Love Changes Everything

How to make God's main motivation your own

Note: The article is extracted from Joyce Meyer's "Enjoying Everyday Life" magazine. Be a partner with Joyce Meyer's Ministries and receive a copy on a regular basis.

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Are you willing and ready to become a student of the love walk? If so, you need to know that it requires education and commitment.

We must have our minds renewed to what love really is. Love is tangible; it is not just a spiritual thing that cannot be seen or touched. It is evident to everyone who comes in contact with it. Love is a decision we make - a decision to treat people the way Jesus would treat them.

When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change. For instance, we may be accustomed to spending all our extra money on ourselves only to discover that walking in love requires that we spend it on others.

Love wants to Pay the Price

A love walk does not come easily or without personal sacrifice. Each time we choose to love someone, it will cost us something - time, money or effort. That's why we are told to count the cost before we make the commitment.

1 Corinthians 14:1 says, Eagerly pursue and seek to acquire [this] love [make it your aim, your great quest]...

The word pursue means 'to follow in an effort to capture or overtake." The word seek means "to try to find or discover; search for." In other words, we need to go after love with all our might and act as if we cannot live without it!

How to Nurture Your Desire to Love

There are different degrees of desire. We want many things in life, but there are only a few things we want so much that we are willing to sacrifice to have them.

If you and I want to learn about love, we will have to study it. We will have to read books about it, listen to teachings on it, familiarize ourselves with everything Jesus and the apostles said about it.

Look for love in action. Try to find someone who operates in love and study that individual. Watch how he or she handles people and difficult or tense situations. Observe how they give. Examine the fruit of their life.

I encourage you to view love as your first priority in life. Study it, seek it, pursue and acquire it, because God's word boldly tells us that we're nothing without it.

Recommended Resources

Reduce Me To Love

Loving and being loved is what makes life worth living. It gives our lives purpose and meaning. It’s time to learn to truly accept God's unconditional love and obey His command to reach out in love to others.

In this powerful book, Joyce provides biblical insights and draws from her personal experiences to illustrate how God changed her life and to introduce you to a life filled with God’s love.

This love will change your life by showing you how to …

• Know what “reduce me to love” means
• Love in a way that blesses you and motivates you to love others
• Accept God’s unconditional love for you
• Love as Jesus did
• Discover the peace, joy and strength that come through true love

Love Revolution



Revolution. The word itself sparks hope, ignites passion and inspires loyalty. A love revolution isn’t only a great idea but a necessity if we’re going to see some of the tragic injustices in the world today turned around, including the heaviest tragedy of all—humanity’s broken heart.

This book outlines a new way of living that can change your life and world by providing…

1. Inspiring stories of Love Revolutionaries—people like you who changed their world by loving others
2. Practical application exercises and simple acts of God’s love for everyday life
3. Life-changing times of prayer
4. Fascinating quotations and insights from history
5. Startling statistics

This isn’t just a call to action; it’s a call to being . . . being the person who helps a friend in need, who helps a stranger in need, who practices uncompromising acts of kindness! Become the love revolution!

See The Father's Love For You



Can what you do stop your heavenly Father from loving you? Will He still bless you after you have failed? In this moving two-DVD album, Joseph Prince delves into the parable of the prodigal son, and opens up fresh revelations about your Abba's deep and unending love for you. Besides the unconditional love and acceptance, the father in the parable also gave his son precious gifts — the robe, ring and sandals. Find out the spiritual significance of these items and see how they depict the blessings your Father has for you today. Listen and let your heavenly Father's love wash over you and embrace you into wholeness!

Living in Favor, Abundance, and Joy



To live in God's favor is to live a life filled with hope, abundance and joy. God has a new beginning in store for you Whatever difficulties you've faced, God uses your challenges to stretch you and enlarge your vision to move beyond disappointments and experience his blessings. In this audio series Joel Osteen shares valuable keys that will help you live in faith, stand strong and overcome anything that comes against you.

Capturing the unique excitement of Lakewood Church's weekly services and broadcasts, "Living in Favor, Abundance and Joy" collects material from three of the most popular volumes of live recordings offered on the Lakewood website. You'll hear Joel Osteen's distinct and effective mix of spiritual perspectives on real-world challenges, including:

- Letting go of the past

- Taking the limits off of God

- Being grateful for the gift of today

- Having a relaxed and easy-going attitude

- Controlling your moods

- Holding on to your joy

Don't settle for the status quo. God says that you are going to have the most peace, the most fulfillment. You may not have seen it yet, but if you make room, you will not lack in any area.

The Kingdom of God

Matthew 6:33

Seek first of all His kingdom and His righteousness and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.

Mark 4:30 - 31 says that the Kingdom of God is like a mustard seed.

Mark 4:3-8 says that the seed is the Word.

Hence, the Kingdom of God = The Word [Bible].

Therefore, seeking His Kingdom equals to seeking the Word.

2 Corinthians 5:21 says that for our sake God made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become the righteousness of God .

Thus, we who believe in Jesus Christ have been made the righteousness of God.

An example and testimony: George Mueller

George Mueller, a Christian evangelist,who lived in the 1800s, prayed in millions of dollars to establish some 117 schools which offered Christian education to over 120,000 children, many of them being orphans.

He made it a point to start each day with the Word.

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Jesus Christ The Anointed One

Jesus Christ is the Anointed One.

Jesus, THE Messiah, Savior is the Anointed One.

What is Jesus the Messiah, Savior anointed to do?

Luke 4:18-19 provides the answer:

18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon Me, because He has anointed Me [the Anointed One, the Messiah] to preach the good news (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed [who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity],

19 To proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord [the day [a]when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound.

Hence, in summary, Jesus Christ is anointed to save us in the following ways:

1. To preach the good news to the poor;
2. To announce the release to the captives
3. To recover sight to the blind;
4. To deliver those who are oppressed; that is, those who are downtrodden or condemned, bruised, crushed and broken down by calamity; and
5. To proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord, that is, the day or season when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound.

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Remembering Jesus

Jesus said before His glorification to partake the Holy Communion in remembrance of Him, as often as we take it.

What of Jesus to remember?

Recall Jesus asked His disciples in Luke 9:18; "Now it occurred that as Jesus was praying privately, the disciples were with Him, and He asked them, Who do men say that I am?"

Then in Luke 9:20, Jesus asked; "And He said to them, But who do you [yourselves] say that I am? And Peter replied, The Christ of God!"

Remember Jesus as the Christ of God; The Messiah of God, the Savior of God. God, Abba Father, sent Jesus Christ to be THE Savior!

When I am sick, I remember Jesus healing the sick.

When I am poor, I remember Jesus multiplying the one loaf of bread and five fish to feed more than 5,000 with 12 basketful of leftovers.

When I am afraid, I remember Jesus saying "I AM; stop being frightened! [John 6:20].

Hence 2 Corinthians 3:18 begins to make some sense to me: "And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit.".

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