OH
FOR THE LOVE
BREAD
8 Love
never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:8 (NIV)
11 This
is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 1 John 3:11 (NIV)
16 This
is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we
ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 17 If anyone has material
possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the
love of God be in him? 18 Dear
children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:16-18 (NIV)
7 Dear
friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves
has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God
is love. 9 This
is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the
world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved
us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so
loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but
if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1 John 4:7-12 (NIV)
6 You
see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the
ungodly. 7 Very
rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might
possibly dare to die. 8 But
God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-8 (NIV)
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 (NIV)
5 But if
anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we
know we are in him: 6 Whoever
claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. 1 John 2:4-6 (NIV)
BUTTER
“I
love Him because He first loved me. His
goodness and mercy and compassion to me are new every day. And my assurance is lodged in these aspects
of His character. My trust is in His
love for me as His own. My serenity has
as its basis an implicit, unshakable reliance on His ability to do the right
thing, the best thing in any given situation.
This to me is the supreme portrait of my Shepherd. Continually there flows out to me His
goodness and His mercy, which even though I do not deserve them, come
unremittingly from their source of supply – His own great heart of love.” Phillip Keller
“The principle of
sacrifice is that we choose to do or to suffer what apart from our love we
should not choose to do or suffer.” William Temple
“There is something contagious about a heart of love. People who are selfless with their love can make giant waves in this world where those who cling to selfish desires cause only ripples. In fact, those who have hearts of love view the people around them as being most important. A heart that bears the marks of God's intimate love is not a selfish heart. When we look directly into God's heart of love, we are transformed forever. The selfish desires that once dominated our heart's landscapes vanish in an instant, replaced by a desire to lavish love on others. As God begins to transform our hearts through His grace and kindness, we become vessels willing to reciprocate this type of love. Something happens inside of us. We begin to realize the twofold effect of loving God and loving others - not just friends and family, but others who cross our paths every day. Hardened hearts begin to melt beneath the warmth of Christ's love overflowing from our lives. People who we never thought would let the name of Jesus roll off their lips suddenly praise Him because we have taken the time to love them the way God has commanded us to love. Once we learn how to abide in His love, our feelings of jealousy, greed, and anger die a quick death. A true champion extends grace and kindness because he knows the transformation that has taken place in his own heart, and he realizes those who receive God's love and grace have no other course of action but to give God's love away.” Michael Youssef
“O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary
soul in thee; I give thee back the life I owe,
That in thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be. O light that foll’west all my way,
I yield my flick’ring torch to thee; My heart restores its borrowed ray, That in thy sunshine’s blaze its day May brighter, fairer be. O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain, That morn shall tearless be. O Cross that liftest up my head, I dare not ask to fly from thee; I lay in dust life’s glory dead, And from the ground there blossoms red
Life that shall endless be.” George Mattheson
That in thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be. O light that foll’west all my way,
I yield my flick’ring torch to thee; My heart restores its borrowed ray, That in thy sunshine’s blaze its day May brighter, fairer be. O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain, That morn shall tearless be. O Cross that liftest up my head, I dare not ask to fly from thee; I lay in dust life’s glory dead, And from the ground there blossoms red
Life that shall endless be.” George Mattheson
HEART
SAVOR
- · I am to love as Christ – a supernatural love empowered by the Spirit – which is patient and kind, not envious, not boastful, not proud, not rude, not self-seeking, not easily angered, it does not keep a record of wrongs. This agape love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the Truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. It will never fail. A sparkling diamond compared to the paste gem variety of Hollywood.
- · I am to love in word AND deed.
- · God loves and gives.
