What is Love? (Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2021
- I want to address a simple, yet incredibly important question for each of us to discover in our healing and freedom journey. "What is love?"
This question seems so simple, yet it is a subject that we can so easily gloss over. Meanwhile, every soul on the planet has a need to experience love. But do we know what we are even talking about when it comes to love? Do we know what love is?
The truth is, you and I long to be loved. To be loved by God. To look at ourselves with eyes of love. To love God. To experience love from other people. To love others fruitfully.
Love is a foundational and necessary ingredient for our lives. It has been my heart passion to help people experience healing, freedom and transformation in the love of God. It is also my fundamental belief that the majority of struggles and breakdowns in our lives stem back to a disconnect from and/or distortion of what the true love of God is.
This love of God, revealed in the work of Jesus Christ, has the power to awaken, heal and lead our hearts into dynamic transformation. It seems like masses of believers have skipped past the love of God or seem to be disconnected from how powerful His love is.
But let me take it further. Do we even know what we are looking for when we talk about God’s love? What does it mean when you say “God loves me?”
Also . . . Are we also aware of the battle that wages over our hearts truly experiencing the depth of God’s love?
The reality is that for so many, love has been absent, compromised or distorted in their relationship experiences.
Therefore, many are left with very few healthy references on how to allow God’s love to transform how they do relationships.
This leaves many well meaning believers to ask an honest question, which simply says, “What is love?”
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I'm a mess that's loved by Jesus.
Mark you are such a blessing, thank you for using your life to make other’s better ✝️
Father please show me that love
Thank you. Sometimes too often, I forget and I think it hurts His feelings. Father, forgive me....
Legalistic love is the distortion. It is performance based therefore it is not love at all but hate. Same with false humility. It is not humility at all, but pride. Counterfeits.
I woke up one morning crying maybe I don't know what love is. I am not grounded and a mess
I don’t know what love is. Thank you for talking about this subject.
Me either. You're not alone
Same here and I find it hard to see God's love for me.
Me too
The amount of peace I feel when I tell myself that God loves me unconditionally is overwhelming. Then the evil spirits of doubt and worry attack me and I realize how true God’s love is. Because the spirit of love is not worry not anxiety nor doubt. Love does not hurt you… love brings peace. And God’s perfect love is why He is the God of peace. ❤️❤️❤️ thank You Father!
Excellent - as always. Cannot hear this enough!
Hopeful that His love will become experiential and transform my identity from SHAME to BELOVED.
Me too
Thank you for this, Mark. I wrote a specific prayer in my journal on the day you posted this for God to help me understand His love on a deeper level, then I opened UA-cam and here was this video. I specifically wrote about a disconnect I am feeling and what you said was helpful. Blessings.
God is in the algorithms at times
I need help receiving God's love. I need help liking myself. I really appreciate you emphasis on love.
What a blessed teaching with exactly what is happening me and what I’m going through ❤️
Awesome love you Mark
This is huge for me..Because I don't feel loved & I love my kids & family, but its tainted. It's hard to give out what you don't have. I seek love in all the wrong places. Now that I'm aware I feel like I'm just a bad person. I thank you always for your videos & guidance brother. I'm also watching how to deal with emotions because I was never taught. My family just looks @ me with disappointment. Job comforters.
These are the topics people all over the world truly need to know, it's not talked or preached about enough.(or not at all)
Or if it is it's a false or manipulated doctrine, perhaphs incomplete, nit picked and not balanced,
but Mark's videos just
are helping me so much,
I believe when I came across Mark's video for the first time around a week or more ago, it wasn't just coincidence,
maybe God wants me to better my mental health and focus more on His Love, than His wrath.
You see, it's good to know God's wrath and judgement, but what isn't good is to focus on that "anger" or "distance" or "fear" I felt instead of keeping it a balance, and focusing on His love more.
Forming a relationship with Jesus, and through Jesus towards God is so important, many people know this, but many focus on PBC living or doing whatever they want and most not even realizing they're living in it.
Thank you Mark, you're videos are truly a blessing ♡
Godbless to everyone :D
More lord
I don't understand how God's love can fill me every single day. I want love that I can feel.
Praise God for your work of building up the life of the church. May you be blessed with many crowns in the end.
Such a good message. Thank you so much for this series. I will be listening to help improve my relationships, starting with God.
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LOVE ETERNAL/INFINITE LOVE
FOR/THROUGH/BY/IN/OF THE WORD OF GOD,OUR LORD & SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.
🙌ALLELUIA🙌
😅YEA & A-MEN'😘
Thank you for all your work… I have so much to repent for and lots of deep deep reconciliation and truer humility… letting go of fear of ……………man…. So I can truly love… I think long suffering is needed to crucify my flesh and even a need for love to be returned
This was very Good 🙌
This is essential
Listening to this. Before I get to the end of the video can I answer the question? Some years back a preacher came to my church. He gave an altar-call at the end of the service. I don't often go but this time I was really asking God to meet me at the altar. Nothing happened. I went home feeling numb and when I went to bed that night I couldn't sleep. Tears just ran down my face as i was so broken hearted. God you didn't come. You didn't meet me. You didn't care. I was inconsolable. Then in a vision like state a cloud came over from the horizon (where the sea is over here) I saw it all.. the cloud came down the road, entered our house and stood by the bed. I could hardly breath. All of me kept saying 'I love you' over and over, and I mean all of me said it- every cell in my body felt it and said it. I have never felt such overwhelming love and total awe. I was clear to me that all I wanted to do from then on was to be close to 'him' and feel this love that was everything. Of all the things that I expected to happen, this was not it. God knows where I live, He knows what side of the bed I sleep..he said nothing, he did nothing. He was covered in a cloud so I saw basically nothing. I just knew he was there. I didn't imagine it all. The thing I remember from it now, years after it happened is that I know how to love. In my own flesh I really don't know how to love and suffer from the lack of the ability to love fully. In that moment I loved with everything that I am.
I really needed this, thanks Mark.
I cannot fix my self! Not my job to fix myself?
I tried to accept love and felt like just a taker and not much of a giver... couldn't express it much and it was out of protection but not out of love.
And I wasn't a toxic person who became toxic and can't stop making mistakes...
I have had moments in the past and especially in the start of life relationships and parts of the relationship and some lasted longer when I did give and get "loved" to serve... But even when I have been treated what seemed not so badly something still creeping up in me then that fear of getting closer or a resitance came in. And then when I really looked how my relationship with GOd wasn't great due to the love-law based performance standards. But lacking in the love of God "working" on the issues with the relationship and started to effect all my relationships.
So helpful, thank you Mark!
This is so good Mark! I've listened 3 times. I'm receiving something new each time, I'm thankful for your ministry.
That is so wonderful!
Thanks Mark awesome dude
Mark.. For sometime I have known that my view of God was " Yea he loves me but I better get it right ". As a result I avoided him . This has made me start thinking that I have to pray and understand the love of the Father
Wow, simply incredible and such a blessing. Mark, thank you for using your gift of teaching to help us heal and grow closer to our Father!
I need this thank U
Yes I've been trying to earn it
YES! You got Tony Hendrik in there. You just made my day.
Father god I open my heart to you. I feel empty please fill me with love
Thank you so much, God bless you and all you are doing for us. You are truly a blessing to my broken 💔
Thank you brother Mark. This is such a blessing. 🙏
Very good topic. I struggle with guilt because I had to distance myself from a relationship with an ex support group sponsor and I feel like I should be mature enough to handle it, but the micro aggression triggers me and I feel like I just need distance from certain personalities to stay grounded. I've been obsessed and feeling guilty for ditching people, and I know I think of them much more than they think of me. Thank you for always considering that some relationships are toxic in your teaching. I pray for that person and maturity in myself.
Thanks Mark! Question: Since you mentioned Jesus' messages to the 7 churches in Revelation, what exactly does the last part of Rev.3:2 mean?
Is this series ‘What Is Love’ in a printable PDF? I would like to take notes and this as a hard copy if possible.
One paradigm I have had is that we have no lack of love for ourselves, based upon teachings I have heard through the years. I suppose that is not accurate after all.
I want to know I want to be filled I asked