Faith works by love

 Unfailing faith expresses itself in love towards others. Perhaps you are believing God for the fulfilment of certain promises you saw in the Bible like healing, deliverance or supply of finances but  breakthroughs are not coming forth. I suggest you check your love walk first before looking for other possible reasons.
Brethren and sistren, accept the biblical fact that love is preeminent. Scriptures cannot be broken, if you are going to be successful in walking by faith then you cannot ignore the overarching principle of expressing your faith in love always.
You cannot believe God for the healing of your body while harbouring bitterness in your heart. The combination of faith and bitterness is wrong for the result you desire. Faith and bitterness repel and cancel each other. If you want to enjoy the rich graces of the Christian life you must grow in love towards your human enemies, offenders, persecutors and opposers. Relating well with others is an essential prerequisite to the fulfilment of your goals. How is this so? In God’s kingdom love is preeminent.
One essential element of love is meekness. Most people think that meekness means the same as weakness. Nothing is further from the truth. Meekness refers to the passive virtue that manifests itself in gentleness, mildness and humbleness. It involves accepting others’ opinions and actions without argument.
A meek and quiet spirit is uncomplaining, non-resistant, non-retaliatory. It is a forgiving, forbearing, loving and gentle spirit. A meek spirit seeks not the consuming of opposers with fire as the two disciples of Jesus namely James and John suggested when Jesus faced fierce rejection and opposition. It is a spirit that seeks to save and not to destroy. Meekness does not seek to revenge. It goes contrary to the old law that says an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Peter had not learnt it yet when he pierced off the ear of one of Jesus’ revilers. Jesus gently advised him not to fight back but to commit everything into the hands of God. Later on having matured in the sweet spirit of meekness Peter wrote, “Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing” (1 Peter 3:9).
Did you hear that? Walking in love towards those who persecute you and praying for those who curse you is a divine calling that has a blessing attached to it. You inherit a blessing only when you overcome evil with good. But is it possible to love your enemies, to pray for your persecutors and to bless those who curse you? Humanly speaking, it is impossible.
 But with God all things are possible. Meekness is not a human quality, it is a divine quality. Galatians chapter five includes it on the list of the nine-fold fruit of the Holy Spirit. Meekness or gentleness is a fruit produced in the human spirit by the working of God’s Spirit in our lives.
It takes much suffering on the part of the believer for this sweet virtue to be matured in us by God’s Spirit. Naturally, fruits do not just appear, the trees require delicate pruning, regular watering and manuring.
Spiritually, the believer must surrender his claim to his own rights. He must deny self. He must learn to commit his cause into the hands of God and not to fight back. He must learn to wait for God’s time. He must learn to do everything God’s way.
 The meekest person who ever lived on earth, Moses, had the spirit of meekness produced in him through much suffering. Initially, he was very wilful, aggressive and revengeful. Moses killed an Egyptian in revenge to the killing of his Hebrew fellow. God took him into the desert to learn meekness and to wait for God’s timing. It was from the forty -year desert experience that he came back meek and gentle. Jesus learned obedience, meekness and humility through what he suffered. Apostle Paul learnt meekness and humility through much suffering. Peter learnt it through dismal failure.
If you have a fighting attitude, a striving spirit and revengeful mindset, watch out that may be the reason you are going through much suffering. God wants to discipline your spirit until you learn to walk in meekness, forgive others and to let God fight for you instead of doing it yourself. 
– Pastor Mairos Mubvumbi is the founding pastor of Hope In Christ Ministries. You can send your prayer request to him on 0772889766 or mairos78@yahoo.co.uk