love.

(side note. I am no scholar but just a lovesick daughter learning more and more about my Father in heaven. I do not know how much is theologically correct, but I am not trying to be. My heart is to discover what true life is through simple revelations God gives me. Maybe one day I might be more scholarly sounding, but today, I am not.)

Gal. 5:6 "What is important is faith expressed in love."
------> If it is not, then is it really faith?
1 Cor. 13: 1,2 "If I could speak in all the languages of earth and of angels, but did not love others, I would be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if i understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had faith that I could move mountains, but did not love others, I would be nothing."
------> So, if i do not express my faith with love, then it says I am nothing. My faith is worthless. Faith has to be rooted and established in love.

The reason why I say this is because as Christians, we ask for power and authority to be bold or witness or other such things God has indeed called us to do. We might have faith that God can do this, but we wonder why we do not see the manifestation of His power more often. Why is that? I have reason to believe that is our lack of love, especially the church in America. One moment we are back biting our "friends" and speaking down on them; the next we are praying for healing, miracles, or deliverance of some sort. Why would God want to pay attention to such prayers mixed with bitterness and slander? (I am guilty as anyone. Also, I am not saying God does not listen to our prayers because of our sin. He loves us so much and he understands we are just humans. He knows our love is small, yet He cherishes any amount of it. He sees us... Every glance towards Him moves His heart.)
We lack the very foundational element of Christianity at its roots-- love.
We as Christians need to throw away our bitterness and anger and learn to forgive one another just as Christ forgave us (Eph. 4:31, 32). If we really want to start seeing supernatural acts of God, then we need to love one another.
Love separates us from the rest of the world.
1 Cor. 13:4-7 "Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance."