LoveRevival

The power of love.
(1 Cor 13:13) There are many powers in our world but the greatest of them all is love. The love of God is a mighty working power. No one that comes in its path are able to resist its power. Hardened hearts gets soft, the haughty gets meek and the lost gets found. Nothing of what we do is worth anything if it's not impregnated by love. I think its important to look at what we do and ask why we do it, is it out of love or are we just trying to promote our selves? Love is never focused on "self". (1 Cor 13:5) Love is always aimed at somebody else.

To love our neighbors as we love our selves is more than all the offering we can do.
(Mark 12:33)
Its easy to love our Father since He is so good, merciful, tenderhearted, loving, gracious and faithful. But when it comes to the neighbor who doesn’t even like us and never says hi, we sometimes have a hard time loving him. Can we love someone who is not lovable? Its hard if we never been loved unconditionally our selves. But if we have been touched by our Father’s unconditional love, we are able to love others unconditionally. We can only give what we have received. Hey I’m not talking about: I have to love so and so because the word of God says so. No, I’m talking about a love that flows out of your spirit, it is not your love, it is the Father’s love in you.

As He is so are we in this world (1 John 4:17)

As Jesus is so are we in this world. How many of you would agree with me that Jesus was a love letter written by the Father to a lost, diseased and dying world. Our Father's desire is to form us into image of His Son. He would like to send us as love letters to a world that are hungry and thirsty for unconditional love.

For who He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be the first born among many brethren. (Rom 8:29)


The love of the world VS. The love of the Father.
If we foul around with the world (The lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and pride of life) There is no way the divine love of the Father can abide in us. But if we turn our hearts to the Father we will have his tangible love abiding on the inside of us.

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. -1 John 2:15-


Manifesting the love of God.
People we meet don’t need another sermon, convincing conversation or a great intellectual explanation that God loves them. No they need to see a God filled person manifesting the love of God.

By this all shall know that you are My disciples, if you have love toward one another. -John 13:35-

We are made to be love letters. Love is a sign to the unbeliever that there is a God. Let me give you an example. I was knocking doors here in San Antonio asking questions about peoples faith and religious traditions. (it’s a good way to start a conversation with someone) One day I came to a very rude man who made fun of me and ask me ironically: If you’re a Christian, you can do my lawn. I didn’t get mad but answered back in a polite manner. After some more attempt to make fun of me, the tangible love of God flowed out of me and touch this man who had barked at me for the last couple of minutes. Suddenly he started to cry and repent of his sins and said that God must had sent me there like an angel with a message. Before this point I had not even mentioned anything about Jesus or that God loved him. But still he felt it! Gods presence is filled with love, you see God is love 1 John 4:16. And You are the temple of the Holy Ghost. Halleluja isn’t that great!

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another. God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us. -1 John 4:12-

Written by Jonatan Svensson
www.LoveRevival.com

twistedLinen

Keep it real.... hmm. While its true we need to be true and sincere, when it comes to loving our enemy or the ones we dont like to deal with, it seems like we need to be calm. If i rely on the idea that i should not fake love, then i will show to these irritable people how i hate them, i'd rather not talk to them or even greet them.. But i love endures and love protects relationship, even im the one hurting. I'd rather be silent, i'd rather be keeping my pride away, my feelings to be hurt than not showing love.

dont get me wrong, i got ur idea....

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it is better to be loving than to be right

Theophilus

Sooo many people seeking and needing love has created a market for it. So desparate are so many to be truely loved that the world is marketing it. All kinds of it. Even christianity is in the market place with it. Books upon books written and sold all about love in some manner.
Like the country song says; "looking for love in all the wrong places"
Love is idealized and idolized, shaped, formed, enhanced ,molded and painted and polished and mass produced. It is now bought, sold, displayed, celibrated and traded for a better one. It is contracted, negotiated, justified, neglected and abused.

But what is called love isn't real love, it is just an nother man made immitation. Peices of real love parted out to the world, by the world, because like in parting out of an automobile the value of the peices sold separately is greater (to the world) than the whole.

Mankind has done every thing with it but what God intended.
Give and receive it freely, honestly and sincerely to the fullest of ones capibility.

Love doesn't come from Hallmark nor Brach's. It isn't reveiled in the flesh, but from the heart. It is not bought with money, but given in sacrifice. It isn't to be weighed and compared, but accepted and treasured.
Luk 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

No one can truely love until they have accepted and treasure this love.

Joh 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.


So how deep is your love???

Jeff

I think I listen more than I say. It makes the person feel special and important.

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epistemaniac

after seeing the title to this thread.... I just had to.... this song has been running around in my mind and so here ya go... the amazing thing to me is how easily parts of the song could apply to God...

How Deep Is Your Love
The Bee Gees

I know your eyes in the morning sun
I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
And the moment that you wander far from me
I wanna feel you in my arms again

And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love and then softly leave
And its me you need to show

Chorus:
How deep is your love
I really need to learn
cause were living in a world of fools
Breaking us down
When they all should let us be
We belong to you and me

I believe in you
You know the door to my very soul
Youre the light in my deepest darkest hour
Youre my saviour when I fall
And you may not think
I care for you
When you know down inside
That I really do
And its me you need to show

Chorus:
How deep is your love
I really need to learn
cause were living in a world of fools
Breaking us down
When they all should let us be
We belong to you and me

(ps I hope I do not offend anyone by posting these lyrics... if so just delets the post....)

blessings,
Ken

twistedLinen

i like this part of the song

its ok ken.... i had this song in mind when i started this thread

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epistemaniac

I kinda thought you might have.... but maybe others, who are not quite as cool and hip as we are, are aware of the song.... lol.... so I shared it for others who might not yet be enlightened to the culural phenomenon that was the Bee Gees.... having been in my late teens in the later 70s and early 80's, I went to the local disco (it was for 20 yrs old and under only) every single weekend during the height of the disco boom.... it was great fun I can tell you.... the bee gees, michael jackson, sugar hill gang, blondie, the B52's... aww man... those were the days.... why we even had disco dance in gym class at school!! lol.... that was the one class I never skipped

blessings,
Ken

twistedLinen

ok, im not that hip though, and im just 23.. actually i dont know the song.., i just heard it last last last Sunday from someone
i was just a kid when u were enjoying those days lol..
But i dont go to disco, and im not really in to all kinds of secular music, im more on Christian music..

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epistemaniac

lol.... the same for me now.... no more "clubbing for me.... that was just a super popular song during my high school years and just after I graduated.... it wasn;t long before I though disco was very uncool and I was listening to Judas Priest, Ozzy Osborne, Accept, that kind a thing.... so I wasn't a Christian then by any stretch of the imagination..... but songs stick with you... you know.... I see the lyrics and I can still "hear the song" to this very day.....

blessings,
Ken

epistemaniac

oh... and I was DEFINTELY just joking about the cool/hup thing too lol.... ha!!

blessings,
Ken