2. Have YOU left your first love? 1.Sin – Breaks fellowship, causing us to lose sight of His love 2. Guilt – Breaks your mind, can’t move on 3. Sorrow - Breaks you! 4. Fear – Causes you to question God’s power and sovereignty 5. Struggles – Causes you to focus on the temporal 6. Stress – Causes you to focus on yourself! 7. Lost – You’ve never acknowledged the love of God to begin with

3. Romans 8:34-35- Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

4. Romans 8:38-39- For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

6. 1John 1:5- This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

7. Psalm 99:9- Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

8. Psalm 47:7- For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

9. Psalm 7:11- God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

10. Job 36:26- Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. Psalm 77:13- Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

11. Job 36:5- Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom. Deuteronomy 7:21- Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.

12. Deuteronomy 4:24- For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

13. Psalm 89:7- God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

14. Jeremiah 10:10- But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

15. Hebrews 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

16. 1 John 4:8- He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

17. 2 Chronicles 30:9- For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

18. Psalm 116:5- Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. Deuteronomy 4:31- (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

19. Acts 10:34- Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 2 Peter 3:9- The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

20. 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. Ephesians 5:25- Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

21. 1 John 3:1- Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

22. 1 John 4:9-11- In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

23. Ephesians 2:4-9- But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

24. Titus 3:4-7- But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

25. Ephesians 3:17-19- That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

26. Ephesians 2:11-13- Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

28. Ephesians 2:1- And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

29. Colossians 2:13- And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

30. John 3:18- He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

32. Matthew 9:30-31-And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it. But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.

33. Mark 7:36-37- And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

34. Mark 1:43-44- And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away; And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

35. Mark 1:45- But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.

37. 1 Peter 2:9-10- But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

38. 1 Peter 2:11-12- Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.