Becoming A More Loving Person The Power To Change Your Life

2 Love is misunderstood Love has lost its meaning Love is more than a feeling Love is not uncontrollable

3 Things that love is Love is a choice And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. - Colossians 3:14 (NIV) Love is a conduct Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. - 1 John 3:18 (NIV)

4 Biblical Words of Love 1.Storge = natural affection 2.Eros = sexual attraction 3.Philia = emotional affection or friendship 4.Agape = unconditional, giving, sacrificial love Love is an act of continual commitment!

5 Steps to exhibit continually committed love …so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ… - Ephesians 3:17-18 (NIV) My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.- John 15:12 (NIV) 1.Experience Gods love

6 2.Forgive your enemies Steps to exhibit continually committed love Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. - Colossians 3:13 (NIV)

7 1.Experience Gods love 2.Forgive your enemies 3.Marinate your mind with loving thoughts Steps to exhibit continually committed love Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus. - Philippians 2:4-5 (NIV)

8 1.Experience Gods love 2.Forgive your enemies 3.Marinate your mind with loving thoughts 4.Act in a loving way How do I act in a loving way? 1.Love your enemies – Eph 4:2 2.Do good 3.Bless those who curse us 4.Pray for those who mistreat us Steps to exhibit continually committed love How You Think What I Think What I Feel How I Act How You Feel How You Act

9 1.Experience Gods love 2.Forgive your enemies 3.Marinate your mind with loving thoughts 4.Act in a loving way Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self- seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV) Steps to exhibit continually committed love How You Think What I Think What I Feel How I Act How You Feel How You Act

10 1.Experience Gods love 2.Forgive your enemies 3.Marinate your mind with loving thoughts 4.Act in a loving way 5.Expect the best Steps to exhibit continually committed love 5.Expect the best It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.- 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NIV)

keys to resurrecting a love Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place. - Revelations 2:4-5 (NIV)

Becoming A More Loving Person Things to which love is Keys to resurrect a love Words to express Biblical words of love Steps to exhibit continuously committed love 1.Choice 2.Conduct 1.Remember 2.Repent 3.Repeat 1.Storge 2.Eros 3.Philia 4.Agape 1.Experience Gods love 2.Forgive your enemies 3.Marinate your mind with loving thoughts 4.Demonstrate your love in practical ways 5.Expect the best