Love is Your Answer
First Epistle of John 4:16, "And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love...."
If you truly believe in that love, your life will be totally changed. You will love God as your Father.
You will love yourself, and because you love Jesus as your King and you love yourself, you will love others,
especially the ones who are hard to love.
Love Has Been Looking For You
Love has found you because you are reading this message. You may not know it but you were created for love. Your heart's cry is a need to be loved as you truly are. I have good news for you. The greatest love story ever told is about you. You are the reason. Do you know the most intense love that ever existed? It is a love for you. It is a love for which to die.
How can you put a value on something? The value is what someone is willing to pay. You were paid for by love. One love can change your world forever. What is this great love? Jesus dying for you to join you to Himself. Love is the reason that Jesus, God's Son, came to earth. You were a prisoner under the penalty of death, when Jesus died so that you could be set free. All of us have done wrong. This required Jesus, who is perfect, to die in our place so we could be forgiven. It is perfect justice and perfect love. We are set free by God's love. No one has greater love for you than Jesus dying for you. Now, Jesus is alive from the dead to be your friend.
You may not know it, but love is a spiritual thing. Have you ever experienced real love? What if someone knew your very heart and could touch you - heart to heart. This is how God loves you. You are a spirit-being living in flesh. God's Spirit comes to live in your heart. This Spirit of love is for you and lives in you. Your heart is broken without this love. You can never know this love until you accept Jesus as the ruler of your life. You will not understand unless you realize that you are a spirit, living in a body. When you die, your spirit leaves your body, and your body turns back to dirt. Your spirit is the real you. This love from God lives in your spirit. This is "the touch" that you have sought all your life but have never found, because no one else can enter your spirit in love: only God can. Love knew you would be born. Love planned for you. Love knew you would need Jesus. You were born to love Jesus. God is love, and Jesus first loved you.
This is your heart's home. Your heart needs a home. You were created to know God. This is your destiny, your purpose. God is your true Father, and you were made to look like Him - made in His image. God's love for you in Jesus is unconditional. It is a perfect Father's love. You cannot earn it. This love is not based upon how you look or what you can do. This is a love for you, as you are…for just being you. This love will never leave you and will never hurt you. This is the love you were meant to know. This love is what you need at the hour of your death. This love will take you into the presence of God when you die, but only if you receive Jesus as the ruler of your life. You see, because of our sin we become enemies to God - who is perfect - but Jesus died to make peace with God's judgment so that God can take the spirit of death from you, become your Father, and give you the Spirit of eternal life. God's Spirit comes into your human spirit, re-creating your spirit in the image of Jesus Christ.
God wanted you to know that He says to you, personally:
· "I am rich in mercy towards you because of my great love with which I have loved you."
· "I have loved you with an everlasting love, and with everlasting kindness have I drawn you."
· "I have first loved you and have shown my love for you."
· "Nothing shall be able to separate you from my love." (If you know and believe in my love by following Jesus.)
· "In the ages to come, I will show the exceeding riches of my grace in my kindness toward you in Christ Jesus."
· "The kindness and love of God our Savior toward you has appeared, to save you according to My mercy."
This kind of love is a miracle, and there is no other explanation for it. The source is Jesus Christ, who alone can bring God into our life, and bring the Holy Spirit to live in our hearts. Your human spirit comes alive with this love.
This miracle makes it possible for you to experience perfect love down in your heart, where you live. Your spiritual heart is born again. Do you want to experience perfect love in your heart? God said that His love is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who is given to us when we make Jesus the King of our life. Do you understand that Jesus is the Son of God who shed His blood on the cross and died for you? Do you know that Jesus was raised from the dead so that you could be raised from spiritual death? This love is received, not earned. If you believe it, your life will never be the same. When you believe, you can know Jesus as a person, and know God as a spiritual being, and know the Holy Spirit as an experience of love in your own heart. When you reject this love, God cannot reach you. You sign your own death sentence. If you do not let God's love change you, then you will die in your sins and enter a place of eternal suffering, called hell.
You were created for one reason - Love. God said that you will find Him and this love, when you search for God with all your heart. Will you believe in love? This love will come from God, and you will love Jesus Christ; you will learn to love yourself, and you will love other people.
To receive this love, receive Jesus by praying the following:
"Jesus, be the King of my life. I pledge my loyalty to you alone. I will follow you, and serve you, all the days of my life. Jesus, I believe that you lived on the earth, died on the cross, and you are alive from the dead. God, I ask that you accept me as your child, and I now accept by faith that I am born again into your family. I accept your Holy Spirit into my heart to be my strength and my guide as I follow your truth in
Jesus Christ. Thank you, Father God, that I am saved."
If I took myself to the place I deserve, I would take myself to the cross of Jesus, but too late, He has already died in my place. Now, I don't have to die. I am forgiven. Now is the time to forgive myself and to forgive others.
What is God like? Look at the cross of Jesus. He died so I wouldn't have to be lost from Him. He died so I could be healed...when I believe His word on healing with bible faith, or the God-kind of faith, that calls things which are not as though they are. See Romans 4:17.
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