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28 Days to LOVE

28 Days to LOVE ~
Introduction to Freedom in LOVE!

28 Days to LOVE…Love Excellently…And now I will show you the most excellent way. 1 Corinthians 12:31b
God is love; we love because he first loved us… 1John 4

Encouragement Shared:

We are commanded to- love one another deeply… Love is an action not an emotion. Emotion leads us to commotion and destruction. We are going to walk through “28 Days to Love” …according to God’s word. Perfect love expels fear. [1 John 4:18] Statistically speaking it takes 28 days to remove the toxins from our physical body. We are going to detox our lives of the bondages that keep the chains of imprisonment bound around our lives and visit the heart issues that keep us from experiencing love from a pure heart. God gives us beauty for ashes; strength for fear; gladness for mourning; peace for despair. A heart less and less like us and more and more like Jesus. Let us observe the definitive definition of love through the word of truth.Love is…Love is kind and patient, never jealous, boastful, proud, or rude. Love isn’t selfish or quick tempered. It doesn’t keep a record of wrongs that others do. Love rejoices in the truth, but not in evil. Love is always supportive [Protects], loyal, hopeful, and trusting.Love never fails! 1Corinthians 13:4-8 (CEV) Contemporary English Version

An Acronym for Love ~
Love one another…John 15:12Obey the truth… 1Peter 1:22Virtue …add to your faith virtue… 2Peter 1:5Encourage one another daily… Hebrews 3:13
The World View of Love:
The world’s definition of love is misinterpreted, perhaps even skewed if you will. I share these things to sharpen our swords and to encourage us because of the deceitfulness of sin that plagues us everyday. In the worlds definition there is nothing definitive about love. Love is based on false deceptions; preconceptions of following as the world would say: Follow your heart! Follow my heart, according to the word of God my heart is wicked and deceitful [Jeremiah 17:9] We fall in love, we fall out of love. We fall out of love, perhaps we have been wronged. Even worse perhaps an individual we once loved no longer lives up to our standard of un-definitive definition of what we perceive love to be. More than likely the answer is the latter… Where does that leave our relationships within marriage; parent child relationships; friendships? Un-forgiveness due to brokenness leading to bitterness leaving us in a dis-grace from God. That ultimately separates us from God.
Focus for today: 1 John 3:18Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

Prayer:Father let us not love with empty words but uplifting words inactions in truth. Your word is truth. Remove from us everyform of bitterness; anger or malaice be removed from usso that you can prune those bitter roots that defile many.In Jesus name we pray…Amen!
Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance,Love in Christ,Jennifer Pettiford