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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 12

Sometimes God doesn’t part the sea. Sometimes He just sits with you. In the verse you’ve read a hundred times, but today it hits different. If your week hasn’t felt holy, if you haven’t journaled, prayed deeply; or read four chapters of the Bible, you’re not failing. You’re still being held.

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 8

What lie do you catch yourself believing?

Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 8

We pick up lies along the way, from culture, childhood, church, and even ourselves.
Some of them sound holy.
Some of them even feel true.
But they are not from God.
These are just a few of the heavy burdens He never asked us to carry.
Let’s lay them down and pick up truth instead.

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 8

When the waters rise up, He stays.
When the fire rages, He covers.
When it all feels like too much, He walks beside you.
Isaiah 43:2 doesn’t promise that hard things won’t come… it promises that you won’t face them alone.

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 8

#Kingdomfirst #faithoverfear #christiandiscipleship #dailydevotional #biblicaltruth #notofthisworld #faithwithlove #christianity #christian

Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 8

Prayer
Jesus, let my heart stay anchored in you. Strip away every idol I’ve built in Your name. Quiet the voices that distract from Your truth. Remind me where my true citizenship lies. Not in a flag or a party, but in Your Kingdom.
Amen

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 8

God doesn’t need us to fight His battles. He calls us to live with discernment, compassion, and unwavering faith, even when the crowd shouts something different.

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 8

Today’s Challenge
Before you repost, repeat, or rally - pause.
Ask:
Does this reflect the heart of Christ? Is this rooted in truth or in fear? Am I more passionate about defending someone’s name than living out Jesus’?

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 8

When we defend harmful words or actions because they come from “our side,” when we elevate worldly leaders above godly character, when we let fear and pride shape our beliefs; we need to pause and ask: Have I traded the Kingdom for a person?

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 8

We weren’t called to build empires. We are called to build the Kingdom.
Jesus doesn’t seek applause.
He didn’t manipulate crowds or play into fear.
He came to serve, to sacrifice, and to speak truth. Even when it cost him everything.

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 8

💭 Reflection
It’s natural to look for leaders who speak with confidence when the world feels uncertain. But when our loyalty to a person or party becomes louder than our loyalty to Christ, we risk drifting from the heart of the gospel.

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 8

Scripture:
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. -Philippians 3:20
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.
-Isaiah 5:20

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 8

🌿 Devotional: Kingdom First

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 5

When laws fall short of Your heart, give me courage to live by a higher law, one written in mercy, truth, and compassion. Remind me that I was once a stranger, and You welcomed me in. Amen.

Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 5

🙏 Prayer
God of justice and grace,
Teach me to walk in obedience to You, not just through rules, but through love. Help me honor authority with humility, while never forgetting Your call to love the stranger.

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 5

🔥 Today’s Challenge
You may not write laws, but you live them. Ask:
Am I seeing others through God’s eyes?
Am I upholding both justice and mercy?
Am I honoring authority without compromising God’s love?

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 5

⚖️ So What About Romans 13?
Yes, we honor laws. But not blindly. When systems harm, exclude, or dehumanize, we follow a higher law: God’s law of love.

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 5

✝️ Jesus and the Higher Law
Jesus didn’t break God’s law, but He challenged manmade rules when they blocked compassion.
He healed on the Sabbath Mark 3, Luke 13, John 9
He touched the “unclean” Mark 1, Mark 5
He welcomed outsiders Luke 5, John 4
He stopped a woman’s stoning, exposing hypocrisy John 8

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 5

In Romans 13, Paul instructs believers to respect governing authorities. But Paul was writing to a persecuted church under Roman rule. His message wasn’t blind obedience; it was a call to live peaceably without abandoning moral conviction.

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 5

💭 Reflection
Scripture calls us to both honor authority and love radically, and those two instructions can feel at odds.

In Leviticus, God commands His people to treat the foreigner with equality. “You were once strangers,” He reminds us. God’s justice is rooted in compassion and memory.

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 5

Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established.
— Romans 13:1

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 5

When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. The stranger shall be to you as the native and you shall love him as yourself; for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:33–34

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jul 5

Devotional: Law, Love, and the Stranger

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Faith with Love @faithwithlove.bsky.social · Jan 29

#FaithWithLove #RadicalCompassion #InclusiveFaith #1Peter48 #LoveLikeJesus #FaithInAction