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What does love look like?

It’s amazing the awakening that trials can bring. I’ve been begging God to speak in my current situation, crying out to him every second of the day and this is what I have asked and his reply, via music, as is usually the case:

What does love look like?

Let Your fire burn consuming me,

Let Your jealous flame

Come take away everything!

Let Your fire burn consuming me,

Let Your jealous flame

Come write Your name upon my heart,

Until all that remains

Is the Light of Your countenance

And I will be satisfied when I awaken

As a lover of You!
“What does love look like?” is the question I’ve been pondering

“What does love look like?”

“What does love look like?” is the question I’ve been asking of You

I once believed that love was romance, just a chance
I even thought that love was for the lucky and the beautiful

I once believed that love was a momentary bliss

But love is more than this

All You ever wanted was my attention

All You ever wanted was love from me

All You ever wanted was my affections, to sit here at your feet

Then I sat down, a little frustrated and confused
If all of life comes down to love

Then love has to be more than sentiment

More than selfishness and selfish gain

And then I saw Him there, hanging on a tree, looking at me

I saw Him there, hanging on a tree, looking at me

He was looking at me, looking at Him, staring through me

I could not escape those beautiful eyes

And I began to weep and weep

He had arms wide open, a heart exposed
Arms wide open; He was bleeding, bleeding
Love’s definition, love’s definition was looking at me
Looking at Him, hanging on a tree

I began to weep and weep and weep and weep

This is how I know what love is, this is how I know What love is
And as I sat there weeping, crying
Those beautiful eyes, full of desire and love

He said to me, “You shall love Me, You shall love Me
You shall love Me, You shall love Me”

With arms wide open, a heart exposed
With arms wide open, bleeding, sometimes bleeding

If anybody’s looking for love in all the wrong places
If you’ve been searching for love, come to Me, come to Me

Take up your cross, deny yourself

Forget your father’s house and run, run with Me

You were made for abandonment, wholeheartedness

You were made for someone greater, someone bigger, so Follow Me

And You’ll come alive when you learn to die

(Lyrics by Misty Edwards)

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Because love loves to love and the reward of love is love

What would a man give for love If a man gave for love all the wealth of his house

He would utterly dispise the recognition

If a man gave all that he had for love

He would count it all as nothing in the end

Because love loves to love and the reward of love is love
-Misty Edwards
I love to love, it’s who I am, it consumes me to the core…

Love for the reward of loving!

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The depth of it

Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your love? to be out of your love? If I climb to the sky, you’re there! If I go underground, you’re there! If I flew on morning’s wings to the far western horizon, You’d find me in a minute— you’re already there waiting! (‭Psalm‬ ‭139‬:‭7-10)

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Love never fails!

If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love. Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end. Love never fails. (1 Corinthians 13:3-7,8 MSG)

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Love Of The Tribe

There is nothing like the love of the tribe!!! …except the Lover of The Bride — at Life Bible Church.

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You Fill Me

I’m thanking you, God, from a full heart, I’m writing the book on your wonders. I’m whistling, laughing, and jumping for joy; I’m singing your song, High God. (Psalm 9:1, 2 MSG)

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Love Extravagantly

When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good. We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love. (1 Corinthians 13:11-13 MSG)

When that time finally comes to leave those “infant ways”…don’t fight it. Freely and joyfully give it up then… Love Extravagantly!!!

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Create The Atmosphere You Want Surrounding You

Create The Atmosphere You Want Surrounding You

What do you do If someone is trying their best to treat you horribly? Why not return it with the environment you want yourself surrounded in.

I personally want to be in the atmosphere of love every second of the day! I want Love all around me. I want the very presence of Love with me, in me, and filling me to a constant overflow into every other area of my life. How about you?

If you want a humble, respectful and honoring environment to surround you and envelope you…then you need to be humble, respectful and honoring around everyone you are with.

If that is what you want then you need to create that atmosphere by loving, honoring, or respecting others that same way, unconditionally, in every situation.

Create the atmosphere you want surrounding you.

Get this principle working in your life as soon as possible. Practice it every day…living it out… through the mud and on up above the Rocky Mountains. You will see a magnificent change in your life. You have to walk this out every second of the day, at work, at church, at the store, whether your talking over a stout or hiking Spencer’s Butte with friends. …anytime your with people…live this out and your life will be surrounded by that atmosphere and those that want that kind of atmosphere too. Wherever you are, live out the atmosphere you want your life engulfed in.

So one might ask themselves… Do I want to be known as a person of love? Do I want the kind of relationship with my Lover that I have seen only in a handful of people, in my entire life? Do I want the same kind of intimacy that King David had with God, the nakedness of nothing hidden in his heart? Do you want that intimate loving relationship with God too? Love others with that very love you want wrapped in…like a warm and cozy blanket.

If Love really is the atmosphere I want myself surrounded in, then I have to treat people with love…no matter how I feel about how I am being treated. You have to treat people the way you want to be treated. This kind of love is not dependent on being loved in return!

Let the fruit (or atmosphere) show by planting seeds of the fruit trees (or atmospheres) that you want surrounding you. You will soon have fruit all around you.

Create the environment you want surrounding you.

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Fling Wide

Fling Wide
by Misty Edwards
I love how He designs the seasons to draw us closer…

Awake, awake, O north wind
Awake, awake, O south wind; blow over me.

Come, O winds of testing
Come, winds of refreshing; blow over me.

Fling wide the door to my soul, open up the door to my heart

Have your way, have your way, have your way, yeah

I won’t be afraid; I will face the wind
I won’t be afraid; I’ll embrace the flame.

Take me through the fire, take me through the rain.
Take me through the testing, I’ll do anything.

Test me, try me, prove me, refine me like the gold, like the gold

Fling wide the door to my soul, open up the door to my heart!!

And I Thought…
by Heath McConnell
For you are my lover and I want you to fill the inside if me…fill me with you until I can’t contain the overflow.

I FLING WIDE OPEN THE DOORS TO ALL I AM!!!

You made me, you made all I see.
You made the way the clouds move and have their way.
You made this forest different from that forest.
You made this tree different than that tree.
You made that son more beautiful to me than anything on this earth.

So, my God… Come and change all that is me…
I open up….to you…

You see us as gold…purest gold
The Patina…you want to remove…

I say come my lover…come…I’ll do anything.
I fling wide the doors of my being to you.

You are our God and our loveliest lover, you Jesus, you are the lover of us… Come inside of us…
Come as we fling wide the doors to everything inside of us…we are wide open for you.

I am yours!!!!!