Loving Words are Powerful

 We are all called and destined to serve Jesus. A servant is one who serves. God is love. Anyone who receives God's love and passes it on with practical love is a follower of Jesus and a servant of God.

Practical help without respect and compassion is not love. There is a poisonous compassion without respect and genuine love by looking down on miserable people. Jesus never treated his fellow human beings like this.

No ordained ministry position enables you to serve Jesus and your fellow human beings. Only the love of God can enable you to help people and please God.

Anyone who follows Jesus with love and wants to help people must cultivate loving thoughts in their soul and always speak encouraging words. Words can kill or give life.

Between 1982 and 2000 there was a great revival in Argentina. Christians organised a Jesus march in a large city.

Homosexual activists also came to protest against the Christians.

The leaders of the Jesus March prayed for wisdom from God. Then something amazing happened. The Christians approached the homosexuals and asked for forgiveness for the cruel treatment of homosexuals by many Christians.

The homosexuals felt the true love of God and some converted to Jesus.

I know Christian women in Germany who visited brothels to help prostitutes. Their motivation was compassion and kindness. One prostitute went to the cinema with one of the Christian women. In the middle of a very secular film, the prostitute shouted out loud.

‘Now I believe in Jesus.’

She had heard the kind words of the Christian women that came from the heart and she felt the love of God.

So should we throw away the Bible? By no means, but we must learn to apply the Bible as the words of a loving and merciful God.

If you understand the Bible as a strict law book, you must ask the Holy Spirit to read the Bible with new eyes.

We find truth in the Bible. Greed, sexual debauchery, lies and hatred are forbidden, but in the Bible we see how Jesus loved the thieves and prostitutes and wanted to help them with deep compassion.

A woman had her baby aborted. Then she received a letter from a religious Christian woman. She read that she would end up in hell because of the murder of her baby. This letter did not come from God's heart.

A missionary, preaching with God's love, told the women that they would see their deceased babies again in God's heaven if they believed in Jesus. That was the truth, but not the truth that kills, but the truth that leads to life.

The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences. Pr 18:21 NLT

The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks. Lk 6:45 NRSV

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Ps 139:23–24 NIV