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Above all that is happening to you today, choose love. Love embraces. Love assumes the best. Love dares to hold to truth even when it’s hard. Love is a good gift to offer. Love is a decision we make because it so beautifully reflects what Jesus has told us to do. To be. To exude. To those who love us and to those who don’t. Love tilts her head in the direction of grace when she hears the whisper,“Let’s dance.” And then even when her soul is tired and her feet hurt from all the places she’s been instructed to go—a woman of love whispers back, “Yes.”—Lysa TerKeurst
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We say that grace is “unmerited favor.” And we are instructed to love as Christ loves us. He shows us grace; we are to show each other grace. That means we are to be kinder to people than what we think they deserve.—Author unknown
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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.—Henry Drummond
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When it comes to love for others, those who have My Spirit have a great advantage because My Spirit works in them to rewire their minds and hearts to love others. I told some of My first followers, “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”1 In that day, the love My followers had for one another caused the world to sit up and take notice. Such love is even more noticeable in this day and age when people are often so consumed with themselves. Many people have closed themselves off from loving sacrificially. But this lack of love only serves to make My love shine more brightly! Every time you put My love into action, you also become a little more like Me, so people can see more of Me and less of you.
I am the source of love. I am love, and you can have more of My Spirit of love than you’ve ever had before. “Ask and you will receive.”2 If you pray for the love you need and are then willing to put it into action, I will give you My love in such tremendous volume and power that you will know you are part of a miracle!—Jesus, speaking in prophecy
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Everyone needs and wants true unconditional love, but many people in the world never find it. Eternal love, the kind that overcomes all things, only comes through receiving Jesus, and our job is to show people His love, and help them to receive Jesus and enjoy the fruit of His love in their lives. To do this, we need to show people an example of Jesus’ love in our interactions with one another. When our daily lives manifest genuine love for one another, people are attracted to want to know more about Jesus and the Word.—Maria Fontaine
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Lee Iacocca once asked legendary football coach Vince Lombardi what it took to make a winning team. The book entitled Iacocca records Lombardi’s answer.
“There are a lot of coaches with good ball clubs who know the fundamentals and have plenty of discipline but still don’t win the game. Then you come to the third ingredient: if you’re going to play together as a team, you have got to care for one another. You have got to love each other. Each player has to be thinking about the next guy and saying to himself: If I don’t block that man, Paul is going to get his legs broken. I have to do my job well in order that he can do his.
“The difference between mediocrity and greatness,” Lombardi said that night, “is the feeling those guys have for each other.”
In the healthy church, each Christian learns to care for others. As we take seriously Jesus’ command to love one another, we contribute to a winning team.—Author unknown
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Above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.—Colossians 3:143
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Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. … Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices no more easily made. And give, give in any way you can, of whatever you possess. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.—Kent Nerburn
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Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another.—Romans 12:104
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Jesus said, “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” Why do you think He said that? Wouldn’t it have been enough for you to simply tell others about the love of Jesus? Couldn’t the Lord just as well have said, “By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you preach My message”? Wouldn’t that have been enough?
Evidently not, because the Lord said that all men would know that you are His if youhave love one for another. And if you have love one for another, you’re certainly going to show it throughout the day in obvious, tangible ways that others can see. It’s not good enough to just talk about love. Jesus said you have to have love, you have to live love. The Lord knew that there would be no denying that example.
Pray and ask the Lord to help you follow His great commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. This is the reason Jesus came to earth in the first place—so we could have life eternal, yes, but also to teach us to love, so we could turn around and give that life to others.—D. Brandt Berg
Published on Anchor December 2014. Read by Jon Marc. Music by Michael Dooley.
1 John 13:35.
2 Matthew 7:7.
3 ISV.
4 KJV.
A compilation
Audio length: 8:12
Download Audio (7.5MB)
Above all that is happening to you today, choose love. Love embraces. Love assumes the best. Love dares to hold to truth even when it’s hard. Love is a good gift to offer. Love is a decision we make because it so beautifully reflects what Jesus has told us to do. To be. To exude. To those who love us and to those who don’t. Love tilts her head in the direction of grace when she hears the whisper,“Let’s dance.” And then even when her soul is tired and her feet hurt from all the places she’s been instructed to go—a woman of love whispers back, “Yes.”—Lysa TerKeurst
*
We say that grace is “unmerited favor.” And we are instructed to love as Christ loves us. He shows us grace; we are to show each other grace. That means we are to be kinder to people than what we think they deserve.—Author unknown
*
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.—Henry Drummond
*
When it comes to love for others, those who have My Spirit have a great advantage because My Spirit works in them to rewire their minds and hearts to love others. I told some of My first followers, “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”1 In that day, the love My followers had for one another caused the world to sit up and take notice. Such love is even more noticeable in this day and age when people are often so consumed with themselves. Many people have closed themselves off from loving sacrificially. But this lack of love only serves to make My love shine more brightly! Every time you put My love into action, you also become a little more like Me, so people can see more of Me and less of you.
I am the source of love. I am love, and you can have more of My Spirit of love than you’ve ever had before. “Ask and you will receive.”2 If you pray for the love you need and are then willing to put it into action, I will give you My love in such tremendous volume and power that you will know you are part of a miracle!—Jesus, speaking in prophecy
*
Everyone needs and wants true unconditional love, but many people in the world never find it. Eternal love, the kind that overcomes all things, only comes through receiving Jesus, and our job is to show people His love, and help them to receive Jesus and enjoy the fruit of His love in their lives. To do this, we need to show people an example of Jesus’ love in our interactions with one another. When our daily lives manifest genuine love for one another, people are attracted to want to know more about Jesus and the Word.—Maria Fontaine
*
Lee Iacocca once asked legendary football coach Vince Lombardi what it took to make a winning team. The book entitled Iacocca records Lombardi’s answer.
“There are a lot of coaches with good ball clubs who know the fundamentals and have plenty of discipline but still don’t win the game. Then you come to the third ingredient: if you’re going to play together as a team, you have got to care for one another. You have got to love each other. Each player has to be thinking about the next guy and saying to himself: If I don’t block that man, Paul is going to get his legs broken. I have to do my job well in order that he can do his.
“The difference between mediocrity and greatness,” Lombardi said that night, “is the feeling those guys have for each other.”
In the healthy church, each Christian learns to care for others. As we take seriously Jesus’ command to love one another, we contribute to a winning team.—Author unknown
*
Above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.—Colossians 3:143
*
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. … Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices no more easily made. And give, give in any way you can, of whatever you possess. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.—Kent Nerburn
*
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another.—Romans 12:104
*
Jesus said, “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” Why do you think He said that? Wouldn’t it have been enough for you to simply tell others about the love of Jesus? Couldn’t the Lord just as well have said, “By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you preach My message”? Wouldn’t that have been enough?
Evidently not, because the Lord said that all men would know that you are His if youhave love one for another. And if you have love one for another, you’re certainly going to show it throughout the day in obvious, tangible ways that others can see. It’s not good enough to just talk about love. Jesus said you have to have love, you have to live love. The Lord knew that there would be no denying that example.
Pray and ask the Lord to help you follow His great commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. This is the reason Jesus came to earth in the first place—so we could have life eternal, yes, but also to teach us to love, so we could turn around and give that life to others.—D. Brandt Berg
Published on Anchor December 2014. Read by Jon Marc. Music by Michael Dooley.
1 John 13:35.
2 Matthew 7:7.
3 ISV.
4 KJV.
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