“Hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.”
God's love for you is more than just how he feels about you. His love is more than just His motivation for sending Jesus. His love is an active force in your inner being that has an effect. His love is not just positive thoughts he has about you, it's an actual power than flows from Him into your heart that does things.
What does God's love do? It causes you to be whole.
The sacrifice of Christ made a way for your relationship with God to be restored. But His love, poured out in your heart, is actively making your entire being whole and complete, spirit, soul, and body.
God's love is more than just a nice idea to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside, it's the most powerful force in existence, and it's active in you.
Romans 5:5 And hope does not disappoint us because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
Ephesians 3:16 I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth 19 of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
His love is that power.
The fruits of the spirit are birthed out of a heart convinced of God's love. The power of God works through your life because his love for you has been poured into your heart. The more you are convinced of God's love for you, the more you will allow yourself to be empowered by grace to experience all God seeks to do through you.
So the conclusion is to become fully persuaded of God's love. I recommend finding 12 passages about God's love and meditating on them daily for a few weeks. Then, notice how that exercise affects you at work, with your spouse, when you're tempted, when you're inspired to pray for someone, and in other areas of your life.
Watch the message above for a deeper teaching on the powerful love of God.
