THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD WHICH IS THE CHILDREN OF ALMIGHTY GOD, IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE POWER OF GOD WORKING IN THEIR LIVES. THERE IS POWER WHERE EVER GOD IS. SO, IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN, WHATS THE PROBLEM?

God gave me a prophetic dream about the last days and the rapture of the church. I wrote more about that on the “RAPTURE DREAM” page of this site. In this dream God showed me that He was going to pour out His Spirit and people would be receiving miracles just like they did in the days of Jesus. This has already started happening but will be operating in FULL POWER like it was in Jesus day, maybe 6-8 months, BEFORE the rapture of the church. God will be using HIS CHILDREN to pray for the sick and they will be instantly healed with no waiting. After this outpouring of the Spirit, there will be a national lockdown. Then the rapture will happen.

God gave me a message to share with everyone here in September 2022, that this is the time to prepare ourselves and prepare to step out into this mission.

God is going to use His spirit led, Holy Ghost baptized children to express Himself through in these last days. God does not speak to people in thundering voices from Heaven anymore. He IS NOT going to send celestial beings from Heaven that you can see with your eyes to do these miracles. GOD IS GOING TO USE YOU AND I TO DO IT. You are being called right now, just like Jesus and the 12 disciples to GO FORTH IN THE AUTHORITY OF GOD AND SHOW THE WORLD GOD’S POWER.

God needs you on the streets and without fear to pray for people and tell people about His saving grace and mercy. God needs vessels, human beings, to work through who are walking hand in hand with the spirit of God. Not hand in hand with the world of sinners. If you want to be part of this end time movement and revival YOU MUST PERFECT YOUR LOVE WALK AND PUSH SIN AND COMPROMISE FAR AWAY FROM YOUR LIFE. GOD WILL NOT USE A COMPROMISING SINFUL PERSON TO EXPRESS HIMSELF THROUGH. TRUE AGAPE LOVE OF GOD AND FAITH WORK TOGETHER.

Psalm 1:1-3

It is not God’s desire for any to die and go to Hell. It is not God’s desire for anyone to miss the rapture. But God has spiritual laws, requirements and boundaries that HE has set up for ALL PEOPLE to follow, if they want to be a member of His family, and be part of the work of the Kingdom of God.

God wants us to believe in Him and eternally commit our lives to Him BY FAITH. It is an eternal lifetime commitment. Not just something you say to get what you want from God. And God knows EVERYTHING. He knows your sincerity. He knows every thought, attitude and action will you do from now through eternity. So right now, God is wiling to show His power to heal, bless and deliver right before the rapture to give those who may need to see a miracle before they will believe. Of course it is more blessed to believe in the power and reality of God WITHOUT SEEING A PHYSICAL MIRACLE. But because the time is short, God is not holding back so we can draw as many into the family of God as possible BEFORE the rapture happens.

John 20:28-29 CDEV, “Thomas replied, “You are my Lord and my God!” Jesus said, “Thomas, do you have faith because you have seen me? The people who have faith in me without seeing me are the ones who are really blessed!”

HOW DO YOU GET THIS POWER?

When you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you are immediately born again spiritually into the family of God. At that new birth, You are given a new name a new identity and given a position of authority to represent the Kingdom of God.

The more you surrender your spirit, soul and body to the service and love of God the more power you will express. IT IS GOD IN YOU THAT HAS THE POWER. IT IS GOD IN YOU AND UPON YOU THAT IS DOING THE MIRACLE. You are just resting in your authority in Jesus Christ as a child of God. The more holy and pure your vessel is the more God is unhindered to flow through you. GOD LOOKS AT YOUR INVISIBLE HEART; CHARACTER, LOVE; ATTITUDE, MOTIVES. When He sees a man or woman with the same pure heart that HE IS, thats a man or woman He can work through. The more you think act and speak LIKE GOD, the more mature you are in the spirit.

Understand you are not trying to be more powerful. You are assuming your authoritative role in the Kingdom. When you express that authority with your words and attitude, God releases HIS POWER upon the lives and situations you are praying about.

It is the Holy Spirit of God Himself that rests upon your human body that gives you the authority and power you need to reach out and heal. Jesus Christ was BORN AS THE SON OF GOD. He was a spotless, sinless, virgin man. But He did NO MIRACLES until He was water baptized and the Holy Spirit of God came to rest upon Him. AFTER THAT, He had power to heal.

Matthew 3:16-17 CEV, “So Jesus was baptized. And as soon as he came out of the water, the sky opened, and he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him like a dove. 17  Then a voice from heaven said, “This is my own dear Son, and I am pleased with him.”

After this public display of God resting upon Jesus, He assumed His position as the Son of God and went forth to share the message of the Kingdom. He stepped out of His identity of Mary and Josephs son to embrace His identity as THE SON OF ALMIGHTY GOD.

After this, Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit to select 12 men, who would be His disciples, to help Him in His mission. (Matthew 4:1-21) Jesus was so overwhelmed by the abundance of people that needed prayer and healing that it was too much for one man alone. Plus Jesus knew His time here on Earth was limited before His crucifixion. So Jesus needed to train up another generation of men and women to carry on after He was gone.

Matthew 4:23-25 CEV, “Jesus went all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news about God’s kingdom. He also healed every kind of disease and sickness. 24 News about him spread all over Syria, and people with every kind of sickness or disease were brought to him. Some of them had a lot of demons in them, others were thought to be crazy, and still others could not walk. But Jesus healed them all. Large crowds followed Jesus from Galilee and the region around the ten cities known as Decapolis. They also came from Jerusalem, Judea, and from across the Jordan River.

These men followed Jesus for 3 1/2 years watching Him heal, cast out demons and deliver people, before Jesus was crucified. These men were given AUTHORITY to go forth and TALK LIKE, ACT LIKE, AND COMMAND MIRACLES JUST LIKE JESUS. As they recognized their authority the power of God was expressed.

Luke 10:16-20 Living Bible, “Then he said to the disciples, “Those who welcome you are welcoming me. And those who reject you are rejecting me. And those who reject me are rejecting God who sent me.” When the seventy disciples returned, they joyfully reported to him, “Even the demons obey us when we use your name.” “Yes,” he told them, “I saw Satan falling from heaven as a flash of lightning! 19 And I have given you authority over all the power of the Enemy, and to walk among serpents and scorpions and to crush them. Nothing shall injure you! 20 However, the important thing is not that demons obey you, but that your names are registered as citizens of heaven.”

The disciples came back to Jesus to report that not only were the “normally” sick healed, but that even demons had been subjected to them in Jesus’s name. They were subject “in Jesus’s name” because Jesus’s agents, who acted and spoke faithfully on his behalf, represented him—whoever accepted or rejected them, ultimately accepted or rejected him.

He then turned the mission of preaching the Kingdom and showing the power of God with signs, wonders, and miracles over to the disciples to continue from then until TODAY!

So here we are. Is the church showing the power of God like Jesus and the disciples did? Are you able to run to a born again spirit led Christian or church and receive a miracle like people did in Jesus’s day? NOT SO MUCH! The church is commercialized and programmed. The church is real good at collecting money and building bigger and better sanctuaries. The pastors are more interested in building mega mansions for themselves and their immediate families than they are for the church family God has entrusted to them. The love of money wealth and the pride of life completely rules most churches and their staff. Everyone wants to be on TV. Everyone wants to be an American idol Christian singer. Everyone wants the “FAME OF BEING A SUPERSTAR PREACHER.” GOD WILL NOT WORK THROUGH ALL THAT VANITY. That is why you are not seeing the power of God today like they saw it in the early church. God needs true sincere pure hearts that love Him and love people.

Today pastors, preachers and the church of God are called to be disciples for God just like Jesus Christ and the original 12 disciples did. We are called to pray for the sick, cast out devils and help the poor. We are called to preach and teach the UNCOMPROMISED word of God and be AN EXAMPLE for the ungodly to watch and follow.

Mark 6:12-13 Living Bible, “So the disciples went out, telling everyone they met to turn from sin. 13 And they cast out many demons and healed many sick people, anointing them with olive oil.

Matthew 10:7-8

What many people even sincere Christians are missing is that we are waiting for God to show HIS POWER AND WAITING FOR HIM TO DO SOMETHING. Well God has completed HIS WORK and turned the ministry over to His children. THE CHURCH, must go out in the AUTHORITY OF THE NAME OF JESUS then the POWER SHOWS UP.

STOP PRAYING AND WAITING FOR POWER AND ASSUME YOUR POSITION OF AUTHORITY AND SPEAK WHAT YOU NEED AND WANT TO HAPPEN IN JESUS NAME.

I’ll use a police officer as an example. An average person can go out to try to stop traffic or pull people over but will most likely be ignored and rejected. People are thinking “who are you to tell me what to do?”. But you can take that same person even if they are a paraplegic in a wheel chair, put a police uniform on them and a badge and NOW THEY HAVE AUTHORITY NOT NECESSARILY PHYSICAL POWER to stop traffic and stop your unlawful behavior. As children of God, we are going forth to stop the attacks of Satan and call in the power of God upon situations.

NO MIRACLES are expressed without the words of God spoken in the authority of God in the name of Jesus. Jesus NEVER ASK GOD TO HEAL AND DELIVER, He commanded it in the authority given Him as the Son of God. THAT IS WHAT WE DO TODAY AS SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD. JESUS HAS GIVEN US THE SAME AUTHORITY HE HAD TO REPRESENT GOD.

Don’t be shy about WHO YOU ARE IN CHRIST OR YOU WILL NOT SEE GOD’S POWER. Satan and demon spirits will not leave if they know you think they are more powerful than you are. MATURE CHRISTIANS HAVE THE SAME POWER TO HEAL AND DELIVER AND REBUKE SATANIC SPIRITS AS JESUS HAD. But until you KNOW IT and UNTIL YOU STEP INTO THAT AUTHORITY you will see no power.

Don’t expect Satan and demon spirits to back off easily they will resist you until you express your authority. If you don’t truly KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND THE AUTHORITY YOU POSSESS SATAN WILL KICK YOUR BUTT.

Acts 19:11-17 Living Bible, “And God gave Paul the power to do unusual miracles, 12 so that even when his handkerchiefs or parts of his clothing were placed upon sick people, they were healed, and any demons within them came out. A team of itinerant Jews who were traveling from town to town casting out demons planned to experiment by using the name of the Lord Jesus. The incantation they decided on was this: “I adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preaches, to come out!” 14 Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish priest, were doing this. 15 But when they tried it on a man possessed by a demon, the demon replied, “I know Jesus and I know Paul, but who are you?” 16 And he leaped on two of them and beat them up, so that they fled out of his house naked and badly injured. The story of what happened spread quickly all through Ephesus, to Jews and Greeks alike; and a solemn fear descended on the city, and the name of the Lord Jesus was greatly honored.

This is another reason Jesus sent His disciples out in pairs of two, because they had more power over the enemy. This is why God tells us TODAY to pray and GO TO CHURCH TO GET OTHER SPIRIT FILLED BELIEVERS TO PRAY WITH US. IT BRINGS MORE POWER TO THE SITUATION.

I suggest every person get your bible out and read the complete book of Acts. This book discusses the beginning of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and what the people experienced in the day of Pentecost. This same outpouring is about to happen again EXCEPT EVEN GREATER. The same results are going to happen among the people IF YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR AUTHORITY IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. God is ready to show the world of unbelievers, miracles signs and wonders. God needs HIS MATURE CHILDREN TO GO FORTH AS POLICE OFFICERS AND ENFORCE THE SPIRITUAL LAWS OF GOD AND ARREST AND BIND THE UNLAWFUL SPIRITS OF DARKNESS.

WHATEVER WE ALLOW GOD WILL ALLOW. WHATEVER WE BIND AND REBUKE GOD WILL BIND AND REBUKE. MATURE CHRISTIANS ARE THE VOICE AND HUMAN BODY OF ALMIGHTY GOD. SO ACT LIKE IT. TALK LIKE IT.

Matthew 16:19 CEV, “I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and God in heaven will allow whatever you allow on earth. But he will not allow anything you don’t allow

Matthew 18:18 CEV, “Allowing and Not AllowingI promise you God in heaven will allow whatever you allow on earth, but God will not allow anything you don’t allow.

Matthew 16:19 KJV, “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

The church needs to show the unbelievers in this world OUR AUTHORITY AS CHILDREN OF GOD. Keep you head and attitude in order while you step out in this new authority. There is no room in God’s kingdom for hate, division, vanity, arrogance, pride and unloveliness. God works through a sincere heart of LOVE, PEACE, UNITY, GOODNESS, GENEROSITY, TRUTH. God knows your true heart. He knows when you are mature enough to put on the uniform and represent the Kingdom of God. The more true love you possess down deep inside for God and people the more authority God will give you and the more power you will express. Go to the page “CHRISTIANITY AND THE CHURCH” and read what your authority is and what your character should be.

James 3:17 Living Bible, “But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure and full of quiet gentleness. Then it is peace-loving and courteous. It allows discussion and is willing to yield to others; it is full of mercy and good deeds. It is wholehearted and straightforward and sincere.

The church needs to give God a platform to move and heal people. Put some tents up outside your church during the week and invite people to stop in for prayer. WE HAVE TO HAVE A REVIVAL IN THIS NATION. The church has got to step up and reach out to the people. The church is lazy and is NOT WORKING DILIGENTLY TO REACH THE LOST.

WAKE UP PASTORS! WAKE UP CHURCH! GOD SAYS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. You have some work to do. Get outside the church walls and tell people about Jesus.

God has called pastors, evangelist, prophets to teach the people. To relay messages straight from the throne and mouth of God. God has assigned a particular flock and congregation of people that pastors will be held responsible for. Get to know your congregation. Help those who need it. If each church was taking excellent care of their own congregation and spiritual family the way God has called them to, there would be so much power and presence of God in this country.

When Jesus was here in the flesh, He anointed His disciples with power to carry on the work of the Kingdom. He told them to go spread the gospel message that JESUS SAVES and then lay hands on people for signs and wonders (miracles) to follow. This was a 24/7 assignment for them. They didn’t just show up at a church a couple hours once a week, tell a few jokes and then play golf the rest of the week. They were serious about preaching the gospel and were determined to reach every soul they could.

That is the same instructions God has for HIS PEOPLE to do today in 2022. Tell people about Jesus and pray for the sick and cast out demons. The problem is the church has become so comfortable with the ways of the world and has commercialized church as just a big religious social group. There is no power flowing. People gather, have coffee, sing, listen to a little bible teaching then go on with their normal worldly lives. THATS NOT THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH.

Jesus was asks by a man named Nicodemus, how he too to have this power.

John 3 CEV, “There was a man named Nicodemus who was a Pharisee and a Jewish leader. 2 One night he went to Jesus and said, “Rabbi, we know that God has sent you to teach us. You could not work these miracles, unless God were with you. Jesus replied, “I tell you for certain that you must be born from above before you can see God’s kingdom!” Nicodemus asked, “How can a grown man ever be born a second time?” Jesus answered: I tell you for certain that before you can get into God’s kingdom, you must be born not only by water, but by the Spirit. 6 Humans give life to their children. Yet only God’s Spirit can change you into a child of God. 7 Don’t be surprised when I say that you must be born from above. 8 Only God’s Spirit gives new life. The Spirit is like the wind that blows wherever it wants to. You can hear the wind, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked. Jesus replied How can you be a teacher of Israel and not know these things? 11 I tell you for certain we know what we are talking about because we have seen it ourselves. But none of you will accept what we say. 12  If you don’t believe when I talk to you about things on earth, how can you possibly believe if I talk to you about things in heaven? No one has gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from there. 14  And the Son of Man must be lifted up, just as the metal snake was lifted up by Moses in the desert.[b] 15 Then everyone who has faith in the Son of Man will have eternal life. God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die. 17 God did not send his Son into the world to condemn its people. He sent him to save them! 18 No one who has faith in God’s Son will be condemned. But everyone who doesn’t have faith in him has already been condemned for not having faith in God’s only Son. The light has come into the world, and people who do evil things are judged guilty because they love the dark more than the light. 20 People who do evil hate the light and won’t come to the light, because it clearly shows what they have done. 21 But everyone who lives by the truth will come to the light, because they want others to know that God is really the one doing what they do.

22 Later, Jesus and his disciples went to Judea, where he stayed with them for a while and was baptizing people…….God’s Son comes from heaven and is above all others. Everyone who comes from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is above all others. 32 He speaks about what he has seen and heard, and yet no one believes him. 33 But everyone who does believe him has shown that God is truthful. 34 The Son was sent to speak God’s message, and he has been given the full power of God’s Spirit. The Father loves the Son and has given him everything. 36 Everyone who has faith in the Son has eternal life. But no one who rejects him will ever share in that life, and God will be angry with them forever.

God is saying its time to get serious and let the spirit of God direct the church services. Where the spirit of God is THERE IS POWER. If you are not seeing some power working in your church and in your lives, you are not walking as closely with God as you should. The church is not allowing ALL THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT to be expressed through the people.

Don’t expect the authority and power of God to be expressed through you, if you are a Luke warm half-assed christian. God does not work through anyone like that. You need to be completely devoted and sold out to God and the Kingdom to the point you will lay your life down for it. There is no greater way to express the depth of our love for God, than to give Him our whole life.


John 15:13 Living, “And here is how to measure it—the greatest love is shown when a person lays down his life for his friends; 

Jesus gave His life for the world of sinners and was happy to do it because it was God’s will. He loved His Father so much and He loved the people of the world so much He was willing to endure the torture and death of the crucifixion for you and I.

John 14:28, “Remember what I told you—I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really love me, you will be very happy for me, for now I can go to the Father, who is greater than I am.

Maybe you don’t realize how far away from God that you really are. Thats why you need to read your bible, which is your handbook for life, to educate yourself and make sure you are not compromising in any area of your life. That compromise stops the power of God from flowing. That compromise will withdraw your invitation to God’s Holy Ghost party.

God needs ALL HIS CHILDREN expressing His love and power to show Him to the world before the rapture happens. Living a compromising life will disqualify you from that. Depending on how much you are compromising, it could cause you to miss the rapture yourself.

When you are born again you receive the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. That seals your salvation and eternal life in Heaven. But the baptism of the Spirit is what gives you power to live a successful life here on earth. The baptism is a blanket or immersion of the Spirit that rest on your human body. The baptism is what gives you the power to fulfill your purpose and assignment for being here on this Earth at this point in time.

Christianity and the church of God, first began after the resurrection of Jesus. He instructed the disciples and several others to meet together and stay there until they received the baptism of the spirit. THAT BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS WHAT GIVES YOU THE POWER OF GOD.

First the people received the power in their own lives, and then God sent them out to pray for others and share that power and anointing with others.

Acts 1-2 Living Bible, “Dear friend who loves God: In my first letter I told you about Jesus’ life and teachings and how he returned to heaven after giving his chosen apostles further instructions from the Holy Spirit. 3 During the forty days after his crucifixion he appeared to the apostles from time to time, actually alive, and proved to them in many ways that it was really he himself they were seeing. And on these occasions he talked to them about the Kingdom of God. In one of these meetings he told them not to leave Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came upon them in fulfillment of the Father’s promise, a matter he had previously discussed with them. “John baptized you with water,” he reminded them, “but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit* in just a few days.” 8 But when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you will receive power to testify about me with great effect, to the people in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth, about my death and resurrection.” It was not long afterwards that he rose into the sky and disappeared into a cloud, leaving them staring after him. 10 As they were straining their eyes for another glimpse, suddenly two white-robed men were standing there among them, 11 and said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing here staring at the sky? Jesus has gone away to heaven, and some day, just as he went, he will return!” They were at the Mount of Olives when this happened, so now they walked the half mile back to Jerusalem 13 and held a prayer meeting in an upstairs room of the house where they were staying. Here is the list of those who were present at the meeting: Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James (son of Alphaeus), Simon (also called “The Zealot”), Judas (son of James), and the brothers of Jesus. 14 Several women, including Jesus’ mother, were also there. This prayer meeting went on for several days.

Seven weeks had gone by since Jesus’ death and resurrection, and the Day of Pentecost had now arrived.[e] As the believers met together that day, 2 suddenly there was a sound like the roaring of a mighty windstorm in the skies above them and it filled the house where they were meeting. 3 Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on their heads. 4 And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in languages they didn’t know,[f] for the Holy Spirit gave them this ability. Many godly Jews were in Jerusalem that day for the religious celebrations, having arrived from many nations. 6 And when they heard the roaring in the sky above the house, crowds came running to see what it was all about, and were stunned to hear their own languages being spoken by the disciples. “How can this be?” they exclaimed. “For these men are all from Galilee, 8 and yet we hear them speaking all the native languages of the lands where we were born! 9 Here we are—Parthians, Medes, Elamites, men from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia Minor, 10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the Cyrene language areas of Libya, visitors from Rome—both Jews and Jewish converts— 11 Cretans, and Arabians. And we all hear these men telling in our own languages about the mighty miracles of God!” They stood there amazed and perplexed. “What can this mean?” they asked each other. But others in the crowd were mocking. “They’re drunk, that’s all!” they said. Then Peter stepped forward with the eleven apostles and shouted to the crowd, “Listen, all of you, visitors and residents of Jerusalem alike! 15 Some of you are saying these men are drunk! It isn’t true! It’s much too early for that! People don’t get drunk by 9:00 a.m.! 16 No! What you see this morning was predicted centuries ago by the prophet Joel— 17 ‘In the last days,’ God said, ‘I will pour out my Holy Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men dream dreams. 18 Yes, the Holy Spirit shall come upon all my servants, men and women alike, and they shall prophesy. 19 And I will cause strange demonstrations in the heavens and on the earth—blood and fire and clouds of smoke; 20 the sun shall turn black and the moon blood-red before that awesome Day of the Lord arrives. 21 But anyone who asks for mercy from the Lord shall have it and shall be saved.’

.…He was speaking of Jesus, and we all are witnesses that Jesus rose from the dead. “And now he sits on the throne of highest honor in heaven, next to God. And just as promised, the Father gave him the authority to send the Holy Spirit—with the results you are seeing and hearing today…….“Therefore I clearly state to everyone in Israel that God has made this Jesus you crucified to be the Lord, the Messiah!” These words of Peter’s moved them deeply, and they said to him and to the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?” And Peter replied, “Each one of you must turn from sin, return to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; then you also shall receive this gift, the Holy Spirit. 39 For Christ promised him to each one of you who has been called by the Lord our God, and to your children and even to those in distant lands!” Then Peter preached a long sermon, telling about Jesus and strongly urging all his listeners to save themselves from the evils of their nation. 41 And those who believed Peter were baptized—about three thousand in all! 42 They joined with the other believers in regular attendance at the apostles’ teaching sessions and at the Communion services[j] and prayer meetings.

43 A deep sense of awe was on them all, and the apostles did many miracles. And all the believers met together constantly and shared everything with each other, 45 selling their possessions and dividing with those in need. 46 They worshiped together regularly at the Temple each day, met in small groups in homes for Communion, and shared their meals with great joy and thankfulness, 47 praising God. The whole city was favorable to them, and each day God added to them all who were being saved.

These constant meetings of God’s anointed children is when the church of God began and the power of the Holy Spirit of God was manifested at all the church meetings.

As many people met together to share in the baptism of the Spirit, many were chosen and anointed to go out into the communities to pray for people and lay hands on the sick JUST LIKE JESUS DID. JESUS WAS AND IS THE EXAMPLE THE CHURCH IS SUPPOSE TO FOLLOW.

Luke 10:1-24 Living Bible, “The Lord now chose seventy other disciples and sent them on ahead in pairs to all the towns and villages he planned to visit later. These were his instructions to them: “Plead with the Lord of the harvest to send out more laborers to help you, for the harvest is so plentiful and the workers so few. 3 Go now, and remember that I am sending you out as lambs among wolves. 4 Don’t take any money with you, or a beggar’s bag, or even an extra pair of shoes. And don’t waste time along the way. “Whenever you enter a home, give it your blessing. 6 If it is worthy of the blessing, the blessing will stand; if not, the blessing will return to you. “When you enter a village, don’t shift around from home to home, but stay in one place, eating and drinking without question whatever is set before you. And don’t hesitate to accept hospitality, for the workman is worthy of his wages! “If a town welcomes you, follow these two rules: (1) Eat whatever is set before you. (2) Heal the sick; and as you heal them, say, ‘The Kingdom of God is very near you now.’

“But if a town refuses you, go out into its streets and say, 11 ‘We wipe the dust of your town from our feet as a public announcement of your doom. Never forget how close you were to the Kingdom of God!’12 Even wicked Sodom will be better off than such a city on the Judgment Day. 15 And you people of Capernaum, what shall I say about you? Will you be exalted to heaven? No, you shall be brought down to hell.” Then he said to the disciples, “Those who welcome you are welcoming me. And those who reject you are rejecting me. And those who reject me are rejecting God who sent me.” When the seventy disciples returned, they joyfully reported to him, “Even the demons obey us when we use your name.” “Yes,” he told them, “I saw Satan falling from heaven as a flash of lightning! 19 And I have given you authority over all the power of the Enemy, and to walk among serpents and scorpions and to crush them. Nothing shall injure you! 20 However, the important thing is not that demons obey you, but that your names are registered as citizens of heaven.”Then, turning to the twelve disciples, he said quietly, “How privileged you are to see what you have seen. 24 Many a prophet and king of old has longed for these days, to see and hear what you have seen and heard!”

God’s design for His children and the church today to be the same as it was when the church and the Christian ministry was formed on the day of Pentecost.

I don’t know what has happened to the church. It’s so commercialized and programmed to comfort the audience, that the Spirit has no room to flow and move with the freedom that GOD INTENDED. The services are scheduled and filmed for television and YouTube and no freedom of the spirit, no miracles and healings are even expected.

WE MUST HAVE A GREAT AWAKING IN THESE LAST DAYS TO SHOW GOD’S POWER TO THE WORLD. WE MUST GET INTO HIGH URGENT GEAR TO TELL PEOPLE AND SHOW PEOPLE GOD’S LOVE FOR THEM.

God never changes. The atmosphere and miraculous expression of God is suppose to still be the same today as it was over 2000 years ago. GOD HAS NOT CHANGED. The church has changed. God’s people have changed. We have sat back quietly enjoying the benefits of the Kingdom in our own lives and allowed Satan to take territory that does not belong to him. We need to get back to how it all started at pentecost. The church needs to step up and allow God to work through us. That is what God expects from His children.

I want to set out a challenge for each and every Christian church to stop with the commercializing and let the spirit of God move in your services. God needs us to start doing HIS WORK! God is suppose to have the platform. You will NOT be part of the end time move of God if you are try to keep God in a box and have Him do things your way.

Pastors need to shepherd and strengthen the people God has already given them. Whether you have 20 people or 20,000 in your church, get to know them. Make sure each person is whole and healthy. God holds pastors responsible for the congregation they are serving. Every single person in your services are important.

Its ok with God for you to film your services. In fact you should film your services and meetings so people can see the power of God. Let the church service be led by the Spirit of God. Don’t let your time schedule dictate the service. Don’t tell God when and how long He can express Himself. LET GOD MOVE AS HE PLEASES FOR AS LONG AS HE PLEASES.

If there is not power and miracles happening all over your church services, then whats the point? Where the presence of God is THERE WILL BE POWER. GOD CALLED HIS PEOPLE TO SHOW THE WORLD HIS POWER. We have to make people want what we have.

When I ask God WHY are Christians and the church not overwhelmed with His power today like they were when the Holy Spirit was first released to us, He said its because there is a LACK OF TRUE LOVE. The true love of God that the church is suppose to possess has grown cold and self serving. God NEVER CHANGES. GOD HAS NOT GONE ANYWHERE. PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED. THE CHURCH HAS CHANGED.

The church is lukewarm and has turned the house of God into their house for a social gathering and a history bible story. Christians live so close to the ways of the world that you can’t really tell a difference in their lives and the lives of their unsaved friends.

FROM NOW TILL THE RAPTURE

I want to remind you that THE PEOPLE are THE CHURCH. God expects HIS PEOPLE to do HIS WORK whether your brick and mortar church is doing it or not. Whether your pastor is doing it or not. You can still pray for the sick as you are out shopping or running errands. You can pray for the sick and hurting when you are at work. You can help the needy everywhere you go. God needs you to do HIS WORK inside the church walls and outside the church walls, just like Jesus did. WHEN THE PEOPLE START BEHAVING THIS WAY AND CHANGE THEIR ATTITUDE ABOUT CHURCH, GOD AND TRUE LOVE, THEN WE WILL SEE THE POWER OF GOD AGAIN.

When your church gets the reputation that people are being healed and miracles are happening you won’t have room for all the people. The people will come to you just like they did Jesus. Your building and your doors will be overflowing. THATS WHAT GOD NEEDS US TO DO IN THESE LAST DAYS.

Why? Because people are hurting. They need help. They need Jesus. Thats what God’s children and the church are called to do. SHOW THEM JESUS. LET THEM SEE HIS POWER.

2 Peter 3:9 Living Bible, “He isn’t really being slow about his promised return, even though it sometimes seems that way. But he is waiting, for the good reason that he is not willing that any should perish, and he is giving more time for sinners to repent.

The church needs to stand up and let God be expressed through your life and your voice. We MUST HAVE A UNIVERSAL REVIVAL to reinstate our global reputation as a Christian nation. We must give God a platform to work and pour out HIS GRACE AND MERCY upon the ungodly.

God loves us. He wants us to choose Him and love Him back so we don’t die and spend eternity in Hell. He gave His Son for us to show us how much He loves us. He appoints missionaries and preachers to tell us about Him and rescue us from sin. He goes to every part of the world to find you and give you the opportunity to give your life to Him.

Jesus and the disciples traveled to different places and different cities but as soon as the people found out about His power and anointing, they ran after Him. He just needed to show up. The sick came to Him. EVERYONE NEEDS SOME KIND OF HELP. EVERYONE IS FACING SOMETHING THAT ONLY A SUPERNATURAL MIRACLE FROM GOD CAN FIX. People long to see the power and presence of God. When they see it, they want it. THAT IS HOW GOD CREATED US.

That is why God is sending YOU. That is why we have a church building. Church is for the spiritually sick. The church is supposed to be a spiritual hospital. Its a place where people come for help. The church should be full of THE POWER OF GOD. We are a verbal voice to those not hearing from God and we are His loving healing hands when people are hurting.

Again, the following verse explains what the church is suppose to be doing for the Kingdom. Encouraging messages are great but signs and wonders should follow. The spirit should be given time to move among the people for deliverance. We need some tent revivals. Some supernatural healing services. IN GOD’S FAMILY, THERE SHOULD BE NO SICK AND FEEBLE AMONG US. (PSALM 105:37-45)

Matthew 10:1-8, Living Bible, “Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to cast out evil spirits and to heal every kind of sickness and disease. Jesus sent them out with these instructions: “Don’t go to the Gentiles or the Samaritans, 6 but only to the people of Israel—God’s lost sheep. 7 Go and announce to them that the Kingdom of Heaven is near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cure the lepers, and cast out demons. Give as freely as you have received!

Matthew 4:23-24 Living Bible, “Jesus traveled all through Galilee teaching in the Jewish synagogues, everywhere preaching the Good News about the Kingdom of Heaven. And he healed every kind of sickness and disease.The report of his miracles spread far beyond the borders of Galilee so that sick folk were soon coming to be healed from as far away as Syria. And whatever their illness and pain, or if they were possessed by demons, or were insane, or paralyzed—he healed them all.

Matthew 8:16, “That evening several demon-possessed people were brought to Jesus; and when he spoke a single word, all the demons fled; and all the sick were healed.

Matthew 14:35, “The news of their arrival spread quickly throughout the city, and soon people were rushing around, telling everyone to bring in their sick to be healed.

Mark 1:34, “So Jesus healed great numbers of sick folk that evening and ordered many demons to come out of their victims. (But he refused to allow the demons to speak, because they knew who he was.)

Mark 2:17, “When Jesus heard what they were saying, he told them, “Sick people need the doctor, not healthy ones! I haven’t come to tell good people to repent, but the bad ones.

When people hear a bible based church sermon it encourages them and gives them hope. The preaching gets their heart stirred up with faith and expectation. But then they need to see the word working. They need to see a miracle happening. They need to see the power of God. If not they stop believing. They leave church, go back home, and Satan continues to kick their butt. Thats why God needs His people to step up in these last days to show the world HIS POWER WITH MIRACLES, SIGNS AND WONDERS. Take advantage of those people who have gathered together at church in Jesus name and strengthen you’re army.

Mark 6:5, “And because of their unbelief he couldn’t do any mighty miracles among them except to place his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

Mark 6:56, “Wherever he went—in villages and cities, and out on the farms—they laid the sick in the market plazas and streets, and begged him to let them at least touch the fringes of his clothes; and as many as touched him were healed.

Mark 16:18, “They will be able even to handle snakes with safety, and if they drink anything poisonous, it won’t hurt them; and they will be able to place their hands on the sick and heal them.

Luke 4:40, “As the sun went down that evening, all the villagers who had any sick people in their homes, no matter what their diseases were, brought them to Jesus; and the touch of his hands healed every one!

Don’t expect miracles to be happening if you or your church does not first teach and believe that the POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT lives within you when you get born again and baptized. IT IS THE Holy Spirit OF GOD IN YOU THAT GIVES YOU THE AUTHORITY TO EXPECT THE POWER WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.

Jesus was born the Son of God, but He never showed any power or did any miracles until He was water baptized and baptized in the Holy Spirit. Jesus, at the baptism, assumed His AUTHORITY AS THE SON OF GOD and went out showing the world God’s power.

John 1:26-36 Living Bible, “John told them, “I merely baptize with[a] water, but right here in the crowd is someone you have never met, 27 who will soon begin his ministry among you, and I am not even fit to be his slave.” This incident took place at Bethany, a village on the other side of the Jordan River where John was baptizing. The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! There is the Lamb of God who takes away the world’s sin! 30 He is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘Soon a man far greater than I am is coming, who existed long before me!’ 31 I didn’t know he was the one, but I am here baptizing with water in order to point him out to the nation of Israel.” Then John told about seeing the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove descending from heaven and resting upon Jesus. “I didn’t know he was the one,” John said again, “but at the time God sent me to baptize he told me, ‘When you see the Holy Spirit descending and resting upon someone—he is the one you are looking for. He is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ 34 I saw it happen to this man, and I therefore testify that he is the Son of God.” The following day as John was standing with two of his disciples, 36 Jesus walked by. John looked at him intently and then declared, “See! There is the Lamb of God!”

When Jesus was 30 years old, He went down to the Jordon River to be water baptized by John the Baptist. When He came out of the water, the Holy Spirit rested upon Him. God said, “this is my Son, in whom I am well pleased.” After that, Jesus received the anointing of the Spirit of God. Jesus then had the POWER OF GOD working in His life to fulfill HIS PURPOSE.

Even though Jesus was the Son of God from birth, HE NEVER DID ANY MIRACLES UNTIL HE WAS WATER BAPTISED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST.

After Jesus was baptized in the Holy Spirit He received the power to fulfill His purpose. What was His purpose?

Luke 4:14-21, “Then Jesus returned to Galilee, full of the Holy Spirit’s power. Soon he became well known throughout all that region 15 for his sermons in the synagogues; everyone praised him. When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on Saturday, and stood up to read the Scriptures. 17 The book of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him, and he opened it to the place where it says: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he has appointed me to preach Good News to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted and to announce that captives shall be released and the blind shall see, that the downtrodden shall be freed from their oppressors, and that God is ready to give blessings to all who come to him.” He closed the book and handed it back to the attendant and sat down, while everyone in the synagogue gazed at him intently. 21 Then he added, “These Scriptures came true today!”

The earthly ministry of Jesus lasted for 3 1/2 years. During this time Jesus walked the country fulfilling His purpose and showing people the presence and power of God. He showed people the loving, merciful, gracious and forgiveness of God. That precious gift from God of NOT HOLDING OUR SINS AGAINST US, is called “GRACE” and we are still living in that period of time.

When Jesus left He appointed the disciples and hundreds more to carry on His purpose and ministry. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING STILL TODAY IN 2022. That same power is available to us today as children of God.

2 Peter 1 Living Bible, “From: Simon Peter, a servant and missionary of Jesus Christ. To: All of you who have our kind of faith. The faith I speak of is the kind that Jesus Christ our God and Savior gives to us. How precious it is, and how just and good he is to give this same faith to each of us. Do you want more and more of God’s kindness and peace? Then learn to know him better and better. 3 For as you know him better, he will give you, through his great power, everything you need for living a truly good life: he even shares his own glory and his own goodness with us! 4 And by that same mighty power he has given us all the other rich and wonderful blessings he promised; for instance, the promise to save us from the lust and rottenness all around us, and to give us his own character. But to obtain these gifts, you need more than faith; you must also work hard to be good, and even that is not enough. For then you must learn to know God better and discover what he wants you to do. 6 Next, learn to put aside your own desires so that you will become patient and godly, gladly letting God have his way with you. 7 This will make possible the next step, which is for you to enjoy other people and to like them, and finally you will grow to love them deeply. 8 The more you go on in this way, the more you will grow strong spiritually and become fruitful and useful to our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But anyone who fails to go after these additions to faith is blind indeed, or at least very shortsighted and has forgotten that God delivered him from the old life of sin so that now he can live a strong, good life for the Lord. So, dear brothers, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen, and then you will never stumble or fall away. 11 And God will open wide the gates of heaven for you to enter into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I plan to keep on reminding you of these things even though you already know them and are really getting along quite well!  But the Lord Jesus Christ has shown me that my days here on earth are numbered, and I am soon to die. As long as I am still here I intend to keep sending these reminders to you, 15 hoping to impress them so clearly upon you that you will remember them long after I have gone. For we have not been telling you fairy tales when we explained to you the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and his coming again. My own eyes have seen his splendor and his glory:  I was there on the holy mountain when he shone out with honor given him by God his Father; I heard that glorious, majestic voice calling down from heaven, saying, “This is my much-loved Son; I am well pleased with him.”

We all know God loved His Son Jesus Christ, but what you need to realize is that as born again Christians we are all sons and daughters of God and HE LOVES US JUST AS MUCH AS HE LOVES JESUS.

John 16:1-28 Living Bible, “I have told you these things so that you won’t be staggered by all that lies ahead. For you will be excommunicated from the synagogues, and indeed the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing God a service. 3 This is because they have never known the Father or me. 4 Yes, I’m telling you these things now so that when they happen you will remember I warned you. I didn’t tell you earlier because I was going to be with you for a while longer. “But now I am going away to the one who sent me; and none of you seems interested in the purpose of my going; none wonders why. Instead you are only filled with sorrow. 7 But the fact of the matter is that it is best for you that I go away, for if I don’t, the Comforter won’t come. If I do, he will—for I will send him to you. And when he has come he will convince the world of its sin, and of the availability of God’s goodness, and of deliverance from judgment.[c] 9 The world’s sin is unbelief in me; 10 there is righteousness available because I go to the Father and you shall see me no more; 11 there is deliverance from judgment because the prince of this world has already been judged. “Oh, there is so much more I want to tell you, but you can’t understand it now. 13 When the Holy Spirit, who is truth, comes, he shall guide you into all truth, for he will not be presenting his own ideas, but will be passing on to you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future. 14 He shall praise me and bring me great honor by showing you my glory. 15 All the Father’s glory is mine; this is what I mean when I say that he will show you my glory. “In just a little while I will be gone, and you will see me no more; but just a little while after that, and you will see me again!” “Whatever is he saying?” some of his disciples asked. “What is this about ‘going to the Father’? We don’t know what he means.” Jesus realized they wanted to ask him so he said, “Are you asking yourselves what I mean? 20 The world will greatly rejoice over what is going to happen to me, and you will weep. But your weeping shall suddenly be turned to wonderful joy when you see me again.  It will be the same joy as that of a woman in labor when her child is born—her anguish gives place to rapturous joy and the pain is forgotten.  You have sorrow now, but I will see you again and then you will rejoice; and no one can rob you of that joy. 23 At that time you won’t need to ask me for anything, for you can go directly to the Father and ask him, and he will give you what you ask for because you use my name. 24 You haven’t tried this before, but begin now. Ask, using my name, and you will receive, and your cup of joy will overflow. “I have spoken of these matters very guardedly, but the time will come when this will not be necessary and I will tell you plainly all about the Father. 26 Then you will present your petitions over my signature![f] And I won’t need to ask the Father to grant you these requests, 27 for the Father himself loves you dearly because you love me and believe that I came from the Father. 28 Yes, I came from the Father into the world and will leave the world and return to the Father.”

When you step out especially in your hometown where people were familiar with you BEFORE YOU WERE BORN AGAIN, you may receive opposition from people. They think, I know them. They are not holy children of God. If you meet that opposition, don’t let it make you ashamed or fearful to step out. WE ARE ALL SINNERS SAVED BY GRACE. Remember the ungodly even did it to Jesus.

Mark 6:1-13 CEV, “Jesus left and returned to his hometown with his disciples. 2 The next Sabbath he taught in the synagogue. Many of the people who heard him were amazed and asked, “How can he do all this? Where did he get such wisdom and the power to work these miracles? 3 Isn’t he the carpenter,[b] the son of Mary? Aren’t James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon his brothers? Don’t his sisters still live here in our town?” The people were upset because of what he was doing. But Jesus said, “Prophets are honored by everyone, except the people of their hometown and their relatives and their own family.” 5 Jesus could not work any miracles there, except to heal a few sick people by placing his hands on them. 6 He was surprised that the people did not have any faith. Jesus taught in all the neighboring villages. 7 Then he called together his twelve apostles and sent them out two by two with power over evil spirits. 8  He told them, “You may take along a walking stick. But don’t carry food or a traveling bag or any money. 9 It’s all right to wear sandals, but don’t take along a change of clothes. 10 When you are welcomed into a home, stay there until you leave that town. 11  If any place won’t welcome you or listen to your message, leave and shake the dust from your feet[c] as a warning to them.” The apostles left and started telling everyone to turn to God. 13  They forced out many demons and healed a lot of sick people by putting olive oil on them.

LOVE INITIATES THE POWER

God loves us. He has great and overwhelming love for ALL OF US whether we are sinners on our way to Hell or born again Christians on our way to Heaven. This love God has for us NEVER CHANGES. But what God is looking for and what we need in this life now and forever is that same undying love for God.

Its our love for God that causes us to live the way He says. Its our love for God that prompts us to surrender our lives to Him and get born again. Its our love for God that causes us to love people and help people. Its our love for God that opens us up to the blessing and prosperity of God. ITS OUR LOVE FOR GOD THAT CAUSES US TO OBTAIN THE POWER THAT WE NEED IN THESE LAST DAYS.

Ephesians 3:17-21 Living Bible, “And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; 18-19 and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high his love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God himself. Now glory be to God, who by his mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of—infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes. 21 May he be given glory forever and ever through endless ages because of his master plan of salvation for the Church through Jesus Christ.

Once we form that deep heart to heart relationship with God like we should, His power of love within us grows bigger and bigger and we experience that love in every area of our lives, spiritual, emotional, mental, physical and financial. His love fills those voids we have inside and makes us complete and content wanting nothing.

The biggest deception in the world and even in the church today is THE LOVE OF GOD. THE WORLD DOES NOT REALLY KNOW THE LOVE OF GOD AND THEY CAN NOT EXPLAIN IT. The world makes up their own definition of love to accommodate their sins.

It only matters what the One True Almighty God says about love. He is the One who says if you live or die. He is the One who judges us in the end. He is the One who says whether we spend eternity in heaven or Hell. He is the One who created you. God is the One that disperses your blessings as you mature in HIS LOVE. So what does God say about love?

First of all God chose to love ALL OF MANKIND when He first created us. God already decided HE DESIRES for ALL OF US TO CHOOSE TO LOVE HIM and surrender our lives to Him. He wants all of us to live a life of true love here on Earth and then spend eternity with Him in Heaven when we leave here. BUT……God leaves the choice up to you. He doesn’t force you to love Him like He loves you.

Deuteronomy 30:17-20 Living Bible, “But if your hearts turn away and you won’t listen—if you are drawn away to worship other gods—18 then I declare to you this day that you shall surely perish; you will not have a long, good life in the land you are going in to possess. “I call heaven and earth to witness against you that today I have set before you life or death, blessing or curse. Oh, that you would choose life; that you and your children might live! 20 Choose to love the Lord your God and to obey him and to cling to him, for he is your life and the length of your days. You will then be able to live safely in the land the Lord promised your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

We don’t need to go over the whole story of Salvation again. If you need a better explanation go to “JESUS AS SAVIOR” page. But this is just to remind you that GOD LOVED US BEFORE WE WERE BORN. Then He sent His Son to die on the cross for our sins so we could be adopted into the family of God. God showed us HIS TRUE LOVE before we chose to love Him back.

John 3:16-17 Living Bible, For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it

When we chose that love of God and His life and spirit is deposited into us WE HAVE ACCESS TO THE POWER OF GOD THAT IS WITHIN US. True love is not just a feeling. True love is a spiritual person that possess your body and lives within you.

People are not seeing the deep power of God in the world and in our individual lives because we are not loving God the way He loves us. We are “lukewarm” and have put God in a little box. God needs to be expressed and free to show Himself.

God says HE IS LOVE. Love is an invisible powerful spirit man. God says He does not just express love, He says He is actually the Spirit of true love.

.……GOD IS LOVE

  1. 1 John 2:5But those who do what Christ tells them to will learn to love God more and more. That is the way to know whether or not you are a Christian.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  2. 1 John 3:10So now we can tell who is a child of God and who belongs to Satan. Whoever is living a life of sin and doesn’t love his brother shows that he is not in God’s family;In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  3. 1 John 3:17But if someone who is supposed to be a Christian has money enough to live well, and sees a brother in need, and won’t help him—how can God’s love be within him?In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  4. 1 John 3:23And this is what God says we must do: Believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  5. 1 John 4:1Dearly loved friends, don’t always believe everything you hear just because someone says it is a message from God: test it first to see if it really is. For there are many false teachers around,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  6. 1 John 4:8But if a person isn’t loving and kind, it shows that he doesn’t know God—for God is love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  7. 1 John 4:10In this act we see what real love is: it is not our love for God but his love for us when he sent his Son to satisfy God’s anger against our sins.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  8. 1 John 4:16We know how much God loves us because we have felt his love and because we believe him when he tells us that he loves us dearly. God is love, and anyone who lives in love is living with God and God is living in him.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  9. 1 John 4:20If anyone says “I love God,” but keeps on hating his brother, he is a liar; for if he doesn’t love his brother who is right there in front of him, how can he love God whom he has never seen?In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  10. 1 John 5:1If you believe that Jesus is the Christ—that he is God’s Son and your Savior—then you are a child of God. And all who love the Father love his children too.

God’s spirit inside of us is expressed by a very obvious and specific attitude and behavior.

FORGIVENESS

When we are born again, Jesus cleanses us from all our sins. Your heart and your body become the temple of God. He takes up residency in your body. You are filled with the spirit of God which is the Spirit of Love. Now you have the ability to express yourself and react to life situations from the spirit of Love thats inside of you. It is the influence of love that makes you think different, talk different, act different because you are now a new different person. Some areas of your life might need to be retrained to react in a loving matter. Much of our behavior is learned and habitual. God inside of you now, helps you realize when you are not thinking talking and behaving from a true love minded position.

God’s love for us forgives us of our sins. AFTER THAT CLEANSING AND FORGIVENESS, we are able to be in relationship and fused to God. That love of God is now in us to love God back and to give it away to others. But the same process must happen. We CAN NOT LOVE PEOPLE UNTIL WE ARE WILLING TO FORGIVE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HURT US AND OFFENDED US IN LIFE. This is a daily DISCIPLINE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. The world is awful and we are surrounded by sinners everywhere. You will have opportunity everyday to be hurt, offended and angry with someone. Nut the Bible says be angry and sin not. And He says don’t let the sun go down on your anger and offenses.

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We are able to possess and express the love of God because GOD FIRST LOVED US. We were created to possess the love of God to complete us. Without His love inside we are always discontent and searching. No matter how much money, fame and fortune you have without GOD’S TRUE LOVE WE ARE NOTHING.

1 John 4:18-20 Living Bible, “We need have no fear of someone who loves us perfectly; his perfect love for us eliminates all dread of what he might do to us. If we are afraid, it is for fear of what he might do to us and shows that we are not fully convinced that he really loves us. 19 So you see, our love for him comes as a result of his loving us first. If anyone says “I love God,” but keeps on hating his brother, he is a liar; for if he doesn’t love his brother who is right there in front of him, how can he love God whom he has never seen?

God’s love is blocked and paralyzed when WE CHOOSE to hold on to any offense, unforgivenss or anger toward others. When we forgive others of their mistakes and short comings GOD FORGIVES US OF OURS.

…………………….forgive others god forgives us.

God created man to have a family to love and have a family that would also love Him. When God created us He chose to love us no matter what. He said nothing can separate us from His love toward us. But God allows us the freedom to walk away from His love. THAT IS THE PROBLEM IN THE CHURCH AND AMONG TODAYS CHRISTIAN FAMILY.

Loving God and loving people is a commandment from God. WE CHOOSE TO LOVE.

If we want to see the power of God in these last days WE MUST HAVE A STRONGER MORE PURPOSEFUL LOVE WALK. WE MUST ALLOW THE SPIRIT OF GOD TO BE EXPRESSED IN US INDIVIDUALLY AND WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH.

God says people will know us by our expression of love. Love has a specific action, behavior and attitude. Love has a personality of kindness, joy, gentleness. God describes what love looks like. This is what love looks like when we love God and when we love people.

1 Corinthians 13:1-11, “13 If I had the gift of being able to speak in other languages without learning them and could speak in every language there is in all of heaven and earth, but didn’t love others, I would only be making noise. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy and knew all about what is going to happen in the future, knew everything about everything, but didn’t love others, what good would it do? Even if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, I would still be worth nothing at all without love. 3 If I gave everything I have to poor people, and if I were burned alive for preaching the Gospel but didn’t love others, it would be of no value whatever. 4 Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, 5 never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong. 6 It is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out. 7 If you love someone, you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost. You will always believe in him, always expect the best of him, and always stand your ground in defending him.8 All the special gifts and powers from God will someday come to an end, but love goes on forever. Someday prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge—these gifts will disappear. 9 Now we know so little, even with our special gifts, and the preaching of those most gifted is still so poor. 10 But when we have been made perfect and complete, then the need for these inadequate special gifts will come to an end, and they will disappear.1 It’s like this: when I was a child I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I became a man my thoughts grew far beyond those of my childhood, and now I have put away the childish things. 12 In the same way, we can see and understand only a little about God now, as if we were peering at his reflection in a poor mirror; but someday we are going to see him in his completeness, face-to-face. Now all that I know is hazy and blurred, but then I will see everything clearly, just as clearly as God sees into my heart right now.13 There are three things that remain—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

God’s spirit of love inside of us is meant to be shared and given away to others around us. Before the God of true love came into your life, you would naturally be drawn to unloveliness or the worlds definition of love, which will send you to Hell.

Satan has from the beginning of time, twisted and perverted what true love is and we have fallen for it hook line and sinker. Still today in 2022, Satan uses the voices of the unsaved in the world to define what man should believe true love is. The world is without God and can not define the true love of God.

The world right now is trying to make you believe that because God loves everyone you can do whatever you want with no punishment or condemnation. If it seems right or feels right it must be right.

God’s love requires discipline and boundaries to your behavior. Your love for God causes you too want to please God. We don’t question Him about His laws and restrictions because He created us and knows what its best for us. if He tells us we can not do something or we can not allow ourselves to have a

God loves you. He wants to help you. He does not want you to suffer. But HE WILL NOT OVERLOOK YOUR SIN AND REBELLION.  He gave His Son to lay down His life and be sacrificed for your sins. GOD WAS WILLING TO DO WHATEVER WAS NECESSARY TO HAVE YOU IN HIS FAMILY. Do your part. Receive the gift and act right. Appreciate and be thankful for the salvation that is available to you right now. He wants you to be His child and He wants to be your Father!!

True love started with God.           

 John 14:24, “Anyone who doesn’t obey me doesn’t love me. And remember, I am not making up this answer to your question! It is the answer given by the Father who sent me.

John 14:31, “but I will freely do what the Father requires of me so that the world will know that I love the Father. Come, let’s be going.

John 15:13, “And here is how to measure it—the greatest love is shown when a person lays down his life for his friends;

It is the level of love inside of you that you have for God that measures the amount of power you can express. Half hearted, lukewarm Christians are very shallow and immature. God will not be able to use you for His service in this world and you will not be able to experience the depth of His love.

  1. Matthew 5:43“There is a saying, ‘Love your friends and hate your enemies.’In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  2. Matthew 5:44But I say: Love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  3. Matthew 5:46If you love only those who love you, what good is that? Even scoundrels do that much.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  4. Matthew 6:24“You cannot serve two masters: God and money. For you will hate one and love the other, or else the other way around .In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  5. Matthew 10:37If you love your father and mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  6. Matthew 19:19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself!”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  7. Matthew 22:37Jesus replied, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.’In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  8. Matthew 22:38-39This is the first and greatest commandment. The second most important is similar: ‘Love your neighbor as much as you loveyourself.’In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  9. Matthew 23:6And how they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the reserved pews in the synagogue!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  10. Matthew 24:12Sin will be rampant everywhere and will cool the love of many.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  11. Mark 7:6-7Jesus replied, “You bunch of hypocrites! Isaiah the prophet described you very well when he said, ‘These people speak very prettily about the Lord but they have no love for him at all. Their worship is a farce, for they claim that God commands the people to obey their petty rules.’ How right Isaiah was!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  12. Mark 10:21Jesus felt genuine love for this man as he looked at him. “You lack only one thing,” he told him; “go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor—and you shall have treasure in heaven—and come, follow me.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  13. Mark 10:29And Jesus replied, “Let me assure you that no one has ever given up anything—home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or property—for love of me and to tell others the Good News,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  14. Mark 12:30And you must love him with all your heart and soul and mind and strength.’In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  15. Mark 12:31“The second is: ‘You must love others as much as yourself.’ No other commandments are greater than these.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  16. Mark 12:33And I know it is far more important to love him with all my heart and understanding and strength, and to love others as myself, than to offer all kinds of sacrifices on the altar of the Temple.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  17. Mark 12:38Here are some of the other things he taught them at this time: “Beware of the teachers of religion! For they love to wear the robes of the rich and scholarly, and to have everyone bow to them as they walk through the markets.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  18. Mark 12:39They love to sit in the best seats in the synagogues and at the places of honor at banquets—In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  19. Luke 1:1-2Dear friend who loves God: Several biographies of Christ have already been written using as their source material the reports circulating among us from the early disciples and other eyewitnesses.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  20. Luke 1:80The little boy greatly loved God and when he grew up he lived out in the lonely wilderness until he began his public ministry to Israel.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  21. Luke 2:52So Jesus grew both tall and wise, and was loved by God and man.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  22. Luke 3:22and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove settled upon him, and a voice from heaven said, “You are my much loved Son, yes, my delight.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  23. Luke 6:27“Listen, all of you. Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  24. Luke 6:32“Do you think you deserve credit for merely loving those who love you? Even the godless do that!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  25. Luke 6:35“Love your enemies! Do good to them! Lend to them! And don’t be concerned about the fact that they won’t repay. Then your reward from heaven will be very great, and you will truly be acting as sons of God: for he is kind to the unthankful and to those who are very wicked.
  1. Luke 7:5“for he loves the Jews and even paid personally to build us a synagogue!”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  2. Luke 7:42But neither of them could pay him back, so he kindly forgave them both, letting them keep the money! Which do you suppose loved him most after that?”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  3. Luke 7:47Therefore her sins—and they are many—are forgiven, for she loved me much; but one who is forgiven little, shows little love.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  4. Luke 10:27“It says,” he replied, “that you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind. And you must love your neighbor just as much as you love yourself.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  5. Luke 10:29The man wanted to justify his lack of love for some kinds of people, so he asked, “Which neighbors?”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  6. Luke 11:42“But woe to you Pharisees! For though you are careful to tithe even the smallest part of your income, you completely forget about justice and the love of God. You should tithe, yes, but you should not leave these other things undone.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  7. Luke 11:43“Woe to you Pharisees! For how you love the seats of honor in the synagogues and the respectful greetings from everyone as you walk through the markets!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  8. Luke 14:26“Anyone who wants to be my follower must love me far more than he does his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, or sisters—yes, more than his own life—otherwise he cannot be my disciple.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  9. Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who dearly loved their money, naturally scoffed at all this.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  10. Luke 20:46“Beware of these experts in religion, for they love to parade in dignified robes and to be bowed to by the people as they walk along the street. And how they love the seats of honor in the synagogues and at religious festivals!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  11. John 3:16For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  12. John 3:19Their sentence is based on this fact: that the Light from heaven came into the world, but they loved the darkness more than the Light, for their deeds were evil.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  13. John 3:35The Father loves this man because he is his Son, and God has given him everything there is.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  14. John 5:20For the Father loves the Son, and tells him everything he is doing; and the Son will do far more awesome miracles than this man’s healing.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  15. John 5:41-42“Your approval or disapproval means nothing to me, for as I know so well, you don’t have God’s love within you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  16. John 8:42Jesus told them, “If that were so, then you would love me, for I have come to you from God. I am not here on my own, but he sent me.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  17. John 8:44For you are the children of your father the devil and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning and a hater of truth—there is not an iota of truth in him. When he lies, it is perfectly normal; for he is the father of liars.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  18. John 10:17“The Father loves me because I lay down my life that I may have it back again.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  19. John 11:36“They were close friends,” the Jewish leaders said. “See how much he loved him.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  20. John 12:25If you love your life down here—you will lose it. If you despise your life down here—you will exchange it for eternal glory.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  21. John 12:43for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  22. John 13:1-3Jesus knew on the evening of Passover Day that it would be his last night on earth before returning to his Father. During supper the devil had already suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, that this was the night to carry out his plan to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had given him everything and that he had come from God and would return to God. And how he loved his disciples!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  23. John 13:34“And so I am giving a new commandment to you now—love each other just as much as I love you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  24. John 13:35Your strong love for each other will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  25. John 14:15-16“If you love me, obey me; and I will ask the Father and he will give you another Comforter, and he will never leave you.
  1. John 14:21The one who obeys me is the one who loves me; and because he loves me, my Father will love him; and I will too, and I will reveal myself to him.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  2. John 14:23Jesus replied, “Because I will only reveal myself to those who love me and obey me. The Father will love them too, and we will come to them and live with them.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  3. John 14:24Anyone who doesn’t obey me doesn’t love me. And remember, I am not making up this answer to your question! It is the answer given by the Father who sent me.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  4. John 14:28Remember what I told you—I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really love me, you will be very happy for me, for now I can go to the Father, who is greater than I am.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  5. John 14:31but I will freely do what the Father requires of me so that the world will know that I love the Father. Come, let’s be going.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  6. John 15:9“I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Live within my love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  7. John 15:10When you obey me you are living in my love, just as I obey my Father and live in his love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  8. John 15:12I demand that you love each other as much as I love you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  9. John 15:13And here is how to measure it—the greatest love is shown when a person lays down his life for his friends;In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  10. John 15:16“You didn’t choose me! I chose you! I appointed you to go and produce lovely fruit always, so that no matter what you ask for from the Father, using my name, he will give it to you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  11. John 15:17I demand that you love each other,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  12. John 15:19The world would love you if you belonged to it; but you don’t—for I chose you to come out of the world, and so it hates you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  13. John 16:27for the Father himself loves you dearly because you love me and believe that I came from the Father.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  14. John 17:23I in them and you in me, all being perfected into one—so that the world will know you sent me and will understand that you lovethem as much as you love me.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  15. John 17:24Father, I want them with me—these you’ve given me—so that they can see my glory. You gave me the glory because you loved me before the world began!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  16. John 17:26And I have revealed you to them and will keep on revealing you so that the mighty love you have for me may be in them, and I in them.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  17. John 18:37Pilate replied, “But you are a king then?” “Yes,” Jesus said. “I was born for that purpose. And I came to bring truth to the world. All who love the truth are my followers.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  18. John 21:15After breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others?” “Yes,” Peter replied, “you know I am your friend.” “Then feed my lambs,” Jesus told him.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  19. John 21:16Jesus repeated the question: “Simon, son of John, do you really love me?” “Yes, Lord,” Peter said, “you know I am your friend.” “Then take care of my sheep,” Jesus said.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  20. John 21:20Peter turned around and saw the disciple Jesus loved following, the one who had leaned around at supper that time to ask Jesus, “Master, which of us will betray you?”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  21. Acts 1:1-2Dear friend who loves God: In my first letter I told you about Jesus’ life and teachings and how he returned to heaven after giving his chosen apostles further instructions from the Holy Spirit.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  22. Acts 14:22where they helped the believers to grow in love for God and each other. They encouraged them to continue in the faith in spite of all the persecution, reminding them that they must enter into the Kingdom of God through many tribulations.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  23. Acts 20:24But life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about God’s mighty kindness and love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  24. Romans 1:6-7And you, dear friends in Rome, are among those he dearly loves; you, too, are invited by Jesus Christ to be God’s very own—yes, his holy people. May all God’s mercies and peace be yours from God our Father and from Jesus Christ our Lord.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  25. Romans 5:5Then, when that happens, we are able to hold our heads high no matter what happens and know that all is well, for we know how dearly God loves us, and we feel this warm love everywhere within us because God has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.
  1. Romans 5:8But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  2. Romans 6:6Your old evil desires were nailed to the cross with him; that part of you that loves to sin was crushed and fatally wounded, so that your sin-loving body is no longer under sin’s control, no longer needs to be a slave to sin;In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  3. Romans 7:22I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned;In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  4. Romans 7:23-25but there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind and wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. In my mind I want to be God’s willing servant, but instead I find myself still enslaved to sin. So you see how it is: my new life tells me to do right, but the old nature that is still inside me loves to sin. Oh, what a terrible predicament I’m in! Who will free me from my slavery to this deadly lower nature? Thank God! It has been done by Jesus Christ our Lord. He has set me free.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  5. Romans 8:28And we know that all that happens to us is working for our good if we love God and are fitting into his plans.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  6. Romans 8:35Who then can ever keep Christ’s love from us? When we have trouble or calamity, when we are hunted down or destroyed, is it because he doesn’t love us anymore? And if we are hungry or penniless or in danger or threatened with death, has God deserted us?In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  7. Romans 8:37but despite all this, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ who loved us enough to die for us.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  8. Romans 8:38For I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can’t, and life can’t. The angels won’t, and all the powers of hell itself cannot keep God’s love away. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  9. Romans 8:39or where we are—high above the sky, or in the deepest ocean—nothing will ever be able to separate us from the love of God demonstrated by our Lord Jesus Christ when he died for us.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  10. Romans 9:25Remember what the prophecy of Hosea says? There God says that he will find other children for himself (who are not from his Jewish family) and will love them, though no one had ever loved them before.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  11. Romans 11:2-3No, God has not discarded his own people whom he chose from the very beginning. Do you remember what the Scriptures say about this? Elijah the prophet was complaining to God about the Jews, telling God how they had killed the prophets and torn down God’s altars; Elijah claimed that he was the only one left in all the land who still loved God, and now they were trying to kill him too.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  12. Romans 11:4And do you remember how God replied? God said, “No, you are not the only one left. I have seven thousand others besides you who still love me and have not bowed down to idols!”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  13. Romans 11:22Notice how God is both kind and severe. He is very hard on those who disobey, but very good to you if you continue to love and trust him. But if you don’t, you too will be cut off.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  14. Romans 12:9Don’t just pretend that you love others: really love them. Hate what is wrong. Stand on the side of the good.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  15. Romans 12:10Love each other with brotherly affection and take delight in honoring each other.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  16. Romans 13:8Pay all your debts except the debt of love for others—never finish paying that! For if you love them, you will be obeying all of God’s laws, fulfilling all his requirements.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  17. Romans 13:9If you love your neighbor as much as you love yourself you will not want to harm or cheat him, or kill him or steal from him. And you won’t sin with his wife or want what is his, or do anything else the Ten Commandments say is wrong. All ten are wrapped up in this one, to love your neighbor as you love yourself.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  18. Romans 13:10Love does no wrong to anyone. That’s why it fully satisfies all of God’s requirements. It is the only law you need.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  19. Romans 14:15And if your brother is bothered by what you eat, you are not acting in love if you go ahead and eat it. Don’t let your eating ruin someone for whom Christ died.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  20. Romans 15:30Will you be my prayer partners? For the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake and because of your love for me—given to you by the Holy Spirit—pray much with me for my work.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  21. Romans 16:8Say hello to Ampliatus, whom I love as one of God’s own children,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  22. Romans 16:15Give my love to Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and to Olympas, and all the Christians who are with them.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  23. 1 Corinthians 2:9That is what is meant by the Scriptures which say that no mere man has ever seen, heard, or even imagined what wonderful things God has ready for those who love the Lord.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  24. 1 Corinthians 4:21Which do you choose? Shall I come with punishment and scolding, or shall I come with quiet love and gentleness?In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  25. 1 Corinthians 8:1Next is your question about eating food that has been sacrificed to idols. On this question everyone feels that only his answer is the right one! But although being a “know-it-all” makes us feel important, what is really needed to build the church is love.
  1. 1 Corinthians 8:3But the person who truly loves God is the one who is open to God’s knowledge.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:1If I had the gift of being able to speak in other languages without learning them and could speak in every language there is in all of heaven and earth, but didn’t love others, I would only be making noise.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  3. 1 Corinthians 13:2If I had the gift of prophecy and knew all about what is going to happen in the future, knew everything about everything, but didn’t love others, what good would it do? Even if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, I would still be worth nothing at all without love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  4. 1 Corinthians 13:3If I gave everything I have to poor people, and if I were burned alive for preaching the Gospel but didn’t love others, it would be of no value whatever.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  5. 1 Corinthians 13:4Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  6. 1 Corinthians 13:5never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  7. 1 Corinthians 13:7If you love someone, you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost. You will always believe in him, always expect the best of him, and always stand your ground in defending him.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  8. 1 Corinthians 13:8All the special gifts and powers from God will someday come to an end, but love goes on forever. Someday prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge—these gifts will disappear.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  9. 1 Corinthians 13:13There are three things that remain—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  10. 1 Corinthians 14:1Let love be your greatest aim; nevertheless, ask also for the special abilities the Holy Spirit gives, and especially the gift of prophecy, being able to preach the messages of God.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  11. 1 Corinthians 16:14and whatever you do, do it with kindness and love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  12. 1 Corinthians 16:19The churches here in Asia send you their loving greetings. Aquila and Priscilla send you their love, and so do all the others who meet in their home for their church service.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  13. 1 Corinthians 16:22if anyone does not love the Lord, that person is cursed. Lord Jesus, come!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  14. 1 Corinthians 16:23May the love and favor of the Lord Jesus Christ rest upon you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  15. 1 Corinthians 16:24My love to all of you, for we all belong to Christ Jesus. Sincerely, PaulIn Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  16. 2 Corinthians 2:4Oh, how I hated to write that letter! It almost broke my heart, and I tell you honestly that I cried over it. I didn’t want to hurt you, but I had to show you how very much I loved you and cared about what was happening to you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  17. 2 Corinthians 2:8Please show him now that you still do love him very much.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  18. 2 Corinthians 5:13-14Are we insane to say such things about ourselves? If so, it is to bring glory to God. And if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit. Whatever we do, it is certainly not for our own profit but because Christ’s love controls us now. Since we believe that Christ died for all of us, we should also believe that we have died to the old life we used to live.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  19. 2 Corinthians 5:20We are Christ’s ambassadors. God is using us to speak to you: we beg you, as though Christ himself were here pleading with you, receive the love he offers you—be reconciled to God.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  20. 2 Corinthians 6:11Oh, my dear Corinthian friends! I have told you all my feelings; I love you with all my heart.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  21. 2 Corinthians 6:12Any coldness still between us is not because of any lack of love on my part but because your love is too small and does not reach out to me and draw me in.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  22. 2 Corinthians 6:13I am talking to you now as if you truly were my very own children. Open your hearts to us! Return our love!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  23. 2 Corinthians 6:14Don’t be teamed with those who do not love the Lord, for what do the people of God have in common with the people of sin? How can light live with darkness?In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  24. 2 Corinthians 7:7Not only was his presence a joy, but also the news that he brought of the wonderful time he had with you. When he told me how much you were looking forward to my visit, and how sorry you were about what had happened, and about your loyalty and warm love for me, well, I overflowed with joy!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  25. 2 Corinthians 7:13In addition to the encouragement you gave us by your love, we were made happier still by Titus’ joy when you gave him such a fine welcome and set his mind at ease.
  1. 2 Corinthians 7:15He loves you more than ever when he remembers the way you listened to him so willingly and received him so anxiously and with such deep concern.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  2. 2 Corinthians 8:7You people there are leaders in so many ways—you have so much faith, so many good preachers, so much learning, so much enthusiasm, so much love for us. Now I want you to be leaders also in the spirit of cheerful giving.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  3. 2 Corinthians 8:8I am not giving you an order; I am not saying you must do it, but others are eager for it. This is one way to prove that your love is real, that it goes beyond mere words.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  4. 2 Corinthians 8:9You know how full of love and kindness our Lord Jesus was: though he was so very rich, yet to help you he became so very poor, so that by being poor he could make you rich.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  5. 2 Corinthians 8:24Please show your love for me to these men and do for them all that I have publicly boasted you would.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  6. 2 Corinthians 11:2I am anxious for you with the deep concern of God himself—anxious that your love should be for Christ alone, just as a pure maiden saves her love for one man only, for the one who will be her husband.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  7. 2 Corinthians 11:11Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows I do.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  8. 2 Corinthians 12:15I am glad to give you myself and all I have for your spiritual good, even though it seems that the more I love you, the less you loveme.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  9. 2 Corinthians 13:11I close my letter with these last words: Be happy. Grow in Christ. Pay attention to what I have said. Live in harmony and peace. And may the God of love and peace be with you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  10. 2 Corinthians 13:14May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. May God’s love and the Holy Spirit’s friendship be yours. PaulIn Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  11. Galatians 1:6I am amazed that you are turning away so soon from God who, in his love and mercy, invited you to share the eternal life he gives through Christ; you are already following a different “way to heaven,” which really doesn’t go to heaven at all.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  12. Galatians 2:20I have been crucified with Christ: and I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And the real life I now have within this body is a result of my trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  13. Galatians 5:6And we to whom Christ has given eternal life don’t need to worry about whether we have been circumcised or not, or whether we are obeying the Jewish ceremonies or not; for all we need is faith working through love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  14. Galatians 5:13For, dear brothers, you have been given freedom: not freedom to do wrong, but freedom to love and serve each other.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  15. Galatians 5:14For the whole Law can be summed up in this one command: “Love others as you love yourself.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  16. Galatians 5:15But if instead of showing love among yourselves you are always critical and catty, watch out! Beware of ruining each other.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  17. Galatians 5:17For we naturally love to do evil things that are just the opposite from the things that the Holy Spirit tells us to do; and the good things we want to do when the Spirit has his way with us are just the opposite of our natural desires. These two forces within us are constantly fighting each other to win control over us, and our wishes are never free from their pressures.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  18. Galatians 5:22But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  19. Ephesians 1:4Long ago, even before he made the world, God chose us to be his very own through what Christ would do for us; he decided then to make us holy in his eyes, without a single fault—we who stand before him covered with his love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  20. Ephesians 1:6Now all praise to God for his wonderful kindness to us and his favor that he has poured out upon us because we belong to his dearly loved Son.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  21. Ephesians 1:15That is why, ever since I heard of your strong faith in the Lord Jesus and of the love you have for Christians everywhere,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  22. Ephesians 2:4But God is so rich in mercy; he loved us so muchIn Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  23. Ephesians 3:17And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love;In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  24. Ephesians 3:18-19and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high his lovereally is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God himself.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  25. Ephesians 4:2Be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.
  1. Ephesians 4:15-16Instead, we will lovingly follow the truth at all times—speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly—and so become more and more in every way like Christ who is the Head of his body, the Church. Under his direction, the whole body is fitted together perfectly, and each part in its own special way helps the other parts, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  2. Ephesians 5:1Follow God’s example in everything you do just as a much loved child imitates his father.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  3. Ephesians 5:2Be full of love for others, following the example of Christ who loved you and gave himself to God as a sacrifice to take away your sins. And God was pleased, for Christ’s love for you was like sweet perfume to him.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  4. Ephesians 5:5You can be sure of this: The Kingdom of Christ and of God will never belong to anyone who is impure or greedy, for a greedy person is really an idol worshiper—he loves and worships the good things of this life more than God.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  5. Ephesians 5:25And you husbands, show the same kind of love to your wives as Christ showed to the Church when he died for her,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  6. Ephesians 5:28That is how husbands should treat their wives, loving them as parts of themselves. For since a man and his wife are now one, a man is really doing himself a favor and loving himself when he loves his wife!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  7. Ephesians 5:33So again I say, a man must love his wife as a part of himself; and the wife must see to it that she deeply respects her husband—obeying, praising, and honoring him.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  8. Ephesians 6:21Tychicus, who is a much-loved brother and faithful helper in the Lord’s work, will tell you all about how I am getting along.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  9. Ephesians 6:23May God give peace to you, my Christian brothers, and love, with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  10. Ephesians 6:24May God’s grace and blessing be upon all who sincerely love our Lord Jesus Christ. Sincerely, PaulIn Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  11. Philippians 1:8Only God knows how deep is my love and longing for you—with the tenderness of Jesus Christ.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  12. Philippians 1:9My prayer for you is that you will overflow more and more with love for others, and at the same time keep on growing in spiritual knowledge and insight,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  13. Philippians 1:16-17preaching because they love me, for they know that the Lord has brought me here to use me to defend the Truth. And some preach to make me jealous, thinking that their success will add to my sorrows here in jail!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  14. Philippians 2:1Is there any such thing as Christians cheering each other up? Do you love me enough to want to help me? Does it mean anything to you that we are brothers in the Lord, sharing the same Spirit? Are your hearts tender and sympathetic at all?In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  15. Philippians 4:1Dear brother Christians, I love you and long to see you, for you are my joy and my reward for my work. My beloved friends, stay true to the Lord.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  16. Philippians 4:8And now, brothers, as I close this letter, let me say this one more thing: Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely, and dwell on the fine, good things in others. Think about all you can praise God for and be glad about.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  17. Colossians 1:4for we have heard how much you trust the Lord, and how much you love his people.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  18. Colossians 1:7Epaphras, our much-loved fellow worker, was the one who brought you this Good News. He is Jesus Christ’s faithful slave, here to help us in your place.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  19. Colossians 1:8And he is the one who has told us about the great love for others that the Holy Spirit has given you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  20. Colossians 1:26-27He has kept this secret for centuries and generations past, but now at last it has pleased him to tell it to those who love him and live for him, and the riches and glory of his plan are for you Gentiles, too. And this is the secret: Christ in your hearts is your only hope of glory.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  21. Colossians 2:2This is what I have asked of God for you: that you will be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love, and that you will have the rich experience of knowing Christ with real certainty and clear understanding. For God’s secret plan, now at last made known, is Christ himself.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  22. Colossians 3:12Since you have been chosen by God who has given you this new kind of life, and because of his deep love and concern for you, you should practice tenderhearted mercy and kindness to others. Don’t worry about making a good impression on them, but be ready to suffer quietly and patiently.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  23. Colossians 3:14Most of all, let love guide your life, for then the whole church will stay together in perfect harmony.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  24. Colossians 3:22You slaves must always obey your earthly masters, not only trying to please them when they are watching you but all the time; obey them willingly because of your love for the Lord and because you want to please him.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  25. Colossians 4:7Tychicus, our much-loved brother, will tell you how I am getting along. He is a hard worker and serves the Lord with me
  1. Colossians 4:9I am also sending Onesimus, a faithful and much-loved brother, one of your own people. He and Tychicus will give you all the latest news.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  2. Colossians 4:10Aristarchus, who is with me here as a prisoner, sends you his love, and so does Mark, a relative of Barnabas. And as I said before, give Mark a hearty welcome if he comes your way.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  3. Colossians 4:11Jesus Justus also sends his love. These are the only Jewish Christians working with me here, and what a comfort they have been!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  4. Colossians 4:12Epaphras, from your city, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love. He is always earnestly praying for you, asking God to make you strong and perfect and to help you know his will in everything you do.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  5. Colossians 4:14Dear Doctor Luke sends his love, and so does Demas.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  6. 1 Thessalonians 2:8We loved you dearly—so dearly that we gave you not only God’s message, but our own lives too.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  7. 1 Thessalonians 3:6And now Timothy has just returned and brings the welcome news that your faith and love are as strong as ever and that you remember our visit with joy and want to see us just as much as we want to see you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  8. 1 Thessalonians 3:12And may the Lord make your love to grow and overflow to each other and to everyone else, just as our love does toward you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  9. 1 Thessalonians 4:9But concerning the pure brotherly love that there should be among God’s people, I don’t need to say very much, I’m sure! For God himself is teaching you to love one another.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  10. 1 Thessalonians 4:10Indeed, your love is already strong toward all the Christian brothers throughout your whole nation. Even so, dear friends, we beg you to love them more and more.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  11. 1 Thessalonians 5:8But let us who live in the light keep sober, protected by the armor of faith and love, and wearing as our helmet the happy hope of salvation.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  12. 1 Thessalonians 5:13Think highly of them and give them your wholehearted love because they are straining to help you. And remember, no quarreling among yourselves.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  13. 2 Thessalonians 1:3Dear brothers, giving thanks to God for you is not only the right thing to do, but it is our duty to God because of the really wonderful way your faith has grown and because of your growing love for each other.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  14. 2 Thessalonians 2:10He will completely fool those who are on their way to hell because they have said no to the Truth; they have refused to believe it and love it and let it save them,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  15. 2 Thessalonians 2:13But we must forever give thanks to God for you, our brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose from the very first to give you salvation, cleansing you by the work of the Holy Spirit and by your trusting in the Truth.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  16. 2 Thessalonians 2:16May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting comfort and hope, which we don’t deserve,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  17. 2 Thessalonians 3:2Pray, too, that we will be saved out of the clutches of evil men, for not everyone loves the Lord.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  18. 2 Thessalonians 3:5May the Lord bring you into an ever deeper understanding of the love of God and of the patience that comes from Christ.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  19. 1 Timothy 1:5What I am eager for is that all the Christians there will be filled with love that comes from pure hearts, and that their minds will be clean and their faith strong.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  20. 1 Timothy 1:14Oh, how kind our Lord was, for he showed me how to trust him and become full of the love of Christ Jesus.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  21. 1 Timothy 3:3He must not be a drinker or quarrelsome, but he must be gentle and kind and not be one who loves money.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  22. 1 Timothy 4:12Don’t let anyone think little of you because you are young. Be their ideal; let them follow the way you teach and live; be a pattern for them in your love, your faith, and your clean thoughts.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  23. 1 Timothy 5:1Never speak sharply to an older man, but plead with him respectfully just as though he were your own father. Talk to the younger men as you would to much-loved brothers.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  24. 1 Timothy 6:10For the love of money is the first step toward all kinds of sin. Some people have even turned away from God because of their love for it, and as a result have pierced themselves with many sorrows.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  25. 1 Timothy 6:11O Timothy, you are God’s man. Run from all these evil things, and work instead at what is right and good, learning to trust him and love others and to be patient and gentle.
  1. 2 Timothy 1:7For the Holy Spirit, God’s gift, does not want you to be afraid of people, but to be wise and strong, and to love them and enjoy being with them.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  2. 2 Timothy 1:9It is he who saved us and chose us for his holy work not because we deserved it but because that was his plan long before the world began—to show his love and kindness to us through Christ.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  3. 2 Timothy 1:13Hold tightly to the pattern of truth I taught you, especially concerning the faith and love Christ Jesus offers you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  4. 2 Timothy 2:17Things will be said that will burn and hurt for a long time to come. Hymenaeus and Philetus, in their love of argument, are men like that.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  5. 2 Timothy 2:22Run from anything that gives you the evil thoughts that young men often have, but stay close to anything that makes you want to do right. Have faith and love, and enjoy the companionship of those who love the Lord and have pure hearts.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  6. 2 Timothy 3:2For people will love only themselves and their money; they will be proud and boastful, sneering at God, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful to them, and thoroughly bad.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  7. 2 Timothy 3:10But you know from watching me that I am not that kind of person. You know what I believe and the way I live and what I want. You know my faith in Christ and how I have suffered. You know my love for you, and my patience.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  8. 2 Timothy 4:10for Demas has left me. He loved the good things of this life and went to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  9. Titus 1:6The men you choose must be well thought of for their good lives; they must have only one wife and their children must love the Lord and not have a reputation for being wild or disobedient to their parents.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  10. Titus 1:8They must enjoy having guests in their homes and must love all that is good. They must be sensible men, and fair. They must be clean minded and level headed.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  11. Titus 2:2Teach the older men to be serious and unruffled; they must be sensible, knowing and believing the truth and doing everything with love and patience.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  12. Titus 2:4These older women must train the younger women to live quietly, to love their husbands and their children,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  13. Titus 2:7And here you yourself must be an example to them of good deeds of every kind. Let everything you do reflect your love of the truth and the fact that you are in dead earnest about it.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  14. Titus 3:4But when the time came for the kindness and love of God our Savior to appear,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  15. Philemon 1:1-2From: Paul, in jail for preaching the Good News about Jesus Christ, and from Brother Timothy. To: Philemon, our much-loved fellow worker, and to the church that meets in your home, and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus who, like myself, is a soldier of the cross.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  16. Philemon 1:5because I keep hearing of your love and trust in the Lord Jesus and in his people.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  17. Philemon 1:7I myself have gained much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because your kindness has so often refreshed the hearts of God’s people.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  18. Philemon 1:8-9Now I want to ask a favor of you. I could demand it of you in the name of Christ because it is the right thing for you to do, but I love you and prefer just to ask you—I, Paul, an old man now, here in jail for the sake of Jesus Christ.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  19. Hebrews 1:9You love right and hate wrong; so God, even your God, has poured out more gladness upon you than on anyone else.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  20. Hebrews 3:7-8And since Christ is so much superior, the Holy Spirit warns us to listen to him, to be careful to hear his voice today and not let our hearts become set against him, as the people of Israel did. They steeled themselves against his love and complained against him in the desert while he was testing them.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  21. Hebrews 6:10For God is not unfair. How can he forget your hard work for him, or forget the way you used to show your love for him—and still do—by helping his children?In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  22. Hebrews 11:35And some women, through faith, received their loved ones back again from death. But others trusted God and were beaten to death, preferring to die rather than turn from God and be free—trusting that they would rise to a better life afterwards.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  23. Hebrews 12:6For when he punishes you, it proves that he loves you. When he whips you, it proves you are really his child.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  24. Hebrews 13:1Continue to love each other with true brotherly love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  25. Hebrews 13:5Stay away from the love of money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never, never fail you nor forsake you.”
  1. Hebrews 13:24-25Give my greetings to all your leaders and to the other believers there. The Christians from Italy who are here with me send you their love. God’s grace be with you all. Good-bye.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  2. James 1:12Happy is the man who doesn’t give in and do wrong when he is tempted, for afterwards he will get as his reward the crown of life that God has promised those who love him.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  3. James 2:5Listen to me, dear brothers: God has chosen poor people to be rich in faith, and the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs, for that is the gift God has promised to all those who love him.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  4. James 2:8Yes indeed, it is good when you truly obey our Lord’s command, “You must love and help your neighbors just as much as you love and take care of yourself.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  5. James 4:4You are like an unfaithful wife who loves her husband’s enemies. Don’t you realize that making friends with God’s enemies—the evil pleasures of this world—makes you an enemy of God? I say it again, that if your aim is to enjoy the evil pleasure of the unsaved world, you cannot also be a friend of God.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  6. 1 Peter 1:8You love him even though you have never seen him; though not seeing him, you trust him; and even now you are happy with the inexpressible joy that comes from heaven itself.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  7. 1 Peter 1:22Now you can have real love for everyone because your souls have been cleansed from selfishness and hatred when you trusted Christ to save you; so see to it that you really do love each other warmly, with all your hearts.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  8. 1 Peter 2:17Show respect for everyone. Love Christians everywhere. Fear God and honor the government.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  9. 1 Peter 4:8Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love makes up for many of your faults.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  10. 1 Peter 5:12I am sending this note to you through the courtesy of Silvanus who is, in my opinion, a very faithful brother. I hope I have encouraged you by this letter, for I have given you a true statement of the way God blesses. What I have told you here should help you to stand firmly in his love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  11. 1 Peter 5:14Give each other the handshake of Christian love. Peace be to all of you who are in Christ. PeterIn Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  12. 2 Peter 1:7This will make possible the next step, which is for you to enjoy other people and to like them, and finally you will grow to lovethem deeply.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  13. 2 Peter 1:17-18I was there on the holy mountain when he shone out with honor given him by God his Father; I heard that glorious, majestic voice calling down from heaven, saying, “This is my much-loved Son; I am well pleased with him.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  14. 2 Peter 2:13That is the pay these teachers will have for their sin. For they live in evil pleasures day after day. They are a disgrace and a stain among you, deceiving you by living in foul sin on the side while they join your love feasts as though they were honest men.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  15. 2 Peter 2:15They have gone off the road and become lost like Balaam, the son of Beor, who fell in love with the money he could make by doing wrong;In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  16. 1 John 2:5But those who do what Christ tells them to will learn to love God more and more. That is the way to know whether or not you are a Christian.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  17. 1 John 2:8Yet it is always new, and works for you just as it did for Christ; and as we obey this commandment, to love one another, the darkness in our lives disappears and the new light of life in Christ shines in.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  18. 1 John 2:10But whoever loves his fellow man is “walking in the light” and can see his way without stumbling around in darkness and sin.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  19. 1 John 2:15Stop loving this evil world and all that it offers you, for when you love these things you show that you do not really love God;In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  20. 1 John 2:26These remarks of mine about the Antichrist are pointed at those who would dearly love to blindfold you and lead you astray.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  21. 1 John 3:1See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for he allows us to be called his children—think of it—and we really are! But since most people don’t know God, naturally they don’t understand that we are his children.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  22. 1 John 3:10So now we can tell who is a child of God and who belongs to Satan. Whoever is living a life of sin and doesn’t love his brother shows that he is not in God’s family;In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  23. 1 John 3:11for the message to us from the beginning has been that we should love one another.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  24. 1 John 3:14If we love other Christians, it proves that we have been delivered from hell and given eternal life. But a person who doesn’t have love for others is headed for eternal death.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  25. 1 John 3:16We know what real love is from Christ’s example in dying for us. And so we also ought to lay down our lives for our Christian brothers.
  1. 1 John 3:17But if someone who is supposed to be a Christian has money enough to live well, and sees a brother in need, and won’t help him—how can God’s love be within him?In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  2. 1 John 3:18Little children, let us stop just saying we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  3. 1 John 3:21But, dearly loved friends, if our consciences are clear, we can come to the Lord with perfect assurance and trust,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  4. 1 John 3:23And this is what God says we must do: Believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  5. 1 John 4:1Dearly loved friends, don’t always believe everything you hear just because someone says it is a message from God: test it first to see if it really is. For there are many false teachers around,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  6. 1 John 4:7Dear friends, let us practice loving each other, for love comes from God and those who are loving and kind show that they are the children of God, and that they are getting to know him better.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  7. 1 John 4:8But if a person isn’t loving and kind, it shows that he doesn’t know God—for God is love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  8. 1 John 4:9God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into this wicked world to bring to us eternal life through his death.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  9. 1 John 4:10In this act we see what real love is: it is not our love for God but his love for us when he sent his Son to satisfy God’s anger against our sins.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  10. 1 John 4:11Dear friends, since God loved us as much as that, we surely ought to love each other too.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  11. 1 John 4:12For though we have never yet seen God, when we love each other God lives in us, and his love within us grows ever stronger.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  12. 1 John 4:16We know how much God loves us because we have felt his love and because we believe him when he tells us that he loves us dearly. God is love, and anyone who lives in love is living with God and God is living in him.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  13. 1 John 4:17And as we live with Christ, our love grows more perfect and complete; so we will not be ashamed and embarrassed at the day of judgment, but can face him with confidence and joy because he loves us and we love him too.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  14. 1 John 4:18We need have no fear of someone who loves us perfectly; his perfect love for us eliminates all dread of what he might do to us. If we are afraid, it is for fear of what he might do to us and shows that we are not fully convinced that he really loves us.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  15. 1 John 4:19So you see, our love for him comes as a result of his loving us first.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  16. 1 John 4:20If anyone says “I love God,” but keeps on hating his brother, he is a liar; for if he doesn’t love his brother who is right there in front of him, how can he love God whom he has never seen?In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  17. 1 John 4:21And God himself has said that one must love not only God but his brother too.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  18. 1 John 5:1If you believe that Jesus is the Christ—that he is God’s Son and your Savior—then you are a child of God. And all who love the Father love his children too.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  19. 1 John 5:2So you can find out how much you love God’s children—your brothers and sisters in the Lord—by how much you love and obey God.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  20. 2 John 1:1From: John, the old Elder of the church. To: That dear woman Cyria, one of God’s very own, and to her children whom I love so much, as does everyone else in the church.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  21. 2 John 1:3God the Father and Jesus Christ his Son will bless us with great mercy and much peace, and with truth and love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  22. 2 John 1:5And now I want to urgently remind you, dear friends, of the old rule God gave us right from the beginning, that Christians should love one another.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  23. 2 John 1:6If we love God, we will do whatever he tells us to. And he has told us from the very first to love each other.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  24. 3 John 1:1From: John, the Elder. To: Dear Gaius, whom I truly love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  25. 3 John 1:9I sent a brief letter to the church about this, but proud Diotrephes, who loves to push himself forward as the leader of the Christians there, does not admit my authority over him and refuses to listen to me.
  1. 3 John 1:15So good-bye for now. Friends here send their love, and please give each of the folks there a special greeting from me. Sincerely, JohnIn Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  2. Jude 1:2May you be given more and more of God’s kindness, peace, and love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  3. Jude 1:3Dearly loved friends, I had been planning to write you some thoughts about the salvation God has given us, but now I find I must write of something else instead, urging you to stoutly defend the truth that God gave once for all to his people to keep without change through the years.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  4. Jude 1:12When these men join you at the love feasts of the church, they are evil smears among you, laughing and carrying on, gorging and stuffing themselves without a thought for others. They are like clouds blowing over dry land without giving rain, promising much, but producing nothing. They are like fruit trees without any fruit at picking time. They are not only dead, but doubly dead, for they have been pulled out, roots and all, to be burned.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  5. Jude 1:19They stir up arguments; they love the evil things of the world; they do not have the Holy Spirit living in them.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  6. Jude 1:21Stay always within the boundaries where God’s love can reach and bless you. Wait patiently for the eternal life that our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy is going to give you.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  7. Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ who faithfully reveals all truth to us. He was the first to rise from death, to die no more. He is far greater than any king in all the earth. All praise to him who always loves us and who set us free from our sins by pouring out his lifeblood for us.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  8. Revelation 2:4“Yet there is one thing wrong; you don’t love me as at first!In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  9. Revelation 2:5Think about those times of your first love (how different now!) and turn back to me again and work as you did before; or else I will come and remove your candlestick from its place among the churches.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  10. Revelation 2:19“I am aware of all your good deeds—your kindness to the poor, your gifts and service to them; also I know your love and faith and patience, and I can see your constant improvement in all these things.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  11. Revelation 3:9“Note this: I will force those supporting the causes of Satan while claiming to be mine (but they aren’t—they are lying) to fall at your feet and acknowledge that you are the ones I love.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  12. Revelation 3:19I continually discipline and punish everyone I love; so I must punish you unless you turn from your indifference and become enthusiastic about the things of God.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  13. Revelation 12:11They defeated him by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony; for they did not love their lives but laid them down for him.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  14. Revelation 18:14“All the fancy things you loved so much are gone,” they cry. “The dainty luxuries and splendor that you prized so much will never be yours again. They are gone forever.”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
  15. Revelation 22:15“Outside the city are those who have strayed away from God, and the sorcerers and the immoral and murderers and idolaters, and all who love to lie, and do so.