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Compelled by Love for Love





Compelled by Love for Love

2 Corinthians 5:14 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.

During this journey with Jesus there have been times I have been hurt, rejected, lied to, lied on, disappointed by others, confidences betrayed, disappointed in myself, weak, tired, confused, lonely, bitter, wounded, jaded and afraid.

During these times it is easy to look around and ask why continue?

During these times the answer is always the same!

For Christ's love compels me!
I am compelled by the love of God for me!
I am compelled by my love for Him!
I am compelled to give this love to a generation starving for Real Love!

So the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit picks me up, dusts me off and tells me I am healed & accepted.
God is my Father; I am being led by Truth & His Word Alone over me is Truth.
I am satisfied in Christ, He is trustworthy.
I am a new Creation, He makes me Strong,
I am Renewed in my mind, knowing I am loved,
He makes me Glad,
He teaches me to walk in Forgiveness!
I was made to be courageous & fearless!

What does it mean to be Compelled - it means to hold together, to press together, to shut up; then to press on, urge, impel, or excite.
It is love that causes me to press on, it urges me, it impels me & it excites me!

There is nothing that can separate me from this love! There is nothing I have done or that is done to be that can tear this love of Christ from me!

Romans 8:31-39 Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Love
31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.

35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”[o]) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[p] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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