Tuesday's Bible Study Message, June 22, 2021 - Love on Fire

 Hello Family of God,  

We are in the hour where now it is important to fan the flame of love in our hearts for Jesus.  Be encouraged with the message below in taking small steps that can lead to a great flame of passion being lit in our hearts in response to the All-Consuming Fire burning brightly in and around us.

God Bless!

Scripture References & Highlights

Prayer for 2021:  This year will be a year of Light; that Light will shine and darkness will not dispel it. 

In Jesus' Name

Message Scriptures

• Songs of Songs (Solomon) 8:6-7
• set me as a firey seal
• Matthew 22:36-39, Mark 12:29-31, Deut. 6:4-9
• loving God with everything and others
• talk about loving God continually
• connecting family/others to the love of God
• ask Holy Spirit how to connect more
• 1 John 4:7-21
• God acted on His love by loving us first through Jesus dying for us
• 1 John 3:16-19
• self-sacrifice
• concerned for the needs of others
• John 4:4
• Jesus went out of His way to love one
• one encounter with true Love sparked a passion that touched many (vs. 28)
• Power of Many - Family of God
• Matthew 12:46-50
• Galatians 6:2
• Philippians 2:3
• Hebrews 6:10
• Luke 5:18-20 - sacrificial love
• Galatians 5:5-6 - faith expressing itself in love
• Hebrews 10:38-39
• Romans 15:13, 5:3-5 - faith, hope and love working together
• Romans 8:24 - hope is work
• Hebrews 11:1 - faith is working
• John 3:16 - love's work or action

 Nuggets for the Week

• There will always be a sacrificial cost to loving others
• God in us reaching out to pursue others that do not know Him
• Love is often measured in terms of spending time
• Faith and Love (testimony of "naughter")
• faith was appropriated to another and received the same reward
• moved by faith and hope to respond sooner than planned
• those who doubted were able to witness the reward of faith displayed
• Our faith in God is rewarded by more love (more of Him) imparted in us 
• Hope Under Fire - hope is a gift of the Spirit
• Power of Many - Together Love
• Jesus people
• people are needing to see Jesus, loving Jesus in others

Reflections

• What does wholehearted commitment to God look like today?
• How would you arrange your day if Jesus showed up in the flesh in your living room?
• What does our alabaster box look like today?  Wiping Jesus' feet with out hair?
• What do we do when our love tank is low?  Get closer to Love (God)
• Love's Challenge:
• 3 Aims of Love (daily or course of rest of the week)
• Sit, ask, listen then respond
• Ask Holy Spirit to show a tanglible expression of love to God, self, and others
• loving ourselves the way God loves us, ex. being patient with ourselves just as God is patient with us

 Key Takeaway for the Body

• It is our actions, not feelings or words alone, that demonstrate love (Romans 12:1-2)
• move off of our feelings into faith - feeding (fuel) the fire within
• little works are important or as much as more works
• little means much in the Kingdom
• not to minimize the cost of the little - what do you have to give today
• it is the little that can lead to a greater passion
• It's the little things we do in secret - that God rewards openly
• Loving others is no longer a sacrifice - poured out on others, Power of One Love = transformational love (one act of love that is pure, in connection with the Father that changes everything) 
• Matt. 25:34-40
• good works are a natural consequence to loving Jesus
• People are longing for Love - God loving God
• The aim is becoming faithfully, loving people

Prayer Time

In your times of prayer this week (9am,12noon, and 6pm) we encourage you to include the following scriptures located below and in the article 7 Verses and 7 Prayers for your Pastor/

Ephesians 1:17-19, 3:16-17

Philippians 1:9-11

Colossians 1:10-12

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