As believers in Christ Jesus it’s important that we have active living faith.

Our faith is active.

It’s always working. It’s not at a red light. Your faith journey are green lights. It’s always moving. It’s always on. Our faith is living. It’s alive. It’s breathing not dormant.

But faith by itself is not enough to make us more then conquers.

We must also have love because the Bible clearly states in Gal 5:6 that faith works by love.

God’s LOVE inspires faith.

His LOVE gives Faith a foundation to build on.

His LOVE gives us a reason to believe

His LOVE for us is the foundation of our FAITH in HIM

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

And God is love and love is God so we can also say the scripture like this: For LOVE so loved ME, that he (Who is LOVE) gave his only begotten Son (OF HIS LOVE) , that whosoever believeth in (THE SON OF LOVE) should not perish, but have everlasting life (THE LIFE OF LOVE)

Rom 8:32

He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things.

Because of his love for us how much more will he freely give us all things.

God sacrificed his very own son for us, and what prompted him to do it was LOVE

Everything he does for us it is prompted by his great love.

It’s HIS LOVE That provides exceeding great and precious promises that blesses our life. That can be found in 1 Peter 1:4

It’s His Mercy LOVE in

Lamentations‬ ‭3‬:‭22‬-‭23‬ ‭NLT‬‬

“The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; HIS mercies beginning afresh each morning.”

The mercy of God is His attitude towards mankind to take care of every need we might have in life.

However the lack of knowledge of God’s love will directly effect your faith.

Many believers fall into that category.

They struggle and try to believe, but when push comes to shove their faith falters and fails.

Why?

Because they don’t have a revelation of LOVE to back it up

They don’t have revelation of God’s love to back up their faith!!

Repeat after me: Gods love will always back up my faith!

Lets dig in to get the revelation of God’s love so that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

1 John 4:16 spells it out

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Let’s go to the epistles of John’s love letters. John being inspired by the HS writes in 1 John 4:15

This is how we know the love of God

1 John 4:15

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

So if you confessed that Jesus is the Son of God

God dwells in you and your in God

When did you know the love?

When you got born again.

When you received Jesus into your heart.

When you receive Jesus into your spirit you received the nature of God which is His LOVE Nature

Rom 5:5 states

Romans 5:5

….the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

The holy spirit filled up our hearts with God’s love

Romans‬ ‭5‬:‭5‬ ‭NLT‬‬

For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.”

GOD is LOVE And LOVE came into YOU

And that’s how you know the LOVE of GOD according to 1 John 4:15

and Rom 5:5

GOD doesn’t just have LOVE

HE is LOVE

He is never gonna run out. His love flow is always going to be the same.

We have to understand that every action of God is a love act.

Every thought of God is a love thought

Every movement of God is a faith movement.

Because He is love and when He makes a movement love moves.

Besides knowing the love we have to believe the love that God has for us.

Again 1 John 4:16 reveals

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”

What does it mean to believe in the love? It means:

  1. You believe in the love he has for you.
  2. You believe what love has provided for you.

He’s not gonna waver on maybe I will maybe I won’t

Love says yes I will!!

We can easily believe He’ll keep HIS promises to us.

When we know how much God cares, we can trust him to do what he says.

We can have faith that he’ll take care of us in every situation

In his wonderful book Christ the healer FF Bosworth writes I have seen faith arise mountain high when the truth of God’s present love and compassion begins to Dawn upon the minds and hearts of the people. Is not what God can do but what we know he yearns to do, that inspires faith.

Remember that when you find yourself struggling to trust the Lord spend time in fellowship with him feeding on his words of love for you.

How important is it?

Your life depends upon it.

Receive and act on scriptures on God’s Love in your relationship with others. That’s how you practice the love.

You’ll soon see for yourself that faith truly does work by love.