{"id":429,"date":"2017-02-27T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2017-02-27T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:38:38","slug":"for-god-so-loved-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/27\/for-god-so-loved-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"For God So Loved the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Love the Lord your God<\/em>\u2026Matthew 22:37<\/em><\/h6>\n
Greater Love hath no one than this than to lay down your life for his friends<\/em>. John 15:13<\/em><\/h6>\n
Faith, Hope, Love, but the greatest of these is Love<\/em>\u2026I Corinthians 13:13<\/em><\/h6>\n
God is Love<\/em>\u2026I John 4:8<\/em><\/h6>\n
There is no fear in love; but perfect love cast out fear: because fear hath torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love<\/em>. 1 John 4:18<\/em><\/strong>King James Version (KJV)<\/em> (God\u2019s love is perfect.)<\/strong><\/h6>\n
If you Love me keep my commandments<\/em>. John 14:15 (KJV)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
For God so Loved the World<\/em>\u2026 John 3:16<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
Nothing can separate us from God\u2019s love\u2026 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:39New King James Version (NKJV)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another<\/em>. John 13:35<\/em>King James Version (KJV)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
Today the Holy Spirit woke me up with this on His mind\u2026 \u201cLove<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/h6>\n
We\u2019ve all heard it many times before; someone tries to describe what Love is\u2026<\/h6>\n
Love is not a what, Love is a Who\u2026and it doesn\u2019t matter if you know or not, believe it or not, understand it or not\u2026what we think does not determine Who Love is\u2026because God Is, Love<\/em>. It is His essence\u2026His nature\u2026Love is Who, He, is\u2026there are no words to even begin to try to express this Love. God is unexplainable\u2026but for our peanut brains\u2026God has shown us who He is\u2026by the Love he gave when He gave us His son\u2026(Jesus\/Yeshua)<\/h6>\n
I know, I, can\u2019t explain Him\u2026but I know Him\u2026He is revealing more and more of who He is to me every day\u2026and Oh the blessing of Him\u2026I cannot begin to tell\u2026but when you have that encounter with Him\u2026the personal, intimate, undeniable Love, of the Father, touch you\u2026you will never ever want to be without Him\u2026His love is like nothing of this world\u2026it\u2019s not sensual or lustful or perverted\u2026it is Good and healthy and restores the soul\u2026He is fresh and new every single day\u2026Each day a new adventure opens with Him\u2026Oh let Him come into your heart\u2026Let Him show you new depths and heights and insurmountable Love He has for you\u2026real love that does not diminish in time or space or death or life\u2026He is Life and He wants to give His love to you\u2026don\u2019t turn away\u2026don\u2019t break His heart\u2026don\u2019t leave him hanging on the cross\u2026but open the tomb of your heart and let him come in and live with you. Let His light dispel the darkness and let it shine in every corner of your life\u2026I promise, you will not be disappointed.<\/h6>\n
For, God, Is, Love!<\/h6>\n
This says it best\u2026I Corinthians Chapter 13:1-13<\/em><\/strong>\u2026<\/h6>\n
The Way of Love<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don\u2019t love, I\u2019m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.<\/em><\/h6>\n
If I speak God\u2019s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, \u201cJump,\u201d and it jumps, but I don\u2019t love, I\u2019m nothing.<\/em><\/h6>\n
If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don\u2019t love, I\u2019ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I\u2019m bankrupt without love.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Love never gives up.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Love cares more for others than for self.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Love doesn\u2019t want what it doesn\u2019t have.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Love doesn\u2019t strut,<\/em><\/h6>\n
Doesn\u2019t have a swelled head,<\/em><\/h6>\n
Doesn\u2019t force itself on others,<\/em><\/h6>\n
Isn\u2019t always \u201cme first,\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
Doesn\u2019t fly off the handle,<\/em><\/h6>\n
Doesn\u2019t keep score of the sins of others,<\/em><\/h6>\n
Doesn\u2019t revel when others grovel,<\/em><\/h6>\n
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,<\/em><\/h6>\n
Puts up with anything,<\/em><\/h6>\n
Trusts God always,<\/em><\/h6>\n
Always looks for the best,<\/em><\/h6>\n
Never looks back,<\/em><\/h6>\n
But keeps going to the end.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
When I was an infant at my mother\u2019s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
We don\u2019t yet see things clearly. We\u2019re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won\u2019t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We\u2019ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!<\/em><\/h6>\n
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love. The Message<\/a> (MSG) Bible<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
Philippians 4:8-9 <\/em><\/strong>Summing it all up, friends, I\u2019d say you\u2019ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious\u2014the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies. The Message (MSG) Bible<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n
I love you God. ~Me<\/h6>\n
I love you more! ~God<\/h6>\n

–Marla Shaw O’Neill February 27, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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