06/23/2026
Good Morning Abundant Life Worship Center Family!!!!!! This Is The Day The Lord Has Made Rejoice And Be Glad In It !!!!
Bro Paul and I Pray Blessings Over Each and Every One Of You
Abide In Love With Joy
“”As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
John 15:9-12 NKJV
In order to abide in God’s love and joy remaining in you, you have to be anchored in Christ.
As you know, if you throw out an anchor over in a boat, you’re not going to drift you might go from side to side, but you won’t drift away.
“This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil,”
Hebrews 6:19 NKJV
Abiding in love, requires humbleness and obedience….
“Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
I Peter 5:5-7 NKJV
This rooted joy that you have from abiding in Christ is different from circumstantial happiness ……
It is a fruit of the Spirit tied to the unchanging promises of salvation and future glory. Reflecting on these truths provides strength in seasons of hardship.
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.”
Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV
Then there’s that gratitude thing we should have gratitude, no matter what the circumstances and be grateful and joyful and abide and obey. It all comes with being God‘s child.
“And we urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves. Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all. See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.”
I Thessalonians 5:12-22 NKJV
We have to saturate ourselves with scripture ,meditate ,fast and pray.
We need to make time to have that bonding relationship with Christ that were anchored and we’re grounded and we’re rooted and we’re ready to serve!!!!!
OK, I’m gonna say that again for those in the back that did not hear me the first time…..READY TO SERVE !!!!!!!!
It seems like service is the last thing on people‘s mind. They want to be served, but they do not want to serve, and that is part of being a child of God a very big part.
Servitude is something that should be part of our every minute to minute life here on earth !!!!
“Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?” Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.” Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.” Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.” For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.” So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.”
John 13:1-17 NKJV
And Remember Family God Loves You Love God And Love Somebody!