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Love Does This

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Love takes no delight in doing evil, but always finds reason to celebrate the truth. As we focus on the truth, we can begin to recognize the lies that so easily deceive us. Since loves comes from God, it is always His delight to reveal His goodness in our lives, so that we can live and walk in the truth.

Prayer: Lord Jesus, may you help us to see the love of God in our lives. Let your goodness shine through, so that we can also see the lies that we have believed, and be able to rejoice with the truth. Amen.

What Is The Perfect Gift?

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I believe the perfect gift to give someone, and to receive yourself, is love.

Why love?

1st Corinthians 13: 4-8a tells us why love is the answer.

Love is large and incredibly patient. Love is gentle and consistently kind to all. It refuses to be jealous when blessing comes to someone else. Love does not brag about one’s achievements nor inflate its own importance. Love does not traffic in shame and disrespect, nor selfishly seek its own honor. Love is not easily irritated or quick to take offense. Love joyfully celebrates honesty and finds no delight in what is wrong. Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others. Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up. Love never stops loving. (The Passion Translation)

Love comes from God, and He knows that we are empty without His love. So, that is why I believe that love is the perfect gift to receive for yourself, and then to freely give to others.

Those who are loved by God, let his love continually pour from you to one another, because God is love. Everyone who loves is fathered by God and experiences an intimate knowledge of him. The one who doesn’t love has yet to know God, for God is love. The light of God’s love shined within us when he sent his matchless Son into the world so that we might live through him. This is love: He loved us long before we loved him. It was his love, not ours. He proved it by sending his Son to be the pleasing sacrificial offering to take away our sins. Delightfully loved ones, if he loved us with such tremendous love, then “loving one another” should be our way of life!  ( 1 John 4: 7-11 – The Passion Translation)

Prayer:

Lord Jesus,

Thank you for the gift of receiving and giving love. May you teach us how to receive love, and then to be able to freely give it away. As we embrace and share your love, may it help us to know you better. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen.

The Father’s Love

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Your Heavenly Father loves you so much, that He has given you His one, and only, Son, Jesus Christ.

Your Heavenly Father’s desire is for you to come and believe in His Son so that you will not perish, but rather have eternal life, and this life is found in His Son.

Jesus Christ did not come to judge you, but rather to save you, and to restore you completely into a right relationship with your Heavenly Father.

For there is no other love, like your Father’s love, and He has initiated this love towards you, with the hope that you might choose to be reconciled with Him, through His Son Jesus Christ.

Will you choose today to receive your Father’s love?

Prayer:

Heavenly Father,

I may not fully understand your love for me, and why you would choose to send Jesus on your behalf, but if your love is real, then I would like to receive your love. I want to believe in your Son and to receive eternal life so that I will not perish. Thank you for revealing your love to me, and may your Son, Jesus Christ, help me to know more about you. Amen.

Has Love Found You?

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If you are looking for love, and haven’t found it, then maybe you need to change your strategy?

Before I met my wife, I had been looking for love. Thirty years ago, I was looking for love. I thought it could be found in the accumulation of knowledge, so I went to university, graduated, and felt empty inside. Then, I tried accumulating wealth, by being part of several multi-level marketing companies, but I still came away feeling empty.

Back then, I didn’t know what I know now, that love had been waiting for me. This love was found in a Person, namely Jesus Christ. Love came to me from God, but I was lost, and my eyes were blind, to recognize His love. Fortunately, the Holy Spirit never gave up on me, as He convinced me of the genuine love that Jesus had been waiting to show me.

So, today, if you feel empty on the inside, then stop searching for what doesn’t satisfy the inner desires of your heart. Let love come to you by asking the Holy Spirit to reveal the love of Jesus Christ to you, and let love have His way in you.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator made known through Jesus Christ. (Blaise Pascal)

Prayer:

Lord Jesus,

I give you my permission to let your love come and find me. Give me eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart that will receive your love. Thank you, Lord Jesus, Amen.

Pursued By Love

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I just finished a book called “Why I Am A Christian”, by John Stott, and I was deeply inspired by this book. 

I am personally a believer in Jesus Christ because I was also pursued by God’s love. One of my points of surrender came in 1987 while I was attending university. I had been listening to Chuck Swindoll, and his radio ministry called “Insight For Living”. I became impressed with how much this pastor knew about the Bible, and how he was able to explain it to his audience in simple terms.

Back in 1987, I was living off campus, and I really enjoyed listening to Christian radio. I was well into my second term of university studies when I remember listening to pastor Swindoll’s message one evening. It was on one particular night that things changed for me.

Chuck presented his message, as usual, and at the end of it, he gave people a chance to respond. It was a familiar format for his program, but this particular night was different. While he gave his invitation, it felt like he was speaking directly to me. At that moment, I realize that God was speaking to my own heart. So, I knelt down in my room beside my study table and invited Jesus Christ to come into my life.

God invades our lives in different ways, and He pursues us because He loves us.

If you want to share how God has pursued you with His love, please leave a comment below.

Prayer:

Lord Jesus,

May you continue to pursue us with your love so that we can truly know and appreciate how much you really love us. Thank you! Amen.

Show Us Your Love

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Lord, show us thy love. Make us with all the saints to know the love that passeth knowledge. Lord, show us in Thine own blessed life what it is to abide in Thy love. And the sight shall so win us, that it will be impossible for us one single hour to seek any other life than the life of abiding in Thy love. (Andrew Murray)

The love of God goes beyond our comprehension. With our minds, we may seek to recognize it, but only with our hearts, can we fully comprehend it. This love is beyond any love that a human being can ever imagine. It starts with the Father, is expressed through His Son, and bears witness by the Holy Spirit.

This love comes from Jesus of Nazareth. Anyone who acknowledges Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, can experience this kind of love, for this love comes from the Father, and is expressed through His Son. Therefore, if anyone receives the Son, they also receive the Father’s love. For it is the Father’s delight to make His love known to everyone who receives Jesus.

Prayer:

Heavenly Father,

We are sorry for refusing your love. Your love is so simple that even a child can understand it. It’s not complicated, and its never difficult to receive. It only requires that we ask you, and for us to believe that you want to show us your love. So, we simply ask you to show us your love. Thank you, Father. Amen.