Child, when you practice love on purpose, you are lowering your bucket into the well of My love and You will always bring up love. Lowering your bucket into my well of living water is simple. When you show love to someone on purpose, you open up your understanding of Me. You develop an understanding of me by simple acts of love. When you display an act of love on purpose and especially when it is not convenient for you, I reveal a little more of myself to you. I give you a clearer knowledge of myself. You get to know me by love. You get closer to me by demonstrating love. I want to be the love of your life. Did you know that I receive your little acts of love as worship? And did you know that I long to be alone with you and let you experience my presence? When you practice love on purpose, you are pulled into my presence. This is where I want you to live. I long for my living water to spring up into your life.

Authored by Rebecca Cooley

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BELOVED

(Adapted from 1 John 4:6-7)

Verse 1:

Beloved let us love one another for love is of God

He who loves is born of God (repeat)

Chorus:

God is love; So am I

I am born of Love

Bridge:

I’m rooted; I’m grounded

I’m rooted and grounded in love

I’m rooted; I’m grounded

I’m rooted and grounded in love

LOVE DISPLAYED / Live & Love

This is the 2^nd of 5 devotions with the theme from Galatians 5:22

“The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love”

"Our Love 4 One Another"

LOVE DISPLAYED
by
Rebecca Cooley

(Adapted from 1 John 4:9-11)

Lord, I want to see visions and signs and wonders of who You are. I want to see You.

Child, My love was made manifest and displayed to the world when the Father sent me as a gift to the world. The closest you can come to seeing Me is when you love others. When My love is displayed in your life, I am involved because I am love. Your acts of love become the signs and wonders of who I am. I will manifest Myself in a greater measure as My love is displayed in and through you. The Father sent me so that you might live and love through Me.

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LIVE AND LOVE THROUGH HIM

(Adapted from 1 John 4:9-11)

Verse

In this the love of God was made

Manifest, displayed where we are concerned

In this the love of God was made

Manifest, displayed where we are concerned

Chorus

God sent His only begotten Son

Into the world

That we might live and love through Him

Ending

Live and love through Him

God sent His only begotten Son into the world

That we might live and love through Him

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WordsAndMusic by KentCliffordCooley

Monday, January 23, 2017

9 GALLONS / 9 FRUIT / Heavenly River

This is the 1st of 5 devotions
with the theme from Galatians 5:22

“The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love”

"Our Love 4 One Another"

9 GALLONS / 9 FRUIT
by
Kent Cooley

(Adapted from Galatians 5:22; 1 Corinthians 12)

Back in 1990, someone allowed me to go, by myself, to a cottage, in the mountains of North Carolina, to fast and pray. I went there for nine days. I took my bible, concordance, some changes of cloth, my shaving kit and nine gallons of distilled water. With a marker, I wrote on each gallon of water, love on one, joy on another, peace on another and on and on, until I had 9 gallons of water, each one having the name of a fruit of the Spirit; Love, Joy, Peace, Long Suffering, Gentleness and Goodness, Faith, Meekness and Temperance. Every day I drank one of those gallons of water as my only nourishment. Each day I read every scripture on the fruit that I was focusing on that day and I thanked God for that fruit of the Spirit manifesting in my life. By the end of each day I received a divine impartation or stirring up of this fruit. I left that place of fasting and prayer much stronger concerning the 9 fruits of the Spirit. Even now 20 years later I am much stronger and much more capable concerning the fruit of the Spirit than I was before the nine day fast of 1990.

The next ten weeks are going to continue with the nine fruit of the Spirit based on the same premise of the fast of 1990. My prayer for you is that you would be rooted and grounded and developed in the fruit of the Spirit which are all attributes of love.

The song I am sharing with you today is the song that I composed in that cabin in Ashville, NC in 1990 during this personal focus on the fruit of the Spirit.

Authored by

KentCliffordCooley

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HEAVENLY RIVER

Devotion: 9 Gallons / 9 Fruit

(Adapted from Galatians 5:22; 1 Corinthians 12)

Verse 1

The Fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy and Peace,

Long Suffering, Gentleness and Goodness,

Faith and Meekness and Temperance,

That’s my kind since I’m the branches

And Jesus is the vine

Chorus

I’m planted by a heavenly river,

Bringing forth heavenly fruit

Seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus

The heavenly gifts of the Spirit

Are manifesting in my life

Since He took away my sins

And I was born again

God gives me heaven to go to heaven in

Verse 2

The Spirit gives the Word of Wisdom,

The Word of Knowledge

And to another Faith,

Prophecy, Discerning of Spirits,

Gifts of Healing

And the Working Of Miracles,

Diverse Kinds of Tongues

And to another the Interpretation

Devotion by KentCliffordCooley

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Sunday, January 22, 2017

THE PERFUME / Broken&SpilledOut

This is the fifth of five devotions with the theme of

"Our Love For God"

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THE PERFUME
by
Rebecca Cooley
(Adapted from John 12:1-11)

Jesus and his disciples were invited to a dinner in honor of Jesus at Mary, Martha and Lazarus’ home. After dinner they sat around the table talking. It must have been a solemn occasion in light of the controversy and friction in the air. The Pharisees and leaders were distraught and agitated. They were not only seeking to kill Jesus, they also wanted to kill Lazarus. Lazarus had become a threat after he was raised from the dead. Many people had turned toward Jesus because of this latest miracle. Let’s go around the table with these intimate friends and imagine the scene.

Dinner is over. The light from the candles illumes every face. Voices are low and solemn. Mary sits close to Jesus. Her heart is touched with His every word. The conversation may be about upcoming events. Whatever their discussion, Mary must be feeling the pain in the truth of what is being said. She slips away from the table and goes to her room. She is looking for her most precious possession. She returns with a sealed alabaster jar of expensive perfume. Grasping the alabaster jar in both hands and looking into the eyes of the Messiah, she kneels down in front of Him and breaks it and pours the perfume over His feet. She slowly lets down her hair and in total abandonment begins to lavish the sweet perfume over his feet.

The aroma filled the house leading everyone into the sweet worship of Mary’s act of kindness. Every sense must have been focused at the feet of Jesus taking in the essence of that moment. Although no one was probably saying a word, their thoughts may have been, “I believe in You, Lord.” “I worship You, Master.” “You have truly been sent by God.” “You are the Redeemer of Israel.” “You are the Messiah we have been waiting for.” “You are my King and my God.” “You are the Lamb of God.”

Judas’ voice breaks the silence and the worship. “That perfume is worth a year’s wages. It should have been sold and the money given to the poor.”

Actually Judas didn’t care about the poor. He cared about the money.

Lord, I don’t want to have the voice of Judas. Forgive me for quenching worship at times by having thoughts like Judas. It is not about money. It is not about the cost of something. It is not about how much I can get done or how much credit I will get. It’s about You Lord. It’s all about You. I want the heart of Mary. In sweet abandon, I want to lavish my most precious possession on You. I want to hear Your words and Your thoughts. I want to worship at Your feet and give You all that I have. You can have my money. I don’t need money. You can have my stuff. I don’t need stuff. You can have my time. I don’t need time. I just want You. I want what You want Lord. I am broken and spilled out for You Lord.

Recitation authored by RebeccaAnnCooley

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BROKEN AND SPILLED OUT

Devotion: The Perfume

(Adapted from John 12:1-11)

Broken and spilled out

Just for love of You Jesus

My most precious possession

Lavished on me

Broken and spilled out

Poured at your feet

In sweet abandon

Let me spilled out

And used up for Thee

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