April 27, 2024 PORTALS OF PRAYER READINGS
1 John 4
Test the Spirits
4 Beloved,
do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from
God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit
that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is
not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming
and now is in the world already. 4 Little
children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is
greater than he who is in the world. 5 They
are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens
to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever
knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this
we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
God Is Love
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for
love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God,
because God is love. 9 In this the love
of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world,
so that we might live through him. 10 In
this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son
to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved,
if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No
one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is
perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in him and
he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And
we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of
the world. 15 Whoever confesses that
Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love
that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and
God abides in him. 17 By this is love
perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment,
because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There
is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with
punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his
brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen
cannot[a] love God
whom he has not seen. 21 And this
commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Footnotes
- 1 John 4:20 Some
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Psalm 63:1-5
My Soul Thirsts for You
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
63 O God, you
are my God; earnestly I seek you;
my
soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as
in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
2 So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
beholding
your power and glory.
3 Because your steadfast love is better than
life,
my
lips will praise you.
4 So I will bless you as long as I live;
in
your name I will lift up my hands.
5 My soul will be satisfied as
with fat and rich food,
and
my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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