It is my understanding that only the Holy Spirit is the only One that can change my heart. Christian friends (and recently a preacher) have been talking about their love walk. I use the idea of taking a "pause" whenever I am upset or irritated. I pray. But Idont understand the love walk--certain people who are regularly in my life make me crazy....especially my husband who is not a believer and is foul mouthed and negative. I don't want to make this about him.... what can I do. Where I can learn more about my love walk and are there any practical things you do? I met a woman, who has been blessed by the Holy Spirit, and she seems very comfortable with the time she has spent "practicing" her love walk. I guess I am stressing because I am trusting God to help me and the Holy Spirit to guide me and my mind says this is nuts. I guess I am just confused...thoughts? how much can I do for myself? practical suggestions? or do I just read my bible, pray and wait.
2006-11-11 00:09:13 · 7 answers · asked by Sweetserenity 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No dear friend you are not crazy or confused.
You just need to slightly readjust your idea of what love is to start to make sense of it.
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Email if you think I can be of any assistance.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2006-11-11 00:22:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure about this walk thing and if God would have us go through a time of trial all our walking won't make the trial disappear. However the Word teaches us that what we think and believe makes a big difference. What we set our mind on impacts our spiritual well being so to speak. So when things are tough we set our mind on Gods promises like to never leave or forsake us, to work all things even trials to our good, that He is the one who brings trials to purify us and to (refine) us like gold. Also if we set our mind on ourselves we see a lot of failure and shortcomings and that our love is weak and that can bring us down but thinking on the perfect work of Christ and that in Him we are already perfect and loved by God, and that God loved us first even while we were yet sinners, and how it is Him who is working in us and has promised to complete that work, these and other proper things to set our minds on lift us up. So if our (love walk) is a proper using of our minds then yes maybe but thinking on the things taught us and promised us in Gods Word is the key.
2006-11-11 00:28:24 · answer #2 · answered by beek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First we must know that we love because God first love us - 1 John 4:19
Second we are told by Jesus to love others as He has loved us - John 15:12.
From these 2 scriptures we know that we must experience the love of God for ourselves before we can love others the way that God loves us.
That is why we are told to know (and experience) the width and length and depth and height of God's love for us - Ep 3:18,19.
Also the Holy Spirit has poured out the love of God in our hearts - Rom 5:5
So we can manifest the God's love is already there in our hearts when we really know and experience God's love for ourselves. Ask the Holy Spirit to show you how much God really loves you. After you know and enjoyed God's love you can then love others with the power of God's love that is in you. I pray that God will show you and let you experience how much He loves you. I wound add that God's love suffers long, is kind, it does not envy, it does not parade itself, it is not puffed up, it does not behave rudely, it does not seek its own, it is not provoked, it thinks no evil, it does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,endures all things. Love never fails. - 1 Cor 13:4-8 (NKJV)
2006-11-11 00:37:05 · answer #3 · answered by seekfind 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love walk is a new phrase to me. You seem to be at a crossroads. You are wanting to do more.....ask God to show you how. You may even want to look into have\ing a bible study to advance your knowledge of the true God Jehovah.
You change your way of thinking ...The Holy Spirit is the force that God sends us to accomplish his will..It is some of Gods power that will help us do the right thing.
2006-11-11 00:34:32 · answer #4 · answered by debbie2243 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
JESUS SAID"I CAME TO SERVE, NOT TO BE SERVED. HELP OTHER PEOPLE AND YOU WILL DEMONSTRATE YOUR CHRISTIAN "WALK" A TREE IS KNOWN BY IT'S FRUIT. YOUR WALK IS WHAT YOU DO TO SHOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST THROUGH YOUR LIFE
2006-11-11 02:50:47 · answer #5 · answered by just wondering 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are different types of love. Most people think only of romantic love, however, there is brotherly love, parental love and principled love. Christian love has nothing to do with romance. It has everything to do with fairness.
2016-03-19 06:24:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bless be to you, sister, as you are with your husband, he is seeing your testimony. I was in your shoes. My husband though still is not as (as he likes to call it) eccentric like me. I am more black and white, right and wrong. He and I don't discuss our faith together because it just ends up in an argument.
I have never heard of a "love walk" but in reference to your husband, just pray for him, sweetie, just pray. Don't argue about faith if it means not sharing your faith. Seek out other women like yourself ina support group. Pray for each other's husbands (pray for mine too :) ) as they pray for yours.
Bless you.
2006-11-11 00:20:59 · answer #7 · answered by newcovenant0 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never heard of the love walk.
2006-11-11 00:13:07 · answer #8 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋