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7 Ways Of Demonstrating The Love Of God In Our Lives
Contributed by Dr. Stanley Vasu on Jan 20, 2012 (message contributor)
Summary: 1.PRECEPTS 2.PRAYER 3.PRAISE 4.PERSECUTION 5.PRESENTS 6.PHILANTHROPY 7.PROCLAMATION
7 WAYS OF DEMONSTRATING THE LOVE OF GOD IN OUR LIVES
OUTLINE
1.PRECEPTS
2.PRAYER
3.PRAISE
4.PERSECUTION
5.PRESENTS
6.PHILANTHROPY
7.PROCLAMATION
THE MESSAGE
7 WAYS OF DEMONSTRATING THE LOVE OF GOD IN OUR LIVES
1.PRECEPTS
We demonstrate the love of God by obeying His precepts and commandments
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
John 14:15, 21, 23
"If you love me, keep my commands.
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to
them."
Jesus replied, "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.
This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.
In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,
But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him:
Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.
2. PRAYER
We demonstrate the love of God by spending time in His presence in prayer and in meditation of the word of God and by our love for the house of
God..
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.
She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said.
But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the
work by myself? Tell her to help me!"
"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things,
but few things are needed--or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
Psalm 27: 4,8
One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD
and to seek him in his temple.
My heart says of you, "Seek his face!" Your face, LORD, I will seek.
Psalm 84:1-2, 10
How lovely is your dwelling place, LORD Almighty!
My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
I rejoiced with those who said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD."
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,
not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
3. PRAISE
We demonstrate the love of God by offering our praise and worship to God that flows out of the true love and devotion in our hearts . We must
worship God in spirit and in truth with a heart of gratitude and thanksgiving.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the
Father seeks.
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth."
You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
"'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.'"
Praise the LORD, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits--
