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How To Love Your Enemies?
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Try to forgive, and pray for, and love your enemies!
13 Bible Verses About How To Love Your Enemies!
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Praying for my “enemies” actually frees me from them, putting them in God’s Hands! Oh, how important it is to love your enemies! It may seem easy at times, but trust me when I say there is so much power in choosing to love those who mistreat us. When we respond with anger or hatred towards someone who has wronged us, what good does that do? It only adds fuel to the fire, causing more pain and suffering.
Let Me Ask You… Do You Love Your Enemies? Something Very Beautiful Happens When We Choose To Show Love Instead Of Hate ~ Whether With Kind Words, Forgiveness, Or Prayer. We Open Up The Door For Healing, Reconciliation, And Transformation. Isn’t Love All That We Want Deep Down Inside?
- Matthew 5:43-44 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
How To Love Someone You Don’t Like?
Have You Ever Loved An Enemy?
To live in a world where people treat each other with kindness and respect? So, let’s take Martin Luther King Jr.’s wise words to heart and be willing to be agents of change by loving our enemies. I like Martin Luther King Jr.’s statement, “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” Who knows? Maybe one day they will become our friends! If each of us did our part in loving our enemies, this world would be a much better place! ~ Bill Greguska
What does it mean to pray for your enemies?
How should we treat our enemies according to Proverbs 25:21–22?
Is it possible to love a person without liking that person?
Where did “love your neighbor and hate your enemy” come from Matthew 5:43)?
Father, Forgive Them, For They Know Not What They Do!
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God’s Love!
God’s kind of love is an action, not a feeling. That is good news because it means we can love people we do not necessarily feel good about. You can love people toward whom you have no feelings at all. Since love is an action, you can obey God’s command to love everyone.
First Corinthians 13 is a good place to look for a practical description of love. A few of these are:
Patience: When you act with patience toward someone, you love them. Love is not a feeling, so we don’t have to feel patient. Can you remember acting with patience even when you did not feel patient? That is agape love.
Kindness: When you feel like saying something sarcastic, cutting, or angry, but instead choose to say something kind, that is a loving act.
Not Jealous: When you refuse to behave jealously or possessively, you show love.
Has Good Manners: Just plain courtesy is a loving action. How often do we forget good manners, like not interrupting others when they’re talking, letting others go ahead of us, etc.? Those are loving actions.
Imitating God’s Love Ought To Be Our Goal!
Unselfish: Agape love acts unselfishly without pursuing selfish advantage or trampling over others to get where it wants to go. Remember, you don’t have to feel unselfish; you only have to act unselfish.
Endurance: When others have given up and left, agape love will still hang in with someone. It will endure all things. It will keep listening to someone, even when you think you cannot hear another word from that person.
These are just a few of the many loving actions available to us. Others include gentleness, compassion, tolerance, etc.
God’s love for us is not based on his feelings about us. He may be, and I’m sure often is, very displeased with us as individuals, yet his love and his goodness toward us are constant. Therefore, he does not require us to have good feelings toward everyone, but rather to act in love toward everyone.
Write it on a piece of paper and tape it to your mirror, your desk, over your sink, or your screen saver—wherever you will see it often: Love is not a feeling; love is an action!
Here Are Some Helpful Links:
- Did Jesus mean something specific when He instructed us to turn the other cheek?
- How can I love my neighbor as I love myself?
- What does the Bible say about love?
- Why would Jesus say we should hate our father and mother (Luke 14:26)?
- Why is loving others often so tricky sometimes?
James 1:19-20 My dear
brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
When Have You Loved Your Enemies?
Loving your enemies can be described in many ways. It can be forgiveness, not allowing another person’s skin color to make a difference, not letting slander come out of your mouth towards them, or allowing hatred to reside in your heart. Love your enemies is uncommon because many people today think about hating one another. You cannot control other people, but you can control how you feel and act when you love your enemies. Jesus spoke about loving one another and forgiving one another. Realize that God commands us to love our enemies, but it can be tricky. We all need to forgive and love others, yet forgiveness and trust differ.
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How To Love Our Enemies: Love Wins Over Hate!
It may seem strange to love your enemies, but it is a command from God. There are people in my life whom I have found it difficult to like at times. Sometimes, getting along with others who rub us the wrong way is hard. What benefit is it to love those who love you? Anyone can do that, but to love your enemies takes special love and strength. The real test of love is to love those who are challenging to love and those who might consider you their enemy. ~ Bill Greguska
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Love Your Enemies Because God Loves Them!
How To Love Unbelievers!
Loving unbelievers is a different story, but not one we are unfamiliar with, for we were unbelievers and enslaved people to the flesh at one point. Interacting with all unbelievers can be summed up by Colossians: “Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so you may know how you answer each person.” (Colossians 4:5-6) Show them kindness when you speak with them and be attractive (not physically).
When you talk, attract them to Jesus. Make them wonder why you have joy. One of the best ways to love your enemies is to make them your friends! But without God’s help, this is nearly impossible!
How To Love Our Enemies?
We are called to pray for those who persecute us! Here are a few verses that show us how to act toward our enemies.
Matthew 5:43-48 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Become Free By Forgiving Others Who Have Offended You!
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Why Is It Sometimes So Difficult To Love Others?
Many people seem to be just hard to get along with! I am sure you know many people who are like that. Some people’s personalities and attitudes tend to rub us the wrong way. I sincerely encourage you to stop making a list of people you do not like or do not get along with and start loving them with God’s help.
God teaches us to love our enemies and do good to those who do us wrong. It says in Romans 12:19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the Lord.
Where Does God’s Kind Of Love Lead You?
God’s love makes the Great Commission a personal responsibility and privilege. When non-Christians observe believers not only saying they love one another but also proving it through their actions, they will be amazed by how much they love one another and will be drawn to receive and worship our Savior with us.
Why not make this prayer your own: “Lord, You would never have commanded me to love had You not intended to enable me to do so. Therefore, right now, because of the authority of Your commands for me to love and because of the power of Your promise to answer if I ask anything according to Your will, I claim Your love, the 1 Corinthians 13 kind of love, for You, for all people, and myself. Amen.
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God Has Forgiven You, So You Must Forgive Others!
Understand and thank God you are a child of God, and all your past, present, and even future sins are forgiven. Thank God that Satan has no control over you unless God has allowed it. Remember to cast our problems and worries onto the Lord, as we are told in 1 Peter 5:7.
Do you have a boss, co-worker, spouse, children, father, or mother on the list of those you need extra effort to love? Start by praying for each person. Ask the Holy Spirit to fill you with the love of Jesus for each of them. Then, when you get an opportunity to meet with them, ask God to fill you with his compassion so you can be a blessing to them. Watch God use your smile, words, and patience to express His love for each person.
As believers, we have been instructed to love our enemies. That could mean everyone who angers, ignores, bores, or frustrates you. God wants you to love those who are kind to you and all people in your life, period, as far as it depends on you. Remember, you can not make others be at peace with you if they choose not to.
How Can You Learn To Love Others?
Some Specific Scriptures To Encourage You:
Romans 12:14 ESV
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
Proverbs 24:17 ESV
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,
Romans 12:20 ESV
To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Proverbs 16:7 ESV
When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
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