Latest / DA CREW Podcast / DAILY DEVOTION WITH QUEEN ANGELA DAY 18 LOVE IN ACTION 1 JOHN 318
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning,
- 0:03Speaker 1: good morning, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and Kick. I want to
- 0:07Speaker 1: welcome you guys to our daily devotion. Welcome to Daily Devotion,
- 0:10Speaker 1: and welcome to daily devotion. Devotion is coming out of
- 0:14Speaker 1: one of my books. Is coming out of a thirty
- 0:17Speaker 1: one day devotion. It is a closer walk with I
- 0:20Speaker 1: am that I am a thirty one day guy to
- 0:23Speaker 1: exploring the Bible. It is a youth guide for exploring
- 0:26Speaker 1: the Bible. But I tell you anyone can pick this
- 0:29Speaker 1: book up and apply. It just helps you dive a
- 0:32Speaker 1: little deeper in your Bible. Just causes you to dive
- 0:36Speaker 1: a little deeper in your Bible. That's all, y'all. So
- 0:39Speaker 1: I want to encourage you guys on today y'all. We
- 0:41Speaker 1: are day eighteen in this amazing book. You always can
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- 1:05Speaker 2: So go on over there and check it out.
- 1:07Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and start us off in prayer
- 1:09Speaker 1: and then we're gonna dive into our lesson for today.
- 1:12Speaker 2: Y'all listen, for today is going.
- 1:14Speaker 1: To be love in action, and we're gonna be coming
- 1:17Speaker 1: out of first John three and eighteen Again. I'm gonna
- 1:20Speaker 1: start us off with prayer and then we're gonna go
- 1:22Speaker 1: right into the lesson. So, Father God, in the name
- 1:24Speaker 1: of Jesus Order, thank you again for yet this space.
- 1:26Speaker 1: Lord God, I thank you for yet another opportunity that
- 1:28Speaker 1: we can come before you, that we can acknowledge you,
- 1:30Speaker 1: Lord God.
- 1:31Speaker 2: Father asked that you will open our minds.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Our hearts, and our souls on today, that we will
- 1:35Speaker 1: receive that that you have for us to receive. On today,
- 1:37Speaker 1: Father asked that you will remove me out of the ray,
- 1:40Speaker 1: remove me out of the way, Lord God, decrease me
- 1:43Speaker 1: in the flesh, and allow your spirit mand to rise up,
- 1:46Speaker 1: Lord God, and Father.
- 1:49Speaker 2: To move me, Father God, and allow.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Those to come forth on today to come forth, Lord
- 1:55Speaker 1: God Father, I thank you for this hour. I thank
- 1:57Speaker 1: you for this space. I thank you for this new
- 1:58Speaker 1: day that we've never seen, Lord God, the state that
- 2:01Speaker 1: we'll never see again.
- 2:02Speaker 2: Lord God.
- 2:02Speaker 1: So Father asked him that you would just allow your
- 2:04Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to leave God and direct us or God,
- 2:06Speaker 1: that we may catch up with our destiny, that we
- 2:08Speaker 1: may catch up with that that you have already preordained
- 2:11Speaker 1: for us, that that you are already mapped out for us.
- 2:13Speaker 2: So Father, I thank you on this morning for yet another.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Opportunity that we can come before you, Lord God, to
- 2:19Speaker 1: acknowledge you, knowing that we have no power, but through
- 2:22Speaker 1: you we have our power.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Lord God.
- 2:23Speaker 1: So Father, removed me out of the way on this morning,
- 2:26Speaker 1: Lord God, and allow your Holy Spirit to flow within me,
- 2:29Speaker 1: Lord God, that I may only deliver what you would
- 2:32Speaker 1: have me to deliver on this morning, Lord.
- 2:33Speaker 2: God, Father, I thank you for this space.
- 2:35Speaker 1: I thank you for this opportunity, Lord God, and these
- 2:38Speaker 1: things are asking your son Jesus name a man a man,
- 2:41Speaker 1: a man a man, and I thank him. I thank
- 2:43Speaker 1: him for this opportunity. I thank him for yet waking
- 2:46Speaker 1: me up this morning because he truly didn't have to.
- 2:48Speaker 1: It wasn't the alarm, but it was grace in his
- 2:53Speaker 1: mercy that breath and he breathed into me back in
- 2:55Speaker 1: Genesis two and seven that allowed me to wake up
- 2:58Speaker 1: this morning. So I am great, and I'm grateful to
- 3:01Speaker 1: be able to come before you. So, y'all, I'm gonna
- 3:03Speaker 1: go ahead and jump right into this liston. I don't
- 3:05Speaker 1: want to keep you alan, So I'm gonna jump right
- 3:07Speaker 1: in so that i can give you what has been
- 3:09Speaker 1: placed on my heart on today. So again, I thank
- 3:13Speaker 1: you guys for joining me. I thank you for joining me.
- 3:17Speaker 2: Thank you on today.
- 3:28Speaker 1: One of my devotions that God has placed in my spirit,
- 3:33Speaker 1: and I truly truly thank him for that. I truly
- 3:36Speaker 1: thank him for that.
- 3:37Speaker 2: I thank him for that on today.
- 3:42Speaker 1: So yes, I'll tell you it's any but he'd be busy.
- 3:47Speaker 1: He always want to mess with my computer. I want
- 3:49Speaker 1: to mess with my stuff. But he gets no victory.
- 3:54Speaker 2: He gets no victory. Y'all.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Yet I press, yet, I press. It is what it
- 3:58Speaker 1: is on today?
- 3:59Speaker 2: It is? It is.
- 4:03Speaker 1: I try, y'all, I'll be trying. So our scripture is
- 4:05Speaker 1: coming out of Firs. John three and eighteen, and I'm
- 4:09Speaker 1: going to read. I think I have four versions of
- 4:13Speaker 1: this scripture. The first one is coming out of the
- 4:15Speaker 1: New International version, and it reads, dear child, let us
- 4:19Speaker 1: not love with words or speech, but with action and
- 4:22Speaker 1: in truth. The King James version says, my little children,
- 4:26Speaker 1: let us not love in words, neither in tongues, but
- 4:28Speaker 1: indeed and in truth. The English Standard version says, little children,
- 4:34Speaker 1: let us not love in words or talk, but indeed
- 4:36Speaker 1: and in truth. And the New Living Translation says, dear children,
- 4:41Speaker 1: let's not merely say that we love each other. Let
- 4:44Speaker 1: us show the truth by our actions. And this verse
- 4:48Speaker 1: simply encourages the believer to express love not just in
- 4:52Speaker 1: what they say, but through their actions and sincerity. True
- 4:56Speaker 1: Christians love, True Christian love is demonstrated through what we
- 5:00Speaker 1: do for others.
- 5:01Speaker 2: And not just the kind words.
- 5:04Speaker 1: I want you to speak this word of affirmation over
- 5:06Speaker 1: your life today. It is I demonstrate love through action.
- 5:10Speaker 1: Speak it over yourself so that you can remind yourself
- 5:12Speaker 1: that you operate in love, which is action and it's
- 5:16Speaker 1: not words. Our word of today is kindness. Our word
- 5:20Speaker 1: of today is kindness. As we go through this lesson,
- 5:22Speaker 1: I want you to think on that word kindness. Let
- 5:25Speaker 1: kindness guide your actions on today. One small intention and
- 5:30Speaker 1: one small intentional act can create a ripple effect, touching
- 5:35Speaker 1: lives and ways no one ever seen. Be the reason
- 5:39Speaker 1: someone believes in God in his love, and show it
- 5:43Speaker 1: through action. So I want to welcome you guys today.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Number eighteen of our daily devotion Journey Today is today's
- 5:53Speaker 1: focus is a transformative truth.
- 5:56Speaker 2: Love is much more than just words.
- 5:59Speaker 1: It is fully realize that it is truly realized in
- 6:03Speaker 1: our action and in the world full of empty promises
- 6:07Speaker 1: and fleeting affection. Jesus caused us to love in a
- 6:11Speaker 1: way that makes tangible That makes a tangible difference. Let's
- 6:15Speaker 1: explore how we can move from saying I love you
- 6:19Speaker 1: to showing I love you in every single day. So
- 6:23Speaker 1: the backstory on one John three and eighteen, John knows
- 6:29Speaker 1: as the Apostle. John is known as Apostle Love writes.
- 6:35Speaker 1: He writes these words to the early church, wrastling with
- 6:38Speaker 1: how to live out their faith in practical terms. He
- 6:42Speaker 1: knew that love isn't just a sentiment. In a time
- 6:46Speaker 1: when the world was mostly hostile to Christians, he urged
- 6:50Speaker 1: believers not to simply talk about love, but to live it,
- 6:55Speaker 1: meeting practical needs and showing kindness and serving sacrificially. Y'ad,
- 7:01Speaker 1: that's something that we should be doing today. We see
- 7:04Speaker 1: so many times that there is so much hatred, so
- 7:08Speaker 1: much division, so many things that definitely does not go
- 7:14Speaker 1: go along with the will of God, but goes against
- 7:17Speaker 1: the word of God. There's a powerful lesson from one
- 7:22Speaker 1: John three and eighteen. It is easy to say that
- 7:25Speaker 1: I love you, but the genuine love is proven.
- 7:27Speaker 2: By what we do. That's our action.
- 7:30Speaker 1: Jesus was not content, but he was given motivational he
- 7:35Speaker 1: always he was given. He was given motivational talks. He
- 7:38Speaker 1: demonstrated his love and every step from feeding the hungry
- 7:43Speaker 1: and Mark six thirty four and forty four to Washington
- 7:46Speaker 1: Disciples feet and John thirteen, twelve and fifteen to land
- 7:50Speaker 1: down his life for us all y'all. He laid down
- 7:53Speaker 1: his life for all of us so that we may
- 7:55Speaker 1: have the right to eternal life.
- 7:57Speaker 2: He laid it down for you. Ni. The world sees
- 8:00Speaker 2: faith most clearly, not when we preach, but when we practice.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Not when I come on here and share these words
- 8:07Speaker 1: with you, but when I'm out here in these social
- 8:10Speaker 1: media streets, and when I'm out here in these streets
- 8:12Speaker 1: showing love, when I'm out here feeding the homeless, when
- 8:14Speaker 1: I'm out here doing the things that some of you
- 8:16Speaker 1: may not see me do. It is those things that
- 8:20Speaker 1: shows love. It's those those things of action that shows love.
- 8:24Speaker 1: John James underscores this truth. If you go over to
- 8:28Speaker 1: James two and fifteen and sixteen and say, suppose a
- 8:32Speaker 1: brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If
- 8:36Speaker 1: one of you says to them, go in peace, keep warm,
- 8:39Speaker 1: and what and we're fed and well fed? But does
- 8:43Speaker 1: nothing about the physical need? What good is it? What
- 8:47Speaker 1: good to say that I'm gonna pray for you? But
- 8:49Speaker 1: you see someone in need and you do you do nothing.
- 8:52Speaker 1: We're supposed to act. If we see a need, we're
- 8:55Speaker 1: supposed to meet that need, if we have the means
- 8:57Speaker 1: to meet that need. And if we don't have the
- 8:59Speaker 1: means and meet that need, then we should be trying
- 9:02Speaker 1: to find ways to meet that need, y'all in our action.
- 9:06Speaker 1: It don't when some of us our actions don't match
- 9:09Speaker 1: our words. And when your action don't match your word,
- 9:13Speaker 1: that means that you is hillow. Your love is high loow,
- 9:17Speaker 1: real love inner messy situation. They roll up their sleeves
- 9:22Speaker 1: and they get involved. When you see something wrong, when
- 9:24Speaker 1: you see there's a need out there in these in
- 9:27Speaker 1: these streets, when you see those sleeping up under the
- 9:29Speaker 1: bridge in the tents, you get out there and you
- 9:31Speaker 1: help you get out there, You fee you get out there,
- 9:33Speaker 1: and you provide a blanket, You provide something that can
- 9:37Speaker 1: help them to transition. Y'all were gonna dive a little deep,
- 9:42Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give you three things that you should
- 9:44Speaker 1: take away from this lesson, Three things that you can
- 9:46Speaker 1: ponder over your life. The first thing is authentic love.
- 9:50Speaker 1: The Man's more than words, it say. Let us not
- 9:54Speaker 1: love with words or speech, but with actions and in truth.
- 9:59Speaker 1: True love is and just something we talk about, but
- 10:02Speaker 1: it's something we do. This lesson challenges us to move
- 10:06Speaker 1: beyond well meaning words and step into genuine How can
- 10:11Speaker 1: we practice this? So ask yourself, how can you put
- 10:15Speaker 1: love in action today for someone in need this week?
- 10:19Speaker 1: Look around you, see who may be in need, See
- 10:23Speaker 1: who is in need of something, and act upon that
- 10:26Speaker 1: and be genuine and your doing. Don't do it for
- 10:29Speaker 1: for likes, don't do it.
- 10:30Speaker 2: For views, don't do it so that you can be seen.
- 10:35Speaker 2: But do it.
- 10:35Speaker 1: Because it is a commandment. It is something that he
- 10:38Speaker 1: has commanded us to do. He says love is out loud,
- 10:42Speaker 1: it's witness huh love. I'm gonna say that again for
- 10:45Speaker 1: the person in the fact that may not hurt me
- 10:48Speaker 1: or the person just coming in the room. It say,
- 10:50Speaker 1: love is all loud, it's weird. By this, everyone will
- 10:55Speaker 1: know that you are my disciple if you love one
- 10:59Speaker 1: another John thirteen and thirty five. He says, by this,
- 11:04Speaker 1: everyone will know that you are my disciple. And if
- 11:07Speaker 1: you love one another, the world recognizes Jesus through our
- 11:11Speaker 1: acts of love, our kindness and unity becomes unmistakable proof
- 11:16Speaker 1: of his faith.
- 11:18Speaker 2: I want you to pause.
- 11:19Speaker 1: And consider what do your actions say about your faith
- 11:23Speaker 1: to those watching? How can you show Christ love more boldly?
- 11:29Speaker 1: Ask yourself these questions. Ponder these questions throughout the day. Again,
- 11:32Speaker 1: I say, pause and consider what do your actions say
- 11:37Speaker 1: about your faith to those watching you? Because believe it,
- 11:40Speaker 1: there are somebody watching you. That's somebody, somebody's trying to
- 11:44Speaker 1: see how you living up, how you living up to
- 11:47Speaker 1: the world. How can you show Christ love more boldly?
- 11:51Speaker 1: How can you be moboldly? How can you how can
- 11:53Speaker 1: you allow it to come forth more that other people
- 11:56Speaker 1: so that more people can see another thing?
- 11:59Speaker 2: Y'all?
- 12:00Speaker 1: Compassion? We had to be compassion and that person, huh
- 12:22Speaker 1: first John three and seven. To be an agent of
- 12:45Speaker 1: God's compassion. Today, some of us have walked rolled past
- 12:49Speaker 1: bridges and people sleeping under the bridges with ten Some
- 12:53Speaker 1: of us seen the homeless brothers standing on the corner.
- 12:56Speaker 1: Some of us have seen that the children that may
- 13:01Speaker 1: be standing on the corner asking for cons may be
- 13:05Speaker 1: asking for change or selling something, and we don't even
- 13:10Speaker 1: want to consider offering them something, y'all, he say, consider
- 13:15Speaker 1: consider these things. Consider how you can be compassionate. What
- 13:20Speaker 1: opportunities around you today that will allow you to be
- 13:24Speaker 1: an agent of God?
- 13:25Speaker 2: Y'all?
- 13:26Speaker 1: Sometimes somebody may just need to talk, somebody may just
- 13:28Speaker 1: need a shoulder to cry on. Are you showing compassion?
- 13:31Speaker 1: Are you showing love? I want y'all to let this
- 13:35Speaker 1: lesson seek in. I want you to take a moment
- 13:38Speaker 1: to meditate on the truths and act yourself. How can
- 13:43Speaker 1: I make love visible in my life? How can I
- 13:46Speaker 1: make love visible in my life? For further study and
- 13:50Speaker 1: to dig deep, go on into first John. Read the
- 13:55Speaker 1: whole chapter, Read the whole third the third chapter. Read
- 13:59Speaker 1: it in this and Tilty read the full passage in
- 14:02Speaker 1: journal about ways you can embody authenticness christ like love
- 14:08Speaker 1: each day, y'all. It's not just one day. We should
- 14:10Speaker 1: be doing this every day. It become a practice. It
- 14:13Speaker 1: should become a practice. How can we radically meet needs today?
- 14:21Speaker 1: We always waiting for a perfect moment. There'll never be
- 14:23Speaker 1: a perfect moment, So don't wait for a perfect moment.
- 14:26Speaker 1: Open your eyes to the knees right in front of you.
- 14:30Speaker 1: Is there a neighbor struggling with groceries? Is there a
- 14:32Speaker 1: coworking feeling invisible? Step up and meet that need wholeheartedly.
- 14:37Speaker 1: Bring a homemade meal to a family member going through
- 14:42Speaker 1: a crisis, or often a listening ear, or even just
- 14:46Speaker 1: a smile to someone weighed down by stress. When you
- 14:50Speaker 1: respond to everyday opportunities with humility and generosity, you become
- 14:55Speaker 1: a living extension of God's love and Jesus love. Remember
- 15:00Speaker 1: his promise, he say, give and it will be given
- 15:04Speaker 1: unto you Loop six and thirty eight. What you sow
- 15:08Speaker 1: in kindness returns in ways that you cannot imagine. Serve
- 15:13Speaker 1: where it hurts, give unto the cost. True service isn't
- 15:17Speaker 1: about convenience, It's about sacrifice. Look beyond your comfort zone
- 15:23Speaker 1: for places where hurt and hunger exists. Maybe it means
- 15:26Speaker 1: getting up early to drive someone to the doctor. Or
- 15:31Speaker 1: volunteer your Friday night to mentor at risk youth. It
- 15:35Speaker 1: might even mean sharing your own resources until it stretches you.
- 15:40Speaker 1: This kind of love echoes Christ's own heart, who held
- 15:44Speaker 1: nothing back even in his own life. It says greater
- 15:47Speaker 1: love has no one than this, to lie down one's
- 15:51Speaker 1: life for one's friend, John fifteen and thirteen. Where can
- 15:55Speaker 1: you serve in a way that truly costs you but
- 15:59Speaker 1: changes someone else in the world. I encourage you to
- 16:04Speaker 1: be resentless. Make love a habit. Make it something that
- 16:08Speaker 1: you do daily. Think of the last time a simple
- 16:13Speaker 1: text call visit lifted your spirit. Make it your mission
- 16:19Speaker 1: to constantly and be consistent to reach out to others,
- 16:23Speaker 1: not just when it's convenient or when you think they
- 16:26Speaker 1: need it, but as regular as a regular way of life.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Make it something that you do daily. Encourage others deliberately
- 16:35Speaker 1: and often remind them that they matter. Celebrate their wins,
- 16:40Speaker 1: and stand with them when they lose. The steady stream
- 16:44Speaker 1: of support, plant seeds of hope and belonging. The Scripture
- 16:49Speaker 1: urges us therefore, encourage one another, build each other up
- 16:54Speaker 1: just as fact you are doing first Thatsalonely In five
- 16:57Speaker 1: and ten, you will be tomorrow because you reached out today.
- 17:07Speaker 1: I challenge you, what's one bold step you can take
- 17:14Speaker 1: in the next twenty four hours that tangibly love someone else.
- 17:19Speaker 1: Let the people whose love show up, stretch deep, and
- 17:22Speaker 1: never give up. I pray that you got something from
- 17:27Speaker 1: what I've shared on today. As I close, I want
- 17:31Speaker 1: you to remember that today's message was all about love,
- 17:36Speaker 1: not just spoken but powerful, a powerful demonstration. We saw
- 17:41Speaker 1: that while words can encourage, it's our actions that truly
- 17:46Speaker 1: prove our love. Jesus just didn't tell people he loved them.
- 17:50Speaker 1: He showed it by serving, by sacrificing, and by standing
- 17:55Speaker 1: with those in need. He caused each of us to
- 17:59Speaker 1: follow in his footsteps, moving beyond what's comfortable and convenient
- 18:04Speaker 1: in our life, but to be true and to have
- 18:08Speaker 1: compassion it is This isn't just a lesson for today,
- 18:14Speaker 1: It is a call to action for all of us.
- 18:17Speaker 2: Imagine that.
- 18:20Speaker 1: Imagine what would happen if each person here decided to
- 18:24Speaker 1: let their love overflow in tangible ways, lending a hand
- 18:28Speaker 1: to a neighbor, reaching out to someone lonely, or simply
- 18:32Speaker 1: being a friend to someone in need of support. Small
- 18:37Speaker 1: steps can make a world of difference, and this is
- 18:43Speaker 1: the only the beginning, y'all. Tomorrow we are gathering once
- 18:49Speaker 1: again to discover even more about about living with crisis
- 18:54Speaker 1: christ like love. Again, let me repeat that this is
- 18:59Speaker 1: only the beginning. And tomorrow we are gathering right here
- 19:02Speaker 1: again once again to discover even more about living with
- 19:07Speaker 1: christ like love. We'll support one another, share new ideas,
- 19:12Speaker 1: grow stronger together. You matter to this community. Your presence
- 19:17Speaker 1: can inspire someone, and your actions can help.
- 19:21Speaker 2: Ignite a wave of love and kindness. So don't stop there.
- 19:25Speaker 1: Take today's challenge to heart, act on it, and then
- 19:29Speaker 1: come back tomorrow ready for even more. Let's keep encouraging
- 19:33Speaker 1: each other and grow deeper, show love and serve boulder,
- 19:39Speaker 1: walk more closely with Jesus and bring a friend, bring
- 19:43Speaker 1: your heart, and let's make a difference together. See you
- 19:46Speaker 1: tomorrow and let's turn love into action today, Side by side.
- 19:52Speaker 1: I hope that there's something that I've shared with you
- 19:54Speaker 1: guys that will bless you on today. Where these words
- 19:57Speaker 1: not just be words that I've spoken and word that
- 20:00Speaker 1: I've shared, but may they have penetrated your heart, May
- 20:03Speaker 1: they have predentated your mind, May they have penetrated your soul,
- 20:06Speaker 1: and may they do exactly what He's called for it
- 20:10Speaker 1: to do on today, y'all, May he bless you on today.
- 20:13Speaker 1: I thank him for this opportunity. I thank him for
- 20:15Speaker 1: each and every one of you, guys, and I pray
- 20:18Speaker 1: that you are blessed by something that will share it
- 20:20Speaker 1: on today. So Lord, I thank you for this time.
- 20:22Speaker 1: I thank you for this hour.
- 20:23Speaker 2: Lord.
- 20:24Speaker 1: I blessed those that tune in, those that watch, those
- 20:27Speaker 1: that will catch this as a replay. Lord God Father
- 20:30Speaker 1: asked that these words not follow on death Edd's Lord God,
- 20:32Speaker 1: but they follow on fertile soil, Lord God, that they
- 20:35Speaker 1: may be seized that a planet, Lord God.
- 20:37Speaker 2: And may you continue to water until they grow. Father.
- 20:40Speaker 2: We thank you for this opportunity.
- 20:41Speaker 1: We thank you for being able to come before your people,
- 20:43Speaker 1: Lord God, and follow allow your will to be done
- 20:45Speaker 1: on today, Lord god Father, and allow us to catch
- 20:47Speaker 1: up with our destiny. And this is my prayer on today,
- 20:50Speaker 1: Lord God, I thank you for yet another opportunity. I
- 20:53Speaker 1: pray that each person is blessed on today. I pray
- 20:55Speaker 1: that there's something that has blessed you on today, Lord,
- 20:58Speaker 1: So I will see y'all back here. You're on tomorrow
- 21:01Speaker 1: y'all have a great day. Thank you for joining me.