experiencing the love of God

How is Gods Love Experienced in the Heart?

Experiencing the Love of God , not simply just thinking about it, is something we should desire with all of our hearts.

So How have you experienced the Love of God in your life in your heart?

When We experience the Love of God deep with in our heart it brings great joy and peace because in it we taste the very reality of God and His Love

Galatians 5:22 NKJV

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

So how is your love tank? Your Joy your Peace how are you doing Spiritually?

Gods Love is the deep and wonderful assurance that our hope does not disappoint

Romans 5:5 NKJV

5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

It is with this assurance that helps us to rejoice in Hope of the Glory of God

Romans 5:2 NKJV

2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

when I say we can have assurance where does your mind go what are your thoughts?

When i talk about the Hope what do you picture how is it reflected in your life?

When we have hope and Faith it is this that carries us through the difficult times in life

Is the experience of the Love of God the same for all believers? Should it be?

No not totally if all believers had the same experience and love of God, Paul would not have prayed for the Church at Ephesus that they

Ephesians 3:18–19 NKJV

18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

He Prayed this because some or “all”were deficient in their love for Christ, and we are presumably the same way as they were

Another thing, if we all shared the same experiences the same level of degree there would be more chiefs than Indians analogy

1 Corinthians 12:12–27 NKJV

12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not one member but many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be? 20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 23 And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, 24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, 25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

Is it not a personal Road ? Personal Gifts personal experiences that set us apart for different parts of the ministry ?

So How does one pursue the fullness of the Love of God in their hearts pored out by the Holy Spirit?

recognise that it is not like hypnosis electric shock therapy or drug induced hallucinations

Its not the same as knowledge though it comes by knowledge

1 Peter 1:6 NKJV

6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,

3. understand we go seasons within our Faith

1 Peter 1:8 NKJV

8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

Here is a experience of great inexpressible Joy Joy beyond words that is not based on seeing Christ but is based upon the believing Faith in Christ alone

what is the “this there in Verse 6 ?

it is the truth

1 Peter 1:3 NKJV

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1.His abundant Mercy .

1 Peter 1:4 NKJV

4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

2. We will obtain a inheritance that is incorruptible that does not fade away in heaven

1 Peter 1:5 NKJV

5 who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

3. In this we greatly reojice for we are Kept by the Power of God through faith not of ourselves but by God

Ephesians 2:8–9 NKJV

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

In this we can have unspeakable inexpressible Joy

This Experience comes by the knowledge of Christ

Galatians 3:5 NKJV

5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Romans 5:5 NKJV

5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

2 things Hearing and Faith

Romans 10:17 NKJV

17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

There is the hearing about the truths of Christ then there is the faith in that hearing

This is how the Spirit of God is supplied how he is poured out by the father

He comes through hearing knowing and believing

Romans 15:13 NKJV

13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Hope The Faith

Hebrews 11:1 NKJV

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

the Hope the Faith fills us with the Joy and the Peace in Believing

Romans 8:39 NKJV

39 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.

4 Things to Conciser

1. Look to Jesus Consider Christ Meditate on His Glory an His Work not casually but intentionally Think and meditate in His promises He made and that he guaranteed by his death and Resurrection

2. Pray that God would Open your eyes to the wonder of His Love in these things , Keep a journal remind yourself of the victories that Christ has led your through

3.Renounce all known attitudes and behaviors that contradict this demonstration of love towards you

4. Then Enjoy the experiences of the Love of God has poured out into your heart by the Holy Spirit

Father incline our Hearts towards you to see the beauty of our saviour and Lord Jesus help us to embrace it with Joy Lord let us decrease and your increase in our lives

Grant that we would behold and believe that we would see and savor the majesties of you in our Life

May our minds lay hold on the content of Faith and our hearts receive it with the affection of Faith Lord cause your love to flow like a river throughout our souls may we not just know about it but experience it the reality of your love in our lives To be the Glory of Our precious Savior Jesus Christ Amen,