Power of Trickle Down Love

Key Scripture:  “Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for his friends.”  John 15:13

Power Point:

When was the last time you really sat back and thought about how much God loves you?

As I as just “being” with Him this morning I began to think about that. In Ephesians 3:19 it says that if we begin to understand that Love, it becomes our vehicle for being filled with the fullness of God.  Maybe we should think about it more often.

In Jeremiah 31:3 God says He has loved us with a love that lasts forever. That means that no matter what happened today- tomorrow you will wake up loved by God. It means that whatever happened in your past cannot separate you from the love that led Jesus to the cross. God demonstrated His love there for the whole world to see but until we understand that truth we won’t ever be able to be full of knowing the love He has for us. 

Love is who God is. Loving, generous and kind acts are what He does. I remember years ago, driving with my family through southern cities where there were big billboards along the way declaring that you needed to “Repent!” or go to hell. Those signs did not make me want to know God. I’ve known people who try to get people ”saved” by scaring the socks off them talking about their future in hell. I think God has had about enough of that kind of thinking,  don't you?

God demonstrated His love for us in Jesus. He showed us the ultimate picture of what real love is like didn’t He? Jesus walked this earth in order to destroy every plan that Satan had for us, and He went about doing ONLY good and healing those who were hurting because that’s what His Father has always wanted to do.

That’s the message we need to remember. Love has poured down from heaven and the windows of heaven are wide open for His love to fill the earth. That’s His plan. That’s what He wants us to know. God is not concerned about your sin. He’s already dealt with that in His love.  He wants us to focus on His love for us so that we can be filled to overflowing with love that spreads the word about Who He really is. He does not want a "trickle" of His love in us and through us. He wants a free flowing gusher!

It is your joy today to release God’s love for the person next door or any other person He puts in your path today. If you really want to make him smile then take the restrictions off the love of God that is flowing to you and in you and release it to the world. 
As God has demonstrated that to us it looks like this:

You can lay down your life for someone else; you can be kind, you can expect the best of someone, intercede for them, speak grace-filled words to them.You can magnify the goodness of God to them. Isn’t it time we stopped thinking about ourselves so much and begin to think about Him and His love for us and how we can bless and thank Him for that?

Picture a fire hydrant and how sometimes in the hot summer days the firemen will turn on the hydrant and let the children play in the cool water. That's what God's love does for us. It refreshes our hearts and helps us to stand the heat.

Heaven isn’t thinking about hell Beloved. It’s waiting to release peace on earth and joy to the world. It’s waiting to release a gusher of love in your little corner of the world today. That’s your assignment, should you choose to accept it.Take off the restrictions and turn on the flow!

Power Thought:

Just look at the way in which God has demonstrated His love for us. Let it really sink in that there will never be another moment in your life when you are not totally and completely and sacrificially loved by Him. Don't trickle that truth Beloved-shout it loud and clear.