April 30, 2024 … God’s Way More Love …
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Katy Nichole singing … God Is Love … Poignantly and yet powerfully singing of how God’s love is so great, we, who love the Lord, are called to extend it to others. … And then take in Anne Wilson singing of how God’s love was extended to all who would believe in God’s perfect love, expressed in the Song ”3:16” … AT THIS LINK …
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Highlight Passage: … 1John 4:19 [NLT] …
19 We love each other because He loved us first.
… John expresses to fellow Christians WHY and HOW we can share God’s love with others.
Highlight Passage (in context): … 1John 4:15-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Apostle John exhorts fellow Christians (and us) that we can, as He commands us, to love one another because He, .. GOD, … first loved us.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 136:26 [NLT] …
26 Give thanks to the God in Heaven. His faithful love endures forever.
… The Psalm’s human author, likely King David, assures believers that God’s faithful love for His chosen people endures FOREVER.
Reference Passage: … Zephaniah 3:17 [NLT] …
17 For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With His love, He will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.
… Zephaniah, prophesying to the kingdom of Judah and to God’s people, showing them (and us) the extent of God love for His chosen people.
Reference Passage: … John 3:16 [NLT] …
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
… Jesus reveals the extent of God’s love by giving His only Son, the God-Man, Jesus, to save all who would believe in Him as Lord and give them eternal life.
Reference Passage: … Romans 5:8 [NLT] …
8 But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
…The Apostle Paul teaching truth to fellow Christian about how God extended His perfect love to sinners by dying to save them (us).
Reference Passage: … Romans 8:38 [NLT] …
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, … neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.
…The Apostle Paul also assures fellow Christian of his confidence that NOTHING can separate born-again Christians from the love of God..
Reference Passage: … 1John 3:1, 4:16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Apostle John teaches fellow Christians that it is God’s love, living in them (us), that allows them (us) to love others.
My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Xochitl Dixon - AT THIS LINK - wrote about her son, Xavier, in kindergarten, with arms out-stretched as widely as he could, expressed to his mom, … “This is how much I love you!” And then the author reflected on that memory when Xavier, and his now adult wife, were about to present the ODB author with her first grandchild, … realizing just how much God’s love had given her the ability to love that child with God’s perfect love.
And the ODB entry, the linked songs, and all of the Scriptures shared above today, helped me realize that I could never be able to offer or extend the love i have for others, … my wife, my children, my grandkids, or - for that matter - my fellow Christians and prayerfully even my enemies, … if I didn’t have God’s love residing in my heart. So, here, as I write today, I’m praying that I’ll be able - and fully willing - to offer up that love of God, welling up in my heart, to anyone I encounter today. How about you? Are you with me today and ready to reach out to love others, showing God’s love to any/all we encounter today?
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for Your love, prayerfully bubbling over in my heart, to offer to others today.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me today, … to reach out and share Your love, Lord, with others today and then all our tomorrows forward. … Amen
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