Thursday, September 15, 2016

Speaking The Truth In Love / The Spirit Of Truth

This is the 6th of 7 devotions with the theme
From 1 Corinthians 13:6
"Love Rejoices When Truth Prevails”


(Adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:4-6; John 16:13; 2 Timothy 4:2; Galatians 5:22-23)

When I am on my way to have what I know may be a major confrontation with the potential of accusations and strife, I will pray for the Spirit of Truth. It is amazing how that prayer, on the way, changes the tone of the meeting.

"But when He, the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all the Truth."

I also am aware in such a confrontation that the love of God is not a passive, let's-just-get-along, sweep-it under-the-rug kind of love. The scripture instructs us to

Preach the word; be instant in season, and out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

If I am afraid that I might lose a friendship if I speak the truth, than I am inside of fear and selfishness. The love of God in me is willing to risk the loss of a friendship in order to lead someone to what is best for them and to what is good and right in God's sight.

When we pray for the Spirit of Truth to come on a confrontation we know that when the Spirit of Truth comes, all of the fruit of the Spirit will be manifested, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness and goodness, faith and meekness and temperance. Love is not so much what we are confronting as it is how we are confronting. 1 Corinthians 13: 4-6 pretty much covers it.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

My Confession: The love of God abides in me and causes me to be humble enough to receive correction and bold enough to correct and to do so with all longsuffering and with the truths of God's Word.
© LoveWalkPublishing RebeccaCooley



THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH
Devotion: Speaking the Truth in Love
(Adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:4-6; John 16:13; 2 Timothy 4:2; Galatians 5:22-23)
Verse:
When we confront, when we are confronted we will pray for the Spirit of Truth
The Spirit of Truth is the Holy Spirit / We will pray for the Spirit of Truth
Chorus:
We bind our minds to the Spirit of truth / We bind our hearts to the Spirit of truth
We are motivated by The Spirit of Truth
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit is the Spirit of Truth
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit is the Spirit of Truth
Bridge:
Lord drive deception far from me / I'll embrace the truth / I'll embrace the truth
I'll embrace the truth / I embrace the truth

© LoveWalkMusic WordsAndMusic by KentCliffordCooley

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

THE WOMAN @ THE WELL / Love Speaks Valuable Truths

This is the 5th of 7 devotions with the theme from 
1 Corinthians 13:6
“Love Rejoices When Truth Prevails”


(Adapted from John 4:16-26)
“Sir, give me some of this water so that I may never get thirsty again or have to come to this well to draw water again!”

The rest of the conversation between the woman at the well and Jesus was all about truth. It was about the truth of her life, the truth about her purpose in life and the truth of the signs of the times.

“Go and get your husband and come back.”

“I have no husband.”

“You have spoken truth. You have had five husbands and the man you are now living with is not your husband.”

“Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where it is proper to worship.”

“Believe me, dear woman the time is coming when it will no longer matter where you worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews. The time is coming when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way. For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

“I know the Messiah is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything.”

“I am the Messiah!”

Love speaks valuable truths into the lives of everyone that love comes in contact with. Jesus took time to direct this woman to truth. He cared about her enough to confront her with truth. He took time to show her truth that would save her. Truth corrected her. And truth gave her purpose to live.

Lord, look into my heart like you did this woman at the well. Correct me with truth. Realign my life with truth. Challenge me with truth. I worship You. I worship You in spirit and in the reality of the times. I choose You now. I choose to worship You here in this world and in eternity to come. It is my purpose in life to worship You.

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LOVE SPEAKS VALUABLE TRUTHS
Devotion: The Woman at the Well
(Adapted from John 4:16-26 Part 2)
Love sees a soul; this is one for whom Christ died
Love values them; Love speaks valuable truths in their lives

© LoveWalkMusic WordsAndMusic by KentCliffordCooley

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

OUT OF HARLOTRY INTO HIS PRESENCE / Seek My Face

This is the 4th of 7 devotions with the theme from 
1 Corinthians 13:6
“Love Rejoices When Truth Prevail”


(Adapted from Hosea 2:14; 3:1; 9:2; 14:6-7)

Have I been an adulteress against my God? Have I turned to idols and gods to seek what I should be receiving from God? Do I receive words from doctors, philosophers, and politicians as truth, ignoring what God has to say? Have I been satisfied with the threshing floor of God’s goodness and prosperity instead of harvesting an entire field? Why do I settle for little when I can have more than enough to share with others? Have I been storing up old wine and hording it in fear that it will run out? Has the new wine failed me because of my unfaithfulness? Have I played the role of a harlot without being aware of it?

Daily I must saturate myself in the presence of the Lord to nullify the tendencies of becoming a harlot and seeking other gods. If I am not careful to clothe myself in the presence of God every day, I tend to look at my life and my situation and other’s circumstances like the world does. And when I think in the natural realm of the world, I take on harlot tendencies. Harlots turn their back on God and become satisfied with what they can gleam from the threshing floor of God’s goodness. Harlots have no self-esteem and follow after what feels good and right. Harlots are easily distracted from the grace and mercy of God that are ever available in His presence.

Why do some people pray for healing and not get healed? Why is it that my faith confessions don’t always work? Why do prayers of desperation sometimes go unnoticed or seem to fall on stony ground? Why do mishaps and mistakes come so easily? Why do I miss the mark so much?

Father, I return to the shade of the olive tree. I return to the intimate place of your presence. Daily I want to sit under the shadow of your love. Revive me and feed me with the fruit from your presence.

“Child, I will allure you and bring you back out of the wilderness. I will speak tenderly and straight to your heart. Seek me in the quietness of my presence. You will certainly find me and in finding me you will find life.”

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SEEK MY FACE
(Adapted from Hosea 14:6-7; 2 Chronicles 7:14; Psalms 27:8)
Verse 1
If my people called by my name will humble themselves pray
Seek my face turn from their wicked ways
I will hear from heaven forgive their sins heal their land
If my people called by my name will humble themselves
Chorus
He has said to me seek my face
And I have said to him Lord your face I will seek (repeat)
Verse 2
Father fall on us like the morning dew
May our roots grow deep as we return to you
Father fall on us like the morning dew
May our shoots spring forth and spread abroad as we return to you


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FRESH MANNA / Fresh Manna

This is the 3rd of 7 devotions with the theme
From 1 Corinthians 13:6
"Love Rejoices When Truth Prevails”


(Adapted from Romans 8:10-11; Ephesians 3:16-17)

Be blessed today with fresh manna of truth that wipes out deception and stops the constant bombardment of the world, the flesh and the enemy.

  • I believe the Spirit of God lives inside of me. 
  • I believe he is present in me and ignites revelation in me constantly. 
  • I have ears to hear what the Spirit of God is saying and revealing to me today. 
  • I am blessed in the Name of the One who gives me life through his Spirit. 
  • I am strengthened by His presence inside of me. 
  • Because he indwells my innermost being and personality, I am reinforced with mighty power. 
  • I have the power to resist the enemy, to put down my flesh and to turn my back on the world. 
  • The Spirit of God has made his home in me and I am rooted and grounded deep in his love and founded securely in his love.


Father, I want my heart’s cry to be to know and understand that you abide in me. I no longer want to be passive and unaware of your presence but vibrant to the ways you are leading me. Thank you for teaching my spirit to come alive and lead my soul, direct and instruct me in your ways and purposes.

© LoveWalkPublishing Rebecca Cooley



FRESH MANNA
(Adapted from Romans 8:10-11; Ephesians 3:16-17)
Be blest today with fresh manna that falls like due in the morning.
While you sleep through the night, He’s thinking ‘bout you.
While you sleep through the night, He’s waiting for you.

© LoveWalkPublishing WordsAndMusic by Kent Clifford Cooley

Sunday, September 11, 2016

THE GOOD LIFE / Walk the Walk

This is the 2nd of 7 devotions with the theme
From 1 Corinthians 13:6
"Love Rejoices When Truth Prevails”



(Adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:6; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Psalms 23:3; 119:105; Colossians 3:2)

The holy life is the good life.  A sinful life is based on deception and dishonesty.  A life that is concentrated to God is a life based on genuineness and truth.  Every violation of one of God's commandments is a violation of love and opposes truth.  The root of every violation of love and truth begins in our mind.  That is why the Word instructs us concerning our mind. 

"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing 
that exalteth itself against the knowledge of the truth, 
and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ."

Jesus said, "I am the truth."  If we follow Jesus and embrace this truth, He will lead us on a path of what is good and right in God's sight.  He will lead us to God's best for us.  Sin deceives a person and tries to diminish the truth.  Unconfessed sin removes a person from the path of righteousness.  That is why we must always line up our thoughts with the truth of the Word.  We read the Word, recognize wrong thinking and cast it out of our minds.  As we do this, we are bringing our thoughts into the obedience of Christ.  

Father, I relinquish the reins of my life and give them to You.  My instruction will not be based on the vain philosophies of man but rather on Your Word.  You will not lead me into temptation but you will deliver me from evil.  Your Word is truth and it is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.  Jesus, You are my shepherd.  You are the truth and I submit to your leading me on a path of righteousness.  I receive everything you have for me, as I follow Your lead.   

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KentCliffordCooley






I WALK THE WALK
(Adapted from Psalms 23:3; Colossians 3:2; Psalms 23:3; 119:105)
Verse 1: 
He leads me on a path of righteousness 
He leads me on a path to His very best
Chorus:  
I walk the walk and I talk the talk 
I set my mind upon the things above
I walk the walk and I talk the talk 
I sing a new song unto the Lord
Bridge:  
And though I walk through valleys low, 
I know I will not stay
His word is a lamp to my feet, 
A light to my pathway





© LoveWalkMusic
Words and Music by KentCliffordCooley

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Our Story by Rebecca Cooley

One way you can detect God’s fingerprint on something is that it is exceedingly, abundantly, above and beyond anything you could have asked for, or imagined or thought up! 

The house we had been renting sold in January and we had six months to relocate.  We began praying and packing on the day of closing in February.  As the weeks passed, we encountered fear at every angle.  We were asked, “What are you going to do?”  Our reply, “All we know is that we are moving.”  “Have you found a house yet?”  Our reply, “We are looking and we are praying.”  Sometimes fear would come in a wave without a voice.  

We began researching houses in the city limits and out of the city limits.  We researched apartments, townhouses, old homes and new homes.  We researched one bedroom, two bedroom and three bedroom homes.   We looked at safe neighborhoods and questionable streets.  We looked in the country and downtown.  Each conclusion was the same.  It would not work for us. 

On Memorial Day weekend we moved into the most beautiful home we have ever lived in.  It is in a gated community on a street with no traffic and wonderful neighbors.  There were several things that I had specifically asked God for and I received, but the rest was above and beyond what I had imagined or hoped for.  And the overhead is exactly the same!



I looked over journal entries from the past several months and was amazed at God’s faithfulness.  Below are a few entries and my hope is that it will encourage you to dismantle fear when it attacks and believe God for the impossible for your family.  

My steps are ordered by God and He is guiding me today.  Psalm 37:23

I am blessed and highly favored with divine intervention in my life today and I am walking in the favor of God.  

I am a tither.  I have tither rights.  God’s grace and favor are over my life and I am self-sufficient and require no aid or support from anyone.  I declare that I am in a position for blessings.  1 Cor 9:8

My faith reaches into the realm of the Spirit, grasps the promises of God and brings forth a tangible, physical fulfillment of those promises.  Faith brings action to earth!

I release my faith with words.  The Holy Spirit causes my words to manifest.  I declare the Word and angels surround me and heed the Word and take action.  Psalm 103:20

We are tithers and God has a legal right to get involved in our affairs! 1 Peter 5:7

I speak those things that are not as though they were.  I speak over our new home to be revealed to us.  I call forth provision angels to help us with our new home. 

I release the anointing of God for promotion and provision.  I speak God’s divine entrance and encounter into our new home. 

When faith filled words come out of your mouth, they are backed by the Spirit of God and the angels of God.  

You don’t need money.  All you need is the favor of God! 

God says, “DO NOT FEAR! I, the Lord, will keep hold of your right hand and I will help you so do not be afraid!”  Isaiah 41:13

God gives me a home in which to dwell.  He leads me to prosperity! He places me in a place of prosperity! He bears my burdens and carries me day by day.  Psm 68:6, 10

Whatever things you ask for in prayer, in accordance with God’s will, believe with confident trust that you have received them and they will be given to you.  Mark 11:23

God is leading us forth by the straight and right way that we might go to a city where we can establish our home.  We praise You Lord and confess to You Your goodness and loving kindness and Your wonderful works! You alone satisfy our hungry souls with Your goodness!  Psalm 107:8-9

I called upon the Lord in distress and the Lord answered me and set me in a large place.  This is the Lord’s doing and it is marvelous in our eyes!  Psalm 118:5, 8

Thank You Lord for the plans you have for our family – plans for good and not evil, plans of prosperity and not calamity, plans full of hope and a good future.  Jer 29:11

Sound a war cry!  Begin a fast – pray, worship and believe!  The fingerprint of God will be on our move! 

I write out our requests and bring them boldly and persistently before God.  Luke 11:9

God is able and will, according to the power that is at work in me (my faith is that power) to do supernaturally, superabundantly far over and above all that I could dare ask or think – beyond my highest prayers, desires, thoughts and dreams.  2 Cor 9:8

I declare this Word over my family today.  God is our source for everything!  I speak over our minds to be renewed and to fully embrace the fact that God provides for us and He is the source of everything we need.  I declare that we will receive houses, cars, appliances, clothes and money from God!  1 Cor 8:6 

We place ourselves in a position to receive.  Ephesians 2:4

I believe God loves us more than I can imagine and he longs to bless us.  Eph 2:4

I believe He hears us when we call.  Exodus 22:27

I believe we have authority to put satan in his place.  Luke 10:19

I believe we are on the winning side.  Col 2:15

I believe God is good and that he wants to provide for us and can do it well beyond my imagination.  Psalm 16:2; 21:19, Eph 3:20

Jesus says, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy and you can stop him in his tracks!  Luke 10:19 

God says, I will not in any way fail you or give you up or leave you without support.  I will not, I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless or forsake you or let you down or relax my hold on you.  Believe this!  I am your Helper and you need not be seized with alarm or fear or be terrified because I AM WITH YOU!  Heb 13:5

God’s name is Elohim.  He is infinite in power and absolute in faithfulness!

God’s name is Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord who provides. 

If the enemy comes to accuse me or attack me with fear, I no longer waste time rebuking and screaming at him.  I immediately go to my Father and repent and ask forgiveness for any sin I have committed.  I take it to my Father and settle it and receive any instructions for further action.  Then if He advises me to bind, rebuke or declare anything, I do it.  Matthew 5:25

God’s mercy grants us favor, benefits, opportunities and especially salvation.  I refuse discouragement, despondency and spiritlessness.  I refuse to become faint with weariness and exhaustion.  Ephesians 4:1

God has made His angels winds and His ministering servants flames of fire to do his bidding.  Thank You Father, for sending angels to serve my family to receive favor today from you and from people.  Heb 1:7, 14

The wealth of the sinner finds its way eventually into the hands of the righteous for whom it was laid up.  Proverbs 13:22


Father, thank you for your faithfulness and your grace and mercy on our lives.  Thank you for those you have sent to teach me and train me and help me.  Thank you for our home and for every blessing associated with it.  I pray for the person who has read my story to the end and has been blessed by your blessings on me.  I ask you to give them hope for their situation and needs and receive an impartation of your grace and mercy on their affairs.  In Jesus Name.  





Sunday, April 17, 2016

TO PLEASE GOD, TO PLEASE MAN / What Jesus Did

This is the 5th of 5 devotions with the theme
From 1 Corinthians 13:5
"Love Is Not Self Seeking”



(Adapted from Romans 15:2-3; 1 Corinthians 13:5)
“I am not a man pleaser but a God pleaser”
If we are not careful we can use this term to violate love. Jesus came primarily to please His Father and do His Father’s will. He laid His very life down to do the will of the Father. At Gethsemane He said “nevertheless not my will but Thine be done”. And so should we. Yet Paul addressed the church at Rome and stated;
Each one of us should make it a practice 
to please his neighbor
for his good and for his true welfare. 
For Christ did not please Himself.

Jesus was selfless in two areas 
1. He did not live to please himself but rather to please His father. 
2. He did not live to please himself but rather to please His neighbor. Let’s take a look at the definition of the word “please”, If you break down the word “please” into it’s synonyms and look for those words in scripture you will confirm over and over what Paul exhorted, “make it a practice to please your neighbor.”

Pleasure:
In thy presence is fullness of joy; 
at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. 
Ps 15:11

Satisfy:
If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, 
and satisfy the afflicted soul; 
then shall thy light rise in obscurity, 
and thy darkness be as the noon day: 
Isaiah 58:10

Delight:
And the Lord God planted a garden toward the east, 
in Eden [delight];(Eden means delight) 
The garden was meant to be a delight to man 
Gen 2:8

Father, I delight in You and I know that it is Your intention to please, bring pleasure to, satisfy and delight mankind and it should be our intention to please, bring pleasure to, satisfy and delight everyone we meet in a way that brings honor to You.

© LoveWalkPublishing
Devotion Authored by KentCliffordCooley
Edited by Rebecca Cooley





WHAT JESUS DID
Devotion: To Please God / To Please Man
(Adapted from Romans 15:2-3; 1 Corinthians 13:5)
Verse 1
Do not live to please yourself
Live to please your neighbor.
This is love, This is selfless
This is righteous, This is what Jesus did
It was His constant practice
It was the way He lived
Verse 2
He did not live to please Himself
He lived to please his neighbor
He loved, He was selfless
He was righteous, 
This is what Jesus did
It was His constant practice
It was the way He lived
Verse 3
I do not live to please myself
I live to please my neighbor
I love, I am selfless, I am righteous
This is what Jesus did
This is my constant practice,
This is the way I live
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WordsAndMusic by KentCliffordCooley