Morning with Ebenezer

LOOSE THAT HATE

Anyone who hates a fellow believer is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life. This is how we know what real love is: Jesus gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for each other as brothers and sisters.

1 John 3:15-16 ERV

In a course of life, there are people who came in our lives and caused harm in our way. There are people who were the cause of pain, who shutdown our dreams and scattered abroad our efforts to achieve our goals in life. We met some of these people in churches, who said hurtful words and causes us even to leave some churches and stay away from some fellowships.

In Easy to Read Version [ERV], My Bible says anyone who hates a fellow believer is a murder, which it the same with Amplified Bible and Expended Bible which both focused in a body of believer just like in Easy to Read Version. Like in Amplified it says, ''Anyone who hates his brother in Christ is a murder''; while in Expended Bible it says, ''Everyone who hates a fellow believer is a murderer''. In Expended Bible it gives reason why we call those persons murderers? it says because they have killed that person in their hearts, Matt 5:21-26.

Those who hate someone have in their mind the same motive that causes murder. In the church of today, we have many folks who don't love each other that much, they think that loving God is enough even if they will be hating some folks inside of them. That's why we have rivals in the body of Christ right now! Associate Pastors against Senior Pastors, singers against solo singers, denominational ministers against non-denominational ones.

This morning, God wants you to loose that hate. God wants you to let it go and move on from whatsoever happened to you in the past. Continue holding hate against anyone in your life right now is like keeping a brand of fire inside your pockets. Eventually that hate will consume you and leave you with no sense of joy inside of you. Forgiveness is the key which will set you free from the prison of hate.

You can choose to continue holding that person or you can choose to let him go and focus on what God has in store for you. Either one has consequences, if you will choose love to reign; it will lead you to your total freedom from hate. But if you will choose hate, it means you will continue locking yourself in that prison of bitterness for the rest of your life. And if you die in that state of unforgiveness, in the judgement day you will placed  in the same group with murders. The choice is yours!

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I thank You for your Word. Lord I'm asking that You may give me strength to forgive whosoever hurt me in the past. Lord help me to loose the hate which I have been holding inside of me. I refuse to continue being prisoner of hate; I allow your love to flow from the soles of my feet to the top of my brain. I declare and decree that it's done! In Jesus' Name, Amen.