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DAY FOUR: UNDERSTANDING THE AGAPE

Welcome to day four of our forty-day retreat and reflections.

 I want us to reflect on the Agape love of God.

 Shall we please read the thirteenth chapter of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians: "If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 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. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
I have personally desired to understand the depth of the Agape love of Our Father. The Holy Spirit led me to this part of Scripture to broaden my understanding. 
My dear, God is Patient, He is Kind. 
He does not envy because He created all things and He owns all things.
He does not boast- He only boasts in His fellowship with His children. 
God honours us, He seeks to make His children happy and loved. Daddy doesn't get angry at us easily. 
He desires that we come back to Him when sin draws us back. Hence, He quickly wipes out our dirty slate and gives us a clean one every time we return to Him. 
God doesn't lie- He said that He is not man, that He should lie. 
God protects His children. 
God trusts His children. 
He always hopes that all of mankind would desire to know the depth of His Love and have intimacy with Him.
God always perseveres: He never gives up on us- even when we give up on ourselves!

He wants you and me to know that this world will pass away. 
All the material things we've clung on will pass away: for for they are temporal. 
Our friends and family will leave us and maybe forsake us at a point in our lives.

...but as for Him...

His love for You and me will never die. 
He assures us that his love for you and me is Unconditional and Unchanging! 

He is Love personified. There is no God without Love and there is no Love without Him. 
Amen... 

Please believe and receive this precious gift of God: His Love!

It will sustain you.

Please don't forget that as you continue to have fellowship with His Holy Spirit of Truth, He will teach You more about who Our Father is.

God bless you!

It's still #SHARINGLIFE.

Let's keep on sharing...

And Hey.... Happy Vals day! 

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