Let him Love you

God has more regard for your dominion than you do

You have to ask to be saved

You have to ask for the Holy Spirit

He will never force himself on you or “do anything” to you without your permission.

As you graduate from Charis you are filled with knowledge and want to go out and change the world.

1 COR 8:1

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies. (OUCH)

Peter called to ministry

John 21:15

The Love Motivation

So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus *said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Tend My lambs.”

John 14:15

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

The first commandment is to love your god, the second is to love your neighbor.

I Cor 13

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing

All this talk of Love, it must be important

You say, I have the love of god

TEST

Matthew 5:38

“You have heard that it was said, ‘AN eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat also. Whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven

Do you have difficulty with these statements

Whats love got to do with it

Remember God is life and love

You are made to run on love, living without love is like having a race car without gas, you have to push it or you try to put anything in the tank to get it to run.

The world knows “all you need is love”. We market products promising love, people will do anything to get it.

This is why flattery is so effective, even though you know its insincere it feels so good you don’t want it to stop.

In fact I believe, all sin stems from this lack

oxytocin

in one 2012 study

Trusted Source

Oxytocin a naturally occurring hormone. It’s produced by the hypothalamus — a small region at the base of your brain — and secreted by the nearby pituitary gland.

It causes

• relaxation
• trust
• overall psychological stability

The hormone has also been shown to decrease stress and anxiety levels when released into certain parts of the brain.

couples in the first stages of romantic attachment had significantly higher levels of oxytocin than their unattached counterparts.

We naturally seek love, we need it and when we don’t have it we crave it.

We are like drug addicts looking for our love fix, we try to get it from others but they are trying to get it from us. So we turn to poor substitutes to get our fix, we are “looking for love in all the wrong places"

You think that if you were prettier, or thinner or smarter you would be worthy of love and that would solve the problem.

Sadly the world seems to understand this love need better than the church.

God solution

The promise

Ezekiel 36:26

Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Heart of stone formed by the injuries to your heart

Rejection, broken hearts, betrayal, not being picked for a team, standing at the wall of the dance, perhaps you are pretty but all they want is to sleep with you, we all have a need for love, it is the core of our being. 

JESUS

Luke 4:18

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

John 4:14

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal (love) life.”

Revelation 21:6

And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life (love) freely.

Testimony

This is where we get off the analytical to the experiential

I see the need to love others, but I’m not feeling it.

Arthur / Andrew

You cannot give what you don’t have

He would rip that heart of stone from your chest and pour himself into you but you cannot receive.

YOU NEED TO EXPERIENCE GOD LOVING YOU

Let him love you., remember you have to ask him.

FATHER LET ME FEEL YOUR HEART

Crack whore christianity

Drink from the fountain of love until you overflow

Small sips at first is all you can take

Let his love melt that heart of stone

Until you are filled and you overflow

God I’m a piece of ….

I want to kiss you on the lips, this is what Adam and Jesus lost.

Adam lost perfect love (God) and he was afraid.

The world is crying out for love, there is no defense for love, 

Cross and the Switchblade

HOW

First, you need to let him love you. How?

I use music, christian songs are about us praising him, we need songs about him loving 

us.

My daughter tells me that the Jews have these songs.

Unexpectedly I found that the world has tons of these songs that you can use and Ill share one of my favorites with you, However, don’t watch the videos, these people are not saved.

Listen over and over again imagining him singing it to you.

You will let him love you and melt that stony heart and then

you will be content, filled to the brim and able to give love to the unlovely. Those who use you, spit on you, even kill you, all need the Love you have inside of you to heal them.

We are to be fountains of love to a world who desperately needs it

You don’t even need to mention the word Jesus at first, just poor out the love overflowing from you. And you can do this because Jesus has filled your love tank and you need nothing from them. You can give them love without expecting anything in return.

They will be drawn like crack addicts to a dealer and then you can tell them about the source

Its not "Jesus loves you", its I LOVE YOU because he loves me.

You heal and deliver them because you love them. You have faith because you know his heart and know that he will never let you down.

Call to fellowship

Matthew 18:20

For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I (Love) am there in their midst.”

You can feel the love between ourselves, dont’t be separate come to Friday bible study just to spend time with us.

Prayer

And when you experience this love for the first time please send me an email so I can celebrate with you.

Ne Yo song