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God is Love - 14

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.  
-Saint Augustine

In this world, we are often seeking love, whether it's the bond of close family members, bosom friendships, or romantic love. We long to be loved and to know love. When the Bible says God IS love, we must realize that love is not just a character trait of God, it is His very being. If we want to know what love looks like, we have to look to God. His love for us very simply is stated in John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life." In romantic novels or movies, we hear quotes about how love conquers all, or love is the answer, etc. There is truth there - we were created with a longing to be loved and it can only be met by the unconditional love of our Creator.


Worship the God who IS love

Lord, I am amazed that there is nothing, absolutely nothing that could separate me from your great love. I am eternally grateful today that Your love is greater than sickness and death, Your love is stronger than evil forces, Your love will endure beyond time, Your love will overcome anything I face in this life.


Romans 8:38-29

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Appropriate the truth of scripture as you grow in your walk of faith

Lord, today I pray that You would strengthen me with Your power in my inner being, through the presence of the Holy Spirit in my life. May I be rooted deeply in love so that no wind can topple me. Pour our the fullness of Your love upon me so that I might be able to comprehend that Your love is higher than I could ever reach, deeper than the darkest moments in my life, stretching far and wide across the whole world. Oh, to be overwhelmed by the immeasurable extent of Your great love!


Ephesians 3:14 - 21

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family[c] in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.


Light - Walk in the light by openly confessing your sins and need for God

Father, I want to love others the way You have loved me.  May I learn to imitate Your unconditional love in my interactions with people at work, at home, in my life.  

1 John 4:7-12

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.


Know Him more and more as you spend time with Him daily

Lord, I want to know You more and to be satisfied in Your love for me!


Romans 5:6-8

 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 


Lord, this kind of love, the love of which I am so undeserving, is beyond my understanding. I am in awe of how You love.


Prayers for others today:

S - Missions

M - Family

T - Church and Friends

W - Work

Th - Community

F - World affairs

Sat - Self


Blessings on your day,

Heather


P.S. If you just jumped into this blog post, you can read the first post explaining how to walk with God through your prayer life and the first day of praying through scripture here.

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