Love

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Love

• Natural Love Selfish
• I love my car, this dress, my wife
• I love what/who I need I love what serves me.
• Supernatural Love Selfless
• I sacrifice to benefit someone else
• I love to meet a need to serve

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How water comes to us
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Gods Love endures forever

• (Psalms 136) Give thanks to the LORD, for he is
  good. His love endures forever. 2 Give thanks
  to the God of gods. His love endures forever. 3
  Give thanks to the Lord of lords His love
  endures forever. 4 to him who alone does great
  wonders, His love endures forever

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Knowing Gods Love

• (Ephesians 316-19) I pray that out of his
  glorious riches he may strengthen you with power
  through his Spirit in your inner being, And I
  pray that you, being rooted and established in
  love, 18 may have power to grasp how wide and
  long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
  19 and to know this love that surpasses
  knowledge

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Practicing Love

• What to sacrificially DO Know what kind of love
  is needed.
• What to sacrificially NOT DO Knowing what to
  lovingly restrain from doing.

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Applying Gods power to love

• Know (preparation step) I am loved
  unconditionally by God and I have access to His
  deep love through the Holy Spirit.
• Connect (preparation step) Spend time connecting
  with Christ (Abiding)
• Pray, God, give me your Spirits power as I
  choose to love in the ways that You show me.