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You must received GOD'S LOVE for yourself first before you can love others....( It's all about LOVE part 1 )

God deeply and intimately loves you! His love for you is unconditional—no strings attached, and there is nothing that you can do to get God not to love you. Indeed, Romans 8:38-39 says that there is nothing that can ever separate us from God's love. Knowing that God loves you is central to your understanding of the Gospel, for the entire Gospel is based on God's love :

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.—John 3:16

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.—Romans 5:8

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.—1 John 3:16

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.—1 John 4:9-10

The good news is that God hasn't withheld His love from us; instead, God has poured out his love into our hearts (Romans 5:5).
But what do we do with that love?
We know God loves us, but so what?
What should we do with God's love?
Give it away!
Since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another (1 John 4:11).
In other words, our response to the news of God's love for us needs to be to love others.
Indeed, Jesus repeatedly commanded us to love others :(See Matthew 5:43-47, Mark 12:28-31, Luke 6:27-35, John 13:34-35, John 15:12,17).

However, it is impossible to love others unless you know, believe and receive God's love.
1 John 4:19 says, We love because he first loved us. In other words, we are able to love other people, because God first showed His love to us. If God hadn't shown His love to us, we would have no standard and no example on which to base our love for others.
Similarly, 1 John 4:7 says, Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Here again, our ability to love one another is only because love comes from God.

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Think of your ability to love others like a glass of water.
At first, the glass is empty.
If you don't have any water in your glass, then you obviously can't give water to anyone else.
But when you hold your glass under a faucet and let the water pour out into your glass, it will fill up.
Then, once it is full, your glass will overflow, and you can let the water pour out to everyone around you.

If you don't have love in you, then you can't give love to anyone else. Therefore, you must first receive God's love, before you can love one another.

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Comment by Andrea Haase on February 10, 2010 at 8:51pm: Great, great, just great, we can only share what we have and if we truly have love, God's love, agape love, we can share it. thank you so much my sister. love always

Comment by DIANITA on February 10, 2010 at 4:40pm: hola!!! pues muchas gracias por compartirlo, y yo se que DIOS nos ama incondicionalmente, por que me ha demostrado una vez mas su misericordia, primero que nada gracias por acepatarme

Comment by Christy Gabriel on February 9, 2010 at 7:06pm: Thank you so much for sharing this with me, it is true. Praise the Lord. Haleluja!!! We receive His great love so we can love each other. God bless, protect and keep us all always. Christy Gabriel

Comment by kathleen aldea on February 8, 2010 at 5:08pm: Hi, my brother Abonjo...
the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak... and that's why we must continue our fellowship to The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit in able to overcome our weaknesses...
the key in fighting our flesh is determination...
yes, many people not only Christian are hook in flesh as we go the in front of our computer and entertaining the sites where there are many pornography in it, chatting in live videos and even watching youtube which are sensored.... many but not all christians... are joining the sites like this ( i mean in live videos )some purpose is they want to win souls, and that's good... but then later they are the one being hook, and get sin....
I thank God for I know He is moving now to all of us, who really seek Him and have the desire to abide in Him and His Words...and rejoice , my brother because the conviction of the Holy Spirit is always there to all His children whose relying everything in God's hand... I would like to recommend some of our brothers in Christ here to you, 'have constant fellowship with them, and I know you'll be more comfortable to say things to them ( of course, it's boy's talk hehhehhhehe ) One , is my good friend and my spiritual father here--Bro. Bob Bushman and my brother David Velasquez... I do believe they can help you a lot in your battle right now... but always remember: So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.-1 Cor. 3:7

Comment by john sentury on February 8, 2010 at 6:11am: THE LAND WITHOUT FATHERS.............
Fathers needed this could be the heart cry of many in our world today.real Godly and faithful fathers are absent in many homes.sadly churches are also facing the absence of real fathers.why are there so few fathers? because there are very few sons.jesus has taught us that he was contented being a son.he never usurped power to be the father.the son can do nothing by himself, he can do only what he sees his father doing (john:5:19). The best way to raose fathers or be a Godly, spiritual or earthly father to others is by first learning to be a son.

Comment by Abonjo T. Titus on February 8, 2010 at 6:03am: Thank you very much for this beautiful teaching of I can't give what i don't have that is if I have not receive Love I cannot give Love to any one else only if i have will i be able to give it to another person. Please join me in prayer that the Lord will help me not to go back to my former lives, I have a mysterious battle I can not understand why it is so, I see myself having sex in the dream and when I wake up i keep getting tempted to fornicate or masturbate I most confess to you that I fall into it yesterday but I didn't allow myself to continue in it I pray for God to forgive me and I promise him by His grace and help I will never go back into it again. Once again please pray for me I don't want to go back to sin pls. God blessed you sister.

Comment by selva on February 8, 2010 at 4:56am: Dear sister in christ ,
Really it touched me. As I meditated with the definition of love where ever the word LOVE seen.Then i felt an eternal joy which every one should enjoy.
Definition of LOVE is "THIS IS LOVE, THAT WE WALK AFTER HIS COMMANDMENTS",THIS IS THE COMMANDMENT THAT AS YE HAVE HEARD FROM THE BEGINING, YE SHOULD WALK IN IT."2JOHN : 2
GOD BLESS YOU. ..........Selva(HOSANNA)

Comment by Tikkie on February 8, 2010 at 12:04am: Only when the Love of OUR LORD fills us we can really love others in the way in which OUR LORD wants us to LOVE.May GOD Bless You and Guide You

You must received GOD'S LOVE for yourself first before you can love others....( It's all about LOVE part 1 )

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