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Becoming A More Loving Person The Power To Change Your Life
Becoming A More Loving
Person
The Power To Change Your Life
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Love is misunderstood
• Love has lost it’s meaning
• Love is more than a feeling
• Love is not uncontrollable
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Things that love is
• Love is a choice
“And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” - Colossians 3:14 (NIV)
• Love is a conduct
“Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.” - 1 John 3:18 (NIV)
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Biblical Words of Love
1. Storge = natural affection
2. Eros = sexual attraction
3. Philia = emotional affection or friendship
4. Agape = unconditional, giving, sacrificial love
• “Love is an act of continual commitment!”
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Steps to exhibit continually committed love
• “…so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ…” - Ephesians 3:17-18 (NIV)
• “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”- John 15:12 (NIV)
1. Experience God’s love
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1. Experience God’s love
2. Forgive your enemies
Steps to exhibit continually committed love
• “Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” - Colossians 3:13 (NIV)
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1. Experience God’s love
2. Forgive your enemies
3. Marinate your mind with loving thoughts
Steps to exhibit continually committed love
• “Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus.” - Philippians 2:4-5 (NIV)
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1. Experience God’s love
2. Forgive your enemies
3. Marinate your mind with loving thoughts
4. Act in a loving way
• How do I act in a loving way?
1.Love your enemies – Eph 4:22.Do good3.Bless those who curse us4.Pray for those who mistreat us
Steps to exhibit continually committed love
How You Think
What I Think What I Feel How I Act
How You Feel
How You Act
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1. Experience God’s love
2. Forgive your enemies
3. Marinate your mind with loving thoughts
4. Act in a loving way
• “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.” - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
Steps to exhibit continually committed love
How You Think
What I Think What I Feel How I Act
How You Feel
How You Act
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1. Experience God’s love
2. Forgive your enemies
3. Marinate your mind with loving thoughts
4. Act in a loving way
5. Expect the best
Steps to exhibit continually committed love
5. Expect the best
• “It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”- 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NIV)
keys to resurrecting a love
• “Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place.” - Revelations 2:4-5 (NIV)
Becoming A More Loving PersonThings to which love is
Keys to resurrect a love
Words to express Biblical words of love
Steps to exhibit continuously committed love
1.Choice2.Conduct
1.Remember2.Repent3.Repeat
1.Storge2.Eros3.Philia4.Agape
1.Experience God’s love2.Forgive your enemies3.Marinate your mind with loving thoughts
4.Demonstrate your love in practical ways
5.Expect the best
