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