MFM Devotional 24 July 2025 – Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

July 24, 2025 OLAOLUWA AYOMIDE

Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional 24 July 2025 By Dr. D.K Olukoya — Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

TOPIC: Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Chronicles 11:1-13:22, Romans 8:26-39, Psalm 18:17-50, Proverbs 19:27-29

FIRE SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 19:9-18 (KJV)

9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.

11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord.

15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor; I am the Lord.

17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.

18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the Lord.

MEMORY VERSE: “And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.” – Luke 10:27 (KJV)

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES:
Love covers multitude of sins.

PRAISE AND WORSHIP:
Take praise and worship songs as led by the Holy Spirit.

MFM Devotional For Today 2025 MESSAGE:

How deeply and genuinely a man loves is an indication of the depth of his relationship with God. Where there is no love, there is no God. When Jesus told the lawyer (and by extension us) to love the Lord God with all his heart, all his soul, all his strength and all his mind and his neighbor as himself, he quoted Deuteronomy 6:5. He added that on these two laws depends the law and the prophet (The Old Testament).

Man’s failure to obey this foremost commandment has birthed insurgency, marital infidelity, corruption, blackmail, war and several other vices. It is not surprising that a loveless world is also godless. This commandment is the divine prescription for social injustice and other ills like self-centeredness and covetousness that are prevalent in different societies today.

As our text reveals, for Jesus, to love your neighbor as you love yourself is to practice justice towards your fellow human beings: do not defraud or rob your neighbor (Leviticus 19:13). Do not oppress, rob or exploit the poor by paying unfair wages (Leviticus 19:13). Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind (Leviticus 19:14). Do not be partial to the poor or show favor to the great but judge honestly (Leviticus 19:15), do not commit financial fraud (Leviticus 19:16), do not hate your brother (Leviticus 19:17), do not seek revenge or hold a grudge but extend forgiveness (Leviticus 19:18).

Previous Devotional

Many people claim to love God, but hate their brother or sister or neighbor. Their claim is false. When you have God’s love in your heart, you will also love your brother, sister and neighbor. Apostle John clarified this in 1 John 4:20-21: “If a man says, I love God and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And his commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also”.

Let us understand Jesus’ message in the golden rule. We must first succeed in loving God for us to succeed in loving our brother, sister and neighbor. Therefore, I advise you to strengthen your relationship with God and receive grace to love others. As someone rightly observed, the farther man goes away from God, the more unloving, selfish and uncaring, he will become. Conversely, when you draw closer to God and improve your fellowship with Him, your love for Him will increase, and you will have more grace to love others even those that seem unlovable. Loving others is the work of grace. Ask God for it and he will provide it.

PRAYER POINTS

MORNING

Holy Spirit, enable me to love God and my neighbor in God’s way, in the name of Jesus.
O God, let my life draw my neighbors to serve You, in the name of Jesus.
O God, make me a blessing to my neighbors, in the name of Jesus.

EVENING

Father, forgive me of all unloving attitudes I have demonstrated towards You and my neighbors, in the name of Jesus.
⁠Father, give me the wisdom to relate well with difficult neighbors and win them for You, in the name of Jesus.
⁠Father, give me the grace to preach to unbelieving neighbors and win them for You, in the name of Jesus.
⁠Father, make me a shining light in my neighborhood, in the name of Jesus.