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If you missed this weekend @ theChurch…

“Love, With All Your Heart”

John 13:34-35 (AMP)

I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another.  By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves].

If you wanted to express the ultimate theme, message, law of the Kingdom in one word, that word would be “Love.”

Jesus came to show us, to give us a Kingdom, which is founded upon perfect love.   More than 500 times, love, and its many derivatives are used in the Bible.

God is capable only of “perfect love.”  He can never love more or less – His love cannot be enhanced or diminished.

Everything Jesus said and did was a demonstration of Kingdom love.

Every “Godly action” of our lives is the result of His Kingdom love within us.

The positive manifestation of the Kingdom attitude is God’s love within us.

Everything God intended for us is included in His love to us and through us.

The world’s greatest revelation is that God is love and God loves us.

Love is who God is – His very nature.  Thus, He can never cease to love us since His very essence is love.

God has chosen to pursue a love relationship with us as He takes the initiative to bring us into that relationship.

To be loved by God and to love God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement and the highest position available to mankind.

Join us this upcoming weekend as we continue to talk more about “Love, With All Your Heart” and we celebrate “Friend Day” at theChurch, Feb 18^th & 19^th!

ABC’s of LOVE!

The ABC’s Of Love

A.  Love is Active.

B.   Love Believes all things.

C.  Love is a Commitment.

D.  Love is Desirable.

E.   Love is Everlasting.

F.    Love is the absence of Fear.

G. Love is Generous.

H.  Love Hopes all things.

I.     Love Increases the one loved.

J.    Love is Just.

K.   Love is Kind.

L.    Love is Limitless.

M. Love is Merciful.

N.  Love Nurtures.

O. Love creates Optimism.

P.   Love is Powerful.

Q. Love Quenches the thirst for acceptance.

R.   Love is Receptive.

S.   Love Seeks the highest good of others.

T.    Love Trusts.

U.   Love is Unchanging.

V.  Love is Victorious.

W. Love is Willing to suffer wrongs.

X.   Love is Xanadu (a place of beauty, contentment).

Y.   Love Yearns for expression.

Z.    Love is Zealous of good works.

If you missed this weekend @ theChurch…LOVE

Perhaps no other word in any language is more used in poems, essays, and songs than “Love.”

Many believe love is the world’s strongest force and message.

Webster says love is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person; a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection.

In a natural, human sense, love is a positive, passionate expression of feelings.

In a scriptural, spiritual sense, love is a positive, passionate action.

To be fully experienced, this God-love demands a reciprocal action.

Since love originates from God’s own essence, His nature, it is simply a matter of who He is.

Likewise our expression of Biblical love will increasingly become simply a matter of who we are.

God’s love is His expressed desire to benefit others even at the expense of Himself because His love desires to give.

Love is the ultimate and supreme law of God’s Kingdom.

Love expressed is the simplest, best, most appropriate, most fulfilling response to life.

What will you do to share His love this week?

Love, With All Your Heart, week 4

If you missed this weekend at theChurch, here is a recap…

Love causes us to always be optimistic, upbeat, positive, hopeful and secure.

Love and life are actually inseparable.  If you don’t give and receive love, you do not live – you exist.

Love is the supernatural impartation of God-life that makes life worth living.

When you are giving and receiving love, you awaken the best that is within you.

His love for us comes to where we are and helps us make sense out of life.

He gives us His love not for the purpose of condemnation, but always for our soul’s cultivation.

Peter experienced this in his own life after he failed Jesus by denying Him three times.

• Jesus asked for a love of complete devotion, a sell-out of his life to Jesus.
• Peter offers a love of personal heart emotion.
• Jesus asked for a love of surrendering, sacrificial obedience.
• Peter offers Him a love of friendship and personal attachment.

Peter realizes that Jesus knew exactly what the quality and level of his love was.

Love from God comes to where we are, who we are, how we are, so that He may lift us, empower us, equip us and challenge us.

The most fundamental question concerning our spiritual well-being is simply this question Jesus asked, “Do you love Me more than anything or anyone in your life?”