Moments with my First Love [UNDER REVISION]

MOMENT 21: Connecting to your First Love

I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. As you make your requests, plead for God's mercy upon them, and give thanks. Pray this way for kings and all others who are in authority, so that we can live in peace and
quietness, in godliness and dignity.

This is good and pleases God our Savior, for he wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth. For there is only one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and people. He is the man Christ Jesus. -1 Timothy 2:1-5

✔️ PRAYER is one way to connect with your First Love, which is Jesus Christ.
PRAYER is one way to communicate with Him.

It is not just only for you to connect your heart to Him but also allowing Him to connect with you. It means, it is not just 'you' who are talking but also listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit as He talks to you.

The Holy Spirit reveals His heart and will to you through PRAYER.
He is the one who leads you to pray in Spirit.

Romans 8:27 "In certain ways we are weak, but the Spirit is here to help us. For example, when we don't know what to pray for, the Spirit prays for us in ways that cannot be put inti words."

Because you cannot pray on your own. Even if you pray without the leading of the Holy Spirit, your prayer cannot go up to heaven but it will only float in the air. Why? Because only the Holt Spirit serves as the bidge to connect your prayers to the Lord

✔️ Prayer is also aligning in the will of God.

James 4:3 "Yet even when you do pray, your prayers are not answered, because your pray just for selfish reasons.

The principle of God is not selfish but selfless.

If you are full of yourself, God can't fill you. On the other hand, of you empty yourself, God can fill you with overflowing.

Christian formula:

God
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others
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self

God should always be over others and our own self.

When God is the highest in your life, He will make you know the very focus of His will which is the others. Why? Because 'it is' the reason why the came.

The heartbeat of God is souls.

John 3:16 "For God so loved the worls that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

You will notice that the Holy Spirit is leading you to prayer when your prayers are almost focus with others. Because by prayer, you will learn how to be selfless as well. You forgot about yourself, the selfish reasons you have, and you are too focus for your conpassion and love for others. Though, it is not uet done through prayers only.

The will of the Spirit never forgets His great commission which is to win souls and make disciples.

God wants everyone to be saved and for them to know Him. The very basic act to salvation is by sharing the Gospel. How can people know about this salvation through Christ if the one who knows it don't share it to him/her?

Remember: No one discovers something on their own. Because even before we discover something. God already discovered it because He is the One who created it and everything.

You did not discover the salvation, it was introduced to you by someone who was uses by God.

When we talk about salvation, it talks about: Jesus Christ -the only One who can give us salvation and eternal life

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am fhe way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

The cross of Jesus Christ bridges us to the Father.

Never deny that Jesus became human. This is one great foundation of Christians. If Jesus Christ never became human there is no cross of calvary in which Jesus died, and is the only great way for us to be saved from our sins, to be forgiven and to have an eternal life.

✔️ Prayer makes us powerful.
After they had prayers, the meetinf placr shook. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and bravely spoke God's message. -Acts 4:32

Whoever we are praying, God moves through us, filling us with His Spirit that motivates and gives us courage to speak the truth the others.

Shalom!
Glory to God alone! :)