Encouragement

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I Love You

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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Praise the Lord!!!
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. Lk 2:14

Our Father in heaven so loved you, He refused to give up on you when we went astray into condemnation. He made a way of escape to rescue us from the clutches of the sting of death from sin and Satan.

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Rom 8:32

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. Jn 1:14

No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. Jn 1:18

Love refused to allow us to perish, He delivered up Jesus to take away the offenses and to rescue the perishing. God says I love you so I have given you the opportunity to get salvation His Love has provided.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Rom 5:10

Love is described as ...
- An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person.
- A deep or abiding liking for something
- A profound and caring attraction towards someone.
- To have a strong affection for.
- To need, thrive on.
- To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
- To care deeply about, to be dedicated to.

God's Love towards you is to care deeply about you and is dedicated to the total rescue of your spirit, soul and body and He expects a reciprocal deep and an abiding love from you and towards your neighbor.

This Love ...agape..gk, meaning ...affection, ...benevolence, ...dear, ...love., flows from the heart with good judgment and deliberate choice, towards God and neighbor. It is an unconditional love but a deliberate choice of God's love to you even while we were yet sinners.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Rom 5:8

This is distinguished from, ...phileo..gk, meaning love flowing from the mind, that is, to be fond of or have affection for or attachment to or a feeling.

Both love, ...agape..gk, and ...phileo..gk, are needed to help your love's work and demonstrate it the more in your sphere of contact to tell God and neighbor I love you irrespective of the situations or circumstances we find ourselves.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. Col 3:14

Do you love me? Jesus asked Apostle Peter 3 times and He is asking you today the same question. Why? He asked him 3 times to make the concept of Love He is asking about to be made crystal clear before giving him an assignment.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 Jn 4:9-10

We love him, because he first loved us. 1 Jn 4:19

This is because ministering and minstry does not begin with a love for people but the love for God and the atmosphere of that love relationship with Christ Jesus overflows to people.

We need to walk in love towards God and neighbor as a proof of ability of Christ's love in you with a demonstration of love to the brethren and even to your enemies. The bible says ...

Let all your things be done with charity. 1 Cor 16:14

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 neighbour as thyself. Lk 10:27

I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; Php 1:9

The fruit of love born by the renewed spirit flows freely to others even your enemy and it is necessary for everyone born of God to bear it. I love you Jesus, do you?

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 1 Cor 13:4-7

God's love we receive produces in us a free or liberated spirit. If you fail to love then you do not have a free spirit for the work of the ministry. Your spirit must be free for Jesus to uphold you with His free Spirit. With a free spirit, the bible says ...

See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men. 1 Thes 5:15

To demonstrate our faith in this generation, it is by love's work. Jesus says do good and love even your enemy that by your love many will be turned to salvation. To tell others Jesus loves you!!!

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. Gal 6:10

This is love's work because love is good and gives the best gift to God and neighbor.


Be blessed!!

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