Hope Joy Peace Love 1 When someone thinks

Hope Joy Peace Love

1. When someone thinks about you when you aren’t around

2. When someone takes care of you when you are sick

3. They plan for the future

4. When the listen to you. Really Listen

Saving Private Ryan 5. They put your needs before their own

LOVE

1. God thought about you when you were not around

Psalm 139 : 13 - 16 13 For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed.

2. God takes care of you when you are sick

Matthew 14 : 13 - 14 13 Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. 14 When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick.

Psalm 34 : 19 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

3. God plans for your future

Jeremiah 29 : 11 11 For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.

4. God listens to you. He Really Listens.

Jeremiah 29 : 12 - 13 12 Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. 13 When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart.

2 Chronicles 7 : 14 - 15 14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.

5. God puts your needs before His own

John 3 : 16 – 17 16“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. 17“Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Philippians 2 : 5 – 11 5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,

Philippians 2 : 5 – 11 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

John 19 : 25 – 27 25 And that is what the soldiers did. Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son. ” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother. ” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

Challenge 1. Do we really love one another?

I John 4 : 7 - 12 7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one

I John 4 : 7 - 12 has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Challenge 1. Do we really love one another? 2. Does the world know you love them?

John 13 : 34 - 35 34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. ”

John 15 : 12 – 17 12“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no man this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that

John 15 : 12 – 17 your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 This I command you, to love one another.

Challenge 1. Do we really love one another? 2. Does the world know you love them? 3. What needs to change?