In this Easter-centered message, Pastor Olumide Ogunjuyigbe reminds us of the powerful truth that Jesus is alive—and that belief shapes everything. Drawing from John 20:30–31, he teaches that believing isn’t passive—it’s how we think, speak, and live.

Because Jesus lives, you now have access to:

• A new identity rooted in who God says you are
• The fulfillment of your deepest needs
• Restoration of lost dreams and hope
• Freedom from guilt and shame
• Strength to overcome life’s adversities
• A revived and living faith

This message is a bold invitation to see yourself through God’s eyes and believe in the living Christ who changes everything.

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In this thought-provoking message, Pastor Olumide Ogunjuyigbe lays out the foundational truths every believer should know about faith. Drawing from Matthew 7:7 and Romans 10:17, he unpacks what faith truly is, how it connects to the nature and integrity of God, and why it’s essential for everyday living.

Discover how faith impacts your thinking, challenges your comfort zone, helps you overcome fear and insecurity, and empowers obedience. This is Part 1 of a vital teaching series that will deepen your understanding and strengthen your walk with God.

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In this transformative message, Living in Love: Part 4, Pastor Olumide unpacks two practical principles for living a love-filled life, beginning with the importance of removing the internal blockages that hinder the flow of love.

From resentment and hatred to jealousy and shame, this message shines a light on the emotional and spiritual weights we must release in order to walk in true love. Through Scripture and powerful insights, we’re reminded that forgiveness, trust, and openness are non-negotiable on the journey to loving like Christ.

Key Takeaways:

• Let go of resentment, hatred, pride, and shame so God's love can flow through you
• Learn to open your heart to others by dropping excuses and trusting God's love
• Approach relationships with care, intentionality, and grace
• Love is the greatest calling, and the world needs it now more than ever

End with a personal declaration to help you walk daily in God's love and reflect His heart to those around you.

💡 “The greatest need of the world is love, and God is calling you to be the vessel.”

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• God demonstrates his good nature to us by love.

• We are all called to experience the love of God towards us.

• Those of us who have experienced the love of God are commanded to extend the love to others.

• You cannot extend the love of God to others without a good understanding of its meaning.

1. YOU HAVE TO SEE LOVE THE WAY GOD SEES IT.

• Agape love is not opposed to feelings, but it is not defined by feelings.

• You can love even when you don't feel like loving.

• Love is not driven by feelings.

CHARACTERISTICS OF AGAPE LOVE.

- It is about COMMITMENT.

• When we love others, we should do it out of commitment.

- It is based on DECISIONS you make.

• With love, your feelings do not drive your decisions. Your decisions affect your feelings.

• You will never love well if your thoughts about others are tainted or misinformed.

- It is based on ATTITUDES.

• Begin to view people the way God views them instead of the world view.

- It is about ACTIONS.

• Love is about acting in a loving way when you don't feel like it.

- It is about SACRIFICE.

• Real love is never about you. It's about you pouring into others.

1. TO LOVE OTHERS, YOU MUST FIRST EXPERIENCE GOD IN YOUR LIFE.

• Love is not just a mystical thing that just magically happens.

• Love comes and flows through people.

• You cannot love unless love is in you.

• Love gets in you when love gets in you.

• Salvation is about the inward transformation of your heart.

COMPONENTS OF SALVATION.

- HONEST ADMISSION of the NEED for God.

• You will never know God until you say I need God.

- HONESTLY admit your present SPIRITUAL condition.

- ACCEPT God's solution/ pathway.

• Salvation is a one-way experience.

- Begin to GROW in the understanding of your salvation.

2. LOVE MUST BE DEMONSTRATED AND PRIORTOZED.

• Our knowledge of love must transition from a concept to what is being practiced and prioritized.

• Don't just celebrate the love of God. Demonstrate it.

HOW TO PRIOTIZE AND PRACTICE LOVE.

- Devote TIME to God.

• You can't say you love God if you don't give him time.

- Devote TIME to people.

• You can't say you love people if you don't give time to them.

• In today's world, we are highly connected technologically but highly disconnected relationally.

• You can be physically present with someone, but relationally absent.

• If you don't build loving relationships now, you won't have them when it matters.

- Forgive QUICKLY.

• Don't choose to forgive whenever you get to it or eventually. Do it quickly!

- Apologize PROMPTLY & APPROPRIATELY.

• Apology is an indication that you value a relationship more than you being right.

- Learn to SPEAK the LOVE LANGUAGE of others.

- Learn to practice the other 5 things CONSISTENTLY.

• Love is a learned response, so learn how to express and respond in love.

• You can be biologically alive and be spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, and relationally dead.

• God's plan is for us to enjoy life in the full dimension of it.

• You can go through problems and pains in life and still experience a richer life.

• Problems and challenges are what God uses to season our lives.

• The full measure of life includes both the good and bad times.

• You cannot live the God kind of life without love.

1. LOVE IS YOUR GREATEST GIFT IN LIFE AND EXTENDING LOVE IS YOUR GREATEST TASK IN LIFE.

• There's no greater gift you will ever receive or give others other than love.

• To have a Key Insights on Life and Love

1. The Nature of Life:
   - It is possible to be biologically alive while feeling spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, and relationally dead.
   - God's intention is for us to enjoy life in its fullest dimensions.
   - One can experience problems and pains in life yet still have a richer existence.
   - Challenges and hardships are often tools that God uses to enrich our lives.
   - A complete life encompasses both the good and the bad.
   - You cannot live in the manner that God desires without love.

2. The Importance of Love: 
   - Love is Your Greatest Gift: Extending love to others is your most significant purpose in life.
     - No gift you receive, or offer is more valuable than love.
     - To truly live, you must both experience love and share it with others.
     - Aim for love in all your relationships.
     - A fulfilling life requires you to love well.

3. Consequences of Lack of Love:
   - Everyone has a vulnerable side, often symbolized as a "teddy bear," that long for affection.
   - Growing up in a loveless environment can severely impact your personality development, leading to:
     - Feelings of inferiority and insecurity
     - A negative self-image
     - Self-hatred
     - Fear and anxiety
     - Trust issues
     - Challenges with achievement

By recognizing the profound role of love in our lives, we can better navigate our experiences and relationships, fostering growth and fulfillment. In real life, you must experience the gift of love and extend the gift of love to others.

• Let love be what you are shooting for in every relationship.

• You cannot live well if you don't love well.

2. LACK OF LOVE COMES WITH SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES.

• There's a teddy bear inside every one of us waiting for someone to hug it.

• When you are raised in an environment deprived of love, it can impact your personality development.

Some personality traits:

- Sense of inferiority & insecurity.

- Negative self-image.

- Self-hatred.

- Fear & Anxiety

- Trust issues

- Achievement issues.

NUGGETS. 

• Love is about translating your right thinking about someone into the right actions. 

1. LOVING OTHERS FREELY BEGINS WITH YOU.

• As human beings, we tend to put limits on the people we want to love. 

• Selective love is not love. 

• You can't love well until you have resolved past issues you are dealing with in your own life.

2. YOU NEED A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF GOD'S COMMAND TO LOVE. 

• Loving others is a command. 

• As believers, loving others is not a suggestion but a command that we can obey or disobey. 

SOME OF THE RELATIONSHIP IN OUR LIFE. 

- Our FAMILIES. 

- Our FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS. 

- Fellow BELIEVERS in Jesus Christ. 

• One major hallmark of a true believer is the love shown to fellow brothers and sisters. 

- The UNLOVABLE 

- Our ENEMIES. 

- The LOST.

- A GENERIC/ GENERAL COMMAND. 

3. LEARN TO PRACTICE, PRACTICE & PRACTICE. 

• Generally, in life, to get better at things you have to practice. 

• Love is about action, so you can practice it. 

PRACTICAL WAYS OF DEMONSTRATING LOVE.

-  By CONNECTING with people. 

-  By BEARING with people. 

-  By COVERING people. 

-  When we FORGIVE people. 

- Through the act of SERVICE. 

-  By GIVING. 

-  Doing GOOD.

- Through ENCOURAGEMENT. 

-  By SHARING. 

-  By LISTENING 

- Through ASSISTANCE 

- Through PRAYER. 

4.  YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE THE PROMISE ASSOCIATED WITH LOVE. 

• When love is present, good things always happen, and when love is absent, bad things always happen. 

• You can never be wrong by being a loving person. 

PRACTICAL WAYS BY WHICH LOVE NEVER FAILS. 

-  To PLEASE God.

-  To STRETCH and cause you to GROW in GODLINESS. 

-  To CHANGE others for the BETTER. 

-  To CREATE peace. 

-  To bring God's PRESENCE into a relationship or situation

NUGGETS. 

• The power of love is when it is experienced. 

• The cycle of love is incomplete if it is kept only to yourself. 

• As believers, we are called to experience God's love and commanded to love one another. 

• Loving others is not a suggestion but a command by God. 

• Lack of love is the root or mother of many other sins. 

1. LOVE IS A WAY OF THINKING ABOUT PEOPLE. 

• Love is about your commitment to think in a certain way about a person. 

• What you think about a person will determine your level of love towards them. 

• Loving God requires you to have the right thoughts about him. 

• You will never love God well if your thoughts about him are polluted or misinformed. 

• Your thoughts about other people must be right for your love for them to be strong. 

• Love will never flow from you towards other people if your thoughts towards them are polluted, tainted, or misinformed. 

• The goal of Satan is to get you to think of others in negative ways. 

4 Major ways Satan attacks our thoughts. 

- Through OFFENSE 

- Through SUSPICION. 

- Through PREJUDICE 

- Through JUDGMENT. 

• You cannot think wrongly about someone and love them well. 

2. LOVE IS A WAY OF ACTING TOWARDS PEOPLE. 

• It is easier to act your way into a feeling than to feel your way into an action. 

• The more you act in love towards people, the more you feel love towards them. 

• Love is about translating your right thinking about someone into the right actions. 

• It is possible to show love to someone even when you don't feel it. 

Love is God's cure-all pill for every situation 

John 3:16

Unfortunately, love is often misunderstood, misconstrued, and misrepresented 

This is the popular love weekend and it's important to understand what love is 

Pastor spoke about agape love earlier this month so we will continue. 

Love is broken into four compartments according to Jesus - Mark 12:30

*With heart-Agape (supernatural)

*With soul -Eros (sensual/sentimental)

*With mind - Phileo(cordial)

*With strength-Storge (Natural)

NUGGETS

• The power of love happens only when it is experienced.

• God did not design you only to have a mental knowledge of his love, but to experience his love.

• Love is always directed towards someone or something.

• When love is extended to someone, it always calls for an appropriate response.

• Real love is always designed to be a mutual connection and not a one-way approach.

• Love has the power to change or alter the priorities of our lives.

• Extension of love to us by God calls for a response from us.

1. UNDERSTAND THAT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IS MORE ABOUT LOVE THAN RULES AND LAWS.

• You cannot earn a relationship with God. You can only experience a relationship with God through his love.

2. GOD DESIRES TO BE LOVED.

• God is not dependent or needy of our love, but he desires it.

• God wants us to freely choose to love him.

3. OUR RESPONSE TO THE LOVE OF GOD IS PERSONAL.

• The more you understand God's love for you in a personal way, the more you can better respond in love to him.

PERSONAL WAYS GOD COMMUNICATES HIS LOVE TO YOU DAILY.

- Through his CREATION.

- Through his WORD.

- Through the expression of Jesus Christ.

- Through RIGHT PEOPLE.

- Through his PROVISION.

- Through his PROVIDENCE.

4. TRANSFORMATIVE LOVE FOR GOD IS AN "ALL" INCLUSIVE ONE.

5. TRUE LOVE FOR GOD IS EXPRESSED IN PRACTICAL WAYS.

PRACTICAL WAYS OF SHOWING YOUR LOVE TO GOD.

- OBEY him.

- WORSHIP him.

- THINKING about him.

- Influence your CONVERSATION.

- IMITATE him.

• If you love someone, you imitate them in such a way that who they are, marks who you are.