hi this is Victoria thank you so much for downloading this podcast I believe God has amazing things in your future I hope you enjoy this message
 honey courage you today with us a scripture that Paul prayed over the Philippian church and I think this is a great scripture that we should pray each and every day it's found in Philippians 1 D pray this he said I pray that your love would abound in knowledge and depth of insight this prayer to the Philippian church was this I want you to agree with me that's why I'm sending you this letter that your love would grow increase X me tell you something he wasn't writing this letter to them because he had noticed and his visits that they weren't people of love
 historically they were people who loved what he was saying to them this is such an important prayer because your love has so much potential to go so much further and feel such a greater foundation in your life he was saying agree every day with me as I pray for you that your love will reach its fullest you think that's what we need to pray every single day God would your love abounds in me more and more in depth and insight and knowledge and wisdom you say we have to learn to love well
 because the way we love how we show our love the mercy we give the Expedia Grace we extend you see it's a direct impact on her own life the way we love has a direct impact on our own life we need to learn to love well we can't just put our love on autopilot we can just push it you know on cruise control let's just say that cuz we all have a cruise control on our car we set the speed and go we can't just set the speed and allow it to say stay the same all the time in every situation we have got to understand that our love has to mature it has to develop and it has to grow and in order for it to do that we have to make a commitment to love because it's all about commitment focus and determination I mean wide
 you pray you pray because you want something to change your committed to it you pray because you know God has your answer and it if you'll give it to him he'll help you so we can't just set our love once and keep it set at that same speed you know I heard this woman I heard a story about this woman who was talking to her husband and she said to him honey did you really love me and you looked at her so strangely and he said why would you ask me that question he said I told you 25 years ago when I married you that I love you and if it changes I'll let you know
 you think that man had one speed he didn't understand that love grows you see it's interesting because as people we ball we grow we change our situations change things in our life change so we have to be willing to adapt our love to that change
 we cannot just let it stay the same I think about my children when they were small ice scoop them up anytime I wanted to they could be walking across the floor and I want to grab them and show him my love I just scooped them right up tickle their little bellies you know just cuddle with them talk little food in their mouth you do all those things you do to babies and they can do anything about it
 it's so fun and you're showing your affection you're showing your love and you're showing your Choy but now my children are grown
 I can't cuddle them poke food in their mouth tickle their bellies know there are adult I have to understand my love has to adapt and grow just who they are if I want to grow with them I'm going to have to make some changes yes I wish they'd stay babies forever yes I wish I could show him the same love I would love to say just put that on cruise control and let it happen but Life Changes we change we ball and our love must be willing to evolve I study my children now I'll let them have an opinion I adapt to their ability I try to find ways to communicate with them in a better way a way that'll in Rich our lives and our relationship I want insight to who they are and what I
 I can do to serve them well with my love you think you would. Love is smart
 that's what Paul was saying she said I pray that your love would grow in a background and knowledge and depth of inside your love should have wisdom
 your love should see Beyond The Superficial it should see beyond what's happening right now our love should not be limited to the love we were saving we can't just set a standard if you give me love I'll give you love that's not building that Foundation that God wants to build in us can I tell you what we decide we're going to be the person that comes up higher we're going to be the person that loves in spite of how someone is showing us love something to the inside of strengthens your resolve it causes you to be able to be better and you know what how many of you want to get better in here I know why do I long to get better
 free, be smart with our love we can't be Reckless and careless can I tell you something love doesn't wait for things to happen love doesn't just hanging around waiting love make stuff happen love bills relationships love serves love Gibbs love just doesn't give what it wants to give love is willing to look into a situation and give what the situation is in need of
 but a smart I want that I want to get up every morning and agree with Paul Paul I'm agree with that prayer anytime you see a Prayer in the Bible like Paul said he's a time I'm writing to you because I am praying this for you basically find those things in the Bible get in contact with him get in agreement with a triumph over yourself they have so much truth the way we show love it can impact our lie it's 30 years Joe and Ivan sudden each other and adapting to one another we made love happen we haven't waited for it to happen
 you don't love it's a feeling but love is also an action that feeling can either grow or that feeling and fizzle out I want my love to grow into a bound I wanted to produce because that's what love does that's what God love does it produces good fruit in your life can I tell you something you will eat of the fruit that you produce
 you're not going to be able to eat fruit that you don't forget this you can eat only from the fruit that you produce just like you can't drink out of an empty you know some of you were saying to me Victoria I have loved and love in love and I'm not getting loved back but I have to tell you something you're drinking from An Empty Glass and the reason I can say that is in reality the only way that we can love is to allow the love of God in us first that is the only way that we can love
 we don't have the potential in our human ability alone to love when we may be able to try to love but we don't have the capacity to love on our own in fact Jesus told the Pharisees this in Matthew 22 they said Jesus what's the greatest command in the law of Moses and he said the greatest and First Command the the command that you should keep the most the one that is the most important is this love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all of your strength see they wanted to keep the law they thought if they could keep the law they would be right with God and Jesus was saying he was saying you can't keep the law by yourself you can't do it by yourself you need a savior that's why I'm here to keep the continual
 of love Tommy
 listen when my love tank slow I'm trying to drink out of An Empty Glass there is a source of love that never runs dry and it's the Lord Jesus Christ it's God the father he is love the Bible says is love when you come to him you're coming to love I think about the woman at the well there's a story in the Bible and Jesus met this woman at the well as Samaritan woman and he was talking to her she was coming to fill her jug up of water so she would have sufficient water for the day and he told her something very insightful he said you drink water
 don't you mean that will go away you will thirst again with the water that you drink he was saying what you have will not last but he says if you received what I have I have water that will cause you to never be thirsty again I have a flow of Living Water of living love
 that will fill you up
 I seek only way this love that Paul is talking about can a bound you see if you want good relationship if you want your life impacted you got to come to God you got to let him transform you you got to let that Foundation of Love be built in you and then as you release that Love Phil be a flow of love that will strengthen you and it'll continue it's interesting because the Pharisee just asking what the first commandment was but he went ahead and told him what the second one way I need to let me tell you what the second one is and it's the same as the first love your neighbor
 as yourself what he was saying if you get the first part of the equation write the second part of the equation will come much easier do you want to agree with me as I agree with Paul status love of God which is the balance about about
 it wouldn't depend on our outer circumstances but it would depend on what's going on in the inside of us the well that we're connected to the one with living love church right now
 father I just think you just as Paul praise we come into agreement with that prayer that bother our love would increase and a balance and knowledge and depth of inside the God we are superficial in our love but it runs deep it has root it is full of wisdom and knowledge in a definite address and it brings us good fruit father I thank you but everyday will fill our spicket with the living love the Living Water that causes us to be able to abound in to release it to the people around us father we thank you that you are loved and that you love us with an everlasting love father at the end of the day we believe as long as we're connected to you we can do the impossible love even when love not being shown to us we can build father are love in you and abandoned every good work
 in Jesus name amen and amen amen
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