OUR FATHER WHO GIVES INCENTIVES TO WALK IN LOVE

Philemon chapter 1 verse 7 says this;

Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord’s people.

The apostle Paul, writing from prison to his friend Philemon, lauds him for the love he had shown to other believers and also for his faith in the Lord Jesus.

Paul tells Philemon that hearing of this love had filled him with joy and encouragement because this love had refreshed the hearts of the Lord's people.

The gift that Paul gave to Philemon for the love shown to the people of God was to pray for him so that his activities would give him access to  a deeper understanding of the things that Paul was doing for the sake of Christ.

This means that demonstrating the love of  God to the people of God so as to refresh and revive them, is a channel of gaining deeper revelations of the goods things that shared for the sake of Christ.

Amen.