From: John & April Correia <[email protected]>
Subject: Encourgament's From The Heart
Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 7:39 AM

God Is Love

1 John 4:8 tells us God's nature is love. He already loves you and me. If we would only put this promise in our heart and grasp it as He desires us to. You can't earn God's love nor can you lose it. We must learn to accept that God loves us the way we are - He bought you the way you are and He will see you to completion (Phil. 1:6). Samuel Logan Brengle discovered God's love from Scripture in a very special way that changed his life to one of holiness.

In his book, When the Holy Ghost Is Come, Mr. Brengle describes his experience thus:

"I had been searching the Scriptures, ransacking my heart, humbling my soul, and crying to God almost day and night for a pure heart and the baptism with the Holy Ghost, when one glad, sweet day (it was January 9, 1885) this text suddenly opened to my understanding: 'If we confess our sins, He is Faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness': and I was enabled to believe without any doubt that the precious Blood cleansed my heart, even mine, from all sin. Shortly after that, while reading these words of Jesus to Martha: 'I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never never die' (John 11:24,26) - instantly my heart was melted like wax before fire; Jesus Christ was revealed to my spiritual consciousness, revealed in me, and my soul was filled with unutterable love. I walked in a heaven of love. Then one day, with amazement, I said to a friend: 'This is the perfect love about which the Apostle John wrote; but it is beyond all I dreamed of. In it is personality. This love thinks, wills, talks with me, corrects me, instructs and teaches me.' And then I knew that God the Holy Ghost was in this love and this love was God, for 'God is love.'"

Let God's love become real to you this day and remember that, He who began a good work in you - will be faithful to complete it in you.

Let God love you,
April Correia
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April Correia

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