God's Word on That

Tag: love

  • 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)

  • Our Kindness Needs To Grow

    Love your enemies and be kind and do good [doing favors so that someone derives benefit from them] and lend, expecting and hoping for nothing in return but considering nothing as lost and despairing of no one; and then your recompense (your reward) will be great (rich, strong, intense, and abundant) and you will be sons of the Most High, for He Himself is kind and charitable and good to the ungrateful and the selfish and wicked. (Luke 6:35)

    Let not mercy and kindness [shutting out all hatred and selfishness] and truth [shutting out all deliberate hypocrisy or falsehood] forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them upon the tablet of your heart.  So shall you find favor, good understanding, and high esteem in the sight [or judgment] of God and man. (Proverbs 3:3-4)

    Make every effort to add to your faith… brotherly kindness (2 Peter 1:5-7).

    Be kindly affectionate to one another in brotherly love (Romans 12:10).

    Show mercy and kindness and tender compassion, every man to his brother (Zechariah 7:9).

    As God’s chosen people… clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience (Colossians 3:12).

    The Lord’s servant… must be kind to everyone… (2 Timothy 2:24)

    When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly… (1 Corinthians 4:12-13)

    As servants of God we commend ourselves in every way… in purity, understanding, patience and kindness, in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love (2 Corinthians 6:4-6).

    Renounce your sins by loving what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed… (Daniel 4:27)

    And become useful and helpful and kind to one another, tender-hearted (compassionate, understanding, loving-hearted), forgiving one another [readily and freely], as God in Christ forgave you (Ephesians 4:32).

    See that none of you repays another with evil for evil, but always aim to show kindness and seek to do good to one another and to everybody (1 Thessalonians 5:15).

    That which is desired in a man is loyalty and kindness… (Proverbs 19:22)

    He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor (Proverbs 28:8).

    We are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple… (Acts 4:9)

    May the Lord bless you because you showed kindness…  And now may the Lord show loving-kindness and faithfulness to you… (2 Samuel 2:5-6)

    May kindness and faithfulness be with you (2 Samuel 15:20).

  • Fruits of the Spirit

    The Fruits of the Spirit should be our main concern:

    • Love – affection, unconditional concern, benevolence
    • Joy – cheerfulness in all situations
    • Peace – worry-less-ness, quietness with confidence
    • Patience – not with things as to endure, but with people as interruptions; for handling interruptions is life
    • Kindness – attitude, disposition, tenderness
    • Goodness – not attitude but energized nature towards good works and godly deeds
    • Faithfulness – trust, fidelity, assurance, belief, loyalty
    • Gentleness – responsibility with power, inward grace
    • Self-control – wall of protection to reduce vulnerability

    Because all the Fruits of the Spirit are God’s by nature.  Since we are of God’s nature, these fruits belong to each one of us all the time.

    What would you accept in trade for the fruit of the Spirit?  What material possession, or amount of money, or position on the ladder of success would you exchange for Love, Joy, Peace, or any of them? 

    How can you know if you are being led by the Spirit?  If you respond to any situation by exercising any one of these gifts, then you are following the Spirit’s lead.  Walking by the Spirit is a moment-by-moment / day-by-day experience.  If you are trying to keep up a front of Christian Perfection in order to encourage saints and win sinners – forget it!  That will never happen.  But when you openly admit and ask for forgiveness for fleshly choices, you model the kind of spiritual growth which will touch both saints and sinners alike.

     How do we walk by the Spirit?  If I answered by giving a rigid formula, you would be back under another law.  Walking by the Spirit is a relationship issue, not a legal issue or a ritualistic exercise.  Relationships are more important to God than achievements.  After all, Jesus declared the two greatest commandments are to love God and people.  We can actually stand our ground on moral issues without violate Spirit fruits!  If you cannot do something with love and self-control, maybe it is better left undone.  Don’t lose control over the only person you can control!

    The following sections contain God’s words on the various fruits of the Spirit.  Where applicable, I used the Amplified Bible version of the verse to clarify some of the wordage used in hopes that it would help in the study.  In other places, the Amplified seemed to muddy the waters instead, so I used a simplified version in those instances.  And I tried to place the verses in an orderly fashion, after praying for wisdom of course.  Now I pray that these verses and choices and sections provide some comfort and peace and, if possible, zeal for those reading them.  May our God bless you on your journey to understand His Word and His ways.