Blessings of Love

God blesses us with LOVE and the blessings of love flows through us to others. Without Christ, we are nothing. Along with love and under the control of the Holy Spirit, the power of love and Holy Spirit flows through us. The only way the spiritual gifts are going to operate is love. Love is the key. God is love. He gave us two commandments. We are to love God and others. With the Holy Spirit and love, I will walk in the Spirit, Christ produces the fruit. 1 Corinthians 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Timothy 1:5 The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Ephesians 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love. Colossians 1:5 the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel. 1 Thessalonians 1:3 We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Timothy 1:14 The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

WoF's doctrine of faith...blame game

God didn't fail. Tammy didn't fail. God has a plan. His plans for each one of us according to HIS WILL are never wrong. WoF just like to blame someone, so to them, God is never the blame, therefore those who are sick are the blame. The blame game have been going on since Adam and Eve. Sickness and disability touch so many of us that we cannot avoid the issue. "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Their temporal habit of seeking the weak by blaming others' unfavorable circumstances are sinful. Christians suffer for many reasons, sometimes through no fault of their own. A Christian will experience a normal amount of suffering as part of human existence. WoF's doctrines basically magnifies the faults of those who are suffering and diminishes their graces, while they promote their doctrines of faith.

Faith is A GIFT from God

If we look at Ephesians 2:8 "that FAITH is a gift from God. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God" This is why this should be between the believer and God. Faith itself is not works because the Holy Spirit is the generator of works which is obedience and love with the gift of faith. In 2 Peter, Chapter 1, verses 5 through 9: "make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins. Faith is a gift from God..... by using the gift (faith) and with the help from the Holy Spirit, we are to add to our faith. This also goes with Galatians 5:22-23 "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." God has given us the grace to sanctify us and Grace of heart is a gift from God to live in Faith. Faith is not earned but rather a gift to add to your faith list in 1st Peter. Grace is having all sufficiency in everything we may have an abundance for every good deed. If we think of it as consisting merely in someone teachings about "works" that are contradictory, we will miss Jesus' main point. Ephesians 2:10 "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Faith itself is not in our works because the Holy Spirit is the generator of our works which is obedience. Faith produces obedience (works). Faith in God is being is expressed in doing which is obedience.

The World

For God love the "people" that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. The world (not people) represents temptations and covet. The world of life puts on a big show for other people that a person to impress people. 1 Peter 2:11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. 2 Peter 1:4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. "A selfish desire for happiness is as sinful as any other selfish desire. Its root is in the flesh which can never have any standing before God." A.W. Tozer (The Price of Neglect) Page 36 Spiritual wealth is this: 1 John 2:17 The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.