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.