Shalom,


Today we have Psalm 22, also called "The Psalm of the Cross". Psalm 22 begins with "My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?" and ends with "[that it is finished]!" in the Amplified Bible. Re-read this Psalm with all of this in mind and allow the Holy Spirit to make it come alive to YOU! He did it ALL for YOU! Here is a very early song from Hillsong called "Jesus, You Gave It All":

Matthew 22:37-40 is Jesus' reply to a lawyer trying to test Him!


37 And He replied to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect). 38 This is the (most important, principal) and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself. 40 These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the law and the Prophets.


As born again believers, these are STILL the two most important things that we can do! Love HIM with everything within you, and then allow THAT love to flow from you to others! That's a REAL love-life, and it never fails (1 Corinthians 13:8)!


In 1 Kings 19, after Elijah's great victory over the prophets of baal, we now find him running from a woman! Jezebel threatens him and he runs 80 miles away! This REALLY brings alive James 5:17a: 


17 Elijah was as human as we are" (NLT).


Do YOU think that you wouldn't have run away? What Elijah did to the prophets of baal, he did under the Anointing of God. What he did after Jezebel's threat, he did as a human being who was NOT born again and filled with the Spirit! Thank You, Jesus, for the priceless privilege of being alive on earth NOW! AMEN!


Shalom in Him!