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Love is a verb

Love is a beautiful word. It has a variety of meanings and connotations depending on how we use it. We may love God, our spouses, our country, our favourite sports team and food – each of them in a different way. What this passage does say is that real love, God’s type of love, requires action. It is God’s love in our hearts that inspires us to action, action that often costs us personally in some way, but action that demonstrates God’s love to a broken world.

Prayer response:

1. Thank God for the way in which He has demonstrated His love toward you, that you can be a partaker of life because Jesus gave up His life for us.
2. Pray that you may increase in love toward those around you and that that love would find an outflow into the appropriate action. Ask God to show you how you can demonstrate His love towards those around you.
3. Prayerfully think of a way to practically demonstrate love toward someone around you today and commit to doing so.

*Pray for the salvation of those on your prayer list.