The Cure For Lovelessness

FRIDAY 2^ND MAY 2025

TOPIC: THE CURE FOR LOVELESSNESS

 SCRIPTURE: This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy. 2Timothy3:1

 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: It is the bankruptcy of love that drives wickedness.

According to our anchor Scripture, the end time is characterized by the shortage or bankruptcy of love. It will interest you to know that the number one challenge of the earth today is that love is in short supply. The killer is killing because he does not love his victims. The same thing applies to the rapist. The fraudulent government official or politician is fraudulent and wicked because he does not love the people (Romans 13:9-10).

Sometime ago, a young man told me a story of how he accommodated a National Youth Service Corps member who was stranded upon being posted to the town where he lived. This young man was working in a hospital; he was already established. The youth corps member stayed with him for about three days. One day, the youth corps member told him, “I am a wizard.” The young man said he was shocked. The young wizard told him, “Don’t be afraid. I don’t want to hurt you. You have been so good to me. You gave me accommodation free of charge. I want you to also acquire this power.”  The young wizard went further to disclose that it was his father, a major wizard that initiated him into witchcraft. Now, this was the challenge: this benevolent young man said that at the time of this event he was suffering so many setbacks even though he was a professional; things were not working, and here was someone giving him a chance of becoming a wizard with power. What a temptation!

The wizard encouraged him to join them, telling him that people would not be able to harm him anymore if he became a wizard like him. So, the kind-hearted young man said, “Okay, but is there any negative?” The wizard said, ‘NO’! So, the young man decided to give it a try.

The young wizard took his name to his father, the old wizard, for initiation. Now, the father searched the kind young man spiritually, and made a striking statement, telling his son: “I have seen the young man, I have searched his heart, but he is not wicked enough. His heart is too soft for witchcraft.” That was the end of the journey for the young wizard’s attempt to initiate the kind young man into witchcraft. The kind young man was trepidatious while narrating the story to me. So, you can see that there are people with inherent and resident wickedness.

Beloved, do you see the qualification for witchcraft? So, anyone who derives pleasure in wickedness is inviting automatic initiation into witchcraft. It is the bankruptcy of love that drives wickedness, and wickedness is the foundation for witchcraft.

Now, what is the cure for lovelessness?

1. Godliness through times spent in God’s Presence and in His Word. Time spent in the presence of God makes you acquire the nature of God (Proverbs 13:20).
2. Contentment with what God has provided. Godliness with contentment is great gain (1Timothy 6:6). This delivers you from envy.

• The conscious decision to work in forgiveness. And if it becomes very difficult, you can apply for the grace.

1. The death of self (flesh) and evil passion. It is coming to a point where you say, any tendency in me that wants me to get things at the injury of others, Father, kill it from my life (Matthew 7:12, Philippians 2:1-4).
2. Rejecting the grips of wickedness by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit softens our heart (Ezekiel 11:19-20). And the Holy Spirit saturates our heart with the love of God (Romans 5:5).

Remember this: It is the bankruptcy of love that drives wickedness.

ASSIGNMENT (S):

1. Ask the Holy Spirit to fill your heart with the love of God.
2. Deliberately and intentionally practice forgiveness.
3. Love liberally but relate selectively.

1. PRAYER: Lord, I receive grace to forgive. I choose to walk in love. I cannot work in bitterness. Holy Spirit fill my heart with the Love of God, Lord in Jesus’ Name.

FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: THE PLAGUE OF LOVELESSNESS

 DAILY BIBLE READING: Job 22-24

 QUOTE: When a person carries the nature or image of the devil in the likeness of bitterness, satan can lay claim on the life of such an individual. Culled from the Book, AM I BITTER? By Dr (Mrs) Becky Paul-Enenche.

AMAZING FACT: Lions have a strong sense of smell and can detect prey from miles away.

PROPHETIC DECLARATION/WORD: May the love of God saturate your heart afresh by the agency of the Holy Spirit in Jesus Name.