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 Hello and welcome, we are so glad you are taking this Challenge!

Introduction To The Challenge

The most famous holiday in February is Valentine’s Day, and which causes our stores
begin filling up with heart-shaped boxes of candy, oversized teddy bears, and flower
displays, while restaurants begin booking tables for Feb. 14th well in advance.

It’s the “Love Month,” at least in terms of romance and commercial products and
services to support the idea. Love is in the air in February - but where did that love
even come from? What is love - how can you define it? Why are human beings so
strongly predisposed to love?

Well, this month, we invite you to follow this Challenge and examine some of these
topics, but we’re going right to the source of love - the place where it all comes from,
and that’s from God, Maker of Heaven and Earth…and the creator of love.

In this Challenge, we’ll be looking at the Scripture that best defines what God’s love
looks like, how He expresses it, and His utterly endless, relentless, unstoppable pursuit
of loving you and me. The Reckless Love of God Challenge will lead you into a deeper
understanding of God’s love and what it means for your life here and now.

We prayerfully crafted this guidebook to help you better experience of God’s love
this month. We know that if you follow this Challenge, do the work and spend the
time with God, you’re going to have a radically changed understanding of what
God’s love looks like and why He loves so tremendously much.

God’s love is full of grace and mercy. He’s slow to anger, He’s willing to chase you, He
made you because He loved you before anyone even knew you’d exist. His love makes
no sense to our limited human minds - it’s too good, too strong, too unbelievable. And
that’s why we’re going to spend the month of February focusing on that reckless
powerful love of God.

So before you get started, read the the next couple pages to help you get oriented to
the Challenge, and start thinking ahead of how to carve out a few minutes each day to
follow in your guidebook.

We promise you - if you show up each day - you’ll realize that God’s loving arms are
already waiting for you. We’re praying for you, and would love to hear from you on
social media about how your Reckless Love of God Challenge is going!

In Him - Alexis and Aaron Waid | spirituallyhungry.com - Christian Resource Project

Here’s What To Expect In The Challenge:
Daily Scripture And A Place To Write It Out:

In your guidebook, we provide you a piece of Scripture each day. Underneath that is a
box for you to write the Scripture for yourself. (If you are not printing the Challenge,
then just write it out in your journal or on some paper).

A Small Devotion

This will help explain the text for the day.

A Reflection Question

To help you process the Scripture and devotion.

A Prayer Prompt

Every day, there will be a prayer prompt, so give yourself a couple of minutes each day
to connect with God through inner prayer.

An Accompanying Worship Song

Each song we chose intentionally to help you dive deeper into God’s love for you.

And Freebie Fridays!

Every Friday we will publish a new resource that has been created just for this
Challenge. We will email you the link and you also will be prompted through your
Challenge on to where you can get the freebie for that Friday.

Ways To Put Together Your Challenge:

Print it out:
• Three-hole punch all the papers and put in a binder.
• Three-hole punch it and bind it with metal rings, ribbons, or scraps of fabric. You
could go to an office supply store or a craft store and look for ways to creatively
bind your Challenge.
• Take it to a print shop (Office Depot, Staples, etc.) and have them print it and spiral
bind it.
• Someone once showed me how they used the blank side of adult coloring sheets to
write their Challenge. Neat idea!
• The possibilities are endless for creatively putting together your Challenge!
Keep it on your phone, computer, or tablet:
• Find a program that will let you interact with the Challenge on a screen. OneNote for
Microsoft is one we have heard worked. Anything that can write on a PDF is a
possibility.
• Finally, you can simply keep an accompanying journal or notebook to fill out the
questions and write your Scripture out.

Ideas For Writing Out The Bible Verses

First And Foremost:

As you write the Scripture out, we want you to be open to God speaking to you.
Try to keep your mind situated around the text as you write. Keep yourself alert to
God's presence and what He may be speaking.

Various Ideas:
You can write out a piece of the passage that speaks the most to you.
Use a different translation.
Pick one word from the text and make a word-map.
Find a font you like and try to write it out with that font.
Use crayons, colored pencils, washi tape, stickers, etc.
Or you can simply write the passage out as it is, whatever you feel is best suited for
you!

WE HAVE A MASTER LIST OF RESOURCES YOU CAN FIND AT:

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the resources for the Challenge can be found at this link)

Unfortunately, even doing all of this won’t automatically ensure our email will
come through to you! I know, annoying right? That’s just how email and social
media works nowadays!
If you want to make sure you are receiving our emails and all the freebies and
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But before we start, in case you haven’t read this yet…

Tips For Making The Most Out Of This Challenge:

1.) Take some time, right now, and pray to God about committing to this
Challenge. It’s really easy when you first start a Challenge to say you are going to do
the entire thing. Hey, we are guilty of this too! What we want you to do is to be serious
about this Challenge and view it as a portion of your walk with Christ. It’s only a few
minutes a day and what you will reap from that small time has life-lasting reward.

2.) Connect with us and the others on social media either through the Spiritually
Hungry Challenges Facebook Group or on Instagram. There will be content unique
to these platforms, not to be found in the Challenge, and you’ll want to follow along!

3.) Please share this Challenge with others who you think would benefit from
doing it. Wouldn’t it be a fun, great Christian community building activity to do this
Challenge with some friends from church?

Why not invite them to come along? We are stronger together. They can sign up here:
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And go ahead and follow us on Instagram and Facebook: @christianresourceproject

Also, did you know we have a special Facebook group just for this Challenge?!?!
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And In Case We Haven’t Met Yet…

Our names are Alexis and Aaron and we are the married ministry couple behind
Spiritually Hungry | Christian Resource Project.
This Challenge is an outpouring of our heart and it has been our prayer that this time
seeking the Lord is incredibly transformational for you.

We love Jesus. Seriously love Him. We think that He is the best thing that has ever
happened to this world and His ministry not only affects our eternal salvation, but our
life here and now. Jesus is the game changer.

Our lives as a ministry professionals and seminary graduates have been spent in
pursuit of helping people - and ourselves - draw deeper into God’s love, power, and
presence. Because that is the only thing worth pursuing.

If you follow this Challenge every day this month, we truly believe your life could
change, because God’s love changes us. We’re excited to see what God does
through this Challenge and we hope and pray both of us can experience God’s
unbelievable and reckless love in more profound ways.

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 Today's Verse:
The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior
who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his
love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice
over you with singing.”
Spend time praising
God for how He loves
and pursues you.
Try to recall specific
times on your journey
when God's love
overwhelmed and
shaped you. Give Him
praise and
thanksgiving.

Grace. Grace is what makes God's love possible. Because of Jesus

Christ, the Lord takes delight in you. You are covered in His love
because of Christ's sacrifice.

Zephaniah's words are a reality for you today because of what

Jesus did 2,000 years ago. Jesus embodied God's love and with
that love came a whole new reality of life filled with hope,
fulfillment, and health.

The profoundness of God's love is life altering! How has God's

love shaped and changed you?

Worship Song:"Reckless Love" by Cory Asbury

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For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither
angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future,
nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything
else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the
Bring the reflection
question (below)
love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
before the Lord, then
spend time
journaling. Be open
and transparent with
Him about where you
struggle to recieve
His love.

The ramifications of this passage are shocking! God's love is so

comprehensive and expansive that Paul felt confident nothing could
ever separate God's love from him.

Paul sought the Lord with everything he had. In his search, Paul
learned what so many of us have a hard time with, that God loves us
just as we are and not as we should be (Rom. 5:8).

Do you have a difficulty receiving God's unconditional and relentless

love? Spend some time reflecting and journaling about that.

Worship Song: "How He Loves" by David Crowder Band

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 Today's Verse:
This is love: not that we loved God, but
that he loved us and sent his Son as an
atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Thank God for
pursuing you. Thank
Him for having you in
mind all the way back
in the Garden. Ask
Him for help in
understanding and
living in His love.

Humanity did not have a plan for redemption, but God did, and it happened
all the way back in the Garden when the first humans chose to disobey God
and sin was born.

God could have ended it all there, but He didn't. He instead enacted a plan
of redemption that can be traced throughout Scripture.

God always had you in mind when the first humans ate the forbidden fruit.
Even in their sin, He knew of your life, and said "No! I will not live with out
her. She is too important to Me for her to perish."

As such God sent a part of Himself as an atonement to rectify everyone who

would follow Him back God. In Jesus, we have no penalty, we have no debt.
All we have is love. Let that truth carry you today.

Worship Song: "At the cross (love ran red)" by Chris Tomlin
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 Today's Verse:
Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be
removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not
be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,
Read today's
reflection and bring
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
the questions at the
end before God.Try
to be transparent
and open.
Remember He
already knows
everything and
loves you the same.

We often confuse God's love with our circumstances, especially when we are
faced with pain or turmoil.

It is important to remember that God's love is not confined to our human

perspective, nor is it contingent on us avoiding suffering or pain. If that were
so, then the Father's love would have ceased the moment Jesus felt the first
whip cracking His back as His suffering led Him toward crucifixion.

God's love didn't end when Christ faced suffering, but it was through that
suffering we found ourselves cleared of debt and rectified back to God.

Spend time thinking about your response to uncertain or painful situations?

Do you feel as though God has abandoned you or doesn't love you when you
face trials?
Worship Song: "Your love never fails" by Jesus Culture
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I will declare that your love stands
firm forever, that you have established
your faithfulness in heaven itself.
Speak to God about
your understanding
of His love. How
often do you feel
loved by Him? Do
you think your
understanding of His
love is based more
on emotion or
knowledge?

God's love stands firm forever, nothing can remove it, nothing can
shake it.

The world we live in tries to make us doubt God's love for us.
Sometimes that doubt arises when troubles come our way or when
things don't work out the way we hoped or had prayed for.

When we believe God's love is contingent on how the world treats us,
we completely misunderstand His love. God's love surpasses anything
that we may face.

God's love is not a feeling. It's a reality.

Additional Resource:
If you struggle with an unanswered prayer, this post is a must read:
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 Today's Verse:

We love because he first

Thank God for His
initiation of love in
loved us.
your life. Ask God to
help you grow in your
understanding of
how love comes from
Him and what that
truth might do to
change the
relationships in your
life.

No one has ever loved God before God first loved them. Before
you were born, before you were cognizant of God's existence,
before you turned to Jesus in faith - God already loved you, and
had for eternity. No one has ever "caught God's attention" by loving
Him first - He's always known and loved you!

When we love our friends, family, neighbors, and enemies - we're

sharing and spreading the love that God gave us first. God is the
source and originator of all love, and without Him, that love simply
wouldn't exist.

"Your love awakens me" by Phil

WORSHIP SONG:
Wickham

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 Today's Verse:
But when the kindness and love of God our
Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of
righteous things we had done, but because of
his mercy.
How has Jesus
embodied God's
love to you in your
life, recently and in
the past?
Praise Jesus for how
He has ministered to
you and shown you
God's love.

Jesus came as the embodiment of God’s love for us. In giving His
Son to us, God gave us part of Himself to pay the ultimate price for
our freedom and to be able to return into His love. We didn’t evoke
His love, or do anything to deserve it. He gave, and gave, and gave
- through His Son.

Have you ever wondered if God truly loves you? Although it may
be difficult at times, never forget that the greatest piece of
evidence we have of God’s love is the fact that He gave us Jesus
to model God’s love for us and to shepherd us back to Him.

Worship Song:
"King Of Love" by I am they

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 Today's Verse:

Give thanks to the Lord,

for he is good. His love
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Praising God can take on many forms, limited only by our

creativity. We can praise God in church worship, in a good
conversation with friends, in prayer with the broken hearted, in
our car on the way to work, sitting by the hospital bed of a sick
loved one. There are endless opportunities for praise.

God’s love is at the center of our praise. We adore Him because

His love came first. We worship Him because His love keeps
coming for us and never stops. God’s love is the focus of our
praise, the recognition of His goodness should never cease on
our part.
Reflection Question:
What are unique ways that you find yourself praising God?

WORSHIP SONG: "Forever" by Chris Tomlin

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 Today's Verse:
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not
consumed, for his compassions never fail. They
are new every morning; great is your
faithfulness.
Take your answers
from your reflection
question and thank
God for how He has
been revealing His
love for you in your
life.

Every day spent in God’s love is new and different. God has
endless surprises for us, although many troubles in this life remain.
But God’s love prevails; it supersedes all hurt and pain.

Our mission is to look past the brokenness of our current home

and find residence in God’s unshakable love.
Reflection Question:
In what ways has God’s love surprised you recently? Have you
taken the time to recognize His love in your life, seeing it as the
overarching theme of your life?

"Great is thy faithfulness (beginning to

WORSHIP SONG: end)" by One sonic society

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 Today's Verse:
As the Father has loved me, so
Take a moment to
have I loved you. Now remain
reflect on the phrase in my love.
"remain in my love."
What are some of
the things that come
to mind when you
think of this phrase?
Ask God to reveal
what remaining in
His love looks like
for you.

“Remaining in Jesus’ love” is one way to describe the entire purpose

of our Christian lives. God’s love isn’t fickle, it doesn’t ebb and flow.
God doesn’t lose interest in us. In the same way that God has loved
Jesus since before time begun, He has unstoppable love for us -
which is why He made you.

Our journey following Jesus means remaining in His love, continually

remembering and reinforcing for ourselves and others how much
God loves us. Remaining in His love is where we find our true home,
true place of worship, and the place where we are meant to be for
now and eternity.

Worship Song: "One Thing Remains" by Passion

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 Today's Verse:
But you, Lord, are a compassionate
and gracious God, slow to anger,
abounding in love and faithfulness. Thank God for His slow
anger towards you.
Thank Him that He
shows grace not
condemnation. If you
struggle with the grace
of God, talk to Him
about that and seek
His help in a better
understanding of His
anger and grace.

So many people struggle with belief that God is very quick to

anger, despite what this, and many other verses, tell us about Him.

But God is patient in His expectations, temperate in His responses.

God’s unbounded love leads Him to continue loving us, despite our
failures, always willing to take us back into His strong, Fatherly
arms. Although self-doubt and shame may lead you to believe
you're not worthy, God's mercy and love is greater than your flaws.
His forgiveness is directly connected to His love - trust that He is
always ready to bring you back to Him.

Reflection Question:
How has God been slow to anger in your life?
WORSHIP SONG: "OH WHAT LOVE" by CITY HARMONICS
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If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for
God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are
Ask God to help convinced that one died for all, and therefore all
you better died.
understand what
motivates you. Ask
Him to help you be
motivated more by
His love.

What are the biggest motivators in your life? Most people’s lives are
driven by relationships, career, finances, education, and other goals
and pursuits.

But it’s God’s intention that Christ’s love drive us and compel us, that
the immensity of God’s love overwhelm our lives and consume us
to connect with Him and serve others. God’s love is a blueprint for
our lives, molding and shaping our lives - if we allow Him to work in
us this way.
Reflection Question:
Is God’s love a driving force in your life? How has God’s love
compelled you in new directions?

WORSHIP SONG: UNENDING LOVE - HILLSONG

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 Today's Verse:
If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord,
who could stand? But with you there is
forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence,
serve you. Thank God for His
endless forgiveness.
Forgiveness is a
portion of true love
and God is always
offering us
forgiveness. Thank
Him and praise Him
for this unbelievable
gift and reality.

It’s very difficult to be in a relationship with someone who holds grudges

and doesn’t let past problems go. Imagine trying to be connected to a
person who knows every single thing you’ve ever done wrong and holds it
all over your head!

But our loving God doesn’t do that. Although God is fully aware of all of our
faults, both internal and external, His love leads Him to forgive and to
accept us through Jesus, who paid the price for our sin through His
motivation of love.

Reflection Question:
In what ways has God’s forgiveness enabled you to move on with your life
and draw nearer to God? How has His love given you a fresh start, time and
time again?

"HOW GREAT IS YOUR LOVE"

WORSHIP SONG: by PASSION

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 Today's Verse:
Whoever has my commands and keeps them
is the one who loves me. The one who loves
me will be loved by my Father, and I too
Have you ever been will love them and show myself to them.
unsure of what it
looks like to love God
in return? Spend time
in prayer with God
about this question
and ask Him to speak
into your life about
loving Him.

God knows we are limited, and imperfect in our love, unlike Him. But He loves
us so much that He isn’t worried about how perfect our love is in return. That's
why God has made it simple for us. To love Him - adore Jesus. Calling Jesus
"our Lord" is how we begin a loving relationship with God. Our fallen selves
could never match the perfection of God's love - but He doesn't care! He
wants you, wants your love, wants to be the center of your life.

He’s made it simple for us - turn to Jesus, knowing Jesus represents us before
God (Heb. 7:25) and the Spirit prays with us (Rom. 8:26-27). God has made it so
easy for us to love Him that He has removed so many of the barriers that
might make it confusing for us.

WORSHIP SONG:
"JESUS LOVES ME" by CHRIS TOMLIN

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 Today's Verse:
We know how much God loves us, and we
have put our trust in his love. God is love,
and all who live in love live in God, and God Use the coloring
lives in them. sheet from today's
freebie Friday as your
prayer practice. As
you color be open to
what the Holy Spirit is
speaking to you. Try
to stay present to
God's presence as
you color.

Love is one of the most difficult emotions to describe. You might

characterize it as a “strong bond” or “an intense feeling of
attachment,” but we all know that love is much larger than such
attempts to define.

John wrote that “God is love.” This means that what God does,
who God is, and what God directs, all stems from His
embodiment of love. True love comes from God, extended to all
of us.

God is the source of love, and if we feel lost, rejected or scorned,

He’s always ready to cover us in the pure essence of His love,
again and again.
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 Today's Verse:
For I know the plans I have for you,
declares the Lord, plans to prosper you
Spend some time
and not to harm you, plans to give you
with God dreaming hope and a future.
and planning for
the future. Tell Him
your desires and be
open to His
direction and lead -
which is always
better than our
plans.

Isn't it so loving when someone plans something for you? When they
think of you and prepare something for you to enjoy. Maybe it's your
favorite meal or a surprise gift or outing. Don't you just feel so special,
so loved when things like this happen?

Now take those experiences you have had and multiply them a
million times and that is what God does for each and everyone of us
for our entire life.

God is planning the best future for you. He is working on making you
a new creation. And that is not just in Heaven, but for life here on
Earth. He has plans for you, stay close to Him and choose to feel His
constant love that embodies you this very moment.
Worship Song: "Fullness" by Elevation Worship

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 Today's Verse:
But God demonstrates his own love for
us in this: While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
Thank God for
showing His love
through giving us
Jesus. Not only as our
atonement, but a
living breathing
example of what it
looks like to walk
close to God while on
Earth.

Sometimes we use the word “love” vaguely and flippantly. We

might “love” a new TV show, or “love” how our hair looks today, or
“love” a homemade meal. There’s nothing wrong with this kind of
word usage, but today we want you to reflect on the enormity of
God’s love and the way Scripture describes it to us.

God showed us His love by giving His Son to die for us. There’s
nothing small, or casual, or uncertain about that definition of love.
Instead, in giving Jesus to us - there is nothing more in all of the
universe God could have given us than Himself. How can you
even describe that level of love?
Worship Song:
"Greatest of these" by Hillsong United

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 Today's Verse:
Your love, Lord, reaches to the
heavens, your faithfulness to the
Praise God for how skies.
His love is richer and
deeper than we often
realize. Ask Him to
help deepen and
elevate your
understanding and
experience of His
love.

Where do the limits of God’s love end? How far does it reach?
What could make it stop? The answer, of course is endless, and
nothing can stop it.

As simple humans, we can’t begin to fathom the magnitude of

God’s love. We try to create ways to categorize it and help us
understand - but our brains have limitations that God’s heart
doesn’t have. God’s love extends infinitely beyond the walls of
our sin and broken-state. Our failures are no match for His love.

WORSHIP SONG:
"Ever Be" by Aaron Shust

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See what great love the Father has
lavished on us, that we should be called
children of God! And that is what we are! Ask God to reveal to
you what it means to
be His child. Seek His
help in understanding
what being His child
means for you and
how that identity
should shape and
mold your life. Ask for
help growing in your
identity as His
beloved.

We all know the lengths a good parent will go for their child.
Jesus often used analogies of a parent’s love in His teachings,
perhaps most famously the Parable of the Prodigal Son, which
depicts the father rushing out to greet his long missing child.

God’s love leads Him to declare us His children. Not His servants,
or workers - not peasants He has taken pity on. We are His
children - beloved children of the Almighty King. God’s love
bestows this status upon us - even if no one else in your world
recognizes it. And the Father is reaching out to you right now
through the arms of Jesus - embrace Him!

WORSHIP SONG:
"LOVE HAS A NAME" by JESUS CULTURE

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 Today's Verse:
Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget
the good things he does for me. He forgives all my sins
and heals all my diseases. He redeems me from death
Speak to God about
and crowns me with love and tender mercies. He fills
how easy it is to
my life with good things.
forget His love and all
He gives. Ask Him for
help finding ways to
remember His
goodness and love
more easily in your
life.

I love the way this verse describes God’s love as a “crown.” We

may not always feel worthy of God’s love, but this verse reminds
us that God doesn’t provide His love with hesitation, but instead
with the power and dignity reserved for the recognition of royalty.

Do we deserve this treatment and lavishness of God’s love? No.

But God gives this to us anyway. God loves us far in excess of what
we deserve, but don’t fight it. Just accept that He’s that good and
that loving!

WORSHIP SONG:
"EXCESS LOVE" by MERCY CHINWO

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I no longer call you servants, because a servant does
not know his master’s business. Instead, I have
called you friends, for everything that I learned
from my Father I have made known to you.
Ask God to show you
what it means to be
His friend. What does
that do to shape your
knowledge of His
love? Ask God to
reveal where you'd
like your friendship
together to go next.

If you hurt or wounded a person, and they offered to forgive you

- you’d consider them a gracious human being, right? But what if
they, after all the wrong you’d caused them, offered not only
forgiveness, but also their friendship?

Can you imagine such an unbelievable friend - because that’s

who our God is.

Through the forgiveness of Jesus, we also find God’s friendship in

love. Friends are invited into our lives and our journey, which is
where Jesus calls each of us. Although He is our Lord, do you
also consider Jesus your loving friend?
"JESUS YOUR LOVE" by
WORSHIP SONG:
KRISTENE DIMARCO

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The Lord appeared to us in the past,
saying: I have loved you with an
After you finish everlasting love; I have drawn you
your inventory with unfailing kindness.
sheet spend some
time in praise and
thanksgiving for
all the ways God
is loving you right
now.

Where has God loved you in the past? Usually it is easier to see things
when we look back and can see the whole picture. The challenge is to
see how God loves us currently amidst the troubles, the uncertainties,
and the unknown future.

So, for today we made an inventory sheet for you to download.

In your worksheet, you are going to take note of all the times God's love
showed up in your life. Then, you will take a good look at life now - your
hopes, concerns, troubles, and dreams. This sheet will help you better
see the vastness of God's love in your life right now, and we all can
grow in that reality, can't we?

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 Today's Verse:
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also
ought to love one another. No one has ever seen
God; but if we love one another, God lives in us
and his love is made complete in us.
Spend some time
talking to God about
being able to see
Him more,
especially when
you express love
and receive love.
Ask Him for eyes to
see Him in this way.

God's love is made alive when we love others, when we embody

the way Jesus showed us how to love and the way Paul
describes perfect love (1 Corinthians 13).

Imagine if you were consciously aware that every time you

expressed love, you saw God. According to this Scripture, that's
what happens. It has happened for us, and it happens more as
we've developed eyes and the habit of looking at life in this way.

Your challenge today is to start thinking about seeing God when

you express love to others. How might that affect your life and
your relationship with God?

Worship Song: "LOVE CAME DOWN" by BETHEL Music

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But because of his great love for us, God, who is
rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even
Prayerfully make a
when we were dead in transgressions—it is by
list to help you see all grace you have been saved.
God's love has added
to your life. Ask Him
to reveal ways His
love has changed
you that you had
never recognized
before. Pray for more
awareness of how His
love affects you.

God’s love for Jesus led God to raise Him from the dead. The life
breathed into Jesus through God’s love is what Christ offers us still
today. God’s love is life-giving, chain-breaking, shame-removing,
worry-ceasing, lie-exposing, darkness-shedding, heart-expanding,
without fail.

The power and love that raised Jesus is the same that God is
extending to you? Can you embrace it? Can you feel it? His love is
right beside you, right now. His love will bring you true life.

WORSHIP SONG:
"In The Hands Of the Potter" By casting crowns

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 Today's Verse:
Father, I want those you have given me to be with
me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you
have given me because you loved me before the
creation of the world. What would time well
spent with God look
like for you? Pray and
ask God to help you
think about what
quality time spent with
Him might look like in
your own life. Ask Him
to reveal new ways to
connect to Him and
show love to Him.

We want to be together with the ones we love, right? Although

relationships take on many forms - and can span great distances
- the ultimate destination for love is togetherness. Jesus
understood that as He prayed to His Father on the final evening
of His life. Jesus also knew that the torment He was about to
endure was all for love, and the hope that those He loves - us -
would one day spend eternity with Him.

Jesus died for love and to bring us all home to Him. His act of
sacrifice is the purest expression - and He made it for you.

WORSHIP SONG:
"GLORIOUS DAY" by CASTING CROWNS

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 Today's Verse:
I will sing of the Lord’s great love
forever; with my mouth I will make your
faithfulness known through all
Singing is a very self-
conscious experience
generations.
for many people, but
it's a central part of
our worship. Ask God
to show you His love
in worship, and to
help you sing boldly
of his love.

Worship is an opportunity to express the deepest appreciation of

God’s infinite love. Although our words can never fully encompass
the magnitude of God’s love, He still accepts our worship now, in
Christ and through the Spirit, and wants us to turn to Him.

Reflection Question:
Are there ways you find to worship God outside of church? Do you
feel God's love in worship? Ask God to help you think more closely
about your worship and the love He desires to show you as you
praise Him.

WORSHIP SONG:
"FOREVER REIGN" by HILLSONG

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But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you, that you may be children of your
Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the
evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous
and the unrighteous.
Spend time in prayer
for enemies in your life,
be they big or small.
Ask God to show His
love to them, and
process feelings that
arise within you as a
result of this prayer.

God even loves those who hate Him. God doesn’t withhold the
sustenance of life - air, sunshine, water, food, family,
relationships, from anyone, regardless of their connection to Him.
We’re called to love our enemies because that’s what God does,
and to be holy is to be like Him.

God loves with a reckless abandonment that no other human

being could possibly sustain. God doesn’t just love enemies
emotionally - His love compels Him to give the most valuable
resources of sustenance in the universe to them also.
Reflection Question:
Who are your “enemies?” What would it look like to love your
enemies unabashedly, the way our God does?
WORSHIP SONG: "Great Are You Lord" by all sons
and daughters

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This is how God showed his love
among us: He sent his one and only
What has God
Son into the world that we might
shown you about live through him.
His love? Has His
love grown in your
heart and mind?
Ask Him to
continue growing
your understanding
of His love moving
forward.

Central to our Christian faith is the idea that God's love has brought us to life
from the death of sin (e.g. Eph. 2:1, Col. 2:13). If there is anyway what we might
express the enormity of God's love in one final reflection this month, it's this:
you are alive because of God's love for you.

If you've accepted Jesus, if you've created a connection to God - you're

finding true life in His love. It may be difficult at times, and it is a journey, but
the decision to follow the love of Jesus is the first step toward the eternal life.
We first experience His love here and now, but this is just a shadow of the
eternal future in perfect presence with His love. We have the rest of our lives -
and the life to come - to abide in the unending presence of His love. That's
what our amazing God offers us.

Worship Song:
"Death was arrested" by elevation worship
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ROMANS 8:38-39
1 JOHN 4:10
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1 JOHN 4:19
TITUS 3:4-5A
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