Facilitating Revival
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God. Everyone who loves the Father also loves his children. 1 John 5:1 GW If your faith feels fragile or your progress feels slow, this is for you, beloved of God. Knowing who Jesus is changes how we see ourselves. Not all at … Continue reading From Lost to Loved: Trusting God’s Process
And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers. 1 John 4:21 NLT Why do so many sincere believers feel tired, pressured, and quietly disillusioned with “discipleship”? Why does ministry so often feel like weight instead of wonder? Why is there so much activity — but so … Continue reading We Go In Love: Why the Great Commission Is Not a Works-Based Strategy
If someone says, ‘I love God,’ but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? 1 John 4:20 NLT John is not vague here. He is precise, confrontational, and unapologetic. If you say you love God … Continue reading The Evidence of Faith: Love Leaves a Witness
We love each other because He loved us first. 1 John 4:19 NLT God didn’t wait for you to get better to love you. He loved you first. Before you believed right.Before you behaved right.Before you even knew what was wrong… God loved you first. Not because you earned it.Not because you impressed Him.But because … Continue reading He Loved Us First: Love’s Healing Power
There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. 1 John 4:18 NASB2020 For the anxious heart learning how to rest in God’s presence. If rest feels risky, silence feels unsafe, and your spiritual life feels driven more … Continue reading Learning the Father’s Love: When Perfect Love Meets an Anxious Soul
And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. 1 John 4:17 NLT Purpose of This Training To form house church leaders who live and lead … Continue reading Living Like Jesus: Home Fellowship Facilitator Training
We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 1 John 4:16 NLT Apostolic Christianity Starts With Love, Not Law It begins with secure sonship. John does not say, “We know … Continue reading Living From Love: The Path to Confidence, Clarity, Compassion, and Christlike Character
All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. 1 John 4:15 NLT We are living in a moment of global disillusionment. Many are stepping off the treadmill of worldliness — the endless chase for visibility, security, success, and self-definition. What once promised meaning … Continue reading God Lives in You — and You Live in Him
We [who were with Him in person] have seen and testify [as eye-witnesses] that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 1 John 4:14 AMP We are living in a moment where truth is constantly negotiated. What we call “true” is often shaped by algorithms, power, repetition, and emotional … Continue reading It’s Good News, Not Fake News: Why John’s Eyewitness Testimony Matters
And God has given us His Spirit as proof that we live in Him and He in us. 1 John 4:13 NLT Christianity was never meant to be a belief system you merely agree with. Under the New Covenant, God didn’t just forgive sins — He took up residence. According to the apostle John, the … Continue reading Living Proof: The Holy Spirit & New Covenant Christianity
No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us. 1 John 4:12 NLT There are patterns you can spot if you pay attention. The world has a way of moving. God does, too. The world flexes power. God … Continue reading God’s Signature Move
God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love — not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. 1 John … Continue reading Real Love Is Shown, Received, and Taught by the Father
The one who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love. [He is the originator of love, and it is an enduring attribute of His nature.] 1 John 4:8 AMP God Is Love — and That Is the Issue This verse is not … Continue reading Beyond Knowing About God: Rediscovering Intimacy in the Secret Place
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. I John 4:7 NKJV It's possible to believe all the right things about God and still be far from His heart. John writes 1 John 4:7 like a spiritual X-ray. He is not … Continue reading Love vs. Legalism
Those people belong to this world, so they speak from the world’s viewpoint, and the world listens to them. 1 John 4:5 NLT Have you ever noticed how false prophets almost always sound current? They track world events. They understand systems. They reference leaders and movements with ease. That alone doesn’t make them false — … Continue reading Who Are You Listening To?
Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. 1 John 4:1 NLT John doesn’t open gently. He opens clearly. Not everyone who says “God told me” heard God. Not everyone who sounds spiritual is Spirit-led. And … Continue reading From Deception to Discernment: Restoring Trust After False Prophecy
Our actions will show that we belong to the truth, so we will be confident when we stand before God. 1 John 3:19 NLT 1 John 3:19–24 confronts a quiet instability in modern Christianity: believers who are sincere, devoted, and active — yet governed by how they feel. John does not diagnose this with psychology … Continue reading Faith That Stands When Feelings Don’t
We know what real love is because Jesus gave up His life for us. 1 John 3:16 NLT “We know what real love is…”John doesn’t begin with opinion — he begins with revelation. Love is not something we define by culture, preference, or comfort. It is revealed in Christ and demonstrated at the cross. Jesus … Continue reading Loving Fearlessly: Trusting God’s Definition of Love
This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 1 John 3:11 NLT John isn’t introducing a new command. He’s re-establishing a non‑negotiable one. Before sin fractured the human story, love was already written on the heart. Before we learned how to hide, compete, compare, or self‑protect, we were … Continue reading Love & Murder — What Does Your Heart Produce?
Everyone who sins is breaking God’s law, for all sin is contrary to the law of God. 1 John 3:4 NLT There are passages of Scripture that feel like a warm blanket… and then there are passages that feel like a mirror held a little too close to your face. 1 John 3:4–10 is the … Continue reading Discernment Without Stones
See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! 1 John 3:1 NLT See how very much our Father loves us… John doesn’t ease into this revelation. He grabs us by the shoulders and says, Look. Pay attention. Wake up. This isn’t a side … Continue reading See What Kind of Love This Is
I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray. 1 John 2:26 John isn’t writing to scare the church — he’s writing to steady it. He says, “I am writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you astray.” But notice what he doesn’t … Continue reading Remain In Him
So you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, you will remain in fellowship with the Son and with the Father. And in this fellowship we enjoy the eternal life he promised us. 1 John 2:24–25 NLT Understanding the Moment John Was Writing Into John wasn’t writing … Continue reading Remain in What You Heard From the Beginning
Dear children, the last hour is here. You have heard that the Antichrist is coming, and already many such antichrists have appeared. From this we know that the last hour has come. 1 John 2:18 NLT There’s something about a fire that makes truth easier to hear. No podium. No performance. Just warmth, crackling logs, … Continue reading Riding With Him
I am writing to you who are God’s children because your sins have been forgiven through Jesus. I am writing to you who are mature in the faith because you know Christ, who existed from the beginning. I am writing to you who are young in the faith because you have won your battle with … Continue reading Moving Up, Not Just Forward
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