First Love Fire I Letters From Jesus I Frank Santora

Memory is a spiritual tool. Jesus doesn't start with a rebuke, he begins with memory. Memory is more than nostalgia. Memory is this tool that allows us to reignite the fire. If you want the right future, you have to remember the right past. Not the wrong past, but the right past. Sometimes we can overlook the power of remembering because the Bible does tell us to forget some things. [00:14:23] (27 seconds)  #MemoryReignites

Jesus doesn't say feel again. He says, do again. Do what you did when love was new. Do what you did when love was strong. Do what you did when love was passionate. Jesus is saying, you don't have first love fire because you don't have first love works. You've treated love, listen to me, as a noun when love is a verb. Love is action not automatic. [00:43:11] (23 seconds)  #LoveIsAVerb

It says, love is patient. It's kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It's not proud. It's not rude, it's not self seeking, it's not easily angered, keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, and always trusts, and always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails. Wait a second. Let me read that again. I'm just looking for the one sentence that describes a feeling. The whole definition of love. There's not an emotion in the list. [00:49:54] (40 seconds)  #LoveIsNotEmotion

Because when your perspective shifts, all of a sudden what happens is where the where the focus goes, the power flows. Where the focus goes, the power flows. You have a choice to look at all the bad, or you have a choice to look at the good. And if you want hope to arise, if you want that flame to come back in your life, you need to repent, which means you have need to have a metanoia. You need to have a change of perspective. [00:37:43] (35 seconds)  #FocusEqualsPower

But do you really wanna know the answer to the question why you don't have fire? It's because you're not doing what you want instead. It's because you let those things slip in your life. It's because you lost the passion for Christ that you once had. We are largely in part in charge of the passion that we have. We have to give God our everything, and this is a sobering reminder to the modern day church because the modern day church won't come to church on a cold morning, but won't miss their Super Bowl party that same night. [00:26:37] (41 seconds)  #PassionRequiresAction

There's also a little pressure, isn't there? It's a little pressure because Valentine's Day forces us to ask a question we don't normally say out loud, how's the fire? Not the form, not the routine, not the responsibilities, but the fire. Is it there or has it waned? Is it is it still burning or has the flame went out? Not just in our relationship with our spouse, but on our relationship with our Lord. Because no couple starts off saying, one day we'll just coexist. [00:05:47] (33 seconds)  #CheckTheFlame

Love without action is devoid of feelings, and the problem is culture keeps talking about, and singing about, and writing about, and falling in and out of this thing called love. Tina Turner said, what's love got to do with it? Then she said, it's just a second hand emotion. Farna said, I wanna know what love is. I want you to show me. I wanna feel what love is. I know you can show me. We keep singing about it. We keep talking about it. We keep falling in and out of it, but we have no understanding of what love truly is because it's not a feeling. [00:45:58] (33 seconds)  #ShowMeLoveActions

But then they took some more rats and they put them in another big container of water, and it was hard to get out, but it was possible. And you know what they did? They swam and they swam and they swam and they swam they swam. Some made it out, others their heart exploded from from swimming so much. Why? Because they kept trying. And here's why they kept trying, because not where there's life, there's hope, but where there's hope, there's life. [00:32:28] (20 seconds)  #HopeKeepsYouSwimming

Can I tell you if you will obey the word of God, the word of God will change your life? God wants you to have first love fire back, not just for your spouse, but in your relationship with him. Because it not only will change your household and your marriage, but I guarantee you will change the trajectory of your life. You will see God do things in you that you thought were never possible. [00:56:39] (26 seconds)  #ObeyTransforms