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Lord, I come to You Let my heart be changed, renewed Flowing from the grace That I found in You. And, Lord, I've come to know The weaknesses I see in me Will be stripped away By the power of Your love. Hold me close Let Your love surround me Bring me near Draw me to Your side. And as I wait I'll rise up like the eagle And I will soar with You Your Spirit leads me on In the power of Your love. Lord, unveil my eyes Let me see You face to face The knowledge of Your love As You live in me. Lord, renew my mind As Your will unfolds in my life In living every day In the power of Your love. The Power of Your Love

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  • 1.Lord, I come to YouLet my heart be changed, renewedFlowing from the graceThat I found in You.And, Lord, I've come to knowThe weaknesses I see in meWill be stripped awayBy the power of Your love.Hold me closeLet Your love surround meBring me nearDraw me to Your side.And as I waitI'll rise up like the eagleAnd I will soar with YouYour Spirit leads me onIn the power of Your love.Lord, unveil my eyesLet me see You face to faceThe knowledge of Your loveAs You live in me.Lord, renew my mindAs Your will unfolds in my lifeIn living every dayIn the power of Your love.The Power of Your Love

2. Psalm 116:8-9

  • For you, O Lord have delivered my soul
  • from death,
  • my eyes from tears,
  • my feet from stumbling,
  • that I may walk before the Lord
  • in the land of the living.

3. Show the World Gods Love Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 4. Life Questions

  • What is love? Is it easy to love? Can we do it alone?
  • The house of my soul is too small. Enlarge it, Lord, that you might enter in .
    • St. Augustine

5. Ephesians 3:16-19 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledgethat you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 6. Tell the World of Gods Love

  • Understand Gods Love
  • Respond to and Give Gods Love
  • Grow in Deeper Knowledge of Gods Love

7. Ephesians 3:16-19 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,18 may have power, together with all the saints,to grasphow wide and long and high and deep isthe love of Christ ,19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledgethat you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 8. Life Questions

  • What is love? Is it easy to love? Can we do it alone?
  • How does God reveal to you His Love?
    • When have you encountered Gods love face to face
    • How much does God love you?

9. What is Gods Love?

  • is perfect and total
  • is spontaneous and undeserved
  • is wide, long, high, and deep
  • unfailing and can not be taken away

10. Is perfect and total

  • "For God so loved the world thathe gave his one and only Son , that whoever believes in him shall not perish buthave eternal life . (John 3:16 NIV)
  • For I know theplansI have for you," declares the LORD, "plans toprosper youand not to harm you, plans togive you hope and a future (Jer. 29:11 NIV)
  • There is no fear in love. Butperfect lovedrives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (1 John 4:18 NIV)

11. Is Spontaneous and Undeserved

  • This is love: not that we loved God, but thathe loved us. (I John 4:10 NIV)
  • TheLORDdid not choose you and lavish his love on you because you were larger or greater than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations! It was simply because theLORDloves you. (Deut. 7:7-8 NLT)

12. Is Wide, Long, High, and Deep

  • Wide
    • The Lord isgood to all , and His tender mercies areover all His works[the entirety of things created]. (Psalm 145:9 AMP)
  • Long
    • Forgreatis his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORDendures forever . Praise the LORD. (Psalm 117:2 NIV)
  • High
    • For your unfailing love ishigher than the heavens . Your faithfulnessreaches to the clouds . (Psalm 108:4 NLT)
  • Deep
    • The Lord isclose to the brokenhearted ; he rescues those whose spirits arecrushed . (Psalm 34:18 NIV)

13. Unfailing and Cant Be Taken Away

  • He hadalwaysloved those who were his own in the world, and he loved themall the way to the end. (John 13:1 NIV)
  • 38 For I am convinced thatneitherdeath nor life,neitherangels nor demons,neitherthe present nor the future, nor any powers,39 neitherheight nor depth,noranything else in all creation,will be able to separateus from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 8:38-39 NIV)

14. Tell the World of Gods Love

  • Understand Gods Love
  • Respond to and Give Gods Love
  • Grow in Deeper Knowledge of Gods Love

15. Ephesians 3:16-19 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledgethat you maybe filledto the measure of all thefullness of God . 16. Life Questions

  • Is it easy to love? Can we do it alone?
  • How does God reveal to you His Love?
    • When have you encountered Gods love face to face
    • How much does God love you?
  • How do you show your love? How could you do better?
    • To God
    • To yourself
    • To others (family, friends, strangers, enemies)

17. How should we respond to Godslove?

  • Man to God
    • Obedience and Christ Centered
  • Man to Himself
    • Transformation and Living Loved
  • Man to Others
    • Action and Being Salt of the Earth

18. Man to God: Obedience

  • And this is love: that wewalk in obedienceto his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love. (2 John 1:6 NIV)
  • Jesus replied: Love the Lord your Godwith all your heart ,with all your soulandwith all your mind , This is the first and greatest commandment. (Matt 22:37-38 NIV)

19. Man to God: Being Christ Centered

  • I am the Vine, you are the branches. When yourejoined with meand I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant.Separated, you cant produce a thing. (John 15:5 MSG)
  • If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love,I am nothing (1 Cor. 13:2 NIV)
  • Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he mustdeny himselfand take up his crossdaily and follow me . (Luke 9:23 NIV)
  • Everyday SurrenderContinuous Conversion Oswald Chambers

20. Man to Himself: Transformation

  • 1 Corinthians 13 1:8
  • Christ in _____is patient,Christ in _____is kind.Christ in _____does not envy,Christ in _____does not boast,Christ in _____is not proud.Christ in _____is not rude,Christ in _____is not self-seeking,Christ in _____is not easily angered,Christ in _____keeps no record of wrongs.Christ in _____does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.Christ in _____always protects, always perseveres.Christ in _____never fails.

21. Man to Himself: Living Loved

  • Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget,I will not forget you ! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands . . . (Isaiah 49:15-16)
  • Ill call nobodies andmake them somebodies ; Ill call the unloved andmake them beloved . (Rom. 9:25 MSG)
  • Feel loved! By being loved, we will love.

22. Man to Others: Action

  • My command is this:Love each otheras I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:12-13 NIV)
  • Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue butwith actions and in truth . (1 John 3:18 NIV)
  • Bedevoted to one anotherin love. Honor one anotherabove yourselves . (Rom. 12:10 NIV)
  • Love yourenemies (Luke 6:27-31)

23. Man to Others: Salt of the Earth

  • You are thesalt of the earth . But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. (Matt. 5:13 NLT)
  • Each of you shouldlooknot only to your own interests, but also to theinterests of others . (Phil. 2:4 NIV)
  • So letsstop condemningeach other. Decide instead to live in such a way that you willnot cause another believer to stumble and fall . (Rom. 14:13 NLT)

24. Tell the World of Gods Love

  • Understand Gods Love
  • Respond to and Give Gods Love
  • Grow in Deeper Knowledge of His Love

25. Ephesians 3:16-19 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,17 so that Christ maydwell in your heartsthrough faith. And I pray that you, beingrooted and establishedin love,18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,19 andto knowthis love thatsurpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 26.

  • And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love, the deeper and wider our knowledge, the greater will be our love .And if our love of God is great, we shall love Him equally in our joy and sorrow.
    • Brother Lawrence

27. The More We Know, the More We Love

  • Dear friends, let uscontinueto love one another, for love comes from God. Anyonewho lovesis a child of God andknows God . But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. (1 John 4:17-18 NLT)
  • And I will give them a heartto know(recognize, understand, and be acquainted with) Me, that I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for theywill return to Me with their whole heart . (Jer. 24:7 AMP)

28. Tell the World of Gods Love

  • Let usthank the Lordfor loving us
  • Think ofsomeone you love , and ask the Lord to help youlive out your lovetoward them today
  • Ask theHoly Spirit to fill youwith Himself, with Love, to help you slow down andbe more presentwith the people you love and to be ableto show them Christ in you , to show them Love

29. Ephesians 3:16-19 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledgethat you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 30. Tell the World of Gods Love Because your love is better than life,my lips will glorify you.