Walking in love is good for your health. It’s true! Medical science has proven it. Researchers have discovered that hostility produces stress that causes ulcers, tension headaches and a host of other ills.
Now when you think of hostility, you may think of the type of anger you feel when something serious happens. According to the experts, that kind of thing isn’t what causes the worst problems.
It’s the little things (when the dry cleaners ruin your favorite outfit, for example, or when the cafeteria lady puts gravy on your mashed potatoes after you’ve specifically told her not to.)
Just think how much stress you could avoid by being quick to forgive, by living your life according to I Corinthians 13,
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. . .”
And if you don’t count up the evils done to you, imagine physical and emotional benefits of living like that!
Have you allowed yourself to be habitually bound by hostility? As a born-again believer, you have the love of God inside of you. If you’ll yield to that love, it will set you free.
Remember when Jesus called Lazarus forth from the grave? He was alive but still bound in the grave clothes. Jesus commanded the bindings to be loosed so that Lazarus could be free to walk.
Jesus wants that same kind of freedom for you. So get into agreement with Him. Say that those deadly habits that have you bound what do you do?
Pray, “In the name of Jesus, loose me and let me go. I’m putting hostility, un-forgiveness and selfishness behind me. I’m going on with God. I’m going to live the life of love.”
It doesn’t take a medical miracle to turn your life around. All it takes is a decision to yield to the force of God’s love. However, you need God’s power to love.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8
There is a story of a shoe salesman until God moved him into a full-time preaching ministry, often in the streets of Chicago.
There came a point in his journey with God that he realized he needed more in his life than what he was experiencing.
At the close of a Sabbath evening services two holy women said to him, ‘We have been praying for you.’ The man said, ‘Why don’t you pray for the people?’ They answered, ‘You need power.’
The man said, ‘I need power, why?’ He thought he had power. The man had a large Sabbath school and the largest congregation in Chicago.
He was in a sense satisfied. But then came these two godly women who prayed for him and their earnest talk about “the anointing for special service” set him thinking.
The two women poured out their hearts, that the man might receive the anointing of the Holy Ghost to love people as God loves them.
