We need to be helped. We need to be saved. Salvation is the help that we need. Salvation comes to us from the Lord. It's His gift to us. It's the gift of His "unfailing love." It's the revelation of His "unfailing love." There's nothing like the love of God. It's the only "unfailing love." When all other loves fail, the Lord's love does not fail. When human love comes to an end, the Lord's love continues. When human love lets us down, the Lord's love lifts us up. We pray to the Lord for salvation. He answers our prayers - because He loves us.
"I am filled with the power of the Lord's Spirit" (Micah 3:8). This is what makes true ministry of God's Word so different from 'prophecy' that doesn't come from the Lord. Without the power of the Lord, there can be no Word from the Lord. We need the Word, and we need the power. "Let's go to the mountain of the Lord ...He will teach us His ways so that we may live by them" (Micah 4:2). We are taught by the Lord so that we might live for Him. Teaching and living - they belong together. We do not learn from God's Word so that we can amass more head-knowledge. We pray for a saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ - a life-changing knowledge that gives us the strength that we need to live for the glory of God.
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