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Love Comes From God

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide - Promises - Day 208 - 1 John 4:7-12 - Love Comes From God - Growing As Disciples

Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Promises – Day 208 – 1 John 4:7-12 – Love Comes From God – Growing As Disciples

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.  But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.  God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.  This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.  Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.  No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.  1 John 4:7-12 (NLT)

Full Expression

That’s what I want from you. That is what I will do in you. That is what I will do through you. Alright, you have aroused my curiosity. What is it that you want from me? What will you do in me? What will you do through me? I will answer your questions more directly after I ask you a couple questions. What have I done for you? How have I demonstrated my love for you? You sent your Son into this world to live and die for me. He paid for my sins by His sacrificial death on the cross. He shed His innocent blood for me. He made it so I could be drawn to you to confess my sins to you. He made it so I could be forgiven of all my sins and cleansed of all my righteousness. He broke down the barrier that stood between you and me. He made it so I could give my life to you. He became my Savior and Lord. In Him, I have a brand-new life to live. He made it so you and I could live in an intimate relationship with you. He made it so your Holy Spirit could come to live and dwell inside of me. He made it possible for me to come to know and love and follow and serve you. He made it so I could become like Him in all that I think and so and do. This is what you have done for me. This is how you powerfully demonstrated your love for me. Yes, I have done all these things for you. Now, I am ready to directly answer your questions. By my Spirit, I have come to live and dwell inside you. By my Spirit, I am molding and shaping your life. By my Spirit, I am making you to be like me. So, I want my living in and through you to fully express my love to others. Just as I have loved you, so I want you to love others. I want my love that is living in you to draw others to me. That is what I want from you. That is what I will do in you. That is what I will do through you. Have I fully answered your questions? Yes, I have no remaining questions. That’s good. Will you allow me to love others through you? Yes Lord, I will. I welcome this good work of yours in and through me. That is very good.

Lord, thank you for loving me. You powerfully demonstrated your love for me by sending your Son into this world to live and die for me. You forgave my sins. Help me now to love others just as you have loved me. Help me to be a full expression of your love. Amen

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Continue To Love One Another

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Becoming Like Christ – Let Us – 1 John 4-7-8 – Continue To Love One Another – Growing As Disciples

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 4:7-8 (NLT)

Make Me Able

Only you can make me able to love like you love. I can’t give like you gave. I can’t love like you love. My love always falls short. You are absolutely right when you say that you can’t give like I gave or love like I love. There is however a very important question that I want to ask you. What’s that? Do you want to give like I gave? Do you want to love others with my love? Do you want my love to flow in and through you? In every way I want to know you and your love. In every way I want your love to flow in and through my life. I want to be like a vessel that is overflowing with your love. I want your love to spill out of me so that others will want to come to you to know your love.

Do you know what it will cost you to give like I gave and love like I love? I know that the kind of love that we are talking about is not just a feeling. Giving like you gave and loving like you love requires a choice and demands taking action. What is that choice and what is that action? I must choose to be a vessel in which your love can flow in and though. I must choose to allow you to use me. I must say yes to you. I must rely on you to make me able to love others. Yes, you must rely on me to use you to love others. Then I must be willing to go where you guide me to do what you ask of me. That’s right.

This is all pretty clear isn’t it? Yes, it is very clear. You have more to say, don’t you? It’s very clear and also very scary. Why do you say that? I have no idea where you will lead me. I have no idea what you will ask of me. I wonder if I will be willing. I wonder if I will be able to love like you love. I don’t want to fail. I don’t want to say no. I don’t want to disappoint you. I want to be used by you however, whenever and wherever you call me. But, you have already said that you will rely on me. Yes, I will rely on you. Do you believe that I can make you able to give like I gave and love like I love? Yes Lord, I believe in you. Then you have nothing to worry about. Rely on me. Yes Lord, I will rely on you.

Lord, loving others has not been my strong suit. My ability to love others falls short. Only you can make me able to love others with your love. Only you can make me able to love difficult and seemingly unlovable people. Let your love flow in and through me. Amen

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Let Us – 1 John 4-7-8 – Continue To Love One Another – 4 Page Discipleship Devotional Study Guide

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