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TRUE LOVE IS NOT A FEELING...

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" Love is not a feeling but a determined act of will, which always results in determined acts of self giving. Love is the willing, joyful desire to put the welfare of others above our own" - John MacArthur. Some see LOVE as a willful act of generosity, a show of appreciation or rather, a show of mercy. But I think it is far more than all this. It is far greater than just a feeling. It requires much attention and the whole of your beings - your spirit, soul and body. Genuine love does not stop at the sweetness of the appearance but has to do more with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve unconditionally. True love is far greater than giving or any acts of generosity. If it must be defined in terms of giving, then it must be sacrificial in all dimensions. It is longsuffering, kind, sincere, humble, plain and objective rather than being judgemental. It is not easily provoked, it hates to do evil but consent to that which is good.  True love does not rej...

LOVE IS AN INSURANCE AGAINST HATE

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True Love Is Divine... An Insurance Against Hate True Love is not only hard to find, but a harder task to manage. It is divine. Its universality and potency make it an indispensable instrument of peace.  Where true love exists, the weapons of hate are consumed. Though peace is not the absence of war, but the application of the instrumentality of LOVE to incapacitate the agents of war, which commandant is HATE.  Therefore, let us love, not just in the letter, but in the power thereof: for there is power in true love, far beyond human imagination, boundless and eternal.  True love is a cord of infinite affection, existing from eternity past to the present, onto eternity to come. It is the force that binds the centre of humanity in the bond of peace. True love is as aged as The Creator Himself, for GOD is LOVE and LOVE is GOD. Therefore, He that does not love is a hater of the ALMIGHTY GOD, for true love is divine.  True love cannot be purchased with mone...