LOVE

Sorry it's taken me so long to get all my notes on here from the Beth Moore conference. So far, we've talked about EAT where the main focus was about entering your desert and allowing God to take you there and walk you through it and to "break up your unplowed ground". The PRAY session focused on being the miracle that God wants to use and not to allow Satan use the bad stuff in your life to bring destruction but to turn it and allow God to use it for something beautiful and glorifying to Him.

Now, let's talk about the LOVE session!

EAT, PRAY, LOVE

But the Greatest of these is Love!

Jeremiah 31:1-6

"At that time," declares the Lord, "I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they will be my people." This is what the Lord says: "The people who survive the sword will find favor in the desert; I will come to give rest to Israel." The Lord appeared to us in the past saying, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness. I will build you up again and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out to dance with the joyful. Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant them and enjoy their fruit. There will be a day when watchmen cry out on the hills of Ephraim, 'Come, let us go up to Zion, to the Lord our God.'"

Focus on verse 3 - We have everlasting life because we have everlasting love from Him!! Before mom and dad met, before the creation of the world, HE LOVED ME!! He positioned me right in the generation that He wanted me to serve!!

How do we go from "Hitters" (pushing everyone away) to "Embracers"? WE MUST LOVE!!

1 John 4:16-18 (Focus on verse 18)

And so we know and rely on the love of God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgement, because in this world we are like Him. (18) There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears in not made perfect in love.

WE HAVE GOT TO SHAKE OFF FEAR!!

Jeremiah 12:5(?)

"If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?"

***The root of fear is the doubt of everlasting love.

Jeremiah 2:13

"My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."

When we put our faith in ANYONE or ANYTHING besides Jesus, we are trying to fill an empty cup.

In Jeremiah 31:4 - referred to as, "O Virgin Israel." Previously called "Prostitute Israel." True purity restoration!!

Jeremiah 31:31-33

"The time is coming," declares the Lord, "When I will make a new covenant with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them," declares the Lord. "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the Lord. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people."

"I will write it on their hearts!" The Word is not bondage and rules, but freedom and love! Some will not be freed because they don't want to be free. Some are stubborn, and don't want to let go of control!

*We have a broken "want to". Pray for God's healing of your "want to". The new covenant is that your "want to" CHANGES! THEY ARE WRITTEN ON YOUR HEART!!

Jeremiah 33:6-16

" 'Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security. I will bring Judah and Israel back from captivity and will rebuild them as they were before. I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me. Then this city will bring me renown, joy, praise and honor before all nations on earth that hear of all the good things I do for it; and they will be in awe and will tremble at the abundant prosperity and peace I provide for it.'

" ' This is what the Lord says: 'You say about this place, "It is a desolate waste, without men or animals." Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, inhabited by neither men nor animals, there will be heard once more the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord saying,

"Give thanks to the Lord Almighty, for the Lord is good; His love endures forever." For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were before,' says the Lord.

"This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'In this place, desolate and without men or animals- in all its towns there will again be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks. In the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hand of the one who counts them,' says the Lord.

" 'The days are coming,' declares the Lord, 'when I will fulfill the gracious promise I made to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

" 'In those days and at that time I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David's line; he will do what is just and right in the land. In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety. This is the name by which will be called: The Lord Our Righteousness.'

***Give thanks to Lord for His love endures forever!!

At the end of the day, His love endures!

After all we've been through, you're gonna let "that little thing" get you? Rather "that little thing" be a harsh word from someone or a bad day at work- don't let it get to you. His love still endures!! WE HAVE BIGGER BATTLES! GET OVER YOURSELF!

TO DO: Log all things good that you're thankful for each night!

Jeremiah 45:5

"Should you then seek great things for yourself? Seek them not. For I will bring disaster on all people." declares the Lord, "but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life."

**You're own self absorption is your biggest problem and the biggest destruction!

BECOME A SERVANT! THIS IS YOUR GREATNESS!