Know It and Show It!

Fear to SAY, “I Love You” is an indication of insecurity. God LOVES YOU! He’s not afraid to show it! Know it & you’ll be able love like Him!

When I was a kid every night before I went to bed my parents would say, “Goodnight, I love you, Sweet dreams!” then I would repeat the same. It was a very simple exchange that I believe has helped me very much. We had our “family challenges” over the years but there was never any question if we were loved. We said it every day and this produced a sense of security. This contributed to my confidence and ability to love others because when you’re loved and you know it you’re not afraid to show it.

When you know that you’re loved then you’re secure and you realize relationships are of much greater value than your behavior. Your behavior should not change your relationships but your relationships should change your behavior. When people “mess up” it won’t ruin your relationships because they’re rooted in love. You have the security to make things right knowing that YOU won’t be rejected or reject others because of bad behavior. You can take the attitude, “I can love YOU without always loving what you DO.” You are loved because of WHO you are not WHAT you DO and I can’t change YOU, so choose to love YOU, is what “I DO.” Thus love will change your relationships and make them sure. Then you’ll stop trying to get the love you’ve already got but begin to give it, this is the life of love and you can start to live it.

This is where God comes in because “loving the unlovely” ain’t ever easy. God SHOWED us how much He loved us even though we didn’t “deserve” any of it. We can say, “God SHOWED me and now I’ll SHOW you!” Think about it and let these scriptures speak to you…


Rom 5:6-9
6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
NKJV

Rom 5:6-8
6 Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn't, and doesn't, wait for us to get ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn't been so weak, we wouldn't have known what to do anyway. 7 We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. 8 But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.
MES

John 3:16
16 For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
TLB


GOD LOVED YOU SO MUCH that He sent His only Son to die for YOU! And gave you the right, power and authority to become one of His very own children!


John 1:12
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: NKJV


If you haven’t yet RECEIVED Jesus you can pray and receive Him as your Lord TODAY! And how wonderful it is to become part of the family and have the everloving God as your own heavenly Father! AND THAT’S NOT ALL!!! …but those who are His will also spend eternity with Him!


1 John 3:1
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! NIV


THIS IS SO AWESOME I CAN HARDLY STAND IT!!


Eph 2:4-5
4 But God — so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us,
5 Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved ( delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation).
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“…the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us!” Now that’s what I’m talking about!


Jer 31:3 NKJV
The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying:
"Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.

Jer 31:3 GNB
…I have always loved you, so I continue to show you my constant love.

Jer 31:3 MSG
…I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love!


Look to the mountains and the entire creation, it all may be shaken and taken but God’s love for you is greater and can never be removed!


Isa 54:10
10 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,"
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
NIV

Isa 54:10
10 For even if the mountains walk away
and the hills fall to pieces,
My love won't walk away from you,
my covenant commitment of peace won't fall apart."
The God who has compassion on you says so.
MES

Isa 54:10
10 For the mountains may move
and the hills disappear,
but even then my faithful love for you will remain.
My covenant of blessing will never be broken,"
says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
NLT

Isa 54:10
10 The mountains and hills may crumble,
but my love for you will never end;
I will keep forever my promise of peace."
So says the Lord who loves you.
GNT


YOU ABSOLUTELY ARE LOVED WITH EVERLASTING LOVE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU!


Rom 8:35-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:

"For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NKJV

Rom 8:38-39
38 For I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can't, and life can't. The angels won't, and all the powers of hell itself cannot keep God's love away. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, 39 or where we are-high above the sky, or in the deepest ocean-nothing will ever be able to separate us from the love of God demonstrated by our Lord Jesus Christ when he died for us.
TLB

Rom 8:38-39
38 For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers,

39 Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
AMP

Rom 8:38-39
38 I'm absolutely convinced that nothing — nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, 39 high or low, thinkable or unthinkable — absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.
MES


WHOOOOHOOOO!!!!


So where does this leave us? LOVED! If we will receive His love then we can give His love. If we open up our heart to Him He will fill it and OVERFLOW it with His love. And when KNOW we’re loved we will be secure and then our love will be the overflow and outflow of God’s love and we’ll be able to love like God loves! And when you’re loved and you know then you’re not afraid to show it!


1 John 4:7-12
7 My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. 8 The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love — so you can't know him if you don't love. 9 This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. 10 This is the kind of love we are talking about — not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.

11 My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. 12 No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us — perfect love!
MES

1 John 4:12-16
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
NKJV


PIE90 Scripture:

1 John 4:7-8
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
NKJV

1 John 4:7
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is (springs) from God; and he who loves [his fellowmen] is begotten (born) of God and is coming [progressively] to know and understand God [to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him].
AMP

1 John 4:7
Divinely loved ones, let us be habitually loving one another with a divine and self-sacrificial love, because this aforementioned love is out of God as a source; and everyone who is in this manner habitually loving, out of God has been born with the present result that he is regenerated and knows God in an experiential way.
Wuest

1 John 4:7
7 My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God.
MES