Think about it: God's blessings always show up right on time, never late. He knows the perfect moment to deliver that blessing you've been praying for. Sometimes, it feels like we're waiting, but we're already surrounded by so much goodness.
We have our health, a roof over our heads, food on the table, and our minds are well. We have people who love us, and most importantly, we have God in our lives. We have the incredible gift of salvation. These are blessings we sometimes take for granted, blessings that others long for. Let's be thankful for all of it, rejoicing in God's mercies that are new every morning.
God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:191 reminds us of that. The blessings from God truly enrich our lives and don't come with strings attached. He knows what we need and cares for us deeply.
Be patient. That blessing will arrive when you least expect it. Worship the Lord your God, and he will bless your food and water, and keep you free from sickness (Exodus 23:25). Live a life of obedience to God, and blessings will follow.
For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.
And the king will answer them, ‘I tell you the truth, just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it for me.’
So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.
And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.
Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.
For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”
“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
The group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but everything was held in common.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,
not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.
Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.
It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.
It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,
maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.
For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”
For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,
so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.
“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples – if you have love for one another.”
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.
So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly praying to God for him.
Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.
Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.
You must not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people, but you must love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”
and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,
But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.
Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.
Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.
since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.
Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.
The expert answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.
By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.
In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.
If anyone says “I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.
But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.
And again it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”
And again, “Praise the Lord all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him.”
And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, and the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles, in him will the Gentiles hope.”
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
But I myself am fully convinced about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
But I have written more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve the gospel of God like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.
For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.
But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.
But when you host an elaborate meal, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.
Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian – is not of God.
Rather, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his head.
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Then Peter came to him and said, “Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother who sins against me? As many as seven times?”
Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, I tell you, but seventy-seven times!
How blessed is the one who treats the poor properly! When trouble comes, the Lord delivers him.
And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,
And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,