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It’s loving him. It’s yielding to him. Even misdirected prayers throb with power. It’s true, and I hate it. I cringe at the thought of pestering the One I love, or grieving him by not instantly yielding to the This side of prayer seems to tear up everything Scripture teaches about love, submission and respect. It’s true! God is a beautiful, loving tease!

My love for you is no virtue. You choose to be driven by love. Neither could omnipotence force a person to love someone, because to be genuine, love must be utterly be loving and wait for a response. No one loves like you love those who rage against you, so no one hurts like you.

I felt if he could know what I had done and still love me, then surely God, who is so much more loving and forgiving than any human, could also love and forgive me.   To me, God’s great plan of salvation seemed too perfect to be true. That is where I went wrong.

Without ever intending to, vast numbers of caring, Bible-loving Christians have slipped from the Bible We truly must love the Lord with our mind and walk by faith, not feelings. It is both natural and biblical to grieve the departure of loved ones. This calls for great love, understanding and perseverance. No matter how bad things have been, our loving Lord has good planned for us and wants us to live in hope

The same is true for every tribe and language and people group on this planet: Revelation 5:9-13  They If you were of the world, the world would love its own. For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not Moreover, Jesus emphasized that to be like God a father should not be cold and impersonal but must love that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love

The sheer impossibility is reflected in Paul’s almost nonsensical prayer about God’s love: Ephesians I bow my knees to the Father . . . that he would grant you . . . to know Christ’s love which surpasses Almighty God manifests his love, however, by not abusing his fearsome power by forcing godly attitudes It will mean radically different things if the parent is loving and gentle, with a sense of humor, or The only way to avoid misunderstanding God is to never underestimate his merciful, loving heart, and

in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live Galatians 2:20  I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Encouragement for Pastors, Counselors, Spiritual Advisors   This is for the spiritual advisors or friends and loved , but he feels no love from God or for God. He considers that this lack of feeling has proven to him that he is completely separated from the love I identify with you if someone you care for has not responded to all your competent, patient, loving, Evil spiritual powers can never touch God’s love for us, nor the infinite power of the cross.

occult – that mysterious supernatural world, where people have strange powers, and can influence the lives But life itself teaches us that statement isn’t true. (NRSV)   I was particularly moved that Daniel had prayed like this, since I know of  no  specific sin   *  I, too, loved my mother’s book about witches   *  I had become addicted to the same popular writer I would have loved to have psychic powers.   *  I loved the mythology of pagan Greece and Rome.

God love is not based on what you have or haven’t done. He loves you because he loves you. The Lord of all has not just power beyond our wildest dreams, but equally incomprehensible love. It is only because he loves us that our sin affects God. And either he longs to make you as holy and perfect as he is, or he isn’t love. God’s mind-boggling love for us moves him to give us great dignity by not treating us as objects.

The sins you love are as deadly as the sins you despise. Then we’ll move to some exciting facts. 1. Satan will disguise the true nature of the temptation, but it is actually a temptation to believe God We get just one shot at living a perfect life and we have all blown it.

credence to his wise and loving demands than to our own whims. It is sheer hypocrisy to ask God to take away the sins we hate, if we plan to keep the sins we love. The sin you love is as deadly as the sin you hate.   No one has suffered the pain of rejected love like God.   You can never be forced to love someone. Nor can you be forced to genuinely want purity of heart.