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Love Is Kind – The Healing Power Of Love

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Love Is Kind – The Healing Power Of Love.

That year, my boyfriend had forgotten my birthday.
I didn’t take it as a big deal since I wasn’t exactly the party, celebration kind of girl. Plus, I rarely celebrated the day myself unless someone else decided to do it on my behalf. Most years, it just went by like any other day unless someone surprised me like happened that particular year.

I was therefore shocked when I got a call from a friend telling me, “When you are in town, please give me a call, I have something that has your name on it and belongs to you.”

When I eventually got to town, my friend had a package with a number of goodies and among them was the biggest, most expensive looking box of Chocolates I had ever seen in my life!

I looked at the box very surprised and speechless. He looked at me, not sure whether I was happy or not. So he went on to explain further, “I didn’t know what to get you. I wanted it to be a surprise so I didn’t ask whether you like chocolates or not. I hope you love them”

I then told him, ‘It’s not that. I’m just really deeply moved right now. That is why I’m speechless.’

He prodded me, “Go ahead and open the box. These are really delicious chocolates. Plus they are rare to find in these parts. I know you will love them.”

I told him, “No! I will open them later, when I’m home and settled. I want to savor them. Slowly and patiently.”

But something deeply intrigued me. So I asked him, ‘Why did you get me all this?’ He then proceeded to tell me, “Simply because I think you deserve this and much more.” I wasn’t very convinced, so I asked him, “Really? Is it not because it was my birthday a few days ago?”

He told me, “It was your birthday? Why didn’t you tell me? I didn’t know.”

I looked at him speechless and with my eyes a little misty. I don’t know if he saw the pain and untold stories in my eyes that day, but he went on to say, “You deserve every beautiful thing in this world.”

I just looked at him quietly. Deeply moved and speechless. I didn’t know what to tell him. But in my mind I kept thinking, ‘Wow! Wow! God still does create them like this! God you still make them this way, there is Hope for humanity after all.”

That day, as I meditated on the events that had happened, the word, Kindness took on a whole new meaning.
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There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love Him because He first loved us.

1 John 4:18-19

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

1 Corinthians 13:4

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Temperance Is Love In Training – Love, Family, And Relationship Quotes – Dwight Lyman Moody

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Temperance Is Love In Training – Love, Family, And Relationship Quotes – Dwight Lyman Moody.

“My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“Temperance is love in training.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“Lying covers a multitude of sins – temporarily.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“I never knew up to that time that God loved us so much. This heart of mine began to thaw out; I could not keep back the tears. I just drank it in…I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in the world and that is love.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“Faith makes all things possible … love makes all things easy.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“The Gospel of John opens with Jesus Christ in the bosom of God, and closes with the sinner in the bosom of Jesus Christ.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“A good example is far better than a good precept.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“There’s no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words, and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wickedness; yet Jesus will have compassion upon you. He will speak comforting words to you; not treat you coldly or spurn you, as perhaps those of earth would, but will speak tender words, and words of love and affection and kindness. Just come at once. He is a faithful friend – a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“The last business of Christ’s life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God’s favor.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian… and most of all, his family ought to know.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise at once to comfort and respectability… I never saw a man who put Christ first in his life that wasn’t successful.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“Character is what a man is in the dark.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“The reward of service is more service.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He was born lowly, that He might raise men up to God. The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, He loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God’s grace.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“I went to preaching again. The sermons were not different; I did not present any new truths, and yet hundreds were converted. I would not now be placed back where I was before that blessed experience if you should give me all the world – it would be as dust in the balance.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“Lust is the devil’s counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“Whatever you love more than God is your idol.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“Right now I’m having so much trouble with D.L. Moody that I don’t have time to find fault with the other fellow.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“If we do not commend the Gospel to people by our holy walk and conversation, we shall not win them to Christ. Some little act of kindness will perhaps do more to influence them than any number of long sermons.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved, whenever He heard of their affliction. It was to try them, and it is the same with His dealings toward us. If He seems not to come to us in our affliction, it is only to test us.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“I thank God that the gospel is to be preached to every creature. There is no man so far gone, but the grace of God can reach him; no man so desperate or black, but He can forgive him.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord’s people were divided.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“If you can’t see His way past the tears, trust His heart.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don’t let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

“If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has been denied you. You will not win souls, neither will you acquire that most excellent of earthly sovereignties – sovereignty over human hearts….Love is irresistible.”

Dwight Lyman Moody

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Let Your Words Be The Genuine Picture Of Your Heart – Love, Family, And Relationship Quotes – John Wesley

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Let Your Words Be The Genuine Picture Of Your Heart – Love, Family, And Relationship Quotes – John Wesley.

“Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.”

John Wesley

“Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”

John Wesley

“In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.”

John Wesley

“Get all you can, save all you can and give all you can.”

John Wesley

“Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love.”

John Wesley

“Though we cannot think alike may we not love alike?”

John Wesley

“All outward means of grace, if separate from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or love of God. All outward things, unless he works in them and by them, are in vain.”

John Wesley

“God is the first object of our love: Its next office is, to bear the defects of others. And we should begin the practice of this amidst our own household.”

John Wesley

“One of the greatest evidences of God’s love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.”

John Wesley

“The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in the world.”

John Wesley

“We scarce conceive how easy it is to rob God of his due, in our friendship with the most virtuous persons, until they are torn from us by death. But if this loss produces lasting sorrow, that is a clear proof that we had before two treasures, between which we divided our heart.”

John Wesley

“There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.”

John Wesley

“The world is my parish.”

John Wesley

“As the furious hate which the devil bears us is termed the roaring of a lion, so our vehement love may be termed crying after God.”

John Wesley

“It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul?”

John Wesley

“Love fasts when it can, and as much as it can. It leads to all the ordinances of God, and employs itself in all the outward works whereof it is capable. It flies, as it were, like Elijah over the plain, to find God upon his holy mountain.”

John Wesley

“Humility alone unites patience with love; without which it is impossible to draw profit from suffering; or indeed, to avoid complaint, especially when we think we have given no occasion for what men make us suffer.”

John Wesley

“The best means of resisting the devil is, to destroy whatever of the world remains in us, in order to raise for God, upon its ruins, a building all of love. Then shall we begin, in this fleeting life, to love God as we shall love him in eternity.”

John Wesley

“Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.”

John Wesley

“Give me 100 men who hate nothing but sin and love God with all their hearts and I will shake the world for Christ!”

John Wesley

“Go not to those who want you, but to those who want you most.”

John Wesley

“Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can.”

John Wesley

“Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart.”

John Wesley

“God only requires of his adult children, that their hearts be truly purified, and that they offer him continually the wishes and vows that naturally spring from perfect love. For these desires, being the genuine fruits of love, are the most perfect prayers that can spring from it. It is scarce conceivable how strait the way is wherein God leads them that follow him; and how dependent on him we must be, unless we are wanting in our faithfulness to him.”

John Wesley

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Family, Kindred, Friends, Relatives, Connections And Relationship Quotes

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Family, Kindred, Friends, Relatives, Connections And Relationship Quotes.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.


Charles Kuralt

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

Jessica Lange

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

George Bernard Shaw

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Mother Teresa

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

Mario Puzo

“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” 

Friedrich Nietzsche

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

John Paul II

In time of test, family is best.     

Burmese Proverb

That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.

Deb Caletti

Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Family life contributes immensely to an individual’s happiness. Only in a happy home-life can complete contentment be found.     

Dorthea Kopplin

Life is a secret lease from God and we should not allow ourselves to be bruised. Family life is our strength and success.

Joseph Losery

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore Hesburgh

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

Barbara Bush

We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. 

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

Frederick Buechner

The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. 

Dodie Smith

“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.”

Anita Baker

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Matt Groening

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Aishwarya Rai

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Ogden Stiers

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction.

Eva Burrows

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

Trenton Lee Stewart

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

Eva Burrows

Everyone needs to live within a house. But, having the love and support of your family? That is what makes your house a home.

Anthony Liccione

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”

Jane Howard

My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

Benjamin Bratt

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. 

Virginia Satir

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

Mitch Albom

When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.

Guy Lafleur

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.     

Zig Ziglar

It doesn’t matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that’s all that really matters to me.

Marshawn Lynch

“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.”

George Santayana

The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing

Eva Burrows

Our family is a circle of strength and love…Our family with ever birth and every union the circle grows, our family is a circle of strength every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger.

Harriet Morgan

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

I am in love with life. I think it’s pretty awesome when you are engaged in it. I love my family and my friends, and that to me is the biggest…that’s the love of my life are my friends and family and the experience that I get to share with them. It puts a smile on my face and in my heart.

Cameron Diaz

A man has to travel the world. It can help him find what he needs. But, when he returns home, he knows that he has found it.     

George Moore

“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”

Brad Henry

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

Lee Iacocca

Home is people. Not a place.

Robin Hobb

Family strengthen each other during storms. They help us to be strong. After all, it is a family tradition. Our roots are deeper, our hearts are stronger, we never give up.

Karen L Madewell

Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do … it isn’t something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day. 

Stephanie Marston

I am the common man. I’m polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That’s my lifestyle, and that’s what I try to bring to characters.

Eugene Levy

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”

Anthony Brandt

The only strength that really matters is the strength that makes you what you are in the eyes of those you love.

Wes Fessler

Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.

Marmontel Gretry

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw

We will respect family life. We will develop it and encourage it in any way we can, for strong families are the foundation of strong communities.

Tony Blair

I love my family, I’ll do anything for them.

Toni Braxton

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Jim Rohn

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. 

Frederick Buechner

“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”

David Ogden Stiers

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Alex Haley

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

Jonathan Safran Foer

While at work, keep a picture of your family on your desk. This reminds you that there is another world of yours at home.

M. K. Soni

I sustain myself with the love of family.

Maya Angelou

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That’s what happiness is.

Michael J. Fox

“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”

Lee Iacocca

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Desmond Tutu

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more secure. 

Jim Butcher

My priority is to hang out with the ones I love – my family, my loved ones.

Cote de Pablo

“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”

Andre Maurois

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Brad Henry

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.

Jim Butcher

Like the seaweed that clings to each other after each passing boat separates them, so too a family will come together with the passing of each crisis.

Indonesian Proverb

No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Lee Iacocca

“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.”

Marge Kennedy

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

Gail Buckley

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that’s all that matters.

Lance Armstrong

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

Mitch Albom

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Anthony Brandt

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Is God’s Love Conditional Or Unconditional – Exploring Love In The New Age

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God’s love is Conditional, it is not unconditional!

WHAT?

I think I just had a nightmare I immediately reasoned when I woke up one cheery morning a few days ago and the first thing that came to my mind, wasn’t how lovely the weather was, but that God’s love is conditional.
It sounded almost like hearsay and blasphemy!
God’s love is not unconditional?

After everything the Televisions, Newspapers, Magazines, Novels, Hollywood, a hoard of Pastors, Priests, Popes, Prophets etc had been preaching and screaming for years?

How could God’s love be Conditional? The thought alone started causing me Cognitive dissonance.
I started remembering all the times I had advocated for blindly unconditional love.

I was really having a difficult day with these thoughts that stubbornly refused to leave me however hard I tried getting them out of mind. And where had this thought come from to occupy my mind?
How could this be?
Where was I going to put 1 Corinthians 13 and all the other love verses I believed?

All these thoughts led to emotions and feelings that felt like daggers to my soul and heart. In fact I started going through the 5 stages of Grief in no particular order.

During the anger phase, I felt like screaming, ‘God this feels like sabotage, Why are you doing this to my long held beliefs?’ But that day it felt like God was pin drop silent.

Soon my Anger had turned into denial. This could not be possible. God’s love could not be conditional. So to help calm myself, I started bargaining with Jesus. But despite all the  negotiations and arguments that went in my head with God, the thoughts just grew louder and louder.

Anyhow, as with every time I get cognitive dissonance, to ease my mind of the pain of conflicting thoughts, I often research and that is what I did. I got my tools and went to work to explore whether God’s love is truly conditional.

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I started by praying and then I proceeded to open my Bible. I went to re-read John 3:16 the famous and widely quoted Bible Verse that speaks of the greatness and largeness of God’s love.

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

John 3:16-18 (NKJV)

Indeed God loved the world so much! He loved the world so much, he left his glorious kingdom and showed up himself to redeem the world himself, BUT, in verse 16 there is that catch phrase WHOEVER which doesn’t sound at all like ALL. If you don’t accept Jesus and his perfect sacrifice, like verse 18 says, you are already condemned.
Now, that sounds conditional.
Either accept Jesus or be condemned.

Let’s stop deceiving ourselves and taking God’s Love for granted. God love’s us very much but he also expects belief from us. Plus it’s time for a mindset change too because we have held onto these deceptive and manipulative thoughts for a long time.

And to all those who have been blackmailing other’s to manipulate them into giving unconditional love in the guise of God’s love is unconditional, so if you are a Christian you have to put up with my evil and wicked behavior etc … Think Again! Yes! Please THINK AGAIN.

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What Is Stopping You From Receiving And Giving Love

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What Is Stopping You From Receiving And Giving Love.

What is stopping you from giving Love?

What is stopping you from receiving Love?

What is stopping you from enjoying Love?

What is stopping you from indulging in Love?

What is separating you from experiencing Love?

What is preventing you moving forward and leaving your hurt behind?

Is it fear?

Is it pain?

Is it rejection?

Is it shame?

Is it guilt?

Is it the Past?

Is it sickness?

Is it poverty?

Is it suffering?

Is it withchraft?

Is it the future?

Is the present?

Is it persecution?

Is it persecution?

Is it lack of opportunity?

 

Well, I’m writing to let you know that you can lay down whatever has been preventing and stopping you from accessing love at the foot of the cross of Jesus.

Take the baggage and burdens to his cross.

Leave it all there and exchange it for his Love.

The love of Jesus will do this for you:

  1. Make you whole
  2. Help you learn to love yourself
  3. Help you learn to give others love
  4. Help you learn to receive love.

Let nothing in this world, the sky, the sea or anywhere ever stop you from accessing the love of Jesus.

38 For I am persuaded that not even death or life,
angels or rulers,
things present or things to come, hostile powers,

.
39 height or depth, or any other created thing
will have the power to separate us
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Romans 8:38-39

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What Does Love Mean To Children

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What does love mean to children as they grow up?

What does love mean to children as they grow up?

Are we teaching children the true meaning of love and helping them not only know the love of Jesus Christ but love for others?

I found five children at the park and decided to ask them what love meant to each of them. They gave me some delightful answers.

Thomas – Age 6 – “Love is when Daddy tucks me in to sleep at night and reads me a story.”

Jenny – Age 5 – “Love is when mummy buys me dolls and treats.”

Benjamin – Age 5 – “Love is being all nice and good.” 

Gerry – Age 7 – “Love is when my mummy and my daddy kiss and look at each other with that look in their eyes.”

Regina – Age 6 – “When my friend Destiny shares her toys and snacks with me while we are playing, that is love.“

Ritu is a working mother who has two adorable children.

She shares her experiences on, “What love means to kids”  in an awesome blog post. Her post was inspired by a question she asked her two children on what love meant to them.

Her children gave very creative  responses.

In answering the question, they imaginatively expressed themselves by drawing pictures, writing posts and some very heart warming poetry. She starts her fabulous blog post by telling us: 

“I asked my children what love meant, and both of them, at separate times, mad faces at me, and went “Yuck!” Typical reactions for an 11 and 9-year-old! Love = boys/girls = kissing. Of course, that’s ‘yuck’ to them! After a little more explanation, the best we came up with was this; Lil Man There” ……. 

via Day 17 #Loveuary ❤ What Does Love Mean to Kids — But I Smile Anyway…

To read the Full Blog Post, please click the Link above

As we help children learn how to love wholesomely, we should remember to teach them the 1 Corinthians 13Bible definition of love which I summarized as:

Love is patient

Love is kind.

Love does not envy

Love is not boastful

Love is not puffed up

Love does not act improperly

Love is not selfish

Love is not provoked

Love thinks no evil

Love does not keep a record of wrongs

Love takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true

Love bears all things

Love believes all things

Love hopes all things

Love endures all things

Love never fails

 

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Hannah

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