God's Word on That

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  • A Study on Abiding in Jesus

    There are so many verses on the way to live as a Christian. I have compiled a few small collections of them, and will try to put them into some kind of cohesive service.

    Let us study to find God’s pathways.

    Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how His ways will really satisfy you (Romans 12:2 LB).

    Do not let this book of the law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful (Joshua 1:8).

    Many seek the God they want, but do not know the God who is.

    How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to Your Word (Psalm 119:9).

    If you hold to My teaching, you are really My disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free (John 8:31-32).

    This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life! (Deuteronomy 30:19).

    The Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law (Deuteronomy 29:29).

    Throughout the expanse of creation, God has hidden things for us to discover, to enjoy, and with which to perceive the nature of our Creator. No one can understand all the ways of God. However, by studying the Bible and His creation, we can serve Him and find fulfillment in our work.

    What is man that You care for him? The son of man that You think of him? Man is like a breath, his days are like a fleeting shadow (Psalm 144:3-4).

    What is man that You are mindful of him? The son of man that You care for Him? You made him a little lower than the angels and crowned him with glory and honor (Psalm 8:4-5).

    And the Lord commanded us to observe all these statues, to fear the Lord our God, for our own good always, that He might preserve us alive as it is this day (Deuteronomy 6:24).

    Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all things will be provided for you (Matthew 6:33).

    God is never irritated by the candle of an honest seeker. God reveals Himself to those who search for Him. God often communicates His desire for us by counsel of parents and mentors. Seek God’s wisdom so you are slow to condemn but quick to show compassion.

    Aun Aprendo

  • Some Parting Thoughts on Fruit

    In my studies, I have bumped into many quips that I had written down (mostly without noting how or when or from whom I attained them) to help me focus on my many different paths. I list a few here that may help us remember how important the Fruit of the Spirit must remain in our lives.

    Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb… that’s where the fruit is.

    Everything God created was created to give forth fruit.

    We were placed on this earth not to accumulate but to give away. Everything we own owns us, Why would we want more things?

    Blessings are like hugs from God to let you know how much He loves you. Counting blessings is like hugging God back.

    The God from whom all blessings flow — what a name!

    The blessings of Israel is to draw attention to the God of Israel.

    As the parable of the sower demonstrates, all biblical truth comes in seed form.

    It may take awhile but no prayer goes unanswered and no good deed fails to produce good fruit.

    Love

    Love is the most powerful force in the world.

    God loves us not because of something in ourselves, but because of something in Himself.

    God is a God of relationships. He prioritizes love over labor.

    Joy

    Joy is essential to the spirit life. Whatever we may think or say about God, when we are not joyful, our thoughts and words cannot bear fruit.

    If we refuse to give up hope, we will keep our joy. If we keep our joy, we will keep our strength. Hope takes us into the spiritual realm where God is.

    Like the special smell that comes with a drought-breaking rain, God loves the aroma of His children’s joy — especially when He is the source of its delight.

    Peace

    Nothing can rob you of your hold on grace, or your claim to peace, or your confidence in God without your permission.

    Patience

    Learn to marvel at God’s patience! And try not to try His patience any more!!

    It will go hard with murmurers! God always chastises His children twice if they do not bear the first stroke patiently. [Personal lesson!]

    Let nothing trouble you. Let nothing frighten you. All is fleeting. God alone is unchanging. Patience obtains everything. — The one who possesses God lacks nothing, for God alone suffices for all.

    Kindness and Goodness

    Be kinder than necessary – because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

    Never underestimate the value of any act of kindness.

    What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

    Kindness always pays, but it pays best when not done for pay.

    Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.

    Faithfulness

    Faith breaks the peace between what is and what ought to be.

    Faith is a heart full of action, not a head full of facts.

    Greatness in God’s eyes is being faithful to God in the best way we know how for the situation we are in at the moment.

    Gentleness

    God gives preference to children, and the child-like mind.

    Give a quiet, calm attention to all those things assigned to your care by Providence.

    Self-Control

    The person who maintains the reins of his heart and controls the patterns of his mind impresses God.

    No matter how discouraging or hopeless or pressing the situation may seem, there is some truth about God that can encourage me, give me hope and bring me back triumphant!

    Circumstances do not change us; they expose us.

    We live like the person we see ourselves to be.

    If God is goodness and beauty and truth and love, I’d do better by reminding myself of this each and every day — so I’ll look for these things in my daily life.

    Always remember: Forbidden fruits create many jams.

  • Let Us Abide in Love

    Dear friends, let us love one another; for love is of God.  Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.  Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love…  This is love!  Not that we loved God, but He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins (1 John 4:7-10).

    And so we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us.  God is love.  And the one who abides in love abides in God and God in him.  By this, love is perfected within us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.  There is no fear in love.  Perfect love casts out fear because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.  We love because He first loved us.  If someone says “I love God” and hates his brother, he is a liar.  For the one who does not love his brother (whom he has seen) cannot love God (whom he has not seen).  And this commandment we have from Him: the one who loves God should love his brother (1 John 4:16-21).

    Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins (1 Peter 4:8).

    Her many sins have been forgiven, for she loved much.  But he who has been forgiven little, loves little (Luke 7:47).

    I remember the devotion of your youth; how as a bride you loved Me and followed Me through the desert… (Jeremiah 2:2)

    You have left your first love! (Revelation 2:4)

    Do you truly love Me more than these?  …  You know all things; You know that I love You. (John 21:15-17)

    Jesus looked at him and loved him… (Mark 10:21)

    If anyone loves Me, he will obey My teachings.  My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him (John 14:23).

    Whoever keeps [God’s] Word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected! (1 John 2:5)

    And though you have not seen Him, you love Him… (1 Peter 1:8)

    If anyone loves God, he is known by Him… (1 Corinthians 8:3)

    I love You, O Lord my strength (Psalm 18:1).

    For God is not unjust so as to forget your … love which you have shown toward His name (Hebrews 6:10).

    The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life (John 12:25).

    Set an example for the believers in… love (1 Timothy 4:2).

    Follow the way of love… (1 Corinthians 14:1)

    That their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love… (Colossians 2:2)

    Add to your faith… and to brotherly kindness, love (2 Peter 1:5, 7).

    Love the Lord, all you His saints! (Psalm 31:23)

    Let love of the brotherhood continue (Hebrews 13:1).

    Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.  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 4:11-12).

    The one who loves his brother abides in the light and there is no cause for stumbling in him (1 John 2:10).

    We continually remember before our God and Father… your labor prompted by love…  For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you (1 Thessalonians 1:3-4).

    For the love of Christ controls us… (2 Corinthians 5:14)

    Do everything in love (1 Corinthians 16:14).

    Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance (Jude 1:2).

    May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all (2 Corinthians 13:14).

  • We Are To Abound In Love

    Therefore as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion…  Put on love, which binds [all virtues] all together in perfect unity (Colossians 3:12-14).

    You have heard it was said: Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.  But I tell you to love your enemies.  Bless those who curse you.  Do good to those who hate you.  Pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven…  If you love those who love you, what reward will you get?  Are not the tax collectors doing that? (Matthew 5:43-46)

    But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies…  Even sinners love only those who love them (Luke 6:32, 37).

    But love your enemies.  Do good to them and lend to them without expecting to get anything back.  Then your reward will be great and you will be sons of the Most High God (Luke 6:35).

    Be devoted to one another in love… (Romans 12:10)

    Show your love for the alien, for you were aliens in Egypt (Deuteronomy 10:19).

    Do not love the world, nor the things in the world.  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him (1 John 2:15).

    If there is any consolation of love… make my joy complete by being of the same mind; maintaining the same love… (Philippians 2:1-2)

    But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects… for the whole body … promotes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love (Ephesians 4:15-16).

    [Be] hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, just, devout, self-controlled (Titus 1:8).

    Teach the older men [who come to you] to be temperate… and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance (Titus 2:2).

    Encourage the young women [you care for] to love their husbands and to love their children (Titus 2:4).

    That you esteem them very highly in love because of their work (1 Thessalonians 5:13).

    Greet one another with a kiss of love… (1 Peter 5:14)

    We know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brethren.  He who does not love abides in death (1 John 3:14).

    But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love… (1 Thessalonians 5:8)

    Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another…  Love as brothers… for “whoever would love life and see many good days must keep his tongue from evil…” (1 Peter 3:8, 10)

    Since you have, in obedience to the truth, purified your souls for a sincere love for your brothers, fervently love one another from the heart (1 Peter 1:22).

    Showing forbearance to one another in love (Ephesians 4:2).

    Love the brotherhood (1 Peter 2:17).

    And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another… (1 Thessalonians 3:12)

    And let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24).

  • God’s Kind of Love Is Unfailing

    [God’s kind of] Love is as strong as death; its jealousy unyielding as the grave.  It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.  Many waters cannot quench [His] love.  Rivers cannot wash it away (Song of Songs 8:6-7).

    May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love… (2 Thessalonians 3:5)

    What a man desires is unfailing love… (Proverbs 19:22)

    Though He brings grief, He will show compassion – so great is His unfailing love (Lamentations 3:32).

    For the Lord disciplines those whom He loves, and chastises every child whom He accepts (Hebrews 12:6).

    Those whom I love I reprove and discipline… (Revelation 3:19)

    For whom the Lord loves He reproves, even as a father the son in whom he delights (Proverbs 3:12).

    Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge… (Proverbs 12:1)

    Now as to the love of the brothers… you are taught by God to love one another (1 Thessalonians 4:9).

    God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us (Romans 5:5).

    For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and love and self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7).

    Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life (Jude 1:21).

    We know love by this: He laid down His life for us.  And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.  But whoever has the world’s goods and beholds his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?  Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in both deed and truth (1 John 3:16-18).

    If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.  If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains but have not love, I am nothing.  If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames but have not love, I gain nothing.  Love is patient.  Love is kind.  It does not envy.  It does not boast.  It is not proud.  It is not rude.  It is not self-seeking.  It is not easily angered.  It keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails…  Now these three things remain – faith, hope and love.  But the greatest is love (1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13).

    That through faith Christ may dwell in your hearts in love. With deep roots and firm foundations may you, in company with all God’s people, be strong to grasp what is the breadth and length and height and depth of Christ’s love, and to know it, though it is beyond knowledge. So may you be filled with the very fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:17-19).

  • His Command To Us

    What does the Lord require of you but to act justly; love mercy, and walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8).

    And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you this day for your own good? (Deuteronomy 10:12-13)

    You shall therefore love the Lord your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments (Deuteronomy 11:1).

    That you may love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live! (Deuteronomy 30:6)

    To love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, decrees, laws; then you will live… (Deuteronomy 30:16)

    Love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul (Deuteronomy 11:13).

    Love the Lord your God, walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him (Deuteronomy 11:22).

    Love the Lord your God and … walk always in His ways… (Deuteronomy 19:9)

    Take careful heed … to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul (Joshua 22:5).

    This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.  Now choose life so you and your children may live and you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him… (Deuteronomy 30:19-20)

    So be very careful to love the Lord your God (Joshua 23:11).

    Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap the fruit of unfailing love (Hosea 10:12).

    But the world must learn that I love the Father and I do exactly what My Father commands Me (John 14:31).

    If you love Me, you will obey what I command (John 14:15).

    Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me.  He who loves Me will be loved by My Father.  And I too will love him and show Myself to him (John 14:21).

    As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you.  Now remain in My love.  If you obey My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have obeyed My Father’s commands and remain in His love (John 15:9-10).

    This I command you: that you love one another (John 15:17).

    This is My commandment: that you love one another; just as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this: that one lay down his life for his friends (John 15:12-13).

    A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.  By this all men will know you are My disciples if you have love for one another (John 13:34-35).

    For this is the message you heard from the beginning: that we should love one another (1 John 3:11).

    And this is His command: that we believe in the name of His Son – Jesus Christ – and love one another just as He commanded us (1 John 3:23).

    That we love one another.  And this is love: that we walk according to His commandments.  This is the commandment: (Just as you have heard from the beginning) that you should walk in it (2 John 1:5-6).

    Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.  And everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well.  This is how we know we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out His commands.  This is love for God: to obey His commands; and His commands are not burdensome (1 John 5:1-3).

    Let no debt remain outstanding except the continuing debt to love one another.  For he who loves his fellow man has fulfilled the law.  The commandments… are summed up in this one rule: Love your neighbor as yourself.  Love does no harm to its neighbor.  Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law (Romans 13:8-10).

    To love [God] with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength; and to love your neighbor as yourself – is more important that all burnt offerings and sacrifices (Mark 12:33).

    Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might (Deuteronomy 6:5).

    Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.  The second is this; love your neighbor as yourself.  There is no commandment greater than these (Mark 12:30-31).

    Love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord (Leviticus 19:18).

    The stranger who resides with you… you shall love as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.  I am the Lord your God (Leviticus 19:34).

    Also foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to serve Him, to love the name of the Lord and to worship Him… Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer (Isaiah 56:6-7).

    If, however, you are fulfilling the Royal Law (according to scripture) – you shall love your neighbor as yourself – you are doing well (James 2:8).

    Do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.  For the whole law is fulfilled in one word; in the statement “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”. (Galatians 5:13-14)

    The goal of this commandment [actually all His commandments] is love, which comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith (1 Timothy 1:5).

  • Showing Gratitude For His Love

    I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever… I will declare that Your love stands firm… (Psalm 87:1-2)

    I will sing of Your love and justice… (Psalm 101:1)

    I will bow down toward Your Holy Temple and will praise Your name for Your love and Your faithfulness (Psalm 138:2).

    Satisfy us in the morning with Your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all the day (Psalm 90:14).

    That those who love Your name may rejoice in You (Psalm 5:11).

    In the morning I will sing of Your love (Psalm 59:16).

    It is good to praise the Lord… to proclaim Your love in the morning… (Psalm 92:1-2)

    I will rejoice and be glad in Your love…  Let Your face shine on Your servant, save me in Your unfailing love…  Praise be to the Lord, for He showed His wonderful love to me… (Psalm 31:7, 16, 21)

    Because Your love is better than life, my lips shall glorify You (Psalm 63:3).

    Praise be to God who has not rejected my prayer or withheld His love from me! (Psalm 66:20)

    Let us give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love and His wonderful deeds for men (Psalm 107:8,15,21,31).

    The Lord delights in those who fear Him, who put their hope in His unfailing love (Psalm 147:11).

    Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and Your servant loves them (Psalm 119:140).

    Those who love Your law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble (Psalm 119:165).

    I love Your law. (Psalm 119:113,163,97,127,119)

    My soul keeps Your statutes and I love them exceedingly (Psalm 119:167).

    I shall delight in Your commands, which I love… I shall lift up my hands to Your commands which I love… (Psalm 119:47-48)

    Consider how I love Your precepts; preserve my life, O Lord, according to Your love (Psalm 119:159).

    If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep His covenant of love with you…  He will love you and bless you… (Deuteronomy 7:12-13)

    The great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of love with all who love Him and obey His commands (Daniel 9:4).

    You keep Your covenant of love with Your servants who continue wholeheartedly in Your way (1 Kings 8:23).

    Our God, the great, mighty and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of love, do not let this hardship seem trifling in Your eyes (Nehemiah 9:32).

    Whoever is wise, let him heed these things and consider the great love of the Lord (Psalm 107:43).

  • God Loves Us Individually

    Remember, O Lord, Your great mercy and love for they are from of old…  According to Your love remember me, for You are [beyond] good, O Lord (Psalm 25:6).

    Out of the goodness of Your love, deliver me (Psalm 109:21).

    Preserve my life according to Your love, and I will obey the statues of Your mouth (Psalm 119:88).

    Because he loves Me, says the Lord, I will rescue him.  I will protect him for he acknowledges My name (Psalm 91:14).

    Help me, O Lord my God; save me in accordance with Your love (Psalm 109:26).

    Turn to me and be gracious to me, after Your manner with those who love Your name (Psalm 119:132).

    Hear my voice in accordance with Your love; preserve my life according to Your laws (Psalm 119:149).

    Turn O Lord, and deliver me; save me because of Your unfailing love (Psalm 6:4).

    “I have loved you,” says the Lord… (Malachi 1:2)

    I have loved you with an everlasting love, I have drawn you with loving-kindness (Jeremiah 31:3).

    For great is Your love toward me…  You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness (Psalm 86:13, 15).

    My faithful love will be with him…  I will maintain My love to him forever…  I will not take My love from him nor will I betray My faithfulness (Psalm 89:24, 28, 33).

    Through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken (Psalm 21:7).

    Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your unfailing love; according to Your great compassion blot out my transgressions (Psalm 51:1).

    Answer me, O Lord, out of the goodness of Your love; in Your great mercy turn to me (Psalm 69:16).

    Do not withhold Your mercy from me, O Lord; may Your love and truth always protect me (Psalm 40:11).

    In Your love You kept me from the pit of destruction; You have put all my sins behind You… (Isaiah 38:17)

    For Your love is ever before me; and I walk continually in Your truth (Psalm 26:3).

    You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to You… (Psalm 86:5)

    The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me; Your love O Lord, endures forever (Psalm 138:8).

    The Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and His song will be with me on the night;  [my every breath shall be] a prayer to the God of my life (Psalm 42:8).

    He has taken me to the banquet hall and His banner over me is love (Song of Songs 2:4).

    The Lord your God… will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing (Zephaniah 3:17).

    When I said, “my foot is slipping,” Your love, O Lord, supported me (Psalm 94:18).

    In Your unfailing love silence my enemies… (Psalm 143:12)

    I love the Lord because He hears my voice and my supplications (Psalm 116:1).

    He grants sleep to those He loves (Psalm 127:2).

    In Your great love, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation (Psalm 69:13).

    May Your unfailing love come to me, O Lord; Your salvation according to Your promise (Psalm 119:41).

    May Your unfailing love be my comfort according to Your promise to Your servant (Psalm 119:76).

    Deal with Your servant according to Your love… (Psalm 119:124)

    Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in You… (Psalm 143:8)

    The Lord’s unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in Him (Psalm 32:10).

    The eyes of the Lord are on those… whose hope is in His unfailing love (Psalm 33:18).

    May Your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in You (Psalm 33:22).

    God sends His love and His faithfulness… for great is Your love, reaching to the heavens (Psalm 57:3, 10).

    For great is Your love, higher than the heavens (Psalm 108:4).

    For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear Him…  From everlasting to everlasting, the Lord’s love is with those who fear Him (Psalm 103:11, 17).

    For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake His faithful ones (Psalm 37:28).

    Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail (Lamentations 3:22).

    “… My unfailing love for you will not be shaken, nor My covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you (Isaiah 54:10).

    Since you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you… (Isaiah 43:4)

    I trust in Your unfailing love (Psalm 13:5).

    My only hope is in Your unfailing love and faithfulness (Psalm 40:27).

    I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever (Psalm 52:8).

    [It is God] Who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion (Psalm 103:4).

  • God’s Love For His Creation

    The earth is filled with Your love, O Lord… (Psalm 119:64)

    How priceless is Your unfailing love, O God! (Psalm 36:7)

    Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens; Your faithfulness to the skies (Psalm 36:5).

    Within Your Temple, O God, we meditate on Your unfailing love (Psalm 48:9).

    The Lord loves righteousness and justice.  The earth is full of His unfailing love (Psalm 33:5).

    Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; love and faithfulness go before You (Psalm 89:14).

    Love and faithfulness meet together, righteousness and peace kiss each other (Psalm 85:10).

    To Your name be the glory, because of Your love and faithfulness (Psalm 115:1).

    The compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in love and faithfulness (Exodus 34:6).

    Showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me (Exodus 20:6).

    For the Lord is good and His love endures forever (Psalm 100:5).

    For great is His love toward us… (Psalm 117:2)

    With the Lord is unfailing love and with Him is full redemption (Psalm 130:7).

    Out of His great love He relented (Psalm 106:45).

    In His love and mercy He redeemed them… (Isaiah 63:9)

    Rise up and help us; redeem us because of Your unfailing love (Psalm 44:26).

    Save us and help us with Your right hand that those You love may be delivered (Psalm 60:5).

    Save us and help us with Your right hand that those who love You may be delivered (Psalm 108:6).

    Continue Your loving-kindness to those who know You (Psalm 36:10).

    Show us Your unfailing love, O Lord, and grant us Your salvation (Psalm 85:7).

    In accordance with Your great love, forgive the sin of these people (Numbers 14:19).

    In Your unfailing love You will lead the people You have redeemed (Exodus 15:13).

    I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love… (Hosea 11:4)

    For the Lord is righteous; He loves justice; upright men will see His face (Psalm 11:7).

    The Lord loves the righteous (PSM 146:8).

    The Lord watches over all who love Him… (Psalm 145:20)

    He loves those who pursue righteousness (Proverbs 15:9).

    I am the Lord, who exercises loving-kindness, justice and righteousness on the earth, for in these I delight, says the Lord (Jeremiah 9:24).

    You love righteousness and hate wickedness.  Therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions (Psalm 45:7).

  • Study On Love

    Well, we climbed the ladder of Fruits of the Spirit. We made it to the top: Love. There are many, many verses of love in God’s Word, and many, many, many quotes on what love is and what love can be and what love means to creatures as well as to the Creator. But I believe the most important one to meditate on is that God’s kind of love – Agape or Hesed – is not about a feeling but about a willful action.

    This is God’s love – in and for me, without which I am nothing.  It cannot be merited, earned or deserved.   And we cannot do anything bad enough to chase God away!  We have to change our mindset on what love is. According to God’s Word, love is strong affection, charity, benevolence, a giving to others; any kind of deliverance from selfishness.

    No love is more powerful, more intense, more continuous, more pure, or more full-of-delight in the beloved than the love of God the Father for God the Son!  It is an energy of joy that makes atom bombs look like fire crackers.

    And Jesus tells us, “As the Father has loved Me, so I have loved you” (John 15:9). Then He continues on to say, “…love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12).

    Love needs an object to whom it can give itself away, in whom it can lose itself, with whom it can make itself one.  The nature of love is always one, however different the object.

    Love feeds on truth and when our hearts begin to know the truth of how God loves and desires us all, and who we are in Him, we are transformed from being weak in heart to bold in love!  We are renewed by the knowledge of what we look like to Him. 

    Until you have a proper sense of self-love, a healthy and wholesome self-esteem, you are not able to freely and fully love someone else.  You don’t give yourself to others or consider them valuable if you don’t first of all consider yourself worthy.  Meditate on this: Love draws upon the resourcefulness of one’s own esteem in order to have sufficient supply to release it to someone else.  It takes personal security to do this.

    We succumb to society’s false judgment of our worth.  As a result, a large segment of the population is plagued by feelings of worthlessness, inferiority, and self-condemnation.  God has not equally distributed gifts, talents, and intellect, but He has equally distributed Himself.  Our sense of worth must come from knowing who we are as children of the Great King.  Something happens to us when we become convinced that our Heavenly Father is aware of and involved in our activities, and is, in fact, applauding our lives.

    It is tempting for us to want to be like someone else, to be dissatisfied with who we are and what we can do.  Yet God made us to be what He wanted us to be – what we are now.  We should be content with who we are – it is only a work in progress anyway.  It is so liberating to accept yourself!

    I learned early on to respond to people who ask “Who do you think you are?” with a slew of scripture verses: “I’m more than a conqueror; I’m a chosen generation; I’m a royal priesthood, a peculiar person; God is for me, so who can be against me?  I am a child of the One True King…

    The Word of God is full of verses that tell us we are worthy to receive God’s promises.  But remember that you can say all the right verses you want, yet if your heart doesn’t believe you are what you say you are, your promise will stay in lay-away until you are ready to claim it.

    The depth of God’s love:

    [You have shown] the wonder of Your great love (Psalm 17:7).

    God demonstrates His own love for us in this: that while we were still sinners Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).

    For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believed in Him shall not die but have eternal life.  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him (John 3:16-17).

    See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called Sons of God! (1 John 3:1)

    Heirs of the Kingdom – which He promised to those who love Him (James 2:5).

    God, our Father, who loved us (2 Thessalonians 2:16).

    Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  … We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.  For I am convinced that… nothing in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:35-39).

    For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight – in love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons… in accordance with His pleasure and will (Ephesians 1:4-5).

    But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our transgressions (Ephesians 2:4-5).

    I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me (Galatians 2:20).

    I in them and You in Me.  May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me (John 17:23).

    That the love You have for Me may be in them and that I Myself may be in them (John 17:26).

    For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed I came from the Father (John 16:27).

    What wonderful things God has ready for those who love Him! (1 Corinthians 2:9)