The disciples huddled behind locked doors, fear tightening their chests. Jesus appeared—not with condemnation, but scars held out like invitations. “Peace be with you,” He said. His first words after resurrection weren’t rebukes but reassurance. God’s posture toward us isn’t a pointed finger but open arms. He’s not tallying failures; He’s breathing “Shalom” over our chaos. [00:15]
Jesus’ resurrection body carried eternal proof: love absorbs pain to offer reconciliation. When Adam hid, God pursued. When Peter denied, Jesus restored. His nature doesn’t shift with our performance.
Where do you expect judgment instead of embrace? What if you approached God today as a Father running toward His child?
“Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
(1 John 4:8, ESV)
Prayer: Ask Jesus to silence accusations with the memory of His scars.
Challenge: Write one area where your self-talk contradicts God’s open-armed posture.
A nursing infant doesn’t earn milk by good behavior. El Shaddai—the God of plentiful nourishment—invites us to bury our faces in His presence. The Israelites left Egypt with full hands, not because they deserved it, but because covenant love spoils its children. [03:23]
God’s love isn’t rationed. Like a mother’s breast, He provides comfort, identity, and supply. The more we draw near, the more His nature becomes ours.
When stress rises, do you default to striving or resting in His sufficiency?
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life…”
(Psalm 23:6, ESV)
Prayer: Thank God for three specific gifts His covenant loyalty has given you this week.
Challenge: Set a 5-minute timer. Sit silently, picturing yourself held at El Shaddai’s chest.
Thomas thrust his hand into Jesus’ side—not to test a theory, but to touch love’s receipt. Every healed leper, forgiven adulterer, and resurrected Lazarus proved: God’s love acts. Jesus didn’t just claim benevolence; He let nails pin Him to it. [12:46]
The cross wasn’t a reaction—it was the Father’s pre-creation plan. His love doesn’t wait for our worthiness; it creates it.
What wound are you guarding that Jesus’ scars have already covered?
“He was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities…”
(Isaiah 53:5, ESV)
Prayer: Confess one lie you’ve believed about God’s heart toward your struggles.
Challenge: Read Luke 17:11-19. Write how Jesus’ response to lepers mirrors His heart for you.
The Syrophoenician woman had no covenant claim—yet Jesus honored her faith. He didn’t check her pedigree; He responded to her trust. Our words reveal what we believe about His nature. [20:16]
Every “God won’t…” or “He can’t…” betrays unexamigned assumptions. But agape love—undefeatable, unconquerable—overrides our small confessions.
What situation have you labeled “too broken” for His love to fix?
“Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away… but love remains.”
(1 Corinthians 13:8, ESV)
Prayer: Ask the Holy Spirit to highlight one limiting belief about God’s willingness to act.
Challenge: Replace one fear-based thought today with 1 Corinthians 13:8 written in your own words.
Psalm 23’s “follow” isn’t a passive shadow—it’s a pursuit. The Hebrew “radaph” means to chase, overtake, conquer. God’s covenantal love (chesed) hunts down our pain to drown it in goodness. [25:37]
You can’t outrun a love that sprinted to Calvary. Even your failures become prey for His mercy.
Where have you stopped expecting His goodness to find you?
“But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
(Romans 5:8, ESV)
Prayer: Thank Jesus for three times His love intercepted you despite resistance.
Challenge: Text someone: “God’s love is chasing you today. Can I pray for you about anything?”
We believe the core truth is that God is love. We will not treat love as a vague feeling but as the very nature of God that shapes every act toward us. Because God is love, he pursues reconciliation, planned before the foundation of the world, and sent Christ to restore fellowship that sin fractured. We must surrender to allow that restorative work to take effect. Surrender opens the way for God to be who he is in us and for trust to grow in the security of a one on one relationship.
We practice faithful confession because what fills our hearts shows itself in our mouths under pressure. The life that comes from intimate time with God changes our public words and actions. The Word and prayer together impregnate our lives with God’s purposes; the Holy Spirit births his nature in us so that agape love flows through our choices. Agape describes an undefeatable benevolence that seeks the highest good of the other without counting merit. That explains why God offers healing and provision as covenant obligations rather than grudging favors.
Because love is who God is, love never fails and never ends. Love endures beyond prophecy, tongues, and knowledge. Love kept Christ on the cross and continues to cover, heal, and restore. The Holy Spirit pours God’s love into our hearts so that our behavior and desires shift; we stop living off other people’s testimonies and grow into our own experiential knowledge of God as provider, healer, and defender. Scripture invites us to believe what we know—knowledge must become applied faith.
We live as beneficiaries of covenant loyalty. God surrounds us with steadfast love and daily pursues our good, not to harm but to overtake and bless. We will dream again because God will satisfy our desires with good. Our response is simple and urgent: cultivate secret fellowship, believe what God’s nature declares, speak confession that aligns with covenant truth, and receive the hope, freedom, and expectation that only his love can give.
One of the greatest misunderstandings that exist today would be the understanding of the nature of God. We'll be understanding who he really is, and what I want you to know today, as I said earlier, I'm under divine mandate, God is love. God is love, he's not just over in the cosmos somewhere and he's handing out punishments because every time you do wrong, God is not standing there pointing his finger at you, his arms are open wide, he wants you to come.
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#GodIsLoveTruth
He wants you to come. If you don't know him, I'm telling you you're missing out, because you don't trade down, you trade up. He gave everything. And with Christ comes everything. What the Bible says that God was in Jesus reconciling. He was writing a relationship. In the beginning, God fellowship with man in the garden, but sin, sin broke that fellowship, and so now the father, and I want you to know that it was before the foundation of the earth he had a plan.
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#ReconciledByChrist
No matter what is going on in my life, love never fails. It will exist forever. Love is not natural, I know and I alluded earlier to the fact that a lot of times we compare the love of a mother to God. I don't care on my best date, I still fall short. There are promises that I made to my child that sometimes I just can't keep them. I go back and apologize, but guess what, if the father said it, he's gonna do it. Jesus said, when he comes back, will he find faith in the earth?
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#FaithInLovePromises
God is love, he engages us in love. After all, we're in covenant. That's a problem if you're in covenant with someone and they are responsible, they're obligated to you. Everything that they have belongs to you. That's right. Yes. They're devoted to your safety. They're devoted to your prosperity, to your health. Amen? And so if they violate that, then they've broken covenant. But God says his covenant he will not break. No alter the thing that has gone forth out of his mouth.
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#GodsUnbreakableCovenant
Will he find those that trust him despite what you're seeing? Yes. Despite the way things appear to be, regardless of gas being $4.41. Whoo. Oh, hallelujah. I thank you. I can fill up my tank because he is my supply. Yes. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Love never fails. He takes care of his children. He's not a deadbeat dad. That's right. Thank you, Jesus.
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#GodIsMyProvider
If God is love, then love will never end because God is eternal. Yes, If he ever did that, of course his nature is not what he says it is and that will make him a liar, we know God is not a man that he should lie. Amen? God and love are one and the same, we shouldn't believe those lies when the enemy comes because that's who it is, God doesn't love you. God doesn't want you anymore because what you've done is too bad to be forgiven. Your jug head self keep doing the same thing over and over and over, he can't use you. That's a lie.
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#GodAndLoveAreEternal
And so, we have to engage him in love and understand his love doesn't change. It doesn't he doesn't fail. So the scripture it talks about God is love. Yes. This word love is agape. Agape love is affection or benevolence. A lot of times we hear the word benevolence, but I don't think we really understand what it means. So, Merriam Webster says that benevolence is a disposition to do good. We
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#AgapeMeansBenevolence
Your testimony now should be, wow, she's changed. Wow, there's something different about her. Guess what? It's the agape love of God. His true nature and who he is has now come in me. My spirit is now alive unto God, I'm born again, the Holy Spirit lives in me and I just cannot be that old Sherida, I I can't just cut people off like I used to. You crossed me once, you crossed me twice, shame on me. No. Guess what? You might just keep crossing now because it's like, I just pray for them. I love them.
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#ChangedByAgape
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