Unbreakable Love

Romans 8:38-39 (The Message)

^31-39So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God's chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We're sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I'm absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.

Practice What we Preach

[1John 3v18 tmb]
"When We Practice Real Love"
My dear children, let's not just talk about love; let's practice real love. This is the only way we'll know we're truly, living in God's reality.

Love should not just be "talk" Love should be what we do daily, it should be an "action". We should practice walking in Love with our spouses, our children, our parents, co-workers, managers, customers, clients, other drivers on the road, etc. And if we do this, we'll know that we are actually living a God reality.

Amen.

What Love Looks Like

What does Love look like? What does God look like? God looks like Love. God 'is' Love. They are both one and the same.

Simplified: GOD = LOVE = GOD.

No if, and's, or buts.

Characteristics of the Love of God:

1 Corinthians 13:4 (The Message) >>

^3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

1 Corinthians 14:1 >> Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does.

It may seem like an impossible task to live up to the above, but it's not about making sure that you follow it to a tee. It is there as an example of what we should strive for, what we should be asking God to help us with.

It is a perfect example of what God looks like, of how he is with us. It is unconditional.

So when we are with our families & our children start driving us up the walls, or when you have a disagreement with your spouse, or you get reprimanded at work for something that you did not do, or even when your brother or sister in Christ starts getting funky with you for no apparent reason... Just think about the scripture above - the Love Scripture... and practice walking it out. Walk it out in Faith.

To Know Him is to Love Him...

... and to Love everyone else as well.

1 John 4:8 (The Message)

God Is Love

^7-10My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can't know him if you don't love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.

If asked to paint or draw a picture of your 'LOVE' life, what would that look like? What does it look like when YOU walk in Love? Do you forgive or do you hold grudges? We all know now that Forgiveness is the same thing as Love.

We all Love God - at least that's what we all claim. We all want to know Him more and grow in Him more, but we cannot if we don't practice Love.

Let us continue to Love one another the way that God Loves. Purpose 'today' that you are going to walk in Love with everyone - and that includes people that you may not like or get along with. Choose to Love, and in that you Honor God, you give him Glory.

Love them because God loves them. Love them because they once were you. Love them because they need it. Love them because you Love God.

Amen.

THINK: "Unfailing Love"

"Unfailing Love"

When you think about the Love that you have towards others, what comes to your mind?

Read:
[1 Peter 4v8 AMP] >>>
Above all things, have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of Sins.

Comment below and let us know what's on your Heart!