Love is the Mark!!!

Love is the mark of the body of Christ. The maturity we are called to grow to in the Lord by the teaching and admonishing of the Holy Spirit, is to perfect the body in the area of love. We as God’s children are called to love Him, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, our neighbors, the saints in the body, the lost in the world, our enemies, our wives and husbands, our children, and ourselves. In order to be trained how to love so many different people in so many different situations we must allow the processing of the Holy Spirit to take place. Out of faith, hope, and love, love is the greatest according to the word of God. We know that it is impossible to please God without faith, so what does that say about love. If we had all of the spiritual gifts given by God and not love, we have nothing. Love is so vital to our testimony to the world and is the light that shines forth as a beacon for all that are in darkness and wants to come into the light. Operating in love only comes by operating in the spirit. We ourselves cannot love one another the way we ought to once we know the true article of love. Once we step away from our Lord and try to operate in this world in our own power and strength, we find ourselves right back to the same attitudes and frustration we once had while we were in the world. Love is so important to our Father and to please Him we must allow love to be processed and perfected in His will, in all of our lives!!! Have a wonderful life of love on purpose!!!!!

1 John 4

Test the Spirits
1Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
4You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
God's Love and Ours
7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son[b] into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for[c] our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19We love because he first loved us. 20If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.