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