A Good Love-A Great Love-A Real Love-A Godly Love: If you are a child of God, you have this kind of love.

Romans 5:5: “…the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”

When you were born again, God became your Father. He is a loving God. You are a loved child of a loving God. You are born of God, and God is love. So you are born of love. The nature of God is in you. And the nature of God is love.

Ours is a loving family. Everyone in the family has God’s love shed abroad in his heart. If not-then you are not in the family.

Now you may not use it or exercise it; you could be like the man with one talent who wrapped it in a napkin and buried it. But the Bible declares that the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost: that means that the Godly kind of love has been shed abroad in our spirits. This is a family of love. Love is the basis for all the activity of the Body of Christ in the earth.

I Thessalonians 4:9: “But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.”

The law of love to the family of God: John 13:34: “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another, as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”

We are also commanded to love our enemies-Matthew 5:44, 45.

The reason we can do this (“…love our enemies, bless them that curse us, do good to them that hate us, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you”), is because of the manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us. I John 3:1: “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God…”

This kind of love involves the choice of your will: that love is inside your spirit, if you are born again.

Let it loose from within you. Choose to love all people-even your enemies. Anyone can love those who love them, but the Bible tells us to love our enemies: John 15:13: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”= This does not merely refer to dying physically. It mainly refers to our being willing to give up our own will and way and take time to pray and intercede for all men.

1. God loved us while we were yet sinners and sent Christ to die for us-we are to love the same way. We give our lives for mankind.

2. One way we give our lives for mankind is by giving ourselves to prayer. It involves sacrifice. It involves laying down our own desires for the benefit of mankind.

It is a sacrifice to give up you own will and taking time to pray for others. Love God-Love All. Amen.

Marion Dobbs