www.rootedinmessiah.com "Love = keeping His commandments" How many people would argue with this statement? How we define love colors everything we do. When asked what the greatest commandments were, our King Messiah said to love God and our neighbor. To love God itself is a command. Our ability to love (keeping this command) comes from God, who demonstrates the kind of love we are to embrace and embody. Day 48 Area 1 Making it Personal: Your Spirit in me enables me to keep your Torah as You intend. What commandments do I need to understand better today? Area 2 Sharing with another: There are far more than 613 commandments in the whole Bible if we consider all the commands Yeshua and the apostles taught. What are some apostolic commandments that need our attention? Area 3 Sharing it with others: Read together Romans 8 and consider the coming holiday of Shavuot - which is just a few days away. How would you explain the presence of the Spirit of God in your life to a new believer? COUNTING THE OMER Day 48 Journal Questions and Personal Notes 1 John 3:24 And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us. 2 John 1:6 (Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it. 3 John 1:11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.
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"Love = keeping His commandments"
How many people would argue with this statement? How we define love colors everything we do. When asked what the greatest commandments were, our King Messiah said to love God and our neighbor. To love God itself is a command. Our ability to love (keeping this command) comes from God, who demonstrates the kind of love we are to embrace and embody.
Day 48
Area 1
Making it Personal: Your Spirit in me enables me to keep your Torah as You intend. What commandments do I need to understand better today?
Area 2
Sharing with another: There are far more than 613 commandments in the whole Bible if we consider all the commands Yeshua and the apostles taught. What are some apostolic commandments that need our attention?
Area 3
Sharing it with others: Read together Romans 8 and consider the coming holiday of Shavuot - which is just a few days away. How would you explain the presence of the Spirit of God in your life to a new believer?
COUNTING THE OMER
Day 48 Journal Questions and Personal Notes
1 John 3:24 And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us. 2 John 1:6 (Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it. 3 John 1:11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.
Each day, set apart some time to slow down and connect with God. Consider who is discipling you and who you are discipling. Write out your thoughts, reflections and discussions from questions in area 1, 2, and 3 on the front page.
Deuteronomy 13:4 You must follow the LORD your God and revere only him; and you must observe his commandments, obey him, serve him, and remain loyal to him.
