His work is a mediated work. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. Do you know that God’s anger is nothing but love? Beware of seeking the Spirit by emptying your head. This Advent season, look to Jesus. Do you want to taste its sweetness on your tongue? Do you too? This experience of God’s love is deep and overwhelming. Amos was an ordinary person: ‘I never set up to be a preacher, never had plans to be a preacher. Christ is the focus and content of the mind in this inexpressible joy. Thank you that you love me so much and therefore I can be confident about my future. All head and no heart? You can feel it. His love for you is greater than your failings and he wants you to receive his love by faith. Here is an experience of great and inexpressible joy. I remember an occasion when our grandson, aged two, wanted to feel his father’s love. Consider 1 Peter 1:8, "Though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory." Similarly, Romans 15:13 says that the God of hope fills us with joy and peace "in believing." If you have never had this experience of the Holy Spirit filling your innermost heart, I would encourage you simply to ask God to fill you now. It is not based on a physical seeing of Christ. And believing has content. God was not content to simply watch injustice flourish. You have ‘gained access’ to his presence (5:1–2, MSG). How ridiculously, brilliantly, marvelously, ginormously amazing and unconditional it is. Do you believe that God really loves you? Paul continues to describe Abraham’s faith. It is not the same as knowledge. Your email address will not be published. When you know the greatness of God’s love for you the response is worship: ‘I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever’ (v.12). Joy beyond words. God did not spare his own son.    indifferent to the fate of others! This is how you know God loves you. We’re on a mission to change that. It says, "In this you greatly rejoice." Pray that God would open your eyes to the wonder of his love in these things. Answer: Jesus said the greatest commandment is to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind” (Luke10:27; Mark 12:30; Matthew 22:37). Scripture marked (MSG) taken from The Message. Know that His love is everlasting. (www.Lockman.org). ‘But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us’ (v.8).    and expect everyone else to serve them! The love of God is the answer to all the “whys” in the Bible: the why of creation, the why of the incarnation, the why of redemption. No, not in degree. ‘Feel’ is a song by Robbie Williams in which he writes, ‘I just wanna feel real love.’ God wants you to feel his love for you. And if you don’t know His love friend, I pray this letter speaks to you. You can know in your head some things from argument that you don’t … But it is based on believing in Christ. Or to say it another way, this experience of the love of God is the work of the Spirit giving unspeakable joy in response to the mind's perception of the demonstration of that love in Jesus Christ. We experience God’s love through the Holy Spirit: ‘God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us’ (5:5). I love this, Niki. This assurance helps us "exult in the hope of the glory of God" (Romans 5:2). If you do, I have two Valentine’s gifts for us this year. John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. I want you to know this sweetness. Think about the promises he made and guaranteed by his death and resurrection. We learn of Abraham that ‘no unbelief or distrust made him waver (doubtingly question) concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God, fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised’ (Romans 4:20–21, AMP). Woe to those who live only for today, Raniero Cantalamessa, Life in Christ, (Liturgical Press, 2002) p.7. God’s love has flooded your innermost heart. those obsessed with looking good – life without wrinkles! Then God took me off the farm and said, ‘Go preach to my people Israel’ (vv.14–15, MSG). Your email address will not be published. Rather, it is because they don’t care about the state of the people of God. This is an illustration of the experience of God’s love. Woe to the playboys, the playgirls, You can download it for FREE, just click on the image, then carry it on your phone or in your bag, frame it, or do whatever you need to do to help it sink to the raw vulnerable places of your heart. He gives ‘life to the dead’ (4:17). ‘The whole Bible,’ St Augustine observes, ‘does nothing but tell of God’s love.’ Raniero Cantalamessa writes: ‘This is the message that supports and explains all the other messages. I’m so glad this spoke to you Leslie. God’s anger is directed towards ‘complacent’ leaders (6:1): ‘Woe to those who live in luxury Unless otherwise stated, Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version Anglicised, Copyright © 1979, 1984, 2011 Biblica, formerly International Bible Society. You can download it for FREE, just click on the image, then carry it on your phone or in your bag, frame it, or do whatever you need to do to help it sink to the … The unthinkable promise of the new covenant tells us not only that we are God’s people, but that he is our God. It’s crazy how much we all struggle to feel His love isn’t it? Lord, we pray that you would raise up more people who hear your words and speak them with courage, power and love. He wants you to accept his love in your heart. It comes through knowledge of Christ and his work. God’s love will never let you down; he will never stop loving you. You can receive his love in a new way today. Woe to those addicted to feeling good – life without pain! Focus on what you love about yourself and begin to notice that God’s love is all around you. You suddenly know that everything is all right, and will be all right. When you actually taste it, you experience it for yourself, you know it in a full way, and you can know it in your heart.”. Consider Christ. But it comes through knowledge. In fact, 1 Peter 1:6 says that the joy itself is "in" the truth that Peter is telling us about the work of Christ. One key is to realize that the experience is not like hypnosis or electric shock or drug-induced hallucinations or shivers at a good tune. I pray the love letter helps you feel it deep in your bones! Thank you that your love for me is so great and so personal.    about their country going to ruin’ (vv.4–6, MSG). Repeatedly throughout the Bible, God commands His people to love Him with all their hearts and serve Him alone (Deuteronomy 6:5; 11:1; Joshua 23:11). Join the #knowhislovechallenge on Instagram niki.hardy. It is the truth that 1) in "His great mercy [God] has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;" and 2) we will "obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away;" and 3), we "are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time" (1 Peter 1:3-5).

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