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B V O V : 3 1 simple trust, healing the sick, miraculous acts, proclamation, distinguishing between spirits, tongues, interpretation of tongues. These are the gifts that make us different from the world. But as awesome as they sound, there is something greater: LOVE! Love is greater because none of these miraculous gifts work without it. First Corinthians 13:1-2 clearly tells us the best, most powerful and important part of living for God is LOVE. It says, "If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love…. If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, 'Jump,' and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing." When we don't walk in love, all the good works we do don't connect people to Jesus. That is the very reason He came to earth and died on the Cross! I have always tried to love like Jesus, but when someone isn't nice to me, the challenge to love them is hard. When I am in a bad mood, impatient or even tired, I can be the one who is unloving. So when Jesus needed me to love, I left people unloved. First Corinthians 13:2 (AMPC) says, "…If I have [suf cient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but have not love (God's love in me) I am nothing (a useless nobody)." I don't want to be a useless nobody to the Lord! I want Him to be able to ow through me to help others. But if I don't love, I am useless to help. I can't love LIKE Jesus, I have to love WITH Jesus! This may sound like the same thing, but what a big difference this little difference makes! Superkids, you have Jesus living inside you, you are ONE with Him. Jesus doesn't HAVE love, He IS love. He is the One who has unfailing love for others. He loves everyone equally and powerfully! All we have to do to love like that is to let Him do the loving through us. That may sound dif cult, but it's easy when you stop trying so hard to love others by yourself. As you love this month, tell the Lord that He is free to love others through you. When you pray for people, let the Lord give you words to pray. As you give the Lord your life to love with, you will nd that praying for people to be healed or helped will ow out of you along with His love. THIS is the new kind of love for a new kind of Superkid! I will kick this love thing off by saying, Jesus and I love you, Superkids! Commander Kellie's Corner B V O V : 3 1 ® Kellie Copeland is responsible for Covenant Partner Relations at Kenneth Copeland Ministries and is the developer of the Superkid Academy curriculum. Through her ministry and as "Commander Kellie," she ful lls the mission of drawing people of all ages into a personal, growing and powerful relationship with Jesus Christ. Launching into a year of exploration in God's kingdom, we received a challenge to be different—to think differently and to expect greater miracles in our everyday lives. We are headed into a different kind of normal. I love the thought of that, don't you? Let's start with a new kind of LOVE! It's easy for us to love people most of the time, but it can sometimes be a challenge. Let me show you what a big deal this is to the Lord, and how love connects with the extraordinary life ahead for us. First Corinthians 13 is known as the Love chapter, but it is also about walking in great glory and power! Chapter 12 talks about the different spiritual gifts: tongues, healing, working of miracles and more. Verses 4-10, The Message, list some awesome powers God plans for us to walk in: God's various gifts are handed out everywhere; but they all originate in God's Spirit. God's various ministries are carried out everywhere; but they all originate in God's Spirit. God's various expressions of power are in action everywhere; but God himself is behind it all. Each person is given something to do that shows who God is: Everyone gets in on it, everyone bene ts. All kinds of things are handed out by the Spirit, and to all kinds of people! The variety is wonderful: wise counsel, clear understanding, Explore: A New Kind of Love SUPERKIDS, WE'RE ONE MONTH INTO 2023. I AM ALREADY EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THE LORD IS DOING IN US!